Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2007

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2007

The uses of resipiscere in the Latin of Erasmus: in the Gospels and beyond.(Erasmus of Rotterdam )
December 22, 2007... It is an established truth, but one which bears repeating, that the definition of a word is rarely a simple matter. Few people, whatever their theory of language, would dare to define too precisely the range of meanings associated with a given...

Women's politics, poetry, and the feminist historiography of the Great War.
December 22, 2007... Let me go far away so I shall not hear The deep insistent throbbing of the guns; they beat Forever day and night--my tired heart and brain Can find no rest, but beat and throb in unison. (1) In her poem "The Sound of...

Liberal nationalism and the decline of the British Liberal Party: three case studies.
December 22, 2007... By the beginning of the 1930s, the British Liberal Party was in a state of long-term decline. After years of internal dispute and division the party had apparently come together again under the leadership of David Lloyd George to fight the...

Feedback loop: a review essay on the public sphere, pop culture, and the early-modern sciences.(A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America; Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 2006. 367 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Michael R. Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion...

A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE, by Jonathan M. Hall. Blackwell History of the Ancient World series. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xx, 321 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). I approached...

War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History, by Angelos Chaniotis. Ancient World at War series. Oxford, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xxiv, 308 pp. $73.95 US (cloth). This is the second volume in Blackwell's...

Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius by Malcolm R. Errington. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press. xii, 336 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Malcolm Errington's book offers a...

The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women, by Joan Mueller. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. x, 182 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). ...

A Social History of England, 1200-1500.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... A Social History of England, 1200-1500, edited by Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 514 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $39.99 US (paper). This volume is a welcome addition to general works on...

The World of Marsilius of Padua.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The World of Marsilius of Padua, edited by Gerson Moreno-Riano. Disputatio, volume 5. Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols Publishers, 2006. xii, 279 pp. 60.00 [euro] (cloth). La vie de Marsile de Padoue fut haute en couleurs. Ses rebondissements...

At the Centre of the Old World: Trade anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... At the Centre of the Old World: Trade anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800, edited by Paola Lanaro. Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2003. vii, 412 pp. $32.00 Cdn (paper). Despite this...

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe, par Brian W. Ogilvie. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 200e. xvi, 385 pp. e0,80 $ EU (couverture rigide), 27,00 $ EU (poche). Le livre que nous propose Brian Ogilvie se...

Blood and Violence in Early Modern France.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Blood and Violence in Early Modern France, by Stuart Carroll. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 200e. xii, 3e9 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). In offering a new chronological framework for aristocratic violence, Stuart Carroll's latest examination...

Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe, edited by Will Coster and Andrew Spicer. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. v, 350 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). This fine collection of fourteen essays investigates the construction, negotiation,...

The Cromwellian Protectorate.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Cromwellian Protectorate, edited by Patrick Little. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2007. xii, 218 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). This book is the product of a symposium held in London at that powerhouse of political scholarship, the...

John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England, by John Coffey. Studies in Modern British Religious History. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2006. viii, 337 pp. $105.00 US (cloth)....

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music, by Barbara Ravelhofer. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 317 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Around 1650 Robert Bargrave, a junior secretary of the Levant Company, was ordered to compose...

The Social Life of Money in the English Past.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Social Life of Money in the English Past, by Deborah Valenze. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv, 308 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $23.99 US (paper). Recent literature concerning the English financial revolution of the 1690s has...

Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857, by Elizabeth Foyster. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 282 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). Charting the history of the family before around 1880 may be among...

The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830, by Jeff Horn. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2006. 383 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). This...

Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia, by Susan K. Morrissey. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 353 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). There is much to tell in this story of modernity's...

Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale, by Elizabeth K. Menon. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2006. xi, 339 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). Art historian Elizabeth Menon examines turn of the...

Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990 par Robert Millward. Cambridge Studies in Economic History Second Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix, 351 pp. 90,00 $ EU...

Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts, edited by Rosalind P. Blakesley and Susan E. Reid. Dekalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. ix, 246 pp. $42.00 US (cloth)....

Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation, by Shulamit Volkov. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 311 pp. $82.95 Cdn (cloth), $28.95 Cdn (paper). Scholars of German Jewish history will be very familiar with the...

Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944, by Wolf Gruner. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxiv, 322 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Forced labour has long been acknowledged as a factor in the...

Spain during World War II.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Spain during Worm War II, by Wayne H. Bowen. Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 2006. x, 279 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). The end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, which brought the authoritarian regime of General Francisco Franco...

Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944, by Violetta Hionidou. Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 261 pp. $96.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). On...

The Labour Party and British Society, 1880-2005.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Labour Party and British Society, 1880-2005 par David Rubinstein. Brighton, United Kingdom, Sussex Academic Press, 2006. x, 228 pp. 29,95 $ EU (poche). Les etudes globales et monographies specialisees sur le Parti travailliste...

Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation 1918-1968.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation 1918-1968, by Ronald Hyam. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 464 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $32.99 US (paper). While the British Empire reached its greatest territorial...

Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, by Jack Temple Kirby. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx, 361 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Mockingbird Song is not a traditional historical monograph....

How the Indians Lost Their Land." Law and Power on the Frontier.(The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... How the Indians Lost Their Land." Law and Power on the Frontier, by Stuart Banner. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 344 pp. $29.95 US (cloth) $18.95 US (paper). The Shawnees and Their Neighbors,...

A Law of Blood: The Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... A Law of Blood: The Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation, by John Phillip Reid. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xii, 340 pp. $26.00 US (paper). This volume is a reprint of John Phillip Reid's masterful study,...

The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, by Alan Taylor. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 542 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Alan Taylor's title alone suggests that his book will tell a...

Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, by Kali N. Gross. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. ix, 260 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). In Colored Amazons, Kali...

Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30, by Lawrence M. Lipin. Working Class in American History series. Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2007. xv, 213 pp. $ 60.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US...

Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, by Daniel Hurewitz. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. x, 367 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $18.05 US (paper). Daniel Hurewitz's finely crafted exploration of the politicization...

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960, by Judy Kutulas. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 305 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Judy Kutulas presents a social...

Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-63.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-63, by Benjamin P. Greene. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii, 358 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Many are familiar with...

Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992, by Michael Schaller. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. viii, 179 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $18.95 US (paper). Michael Schaller provides an interesting, if brief, discussion of...

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, edited by Steven Topic, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke...

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua, by Elizabeth Dore. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 252 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). This impressive, provocative book examines economic,...

War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898, by John Lawrence Tone. Envisioning Cuba Series. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii, 338 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). John Lawrence Tone's latest work continues the recent...

Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1936.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1936, by Abdeslam M. Maghraoui. Politics, History, and Culture series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xiv, 192 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US...

Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey, by Esra Ozyurek. Politics, History, and Culture series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. 227 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Esra...

Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History, by Alexander Woodside. The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 142 pp. $22.00 US (cloth). Anyone who wishes...

Daily Life in the Mongol Empire.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Daily Life in the Mongol Empire, by George Lane. The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History series. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2006. xxiv, 312 pp. $44.95 US (cloth). George Lane, of the School of Oriental and African...

The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion in the Ming Borderlands.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion in the Ming Borderlands, by Leo K. Shin. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi, 246 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). Adding to the flourishing scholarship on lateimperial China's...

The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific, by Harry Liebersohn. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xx, 380 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). Harry Liebersohn has written an eminently readable and informative...

Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World, by Tony Ballantyne. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xvii, 229 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). In this short book, Tony...

Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910, by Catherine Vance Yeh. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2006. x, 430 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Shanghai Love is a very detailed account of the...

Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian. Asia-Pacific series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. 447 pp. $49.95 US (cloth) $25.95 US...

Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority, by Pill Nyiri. A China Program Book. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. xii, 134 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). At present, commercial tourism is the...

Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization, by Ian Condry. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. x, 249 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). When people think of globalization they tend to think of major...

An Irish History of Civilization.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... An Irish History of Civilization, 2 volumes, by Don Akenson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. ix, 882 and ix, 696 pp. $39.95 US (cloth) for each volume. At first glance, An Irish History of Civilization is...

Martyrdom in Islam.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Martyrdom in Islam, by David Cook. Themes in Islamic History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 206 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.99 US (paper). In recent years a great deal has been written about martyrdom in different...

Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, by Ken MacMillan. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 235 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). One of the most conspicuous developments in recent...

The Forging of the Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Forging of the Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000, by Colin Kidd. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii, 309 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). Colin Kidd's Forging of the Races...

Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy, edited by Paul Rahe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. lxii, 326 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). This book stands as a valuable contribution to a growing body of literature on the place of...

American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, by Susan Scott Parrish. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2006. xvi, 321...

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, by Arleen Marcia Tuchman. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 336 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). Arleen Tuchman offers a...

Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora, by Judith M. Brown. New Approaches to Asian History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv, 197 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $26.99 US (paper). Global South Asians examines the...

Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War, by Michael L. Gross. Basic Bioethics series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2006. xv, 384 pp. $26.00 US (paper). Is medical ethics in times of war identical to...

Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s, by Barbara J. Keys. Harvard Historical Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv, 274 pp. $52.92 US (cloth). While it is no longer...

Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space, by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2006. xvi, 280 pp. $25.95 US (cloth), $16.95 US (paper). In 1965 US toy manufacturer Mattel released Miss Astronaut Barbie,...

Books received but not reviewed/Livres recus mais non analyses: January-December 2007/Januar-Decembre 2007.
December 22, 2007... Ajzenstat, Janet, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi, 200 pp. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some...