The English Historical Review articles from February 1994, page 2

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Literature and the English Civil War.
February 1, 1994... Historians of the seventeenth century will derive much pleasure from a collection of essays by their literary colleagues, Literature and the English Civil War, ed. Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. 268....

Seventeenth Century Europe: State, Conflict and the Social Order in Europe, 1598-1700.
February 1, 1994... Thomas Munck's Seventeenth Century Europe. State, Conflict and the Social Order in Europe, 1598--1700 (London: Macmillan, 1990; pp. xxxii + 457* [pound]35) is a book that must be read on its own terms; and on those terms, as defined by its...

Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450-1850.
February 1, 1994... Although Dirk H. A. Kolff's Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy. The Ethnobistory of the Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450--1850 (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xv + 217. [pound]30) is a short book, written almost entirely from printed sources, it is an...

The Alchemy Revolution: Gerrard Winstanley's Occultism and Seventeenth-Century English Communism.
February 1, 1994... David Mulder's The Alchemy of Revolution. Gerrard Winstanley's Occultism and Seventeenth-Century English Communism (New York/Berne: Peter Lang, 1990; pp. xi + 364* $36) proclaims the historiographical transition of Gerrard Winstanley, the...

Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution.
February 1, 1994... It seems to be generally agreed among historians of the seventeenth century that there is no first-rate biography of Oliver Cromwell, and that Sir Charles Firth's Victorian life still remains as good as any other. By editing Oliver Cromwell...

An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, vol. 4: Domesti Architecture from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution, part 2: Farmhouses and Cottages.
February 1, 1994... An Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. Vol. IV: Domestic Architecture from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution. Part ii: Farmbouses and Cottages (London: HMSO, for Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments in Wales,...

Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677.
February 1, 1994... Richard L. Greaves's Enemies under his Feet. Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664--1677 (Stanford: U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 324. $39.50) is the second in his planned trio of volumes on the 'radical underground' in Restoration Britain,...

Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow.
February 1, 1994... Isaac Barrow (1630--77) is best known as the Cambridge mathematician who did not invent the calculus and who was not Newton's tutor. The aim of Before Newton. The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow, ed. Mordechai Feingold (Cambridge: U.P., 1990;...

Polityka gospodarcza i spoteczna Privy Council w latach panowania Karola II, 1660-1685.
February 1, 1994... It has not been common, in the last fifty years, for Polish historians to undertake original research on English history, so the publication of Mariusz Markiewicz's Polityka gospodarcza i spoteczna Privy Council w latach panowania Karola II,...

The Reign of Louis XIV: Essays in Celebration of Andrew Lossky.
February 1, 1994... Historians have proved justifiably relutant to commit themselves to broad syntheses of the reign of Louis XIV. A period of seventy-two years is in itself a formidable challenge to any serious attempt to produce l'historire evenementielle....

Italia Judaica: Gli ebrei in Italia dalla segregazione alla prima emancipazione.
February 1, 1994... Italia Judaica. Gli ebrei in Italia dalla segregazione alla prima emancipazione (Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali/Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, 1989; pp. 370. Pb. n.p.) concerns Italian Jewish history and culture...

Slave Law in the Americas.
February 1, 1994... Power has always been the basis for slavery. It is power that enabled one group of people to enslave another -- usually for socio-economic purposes. Alan Watson begins his book on Slave Law in the Americas (Athens/London: U. of Georgia P.,...

Le Ciel dans la mer: Christianisme et civilisation maritime, XVI-XIX siecle.
February 1, 1994... At the beginning of the eighteenth century there were about 350,000 seafarers plying from ports along the coast line of Western Europe from Norway to Venice (this was one in 60 of the inhabitants of England, one in 34 of these of the United...

A History of Enfield, vol. 1: Before 1837, A Parish Near London.
February 1, 1994... It is difficult to overestimate the value of good local history, which provides the ground from which all wider historical assumptions must develop. A History of Enfield. Vol. I: Before 1837. A Parish near London, by David Pam (Enfield:...

The Building of Castle Howard.
February 1, 1994... Charles Saumarez Smith's The Building of Castle Howard (London: Faber & Faber, 1990; pp. xviii + 221. [pound]17.99), is a sober, clearly-written, and well-documented strvey of one of the greatest of English houses. The author provides full...

The Shieling, 1600-1840: The Case of the Central Scottish Highlands.
February 1, 1994... Although various types of transhumance were once widespread throughout the uplands of northern and western Britain, their operation and their significance for the rural societies and economies of the areas in which they occurred has received...

The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses.
February 1, 1994... James S. Ackerman's The Villa. Form and Ideology of Country Houses (London: Thames & Hudson, 1990; pp. 304. [pound]28) is a collection of essays on rural buildings from ancient Rome to the present century: their plans and designs, pictorial...

The Anatomy of Victory: Battle Tactics, 1689-1763.
February 1, 1994... The introduction of the flintlock mechanism and the socket bayonet in the late seventeenth century provided the musketeer with a more reliable weapon than he had previously possessed and made it possible for him to defend himself by his own...

Slave Women in Carribean Society: 1650-1838.
February 1, 1994... Reappraisals of colonial discourse have recently become avant-garde projects in the humanities and social sciences. Barbara Bush has contributed to the genre through Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650--1838 (Kingston/Bloomington/London:...

Kontinuitat Wandel: Schlesien zwischen Osterreich und PreuBen.
February 1, 1994... The scholarly activity focused on Frederick II of Prussia which surrounded the 200th anniversary of that king's death in 1986 spawned many conferences and colloquia on related subjects. In October 1987 the Gerhard-Mobus-Institute for Silesia...

Eighteenth Century Europe: 1700-1789.
February 1, 1994... Books which attempt to cover the history of all Europe over a long period have never been easy to write, and as the monograph literature which is their foundation relentlessly expands, the task becomes increasingly difficult. No attempt at a...

Married Women's Separate Property in England: 1660-1833.
February 1, 1994... In her Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660--1833 (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1990; pp. ix + 290. [pound]27.95), Susan Staves is concerned with the legal rules relating to the property of married women: provision for...

The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
February 1, 1994... In a work of considerable distinction, David Spadafora has set out to challenge not only the conclusions of earlier historians of the idea of progress, such as J. B. Bury, but also the claims of present-day scholars, such as Quentin Skinner,...

Africans and Europeans in West Africa: Elminans and Dutchmen on the Gold Coast during the Eighteenth Century.
February 1, 1994... Harvey M. Feinberg's Africans and Europeans in West Africa: Elminans and Dutchmen on the Gold Coast during the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Soc., Transactions, vol. lxxix, part 7, 1989; pp. xvi + 186. Pb. $15)...

The Royal Dockyards, 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy.
February 1, 1994... In the agricultural Britain of Defoe's day the Royal Dockyards were the industrial centres of England. Fifty years later they were the largest industrial organization in the Western world. Even by nineteenth century post-Industrial Revolution...

Settecento riformatore. Vol. V: L'Italia dei lumi. Tomo secondo: La Republica di Venezia, 1761-1797.
February 1, 1994... Franco Venturi's latest volume, Settecento riformatore. Vol. V:L'Italia dei lumi. Tomo secondo: La Repubblica di Venezia, 1761--1797, (Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1990; pp. xiii + 478. L85,000), devoted to the Venetian state, gives us new insight...

The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861.
February 1, 1994... John L. Brooke's The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713--1861 (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xxi + 446. [pound]30) is a remarkably ambitious attempt to paint on a very broad canvas...

The Transformation of Political Culture: England and Germany in the late Eighteenth Century.
February 1, 1994... The twenty-two essays in The Transformation of Political Culture. England and Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century, ed. Eckhart Hellmuth (Oxford: Clarendon P., for German Historical Inst., London, 1990; pp. ix + 597. [pound]48) offer a...

Obrigkeit und Unterschichten. Zur Geschichte der rheinischen Unterschichten gegen Ende des 18. und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts.
February 1, 1994... It was only on rare occasions and in exceptional circumstances that the French revolutionaries expressed concern for those living on the margins of society. It should come as no surprise, therefore, to discover that the lot of the latter...

Suvorov - Generalissimus - Genius.
February 1, 1994... Written chiefly in the 1960s and based on most of the standard (and elderly) Russian printed sources, together with the writings of Clausewitz and Jomini, Kauko Rekola's biography, Suvorov -- Generalissimus -- Genius (Helsinki: Suomen...

La Toscana dei Lorena. Riforme, territorio, societa.
February 1, 1994... Habsburg-Lorraine rule in Tuscany (1737--1859, with a hiatus in the Napoleonic period) has had a good press, thanks in part to the rulers themselves and to their early historians Galluzzi (1781) and Zobi (1850--2). On the extinction of the...

I Lorena in Toscana.
February 1, 1994... Habsburg-Lorraine rule in Tuscany (1737--1859, with a hiatus in the Napoleonic period) has had a good press, thanks in part to the rulers themselves and to their early historians Galluzzi (1781) and Zobi (1850--2). On the extinction of the...

The Soldiers of the French Revolution.
February 1, 1994... Since they first took to the field in 1792, the soldiers of the French Revolution have acquired an heroic aura: they were, for the first time in Europe, citizen soldiers fighting for their nation rather than the mercenaries of a king; they...

Revolution in the House: Family, Class, and Inheritance in Southern France, 1775-1825.
February 1, 1994... Although it has been widely believed, since the time of the French Revolution, if not before, that inheritance laws have a significant effect on family structure and values, few writers have paused to examine seriously the assumption that law...

I giacobini piemontesi, 1794-1814.
February 1, 1994... The publication of Giorgio Vaccarino's I giacobini piemontesi, 1794--1814 (2 vols. Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, 1989; pp. lxiii, xv + 959. Pb. n.p.) and Piero Aimo's Le origini della giustizia amministrativa. Consigli di...

Le origini della giustizia amministrativa. Consigli di Prefettura e Consiglio di Stato nell'Italia napoleonica.
February 1, 1994... The publication of Giorgio Vaccarino's I giacobini piemontesi, 1794--1814 (2 vols. Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, 1989; pp. lxiii, xv + 959. Pb. n.p.) and Piero Aimo's Le origini della giustizia amministrativa. Consigli di...

Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
February 1, 1994... Albion M. Urdank's Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780--1865 (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1990; pp. xvii + 448. $47.50) attempts a comprehensive portrait of a semi-rural district dominated...

Military Intervention in Britain: From the Gordon Riots to the Gibraltar Incident.
February 1, 1994... Both Rob Sindall's Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Media Panic or Real Danger? (Leicester: U.P., 1990, pp. 168. [pound]27.50) and Anthony Babington's Military Intervention in Britain. From the Gordon Riots to the Gibraltar Incident...

The Duke of Wellington and the Command of the Spanish Army: 1812-1814.
February 1, 1994... Charles J. Esdaile's The Duke of Wellington and the Command of the Spanish Army, 1812--14 (London: Macmillan, 1990; pp. xvi + 237.[pound]37.50) is a most welcome introduction to a hitherto sadly-neglected subject. The author traces the many...

Wellington: Studies in the Military and Political Career of the First Duke of Wellington.
February 1, 1994... The essays collected in Wellington: Studies in the Military and Political Career of the First Duke of Wellington, ed. Norman Gash (Manchester: U.P., 1990; pp. x + 262. [pound]35), commemorate the transfer of the Wellington papers to the...

Class, Sect, and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class, Leeds, 1820-1850.
February 1, 1994... Whereas wage-earners have been much studied by historians of Britain's social and economic development since the late eighteenth century, the members of the bourgeoisie have been somewhat neglected. For over twenty years, R. J. Morris (whose...

Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom: 1814-1870.
February 1, 1994... Even if the first three decades after the defeat of Napoleon may still be considered the era of Pax Britannica, from the British military point of view the following three cannot. In Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom,...

Liberty and Locality: Parliament, Permissive Legislation, and Ratepayer's Democracies in the Nineteenth Century.
February 1, 1994... For the last thirty years since Oliver MacDonagh published his 'new model' solution to explain the nature of British government growth in the nineteenth century, historians have tried to complete the complex jigsaw puzzle he left for them. In...

Istoria salinelor Moldovei in epoca moderna.
February 1, 1994... Although salt-mining was the most important branch of the mining industry in Moldavia and the chief source of state income after the capitation tax between the 1830s and 1860s, scholars have unaccountably neglected the subject. Dumitru Vitcu...

Michelet, Historian: Rebirth and Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century France.
February 1, 1994... Michelet has long been recognized as having two claims to our attention, as France's most celebrated romantic historian (responsible, among other things, for encouraging the 'myth' of the French Revolution) and as the exponent of ideas which...

Courtship, Love and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada.
February 1, 1994... Between the 1780s and 1914, the largely literate, largely rural, English-speaking community in Canada produced family papers which Peter Ward has profitably used to study marriage formation in his Courtship, Love and Marriage in...

Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Media Panic or Real Danger?
February 1, 1994... Both Rob Sindall's Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Media Panic or Real Danger? (Leicester: U.P., 1990, pp. 168. [pound]27.50) and Anthony Babington's Military Intervention in Britain. From the Gordon Riots to the Gibraltar Incident...

State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt.
February 1, 1994... In State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 320. [pound]32.50) Ehud Toledano explores 'political, social, and cultural themes that lie at the crossroads of state and society' in...

The Irish in Mid-Victorian Lancashire.
February 1, 1994... The central thesis of W. J. Lowe's The Irish in Mid-Victorian Lancashire (New York/Berne: Peter Lang, 1989; pp. 228. $31) is implied in its sub-title, 'The Shaping of a Working Class Community'. Lowe maintains that the Lancashire Irish...

Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century.
February 1, 1994... With characteristic verve, Mary Kingsley described the European cemetery at Accra, its pair of fresh-dug graves opened each day for the latest victims of fever or dysentery. Philip D. Curtin has already visited the image and reality of 'the...

The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-1890.
February 1, 1994... Studies of pre-revolutionary Russian trade are few in number and Anne Lincom Fitzpatrick's description of The Great Russian Fair. Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840--1890 (London: Macmillan, in assoc. with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1990; pp. xvii +...

New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914.
February 1, 1994... It is a commonplace of history that industrialization and its concomitant social dislocations in Germany gave rise to right-wing radicalism among the 'losers' in this revolutionary transformation. Kees Gispen takes up this proposition in his...

Europa vor dem Krieg von 1870: Machtekonstellation-Konfliktfelder-Kriegsausbruch.
February 1, 1994... The papers in the first part of Europa vor dem Krieg von 1870: Machtekonstellation--Konfliktfelder--Kriegsausbruch, ed. Eberhard Kolb (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1987; pp. x + 216. DM68) survey the functioning of the European states system in the...

La Guerre de 1870-1871 et ses consequences.
February 1, 1994... The papers in the first part of Europa vor dem Krieg von 1870: Machtekonstellation--Konfliktfelder--Kriegsausbruch, ed. Eberhard Kolb (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1987; pp. x + 216. DM68) survey the functioning of the European states system in the...

Der Binnenhandel und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung.
February 1, 1994... Little enough is known about the history of retailing and inland trade even in the West, and less still about their development in Central and Eastern Europe, so that the scattered information contained in the volume of essays Der...

The Frontier War Journal of Major John Crealock, 1878: A Narrative of the Ninth Frontier War by the Assistant Military Secretary to Lieutenant General Thesiger.
February 1, 1994... As an exceedingly detailed contribution to the local history of Cape Colony's eastern province, The Frontier War Journal of Major John Crealock, 1878. A Narrative of the Ninth Frontier War by the Assistant Military Secretary to Lieutenant...

Trade and Socioeconomic Change in Ovamboland: 1850-1906.
February 1, 1994... Over half the population of what has become the newly independent nation of Namibia has historically lived in the far north of the country. Much of Namibia's huge area is semi-arid land or desert. But in the north, river systems coupled with...

The Community Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle.
February 1, 1994... Economic history and literary interpretation employ different kinds of argument. Thomas Richards's The Commodity Culture of Victorian England. Advertising and Spectacle, 1851--1914 (Stanford: U.P., 1990; pp. xiv + 306. $29.50) is a...

William Ewart Gladstone.
February 1, 1994... Agatha Ramm, author of William Ewart Gladstone, (Cardiff: GPC Books, 1989; pp. x + 129. [pound]12.95; pb. [pound]4.95) is an authority on the political Gladstone; her edition of the Gladstone--Granville Correspondence was the most important...

Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920.
February 1, 1994... Some years ago Janet Abu-Lughod complained aobut the lack of case-studies concerning the introduction of western urban structures into non-western societies. David Prochaska cited this grievance in his book and, in Making Algeria French:...

Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India.
February 1, 1994... In India during the mid 1970s the phenomenon of bonded labour contracts -- whereby an agricultural labourer was obliged to work for an employer, usually a landlord, over an indefinite period until a past loan plus interest had been liquidated...

Conservatism and Collectivism: 1886-1914.
February 1, 1994... The burden of Matthew Fforde's Conservatism and Collectivism, 1886--1914 (Edinburgh: U.P., 1990; pp. ix + 222. [pound]27.50) is that there are 'good reasons for supposing that Princip's bullet rescued the British Tories from an unwelcome fate...

Leopold Maxse and the National Review, 1893-1914: Right-wing Politics and Journalism in the Edwardian Era.
February 1, 1994... The Edwardian age was the halcyon era of the political press. The business was filled with colourful and influential individuals -- the great press barons Northcliffe, Rothermere and the young Max Aitken were pre-eminent as owners, but they...

Capitalism in a Mature Economy: Financial Institutions, Capital Exports and British Industry, 1870-1939.
February 1, 1994... In spite of its presence in a series ostensibly devoted to the 'new' business history, Capitalism in a Mature Economy. Financial Institutions, Capital Exports and British Industry, 1870--1939, ed. J. J. van Helten and Y. Cassis (Aldershot:...

Un grand rabbin sepharade en politique, 1892-1923.
February 1, 1994... Given the paucity of attention devoted to the history of modern Ottoman Jewry, Un grand rabbin sepharade en politique, 1892--1923, ed. Esther Benbassa (Paris: Presses du CNRS, 1990; pp. 261. Pb. F130) is all the more welcome. The chief rabbi...

Images of Youth: Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem, 1880-1920.
February 1, 1994... An important theme in Harry Hendrick's Images of Youth. Age, Class and the Male Youth Problem, 1880--1920 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1990; pp. 298. [pound]32.50) is that of optimism. Many of those who have studied youthful working-class life...

St. Petersburg between the Revolutions: Workers and Revolutionaries, June 1907-February 1917.
February 1, 1994... Prior to 1980 historians of the Russian revolutionary movement tended to concentrate on the political origins of Russian Social Democracy and on the ideological debates carried out by its emigre leaders in Western Europe. During the past...

Eglise et histoire de l'eglise en Afrique.
February 1, 1994... Eight church historians and theologians from francophone Africa met together with Italian and other academics for a workshop held at the University of Bologna in October 1988. Eglise et histoire de l'eglise en Afrique, ed. Giuseppe Ruggieri...

Bertie of Thame: Edwardian Ambassador.
February 1, 1994... Beginning as it does when its subject was well into his fifties, Keith Hamilton's Bertie of Thame. Edwardian Ambassador (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Royal Historical Soc., 1990; pp. x + 436. [pound]35) is not a biography, although elements of...

Rasputin: A Life.
February 1, 1994... There is no doubt that Rasputin matters. His case serves to illuminate three contexts vital to our understanding of the last years of the Russian old regime: the court (or rather its collapse under Nicholas II); the Tsar's fraught...

Imperialism's New Clothes: The Repartition of Tropical Africa, 1914-1919.
February 1, 1994... The Berlin Act of 1885 provided for the neutrality of the Congo Basin in the event of a European War. When war came, however, the principal colonial powers in Africa, Britain and France, were prepared to disregard humanitarian sentiment in...

Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia.
February 1, 1994... The irony in the main title of Lynn Mally's Culture of the Future. The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1990; pp. xxix + 306. $37.50) is presumably deliberate and certainly poignant: for...

Land Commune and Peasant Community in Russia: Communal Forms in Imperial and Early Soviet Society.
February 1, 1994... The Russian peasant commune (the mir or obshchina) was an immensely important and unusual institution. As late as 1929 most of the Soviet population lived and worked in villages in which the fields were divided into strips; and the strips...

Nathan Soderblom and the Study of Religion.
February 1, 1994... Eric J. Sharpe's Nathan Soderblom and the Study of Religion (Chapel Hill/London: U. of North Carolina P., 1990; pp. xxiii + 258. $43.95) should be warmly recommended to historians. Although this book will be of primary interest to scholars of...

Wizje i realia. USA a Europa srodkowowschodnia, 1919-1923.
February 1, 1994... The attitude of the USA towards Central Europe after the First World War has always interested Europeans. However, in Anglo-Saxon historiography this topic is either covered piecemeal, or else in the context of longer historical periods, and...

Friedrich Ebert und seine Zeit. Bilanz und Perspektiven der Forschung.
February 1, 1994... Friedrich Ebert und seine Zeit. Bilanz und Perspektiven der Forschung, ed. Rudolf Konig, Hartmut Soell and Hermann Weber (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1990; pp. 182. N.p.) is a collection of essays based on a colloquium organized by the Friedrich...

Managing Industrial Enterprise: Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience.
February 1, 1994... What started as mere 'company history' in the pre-war period has by now developed into a wide-ranging and well-established new field of research both in the Western world and Japan, probably epitomized best as 'business history'. Specialists...

Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers, 1903-1945.
February 1, 1994... Bernard P. Bellon's Mercedes in Peace and War. German Automobile Workers, 1903--1945 (New York: Columbia U.P., 1990; pp. xv + 356. $43.50; pb. $21) is especially welcome because such bad books have been written about Daimler-Benz. The...

Entstehung der Raumplanung, konservative Gesellschaftsreform und das Ruhrgebiet, 1918-1933.
February 1, 1994... There is no very precise equivalent in English for the German term Raumplanung. It is much more than landscaping; it involves more than simple town planning; the concept embraces the planning of space and area to meet a particular set of...

Lord Bruce of Melbourne.
February 1, 1994... Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1883-1967) was Australia's eighth prime minister, the only businessman to occupy the position, and served between 1923 and 1929 at a sensitive time in Australia's economic development and relationship with the United...

British Unemployment, 1919-1939: A Study in Public Policy.
February 1, 1994... British Unemployment, 1919--1939. A Study in Public Policy, by W. R. Garside (Cambridge: U.P., 1990; pp. xvi + 414. [pound]40) is a solid piece of work dealing specifically with the policy aspects of unemployment between the wars: the first...

Faithful to the Fatherland: Julius Curtius and Weimar Foreign Policy.
February 1, 1994... The name of Julius Curtius is connected with the history of the Customs Union project, an attempt of Austrian and German politicians to prepare the political Anschluss of the two countries in the early 1930s. Curtius's resignation as Foreign...

Worker's Culture in Weimar Germany: Between Tradition and Commitment.
February 1, 1994... W. L. Guttsman, in Workers' Culture in Weimar Germany. Between Tradition and Commitment (New York/Oxford: Berg, 1990; pp. xiv + 332. [pound]35), sets out to present a comprehensive account of workers' culture in Germany during the Weimar...

Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy: The SS Leadership, 1925-1939.
February 1, 1994... Herbert F. Ziegler's Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy. The SS Leadership, 1925--1939 (Princeton: U.P., 1989; pp. xx + 181. $29.95) studies those members of the SS who held the rank of Untersturmfuhrer or above between 1925 and the end of 1938....