The English Historical Review articles from April 1996

The English Historical Review archives from April 1996

In Search of Cult: Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Philip Rahtz.
April 1, 1996... Philip Rahtz was (and remains) no run-of-the-mill archaeologist. Consequently, it is no ordinary life in archaeology which is celebrated in Martin Carver's In Search of Cult. Archaeological Investigations in Honour of Philip Rahtz (Woodbridge:...

The Medieval Spains.
April 1, 1996... Students of Spanish coins under the Hapsburgs and Bourbons well know the inscription 'Rey de la Espanas', King of the Spains. It summarizes the long list of titles of the Spanish rulers which by 1512 ran to twenty-eight different items....

The Culture of Christendom: Essays in Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L.T. Bethell.
April 1, 1996... Any Festschrift or liber memorialis contains a variety of offerings, weighty, ephemeral, original, rehashed or trivial. It is their curse and delight. The Culture of Christendom. Essays in Medieval History in Commemoration of Denis L.T....

Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire: 1154-1216.
April 1, 1996... In Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders and Thugs. The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire, 1154-1216 (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1993; pp. xiv + 237. $34.95), Hugh M. Thomas has produced a very readable study of around 225 families holding land in...

Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders: 1128-1291.
April 1, 1996... Helen Nicholson's Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights. Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291 (Leicester: U.P., 1993; pp. xvi + 207. [pounds]35) is based on an admirably wide range of published primary sources - particularly good use...

The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-Century Life.
April 1, 1996... The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris. Observations of Thirteenth-Century Life, translated and edited by Richard Vaughan (Stroud: Alan Sutton, in assoc. with Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1993; pp. xiii + 210. [pounds]18.99) is aimed...

England in the Thirteenth Century.
April 1, 1996... Alan Harding's England in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. iv + 351. [pounds]37.50; pb. [pounds]12.95) begins with a fascinating and original sixty-seven page Introduction which discusses the sources for the period and its...

Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France.
April 1, 1996... Gabrielle Spiegel's Romancing the Past. The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1993; pp. xiii + 422. $50) is grounded on modern literary theory to the extent that it...

The Knight in Medieval England: 1000-1400.
April 1, 1996... For some time there has been a need for a wide-ranging synthesis of current wisdom on knights and knighthood in medieval England. Peter Coss's The Knight in Medieval England, 1000-1400 (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1993; PP. xiv + 191. [pounds]16.99)...

The Warwickshire Hundred Rolls of 1279-80: Stoneleigh and Kineton Hundreds.
April 1, 1996... Trevor John's edition of (Oxford: U.P., for the British Academy, 1992; pp. x + 374. [pounds]40) has been eagerly awaited. A rather succinct introduction (pp. 1-21) is followed by the text (pp. 25-332) based on an Exchequer Misc. Book (PRO...

Wife and Widow in Medieval England.
April 1, 1996... The essays edited by Sue Sheridan Walker in Wife and Widow in Medieval England (Ann Arbor: U. Michigan P., 1993; pp. x + 221. $39.50) make a generally cohesive collection centred on widowhood, dower, and remarriage in later medieval England,...

A Medieval Capital and its Grain Supply: Agrarian Production and Distribution in the London Region: c. 1300.
April 1, 1996... Readers of Bruce M. S. Campbell, James A. Galloway, Derek Keene and Margaret Murphy, A Medieval Capital and its Grain Supply. Agrarian Production and Distribution in the London Region, c. 1300 (London: Institute of British Geographers, 1993;...

Hausordnung und Staatsbildung. Innerdynastische Konflikte als Wirkungsfaktoren der Herrschaftsverfestigung bei den wittelsbachischen Rheinpfalzgrafen und den Herzogen von Bayern. Ein Beitrag zum Normenwandel in der Krise des Spatmittelalters.
April 1, 1996... Two recent studies of the late medieval German nobility usefully complement each other. Heinz-Dieter Heimann, in his Hausordnung und Staatsbildung. Innerdynastische Konflikte als Wirkungsfaktoren der Herrschaftsverfestigung bei den...

Familie und Verwandtschaft im deutschen Hochadel des Spatmittelalters. 13. bis Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts.
April 1, 1996... Two recent studies of the late medieval German nobility usefully complement each other. Heinz-Dieter Heimann, in his Hausordnung und Staatsbildung. Innerdynastische Konflikte als Wirkungsfaktoren der Herrschaftsverfestigung bei den...

Le clerc seculier au moyen age.
April 1, 1996... All too often the secular clergy of the Middle Ages have been abused or ignored: historians have too easily allowed their attention to be confined to the more readable and accessible texts produced by monks and regular canons, in which secular...

Household Accounts from Medieval England. Part 1: Introduction. Glossary. Diet Accounts (i). Part 2: Diet Accounts (ii). Cash, Corn and Stock Accounts. Wardrobe Accounts. Catalogue.
April 1, 1996... Revealing as they do so much about diet, clothing, patterns of consumption, building, patronage and much else besides, household accounts have been widely used by historians of the late medieval aristocracy. But before the publication of...

Medicine before the Plague. Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon: 1285-1345.
April 1, 1996... Michael R. McVaugh's Medicine before the Plague. Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345 (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; PP. xvi + 280. [pounds]35) explores in a lucid and fascinating way how learned, rational medicine began...

Lebens- und Arbeitsweise zweier sudfranzosischer Kollektoren in der ersten Halfte des 14. Jahrhunderts in England.
April 1, 1996... The extensive material available on the activities of papal collectors in fourteenth-century England has attracted surprisingly little detailed comment. In Lebens- und Arbeitsweise zweier sudfranzosischer Kollektoren in der ersten Halfte des...

Geschichte der Universitat in Europa, vol. 1: Mittelalter.
April 1, 1996... Geschichte der Universitat in Europa. Vol. I: Mittelalter, ed. Walter Ruegg (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1993; pp.435. DM148) is the first of four projected volumes which are designed to survey the history of the European universities from the medieval...

Fiscalidad y poder real en Castilla: 1252-1369.
April 1, 1996... There were real differences between the two great Spanish states of the later Middle Ages, not least in their financial arrangements, but the very different structures of two books which have recently appeared may suggest greater fundamental...

Estudios sobre renta, fiscalidad y finanzas en la Cataluna bajomedieval.
April 1, 1996... There were real differences between the two great Spanish states of the later Middle Ages, not least in their financial arrangements, but the very different structures of two books which have recently appeared may suggest greater fundamental...

Medieval Grimsby: Growth and Decline.
April 1, 1996... At the time of the Domesday Survey, Grimsby already existed as a settlement divided between three lordships. S. H. Rigby's Medieval Grimsby. Growth and Decline (Hull: U.P., 1993; pp.x + 224. Pb. [pounds]8.95), supplies a neat analysis of its...

Original Papal Letters in England: 1305-1415.
April 1, 1996... The fifth volume in the survey of extant original papal documents for the period 1198 to 1417, initiated by Franco Bartolini forty years ago, is the meticulous calendar by P. N. R. Zutshi of Original Papal Letters in England, 1305-1415 (Vatican...

Oltre il 'Tumulto.' I lavoratori fiorentino dell'Arte della Lana fra il Tre e Quattrocento.
April 1, 1996... The revolt of the wool workers at Florence in 1378 is considered by many historians to have been the first veritable workers' uprising in the history of modern capitalism, as well as the first step on the long road to the emancipation of the...

The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages.
April 1, 1996... Much valuable recent work on medieval English towns has explored communities which were not among the largest and wealthiest, often characterizing them as belonging to a separate category of 'small towns'. One such study was J. A. Raftis's of...

Commerce, Finances et Societe (XIe-XVIe siecles). Recueil de travaux d'Histoire medievale offert a M. le Proffeseur Henri Dubois.
April 1, 1996... If, like VCs, there are ordinary Festschriften and good Festschriften, yet if all their contents have a virtue, partly in their honouring the recipient and partly intrinsic, then perhaps one may, without derogation to the others, pick out...

Studien zu mittelalterlichen Quellen. Festchrift fur Dietrich Kurze zu sienem 65. Geburtstag am 1. Januar 1993.
April 1, 1996... Bede's manifesto that he had followed 'a true law of history' in working honestly to transmit to posterity what he could ascertain from common report lends both the title and the emphasis to this scholarly miscellany. Vera Lex Historiae....

The Prince and the Law: 1200-1600. Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition.
April 1, 1996... One of the most striking features of the revival of learning in the twelfth century was the new impetus toward systematic legal study. Between then and the sixteenth century the professional jurists of the Middle Ages made a very important...

England, Rome and the Papacy: 1417-1464. The Study of a Relationship.
April 1, 1996... Margaret Harvey's England, Rome and the Papacy, 1417-1464. The Study of a Relationship (Manchester: U.P., 1993; pp. 295. [pounds]40) is the first instalment of a larger survey and is divided into sections on 'Personnel', 'Diplomacy' and 'Theory...

Scotichronicon, by Walter Bower, vol. 1: Books 1 and 2.
April 1, 1996... Scotichronicon, by Walter Bower: Vol. I: Books I and II, ed. John and Winifred MacQueen (Aberdeen: U.P., 1993; pp. xlii + 426. [pounds]35), is the fifth volume to appear in this remarkable project, carrying what used to be little more than a...

Ecrits politiques de Jean Juvenal des Ursins, vol. 3: La vie it l'oeuvre. Tables.
April 1, 1996... Although the number of medieval manuscripts containing political tracts, solicited and unsolicited advice, speeches and other pieces d'occasion written by Jean Juvenal des Ursins, bishop of Beauvais (1432-44) and Laon (1444-9), and archbishop...

The Medici in Florence: The Exercise and Language of Power.
April 1, 1996... Cosimo de' Medici reminded his wife shortly before his death, in response to her question as to why he was long silent, that before moving to their villa for the summer she was wont to spend fifteen days preparing: 'Since I have to leave this...

Le Fonti del diritto del Cantone Ticino, vol. 1: C. Formulari notarili.
April 1, 1996... The Commission for Legal Sources of the Swiss Law Society has recently produced an impressive publication, the first of two projected volumes devoted to the notarial records for the communities of the Sottoceneri, i.e. the districts of Lugano...

Germania Sacra. Die Bistumer der Kirchenprovinz Trier, vol. 7: Die Benediktinerabtei Laach.
April 1, 1996... Except only for the small houses of Schonau and Gronau, Laach, north-west of Koblenz, was the earliest Benedictine abbey to be founded in the middle Rhineland. (The name Maria Laach, more familiar to English ears, goes back to a reference in...

The European City.
April 1, 1996... A new series, 'The Making of Europe', produced in five languages by five major publishers, and under the editorship of Jacques le Goff, raises expectations. Especial hopes are raised for urban historians, since one of the first titles is The...

The Early Tudor Church and Society: 1495-1529.
April 1, 1996... John A. F. Thomson bucks the trend. Far from working upwards and outwards from Catholic belief, the sacramental system, and the parish, The Early Tudor Church and Society, 1485-1529 (London: Longman, 1993; pp. xi + 399. [pounds]36; pb....

Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance.
April 1, 1996... Edward Muir has a sharp eye for a good subject. Elegant, lively and intellectually provocative, his second major book, Mad Blood Stirring. Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1993; pp....

Elizabeth's Glass. With 'The Glass of the Sinful Soul,' 1544, by Elizabeth I and 'Epistle Dedicatory' and 'Conclusion' by John Bale.
April 1, 1996... Both of Henry VIII's younger children, Edward and Elizabeth, wrote formal letters and other academic exercises as part of their intellectual training. Elizabeth was the more versatile, and probably the more talented, translating (among other...

The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth.
April 1, 1996... John Hayward's The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth was first published in 1630, three years after the author's death. The account, which has little to say about the progress of the Reformation, but is full of popular discontent and...

Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance.
April 1, 1996... Guido Ruggiero's Binding Passions. Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance (New York/Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1993; pp. ix + 286. [pounds]35) is a collection of five essays, based on sixteenth-century inquisition records...

Fire and Sword: Sorley Boy MacDonnell and the Rise of Clan Ian Mor, 1538-1590.
April 1, 1996... How does one manage to produce a clear narrative of muddle and confusion? The answer is that it cannot be done. When, on page 184 of J. Michael Hill's Fire and Sword. Sorley Boy MacDonnell and the Rise of Clan Ian Mor, 1538-1590 (London:...

Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City.
April 1, 1996... John Martin has calculated that there were 730 inhabitants of Venice accused of heresy by the Venetian inquisition between 1547 and 1586. Of these 17 were millenarians; 37, anabaptists; the other 676, evangelicals. Margin defines evangelicals...

The Shepheards Devices. Edmund Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calender' and the Institutions of Elizabethan Society.
April 1, 1996... Spenser's Shepheardes Calender is a baffling work, combining apparently forthright social criticism with teasing ambiguities and elaborate literary jokes. Twentieth-century interpretations have tended on the whole to play down the social...

The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s.
April 1, 1996... Swiftly following up his three volumes of political history on the years 1558-1603, Wallace MacCaffrey has written a biography of the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I (London: Edward Arnold, 1993; pp. xiii + 480. [pounds]25), the first, according to...

Tyrone's Rebellion: The Outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland.
April 1, 1996... The popular view of Hugh O'Neill, second Earl of Tyrone as a man caught between two worlds has proved surprisingly resilient in surviving virtually intact for over fifty years. Hiram Morgan's Tyrone's Rebellion. The Outbreak of the Nine Years...

The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy: Merchant Capitalism and the Labor Market.
April 1, 1996... J. L. van Zanden is one of the most productive of the younger Dutch economic historians and is also outstanding for his chronological range, which extends from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. He is a lively and often original scholar...

Konfession und Staatsrason: Die Aussenpolitik Wurttembergs unter Herzog Johann Friedrich: 1608-1628.
April 1, 1996... Axel Gotthard's Konfession und Staatsrason. Die Aussenpolitik Wurttembergs unter Herzog Johann Friedrich, 1608-1628 (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1992; pp. xxxii + 498. Pb. DM64) deals with the foreign policy of a fairly typical medium-sized...

The New Cambridge History of India, vol. 5: The Mughal Empire.
April 1, 1996... The Mughal empire, as John F. Richards tells us in The New Cambridge History of India. Vol. 1.5: The Mughal Empire (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xvi + 320. [pounds]27.95), was one of the largest centralized states known in pre-modern history. For...

Theatre and Government under the Early Stuarts.
April 1, 1996... In the 1970s, New Historicist literary criticism offered the promise of rich and nuanced historical readings of plays and poems. If the promise has not been fulfilled, it is because literary scholars have not been able to situate or read texts...

The Early Stuart Church: 1603-1642.
April 1, 1996... The Early Stuart Church, 1603-1642, ed. Kenneth Fincham (London: Macmillan, 1993; pp. 301. [pounds]35; pb. [pounds]11.99) will be invaluable for its intended student readership. The balanced introduction sketches the spectrum of educated...

Art and Patronage in the Caroline Courts: Essays in Honor of Sir Oliver Millar.
April 1, 1996... Sir Oliver Millar was a pioneer in his day, one of the few early products of the Courtauld Institute of Art who was interested in the art of his own country, obsessed indeed by a century then and still largely out of fashion. As a scholar he...

Ein Soldnerleben im Dreissigjahrigen Krieg: Eine Quelle zur Sozialgeschichte.
April 1, 1996... Soldiers' diaries are relatively rare for any period prior to c.1900: for the seventeenth century they are virtually non-existent. Before the publication of Ein Soldnerleben im Dreissigjahrigen Krieg: Eine Quelle zur Sozialgeschichte (Berlin:...

Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture, France: 1570-1715.
April 1, 1996... Jonathan Dewald's ambitious title, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture. France, 1570-1715 (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1993; pp. xii + 231. $35), and his opening criticisms of many leading scholars, suggest...

The Nature of the English Revolution: Essays by John Morrill.
April 1, 1996... The issue of a book made up of previously published essays and articles risks accusations of opportunism or undue self-regard. It is one of John Morrill's most disarming characteristics that in the preface to The Nature of the English...

'Covetous of Truth.' The Life and Work of Thomas White: 1593-1676.
April 1, 1996... It says something discomfiting about history that it is difficult not to be drawn toward a person of whom almost everybody in his own time disapproved. That Thomas White (1593-1676) was a Catholic disposed of the good opinion of most of the...

Milton in Government.
April 1, 1996... Robert Thomas Fallon's Milton in Government (University Park: Pennsylvania State U.P., 1993; pp. xvi + 288. [pounds]35) is a useful book, for students both of Milton and of English history in the 1650s. Fallon draws on and develops the...

Images of Oliver Cromwell: Essays for and by Roger Howell, Jr.
April 1, 1996... Roger Howell, an American historian of early modern England, published an important doctoral thesis on Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution, and followed it with biographies of Sir Philip Sidney and of Oliver Cromwell. At the time of...

Miracles and the Pulp Press During the English Revolution: The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies.
April 1, 1996... Building on the pioneering work of continental scholars, historians such as Bernard Capp and Margaret Spufford have for some years been exploring what survives of the cheap literature of early modern England. None the less a great deal remains...

Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism.
April 1, 1996... Hobbes and Thucydides have often been linked in academic discussion. Their affinity was first acknowledged by Hobbes who translated the History of the Peloponnesian War partly in order to appropriate Thucydides ('the most politic...

The Travel Diary, 1611-1612, of an English Catholic Sir Charles Somerset.
April 1, 1996... There is a genre of travel literature in which an old text is edited, so that all the traveller's references to buildings, inscriptions, fortifications, inns, church services, local customs and the like are compared with similar references...

British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces.
April 1, 1996... There is a genre of travel literature in which an old text is edited, so that all the traveller's references to buildings, inscriptions, fortifications, inns, church services, local customs and the like are compared with similar references...

Colonel Joseph Bampfield's Apology. 'Written by Himself and Printed at his Desire': 1685.
April 1, 1996... Two separate short books put together, to make one of average length, may not seem a likely recipe for success. However, Colonel Joseph Bampfield's Apology. 'Written by Himself and Printed at his Desire', 1685, ed. John Loftis and Paul H....

Bampfield's Later Career: A Biographical Supplement.
April 1, 1996... Two separate short books put together, to make one of average length, may not seem a likely recipe for success. However, Colonel Joseph Bampfield's Apology. 'Written by Himself and Printed at his Desire', 1685, ed. John Loftis and Paul H....

Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in its Contexts.
April 1, 1996... It is a pleasure to read two such illuminating, thought-provoking, and yet utterly different studies of Restoration politics and literature as Phillip Harth's Pen for a Party. Dryden's Tory Propaganda in its Contexts (Princeton: U.P., 1993; pp....

Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture: 1649-1689.
April 1, 1996... It is a pleasure to read two such illuminating, thought-provoking, and yet utterly different studies of Restoration politics and literature as Phillip Harth's Pen for a Party. Dryden's Tory Propaganda in its Contexts (Princeton: U.P., 1993; pp....

The Puritan Gentry Besieged: 1650-1700.
April 1, 1996... The Puritan Gentry Besieged, 1650-1700, by J. T. Cliffe (London: Routledge, 1993; pp. xii + 295. [pounds]35) is the final part of a triptych of books. The first explored the godliness of large numbers early Stuart gentry families; the second...

Poddanska otazka v baroknich Cechach.
April 1, 1996... Jiri Mikulec's Poddanska otazka v baroknich Cechach (Prague: Historicky Ustav, 1993; pp. 139. Pb.n.p.) is the first post-Marxist survey of the peasant question in Bohemia during the 'baroque age' between 1620 and 1740. While not minimizing the...

The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
April 1, 1996... The destruction by fire of the archives of the former Admiralties of the Dutch Republic in 1844 constitutes the principal obstacle facing any historian of Dutch naval power. J. C. de Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche zeewesen, whose...

The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture.
April 1, 1996... While it might seem that the reign of Queen Anne has been explored from every conceivable angle, R. O. Bucholz in The Augustan Court. Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (Stanford: U.P., 1993; pp. xvi + 418. $45) has produced a solid,...

The Making of a Great Power. Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain: 1660-1722.
April 1, 1996... Writing a textbook is, in England, a thankless task. In a culture of self-evident truths like the USA, texts can be matched with expectations, checked for political correctness, and handed down ex cathedra; careers can be built on them. In...

The Age of Oligarchy. Pre-Industrial Britain: 1722-1783.
April 1, 1996... Writing a textbook is, in England, a thankless task. In a culture of self-evident truths like the USA, texts can be matched with expectations, checked for political correctness, and handed down ex cathedra; careers can be built on them. In...

The Rise of Modern Diplomacy: 1450-1919.
April 1, 1996... Distilling a lifetime's reflection on the subject, M.S. Anderson's The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1450-1919 (London: Longman, 1993; pp.x + 320. [pounds]29; pb. [pounds]11.99), is an essentially chronological account both of the development of...

Broken Lives. Separation and Divorce in England: 1660-1857.
April 1, 1996... At the beginning of Broken Lives. Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1817 (Oxford: U.P., 1993; PP. xviii + 355. [pounds]16.95), Lawrence Stone quotes Sir Geoffrey Elton's view that the 'dedicated social historian is second cousin to the...

Architecture in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert: The Letterpress Articles and Selected Engravings.
April 1, 1996... The publication of the Encylopedie in the middle decades of the eighteenth century coincided with important developments in the teaching and professional organization of architecture. It is the achievement of Terence M. Russell's Architecture...

Death in the Metropolis. Studies in the Demographic History of London: 1670-1830.
April 1, 1996... John Landers's Death in the Metropolis. Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830 (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xxiii + 408. [pounds]40) is an important book which represents the latest and most sophisticated attempt to date to...

The Enlightenment as Social Criticism: Iosipos Moissiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
April 1, 1996... The second half of the title of Paschalis M. Kitromilides's The Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: U.P., 1992; pp. xvii + 203. $39.50) is more informative than the first...

Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity.
April 1, 1996... In his remarkable book, Subverting Scotland's Past. Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xiii + 322. [pounds]35), Colin Kidd does for the history of Scottish historiography what John...

The East India Comapany: A History.
April 1, 1996... For the past thirty years or so historians of Britain's interactions with South Asia from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth century have been primarily concerned with the impact of the East India Company on India. Philip Lawson...

The Insatiable Earl. A Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich: 1718-1792.
April 1, 1996... The name of the fourth Earl of Sandwich is known to everyone as the original inventor of 'fast food'. Subscribing to the view that the explanation was his propensity for hard work rather than gambling, N. A. M. Rodger, in The Insatiable Earl. A...

The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century: 1700-1820.
April 1, 1996... Izmir developed into a major international port in the course of the seventeenth century as the result of Ottoman policy to encourage Anatolian foreign trade and to concentrate it at a single port on the Aegean Sea. The city's rise as a...

Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine.
April 1, 1996... James S. Leamon's Revolution Downeast. The War for American Independence in Maine (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts P., in assoc. with Maine Historical Soc., 1993; pp. xviii + 320. [pounds]20) is a model study of the course of the Revolution in a...

Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn.
April 1, 1996... One of the curiosities of the efflorescence of cultural history over the past twenty years is that it has, unintentionally perhaps, constructed a history of culture with music left out. Our understanding of the meanings of texts, performances,...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 29: March 1 through June 30, 1779.
April 1, 1996... The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. XXIX: March 1 through June 30, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg et al. (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1992; pp. lxxii + 848. [pounds]50) marks the first full months of Franklin's tenure as sole American minister...

The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective.
April 1, 1996... The British Industrial Revolution. An Economic Perspective, ed. Joel Mokyr (Oxford: Westview P., 1993; pp. xi + 362. [pounds]36.95; pb. [pounds]12.95), has little uniformity of approach or style and it does not cover debates about the economic...