Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2008

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2008

Favour and patronage: dancers in the court ballets of early seventeenth-century France.(Report)
December 22, 2008... I. Introduction There has been surprisingly little published on the ballets de cour, the court ballets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, since Margaret McGowan's path-breaking study in 1963. (1) The reason is mystifying,...

"The bells, too, are fighting": the fate of European church bells in the second world war.(Report)
December 22, 2008... In the aftermath of the Second World War, Allied governments sent experts to Germany in search of resources, intelligence, scientific data, and personnel. (2) Project Paperclip was the codename for the well-known Ameriean programme that brought...

The conservative capture of anti-relativist discourse in postwar America.(Report)
December 22, 2008... The years during and immediately following World War II were not only a time of ideological reconfiguration in American politics, but also a time of reflection on the relation between philosophical assumptions and political ideals. The war and...

Roman slavery: retrospect and prospect.(Report)
December 22, 2008... For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W. H. Auden, Night Mail ... for we possess nothing certainly except the past E. Waugh, Brideshead Revisited The session this afternoon concerns, as I understand it, the...

Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, edited by William Monter; general editor Robert Muchembled. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Four volumes, 1750 pp. $615.00 US (cloth). Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, volume...

Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome by Arthur M. Eckstein. Hellenistic Culture and Society series, number 48. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006. xvii, 372 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Many modern works on the...

Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates, by James Warren. Ancient Philosophies series. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. 224 pp. $19.95 US (paper). James Warren, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge, offers in...

Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii, 234 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). This book purports...

The Roman Triumph.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Roman Triumph, by Mary Beard. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. viii, 434 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). The Latin word triumphus is not a synonym for "great achievement," but rather the name of a...

To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 519 pp. $88.00 US (cloth). It is hard to fathom a more...

Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition c. 900-1200.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition c. 900-1200, by Scott G. Bruce. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 209 pp. $95.00 US (cloth)....

Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474, par Teofilo F. Ruiz. A History of Spain series. Oxford, Blackwell, 2007. xii, 236 pp. $89.95 US (couverture rigide). Le volume que nous propose Teofilo Ruiz s'insere dans la prestigieuse et reputee...

The Daily Life during the Black Death.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Daily Life during the Black Death, by Joseph P. Byrne. Daily Life Through History series. London, Greenwood Press, 2006. xii, 326 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Joseph Byrne, a trained European historian who also extends his vast intellectual...

Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents, by James Simpson. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. 346 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). James Simpson, an expert on late medieval and...

Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England, by Amanda Bailey. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2007. 190 pp. $65.00 Cdn (cloth). Amanda Bailey's book focuses on the male body as a potentially subversive tool...

Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Politics of Gender and Religion.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Politics of Gender and Religion, by Kristen Post Walton. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xiii, 220 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). From her return to Scotland in 1561,...

Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy, by Michael S. Reidy. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 389 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). When the rising tide refused Canute's command to stay its advance, the king scampered...

Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity, by Karol Berger. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. x, 420 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is the title of a 1987...

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, edited by Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge History of Philosophy series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 1407 pp., two volumes. $250.00 US (cloth). The Cambridge History...

Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins, by Peter King. Past and Present Publications series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 348 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This volume of the Past and Present...

Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland 1800-1850.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland 1800-1850, by James Brophy. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 365 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). James Brophy's highly engaging book explores...

Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe, by Richard G. Olson. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2008. 249 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $27.00 US (paper). It is mostly the conservative critics of the Enlightenment to whom we owe...

Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, & Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, & Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century, by Deborah A. Symonds. Series on International, Political, and Economic History. Akron, Ohio, The University of...

Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930, edited by David Blackbourn and James Retallack. German and European Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2007. viii, 278 pp. $65.00 Cdn...

The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate, edited by E.H.H. Green and D.M. Tanner. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 313 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). For this...

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918, by Roger Chickering. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ivx, 644 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). Roger Chickering...

Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918-1960.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918-1960, by Kate Fisher. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. viii, 294 pp. $105.49 US (cloth), $45.00 US (paper). The twentieth century witnessed a significant decline in the average size of...

Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model, by Laura Levine Frader. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2008. ix, 347 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Between the two world wars, French...

Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940, by John Gooch. Cambridge Military Histories Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 651 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). In his latest work, John...

German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past.(Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past, by A. Dirk Moses. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 293 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect, by Joachim Fest. Translated by Patrick Camiller....

Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, by Kevin P. Spicer. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008. xv, 369 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). ...

Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History, by Sarah Badcock. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvii, 260 pp. $104.00 US (cloth). Until very recently, most studies of...

The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments, by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 309 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). The title elegantly encapsulates one of the most prominent...

Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, edited by A.G. Roeber. Max Kade German-American Institute series. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xxiv, 207 pp. $45.00...

The Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains, by Tony Rees. Vancouver and Toronto, Douglas and McIntyre; and Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv, 393 pp. $39.95 Cdn (cloth)....

Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post Civil Rights America.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post Civil Rights America, by Matthew Frye Jacobson. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. 483 pp. $19.95 US (paper). According to Matthew Frye Jacobson, Hansen's Law is overly simple....

Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, by Sally H. Clarke. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii, 296 pp. $56.00 US (cloth). What will be the future of the...

Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, by Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 274 pp. $28.00 US (cloth). This book evolved from Gary W....

Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics and Power in Modern Mexico.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics and Power in Modern Mexico, edited by Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughn, and Gabriela Cano, with a foreword by Carlos Monsivais. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. x, 320 pp. $79.95 US...

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society, by Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2007. xviii, 284 pp. $89.84 Cdn (cloth), $25.33 Cdn (paper). Greening Brazil is a...

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam, by Sidney H. Griffith. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World series. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2008....

Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400, by Steven A. Epstein. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiii, 250 pp. $55.00...

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa, edited by Henri Medard and Shane Doyle. Eastern African Studies. Oxford, James Currey; Kampala, Uganda, Fountain Publishers; Nairobi, Kenya, EAEP; Athens, Ohio University Press, 2007. xiv, 273...

A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000, by Saul Dubow. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. viii, 296 pp. 60.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). Since its first democratic elections in 1994, South...

Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea, by Keith Pratt. London, Reaktion Books, 2006. 320 pp., $34.95 US (cloth). This book provides an informative and comprehensive coverage of the history of Korea from the prehistorical era to the...

Food: The History of Taste.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Food: The History of Taste, edited by Paul Freedman. California Studies in Food and Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2007. 368 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Home economists gained (a measure of) scientific...

Impotence: A Cultural History.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Impotence: A Cultural History, by Angus McLaren. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi, 319 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Angus McLaren's latest work is a smart contribution to the history of sexuality, taking on a topic present in...

At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World, by Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose, editors. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 338 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). While a monograph is organized...

The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History, by Matt Schumann and Karl W. Schweizer. War, History and Politics series. New York, Routledge, 2008. x, 300 pp. $145.00 US (cloth). In this new history of the Seven Years' War, Matt Sclmmann and...

Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005, by Youssef Cassis and translated by Jacqueline Collier. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 385 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Youssef Cassis's book covers...

Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power, by David Mayers. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi, 446 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $25.99 US (paper). In Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power; David Mayers offers a major...

Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940, by Anne Maxwell. Brighton, England, Sussex Academic Press, 2008. xvii, 286 pp. $83.50 US (cloth). The use of images to convince the public, politicians, and medical and social welfare...

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, by Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press, 2007. xii, 719 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Over the last two decades Joseph Schumpeter has been well-served by...

Visual Genders. Visual Histories: Gender and History Special Issues.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Visual Genders. Visual Histories: Gender and History Special Issues, edited by Patricia Hayes. Oxford, Blackwell, 2006, viii, 350 pp. $39.95 US (paper). Images and visual encounters have recently emerged as common objects of scholarly...

The Politics of Official Apologies.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Politics of Official Apologies, by Melissa Nobles, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii, 200. $24.99 US (paper), $70.00 US (cloth). Although Melissa Nobles is a political scientist by training, historians should pay...

Books received but not reviewed January-December 2008.
December 22, 2008... Adamson, Walter L., Embattled Avant-Gardes:Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2007. xii, 435 pp. Adorno, Theodor W. (ed. Rolf Tiedemann), History and Freedom,...