The English Historical Review articles from April 1999

The English Historical Review archives from April 1999

Patriotic Commerce and National Revival: The Free British Fishery Society and British Politics, c.1749-58.
April 1, 1999... The mid-eighteenth century in Britain saw an efflorescence of patriotic initiatives. One of the most remarkable but least known of these is the Free British Fishery Society, which was founded in 1749 and incorporated by royal charter in the...

Continuity and Change in English Rural Society: The Formation of Poor Law Unions in Oxfordshire.(United Kingdom)
April 1, 1999... During the post-war decades, the 'nineteenth-century revolution in government' was one of the most vehemently debated historical issues. In an attempt to construct a history of social administration, historians paid special attention to the...

British Subversion in French East Africa, 1941-42: SOE's Todd Mission.(Special Operations Executive; Lieutenant Colonel John Todd)
April 1, 1999... The British Special Operations Executive [SOE], set up by the War Cabinet in 1940 to conduct subversive warfare, has provoked lasting controversy amongst historians. M. R. D. Foot comments that `Those of us... who were in resistance know that...

Norfolk, 1382: A Sequel to the Peasants' Revolt.(United Kingdom)
April 1, 1999... In parts of England the unrest and discontent which had found an outlet in the Peasants' Revolt did not end with the revolt's collapse in the summer of 1381. There were a number of further instances of individual and collective resistance by...

Slavery under Charles II: The Mediterranean and Tangier.(British monarch; Tangier, Morocco)
April 1, 1999... There has been much debate among historians during the later twentieth century about the relative importance of different factors in the establishment of slavery throughout England's Atlantic empire. The arguments for the primacy either of...

The Philosophy of Peter Abelard.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Philosophy of Peter Abelard. By JOHN MARENBON (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xx + 373. 40 [pounds sterling]). Peter Abelard (1079-1142) has long provoked conflicting responses from readers. Even in his own lifetime opinions varied from the...

John Foxe and the English Reformation.(Review)
April 1, 1999... John Foxe and the English Reformation. Edited by DAVID LOADES (Aldershot: Scolar P., 1997; pp. xii + 340. N.p.). In 1995 the British Academy began to fund an ambitious project: to produce a critical edition, primarily in electronic form, of...

A History of the University of Cambridge.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A History of the University of Cambridge. Vol. III: 1750-1870. By PETER SEARBY (Cambridge: U.E, 1997; pp. xviii + 797. 65 [pounds sterling]). THE predictability of the problems facing the author of a university history does not diminish...

The Life of Edvard Benes, 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Life of Edvard Benes, 1884--1948. Czechoslovakia in Peace and War. By ZBYSEK ZEMAN and ANTONIN KLIMEK (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. x + 293. 40 [pounds sterling]). Zeman and Klimek have produced a study of Benes that students of...

The Cold War: an International History, 1947-1991.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Cold War: an International History, 1947-1991. By S. J. BALL (London: Arnold, 1998; pp. xii + 260. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]). Ever since the eruption of east-west conflict in the late 1940s there has been an...

The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In The Past as Text. The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1997; pp. xxii + 297. 33 [pounds sterling]) Gabrielle M. Spiegel brings together nine essays that have been previously published,...

Sacred Fictions. Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Lynda L. Coon's Sacred Fictions. Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania E, 1997; pp. xxiii + 228. 37.95[pounds sterling])--a series of essays more than a monograph-grapples well with a central paradox:...

Britain Under and After the Romans.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Scholarship thrives on challenges to prevailing orthodoxies and thus far Donald Arrand's Britain Under and After the Romans (Birmingham: The Northfield Society, 1997; pp. 142. Pb. 8 [pounds sterling]) is to be welcomed. It is salutary to be...

Norm und Wirklichkeit religioser Frauengemeinschaften im Fruhmittelalter.(Review)
April 1, 1999... As an expression of the zeal for a renovation regni Francorum that marked the beginning of his reign, Louis the Pious aspired at the synod of Aachen in 816 to re-order and renew the monastic and canonical communities of his empire; provision...

Monastic Revival and Regional Identity in Early Normandy.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Among recent contributions to the study of Norman history and ecclesiastical reform, the monograph by Cassandra Potts, (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp. xvi + 170. 40 [pounds sterling]) is of much greater importance than its modest title might...

La Parole du predicateur Ve-XVe siecle.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The papers published in, La Parole du predicateur [V.sup.e]-X[V.sup.e] siecle ed. Rosa Maria Dessi and Michel Lauwers (Nice: Z'editions, 1997; pp. 500. Pb. F210), are based on studies carried out at the Centre d'Etudes Medievales de...

Medieval Iberia. Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The ambitious claim of Medieval Iberia. Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1997; pp. xxii+426. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 25[pounds sterling]), ed. Olivia Remie Constable, is that it...

Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons.(Review)
April 1, 1999... St Dominic of Sora (born at Foligno in Umbria c. 960 and died at Sora in the upper Liri Valley on 22 January 1032) was an Italian hermit, miracle worker and founder of a small group of monastic houses in the mountainous Abruzzi region. He was...

Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names in Domesday Book.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Domesday Book has inspired more studies, controversies and speculations than any other document in English history. Its text was published more than two centuries ago in a folio edition by Abraham Farley which continues to be cited as the...

Adel und Kirche in der Grafschaft Armagnac. Das cluniacensische Priorat Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Mont, 1036-1130.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Saint-Mont was the earliest eleventh-century monastic foundation in the Gascon county of Armagnac; it owed its importance to its becoming a Cluniac priory in a region of major concern to Abbot Hugh of Cluny. Hitherto, it has not received due...

Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Since 1985, McDonald and Snooks have, together or independently, persevered with a total quantitative approach to Domesday Book. No doubt quantification is an additional tool for decoding its significance, although reception is mixed. Now John...

Family Trees and the Roots of Politics: The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century.(Review)
April 1, 1999... As Karl Werner explains in his introduction to Family Trees and the Roots of Politics. The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997; pp. 384. 060), the...

La Papaute et les abbayes francaises aux [XI.sup.e] et [XII.sup.e] siecles. Exemption et protection apostolique.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Ludwig Falkenstein's La Papaute et les abbayes fracaises aux XI et XII siecles. Exemption et protection apostolique (Paris: Librairie Honore Champion, 1997; pp. xxx+241. Pb. n.p.) is a clear if somewhat lengthy examination of a subject that was...

Papstliche Delegationsgerichtsbarkeit in der Normandie, 12. und fruhes 13. Jahrhundert, 2 vols.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The institution of papal judges delegate who were specially commissioned to hear locally cases which originated in petitions addressed to the papal curia has been well studied as it operated in England, especially during the thirteenth century....

William the Lion, 1143-1214: Kingship and Culture.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In spite of the continuing renaissance of Scottish medieval studies, it is a curious feature of the field that no monograph analysis of any of Scotland's twelfth- or thirteenth-century rulers has been produced. There has been no shortage of...

Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the 'Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi'.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Producing `readable modern English while staying close to the original Latin' is the goal of almost all translators of historical texts. A specially warm welcome must be given to Chronicle of the Third Crusade. A Translation of the `Itinerarium...

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Literacy is a topic which has attracted much attention, and some outstanding studies, from medieval historians in the last twenty years or so. The appearance of Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies, ed. Huw Pryce (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp....

Anglo-Norman Medicine, vol. 2, Shorter Treatises.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Anglo-Norman Medicine. Vol. II: Shorter Treatises (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997; pp. vii+284. 49.50 [pounds sterling]) completes Tony Hunt's edition of the previously unpublished, thirteenth-century vernacular texts contained in Trinity...

John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.(Review)
April 1, 1999... John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Peter W. Edbury (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp. xvi+222. 39.50 [pounds sterling]), pursues two `fairly modest' objectives. The first attempts to place John of Ibelin's Livre des Assises in...

Medieval Theology and the Natural Body.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Few collected volumes yield so much new insight and good scholarship as does Medieval Theology and the Natural Body, ed. Peter Biller and A. J. Minnis (York: Medieval P., 1997; pp. x+244. 45 [pounds sterling]). Arising from work presented at a...

Eleanor of Provence. Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Tout characterized Eleanor of Provence as `an unthrifty housewife'. Agnes Stricldand saw her as a vain, extravagant woman who dominated her feeble-minded husband. Sivery concurred, contrasting her relationship with Henry III with that of her...

Anger's Past. The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In Anger's Past. The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P, 1998; pp. xi+256. 33.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.50 [pounds sterling]), have the contributors bitten off more than can be...

Stadte ohne Mauern. Stadtentwicklung in East Anglia im 14. Jahrhundert.(Review)
April 1, 1999... For the historian of German towns in the later Middle Ages, a look at English towns in the same period would seem likely to offer some dramatic contrasts. And indeed it does, as Barbel Brodt's Stadte ohne Mauern. Stadtentwicklung in East Anglia...

Das Erzbistum Trier. Vol. VIII: Die Benediktinerabtei St Eucharius -- St Matthias vor Trier.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The principal stages in the long history of the Abbey of St Eucharius and St Matthias at Trier are marked by three successive churches. The first was built by the fifth-century Bishop Cyril of Trier in an ancient cemetery; its altar...

Excavations at the Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital, London.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The study of medieval English hospitals is now recognized as an important interdisciplinary activity of interest to historians working in many fields. Much of the credit for our greater understanding of these institutions goes to...

Political Ockhamism.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Georges de Lagarde's magisterial La Naissance de l'esprit laique au declin du moyen age has long provided a benchmark for modern analyses of the political theology of William of Ockham. For Lagarde, Ockham was a revolutionary theorist whose...

Liberty, Right and Nature. Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Annabel S. Brett's Liberty, Right and Nature. Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xii + 254. N.p.) was originally conceived as a study of the sixteenth-century Dominican `school of Salamanca'. At its core,...

Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Munich, 13-18 July 1992.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The fifty-one papers in Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Munich, 13-18 July 1992 (Vol. X, Monumenta Juris Canonici: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1997; pp. xxxv+1188. Pb. n.p.), ed. Peter Landau and Joerg...

The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Four of five Este Signori of the papal vicariate of Ferrara between 1388 and 1505 were commemorated consecutively in Ferrara by a statue with an inscription testifying to princely merit. In his The Este Monuments and Urban Development in...

Richard III's Books.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In the beautifully illustrated Richard III's Books (Stroud: Sutton, 1997; pp. xviii+332. 30[pounds sterling]), Anne E Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs summarize the contents of a typical library of a late-medieval prince and great lord instead of...

Sultan Djem: un prince Ottoman dans l'Europe du XVe siecle d'apres deux sources contemporaines: Vaki'at-i Sultan Cem, Oeuvres de Guillaume Caoursin.(Review)
April 1, 1999... To historians of Renaissance Europe, Prince Jem, the brother of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II, is a familiar figure. His flight to Rhodes in 1482 and captivity in France, Rome and Naples was a major event in Renaissance diplomacy, providing the...

Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Maryanne Cline Horowitz's Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton: U.P., 1998; pp. xviii+373. 37.50[pounds sterling]) seems at times like a production from some archetypal Baconian cave. `My intention is to present mainstream Western thought',...

Authority and Dissent in the English Church. The Prosecution of Heresy and Religious Non-Conformity in the Diocese of Winchester, 1380-1547.(Review)
April 1, 1999... It is unfortunate but true that effective research and writing can be scuttled by misinterpretation. Clayton J. Drees, in Authority and Dissent in the English Church. The Prosecution of Heresy and Religious Non-Conformity in the Diocese of...

Beginnings and Discoveries. Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The first edition of Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum, consisting of three books, was published in 1499 in Venice. It immediately established Vergil's reputation as a humanist scholar, and in 1521 an expanded version was published that...

Nobilitas. Funktion und Reprasentation des Adels in Alteuropa.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Since the 1950s the series published at Gottingen entitled `Publications of the Max-Planck-Institute for History' has established itself as one of Germany's major platforms for historical monographs as well as for collections of papers...

The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The unlikely field of `parish studies' is booming. In the wake of blockbusters like Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars, and Ronald Hutton's Rise and Fall of Merry England comes The Parish in English Life, 1400-1600, ed. Katherine L. French,...

Die Pest in Bremen. Epidemien und freier Handel in einer deutschen Hafenstadt, 1350-1713.(Review)
April 1, 1999... By European standards, Bremen was in the early modern period a middling-sized town, housing some ten to twenty thousand inhabitants. Its economy rested on a broad base, which included commerce (both local and maritime) and a variety of crafts...

Luther in seiner Zeit: Personlichkeit und Wirken des Reformators.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A curiously discrepant air hangs over the essays in Luther in seiner Zeit: Personlichkeit und Wirken des Reformators, ed. Martin Greschat and Gunther Lottes (Stuttgart/Berlin: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1997; pp. 127. Pb. D[M.sub.3]6), originally...

Prierias. The Life and Works of Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, 1456-1527.(Review)
April 1, 1999... According to Erasmus and to many later historians, the first spark of the Lutheran Reformation was fanned into a fire by the inept, hardline response to the Ninety-Five Theses made by the pope's leading theological adviser, Silvestro Mazzolini...

Robert Ferrar. Yorkshire Monk, Reformation Bishop, and Martyr in Wales. c. 1500-1555.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Robert Ferrar of St David's has an honoured place in Foxe as one of five bishops burned in Mary's reign. Andrew J. Brown's Robert Ferrar. Yorkshire Monk, Reformation Bishop, and Martyr in Wales. c. 1500-1555 (London: Inscriptor Imprints, 1997;...

Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland, 1572-1585, Vol. VIII: Nuntiatur Giovanni Dolfins, 1575-1576.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The monumental enterprise to edit the official correspondence of the papal nuncios in the German lands continues in the Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland, 1572-1585, Vol. VIII: Nuntiatur Giovanni Dolfins, 1575-1576, ed. Daniela Neri (Tubingen:...

Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Elizabethan state was half-formed, only capable of pursuing an active foreign policy and prosecuting war by contracting with mercenaries and adventurers, many of whom were its own subjects. The result was confusion and inefficiency leading...

Charting an Empire. Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Lesley B. Cormack uses geography as an approach to English intellectual life in the period 1580 to 1620. In Charting an Empire. Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620 (Chicago/London: U. of Chicago P., 1997; pp. xvi+281. $68; Pb....

The Women of the Catholic Resistance in England, 1540-1680.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Given the recent debates on popular attitudes towards the English Reformation and the ever-expanding appeal of gender studies, Roland Connelly's The Women of the Catholic Resistance in England, 1540-1680 (Edinburgh/ Cambridge: Pentland P.,...

Difference and Dissent: Theories of Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Difference and Dissent: Theories of Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen (Lanham/Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996; pp. x+240; $62.50; pb. $23.95) collects eleven essays which form a...

Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy, edited by C. J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997; pp. 470. 60 [pounds sterling]), seeks to do justice to the man responsible for `arguably the most...

Die Hauptinstruktionen Gregors XV. fur die Nuntien und Gesandten an den europaischen Furstenhofen, 1621-1623.(Review)
April 1, 1999... It is at least arguable that the pontificates of Clement VIII and Gregory XV were as important for the course of the Counter-Reformation as those of more immediately post-Tridentine and perhaps more famous popes, such as Pius V or Sixtus V. Nor...

Liberty before Liberalism.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xiv+142. 19.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 6.95 [pounds sterling]) is an extended version of Quentin Skinner's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge. The essay opens with...

Conflicts of Empires. Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585-1713.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Few historians have ranged so widely in their interests as the author of the present volume, Conflicts of Empires. Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World Supremacy, 1585-1713 (London: Hambledon P., 1997; pp. xxv+420. N.p.)....

The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The central concern of this collection of essays, The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England, edited by Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox, and Steve Hindle (London: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 331. Pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]), is with the...

Die Schwere der Luft in der Diskussion des 17. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Die Schwere der Luft in der Diskussion des 17. Jahrhunderts, ed. Wim Klever (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997; pp. 211. DM98) comprises ten essays in English, French and Germany which collectively address one of the central issues of...

The Religion of the Poor. Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholism, c. 1500-c. 1800.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In another bold endeavour to understand the development of Catholic religion and society across Europe, from early modern (Tridentine) to modern Catholicism, Louis Chatellier has penetrated the rural scene in his The Religion of the Poor. Rural...

The Swordsmen in Power. War and Politics under the English Republic, 1649-1660.(Review)
April 1, 1999... For two books on the Interregnum to emanate from the same publisher in the same year is remarkable, but their character is quite distinct. Roger Hainsworth's The Swordsmen in Power. War and Politics under the English Republic, 1649-1660...

Oliver Cromwell. King in All But Name, 1653-1658.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Roy Sherwood in Oliver Cromwell. King in all But Name, 1653-1658 (Stroud: Sutton, 1997; pp. xiv+202. 18.99 [pounds sterling]) concentrates on Oliver's years as Protector and on his increasing assumption of the trappings of monarchy, for...

Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology.(Review)
April 1, 1999... One of the most significant recent developments in the intellectual culture of the Western world has been a shift in the history of science, from an overall triumphalist narrative of linear progress, to a much greater awareness of the...

Particular Friends. The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The two greatest diarists of the seventeenth century were also close friends and correspondents. In Particular Friends. The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1997; pp. 350. 25 [pounds sterling]), Guy de la...

Lifestyle and Culture in Hertford. Wills and Inventories for the Parish of All Saints and St Andrew, 1660-1725.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Lifestyle and Culture in Hertford. Wills and Inventories for the Parish of All Saints and St Andrew, 1660-1725, ed. Beverly Adams (Hertfordshire Record Publications, Vol. XIII) (Hitchin: Hertfordshire Record Society, 1997; pp. lii+166. 21.25...

State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A generation ago the local history of the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire was virtually ignored, most scholars presumably being discouraged by the generally accepted picture of a torpid and static society, waiting for the magic wand of the...

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. Duplessis (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xv + 329. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]) provides a concise survey of the development of agriculture and industry in Europe...

The Great South Sea. English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750.(Review)
April 1, 1999... An English `obsession' with the eastern and northern Pacific is analysed in The Great South Sea. English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750, by Glyndwr Williams (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1997; pp. xv + 300. 25 [pounds sterling]). For the...

The Cambridge History of Pacific Islanders.(Review)
April 1, 1999... In The Cambridge History of Pacific Islanders, ed. Donald Denoon (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xvii + 518. 60 [pounds sterling]), there is much to remind us that the Pacific was already explored by Austronesians. Intended as `a source of...

Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements. British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Although Helena M. Pycior sees her Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements. British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xi + 328. 55 [pounds sterling]) as a study of...

Secret Comment: The Diaries of Gertrude Savile, 1721-1757.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Scholarly interest in the lives of genteel and aristocratic eighteenth-century English women has risen sharply in the past decade, resulting recently in a number of outstanding publications that challenge existing historiography by presenting a...

Failed Legislation, 1660-1800. Extracted from the Commons and Lords Journals.(Review)
April 1, 1999... An unusual twist to Parliamentary history is provided by Failed Legislation, 1660-1800. Extracted from the Commons and Lords Journals, ed. Julian Hoppit (Rio Grande: Hambledon P., 1997; pp. 615. 60 [pounds sterling]). As the subtitle indicates,...

A Prologue to Revolution. The Political Career of George Grenville, 1712-1770.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Despite an abundance of materials, George Grenville was long neglected by biographers, as being a dull, unattractive character known only for the American Stamp Act, a measure that brought him historical notoriety on both sides of the Atlantic....

An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History 1450-1800, vol. 20, Theories of Empire, 1450-1800.(Review)
April 1, 1999... An Expanding World. The European Impact on World History 1450-1800. Vol. XX: Theories of Empire, 1450-1800, ed. David Armitage (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998: pp. xxxiii+388. 69.50 [pounds sterling]) is a collection of fifteen essays, articles and...

Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The historical importance of the woollen industry in Spain is well known, but an accessible comprehensive survey has long been needed. It is amply provided by Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips's Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production...

America or Europe? British Foreign Policy 1739-1763.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The period 1739 to 1763 was one of great diplomatic importance for Britain. Under the first two Hanoverian kings the country remained fixated about the balance of power in Europe and the security of Hanover. By 1763 a third generation...

From Patriots to Unionists. Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Jacqueline Hill's From Patriots to Unionists. Dublin Civic Politics anal Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xix+444. 50 [pounds sterling]) is a major contribution not only to Irish history but to British...

The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The proliferation of urban histories in the eighteenth century presents a challenge to any historian who seeks to assess their significance. Not only did they pertain to a large number of towns but they also took many different forms, from...

Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns, 1764, vol. 1, Yorkshire A-G.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns, 1764. Vol. I: Yorkshire A-G, ed. Cressida Annesley and Philippa Hoskin (York: Borthwick Institute, 1997; pp. xii+215. Pb. 2.55 [pounds sterling]) is a contribution to the growing body of published...

Queen of the Methodists. The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Boyd Stanley Schlenther's Queen of the Methodists. The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society (Durham: Academic P., 1997; pp. xiv+208. 22.95 [pounds sterling]), is a lively, often entertaining, yet...

Aspects of the Georgian Church. Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Judith Jago's posthumously published Aspects of the Georgian Church. Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776 (Madison/London: Fairleigh Dickinson U.P., Associated U.P., 1997; pp. 307. 35 [pounds sterling]) is a well-researched...

Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero. An American Warrior Reconsidered.
April 1, 1999... Benedict Arnold stands as one of the most vilified figures in American history, the failed Revolutionary soldier who betrayed the patriot cause. Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero. An American Warrior Reconsidered, by James Kirby Martin (New...