Canadian Journal of History articles from September 2008

Canadian Journal of History archives from September 2008

God's wrath against the wrathful in medieval mendicant preaching.(Abstract/Resume analytique)
September 22, 2008... An anonymous thirteenth-century preacher's story tells of God's vengeance. A widowed brewer was honestly supporting herself and her spinster sister, refugees in Cork from the Welsh wars, until she was murdered by a burglar in her home one...

Mishandled vessels: heaving drinks and hurling insults in medieval Welsh literature and law.
September 22, 2008... The mid-thirteenth-century Welsh legal codex NLW Latin ms Peniarth 28 (fig. 1) is famous as much for its illustrations as its content, especially the picture of two men locked in a hair-pulling tussle. (1) Not surprisingly, the picture...

Broken cups, men's wrath, and the neighbours' revenge: the case of Thomas and Alice Dey of Alverthorpe (1383).
September 22, 2008... Literature and sermons about wrath were attractive to medieval people because they mirrored and amplified life in satisfactory ways: villains were punished, insults were avenged, and honour was restored. Tales of wrath and vengeance often drew...

Early modern Olympians: Puritan sportsmen in seventeenth-century England and America.
September 22, 2008... The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought...

Anglo-American War reporting 1749-63: the press and a research strategy.
September 22, 2008... On 30 April 1748, the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle ended the War of the Austrian Succession and its American counterpart, King George's War. Clearly the treaty had left vital issues unsettled, and planning for renewed conflict continued despite...

Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality, by James A. Schultz. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. $39.00 US (cloth). In the introduction to Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the...

Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy, by Trevor Dean. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. x, 226 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This is Trevor Dean's fourth book, authored, co-authored, or edited, on Italian crime and law in fourteen...

European Sexualities, 1400-1800.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... European Sexualities, 1400-1800, by Katherine Crawford. New Approaches to European History series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. x, 246 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $25.99 US (paper). Now that more universities are gradually...

Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy, by Tamar Herzig. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi, 333 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Every student of the Renaissance is familiar with the dramatic tale of...

French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text, edited by Nicolas Russell and Helene Visentin. Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007. 275 pp. $22.50 Cdn (paper). The essays collected in French...

Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France, by Sara Beam. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2007. x, 268 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Professor Beam's book is wide in chronological scope, ranging from the...

Menno Simons and the New Jerusalem.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Menno Simons and the New Jerusalem, by Helmut Isaak. Kitchener, Ontario, Pandora Press, 2006. 158 pp. $20.00 Cdn (paper). Helmut Isaak's work is proof that wonderful things can come in quite small packages. Through meticulous reading of the...

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, by Deborah Harkness. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007. xxii, 349 pp. $32.50 US (cloth). Deborah Harkness takes up her examination of Elizabethan science with the...

Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic, by Colin Heywood. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 313 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). As Colin Heywood reminds us in the introduction to Growing Up in France,...

1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion, by Daniel Szechi. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. xvi, 351 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). On the night of 8 September 1715 a cadre of Scottish Jacobites attempted unsuccessfully to capture...

Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age, by Carolyn Steedman. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi, 263 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $32.99 US (paper). This is a plain story made into a significantly...

The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France 1800-1930.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France 1800-1930, by Michael Stephen Smith. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 575 pp. $59.95 US (cloth). In his new book, Michael Stephen Smith tells the story of how...

Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940, by Maria Luddy. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, 2007. xiii, 352 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). If it is impossible to tell a book's intellectual quality by its cover, one can...

Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don.(Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don, by H.S. Jones. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii, 285 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life, by Mark...

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, by Deborah R. Coen. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii, 380 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Deborah Coen's Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty represents a...

Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in de Gaulle's Free France.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in de Gaulle's Free France, by Geoffrey Adams. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 2006. xxiii, 395 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). ...

The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany, by Frank Uekoetter. Studies in Environment and History series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 230 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $23.99 US (paper). The Green...

The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940, by Peter Stansky. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2007. xii, 212 pp. $24.00 US (cloth). On 7 September 1940, the German Luftwaffe implemented a new strategy in the Battle of...

The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands, by Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 2008. x, 316 pp. $29.99 Cdn (cloth). Even if The Occupied Garden is not an...

Design for a New Europe.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Design for a New Europe, by John Gillingham. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 287 pp. $50.00 US (cloth), $19.99 US (paper). John Gillingham seeks neither to bury nor to praise the European Union in this forcefully--sometimes...

Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia, by Corinne Gaudin. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x, 271 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Ruling Peasants interrogates the relationship between the tsarist...

The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses, by Frances L. Bernstein. Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xviii, 246 pp. $42.00 US (cloth). Frances...

Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism by Chad Bryant. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007. xvi, 378 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Historians have long argued that attempts at nation-building in a multiethnic...

Stafford Cripps in Moscow 1940-1942: Diaries and Papers.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Stafford Cripps in Moscow 1940-1942: Diaries and Papers, edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky. Portland, Oregon, Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2007. x, 264 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). On the eve of World War II, Sir Stafford Cripps...

Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, edited by Ingunn Lunde and Tine Roesen. Slavica Bergensia 6, Bergen, University of Bergen, 2006. xiv, 302 pp. $18.66 Cdn (paper). When Mikhail Gorbachev was installed as leader...

Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876, by Nicholas Guyatt. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix. 341 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.99 US (paper). The notion that the United States and its colonial predecessors...

Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries, by James H. Hutson. Cambridge Essential Histories series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 207 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). The relationship between church...

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Oxford History of the United States series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 904 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Thomas Carlyle's notion that it...

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920, by Maury Klein. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 224 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $22.99 US (paper). The latest addition to the Cambridge Essential Series, Maury Klein's The Genesis...

Playing America's Game: Baseball Latinos, and the Color Line.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Playing America's Game: Baseball Latinos, and the Color Line, by Adrian Burgos Jr. American Crossroads series. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2007. xx, 362 pp. $21.95 US (paper). Supporting the nearly 2,400-page...

Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, by Vicki Howard. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 306 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). One does not need to look very hard in today's culture to find discussions of...

Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002, by Marco Palacios. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006. xvi, 299 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). Marco Palacios's history of twentieth-century...

Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran, by Beatrice Manz. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civiliazation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii, 313 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Beatrice Manz has become one of the premier scholars...

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, by Richard C. Keller. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv, 294 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). Psychiatry may not be unique among the medical sciences for its...

Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier, by C. Patterson Giersch. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xviii, 308 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). In the eighteenth century, it was not uncommon for...

Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-Creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-Creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937, by Joshua Goldstein. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. xii, 371 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). International tourists arriving in Beijing today may flock...

Ho Chi Minh: A Biography.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux. Translated by Claire Duiker. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxii, 265 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Will the real Ho Chi Minh please stand up? Ho Chi Minh is in many respects an enigma....

War in Human Civilization.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... War in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi, 822 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). War in Human Civilization is a fine and valuable book, which a wide range of readers should find both interesting and...

A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization, by Kenneth F. Kiple. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 368 pp. $27.00 US (cloth). The latest in a veritable feast of recent scholarship on food history, this book...

The Anthropology of the Enlightenment.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, edited by Larry Wolff and Marco Cipolloni. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2007. xvii, 414 pp. $70.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). In this engaging, well-written, and thoroughly documented...

The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Rights and Democracy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Rights and Democracy, by John M. Headley. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2008. xviii, 290 pp. $26.95 US (cloth). This highly unusual and ultimately disappointing book...

Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War, by Peter Brock. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xiv, 462 pp. $80.00 Cdn (cloth). It is difficult to exaggerate the...

Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds, by John Gascoigne. London, Continuum Books, 2007. xvi, 288 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). It is not surprising for a book on Captain Cook to begin with a foreshadowing anecdote. John Gascoigne describes an...

Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History, by Rod Edmond. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 255 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Leprosy has long fascinated the human imagination. Early...

1812: War with America.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... 1812: War with America, by Jon Latimer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap University, 2007. xviii, 637 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). As proposed by the author, 1812: War with America represents the first comprehensive account of the conflict to be...

The Man Who Discovered Flight: George Cayley and the First Airplane.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Man Who Discovered Flight: George Cayley and the First Airplane, by Richard Dee. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 2007. xii, 328 pp. $32.99 Cdn (cloth). According to Richard Dee, George Cayley was "the man who invented flight." This...

Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World, by J.R. Kerr-Ritchie. Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World series. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xix, 272 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Rites of...

Hunger: A Modern History.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Hunger: A Modern History, by James Vernon. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press, 2007. xii, 369 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). There is, perhaps, no greater indictment of the current state of civilization than the coexistence of the morbidly...

On Deep History and the Brain.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 271 pp. $21.95 US (cloth). Daniel Smail's provocative inquiry into the roots of history, the relationship between historians and their...

Comrades! A History of World Communism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Comrades! A History of World Communism, by Robert Service. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007. xviii, 571 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). The history of world communism has had little attention to date, not least because of...

Errata.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2008... we have, unfortunately a number of errata, particularly from our last issue: volume XLIII, spring-summer/printemps-ete 2008. Our first example is from the article by Larissa Douglass, "'Years of Blood and Darkness': Czech Extra-Parliamentary...