The English Historical Review articles from April 1994

The English Historical Review archives from April 1994

'En bruit d'estre bonne luteriene': Mary of Hungary (1505-58) and religious reform.
April 1, 1994... With the willpower for which she was known and respected, the cultured princess Mary of Hungary willingly spent her life in faithful and whole-hearted service to the house of Habsburg. The task was allotted to her at the outset; she was a...

William Law and the Christian economy of salvation.
April 1, 1994... Of the pains and pleasures of a spiritual life I am ill-qualified to speak...(1) William Law and Edward Gibbon could be portrayed as binary opposites of eighteenth-century English culture:(2) the Christian priest and the sceptical...

The Nazi dissolution of the monasteries: a case-study.
April 1, 1994... The extensive literature on the Catholic Church during the Third Reich has largely neglected the campaign waged by the Nazi regime to dissolve the German monasteries, although, amongst historians writing in English, Guenter Lewy and J. S....

MS Arundel 48 and the earliest statutes of the Order of the Garter.
April 1, 1994... When, in 1678, the Arundel Collection was dispersed, one of the volumes that came to the College of Arms contained an assembly of historical documents put together by William Worcester, secretary to Sir John Fastolf. The Arundel manuscripts of...

Customary Aids and Royal Finance in Capetian France: The Marriage Aid of Philip the Fair.
April 1, 1994... The reign and rule of Philip IV of France have always been controversial. For many of his subjects, they were extremely unpleasant. Since the systematic examination of the depleted central archives for the period, led by Robert Fawtier and...

The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386-1421.
April 1, 1994... These latest post-war History of Parliament volumes follow broadly the plan of the previous nineteen. Four volumes and 3,500 pages may seem generous for 35 years, but they cover 32 parliaments, most meeting for a single short session, and 3,173...

The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
April 1, 1994... In The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1965), Professor Wood set out to demonstrate the singularity of the science of politics which emerged from the revolution against Great Britain and from the hammering out of a more perfect...

British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia: 1918-1924.
April 1, 1994... By comparison with the political and diplomatic relationship, the question of commercial relations between the West and Soviet Russian in the inter-war period has not been given much attention in the specialized studies. This must be partly...

John Maynard Keynes, vol. 2, The Economist as Saviour: 1920-1937.
April 1, 1994... This is a feast of a book - not just the middle of a biographical trilogy, but a wide-ranging discussion of inter-war economics, policy, politics, ideology, ethics and culture. Given the explosion of Keynes studies over the past twenty years,...

Romische Agrargeschichte.
April 1, 1994... The new collection of essays about the first Roman emperor - Between Republic and Empire, Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate, ed. Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher (Berkeley/London: U. of California P., 1990; pp. xxi + 495. $75) - was...

Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate.
April 1, 1994... As befits a volume of the Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, Dieter Flach's Romische Agrargeshichte (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1990; pp. xiii + 347. DM 145) does not argue a new view of Roman agrarian history so much as present a guide to the...

The Epic Histories Attributed to Pawstos Buzand.
April 1, 1994... The past fifteen years have seen the publication of new English translations, largely by R. W. Thomson, of Armenian historical works written between the fifth and the tenth centuries AD. The welcome appearance of Nina G. Garsoian's translation...

Reading the Past in Late Antiquity.
April 1, 1994... Reading the Past in Late Antiquity, ed. Graeme Clarke et al. (Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Australian National U.P., 1990; pp. xv + 370. N.p.) is not a book about history, nor is it about historians. It consists of fourteen individual contributions...

Anglo-Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival.
April 1, 1994... Barbara C. Raw's Anglo-Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xii + 296. 35 [pounds]) and Mary Clayton's The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xiii...

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England.
April 1, 1994... Barbara C. Raw's Anglo-Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xii + 296. 35 [pounds]) and Mary Clayton's The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xiii...

Die frankische Vasallitat. Von den Hausmeiern bis zu Ludwig dem Kind und Karl dem Einfaltigen.
April 1, 1994... On his death in 1985, Walther Kienast left behind his papers on vassalage in the early Middle Ages, the fruit of the previous two decades study on the relations between lords and men and the precise roles of kings, dukes and counts in society...

Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200.
April 1, 1994... Thomas Head's Hagiograpby and the Cult of Saints. The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xvii + 342. 35 [pounds]) is a fully documented study of a fashionable topic. While Head's reason for confining himself to one...

Buchkunst und Konigtum im ottonischen und fruhsalischen Reich.
April 1, 1994... Hartmut Hoffmann, in Buchkunst und Konigtum im ottonischen und frubsalischen Reich (2 vols. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1986; pp. xix + 566. DM 196, 166), makes the claim that the last quarter of the tenth century and the first quarter of the...

Patterns of Power in Early Wales.
April 1, 1994... |Very close to political chaos' is how Wendy Davies assesses mid eleventh-century Wales in Patterns of Power in Early Wales (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. xi + 103. 16.95 [pounds]), in which she investigates |the nature of political authority...

Le carte del monastero di S. Miniato al Monte (secoli IX-XII).
April 1, 1994... The thousands of eleventh- and twelfth-century documents in the Archivio di Stato of Florence (ASF) are mostly unedited, and even unregistered, apart from the inadequate, inaccurate, and increasingly battered manuscript spogli that are their...

The Cartulary and Charters of Notre-Dame of Homblieres.
April 1, 1994... During the two separate periods that William Mendel Newman worked in French archives he collected a remarkable dossier of charters from abbeys in Picardy, most of which still remained unpublished when he died. He has been fortunate in his...

Vital l'ermite, predicateur itinerant, fondateur de l'abbaye normande de Savigny.
April 1, 1994... Jaap van Moolenbroek's Vital l'ermite, predicateur itinerant, fondateur de l'abbaye normande de Savigny (Assen, Pays-Bas: Van Gorcum, 1990; pp. 396. Pb. Dfl 62.50) is a tripartite work. First comes a critical examination of all the sources...

The Papacy, 1073-1198: Continuity and Innovation.
April 1, 1994... I. S. Robinson's The Papacy, 1073-1198. Continuity and Innovation (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xvi + 555. 37.50 [pounds]; pb. 13.95 [pounds]) is a massive study which fits rather uneasily into the new series of |Cambridge Medieval Textbooks'. In...

English Episcopal Acta, vol. 6, Norwich: 1070-1214.
April 1, 1994... Following Lincoln (1067-1206), Canterbury (1162-1205) and York (1070-1154), the distinguished British Academy series of episcopal acta has moved into the mistier terrain of Norwich: English Episcopal Acta. Vol. VI: Norwich, 1070-1214, ed....

The 'Things of Greater Importance': Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the Medieval Attitude Towards Art.
April 1, 1994... The famous critique of Cluniac spirituality by Bernard of Clairvaux, the Apologia ad Guillelmum, is closely analysed by Conrad Rudolph in The Things of Greater Importance': Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the Medieval Attitude towards Art...

The Messengers of Medieval Technology? Cistercians and Technology in Medieval Scandinavia.
April 1, 1994... Lynn White Jr and others have suggested that medieval monks, and Cistercians in particular, acted as the pioneers and missionaries of new technology. The thesis seems to be difficult to prove or disprove, but in The Messengers of Medieval...

The Ideals and Practice of Knighthood, vol. 3, Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference: 1988.
April 1, 1994... Since their inception in 1985, the Strawberry Hill conferences have performed an invaluable service in bringing together scholars working on the history and culture of medieval knighthood. The latest volume of proceedings, The Ideals and...

William Marshall: Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire, 1147-1219.
April 1, 1994... The publisher's advertisement in this journal promised that David Crouch in William Marshall: Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire, 1147-1219, (London: Longman, 1990; pp. xi + 233. 16.95 [pounds]; pb. 7-95 [pounds]) |uncovers the...

Rural Communities in the Medieval West.
April 1, 1994... In Rural Communities in the Medieval West (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1990; pp. x + 185. N.p.) Leopold Genicot, gives us, revised and expanded, a series of lectures he delivered at Princeton. He calls it a |daring enterprise' to...

Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice.
April 1, 1994... Nancy G. Siraisi's Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago/London: U. of Chicago P., 1990; pp. xiv + 250. 29.95 [pounds]; pb. 8.75 [pounds].) Provides a much needed introduction to medical...

The Wiltshire Tax List of 1332.
April 1, 1994... The Wiltshire Tax List of 1332, ed. D. A. Crowley Trowbridge: Wiltshire Record Soc., 1989; pp. xxi + 188. Lis. Available from M. J. Lansdown, 53 Clarendon Road, Trowbridge, Wilts.) is in the best sense a useful publication. It calendars the...

Gli Scaligeri: 1277-1387.
April 1, 1994... Close behind what in many ways is the best of the recent multi-volume histories of Italian cities, Verona e il suo territorio (Verona, 1961-), a group of leading local historians, headed by the distinguished medievalist, Gian Maria Varanini,...

Une Economie alpine a la fin du Moyen Age: Orsieres, l'Entremont et les regions voisines, 1250-1500.
April 1, 1994... The Annales-style socio-economic analysis may recently have become a little less fashionable in the land of its birth, but it retains considerable allure in the Suisse Romande, to judge by Pierre Dubuis's Une Economie alpine a fin du Moyen Age....

The Ottoman Empire: 1300-1481.
April 1, 1994... One of the inescapable problems encountered in the study of early Ottoman history (though one that is, for convenience, often ignored) is that very little can be regarded as established fact. Historians writing about the first two centuries or...

English Society in the Later Middle Ages: 1348-1500.
April 1, 1994... Some years ago Maurice Keen published an excellent textbook on the political history of England in the later Middle Ages. In his English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 (London: Allen Lane/Penguin P., 1990; pp. xv + 332. L17-99; pb....

Gent en de bourgondische hertogen ca. 1384 - ca. 1453. Een sociaalpolitieke studie van een staatsvormingsproces.
April 1, 1994... Marc Boone's Gent en de bourgondische hertogen ca. 1384 - ca. 1453. Een sociaal-politieke studie van een staatsvormingsproces (Brussels: AWLSK, 1990; pp. 281. Pb. BF1200) contains one-half of the author's doctoral thesis; the other half, Geld...

Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century, 2 vols.
April 1, 1994... An interval of thirty-six years between the appearance of parts one and two of a book may appear extreme, but the publication of Volume II of Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century, Vol. II: Moots and Readers' Cases,...

The Pope's Men: The Papal Civil Service in the Renaissance.
April 1, 1994... The promising concept of the papacy as a paradigmatic case of early modern state-building needs to start with a prosopography of office-holders. Peter Partner's The Pope's Men: The Papal Civil Service in the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon P.,...

The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation.
April 1, 1994... In his textbook, The Italian Renaissance. The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation (London: Longman, 1990; pp. xviii + 248. 22-50 [pounds]; pb. 10.95 [pounds]), John Stephens discusses many aspects of the Italian...

The Last Jews on Iberian Soil: Navarrese Jewry, 1479-1498.
April 1, 1994... The attempt by Nazi Germany to remove all Jews from its territories, whether legally or illegally occupied, has inevitably had its effect on historical studies of earlier periods of Jewish life. As far as Spain is concerned, the generally...

Chivalry in the Renaissance.
April 1, 1994... The papers collected in Chivalry in the Renaissance, ed. Sydney Anglo (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1990; pp. xv + 262. 45 [pounds]) were delivered at the conference of the Society of Renaissance Studies in 1988. The themes of the thirteen...

Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich.
April 1, 1994... Historians of poverty commonly apply themselves to answering standard questions about its definition and measurement in the communities they study. They dutifully examine the criteria used for distinguishing between the worthy and unworthy...

Aspects of Poverty in Early Modern Europe, vol. 3, La pauvrete dans les pays nordiques: 1500-1800.
April 1, 1994... Historians of poverty commonly apply themselves to answering standard questions about its definition and measurement in the communities they study. They dutifully examine the criteria used for distinguishing between the worthy and unworthy...

The New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 2, The Reformation: 1520-1559.
April 1, 1994... The first edition of The New Cambridge Modern History. Vol. II: The Reformation, 1520-1559, ed. G. R. Elton (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. x + 741- 35 [pounds]) was published in 1958; it now stands revised, with important additions - such as an...

In Defence of the Church Catholic: A Life of Stephen Gardiner.
April 1, 1994... Stephen Gardiner has always been recognized as a central figure in the history of the English Reformation: |Wily Winchester' to his contemporary, and ultimately victorious, enemies, and an ambiguous, unsympathetic figure to Catholics, whether...

'In His Image and Likeness': Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500-1600.
April 1, 1994... The great value of |In His Image and Likeness' Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500-1600, by Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac (Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1990; pp. xv + 279. $32) lies in its fruitful juxtapositions of images...

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe.
April 1, 1994... It is not quite clear whether Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair, in editing The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1990; pp. 326. $32.95) thought of the study of this process as a separate...

A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture.
April 1, 1994... The first eight chapters of A Life of John Calvin. A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture, by Alister E. McGrath (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. xv + 332. 19.95[pounds]) are a thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of current scholarship on...

De Staten van Holland en de Opstand. De ontwikkeling van hun functies en organisatie in de periode 1544-1588.
April 1, 1994... The Revolt of the Netherlands against Philip II of Spain in 1572 was a turning- point in European history. On the one hand, it gave birth to one of the major states of early modern Europe - the Dutch Republic; on the other, it fatally...

William Maitland of Lethington: A Study of the Policy of Moderation in the Scottish Reformation.
April 1, 1994... As royal servant to Mary of Guise from 1554, and as secretary to Mary Queen of Scots from 1558, Maitland of Lethington occupied a central role in Scottish politics as the Reformation took effect. He was instrumental in securing the Treaty of...

Church and State in Early Modern England: 1509-1640.
April 1, 1994... Narrative history, we have long been assured by Professor Stone, is reviving. Indeed some of the most impressive offerings in Reformation history in the last few years have been cast in narrative form, with ample doses of |thick description'....

The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650.
April 1, 1994... Sanjay Subrahmanyam's study of the South Indian economy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, The Political Economy of Commerce. Southern India, 1500-1650 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. x + 401.35[pounds]), is a very significant...

England and the Continental Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J.B. Trapp.
April 1, 1994... Edward Chaney and Peter Mack the editors of England and the Continental Renaissance. Essays in Honour of J. B. Trapp, (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1990; pp. xi + 322. 39.50[pounds]), have aimed for unity rather than the miscellaneousness that often...

Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age.
April 1, 1994... Students of early modern England have usually paid little attention to the vast corpus of Renaissance Latin literature written by Englishmen and women, concentrating almost wholly on writing in the vernacular. Influential books long available...

The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535-1635.
April 1, 1994... It is said that whereas two Englishmen, meeting in the jungle, will start by forming a club, two Spaniards in the same circumstances will start by founding a city. The urban character of Spanish civilization in the New World is the subject of...

Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain.
April 1, 1994... Between the autumn of 1587 and her arrest by the Inquisition on 25 May 1590, Lucrecia de Leon, the twenty-one year-old daughter of a Madrid solicitor, achieved some notoriety in the capital for a series of bizarre dreams foretelling the...

England and the Spanish Armada.
April 1, 1994... The tourist industry's appetite for celebrating historical events as well as publishers seeking to exploit the market potential in colourful reading has had a considerable impact on the course of modern scholarship. One of the fortunate...

Sir Francis Drake.
April 1, 1994... The tourist industry's appetite for celebrating historical events as well as publishers seeking to exploit the market potential in colourful reading has had a considerable impact on the course of modern scholarship. One of the fortunate...

The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, vol. 3: 1586-1595.
April 1, 1994... Nathaniel Bacon hoarded his personal and estate papers, which have survived to a remarkable extent, albeit scattered through archives all over the English-speaking world. The latest product of the herculean research project which the papers...

Histoire de l'empire des Habsbourg: 1273-1918.
April 1, 1994... It has been more than two decades since Fayard published Victor-Lucien Tapie's Monarchie et peuples du Danube. Now it has produced a new history by his most eminent pupil. Like his mentor, Jean Berenger presents us with a chronologically...

Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centers and Peripheries.
April 1, 1994... Early Modern European Witchcraft. Centres and Peripberies, ed. Bengt Ankarloo and Gustav Henningsen (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. xi + 477 45[pounds]) is a valuable book which stems from a symposium held in Stockholm in 1984. Its proceedings...

Humanists and Protestants: 1500-1900.
April 1, 1994... Basil Hall's Humanists and Protestants, 1500-1900 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1990; pp. x + 380. 19.95[pounds] is a volume of collected essays. The most substantial is an unpublished piece on Jimenez's Complutensian Bible, originally part of the...

Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I.
April 1, 1994... Kenneth Fincham's Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. xvii + 360. 40[pounds]) is a first-class monograph. In a famous essay, published in 1955, Hugh Trevor-Roper delivered a deadly indictment of the...

Frontiers of Heresy: The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily.
April 1, 1994... The Spanish Inquisition has long had a fascination for historians as the epitome of obscurantism and intolerance. The Venetian ambassadors to Spain in the sixteenth century, coming from a more tolerant world, would explain its severity more in...

La Fortune de Sully.
April 1, 1994... Writing in 1968 and 1978 respectively, David Buisseret and Bernard Barbiche both concluded that it was probably impossible to estimate the real size of Sully's fortune. Barbiche's pupil, Isabelle Aristide, has attempted to prove both scholars...

Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century.
April 1, 1994... Timothy Silver's A New Face on the Countryside. Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp xii + 204. 27.50[pounds]); pb. 10.95[pounds]) attempts to present the basic relationships between...

A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800.
April 1, 1994... Robert Bliss's Revolution and Empire. English politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (Manchester: U.P., 1990; pp- xii + 300. 40[pounds]) covers the formative period of English overseas expansion from the time of James I...

Vorsehungsglaube und Kosmologie. Studien zu englischen Selbstzeugnissen des 17. Jahrhunderts.
April 1, 1994... In Vorsehungsglaube und Kosmologie. Studien zu englischben Selbstzeugnissen des 17. Jabrhunderts (Gottingen/Zurich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, for the German Historical Institute, London, 1990; pp. 222. DM 62), Kaspar von Greyerz suggests that...

Out of the Wilderness: The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England.
April 1, 1994... Out of the Wilderness. The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England, by John Canup (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan U.P., 1990; pp. xiii + 313. 24.70[pounds]), might have been entitled The Persistence (and Problems) of an English...

The Account Book for the Borough of Swansea, Wales, 1640-1660: A Study in Local Administration during the Civil War and Interregnum.
April 1, 1994... Historical studies relating to the town (now city) of Swansea are rolling off the presses with such disconcerting speed that the recent claim by an eminent historian that, of all the urban communities in Wales, Swansea has a history...

John Bunyan and His England: 1628-1688.
April 1, 1994... John Bunyan and his England, 1629-88, ed. Anne Laurence, W. R. Owens and Stuart Sim (London/Ronceverte, W. Va.: Hambledon P., 1990; pp. xxiii + 181. 25[pounds]) derives from a conference at the Open University to mark the tercentenary of...

The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan, vol. 4.
April 1, 1994... John Bunyan and his England, 1629-88, ed. Anne Laurence, W. R. Owens and Stuart Sim (London/Ronceverte, W. Va.: Hambledon P., 1990; pp. xxiii + 181. 25[pounds]) derives from a conference at the Open University to mark the tercentenary of...

The Politics of Religion in Restoration England.
April 1, 1994... The intentions of The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, ed. Tim Harris, Paul Seaward And Mark Goldie (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990; pp. xii + 259. 35 [pounds]) are set forth in the introduction by Professor Harris. They are to...

A Nation of Change and Novelty: Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England.
April 1, 1994... Where most scholars might gather enough to fill one volume over the course of a lifetime, Christopher Hill's A Nation of Change and Novelty. Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (London: Routledge, 1990; pp....

Cavalier Duke: A Life of James Butler, First Duke of Ormond, 1610-1688.
April 1, 1994... J. C. Beckett's Cavalier Duke: A Life of James Butler, First Duke of Ormond, 1610-1988 (Belfast: Pretani P., 1990; pp. 55. Pb. 5.95 [pounds]) though brief, distils the learning and insights of a lifetime. It expertly follows Ormond's long...

A General View of the Rural Economy of England: 1538-1840.
April 1, 1994... Ann Kussmaul's A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538-1840 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 216. 25 [pounds]; pb. 12.95 [pounds]) draws upon a very particular source. This is the sample of Anglican parish registers collected by...

The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America.
April 1, 1994... Although claims have been made for a consumer revolution in eighteenth-century England, the development of a |consumer society' before the Industrial Revolution is a relatively under-researched theme in both English and American history. The...

Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan.
April 1, 1994... Peter Nosco's Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., for Council on East Asia Studies, 1990; pp. xvi + 271- 21.50 [pounds]) traces the development in the seventeenth and...

The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1600-1815.
April 1, 1994... Johannes Menne Postma's interest in international migration began in 1958 when he crossed the Atlantic by ship from Rotterdam to New York. This led to research on the Dutch transatlantic slave trade which resulted in a PhD in 1970 and twenty...

The Correspondence of Lord Fitzwilliam of Milton and Francis Guybon, His Steward: 1697-1709.
April 1, 1994... Even in the age of rapid photographic reproduction, all historians must be grateful to Record Societies and their editors for those volumes of exemplary or rare texts which shed light on English society before industrialization. Only a proper...

The Account Book of Richard Latham: 1724-1767.
April 1, 1994... Even in the age of rapid photographic reproduction, all historians must be grateful to Record Societies and their editors for those volumes of exemplary or rare texts which shed light on English society before industrialization. Only a proper...

The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570-1860.
April 1, 1994... Mohammed Hassen's The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570-1860 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xviii + 253. 30 [pounds]) is a serious and scholarly, if somewhat austere, account of Oromo history. The Oromo, until recently known as the Galla, have...

The Radical Whigs, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon: Libertarian Loyalists to the New House of Hanover.
April 1, 1994... The fundamental problem with Marie P. McMahon's The Radical Whigs, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Libertarian Loyalists to the New House of Hanover (Lanham, Md.: U.P. of America, 1990; pp. 217. $27.75) is that it is far too long. This may...

Richard Rawlinson: A Tercentary Memorial.
April 1, 1994... Of those to whom Richard Rawlinson gave his dour and dutiful support - his unattractive family, the exiled Stuarts, the non-juring clergy and his ultimate legatee, the Bodleian Library - only the last-named has prospered, and after cataloguing...