Contemporary Review articles from February 2002

Contemporary Review archives from February 2002

The Queen's Golden Jubilee.
February 1, 2002... 'I AM writing, after a very fatiguing day, in the garden at Buckingham Palace, where I used to sit so often in former happy days. Fifty years to-day since I came to the Throne! God has mercifully sustained me through many great trials and...

Afghanistan: Yesterday, today; and tomorrow?
February 1, 2002... THERE are certain countries over which a long shadow lies. However captivating for the visitor and notwithstanding the hospitality of its peoples there is in their past history that which clouds the atmosphere, a sense of long suffering, of...

Domestic violence against British women.
February 1, 2002... EVERY six to 20 seconds an incident of domestic violence - overwhelmingly against women -- occurs in Britain, according to a unique survey of crime figures compiled by British police forces during a single day: 28 September 2000. On that...

The United States and China.
February 1, 2002... AS George W. Bush declared war on terrorism on September 11, 2001, the United States of America became the centre of the world. It is the sole superpower, if that term needs still to be used, with a global reach of its military, political,...

Lord Hailsham: The reluctant peer.
February 1, 2002... Editor's Note: In last month s issue Jonathan Doering assessed the career of the Labour hereditary peer, Lord Longford, who died in 2001. Now we look at his Tory contemporary, Lord Hailsham. Both men exemplify a British tradition of hereditary...

Rembrandt's Women and Painted Ladies.(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2002... WHILST casting a backward glance at Rembrandt's Women, a recent exhibition at the Royal Academy, one finds some curious links with display of portraiture at the court of Charles II, Painted Ladies. At the end of January Painted Ladies moved...

Longfellow's Evangeline and the Cult of Acadia.
February 1, 2002... IT was October and the tourist season in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia was almost past, but it was still a glorious sunny day when I reached Grand Pre. The trees were clothed in a last display of brilliant colour before they yielded to...

John Maynard Keynes - A Life Completed. (Reviews).
February 1, 2002... John Maynard Keynes. Volume III. Fighting for Britain 1937-1946. Robert Skidelsky. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. 580 pages. ISBN 0-333-60456-3. John Maynard Keynes was the pre-eminent economist of the twentieth century. His life...

The Origins of Anti-communism. (Reviews).(British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War)
February 1, 2002... British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War. Markku Ruotsila. Frank Cass. [pound sterling]39.50 (Us$57.50). 274 pages. ISBN 0-7146-5160-5. The author, a Finnish Academy Researcher at the University of Tampere, has based this...

Science, Politics and the Tyrolean Ice Man. (Reviews).
February 1, 2002... Icemnan: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier. Brenda Fowler. Macmillan. [pound sterling]20.00. ISBN 0-333-90178-9. In September 1991, two German tourists made one of the most startling...

Amnesty for all? (Reviews).(Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International)
February 1, 2002... Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International. Jonathan Power. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [sterling pounds]12.99 p.b. 322 pages. ISBN 0-713-99319-7. This book, by an American syndicated columnist and human rights activist,...

The Hard-headed Shakespeare. (Reviews).(Un gentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life)
February 1, 2002... Un gentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Arden Shakespeare. [pounds sterling]20.00. 322 pages. ISBN 1-903436-26-5. Ungentle Shakespeare is a first-class title, as the marketing people may have assured Katherine...

The Medieval World. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Medieval World. Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson. Routledge. [pounds sterling]120.00. 745 pages. ISBN 0-415-18151-8. This book attempts to do in one volume what the New Cambridge Medieval History is doing in several. Thirty-eight experts...

English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890. Bernard Richards. Longman. [pounds sterling]16.99 p.b. 314 pages. ISBN 0-582-38125-8. This is a second edition of a book first published in 1988. The author has added two new chapters to meet...

Colonial Williamsburg.
February 1, 2002... Colonial Williamsburg. Philip Kopper. Harry N. Abrams. [pounds sterling]45.00. 319 pages. ISBN 0-8109-0609-0. This beautifully illustrated book, with 377 photographs, of which 300 are in full colour, comes up to the high standard set by Abrams....

The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord. William Gibson. Routledge. [pounds sterling]55.00. 269 pages. ISBN 0-415-24022-0. The sub-tide of this book is the key to the authors' thesis: that the eighteenth century church was marked by...

The Divine Drama: The Old Testament as Literature.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Divine Drama: The Old Testament as Literature. John Dancy. The Lutterworth Press. [pounds sterling]17.50 p.b. 800 pages. ISBN 0-7188-2987-5. 'This book', the author states, 'aims to rescue the Old Testament from the long list of the great...

The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume VI. English in North America.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume VI. English in North America. John Algeo, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]80.00 (US$120.00). 625 pages. ISBN 0-521-264790-0. In this latest volume in Cambridge's...

Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe. David Broughton and Hans-Martien ten Napel, editors. Routledge. [pounds sterling]55.00. 218 pages. ISBN 0-415-20129-2. If one excludes the introduction and conclusion both written by the two...

Blood in the Sand: More Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Blood in the Sand: More Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century. Ian Hernon. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling] 19.99 (US$29.95). 232 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2614-7. The author has already published two titles in his series on forgotten wars and...

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare; The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells, editors. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling] 37.50 (US$54.95). 328 pages. ISBN 0-521-65881-0 and The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Michael Dobson and...

Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class. Shani D'Cruze, editor. Longman. [pounds sterling]55.00. 233 pages. ISBN 0-58241908-5. The essays in this collection set out, in the editor's words, 'to explore the history of how...

The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. Denis and Peggy Warner. Frank Cass. [pounds sterling]37.50. 627 pages. ISBN 0-7146-5256-3. In many ways the war between the Russian Empire of Nicholas II and Japan is the...

Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queen.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queen. A. C. Hamilton, editor. Hiroshi Yamashita and Toshiyuki Suzuki, text editors. Longman, [pounds sterling]39.99 p.b. ISBN 0-0-582-09951-X. This annotated edition of Spenser's great poem was first published in...

Warrior Race: The British Experience of War from Roman Times to the Present.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Warrior Race: The British Experience of War from Roman Times to the Present. Lawrence James. Little, Brown and Company. [pounds sterling]25.00. 864 pages. ISBN 0-316-85762-9. Mr James has made a name for himself as an historian on the grand...

The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800: Servants of the Commonweal.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800: Servants of the Commonweal. Rosemary O'Day. Longman. [pounds sterling]60.00. 334 pages. ISBN 0-582-29265-4. This volume, part of Longman's series, Themes in British Social History,...

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744. Christopher Hibbert. Viking. [pounds sterling]20.00. 407 pages. ISBN 0-670-88677-7. The author is the doyen of popular historians and respected biographers. This latest biography, a joint...

After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II. John Miller. Longman. [pounds sterling]55.00. 318 pages. ISBN 0-582-29899-2. The author is a widely recognised authority on politics after the 1660 Restoration....

Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951. Eric Hopkins. Routledge, [pounds sterling]50.00. 308 pages. ISBN 0-415-18777-X. Along with urbanisation, the industrialisation of the British economy remade the country in the mould in...

The Federalization of Spain.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Federalization of Spain. Luis Moreno. Frank Cass Publishers. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$59.50). 182 pages. ISBN 0-7146-5138-9. Dr Moreno is an established expert in the field of recent Spanish history. He defines Spain as 'a country of...