Contemporary Review articles from March 2007

Contemporary Review archives from March 2007

Angela Merkel's foreign policy.
March 22, 2007... ON 4 May 2006, Angela Merkel delivered an official speech to 1,500 guests at the centenary dinner of the American Jewish Committee in Washington. She was introduced by George W. Bush who, having fulfilled his official duty, not only stayed and...

Dutch politics: exchanging neo-liberalism for social conservatism.
March 22, 2007... A new government has been formed in the Netherlands after 76 days of negotiating between potential partners; not bad considering the longest ever formation period took 208 days. Three parties, CU (Christian Union), CDA (Christian Democrats) and...

America's dilemma: the Iraq Study Group or 'Choosing Victory'?
March 22, 2007... There is great suffering, and the daily lives of many Iraqis show little or no improvement. Pessimism is pervasive. ISG Report, 2006, 9. IN his essay on the English language George Orwell, in lamenting its decline, observes that...

The collapse of objectivity: looking at recent books about terrorism.(Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... FEW among the explosion of books following the 'War on Terror' achieve objectivity. There is a sheen of ex post facto rationalization informing the best-known analyses by current and former spies, diplomats, government officials, and...

Ukraine at a crossroads.(politics)
March 22, 2007... UKRAINIANS have never seemed to rest since the Orange Revolution ended with the election of President Viktor Yushchenko in November 2004. The parliamentary election in March 2006 caused another upset as Yushchenko's opponent, Viktor Yanukovich...

Reclassifying class in today's Britain.
March 22, 2007... WE are not hearing very much these days about the good old British working class. The closing of the coal mines, which eighty years ago employed over a million workers, the collapse of the textile, ship-building and car-making industries, the...

The Philippines: what went wrong with one Asian economy.
March 22, 2007... ASIA now has several growing economies and it is assumed that Asia will be the centre of the global economy during the latter part of this century. But not all the Asian economies are achieving their potential. One of the most obvious failures...

Echoes of the Holocaust in a Parisian suburb.(Personal account)
March 22, 2007... A spontaneous departure I made from the suburban train linking Paris with Charles de Gaulle Airport--the same railway route that was disrupted a couple of years ago on account of race-tinged riots among youths of Muslim descent--provided an...

Pragmatism in Chinese foreign policy.
March 22, 2007... CHINA'S economic success, billion dollar trade surpluses and massive market penetration are enormously attractive. The year 2006 saw China acquire the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world, worth a mind-boggling $1 trillion. It also...

England in poetry.
March 22, 2007... Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware... ONCE upon a time, not so very long ago, Robert Browning's poem, Home Thoughts from Abroad, used to be part of...

Art notes: The Enlightenment at the Royal Academy.
March 22, 2007... Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, a collection of portraits from the years 1760 to 1830, is at the Royal Academy until 20 April. Thematic exhibitions of social and political change over long periods, such as seventy years,...

Cupid at the Hermitage.(exhibition)
March 22, 2007... AFTER their seasonal slumber the London Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House are astir again with something like liveliness. The title of the latest exhibition there, which continues until 8 April 2007, is The Triumph of Eros: Art and Seduction in...

Saki and the human zoo.(''The Mappined Life'' )(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... SAKI is the pen name of the well-known British author Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) who died in the First World War. (See 'A Hundred Years of Saki' by Adam Frost in the December 1999 number of Contemporary Review.) He took his pen name from the...

Reviewing Iraq.
March 22, 2007... IN a series of influential articles in American popular weekly news magazines and academic journals, Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently declared that the American era of dominance in the Middle East is...

International relations since 1945.(The Cold War)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Cold War. John Lewis Gaddis. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]20.00. 400 pages. ISBN 0-713-99912-8. From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s. David Reynolds. Oxford University Press. [pounds...

East Germany under the communists.(The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker. Mary Fulbrook. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]19.95. xiv + 350 pages. The German Democratic Republic, in existence from 1949 to 1990, was in most ways a completely...

The dilemma of Anglo-American affluence.(The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. Avner Offer. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xviii + 454 pages. ISBN 0-19-820853-7. Thinkers and writers have been...

America and the war in Iraq.(Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq)(The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Cobra II The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainor. Atlantic Books. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxxii + 605 pages. ISBN 1-84354-352-4. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. George Packer....

From voluntarism to welfare in England.(Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit. Frank Prochaska. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]35.00. xi + 216 pages. ISBN 0-19-928792-9. Prof Prochaska has earned his spurs as an historian for his...

Chomsky and U.S. foreign policy.(Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. Noam Chomsky. Hamish Hamilton. [pounds sterling]16.99. vi + 311 pages. ISBN 0-8050-7912-2. It could reasonably be argued that since the United States emerged as a superpower...

The Empire too, what does it mean to you?(Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World. Bernard Porter. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. vii + 211 pages. ISBN 0-300-11010-3. 'What is the meaning of Empire Day! Why do the cannon roar! Why does the cry "God...

Writers and English literature.(Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918)(The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918. Philip Waller. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]85.00. xiii + 1181 pages. ISBN 0-19-820677-1. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. David Scott Kastan,...

New and noteworthy.(Jane Austen)
March 22, 2007... This month's column will be centred on recently published texts of works that have assured places in the literary canon. It begins with a tribute to CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS which has brought out the final five volumes in The Cambridge...

The world of paperbacks.(List)
March 22, 2007... When GRANTA BOOKS published Brigitte Hamann's Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth ([pounds sterling]12.99) in hardback last year the reviewer in Contemporary Review noted that 'never in history have music and politics been...

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. J.H. Elliott. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxi + 546 pages. ISBN 0-300-11431-1. Sir John's aim here is to write a 'comparative' history on a grand scale:...

June 1941: Hitler and Stalin.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... June 1941: Hitler and Stalin. John Lukacs. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. xi + 169 pages. ISBN 0-300-11437-0. This short study, which the author writes is 'less than a monograph but more than a narrative summary', originated in...

Mozart Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Mozart Letters. Peter Washington and Michael Rose, editors. Everyman's Library. [pounds sterling]9.99. 256 pages. ISBN 1-84159-773-2. There are some 1200 extant letters written by members of the Mozart family. The constant touring undertaken by...

The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats. Marjorie Howes and John Kelly, editors. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$75.00). xvi + 242 pages. ISBN 0-521-65089-5. This collection of eleven essays, introduced by Prof. Howes,...

A History of Western Philosophy. Volume III: The Rise of Modern Philosophy.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A History of Western Philosophy. Volume III: The Rise of Modern Philosophy. Anthony Kenny. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pounds sterling]18.99. xiv + 356 pages. ISBN 0-19-875277-6. In this, the third of a projected four-volume history of philosophy...

Venice: Extraordinary Maintenance.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Venice: Extraordinary Maintenance. Gianfranco Pertot. Christine Donougher. Paul Holberton. [pounds sterling]30.00. 240 pages. ISBN 1-903470-12-9. Books on Venice, usually 'picture books', concentrate on the architectural beauties of the city....

The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation. Aliki Barnstone, translator. W.W. Norton. [pounds sterling]16.99. xl + 264 pages. ISBN 0-393-06142-6. C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), whose works have influenced Eliot and Pound and who was...

American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan. Robert Harvey. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. 480 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6484-0. This book is a 'dual biography' of Emperor Hirohito and General Douglas MacArthur in which...

Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland. Carmen Callil. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxvi + 614 pages. ISBN 0-224-07810-0. The subject of this biography, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix (the particule nobiliaire was a...

Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970. David Edgerton. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00. xv + 364 pages. ISBN 0-521-85636-1. Prof. Edgerton has set himself a major task, to give 'an alternative account' of British history in the...

A Very British Strike: 3 May-12 May, 1926.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A Very British Strike: 3 May-12 May, 1926. Anne Perkins. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]20.00. xviii + 301 pages. ISBN 1-4050-4996-0. The General Strike of 1926, and the public's reaction to it, are the stuff of twentieth century history and...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection. Jerry Brotton. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. xii + 436 pages. ISBN 1-4050-4152-8. If one leaves the collapse of Parliamentary Government aside, one of the worst aspects...

1715 The Great Jacobite Rebellion.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... 1715 The Great Jacobite Rebellion. Daniel Szechi. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xvi + 351 pages. ISBN 0-300-11100-2. The author accepts that the '15 was, when compared to Jacobite struggles in 1689-91 and 1745, something of a...

God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad. Charles Allen. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. xv + 349 pages. ISBN 0-316-72997-3. Charles Allen is noted for his work on Indian history. Here he turns to one of...

The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution. Ross King. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]17.99. xiii + 448 pages. ISBN 0-701-17683-0. Mr King here turns his attention from architecture to art but, as in his earlier...

Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War. Richard Holmes. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxvii + 385 pages. ISBN 0-00-721784-4. Prof. Holmes is not only a military historian but a colonel in the Territorial Battalion of The Princess of...

William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist. Timothy Mowl. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxii + 298 pages. ISBN 0-224-07350-8. Mr Mowl has no doubt that Kent (ne unfortunately, William Cant) was 'the greatest designer of the...

The Soanes at Home: Domestic Life at Lincoln's Inn Fields.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Soanes at Home: Domestic Life at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Susan Palmer. Paul Holberton. [pounds sterling]15.00 p.b. x + 86 pages. ISBN 0-9525530-5-8. This booklet, issued in conjunction with Sir John Soane's Museum is a re-issue of the...

One & All: A History of The Duke of Cornwell's Light Infantry.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... One & All: A History of The Duke of Cornwell's Light Infantry. Hugo White. Tabb House. [pounds sterling]30.00. xiv + 594 pages. ISBN 1-873951-20-5. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was formed in 1881 through the amalgamation of two older...

The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope. Desmond Seward. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. x + 309 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2981-2. Mr Seward begins his superb biography of Italy's great puritan preacher with a portrait...

International Organization: Polity, Politics and Policies.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... International Organization: Polity, Politics and Policies. Volker Rittberger and Bernhard Zangl with Matthias Staisch. Antoinette Groom, translator. Palgrave-Macmillan. [pounds sterling]19.99 p.b. xvii + 246 pages. ISBN 0-333-72128-4....

Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters. W.A. Speck. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xx + 305 pages. ISBN 0-300-11681-0. Like many poets and writers, Southey sought to fashion a view of his life that he could present to others and...

Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks. John Betjeman. Stephen Games, editor. John Murray. [pounds sterling]14.99. xi + 352 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6126-4. While most civilised people remember with delight the various television programmes...

Piers Plowman.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Piers Plowman. William Langland. Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen H. Shepherd, editors. W.W. Norton. [pounds sterling]8.99 p.b. xxviii + 644 pages. ISBN 0-393-97559-2. This latest title in Norton's Critical Edition series is devoted to one of...

Words, Words, Words.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Words, Words, Words. David Crystal. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]12.99. viii + 216 pages. ISBN 0-19-861444-6. How does David Crystal manage to be both so scholarly and so entertaining? Probably because he is one of those lucky...

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. Ruth Scurr. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]20.00. x + 388 pages. ISBN 0-701-17600-8. Robespierre (like Lenin, he is always known merely by his surname) was the intellectual father of the...

Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture, 1714-1760.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture, 1714-1760. Hannah Smith. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]48.00. (US $85.00). xiii + 296 pages. ISBN 0-521-82876-7. This enlightening study, which began life as a doctoral thesis, seeks to...

Cousins Divided: George V and Nicholas II.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Cousins Divided: George V and Nicholas II. Ann Morrow. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 274 pages. ISBN 0-7509-3372-0. In this double biography the former Court Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph looks at the joint lives and...

The Oxford Companion to Food.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Oxford Companion to Food. Alan Davidson and Tom Jaine, editors. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00. xxviii + 907 pages. ISBN 0-19-280681-5. When this title was published in 1999 it was received with considerable praise. This...

The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Airpower.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Airpower. Marc Wortman. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]17.99. ISBN 1-4050-5384-4. This title, first published in the U.S. by PublicAffairs T.M., is a...

The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century. Trevor Rowley. Hambledon Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 472 pages. ISBN 1-85385-388-3. Mr Rowley here seeks to fill a gap in our knowledge and understanding of the English landscape, how...

Croatia through Writers' Eyes.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Croatia through Writers' Eyes. Peter Frankopan, Francis Gooding & Stephen Lavington. Elland. [pounds sterling]12.99 p.b. 250 pages. ISBN 0-907871-89-5. Elland Publishing was established to revive great travel books that had gone out of print....

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. David Brion Davis. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]17.99. xvii+440 pages. ISBN 0-19-514073. This, the author's eighth book on slavery, originated with O.U.P. New York....

Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote. Jill Liddington. Virago. [pounds sterling]14.99 p.b. xiv+402 pages. ISBN 1-84408-168-0. The author, a 'suffrage historian', has written this history 'to honour all those Edwardian campaigners whose small...

Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain. Joshua Levine. Ebury Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. x + 486 pages. ISBN 0-009-191003-X. This collection is concerned with the months between July 1940 and May 1941, months which saw the...

Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya. Jules Stewart. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]17.99. xviii + 206 pages. ISBN 0-7509-4200-2. This book discusses the work of a 'group of explorer-spies whose intelligence...

Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. Richard Pollard and Nikolaus Pevsner with contributions from Joseph Sharples. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]29.95. ISBN 0-300-10910-5. This latest addition to the famous Buildings of England...

Why Was Charles I Executed?(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Why Was Charles I Executed? Clive Holmes. Hambledon Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 244 pages. ISBN 1-85285-282-8. This book's format--a series of eight questions--looks at first like headings for essay topics. In the event they are...

The Oxford Companion to English Literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Margaret Drabble, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]29.99. xi + 1172 pages. ISBN 0-19-861453-5. This new edition of the Oxford Companion is an updating of the sixth, published in 2000....

The Battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Antony Beevor. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxxiv + 526 pages. ISBN 0-2978-4832-1. Prof. Beevor is an artist who likes a big canvas. After Crete, Paris, Stalingrad and...

The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State. Jonathan Wright. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 336 pages. ISBN 0-00-717343-1. Ambassadors were 'throughout history... in the vanguard of cultural discovery'. They were...

Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest. Adrian Murdoch. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 234 pages. ISBN 0-7509-4015-8. Mr Murdoch's aim is to give readers a detailed account of the greatest single defeat...

The Oxford History of English.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Oxford History of English. Lynda Mugglestone, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xii + 485 pages. ISBN 0-19-924931-8. This collection of fourteen essays emphasises 'pluralism and diversity, and... the complex patterns...

The British Empire and the Second World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The British Empire and the Second World War. Ashley Jackson. Hambledon Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xviii + 604 pages. ISBN 1-85285-417-0. The author reminds readers that the Second World War was also an imperial war in which Empire...

The Middle Class: A History.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Middle Class: A History. Lawrence James. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiv + 690 pages. ISBN 0-316-86120-0. Mr James has here undertaken a massive subject, the creation and expansion of the middle class from the fourteenth century...

From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World's Royal Courts.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World's Royal Courts. Charlotte Zeepvat. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 338 pages. ISBN 0-7509-3074-8. One of the more interesting by-ways of history is the role and...

Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Part III.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Part III. Richard Beadle and Colin Richmond, editors. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]65.00. ciii + 319 pages. ISBN 0-19-722423-7. The publication of this third volume completes the...

Troilus and Criseyde with Facing-Page Il Filostrato.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Troilus and Criseyde with Facing-page Il Filostrato. Geoffrey Chaucer. Stephen A. Barney, editor. W.W. Norton. [pounds sterling]7.99 p.b. xxvii + 628 pages. ISBN 0-393-92755-5. In the introduction Prof. Barney states that Troilus and Criseyde...

Mothers, Mystics and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Mothers, Mystics and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims. Sarah Hopper. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xvii + 206 pages. ISBN 0-7509-3800-5. This book follows the author's earlier, more general study, To Be a Pilgrim. Her aim is...

J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life. Abraham Pais and Robert P. Crease. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]17.99. xxv + 353 pages. ISBN 0-19-516673-6. Prof. Pais had completed about three-fourths of this biography at his death and the text has...