Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2006

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2006

Parliament intends "to take away the King's life": print and the decision to execute Charles I.
December 22, 2006... In the last days of January 1649, a terrible fear swept through the British Isles. This terror centered on one horrifying possibility: that the army and Parliament would order the judicial execution of King Charles I. Men from all backgrounds...

"Leather" and the fighting spirit: sport in the British Army in World War I.
December 22, 2006... The assiduous and organized cultivation of sport, and what is more important the spirit of sport, has become one of the most distinctive marks of the British Army, and it will be a task worthy of the greatest historians to record what this...

Balancing acts: Jordan and the United States during the Johnson Administration.(President Lyndon Johnson)
December 22, 2006... During the latter half of the twentieth century, the volatility of the Middle East created circumstances in which arms limitations became an accepted component of US policy in the region. Despite a long history of vocal support for arms...

The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, edited by Mathew Kuefler. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2006. v, 348 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.50 US (paper). The Boswell Thesis is a thoughtful...

The Central Middle Ages: Europe 950-1320.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Central Middle Ages: Europe 950-1320, edited by Daniel Power. Short Oxford History of Europe series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xv, 304 pp. $26.95 US (paper). Cambridge has its massive, multivolume Histories (such as the...

Women, Men and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Women, Men and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators, by John W. Coakley. Gender, Theory, and Religion series. New York, Columbia University Press, 2006. 354 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Women, Men, and Spiritual Power...

"Just as in the Time of the Apostles": Uses of History in the Radical Reformation.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... "Just as in the Time of the Apostles": Uses of History in the Radical Reformation, by Geoffrey Dipple. Kitchener, Ontario, Pandora Press, 2005.324 pp. $33.50 Cdn (paper). In view of Geoffrey Dipple's subtitle, it is important to state...

Ivan the Terrible.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Ivan the Terrible, by Isabel de Madariaga. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2005. xxii, 484 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Emeritus professor of Russian Studies at the University of London, Isabel de Madariaga is renowned for writing...

Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment, by Peter Hanns Reill. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2005. x, 388 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Do we need another book about the Enlightenment? Peter Hanns Reill's provocative and...

Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625, by Charles W.A. Prior. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 294 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). Charles W.A....

Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day, by James Sharpe. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 230 pp. $19.95 US (cloth). In an interesting nod to perceived transatlantic differences, Remember,...

Consuming Splendour: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Consuming Splendour: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England, by Linda Levy Peck. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi, 431 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). This sumptuous book will doubtless become a classic treatment of...

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Maxine Berg. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. xvii, 373 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). Maxine Berg continues her intellectual trajectory of exploring the multi-faceted...

Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England, by Dana Y. Rabin. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ix, 234 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Everyone who has read and has been impressed by the Dana Rabin's recent...

Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power, by Richard Stites. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2005. xiii, 586 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Richard Stites's Serfdom, Society, and the Arts is an...

Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History, by Serhii Plokhy. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. xvi, 614 pp. $95.00 Cdn (cloth). At the Academy of Sciences' Institute for Ukrainian history...

From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France, by Rebecca Rogers. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xv, 335 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). With few exceptions,...

The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France 1889-1900.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France 1889-1900, by Richard Thomson. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xii, 256 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In this work, Richard Thomson seeks to illuminate the...

Molotov: A Biography.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Molotov: A Biography, by Derek Watson. Center for Russian and East European Studies. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xx, 376 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Derek Watson has written the first major political biography of Vyacheslav M. Molotov,...

Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920: The Key to Victory.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920: The Key to Victory, by Brian Murphy. Cass Military Studies. London, Routledge, 2005. xiii, 196 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). From 1917 to 1920 Rostov-on-Don, a quiet provincial city in southern Russia,...

Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939, by Keith Neilson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 379 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). A study of Anglo-Soviet relations between the two world wars has never...

Gau, Volk, and Reich: Friedrich Rainer and the Paradox of Austrian National Socialism.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Gau, Volk, and Reich: Friedrich Rainer and the Paradox of Austrian National Socialism, by Maurice Williams. Klagenfurt, Verlag des Geschichtsvereines fur Karnten, 2005. 311 pp. 30.00 [euro]. Austrian National Socialism played a major role...

Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust, edited by Gerald D. Feldman and Wolfgang Seibel. Studies on War on Genocide. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2005. xii, 376 pp. $85.00 US (cloth)....

Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, by Alan E. Steinweis. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. 203 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). In collective memory, Nazi-era antisemitism is usually connected to vulgar...

Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra, and the End of Secure Ciphers.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra, and the End of Secure Ciphers, by R.A. Ratcliff. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 314 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). Back in 1998, when revelations of Switzerland's role as Hitler's...

Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858, by Kyla Madden. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $70.00 Cdn (cloth). Anyone...

The Bible War in Ireland: The "Second Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Bible War in Ireland: The "Second Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840, by Irene Whelan. History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora series. Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. XX,...

Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People, c. 1870-2000.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People, c. 1870-2000, par David French. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. X, 404 pp. 74.005 EU (couverture rigide). Ce nouveau livre de David French, qui...

Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870-1970.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870-1970, by Michael Bentley. Wiles Lectures series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii, 245 pp. $88.95 Cdn (cloth), $34.95 Cdn (paper). As I write...

One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State, by Mark Douglas McGarvie. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xii, 256 pp. $22.50 US (paper). One Nation Under Law is an...

Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire, by Gretchen Murphy. New Americanists series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xi, 195 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Where is the...

Surprise, Security and the American Experience.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Surprise, Security and the American Experience, by John Lewis Gaddis. Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. viii, 150 pp. $12.95 US (paper)....

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights, by Elizabeth Borgwardt. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 437 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). The Atlantic Charter (unsigned) by Roosevelt and...

The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, by Christina S. Jarvis. DeKalb, Illinois, University of Northern Illinois Press, 2004. xiii, 243 pp. $43.00 US (cloth). According to Christina Jarvis, a professor of English at...

Nahuatl Theater: Volume 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Nahuatl Theater: Volume 1, Death anal Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico, edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xvii, 337 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). In the early sixteenth century, the...

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosi.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosi, by Jane Mangan. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xiv, 278 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). Jane Mangan...

Nova Historia Militar Brasileira.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Nova Historia Militar Brasileira, edited by Celso Castro, Vitor Izecksohn, and Hendrik Karaay. Rio de Janeiro, Editora FGV/Editora Bom Texto, 2004. 459 pp. $32.50 US (paper). The editors of Nova Historia Militar Brasileira seek to model...

An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire, by Gwyn Campbell. African Studies. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii, 413 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Madagascar has long been a...

Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique, by Harry G. West. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxviii, 362 pp. $25.00 US (paper). This book is a study by Harry G. West, a social anthropologist from the...

Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism, by Brian L. McLaren. Studies in Modernity and National Identity. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006, 286 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). This book is about the...

Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937, by James Reardon-Anderson. Studies of the East Asian Institute. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xvii, 288 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Despite common assertions,...

Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China, by Janet M. Theiss. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2004. xv, 281 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Given the relatively easy access to archival material...

Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact, by Inga Clendinnen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi, 324 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.99 US (paper). Inga Clendinnen's Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and...

A History of Modern Indonesia.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... A History of Modern Indonesia, by Adrian Vickers. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 291 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $24.99 US (paper). Adrian Vickers' History of Modern Indonesia began life as a third-year History course at the...

China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization, by Xu Guoqi. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 316 pp. $80.00 US...

Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria, by Hyun Ok Park. Asia-Pacific series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xix, 314 pp. $84.95 US (cloth); $23.95 US...

Atlantic History: Concept and Contours.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Atlantic History: Concept and Contours, by Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 149 pp. $18.95 US (cloth). In the south-eastern corner of Georgia, about twenty-five miles from Savannah, lies the town of...

The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History, by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 344 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). This collection of essays will prove a valuable resource for anyone...

By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, by Holly Brewer. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of...

The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century, by Jerrold Seigel. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii, 724 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $27.00 US (paper). This is a rare book. It is...

The British Seaborne Empire.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The British Seaborne Empire, by Jeremy Black. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xi, 420 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The ever-curious, frequently provocative, and maddeningly productive Jeremy Black has produced yet another...

Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange, by Amiria Henare. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix, 323 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). Amiria Henare's monograph is a valuable addition to historical and anthropological literature, both...

Brothers Across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' 1900-1905.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Brothers Across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' 1900-1905, by Iestyn Adams. Library of International Relations series. London, Tauris Academic Studies, 2005. 266 pp. $47.50 US...

Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making, edited by Benoit de L'Estoile, Frederico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. viii, 340 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). This...

The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination 1920-1950.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination 1920-1950, by Robert Wohl. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2005. x, 364 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). In 1995, Robert Wohl published A Passion for Wings, which focused...

Books received but not reviewed / Livres recus mais non analyses: January-December/Januar-Decembre 2006.(List)
December 22, 2006... Anderson, Warwick, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. x, 390 pp. Argeri, Maria E., De Guerreros a Delicuentes: La Desarticulacion de las...

Errata.(Correction notice)
December 22, 2006... A caption to the photograph, which was reproduced in the article by Kenneth McRobbie, "Under the Sign of the Pendulum: Childhood Experience as Determining Revoutionary Consciousness. Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978)," Vol. 41, no. 2 (2006),...