Contemporary Review articles from July 2002

Contemporary Review archives from July 2002

The Netherlands confronts assassination and election.(Pim Fortuyn)
July 1, 2002... ON May 6, little more than a week before the General Election would take place in the Netherlands, a politician was murdered in cold blood. A left-wing animal rights 'activist' is alleged to have killed him, apparently because he was in favour...

Living with terror: the reflections of an Israeli student.(Column)
July 1, 2002... A NORMAL day in my life begins when I open my eyes and rush to see the morning newspaper. I anxiously check the headlines to see if f recognize anyone in the pictures of the previous day's terror victims. As I ride the bus to my university in...

Britain and the Euro.
July 1, 2002... THE debate about whether Britain should join the euro, the single European currency, has been back in the news again. The British press, important sections of which are hostile to the euro, often sees this in terms of a battle between Tony...

Will new women's rights correct Turkish wrongs?(marriage laws)
July 1, 2002... AFTER more than half a century of struggle, Turkish women have won equality with men in marriage--on 1 January a new civil code replaced previous legislation little altered since the original was promulgated in 1926 during the reforming...

The philosophical origins of European anti-Americanism.
July 1, 2002... ANTI-AMERICANISM in Europe is different from that in the Islamic world. The two forms have different sources. Islamic anti-Americanism is inextricably related to the political Middle East problem. The European version is not foremost political...

Sarajevo: A spring of hope.(Column)
July 1, 2002... SOME towns, like some people, have great personality. You can like them or dislike them: they can make you laugh, think and cry; and you can never dare feel indifferent or sorry for them. Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is such...

South Africa and Zimbabwe.
July 1, 2002... THE fallout from a Zimbabwean presidential election blighted by state orchestrated repression and riddled with malpractices will be most keenly felt within the Southern African region itself, not least by South Africa, the regional hegemon (see...

Franz Liszt: A family connection.(Karol Bernard Zaluski)(Column)
July 1, 2002... WHILE researching the musical history of my family, which goes back to the Polish composer, Prince Michal Kleofas Oginski, I discovered, through my great grand-uncle and Oginski's grandson, Count Karol Zaluski, a tantalising connection with...

Shakespeare under two Elizabeths.(Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II, queens of England)(William Shakespeare)(English theater)
July 1, 2002... SHAKESPEARE did well under the first Elizabeth and is thriving--if with a few heart tremors--under the second. It's a complex story, but there are deep patterns and continuities in the two reigns. Elizabeth I was a patron. It is said that...

Art notes: finery at the National Gallery.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, an exhibition devised by the clothes-historian Anne Hollander, is at the National Gallery until 8 September 2002. As a study of clothes in art it is more a collection of interesting footnotes...

Germany: From Defeat to Dominance. (Reviews).
July 1, 2002... The Fall of the G.D.R. David Childs. Longman. [pounds sterling]14.99 p.b. 188 pages. ISBN 0-582-31569-7. Victory in Europe: Britain and Germany since 1945. Sabine Lee. Longrnan. [pounds sterling]16.99 p.b. 282 pages. ISBN 0-582-29483-5. ...

A Dissenter Inside New Labour. (Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Through the Looking-Glass: A Dissenter inside New Labour. Elizabeth Davies. Verso (New Left Books). [pounds sterling]15.00. 214 pages. ISBN 0-85984-609-2. Francis Pym, to Mrs Thatcher's chagrin, once said that it was not good for a...

Managing the News. (Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Westminster Tales: The Twenty-First Century Crisis in Political Journalism. Steven Barnett and Ivor Gaber. Continuum. [pounds sterling]50.00. 150 pages. ISBN 3-8264-5020-2. The authors of this critical appraisal of the British media's...

Lorna Sage on Twentieth Century Women Writers. (Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers. Lorna Sage. Fourth Estate. [pounds sterling]15.00. 248 pages. ISBN 1-84115-635-3. Reading Moments of Truth, one increasingly forms an impression of women writers in the last century...

New and Noteworthy. (Reviews).
July 1, 2002... CASSELL & CO. has brought out a new edition of Sir Winston Churchill's The Great Republic: A History of America at [pounds sterling]20.00. This book was compiled from those sections of Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples which...

The World of Paperbacks. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS has recently brought out a paperback edition of the Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature ([pounds sterling]27.95 and US$40.00) edited by Prof. David Wallace. This latest volume is part of the New Cambridge...

European Law in the Past and the Future: Unity and Diversity over Two Millennia. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... European Law in the Past and the Future: Unity and Diversity over Two Millennia. R. C. van Caenegem. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$55.00). 174 pages. ISBN 0-521-80938-X. The author, a retired professor in the University...

The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modem World. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modem World. Arthur Herman. Fourth Estate. [pounds sterling]20.00. 392 pages. ISBN 1-84115-275-7. It may be the creation of their own batch of politicians in Edinburgh but books on...

The Reign of Elizabeth I. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Reign of Elizabeth I. Carole Levin. Palgrave. [pounds sterling]45.00. 146 pages. ISBN 0-333-65865-5. This short study is an attempt to place Elizabeth I's rule 'within the context not only of her time, but also of our own'. In her...

The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography. Carole Angier. Viking. [pounds sterling]25.00. 898 pages. ISBN 0-670-88333-6. This new volume shows that the age of the massive literary biography is not finished. Primo Levi was both during his life...

Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernity. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Architecture from Prehistory to Postmodernity. Martin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Harry N. Abrams. [pounds sterling]65.00. 624 pages. ISBN 0-8109-06097-4. This superb publication is a second edition of the volume first published in 1986....

The Cambridge Introduction to Modem British Fiction, 1950-2000. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Cambridge Introduction to Modem British Fiction, 1950-2000. Dominic Head. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00. 307 pages. ISBN 0521-66014-9. This survey begins in 1950 because, the author argues, the Tory government's ending...

Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears. Mary Midgley. Routledge. [pounds sterling]30.00. 212 pages. ISBN 0-415-27832-5. This influential book, first published in 1985, has been revised by the author who has also written a new...

Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin. Andrew Wilton. Thames & Hudson. [pounds sterling]8.95 p.b. 256 pages. ISBN 0-500-20349-0. This new study, part of Thames & Hudson's 'World of Art' series, is a refreshing return to a...

Medieval Architecture. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Medieval Architecture. Nicola Cold-stream. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]11.99 p.b. 256 pages. ISBN 0-19-284276-5. This latest volume in the Oxford History of Art argues that the 'mediaeval' period in architecture kept its strength...

The Royal Marines: 1664 to the Present. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Royal Marines: 1664 to the Present. Richard Brooks. Constable. [pounds sterling]25.00. 340 pages. ISBN 0-09-480390-0. As the author writes in his Introduction, 'few military organizations have proved so adept at re-inventing themselves as...

The Pyramids: Their Archaeology and History. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Pyramids: Their Archaeology and History. Miroslav Verner. Atlantic Books. [pounds sterling]25.00. 495 pages. ISBN 1-903809-45-2. The author, who is Professor of Egyptology in Prague's Charles University, has been leading the excavations in...

Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Michael Moon, editor. W.W. Norton. [pounds sterling]11.95 p.b. 919 pages. ISBN 0-393-97496-0. This edition of Whitman's most famous works is a revision of that last published in 1973 and edited...

Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House. Michael Hall. Harry N. Abrams. [pounds sterling]45.00. 320 pages. ISBN 0-8109-3239-3. Waddesdon Manor, now owned by the National Trust, is one of the most famous and most visited of England's...