Canadian Journal of History articles from March 2008

Canadian Journal of History archives from March 2008

"Years of blood and darkness": Czech extra-parliamentary representation and Austrian democratization during the Hilsner affair, 1899-1900 (1).
March 22, 2008... I. Introduction. "Blood and Darkness": National Questions and their Obscure Civic Underpinnings In the Austrian half of the Dual Monarchy, the turn of the century was marked by imperial and provincial democratic reforms on one hand, and...

A "museum of bad taste"?: the Jewish Labour Bund and the Bolshevik position regarding the national question, 1903-14 (1).
March 22, 2008... From its foundation in 1897 until its suppression by the Soviet authorities towards the end of the Civil War (1918-21), the Jewish Labour Bund (2) played an important role in Russian politics not only as the party that organized Jewish workers...

Grasping at the whirlwinds of change: transitional leadership in comparative perspective. The case studies of Mikhail Gorbachev and F.W. de Klerk.
March 22, 2008... I. Introduction The second half of the twentieth century bore witness to significant processes of democratization and regime change. Germany, Italy, and Japan emerged from the ashes of World War II to build modern market economies and...

Napoleon and Europe.(books on Napoleon Bonaparte)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793-1815, by Robert Harvey. New York, Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2006. xxvii, 804 pp. $29.95 US (paper). Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815, by Charles Esdaile. London,...

Alexander the Great in His World.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Alexander the Great in His World, by Carol G. Thomas. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xi, 254 pp. $32.95 US (paper). It should be stated at the outset that the book under review is not a...

Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, by Jean Bingen and edited with an introduction by Roger S. Bagnall. Hellenistic Culture and Society, number 49. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. xviii, 305 pp. $65.00 US...

The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire, by Shadi Bartsch. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2006. viii, 325 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The Mirror of the Self aims to supply an in-depth...

Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire, by Walter Goffart. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x, 372 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). In the past decade, the field of Late Antiquity has...

The Jews of Medieval Christendom, 1000-1500.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Jews of Medieval Christendom, 1000-1500, by Robert Chazen. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv, 342 pp. $75.00 US (cloth); $29.99 US (paper). As part of the Cambridge Medieval Textbook...

Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love, by Simon Gaunt. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. vii, 235 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Simon Gaunt's remarkable book takes as its subject what may appear to...

Saints and Their Communities: Miracle Stories in Twelfth-Century England.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Saints and Their Communities: Miracle Stories in Twelfth-Century England, by Simon Yarrow. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. viii, 247 pp. $130.00 US (cloth). In this valuable contribution to the Oxford...

The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History, by Charles Beem. Queenship and Power series. New York, Palgrave, 2006. vii, 271 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). Charles Beem's book about the problems encountered by women, who...

Reformation Sources: The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Reformation Sources: The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland, edited by Erika Rummel and Milton Kooistra. Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007. 246 pp. $19.95 Cdn (paper). ...

Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe, by Alix Cooper. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 218 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Alix Cooper, assistant professor of history at the State...

English Radicalism 1550-1850.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... English Radicalism 1550-1850, edited by Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii, 381 pp. $120.00 US (cloth). In recent years, historians of early modern England have taken a fresh look at...

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, by Harold J. Cook. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007. xiv, 562 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Scholars who study the scientific revolution acknowledge that the...

English Newsbooks and Irish Rebellion, 1641-1649.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... English Newsbooks and Irish Rebellion, 1641-1649, by David A. O'Hara. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006. 240 pp. 55 [euro]/$80.00 US (cloth). British perceptions of the rebellion that broke out in Ulster in October 1641 helped to accelerate...

Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon, by Michael P. Breen. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe series. Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2007. xv, 307 pp. $75.00 US...

Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The eleventh volume in the "Magic in History" series, Lynn Wood Mollenauer's Strange Revelations is a scholarly treat. Deftly dissecting the judicial records of the infamous "Affair of the Poisons" which began in Paris in 1678 at the height of...

Chartism: A New History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Chartism: A New History, by Malcolm Chase. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007. 464 pp. $32.00 US (paper), $84.95 US (cloth). The recent publication of Malcolm Chase's book, Chartism: ,4 New History is a very important milestone...

World's Fairs Italian Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... World's Fairs Italian Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915, by Cristina Della Colletta. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. x, 351 pp. $70.00 Cdn (cloth). Over the past two...

The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination, by James Retallack. German and European Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xiv, 430 pp. $79.00 US (cloth), $34.50 US (paper). James...

Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution, by A. Anne Crowther and Marguerite W. Dupree. Cambridge Studies in Polutiona, Economy and Society in Past Time. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 425 pp. $134.00 US (cloth). ...

The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, by Jan Ruger. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv, 337 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Over a quarter century...

Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War, by Brian D. Bunk. Durham, Duke University Press, 2007. ix, 244 pp. $79.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). Ghosts of Passion offers an innovative approach to the study of the...

Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, by Cecil Eby. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xvi, 510 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). In the 1930s, at least four elites led several nations to...

Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War, by Davide Rodogno; translated by Adrian Belton. New Studies in European History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 504 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). This book...

Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War, by Norman J.W. Goda. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 390 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). On 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT) passed...

Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, by Edyta M. Bojanowska. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii, 448 pp. $59.95 US (cloth). Russian literary critics have long declared the Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai...

Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt, by Charles Gati. Cold War International History Project series. Stanford, Stanford University Press and Washington DC, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2006. xv, 264 pp. $24.95...

Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, edited by Ann Laura Stoler. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xvii, 544 pp. $99.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US...

West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War, by Heather Cox Richardson. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2007. xi, 396 pp. $30.00 U.S. (cloth). This is an enormously impressive book. Engagingly...

Nature and the Environment in 20th Century American Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Nature and the Environment in 20th Century American Life, by Brian Black. The Greenwood Press Daily Life through History Series. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2006. xviii, 237 pp. $49.99 US (cloth). America's attitudes towards...

Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, by Susan K. Cahn. Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 2007. 316 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Susan Cahn's Sexual Reckonings brilliantly explores the history of adolescence in...

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants, by Kathleen M. Barry. Radical Perspectives series. Durham, Duke University Press, 2007. xv, 304 pp. $22.95 US (paper). Barry provides an entertaining study of American flight attendants...

With our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru 1550-1700.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... With our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru 1550-1700, by Karen B. Graubart. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv, 249 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Focusing in Lima and Trujillo...

Testaments of Toluca.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Testaments of Toluca, edited and translated by Caterina Pizzigoni. UCLA Latin American Studies. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2007. xv, 250 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Wills have been among the richest sources for scholars seeking to...

The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938, by Myrna L. Santiago. Studies in Environment and History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 411 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). Historical analysis of...

The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940, edited by Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. viii, 363 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Recent...

Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988, by Steve J. Stern. Book Two of the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006....

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide, edited by John Laband. The Greenwood Press Daily Life through History Series. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2007. ix, 301 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). ...

A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, by Joost R. Hiltermann. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxxii, 314 pp. $29.00 (cloth). In this work, Joost Hiltermann, a journalist and human rights' researcher and...

Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia, by Sherman Cochran. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 242 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). In Chinese Medicine Men, Sherman Cochran addresses an issue fundamental to the...

L'Armee de l'Empereur, Violences et Crimes du Japon en Guerre 1937-1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... L'Armee de l'Empereur, Violences et Crimes du Japon en Guerre 1937-1945, par Jean-Louis Margolin, Paris: Armand Colin, 2007, 479 pp. C 25.00 (poche). Ce livre n'est pas seulement une synthese importante de l'historiographie sur les crimes...

Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India, by Stanley Wolpert. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. xii, 238 pp. $28.00 US (cloth). The arrival of Stanley Wolpert's Shameful Flight coincides with the sixtieth...

Art and War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Art and War, by Laura Brandon. Art and.... series. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 2007. xii, 179 pp. $24.50 US (paper). Blurbs and dust jackets often promise more than books actually deliver, but in the case of Laura Brandon's Art and...

Food in World History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Food in World History, by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Themes in World History. London, Routledge, 2006. viii, 132 pp. $100.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). The burgeoning field of food history has produced a number of weighty tomes in recent...

Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776, by Alden T. Vaughan. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $50.00 US (cloth). This is a fascinating, fast-paced, thoroughly documented, and highly readable book. It...

Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas, by Eric T. Jennings. Durham, Duke University Press, 2006. xi, 271 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Studying the history of spas has obvious appeal--one...

The Western Medical Tradition 1800-2000.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Western Medical Tradition 1800-2000, by W.F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E.M. Tansey. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 614 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). Do we still need...

Globalization and Its Enemies.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Globalization and Its Enemies, by Daniel Cohen. Translated by Jessica B. Baker. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006. xvi, 192 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). Reflecting on the 1848 Revolution in France, Alexis...

Frontiers of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Frontiers of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century, by Donald R. Kelley. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. ix, 298 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The National Museum of Naples is home to history's most enduring...

Making Common Cause: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919-1923.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Making Common Cause: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919-1923, by Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. 240 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). German-Russian and Soviet relations have often impacted decisively...

Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism, edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xv, 402 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). This valuable collection of engaging essays makes a bold...

Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, by Kenneth Osgood. Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2006. xiv, 506 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). This superb study of the Eisenhower administration's...