Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2004

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2004

"I am her majesty's subject": Prince George of Denmark and the transformation of the English male consort.(introduction in French)(Biography)
December 1, 2004... Une des figures historiques anglaises les plus enigmatiques a la fin du regne des Stuart est le prince George du Danemark (1653-1708), l'epoux de la reine Anne (1702-1714). A la difference de Philippe d'Espagne, l'epoux de Marie I (1553-1558)...

Creating an image of science: persuasion and iconography in A. Cressy Morrison's Man in a Chemical World.(introduction in French)
December 1, 2004... Le portrait de la science et du scientifique moderne fut le resultat d'interactions complexes entre les savants, les sources mediatiques et le public. En 1937, les chimistes etaient le groupe de savants le plus large et le plus puissant dans...

Radio Free Europe's impact on the Kremlin in the Hungarian crisis of 1956: three hypotheses.(introduction in French)
December 1, 2004... Dans cet article, nous devoilons les emissions incendiaires de Radio Free Europe (RFE), jusqu'ici non mentionnees et nous juxtaposons chronologiquement, pour la premiere fois, des documents d'archives de la Russie, de la Hongrie et des...

Where is history heading?(What is History Now?)(The New History: Confessions and Conversations)(Historical Representation)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... What is History Now? edited by David Cannadine. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xiv, 172 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). The New History: Confessions and Conversations, edited by Maria Lucia G. Pallares-Burke. Cambridge, Polity,...

Cannae: the Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War, by Gregory Daly. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xviii, 253 pp. $31.95 US (cloth). Gregory Daly begins with an opening chapter giving a brief summary of the political and...

A History of the Church in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... A History of the Church in the Middle Ages, by F. Donald Logan. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xiv, 367 pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). For many years, countless university professors in the English-speaking world relied...

The Beginnings of English Law.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Beginnings of English Law, by Lisi Oliver. Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002. xiv, 297 pp. $63.00 US (cloth). Lisi Oliver's recent entry into discussions of the earliest surviving...

Roger II of Sicily: a Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West, by Hubert Houben, translated by Graham A. Loud and Diane Milburn. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxv, 231 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.99 US (paper)....

King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330, by Roy Martin Haines. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xviik 604 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). In the introduction to his study of Edward II, Roy...

English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century, by Michael Hicks. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xvii, 261 pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $31.95 US (paper). In the last forty years of scholarship on fifteenth-century England, more...

Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany by Norbert Schindler. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv, 311 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). Originally titled Widerspenstige Leute: Studien zur...

Paris in the Age of Absolutism: an Essay.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Paris in the Age of Absolutism: An Essay, by Orest Ranum. Revised edition. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 403 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This a revised edition of a book first published in 1968....

The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse, by Rebecca Messbarger. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002. 209 pp. $48.00 US (cloth). Following in the...

Pilgrimage: the English Experience from Becket to Bunyan.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan, edited by Colin Morris and Peter Roberts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 256 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This impressive collection of essays, which originated in a 1999...

The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Beginnings of English Protestantism, edited by Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi, 242 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $19.99 US (paper). This collection challenges the accepted truth developing in...

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, by Eamon Duffy. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001. xvi, 232 pp. $25.00 US (cloth), $14.00 US (paper). The Voices of Morebath brings to life the ways in...

Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters, by A. E. MacRobert. New York, I. B. Tauris, 2002. x, 235 pp. $49.50 US (cloth). A. E. MacRobert's book concerns what Hans Villius has described as "the most frequently discussed event in the...

Sir John Hawkins: the Queen's Slave Trader.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sir John Hawkins: The Queen's Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. xiv, 402 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Great men suffer by comparison with their greater contemporaries. Twelve books about Sir John Hawkins have...

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England, by Garthine Walker. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 310 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Virtually every study of early-modem...

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England, by Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi, 311 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Patricia Phillippy's Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England is...

Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by John Kent. British Lives series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi, 229 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.99 US (paper). Can anything new be said about John Wesley?...

Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914, by Harold Mah. Ithaca, New York, and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xii, 227 pp. $41.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Harold Mah argues that German and...

The Peninsular War: a New History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Peninsular War: A New History, by Charles Esdaile. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. xv, 587 pp. $58.95 Cdn (cloth). As the title suggests, Charles Esdaile's The Peninsular War. A New History is a revisionist work. Esdaile presents...

Gender and the Modern Research University: the Admission of Women to German Higher Education.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914, by Patricia M. Mazon. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. x, 297 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The women of nineteenth-century Germany...

National Cultures and International Competition: the Experience of Schering AG 1851-1950.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950, by Christopher Kobrak. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 394 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). National Cultures and International Competition:...

From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914, by Paul B. Miller. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 277 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). For understandable reasons,...

All Russia is Burning!: a Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... All Russia is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia, by Cathy A. Frierson. Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002. x, 318 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). If...

The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia, by Maureen Perrie. Studies in Russian and Eastern European History. New York, Palgrave, 2001. xv, 255 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Remembered by the Russians for his cruelty and the punitive...

Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, by Polymeris Voglis. New York, Berghahn Books, 2002. x, 250 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.50 US (paper). Polymeris Voglis set out with an important goal with regard to the...

Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940, by Talbot C. Imlay. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. x, 393 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This book is about the prelude to, and early going of,...

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: the Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, by Bryan Mark Rigg. Modern War Studies. Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxi, 433 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $16.95...

European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War, edited by Neville Wylie. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi, 368 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). This weighty collection of fourteen essays on neutral and...

Alamein.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Alamein, by Jon Latimer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. xiii, 400 pp. $27.95 US (cloth), $17.95 US (paper). During the early winter of 1942-43 the significance of the victory of the British/Commonwealth forces at...

Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971, by Hubert Zimmermann. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and...

Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland, by Roger Took. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2004. xvi, 365 pp. $27.50 US (cloth), $17.00 US (paper). In many ways, this is quite an extraordinary book. It details the explorations...

In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain, by James Epstein. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xi, 206 pp. $ $60.00 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Assembled here are updated and amended...

Queen Victoria.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Queen Victoria, by Walter L. Arnstein. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. 254 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $16.95 US (paper). Queen Victoria has come to symbolize nineteenth-century Britain in the public imagination in a way that is only...

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, by Philippa Levine. New York, Routledge, 2003. ix, 480pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). Despite its rather prosaic title, this is an ambitious study...

Emmeline Pankhurst.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Emmeline Pankhurst, by Paula Bartley. London, Routledge, 2002. xii, 284 pp. $88.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Emmeline Pankhurst transcends her sole identification with suffrage in Paula Bartley's incisive biography. Bartley offers an...

The Oxford Movement: a Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times, by C. Brad Faught, University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xi, 184 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). There is no shortage...

Just Taxes: the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979, by Martin Daunton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 406 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This is the second volume of Professor Daunton's detailed history of the politics...

Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Liquidation of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire, by Roy Douglas. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.viii, 190 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). A remarkable paradox exists between the stated determination of British statesmen...

British Trade Unions since 1933.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... British Trade Unions since 1933, by Chris Wrigley. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 106 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $15.00 US (paper). The British trade union movement had a very good...

Irish Volunteers in the Second World War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Irish Volunteers in the Second World War, by Richard Doherty. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002. 378 pp. 29.95 US (cloth). More than a hundred thousand Irish men and women volunteered to serve in the British armed forces during the World War...

At the Edge of Empire: the Backcountry in British North America.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... At the Edge Empire: The Backcountry in British North America, by Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ix, 210 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $17.95 US (paper). Eric Hinderaker's and Peter C....

Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941, by Donald Chisholm. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001, 883 pp. $130.00 US (cloth). Donald Chisholm's definitive...

Stepping Stones to Nowhere: the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945, by Galen Roger Perras. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2003. xvi, 274 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This is a...

The Cold War Era.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Cold War Era, by Fraser J. Harbutt. Problems in American History, number 6. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2002. x, 371 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $33.95 US (paper). The writing of this review coincided with the death and funeral of...

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies, edited by Sylviane A. Diouf. Western African Studies. Co-published with James Currey. OCBC African Studies. Athens, Ohio, and Oxford, Ohio University Press and Swallow Press, 2003. xxvii, 241...

The Jew, the Arab: a History of the Enemy.(Israel, the impossible Land)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy, by Gil Anidjar. Cultural Memory in the Present series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xxv, 261 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Israel, the impossible Land, by Jean-Christophe...

Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900, by David A. Graff. Warfare and History series. New York, Routledge, 2002. viii, 288 pp. $114.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). The word "medieval" is usually associated with Europe and conjures up images...

Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895, by Paul C. Winther. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003. xviii, 429 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). In the recent historiography of British...

An Intellectual History of Modern China.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... An Intellectual History of Modern China, edited by Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. 607 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). This volume is dedicated to the memory of renowned China scholar...

Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service, by Frederic Wakeman Jr. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2003. xxii, 650 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Spymaster lifts the lid on a political legacy of the twentieth...

The Four Nations: a History of the United Kingdom.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom, by Frank Welsh. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002. xxviii, 478 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). There have been many changes since A.J.P. Taylor asserted the necessity for the primacy of...

Robin Hood: a Mythic Biography.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, by Stephen Thomas Knight. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xxiv, 247 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). Over the past decade, Stephen Knight has spearheaded a resurgence in the literary study of Robin...

Who We Are: a History of Popular Nationalism.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism, by Robert H. Wiebe. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002. xx, 282 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). In 1967, Robert Wiebe published The Search for Order, 1877-1920, an examination of Americans'...

The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa, edited by Robert H. Taylor. The Making of Modern Freedom series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xviii, 329 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Can a single volume do justice to the breadth of ideas of...

Marc Chagall on Art and Culture.(Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Marc Chagall on Art and Culture, edited by Benjamin Harshav. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 225 pp. $49.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US paper. Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative, edited by Benjamin...

Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948: the Politics of Preference.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948: The Politics of Preference, by Francine McKenzie. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xii, 351 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). "Consultation" and "cooperation," as enshrined in classic works by H....

Allies and Adversaries: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and United States Strategy in World War II.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and United States Strategy in World War II, par Mark A. Stoler. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxii, 380 pp. $49.50 EU (couverture rigide), $21.95 EU...

Toward Nuclear Abolition: a History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present, by Lawrence Wittner. The Struggle Against the Bomb, volume 3. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003, vii, 657...

Books received but not reviewed: January-December 2004.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2004... Allinson, Gary D., Japan's Postwar History. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv, 223 pp. Anderson, Mary J. (ed.), The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch. Life Writing Series. Waterloo, Ontario,...