The English Historical Review articles from April 2003

The English Historical Review archives from April 2003

The significance and fate of the native English landholders of 1086 *.
April 1, 2003... THE purpose of this article is to investigate native English landholders at the time of Domesday Book using a computerized database, and to explore their relations with the new Norman regime. Until a few years ago, the English landholders of...

'Good night Amsterdam'. Sir George Downing and Anglo-Dutch statebuilding.
April 1, 2003... 'DE Witt sayth that the King is little to be considered for he is not yett setled and... he hath no mony'. (1) (Downing to Lord Chancellor Clarendon, Oct 4 1661) 'make no doubt, but that his Majesty will... in a short time be...

Subscribing to a democracy? Management and the voluntary ideology of the London Hospitals, 1850-1900 *.
April 1, 2003... CHARLES Trevelyan, an ex-Treasury man and member of the medical subcommittee of the Charity Organization Society, believed that hospitals were the greatest achievement of voluntarism; (1) for the Lancet they were the 'best illustrat[ion]' of...

The colonial policies of the Mouvement Republicain Populaire, 1944-1954: from reform to reaction *.
April 1, 2003... HISTORIANS of French imperialism after 1945 grapple with a central question: Why was postwar France so determined to keep its overseas empire intact? The crushing defeat of 1940 and the traumas of occupation and Vichy collaboration were...

Power brokers or just 'Glamour boys'? The Eden Group, September 1939-May 1940 *. (Notes and Documents).
April 1, 2003... PROFESSOR Larry Witherell (1) has succeeded in reopening the debate into one of the more intriguing developments of modern British political history--the precise role of Parliament, or at least of parliamentarians, in bringing down a...

The Roman Republic in Political Thought.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... (The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures) By FERGUS MILLAR, (Hanover, NH: Brandeis U.P. of New England, 2002; pp. 201. $50; pb. $25). NOT even classical China has marked the world's political imagination as widely and deeply as Rome. The...

Frederick II: a Medieval Emperor.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By DAVID ABULAFIA (London: Pimlico, 2002; pp. xxvi+468. Pb. 15 [pounds sterling]). THE revised paperback version (1992) of Abulafia's Frederick II (first published in 1988) has now been reissued with a brief introduction and two pages...

The Letters of Peter of Celle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited, with a facing page translation, by JULIAN HASELDINE (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp, lix+777. 85 [pounds sterling]). EVEN for medievalists the title of this book will evoke the question, 'Letters of who?', for this long-lived...

Understanding the Middle Ages: the Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By HARALD KLEINSCHMIDT (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2000; pp. xix+401. 45 [pounds sterling]). FROM its title, the reader may gain the impression that Harald Kleinschmidt's book is an introduction, for the newly interested student, to...

The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By DAVID BURR (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U.P., 2001; pp. 427. N.p.). No one has attempted an overall survey of the Spiritual Franciscans since the young Decima Douie published The Nature and the Eject of the Heresy of the...

The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, 1176-1502.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By JOSEPH BIANCALANA (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 498. 70 [pounds sterling]). THE degree to which land was legally alienable was an important determinant of the pattern of landholding in pre-industrial society. The rise and fall...

Making a Living in the Middle Ages: the People of Britain, 850-1520.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By CHRISTOPHER DYER (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2002; pp. 403. 25 [pounds sterling]). THIS is the second volume to be published in Yale's 'New Economic History of Britain' series, following Keith Wrightson's early modern contribution...

History of Merioneth. Vol. II: The Middle Ages.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by J. BEVERLEY SMITH and LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITHS (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2001; pp. xxiv+751. 65 [pounds sterling]). GERALD of Wales described the later county of Merioneth as 'the roughest and most dreadful territory in the whole...

The Rough Wooings of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1551.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By MARCUS MERRIMAN (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2000; pp. xxi + 448. 25 [pounds sterling]). THERE are too many books about Mary, Queen of Scots. The seemingly endless flow of words on the subject of this unfortunate woman and hopeless...

The Crown's Servants: Government and Civil Service under Charles II, 1660-1685.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By G. E. AYLMER (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xvi + 303. 40 [pounds sterling]). THE appearance of this book arouses mixed emotions. A few days after delivering the text to the publisher in December 2000, Gerald Aylmer died, suddenly....

Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By T. J. HOCHSTRASSER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P, 2000; pp. 246. 35 [pounds sterling]) 'THERE are fundamental maxims constituting the law itself', Leibniz writes in the Nouveaux essais IV, vii, 19, 'which, when they are taught by pure...

Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By SUSAN WOLLENBERG (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xxiv + 250. 60 [pounds sterling]). UNDERSTANDING music or the musical life of the eighteenth or early nineteenth century poses unusually strong problems for the present-day mind. We...

Music and Theatre in Handel's World: the Family Papers of James Harris, 1732-80.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by DONALD BURROWS and ROSEMARY DUNHILL (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xliv + 1212. 120 [pounds sterling]). Music has tended to be the most sociable of the arts, since it appears in gatherings of so wide a range of institutions and...

The Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by P. J. MARSHALL (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1998; pp. xxii + 639. 30 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). (Volume 2 of The Oxford History of the British Empire, edited by William Roger Louis). BY the modest standards of...

The American Revolution: a People's History.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By RAY RAPHAEL (London: Profile Books, 2001; pp. xii + 386. 20 [pounds sterling]). THIS volume is the first to appear in 'The People's History' series edited by Howard Zinn. In his preface Zinn explains the premiss of the series:...

Victorian Political Thought on France and the French.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By GEORGIOS VAROUXAKIS (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002: pp. 223. 50 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a book of real interest and merit, but in its emphasis on 'Victorian', 'France' and 'political thought', its title is not well-chosen. The...

Hippolyte Delehaye: Hagiographie critique et modernisme.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By BERNARD JOASSART (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes, 2000; pp. 897 (2 vols.). Eur 150). BERNARD Joassart's work falls into two parts: the first of his two volumes contains a narrative account and analysis of Delehaye's career; the...

Francesco Crispi, 1818-1901: From Nation to Nationalism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 777. 75 [pounds sterling]). WE have long been chipping away at the great figures of the Risorgimento, but Crispi has not even had that equivocal attention. His reputation was even in...

Trusting Leviathan: the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By MARTIN DAUNTON (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 438. 35 [pounds sterling]). THE anthropologist Marvin Harris made a distinction between emic scholarship, which makes use of its subjects' perceptions and concepts, and etic...

The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By ALLAN MITCHELL (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000; pp. xv + 328. 40 [pounds sterling]). ALLAN Mitchell has written extensively on Franco-German relations, especially after 1870. As a 'comparative historian', and as a railway...

The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By MARK CONNELLY (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 2002; pp. 259. 40 [pounds sterling]). THE war memorials of the 1914-1918 war, with small addenda for 1939-1945, are to be found everywhere in the British Isles--and...

County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938: a Comparative Analysis.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by SAM DAVIES and BOB MORLEY, Vol. I (Barnsley-Bournemouth) (Aldershot: Ashgate, t999; pp. 724. 85 [pounds sterling]); Vol. II (Bradford-Carlisle) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 724. 85 [pounds sterling]). THESE two volumes...

British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By ANTONY BEST (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002; pp. xiii + 269. 45 [pounds sterling]). THE growth of intelligence studies, stimulated by the partial availability of intelligence files in the Public Record Office, has encouraged...

The Peopling of Britain: the Shaping of a Human Landscape (The Linacre Lectures 1999).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Paul Slack and Ryk Ward (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 295. 50 [pounds sterling]). It was an inspired idea to ask specialists to contribute to a lecture series--and then a book--on the changing size and composition of the British...

Christians in Al-Andalus, 711-1000.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Ann Christys (Richmond: Curzon P., 2002; pp. 231. 55 [pounds sterling]). The Christian communities that survived under Muslim rule in al-Andalus at least until the end of the first quarter of the twelfth century, like their...

Gregor VII: Papst zwischen Canossa und Kirchenreform.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Ute-Renate Blumenthal (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2001; pp. 376. N.p.). While one might well question the need for yet another book on Gregory VII, that most important pope whose name is often seen as synonymous with the...

Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. and tr. by Robert Bartlett (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. lxxi + 230. 45 [pounds sterling]). Cut off by the Norman Conquest from their more ancient past, the great Benedictine communities of twelfth-century England sought, through...

Proseminar Geschichte: Mittelalter. 2: Auflage.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Hans-Werner Goetz (Stuttgart: Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2000; pp. 464. DM 36.80). It is a widely held commonplace, and no doubt a prejudice, that Anglo-American academe begins with practice and ends up with a theory, while Teutonic academe...

Roger II of Sicily, a Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Hubert Houben (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xxv + 231. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). Roger's exalted reputation as the founder of a monarchy that lasted seven centuries has for nearly a hundred years...

Gendering the Crusades.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2001; pp. xvi + 215. 29.99 [pounds sterling]). This useful and interesting collection of thirteen papers, many of them by younger scholars, addresses aspects of women's...

England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216-1272).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Bjorn K. U. Weiler, with Ifor W. Rowlands (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 239. 45 [pounds sterling]). That political contracts between England and the rest of Europe proliferated and even deepened in the century which saw the loss of...

Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Sharon Farmer (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U.P., 2002; pp. xvi + 198. 22.95 [pounds sterling]). Parisian men and women in the Middle Ages experienced poverty differently and their experiences were shaped by the ideology of male clerical...

Jacques de Molay: Le crepuscule des Templiers.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Alain Demurger (Paris: Editions Payot, 2002; pp. 391. Eur 21.95). Had Jacques de Molay not had the misfortune to be master of the Temple when Philip IV ordered the arrest of all the Templars in France in 1307, his career would...

The King's Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Sergio Bertelli, tr. R. Burr Litchfield (University Park: Pennsylvania State U.P., 2001; pp. xviii + 302. $45). A master of pyrotechnics, intrigued by the bizarre, Sergio Bertelli is an indefatigable collector and cataloguer of the...

Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Anthony Musson (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. 206. 50 [pounds sterling]). As Michael Clanchy notes in the foreword to this volume, historians of medieval law have not hitherto paid 'much attention to expectations of the law'. As...

Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence: Studies in Honour of Angus MacKay.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Roger Collins and Anthony Goodman (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. 265. 50 [pounds sterling]). The late Professor Denys Hay set his pupil, Angus MacKay, the task of exploring the mysteries of Castilian economy and society...

L'illusione della sicurezza: Fortificazioni di rifugio nell'Italia medievale--'ricetti' 'bastite', 'cortine'.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Aldo A. Settia (Cuneo-Vercelli: La Societa per gli Studi Storici di Cuneo and La Societa Storica Vercellese, 2001; pp. 182. Pb. n.p.). The latest collection of essays by the distinguished Italian medievalist, Aldo Settia, focuses on...

The First General Entry Book of the City of Salisbury, 1387-1452.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. David R. Carr (Trowbridge: Wiltshire Record Soc., 2001; pp. xxxvi + 316. 20 [pounds sterling]). The publication of the first 'minute-book' of the city of Salisbury is very welcome. Even though entries are often frustratingly laconic...

The Lollards.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Richard Rex (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002; pp. 188. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This new addition to Palgrave's Social History in Perspective series is designed to provide a summary of the debates and recent scholarship on English...

'With Money and Bloode': Der Londoner Stalhof im Spannungsfeld der englisch-hansischen Beziehungen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Nils Jorn (Cologne: Bohlau, 2000; pp. 628. DM 118). In the late thirteenth century the Hanseatic League established a trading facility in the City of London, just west of the bridge. Consisting of a port, several office buildings,...

Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Claire L. Sahlin (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. xvi+ 266. 50 [pounds sterling]). With the full exploration of the Vadstena holdings of the University of Uppsala, among other scholarly enterprises, the study of St Birgitta of...

Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: Vol. IX: Syon Abbey, with the Libraries of the Carthusians.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Vincent Gillespie and A. I. Doyle (London: The British Library, in association with the British Academy, 2001; pp. lxxiii + 819. N.p.). Under Richard Sharpe's vigorous general editorship, the corpus of British medieval library...

Bosworth, 1485: Psychology of a Battle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Michael K. Jones (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2002; pp. 234. 25 [pounds sterling]). Bosworth was the decisive battle that replaced Richard III with the first Tudor, yet is among the worst documented engagements of the Wars of the...

Reassessing Tudor Humanism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Jonathan Woolfson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. 286. 47.50 [pounds sterling]). This volume is the record of the papers given at a colloquium arranged by its editor at the Warburg Institute in November 1999, to address...

English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1469-1535): Sermons and Other Writings, 1520-1535.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... 1520-1535, by Cecilia A. Hatt (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xvi + 465. 70 [pounds sterling). In this edition, intended for students of English Literature, theology and reformation history, Cecilia Hatt offers us John Fisher's 'Sermon...

Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Kathryn Edwards (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2002; pp. 430. $90). The vantage point of Kathyrn Edwards's re-worked doctoral thesis is unashamedly the internal history of the Burgundian region. 'Burgundy' is refreshingly treated as neither a...

Early Tudor Gwent, 1485-1547.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by W. R. B. Robinson (privately published; enquiries to author at 7 Shere Avenue, Cheam, Surrrey SM2 7JU, UK; 2002; pp. 116). The first four chapters analyse landownership in those Welsh marcher lordships which the 1536 'Act of Union'...

Correspondance d'un ambassadeur castillan au Portugal dans les annees 1530: Lope Hurtado de Mendoza.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Aude Viaud (Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001; pp. 653. N.p.). With the collaboration of the official Portuguese national commission for the commemoration of the Portuguese discoveries, the Gulbenkian Foundation has...

Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Stephen Alford (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 233. 40 [pounds sterling]). This book promises rather more than it delivers. Alford's quarry is what he presents as the 'political culture' of what he miscounts as 'the...

Long Travail and Great Paynes: a Politics of Reformation Revision.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Vivienne Westbrook (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001; pp. xxxix + 190. 52 [pounds sterling]). This book is not, as one might innocently suppose, an account of the academic politics of English Reformation 'revisionism'....

The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles and Philip Conner (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. xvii + 384. 55 [pounds sterling]). This wide-ranging collection of eighteen papers is the fruit of a conference held in 1999 at St Andrews under the...

La Plume et la Tribune: Michel de L'Hospital et ses discours (1559-1562).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Loris Petris (Geneva: Droz, Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance CCCLX, 2002; pp. xxvii + 610. N.p.). The historiography of Michel de L'Hospital is a mess, like that of Catherine de Medici whom he served. Judgements of his career veer...

The Reformation of Germany.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by C. Scott Dixon (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. xxvii + 212. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]). This book is not intended to be a general account of the German Reformation, but is rather a study focused on the impact of...

Welt/Macht/Geist: Das Haus Habsburg und die Oberlausitz, 1526-1635.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Joachim Bahlcke and Volker Dudeck (Gorlitz: Verlag Gunter Oettel, 2002; pp. 456. Eur 30). The Lusatian lands are one of the forgotten corners of the early modern Habsburg world. A contested region of central Europe, this area was...

The Reign of Elizabeth I.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Carole Levin (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 146. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Writing a short introductory textbook on Elizabeth I's reign is no easy task. It does not fall into neat chronological phases, while most of its...

King James I and the Religious Culture of England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by James Doelman (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000: pp. 184. 40 [pounds sterling]). There has been an unfortunate tendency in recent years for short books on historical subjects by literary scholars to bear ambitious and wide-ranging...

Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by David Cressy (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999; pp. 352 40 [pounds sterling]). Micro-history--the close study of particular individuals or incidents to illuminate wider features of past cultures--can make for fascinating reading, but the...

Matrimoni di antico regime.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Daniela Lombardi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001; pp. 513. Eur 28.92). With Matrimoni di antico regime the historian Daniela Lombardi has written an impressive book on the history of marriage formation and clandestine marriages in Tuscany...

Matrimoni in dubbio: Unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001; pp. 581 + CD Rom. Eur 37). This is the second of four volumes under the title 'I processi matrimoniali degli archivi ecclesiastici italiani'. As that implies, and...

Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xvii + 241. 40 [pounds sterling]). The market for essays on French Protestantism shows no sign of reaching saturation point; this being the third collection to...

Richard Baxter's Understanding of Infant Baptism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Hans Boersma, (Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary, 2002; pp. 106. N.p.). Professor Boersma follows up an earlier study of Richard Baxter's doctrine of justification--A Hot Pepper Corn (Zoetermeer, The Netherlands:...

Frontiers of Faith: Religious Exchange and the Constitution of Religious Identities, 1400-1750.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Eszter Andor and Istvan Gyorgy Toth (Budapest: CEU P., 2001; pp. 295. Pb. n.p.). Track down this collection of twenty-four papers; twenty are worth reading. Scholars from thirteen countries offer perspectives on a Europe generously...

The World of the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. Beat Kumin and B. Ann Tlusty (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 249. 45 [pounds sterling]). The social history of alcohol has made surprisingly limited progress in this country in recent times--certainly for the early modern period....

A Revolution from Above? The Power State of 16th and 17th Century Scandinavia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... ed. L. Jespersen (Odense: Odense U.P., 2000; pp. 383. NKR 300,00). This is the result of a collective project, promoted by the Nordic Conference of Historians, to produce a comparative study of the development of the 'power state' in...

Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Ernst Benz, tr. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2002; pp. xxi+536. $24.95). This important book, like the hero it is concerned to elucidate, runs the risk of being set aside as curious literature. The...

The Diligent: a Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Robert Harms (Oxford: Perseus P., 2002; pp. xxx+466. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). The rather nondescript entries in a manuscript journal written in 1731-2 by Robert Durand, a young French officer on the slave ship Diligent, have here...

Francis Hutcheson in Dublin, 1719-1730.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Michael Brown (Dublin: Four Courts E, 2002; pp. 207. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). Despite Adam Smith's praise of his 'never to be forgotten' teacher, Francis Hutcheson has generally been overlooked by historians of eighteenth-century...

Batir une generalite: Le droit des travaux publics dans la generalite d'Amiens au XVIIIe siecle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Anne-Sophie Condette-Marcant (Paris: Comite pour l'Histoire Economique, 2001 pp. 661. Eur 38.II). This thesis forms part of a series published by the Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere de la France, a body which is deeply...

Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 312. 40 [pounds sterling]). Naomi Tadmor's study undertakes a rigorous and cogent exploration of the language and categories of family, kinship and friendship in eighteenth-century...

Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by John Kent (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P, 2002; pp. 229. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). Mirror of the Soul: The Diary of an Early Methodist Preacher,...

Reluctant Saint? A Theological Biography of Fletcher of Madeley.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Patrick Streiff (tr. G. W. S. Knowles) (Peterborough: Epworth P., 2001; pp. 406. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). Ever since his death, and even during his lifetime, John Fletcher (1729-85) (or Jean Guillaume de la Flechere before he...

The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by David A. Bell (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 2002; pp. 304. 30.95 [pounds sterling]). In recent years, the once axiomatic belief that nationalism was part of a wider process of modernization, and therefore a nineteenth century...

Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: the Treatment of Foreigners, 1789-1799.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Michael Rapport (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 38z. 48 [pounds sterling]). France in general, and Paris in particular, were the most popular destinations for eighteenth-century travellers, and never more so than after 1789. During...

The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Bob Reece (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. xx + 373. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). The origins of convict transportation from the British Isles to Botany Bay has attracted a certain amount of controversy, with participants in the...

William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by David Phillips (Melbourne: U. of Melbourne P., 2001; pp. 215. $Aus22). This book results from what Phillips admits is an 'obsessive quest' for information about Miles, which began when he came across his work for the 1836 Constabulary...

All Souls and the Shipley Case, 1808-1810.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by John McManners (Oxford: All Souls College, 2002; pp. 112. Pb. 5.50 [pounds sterling]). Parker's bookshop, which still stood within living memory on the corner of the Turl and Broad Street in Oxford, was an accommodating enterprise....

The Age of Unease: Government and Reform in Britain, 1782-1832.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Michael J. Turner (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. 310. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Michael Turner's contribution to Sutton's Modern British History Series is a basic textbook for students of the period from the end of the American Revolution...

Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Philip Mansel (London: John Murray, 2001; pp. 559. 25 [pounds sterling]). Philip Mansel's richly-detailed, informative, and vastly entertaining book takes us from the capitulation of Paris before the Allied Armies in 1814, through to...

W. B. Ferrand, 'The Working Man's Friend', 1809-1889.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by John Ward, ed. and with an introduction by Norman Gash (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2002; pp. 214. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). This book has been some time in the making. It is the culmination of the late Professor Ward's extensive...