Canadian Journal of History articles from March 2006

Canadian Journal of History archives from March 2006

Kenya's "forgotten" engineer and colonial proconsul: Sir Percy Girouard and departmental railway construction in Africa, 1896-1912.(Biography)
March 22, 2006... I. Introduction Sir Percy Girouard's governorship of the East Africa Protectorate (EAP), as Kenya was known before 1920, has received mixed reviews from scholars because of the way his administrative career ended. Anthony A. M. Kirk-Greene...

Police and presence: the Victoria police and public impressions of authority in Australia, 1900-1930 (1).(Thomas O'Callaghan and George Steward order for internal reports)
March 22, 2006... The first quarter of the twentieth century served as the confluence of transport, tele-communications, and time in Australia and other industrialized societies. (2) Although these elements of the Industrial Revolution made the largest impact on...

John Bull in search of a suitable Russia: British foreign policy and the failure of the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations, 1939 (1).
March 22, 2006... The failure of the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations in 1939 remains a subject of contention, even after several decades of spirited debate. The image of British and French generals on a slow boat steaming to Leningrad while the Nazis...

Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans.(Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss)(Nietzsche and Music)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans, by Joachim Kohler (trans. by Stewart Spencer). New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. 688 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss, by Lawrence Kramer....

Gustav Mahler: A Life In Crisis.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Gustav Mahler: A Life In Crisis, by Stuart Feder. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. viii, 353 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). The title of Stuart Feder's psychological biography of the composer Gustav Mahler describes the...

Prokofiev - A Biography: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Prokofiev--A Biography." From Russia to the West, 1891-1935, by David Nice. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2003. xviii, 390 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Sergey Prokofiev is by no means a composer with an undisputed reputation....

Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories, by Craige B. Champion. Hellenistic Culture and Society, number 61. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. xv, 328 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Polybius, Greek statesman and Roman captive who, in...

Cleopatra and Rome.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Cleopatra and Rome, by Diana E. E. Kleiner. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 340 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Sovereign, siren, and spectacle during her brief lifetime (69-30 B.C.), Cleopatra's...

Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity, by Andrew S. Jacobs. Divinations Rereading Late Ancient Religion series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 249 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Over the past...

Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900, edited by Leslie Brubaker and Julia M. H. Smith. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi, 333 pp. $29.99 US (paper). If the paucity of sources has made writing the history...

Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100, by Leonora Neville. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii, 210 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Neville's Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 is a short monograph that...

The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III, by Nigel Saul. London, Hambledon and London, 2005. xii, 287 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). This book sets side by side three of the most memorable--if for very different...

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages, by Robert Bartlett. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2004. xi, 168 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $14.95 US (paper). In his De doctrina Christiana...

Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe, by Virginia Nixon. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xiii, 216 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). During a fifty-year period spanning the late fifteenth and...

Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel 1510-1581.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), by Yvonne Petry. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden, Brill, 2004. ix, 191 pp. $125.00 US (cloth). In this short book, Petry...

Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After, by Peter Sahlins. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv, 454 pp. $67.50 U.S. (cloth), $27.95 U.S. (paper). In an increasingly global world where we travel,...

Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany, by Lyndal Roper. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xiv, 362 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). We think of the baroque as something lush and excessive, and witch...

Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827.A Determined Scientist, by Roger Hahn. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xii, 310 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). One of the greatest scientists of all time, Laplace quite justly has been...

The British Revolution, 1629-1660.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The British Revolution, 1629-1660, by Allen I. MacInnes. British Studies Series. Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xi, 337 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). The past couple of years have seen a bumper harvest of...

Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: 'The Genius of this Age,'.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: 'The Genius of this Age,' by Stanley D.M. Carpenter. Cass Military Studies. New York, Frank Cass, 2005. xvi, 233 pp. $125.00 US (cloth), $36.56 US (paper). Carpenter has produced a...

The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty, by Jeremy Black. London, Hambledon and London, 2004. xiv, 266 pp. $36.33 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Jeremy Black, professor of history at the University of Exeter, is a prolific author whose...

This Meager Nature: Landscape and the National Identity in Imperial Russia.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... This Meager Nature: Landscape and the National Identity in Imperial Russia, by Christopher Ely. De Kalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. 278 pp. $42.00 US (cloth). How refreshing and instructive to read a study of...

Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain 1808-1814, by Charles J. Esdaile. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xii, 272 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). In June 1809, a renowned Spanish guerrilla leader, Juan...

L'image de soi et de l'autre: Les Bulgares et leurs voisins dans les manuels d'histoire nationale 1878-1944.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... L'image de soi et de l'autre: Les Bulgares et leurs voisins dans les manuels d'histoire nationale (1878-1944), by Boriana Panayotova. Quebec, Les presses de l'universite Laval, 2005. This work can be inscribed within several bodies of...

The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945, by Michael Kellogg. New Studies in European History Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 327 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). When Daniel...

Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium, by Alter Litvin and John Keep. London, Routledge, 2005. xi, 248 pp. $125.00 US (cloth), $41.95 US (paper). The triple confluence of the "archival revolution" after 1991,...

Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin 1929-1933.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin 1929-1933, by Pamela E. Swett. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi, 337 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). If most studies on the origins of Nazism concentrate on the so-called...

Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich, by Kristin Semmens. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ix, 240 pp. $74.95 US (cloth). Kristin Semmens begins her study with the worry that hers is a "soft" topic that will be discounted...

Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity, by Andre Mineau. Value Inquiry Book Series, number 161. Amsterdam and New York, Radopi, 2004. xiii, 244 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The question has been asked before: how could...

Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto .(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto, by Tim Cole. New York, Routledge, 2003. xv, 303 pp. $125.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). Christian Gerlach and Gotz Aly called their 2002 book on the Holocaust in Hungary Das letzte Kapitel...

From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948, by Robert A. Ventresca. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004, xiv, 354 pp. $68.00 US (cloth). In his richly imaginative...

Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial, by Rebecca Wittmann. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. ix, 336 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Rebecca Wittmann has written an engaging and informative book on the origins, proceedings,...

A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century, by David Dutton. Houndmills, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii, 347 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paperback). In this postmodernist age, reading a...

Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, by Tammy Horn. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xiv. 314 pp. $27.50 US (cloth). Over the last few years, a number of books have been published that focus on the historical...

The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Richard Franklin Bensel. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii, 302 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $24.00 US (paper). During the last half century or so, historians have...

Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck, by John F. Marszalek. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. ix, 324 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). On a first glance at John F....

Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, by Michael B. Ballard. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv, 490 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Dr. Ballard's work is among the latest to be written...

Rally 'Round the Flag Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Rally 'Round the Flag Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag, by K. Michael Prince. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xi, 291 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). Historical memory studies of the American South...

Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics, by Mark Wahlgren Summers. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 352 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). It is easy to enjoy...

United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, by Stephen J. Randall. Second Edition. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. x, 418 pp. $34.95 Cdn...

U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, edited by Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 495 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). Based on newly declassified...

The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election, by Walter LaFeber. Vietnam, America in the War Years series. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. x, 217 pp. $24.95 US (cloth), $17.95 US (paper). More than...

False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico, by Nora E. Jaffary. Engendering Latin America series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xvi, 257 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). In her brief preface, Nora Jaffary bares her...

The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850, by Peter Guardino. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. ix, 405 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Peter Guardino...

The Japanese in Latin America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Japanese in Latin America, by Daniel M. Masterson and Sayaka Funada-Classen. The Asian America Experience series. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2004. 335 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). The Japanese in Latin America by...

Making Indigenous Citizens. Identity, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Making Indigenous Citizens. Identity, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru, by Maria Elena Garcia. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xi, 213 pp. $52.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In the late 1990s, in...

Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius, by Megan Vaughan. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xiv, 341 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). This is a sophisticated and fascinating portrait...

Z.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War, by Mehran Kamrava. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. xi, 497 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). For many in the West, the problems of the Middle...

The Artist as Professional in Japan.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Artist as Professional in Japan, edited by Melinda Takeuchi. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 262 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). "What is an artist?" Such a question has preoccupied philosophers in the West since the...

A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China, by Ping-chen Hsiung. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xvi, 351 pp.$70.00 US (cloth). Philippe Aries's influential thesis on "the discovery of childhood"...

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, by Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xi, 725 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Peter Perdue's excursion into what he describes as...

The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories, by Sumathi Ramaswamy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. xv, 334 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Sumathi Ramaswamy explores the imaginative...

Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India, by Ravina Aggarwal. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2004. ix, 305 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Ravina Aggarwal's book...

No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840-1914.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840-1914, by Jim McAloon. Dunedin, New Zealand, University of Otago Press, 2002. 230 pp. $39.95 US (paper). Who were the rich in nineteenth-century South Island New Zealand? Other...

Indian Critiques of Gandhi.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Indian Critiques of Gandhi, edited by Harold Coward. SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2003. v, 287 pp. $97.52 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). The life and career of M.K. Gandhi provides the source...

Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community, par Jean DeBernardi. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 318 pp. 55.00 $ EU (couverture rigide). Ce dernier livre de Jean...

Policing Chinese Politics: A History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Policing Chinese Politics: A History, by Michael Dutton. Asia-Pacific series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xiii, 411 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Socialist policing in contemporary China gives the...

God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries, by Arthur Grenke. Washington, DC, New Academia Publishing, 2005. 314 pp. $24.00 US (paper). This is a book that was undoubtedly written with the best of intentions in trying to...

Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age, by Anouar Majid. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xv, 270 pp. $49.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). The author, Anouar Majid, a Muslim from...

Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America, by Philip Marchand. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 2005. xx, 444 pp. $37.99 Cdn (cloth). Philip Marchand might be bemused to find his book reviewed in these austere pages. It...

British Emigration, 1603-1914.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... British Emigration, 1603-1914, by Alexander Murdoch. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xi, 176 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The title and declared purpose of this short book largely belies its content. While the preface points to a "succinct...

The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650, by Roger M. Carpenter. East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University Press, 2004. xxii, 179 pp. $27.95 US (paper). The...

Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas.(The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas, by Isabel Vincent. Toronto, Random House Canada, 2005. xii, 276 pp. $34.95. The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My...

Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War, edited by Brian P. Farrell. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. xvii, 273 pp. $80.00 Cdn (cloth), $29.95 Cdn (paper). This collection is a...

Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War H Leaders, by Gerhard L. Weinberg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xv, 292 pp. $28.00 US (cloth). With a good claim to being the doyen of historians of the Second World War,...

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. ix, 382 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $18.95 US (paper). Racing the Enemy is a compelling work of...

Books received but not reviewed January-December 2005.
March 22, 2006... Aghaie, Kamran Scot, The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'I Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004. 248 pp. Alford, Stephen, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. Cambridge, Cambridge University...

Errata.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2006... In our August 2005 issue (volume 40, number 2, pp. 322-24), Dr. Maureen E. Mulvihill wished to thank Dr. Clare Gittings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Ms. Jennifer Maloney of Oxford University Press for help in researching her...