Canadian Journal of History articles from September 2007

Canadian Journal of History archives from September 2007

"Race" and gender in non-Durkheimian French sociology, 1893-1914.
September 22, 2007... The non-Durkheimian sociologists in the institutions founded by Rene Worms were not simply biological determinists. A hard-line contingent among Worms's associates continued to accept the anthropological paradigm of racial hierarchy, but a...

The foreign office and Anglo-Italian involvement in the Red Sea and Arabia, 1925-28.
September 22, 2007... This article examines Britain's response to Italy's forward policy in the Red Sea region during the mid-to-late 1920s. Previous examination and understanding of Anglo-Italian relations during this period has tended to focus on issues other than...

The taint of communism: the Movement for Colonial Freedom, the Labour Party, and the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1954-70.
September 22, 2007... In the British politics of decolonization, the Labour Party and the various anticolonial organizations were forced to craft their political strategies ever mindful of the uneasiness that the decolonization process engendered among the British...

The Anglo-American global imperial legacy: is there a better way?(The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain; Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World; A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire; Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors )(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks. Cambridge, Belknap Press, 2006. ix, 389 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World by Brian W....

The complexity of empire.(India before Europe; The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833; The Tropics and the Travelling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856; Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... India before Europe, by Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 314 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833,...

Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, by Florin Curta. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxviii, 496 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $34.99 US (paper). The goal of Florin Curta's new book...

Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000, by Hans J. Hummer. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 299 pp. $85.00 US (cloth)....

Russian Identities: A Historical Survey.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Russian Identities: A Historical Survey, by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Nicholas Riasanovsky is a classic Russian historian, whose textbooks have been an indispensable item on...

600 Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... 600 Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789, by J. Michael Hayden and Malcolm R. Greenshields. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xx, 604 pp. $80.00 Cdn (cloth). This book is an...

The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400, by Roisin Cossar. Medieval Mediterranean series. Leiden, Brill, 2006. xiv, 228 pp. $116.00 US (cloth). The study of the laity during the Middle Ages has been an active area of...

Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution, by William R. Newman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii, 250 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). Alchemy is a pseudo-science...

Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine, edited by John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii, 277 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In recent years, scholars working in the fruitful...

The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology, and Magic in Renaissance Prague.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology, and Magic in Renaissance Prague, by Peter Marshall. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 2006. 276 pp. $34.00 Cdn (cloth). This is the latest in a long line of books written by Peter Marshall for a...

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia, by Allyson M. Poska. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 270 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Husbands giving dowries to wives, daughters chosen as heirs, brothers married to...

Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800, by Larrie D. Ferreiro. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2007. xxiv, 441 pp....

Marshal Schomberg, 161.5-1690, "The Ablest Soldier of His Age ": International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Marshal Schomberg, 161.5-1690, "The Ablest Soldier of His Age ": International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe, by Matthew Glozier. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2005. xxiv, 250 pp. $69.50 US...

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches, edited by Jay M, Smith. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. x, 346 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Based on a conference held in...

The Constitutional Revolution: An Essay in the History of Enyland, 1450-1642.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Constitutional Revolution: An Essay in the History of Enyland, 1450-1642, by Alan Cromartie. Ideas in Context series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 309 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Alan Cromartie has delivered precisely what...

England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642, by David Cressy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, xiv, 446 pp. $75.00 Cdn (cloth). This book powerfully brings to the fore the ongoing debate between historians about the nature of...

School for Citizens: Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial Russia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... School for Citizens: Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial Russia, by Murray Frame. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. x, 262 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). Murray Frame's School for Citizens is a welcome and much-needed addition...

For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, by Robert D. Crews. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. viii, 463 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Not all of the inhabitants of the Russian empire were Orthodox...

The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, by David Andress. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. viii, 441 pp. $26.00 US (cloth), $17.00 US (paper). In writing about the Terror in the French Revolution,...

The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, by David A. Bell. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. x, 420 pp. $27.00 US (cloth). This is in some ways a very impressive book. David Bell offers us a...

Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon, by Howard G. Brown. Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii, 461 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Determining when the French...

Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970, by Jonathan Dewald. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xi, 241 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). Historical accounts of nineteenth-century European...

Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France, by Elinor Accampo. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 312 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). In Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit,...

In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser, by Paul Van Pul. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Pen and Sword Military, 2006. xxii, 266 pp. 19.99 [euro] (cloth). In one of the lesser-known events of World War I, the Belgians, on 3...

Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: The Rural Settlement of Refugees, 1922-1930.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: The Rural Settlement of Refugees, 1922-1930, by Elisabeth Kontogiorgi. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 380 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). In the Treaty of Lausanne...

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and documents.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker. London, Hayward Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2006. 272 pp. $38.00 US (paper). The finely produced exhibition catalogue, Undercover...

Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars, by Clifford Rosenberg. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2006. xx, 241 pp. $57.50 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). When France succeeded the United States...

Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy, by Eagle Glassheim. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 299 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The tenacity of the landed aristocracy in maintaining its...

Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940, by Raffael Scheck. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 202 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This concise yet authoritative monograph breaks new...

June 1941: Hitler and Stalin.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... June 1941: Hitler and Stalin, by John Lukacs. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. x, 169 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). June 1941: Hitler and Stalin is the latest work by the prolific historian, John Lukacs. One writer has argued...

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945-1964).(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945-1964), edited by Sergei Khrushchev, translated by George Shriver and Stephen Shenfield. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv, 856 pp. $65.00 US...

Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, by Joan Wallach Scott. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi, 191 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.00 US (paper). Joan Scott's history of the mouvement pour la parite, a...

Italian Politics: Adjustment under Duress.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Italian Politics: Adjustment under Duress, by Martin J. Bull and James L. Newell. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005. xiv, 262 pp. $25.95 US (paper). The authors of this generally well-informed survey of the changes in Italy's politics since...

The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England, by Matthew McCormack. Gender in History. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005. x, 222 pp. 55.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). To say that this book on...

The Jamestown Project.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2007. viii, 380 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Beginnings usually are glorious, more in hindsight than in the moment. History...

Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, by Ned Blackhawk. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 372 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Ned Blackhawk provides a compelling analysis of the...

The French Navy and the Seven Years' War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The French Navy and the Seven Years' War, by Jonathan Dull. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xiii, 445 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). It was the world's first world war. From 1754...

For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace, by Mark Zuehlke. Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006. xiv, 443 pp. $37.95 Cdn (cloth). For most modern North Americans, the War of 1812 is something of an...

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, by Scott A. Sandage. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xii, 362 pp. $16.95 US (paper). While the space occupied by genial losers in American popular culture may be...

Faith, Duty and Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1829-1960.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Faith, Duty and Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1829-1960, by Gilian Sutherland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 262 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This engaging book is a biography of Anne Jemima Clough and her...

Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America, by Beth A. Salerno. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix, 233 pp. $38.00 US (cloth). In this short but powerful book, Beth A. Salemo...

All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 18501950, by Robert E. Kohler. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii, 363 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). The idea of systematically collecting and naming living creatures takes...

On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment, by Geoff Cunfer. Environmental History Series. College Station, Texas, Texas A & M University Press, 2005. xii, 292 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $28.00 US (paper). Scholars and the general public...

The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston, by Roberto R. Trevino. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 308 pp. $22.50 US (paper). The faith may be catholic, but its...

The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migration of Black and White Southerners Transformed America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migration of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, by James N. Gregory. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv, 446 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper)....

Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained, by David M.K. Sheinin. The United States and the Americas series. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 2006. xii, 285 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). David M. K....

The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850, by Cecilia Mendez. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xvi, 343 pp. $23.95 US (paper). In 1825, shortly after Peruvian...

Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State, by Julia Rodriguez. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 306 pp. $24.95 US (paper). Shaped by Foucauldian subjects (the analysis of medical practices,...

Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State, 1906-2001.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State, 1906-2001, by Florencia E. Mallon. Radical Perspectives series. Durham, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvii, 319 pp. $22.95 US...

Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, by Jocelyn Olcott. Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. ix, 337 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $21.80 US (paper). Understanding...

Mandela: A Critical Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Mandela: A Critical Life, Tom Lodge. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xx, 270 pp. $26.00 US (cloth). In this compelling biography of Nelson Mandela, Tom Lodge charts his subject's life from his pristine beginnings in Qunu along South...

From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier, by David McDermott Hughes. Culture, Place, and Nature series. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. xvii, 285 pp. $55.00 Cdn (cloth). In the mid-1990s,...

A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives by Richard M. Eaton. The New Cambridge History of India series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 221 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). This compact but wide-ranging volume...

The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism, by Marianne Kamp. Jackson School Publications in International Studies. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. ix, 332 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). Focusing on...

America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy, by Naoko Shibusawa. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. 397 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). This work of cultural history examines US-Japan relations from a unique vantage...

The Cambridge History of Warfare.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Cambridge History of Warfare, edited by Geoffrey Parker. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii, 515 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.99 US (paper). Geoffrey Parker's Cambridge History of Warfare is a brief survey of (Western)...

Geography and Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Geography and Revolution, edited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. vii, 433 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). It is an axiom of historiography that the way the past is constructed is a...

Human Remains: Dissections and Its Histories.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Human Remains: Dissections and Its Histories, by Helen MacDonald. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005. xiv, 220 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Helen MacDonald's fascinating book is not so much about the performance of human dissection, whose...

Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, by George Weisz. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. xxx, 359 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). The history of the evolution of medical specialization in the United States,...

Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, by John S. Rigden. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. ix, 173 pp. $14.95 US (paper). 2005 saw the centenary of what has come to be known as Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis....

History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History, by Sande Cohen. Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society series. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. vii, 307 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). The relationship between...

The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession, edited by Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix, 289 pp. $23.99 US (paper). Over the last decade, debates...