Contemporary Review articles from August 2001

Contemporary Review archives from August 2001

THE CONSERVATIVE RE-THINK.
August 1, 2001... IT is common ground that in June 2001 the Conservative Party suffered a setback much worse than it did in 1997. In that earlier election, the electorate took a broom and swept away violently a great deal of what it thought was unpleasant...

THE STILL-UNITED KINGDOM: DEVOLUTION AND AFTER.(Welsh and Scottish politics)
August 1, 2001... THE British Labour Party of Prime Minister Tony Blair won a constitutionally important victory in the June 2001 General Election along with its political triumph in securing re-election with only a slight reduction in its vast majority. (For...

AMERICA AND ASIA: SOME CHALLENGES FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.(George W. Bush)
August 1, 2001... AT the dawn of the new millennium, the United States of America is the world's most powerful nation. Therefore, it can be argued, to Asia, including Northeast Asia, the USA is an extremely important power at all sorts of levels. No other...

RUSSIAN REFORMS HIDE THE 'JOBLESS MILLIONS'.
August 1, 2001... ECONOMISTS who cite the apparent absence of mass unemployment as a key achievement of economic reforms in Russia are being advised to think again. Many Russians currently ranked as employed are either not being paid, or earn a pittance,...

THE UPHILL STRUGGLE OF BRAZIL'S REFORMS.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... ON 19 December 2000, I was surprised when I opened The Times and found a 16-page supplement about Brazil. On page two, the smiling faces of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the lovely Miss Gisele Bundchen, the 20-year-old Brazilian...

ENDRE ADY: SIX POEMS.(includes biography and literary criticism)(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... Translated from the Hungarian ENDRE Ady (1877-1919) was a Hungarian poet of enormous influence on European literature, whose work has nevertheless been hardly translated into English. He was the son of an old, albeit impoverished, Calvinist...

VERMEER AND DE HOOCH AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY.(Vermeer and the Delft School)
August 1, 2001... AFTER the outburst of trumpets at the Royal Academy's Genius of Rome we are invited to hear the dextrous, muted clavier-pieces of Vermeer and the Delft School at the National Gallery. The School of Delft, if it existed at all, was sustained...

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE.(Theatre@Risk)(The Hidden Plot)(The Full Room)(Review)
August 1, 2001... Theatre@Risk. Michael Kustow. Methuen. [pound]12.99. ISBN 0413-76690X. The Hidden Plot. Edward Bond. Methuen. [pound]17.99. ISBN 0413-725502. The Full Room. Dominic Dromgoole. Methuen. [pound]18.99. ISBN 0413-772306. Considering the...

INTEGRALISM AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION.(Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism)(Review)
August 1, 2001... Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism. Douglas R. Holmes. Princeton University Press. [pound]35.00. 253 pages. ISBN 0-691-0338-9. With the European Union in the news nearly every day, advanced integration in Europe...

CULTURE IN BRITAIN.(Literature and Culture in Modem Britain)(Review)
August 1, 2001... Literature and Culture in Modem Britain. Volume Three: 1956-1999. Clive Bloom and Gary Day, editors. Longman. [pound]14.99. 282 pages. ISBN 0-582-07552-1. This is a book shrewdly aimed at the cultural studies market so popular with...

BELFAST'S SISTER GENEVIEVE.(Sister Genevieve: The Inspirational Story of One Headteacher at the Heart of the Troubles)(Review)
August 1, 2001... Sister Genevieve: The Inspirational Story of One Headteacher at the Heart of the Troubles. John Rae. Little, Brown and Company. [pound]16.99. 269 pages. ISBN 0-316-85632-0. This is a book that is well researched and elegantly written. The...

THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.(publisher releases)
August 1, 2001... FABER AND FABER have recently announced the re-launch of their famous Faber Poetry series which first began in the 1920s. Among the new titles published is Ezra Pound's Personae: Collected Shorter Poems ([pound]11.99), first published in 1926....

The Undiscovered Chekhov: Fifty-One New Stories.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Undiscovered Chekhov: Fifty-One New Stories. Anton Chekhov. Peter Constantine, translator. Duckworth. [pound]14.99. 224 pages. ISBN 0-0156-3106-3. These fifty-one stories were written during the Russian writer's most prolific period,...

The Oscar Slater Murder Story: New Light on a Classic Miscarriage of Justice.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Oscar Slater Murder Story: New Light on a Classic Miscarriage of Justice. Richard Whittington-Egan. Neil Wilson Publishing. [pound]12.99. 339 pages. ISBN 1-897784-88-0. This study of the famous 1908 murder in Glasgow of an 82 year old woman...

The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations. Antony Jay, editor. Oxford University Press. [pound]18.99. 497 pages. ISBN 0-19-863167-7. The editor of this enjoyable collection is famous as a BBC producer and writer. He has lived in the...

The Language of Ornament.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Language of Ornament. James Trilling. Thames & Hudson. [pound]8.95 p.b. 224 pages. ISBN 0-500-20343-1. With the publication of this latest title in their World of Art series, Thames & Hudson celebrates the series' forty-fifth anniversary....

The London Way of Death.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The London Way of Death. Brian Parsons. Sutton Publishing. [pound]10.99 p.b. 128 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2539-6. Far from being depressing, this study of the customs and rituals surrounding death and the problem of how to dispose of large numbers of...

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry. John Sitter, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pound]37.50 (US$54.95). 298 pages. ISBN 0-521-65885-3. Cambridge University Press's impressive series of Companion continues with this new...

Making Ireland British: 1580-1650.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Making Ireland British: 1580-1 650. Nicholas Canny. Oxford University Press. [pound]55.00. 633 pages. ISBN 0-19-820091-9. The author is Professor of History in the National University of Ireland at Galway. His aim is to see the British...

The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence 1821-1833.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence 1821-1833. David Brewer. John Murray. [pound]25.00. 393 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5447-0. To many if not most English-speakers, the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman overlords brings Lord...

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. Roy Porter. Reaktion Books. [pound]25.00. 328 pages. ISBN 1-86189-094-X. This title is part of Reaktion Books new series, 'Picturing History', in which 'images form an integral...

Hitler's Loss: What Britain and America Gained from Europe's Cultural Exiles.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Hitler's Loss: What Britain and America Gained from Europe's Cultural Exiles. Tom Ambrose. Peter Owen Publishers. [pound]17.95.232 pages. ISBN 0-7206-11075. The roll call of emigres who were able to leave Germany, Austria and Hungary after the...

Caroline Lamb: This Infernal Woman.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Caroline Lamb: This Infernal Woman. Susan - Normington. House of Stratus. [pound]18.99 (US$31.00). 323 pages. ISBN 1-84232-162-5. Lady Caroline Lamb has earned a small niche for herself in British history. She was the most famous (or notorious)...

Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. Annika Mombauer. Cambridge University Press. [pound]35.00 (US$54.95). 325 pages. ISBN 0-521-791014 The origins of the Great War are one of the richest gold mines in the historians'...

Rainbow Nation: South Africa's Decade of Democracy.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Rainbow Nation: South Africa's Decade of Democracy. Donald Woods. Andre Deutsch. [pound]17.99. 255 pages. ISBN 0-233-99830-6. The author, a journalist born in South Africa, has spent part of his adult life there (until being put under house...

Kitty Harris: The Spy with Seventeen Names.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Kitty Harris: The Spy with Seventeen Names. Igor Damaskin with Geoffrey Elliott. St Ermin's Press in association with Little, Brown. [pound]18.99. 260 pages. ISBN 1-903608-01-5. The author is a retired senior officer in the KGB and before that,...

Britain and the H-Bomb.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Britain and the H-Bomb. Lorna Arnold with Katherine Pyne. Palgrave. [pound]45.00. 273 pages. ISBN 0-333-73685-0. This is the third book by Lorna Arnold to deal with Britain's history as a nuclear power. Here she and her co-author, Katherine...

Writings on the Poor Laws: Volume I.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Writings on the Poor Laws: Volume I. Jeremy Bentham. Michael Quinn, editor. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pound]55.00. 359 pages. ISBN 0-19-924232-1. The influence of Jeremy Bentham's writings on English social history was profound and none had as...

Sultry Climates: Travel and Sex since the Grand Tour.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Sultry Climates: Travel and Sex since the Grand Tour. Ian Littlewood. John Murray. [pound]17.99. 248 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5602-3. John Murray has long been famous as the publisher of books on foreign travel and their Handbooks were once essential...

Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story. John Bossy. Yale University Press. [pound]18.95. 189 pages. ISBN 0-300-08400-5. Professor John Bossy, who recently retired as Professor of History in the University of York, is among this country's...

Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. Isser Woloch. W. W. Norton. [pound]22.50. 281 pages ISBN 0-393-05009-2. Professor Woloch, who teaches in Columbia University, has already established himself as an authority on...