Canadian Journal of History articles from March 2007

Canadian Journal of History archives from March 2007

Power and piety: the religiosity of Michel de Marillac (1).(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... A good devotion in great men, is to have a great and faithful feeling of the majesty of God, not serving him with exterior semblances, but sincerely, cordially, constantly, holding all the maxims of state and condition under the...

Theatre et societe dans la region du Minas au Bresil: un public metis pour les salles de spectacle.
March 22, 2007... L'existence encore aujourd'hui de deux Casas de Opera baties entre 1770 et 1822 au Minas Gerais peut apparaitre surprenante au regard de quelques historiens, en particulier les historiens de l'art, habitues a mettre en valeur seulement l'eclat...

"Talking to India": George Orwell's work at the BBC, 1941-1943.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... George Orwell's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century remains undisputed. (1) A string of recent Orwell biographies attests to a continuing interest in his life and writing. (2) Juxtaposing language and...

World War I battles and strategy.(books)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, by Robert A Doughty. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 578 pp, $39.95 US (cloth). German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn...

The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature, by David Konstan. Robson Classical Lectures. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvi, 422 pp. $85.00 Cdn (cloth). This volume started life as the...

Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life, by Kristina Milnor. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, x, 360 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This work presents a...

The Irrational Augustine.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Irrational Augustine, by Catherine Conybeare. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xi, 223 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). Even scholars of--Augustine have paid relatively little attention to the Cassiciacum...

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, by Bryan Ward-Perkins. Oxford, Oxford University-Press, 2005. viii, 239 pp. $28.00 US (cloth), $16.95 US (paper). From the rediscovery of the Roman past in the Renaissance until the middle of...

The New Cambridge Medieval History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The New Cambridge Medieval History, volume 1: c. 500-c. 700, edited by Paul Fouracre. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii, 979 pp. $180.00 US (cloth). The original Cambridge Medieval History (CMH) appeared in the aftermath...

Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425: Italy, France, and Flanders.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425: Italy, France, and Flanders, by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 376 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). With lucid prose and...

Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism: 1378-1417.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism: 1378-1417, by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 2006. xiii, 240pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The history of the Great Western Schism...

Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation, by Brian Patrick McGuire. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xvi, 441 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). This comprehensive, if conventional,...

Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I.(Renaissance Woman)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I, by Gabrielle Langdon. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xv, 372 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $35.00 US (paper). Renaissance Woman, by Gaia Servadio....

The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England, by Nathan Johnstone. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 334 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). A recurring motif of this engaging book is...

Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640, by Michael C. Questier. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 559...

Drama at the Courts of Henrietta Maria.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Drama at the Courts of Henrietta Maria, by Karen Britland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix, 292 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). Henrietta Maria, the French Catholic consort of Charles I, has routinely been maligned as "an ignorant...

Galicia: A Multi-cultured Land.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Galicia: A Multi-cultured Land, edited by Christopher Hann and Paul Robert Magocsi. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. ix, 259 pp. $65.00 Cdn (cloth), $35.00 Cdn (paper). Regionalism has been a neglected, and often taboo, topic in...

The Regions of Germany: A Reference Guide to History and Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Regions of Germany: A Reference Guide to History and Culture, by Dieter K. Buse. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2005. xix, 290 pp. $59.95 US (cloth). Dieter K. Buse, a specialist on modern Germany, has combined his extensive...

The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany, by David Blackbourn. London, Jonathan Cape, 2006. xiii, 497 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $17.05 US (paper). A well-told set of stories in an engaging volume is a rarity...

The Evolution of Operational Art, 1740-1813: From Frederick the Great to Napoleon.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Evolution of Operational Art, 1740-1813: From Frederick the Great to Napoleon, by Claus Telp. Cass Series--Military History and Policy. London, Frank Cass, 2005. vii, 226 pp. $135.00 US (cloth). The idea of "operational art" is one...

The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815, by Henry Heller. Monographs in French Studies. Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2006. ix, 172 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Four decades ago, Alfred Cobban launched his trenchant criticism of the social...

The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830, by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2005. viii, 256 pp. $34.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Jennifer Ngaire Heuer's book, a...

How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie, by Emily D. Johnson. Studies of the Harriman Institute. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiii, 303 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). ...

Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia, by Scott W. Palmer. Cambridge Centennial of Flight Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx, 307 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Scott Palmer's engaging book...

The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, by Maria Gough. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2005. 257 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). The Artist as Producer navigates a new space for studies on Russian...

Sport in the USSR: Physical Culture--Visual Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sport in the USSR: Physical Culture--Visual Culture, by Mike O'Mahony. Picturing History series. London, Reaktion Books, 2006. 221 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). This book is a welcome addition to the rather sparse literature that currently exists...

The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940, by Mona L. Siegel. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv, 317 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). ...

Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, by Robin Addle Greeley. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. vii, 261 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). If taken on its own terms, as a study of the relations between surrealism and the Spanish...

The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, by Wolfram Wette, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xix, 372 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $17.05 US (paper). Wolfram Wette's The Wehrmacht is...

The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Herf. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. ix, 390 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). In the late 1970s, at the height of the...

France during World War II: From Defeat to Liberation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... France during World War II: From Defeat to Liberation, by Thomas R. Christofferson with Michael S. Christofferson. World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension, series. New York, Fordham University Press, 2006. xiv, 209 pp. $75.00 US...

The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600-1900.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600-1900, by Beverly Lemire. Gender in History series. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005. xii, 257 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). Professor Beverly...

The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953, by Billie Melman. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xii, 363 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Teaching British history to Canadian students, most of whom have never visited the United...

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914, by Julie-Marie Strange. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. x, 294 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). In Victorian and Edwardian Britain, middle- and...

The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution, by Gary B. Nash. The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. ix, 235 pp. $19.95 US (paper). Playing upon W.E.B. Du Bois' concept...

Lynching in the West: 1850-1935.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Lynching in the West: 1850-1935, by Ken Gonzales-Day. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xi, 299 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). The rich and growing scholarship on the practice...

The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, by Michael F. Robinson. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 2006. xii, 206 pp. $39.00 US (cloth). Robinson's book is an interesting and welcome addition to a subject that,...

Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, by Rosemary Feurer. Working Class in American History series. Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix, 320 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). Rosemary Feurer has written...

Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, by Julia L. Mickenberg. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xi, 389 pp. $74.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Today, if a...

Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America, by Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. ix, 662 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). There are definitive works within the canon of...

Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil, by Elizabeth W. Kiddy. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xvi, 287 pp. $55.00 US (cloth) $27.00 US (paper). Blacks of the Rosary...

Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958, by D.K. Fieldhouse. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii, 376 pp. $115.00 US (cloth). The study of history is often driven by current events, a fact demonstrated by David Fieldhouse...

The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific, by Patty O'Brien. McLellan Endowed Series. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. x, 347 pp. $50.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). Patty O'Brien's The Pacific Muse:...

A History of Modern Indonesia.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... 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...

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, by Mark Moyar. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxiii, 416 pp. $32.00 US (cloth). Carl Becker, the noted American historian, once suggested that the scholar's responsibility was to...

Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond, by Sergey A. Ivanov, translated by Simon Franklin. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xi, 479 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Made famous by appearances in Pushkin's play Boris...

The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by Serhii Plokhy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix, 379 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). In this ambitious, revisionist, and impressive monograph...

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame, by Mark Monmonier. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 215 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). Maps depict far more than towns, roadways, and curvatures in the...

Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe-Russia-Canada 1525-1980.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe-Russia-Canada 1525-1980, by James Urry. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2006. 400 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $27.95 US (paper). This book is the fruit of several decades of research by...

Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature, by Keith Thomson. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2005. xiv, 314 pp. $27.00 US (cloth), $18.00 US (paper). Keith Thomson, professor emeritus of natural history at the University of...

The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography Throughout History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography Throughout History, by Christian Jacob, translated by Tom Conley, and edited by Edward H. Dahl. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxvi, 417 pp $60.00 US (cloth). Christian...

Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond, by Andrew Biro. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiii, 343 pp. $60.00 Cdn (cloth), $24.95 Cdn (paper). Generally...

The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, edited by John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, and Shinji Yokote. History of Warfare series. Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005....

The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe 1919-1932.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe 1919-1932, by Patrick O. Cohrs. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 693 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). The general historiography of interwar...