Canadian Journal of History articles from September 2006

Canadian Journal of History archives from September 2006

Bishop Gilbert Burnet and latitudinarian episcopal opposition to the occasional conformity bills, 1702-1704 (1).
September 22, 2006... On November 4, 1702, William Bromley and Arthur Annesley, Tory members of parliament for the two universities and the acknowledged spokesmen for the High Church clergy in the House of Commons, introduced a bill into the house to prevent the...

Under the sign of the pendulum: childhood experience as determining revolutionary consciousness. Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978) (1).(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... "It was a powerful experience, not something that could be had from books." (Ilona Duczynska) The brief autobiography "Early Morning," which Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978) composed late in life, (2) was designed principally to show...

Politics in colonial Ijebu, 1921-51: the role and challenge of the educated elite (1).
September 22, 2006... I. Introduction One of the developments that accompanied the establishment of British political control in Lagos in 1861 was the introduction of Western education in Nigeria. (2) By the beginning of the twentieth century there had emerged...

Big history, the whole story, and nothing less?(Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History)(After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, by David Christian. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. xxii, 642 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC, by Steven Mithen. Cambridge,...

Jewish life in the New Germanys.(After the Holocaust: Jewish Survivors in Germany after 1945)(A Jew in the New Germany)(Being Jewish in the New Germany)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... After the Holocaust: Jewish Survivors in Germany after 1945, by Eva Kolinsky. London, Pimlico, 2004. xv, 288 pp. $34.95 Cdn (paper). A Jew in the New Germany, by Henryk M. Broder (edited by Sander L. Gilman, trans. Broder Translators'...

The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, edited by J.G. Manning and Ian Morris. Social Science History series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xiii, 285 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). The volume under review is an important...

A History of the Classical Greek World 478-323 BC.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A History of the Classical Greek World 478-323 BC, by P.J. Rhodes. Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2006. xiv, 407 pp. $34.95 US (paper). It is no exaggeration to state that Peter Rhodes is one of the...

Viking Empires.(Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Viking Empires, by Angelo Forte, Richard Oram, and Frederik Pedersen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 447 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map, by Kirsten A. Seaver. Stanford,...

Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, edited by P.H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004. 227 pp. $27.50 Cdn (paper). At the Christian intersection of gender and religion lies a pervasive idea...

Medieval Religion: New Approaches.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Medieval Religion: New Approaches, edited by Constance Hoffman Berman. Rewriting Histories series. New York, Routledge, 2005. xxiii, 422 pp. $105.00 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). The promotional material for this book asserts that it is...

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV: c.1024-c.1198.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV: c.1024-c.1198, edited by David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Part 1: xxi, 917 pp., Part 2: xix, 959 pp. $180.00 US (cloth) per part. ...

Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325, by Augustine Thompson, O.P. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xii, 502 pp. $65.00 US (cloth) $25.00 US (paper). For decades, historians...

Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe, edited by Kevin Siena. Essays and Studies series, number 7. Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 292 pp. $24.50 Cdn (paper). This excellent...

The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity, by Bronwen Wilson. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. xviii, 406 pp. $70.00 Cdn (cloth). While Florence has tended to dominate the...

Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France, by Katherine Crawford. Harvard Historical Studies, number 145. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. x, 297 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Students and scholars...

A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France, by James R. Farr. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xi, 225 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Murder! Lust! Deception! James R. Farr's A Tale...

Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England, edited by Nigel Goose and Lien Luu. Brighton, United Kingdom, Sussex Academic Press, 2005. x, 263 pp. $55.00 US (paper). In her conclusion to the volume under review, one of its co-editors,...

Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England, by Christopher Kendrick. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004. viii, 382 pp. $85.00. Scholars and advanced students should welcome Christopher Kendrick's analysis of literary...

Soldiers and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Soldiers and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War, by Mark Stoyle. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2005. xiv, 297 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The English Civil War has been described, at different times, as a...

The Atterbury Plot.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Atterbury Plot, by Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill. Studies in Modern History. Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xi, 312 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester and dean of...

Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire, by Geoffrey Plank. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 259 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). The Jacobite Rising of 1745--the term drawn from Jacobus, the...

The Politics of Citizenship in Germany: Ethnicity, Utility and Nationalism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Politics of Citizenship in Germany: Ethnicity, Utility and Nationalism, by Eli Nathans. Oxford, Berg, 2004. xvii, 294 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). Some of the greatest conflicts in recent German history resulted from the...

Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era, by Katherine B. Aaslestad. Studies in Central European Histories, number 36. Leiden, Brill, 2004. xiii, 384 pp. $213.00 US...

German Modernism: Music and the Arts.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... German Modernism: Music and the Arts, by Walter Frisch. California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2005. x, 322 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Walter Frisch is one of the...

The Once and Future Budapest.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Once and Future Budapest, by Robert Nemes. De Kalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xi, 247 pp. $38.00 US (cloth) In less than a century, from the early to the late 1800s, the ethnic allegiance of Buda and Pest...

Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945, by Bernhard Rieger. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. x, 319 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). This volume earns its place in the...

The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor, by Robert Gerwarth. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 216 pp., $85.00 US (cloth). Robert Gerwarth's study of the Bismarck myth is...

Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City, by Borden W. Painter, Jr. Italian and American Studies series. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 200 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Painter's compact but comprehensive narrative of...

The First Domino: International Decision Making during the Hungarian Crisis of 1956.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The First Domino: International Decision Making during the Hungarian Crisis of 1956, by Johanna Granville. Eastern European Studies, number 26. College Station, Texas, Texas A & M Press, 2004. xx, 323 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). In the years...

Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism, by Istvan Rev. Cultural Memory in the Present series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. 340 pp. $65.00 US. (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). With his recent publication,...

France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980, by Timothy B. Smith. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. 296 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). France often makes the news these days: in November 2005,...

Rail, Steam and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Rail, Steam and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion, by Christopher McGowan. New York, Columbia University Press, 2004. x, 379 pp. $32.95 US (cloth). In this book, Christopher McGowan merges narrative speculation,...

Hard Men: Violence in England since 1750.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Hard Men: Violence in England since 1750, by Clive Emsley. London, Hambledon and London, 2005. xii, 225 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). In this very enjoyable and engaging new book, Professor Emsley offers an overview of violence in England from the...

Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750: A History of Exclusion.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750: A History of Exclusion, by Anne Borsay. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. xiii, 306 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). Professor Borsay has offered a timely survey of an important...

The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession, by Jack Meadows. British Library, London, 2004. 202 pp. $35.00 Cdn (cloth). This is a book about the development of the scientist, which, in spite of the importance of the Scientific...

The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity, by Stuart McLean. Cultural Memory in the Present series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. x, 227 pp. $49.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). The mid-twentieth...

Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community, by Mark A. Lause. Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2005. vii, 227 pp. $42.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). The current leadership of the Republican Party in the...

Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform, by Finis Dunaway. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiv, 246 pp. $37.50 US (cloth). Common sense would suggest that photographic images have played a big...

Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast, by Paige Raibmon. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. 307 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper)....

Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922, by Robert Rydell and Rob Kroes. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii, 209 pp. $26.00 US (cloth). This adept, readable little book tries to answer some big...

Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99, by Carol Lynn McKibben. Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Centennial series. Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2006. x, 159 pp....

Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, by Nikhil Pal Singh. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004, 285 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $16.95 US (paper). For Nikhil Pal Singh, the so-called "Modern...

Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Gone is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534-2000, by James Robertson. Kingston, Jamaica, Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. xviii, 477 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). In this comprehensive account of Spanish Town, Jamaica,...

Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, by Laurent Dubois. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. viii, 357 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $18.95 US (paper). In 1938, in London, the...

Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America, edited by Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, and Lara Putnam. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. viii, 330 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). The study of honour...

Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil, by Bryan McCann. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press. 2004. ix, 296 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). In Brazil, perhaps more than in most other countries,...

The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, by Charles Kurzman. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. ix, 287 pp. $27.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In this book, Charles Kurzman sets out to find an explanation satisfying to...

A History of Nepal.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A History of Nepal, by John Whelpton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiii, 296 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $ 24.99 US (paper). Both in the light of recent Nepalese politics and the historiography of South Asia, John Whelpton's A...

Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000, by Harald Fuess. Studies of the East Asian Institute. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 240 pp. $48.00 US (cloth). Recent attention to "retired husband...

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire.(Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and the State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire, by Thomas H. Reilly. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004. xi, 235 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and the State in Chinese...

Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1945.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1945, by Xiaoyuan Liu. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xix, 240 pp. $48.00 US (cloth). Frontier Passages is a carefully researched...

They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals, by Suping Lu. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2004. ix, 398 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). More than six decades have passed since the horrific events...

Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism. Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory, by Christoph Giebel. Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004. xxii, 255 pp., $40.00 US...

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage, by Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2004. xi, 248 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper)....

Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century, by Michael Palmer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 377 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). One factor explaining military history's enduring popularity is...

British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America, by Stephen J. Hornsby. Hanover, New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 2005. xviii, 307 pp. $60.00 US (library binding), $29.95 US (paper). The...

Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914, by Andrew Porter. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1994. xviii, 373 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). In this compelling study,...

The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. x, 389 pp. $37.00 US (paper). This pioneering work contains fourteen stimulating essays which...

Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America, edited by Thomas Adam. Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2004. x, 228 pp. $37.95 US...

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact, by Vaclav Smil. Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. ix, 350 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). ...

Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938, by Carole Fink. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxvii, 420 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). In modern...

Fighting the Great War: A Global History.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Fighting the Great War: A Global History, by Michael S. Neiberg. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xx, 395 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). It is not an exaggeration to speak of an abundance of recent histories of the Great...

Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II, by Walter W. Igersheimer and edited by Ian Darrach. Footprints series. Montreal, Qu6bec and Kingston, Ontario,...

The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955, by Deborah Kisatsky. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University Press, 2005. xiv, 237 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $9.95 US (audio CD). In this brief but intriguing text, historian Deborah Kisatsky...

Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War.(The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War, by Richard Aldous. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2005. 205 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957, edited by Peter G. Boyle. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2006... Please note that the caption for the cover of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire, volume 41, number 1, is incorrect. It should read: "Melbourne in the late 1930s. La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of...