The English Historical Review articles from February 2000

The English Historical Review archives from February 2000

The Illusion of Royal Power in the Carolingian Annals(*).
February 1, 2000... On the death of Charles Martel in 741, his sons Pippin and Carloman assumed control, as mayors of the palace, of the territory of the Merovingian rulers of Frankish Gaul over which Charles Martel had established his authority. In 743 Carloman...

Cornwall, Earl Richard, and the Barons' War(*).
February 1, 2000... THIS paper will argue that, despite its geographical isolation, Cornwall was directly affected by the conflict between Henry III and the barons during the years 1258-67. That this was so was due in large part to the fact that the county was...

Imperial Dreams and National Realities: Britain, Canada and the Struggle for a Pacific Telegraph Cable, 1879-1902.
February 1, 2000... THE communications revolution that began with the first electric telegraph in 1837 made a great leap forward in 1843 with the discovery of the insulating properties of gutta percha.(1) Until then, high-speed communications were constrained by...

`Operations Abroad': The IRA in Britain, 1919-23(*).
February 1, 2000... FROM the 1790s onwards Hibernian revolutionary endeavours have invariably spanned the Irish Sea. Indeed, if rebellions are measured in bullets and bombs, it was Britain, not Ireland, that was the main battlefield in nineteenth-century struggles...

Protector Somerset and the 1549 Rebellions: A Post-Revision Questioned.
February 1, 2000... IN Ethan H. Shagan's article `Protector Somerset and the 1549 Rebellions: New Sources and New Perspectives' (ante, cxiv [1999], 34-63), large claims are made: according to it, a `new and astonishing body of evidence' has been uncovered which...

New Perspectives or Old Complexities?
February 1, 2000... LARGE claims that he has found `new sources' -- `virtually unknown manuscript evidence' -- that `force us to rethink fundamentally' and `point us towards a post-revisionist interpretation of mid-Tudor politics', punctuate E. H. Shagan's paper,...

`Popularity' and the 1549 Rebellions Revisited(*).
February 1, 2000... IN my article `Protector Somerset and the 1549 Rebellions', I attempted to use new sources to shift the debate in mid-Tudor history towards popular politics, stressing `the period's unusually dynamic interplay between rulers and ruled'.(1) I am...

A Ghost Ship called Frankenef: King Richard I's German Itinerary(*).
February 1, 2000... ON 9 October 1192 King Richard I of England sailed on a big ship (buscia magna)(1) from Acre in the Holy Land to return to England.(2) The name of the ship is supposed to have been Frankenef and on it the King supposedly granted a charter for...

Civil Supply in the Civil War: Supply of Victuals to the New Model Army on the Naseby Campaign, 1-14 June 1645.(Review)
February 1, 2000... If money bee wanting to pay in the market which is appointed to follow the armie with provisions from our reare, the market will faile.(1) -- Letter to William Lenthall, 20 October, 1645. In the two weeks leading up to the battle of...

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. Vol. I: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramifications Vol. II: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. Vol. I: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramifications. Vol. II: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion. By JOHN McMANNERS (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xviii+817,...

British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828-30.(Review)
February 1, 2000... British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828-30. By PETER JUPP (London: Macmillan, 1998; pp. xiii+483. 60 [pounds sterling]). FOR too long the political career of the Duke of Wellington was regarded...

Into the Heart of the Fire. The British in the Spanish Civil War.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Into the Heart of the Fire. The British in the Spanish Civil War. By JAMES K. HOPKINS (Stanford, CA: Stanford U.P., 1998; pp. xviii+475. 35 [pounds sterling]). BECAUSE the Spanish Civil War is the most meaningful conflict in modern...

Germany and the Second World War, Vol. IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Germany and the Second World War. Vol. IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union. By HORST BOOG, JURGEN FORSTER, JOACHIM HOFFMANN, ERNST KLINK, ROLF-DIETER MULLER and GERD R. UEBERSCHAR (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xxxii+1364. 125 [pounds...

The Origins of the Rumanians.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Where and when the Romanian language and, by extension, the Romanian people, were formed has been a subject of controversy for over two centuries. The passions it has aroused have not been merely scholarly, for national identity and the...

The Armenians.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Even by the ambitious standards of the `Peoples of Europe' series, there can be few volumes with as extended an historical spread as A. E. Redgate's The Armenians (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998; pp. xix+ 331. 40 [pounds sterling]). Purporting to...

Pilgrimage Explored.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Pilgrimage ritual meets, a perennial human need. Jennifer Stopford has gathered, in Pilgrimage Explored (York: York Medieval P., 1999; pp. xvii+214. 40 [pounds sterling]), ten pieces on this theme, stretching from neolithic Orkney to...

The Calendar of St Willibrord From MS. Lat. 10837: A Facsimile with Transcription, Introduction and Notes.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Calendar of St Willibrord from MS. Lat. 10837: A Facsimile with Transcription, Introduction and Notes, ed. H. A. Wilson (London, 1918, reprinted by Boydell P., 1998; pp. xxiv+49. 45 [pounds sterling]) is a reprint of H. A. Wilson's...

Charlemagne.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Although Charlemagne is one of the most famous figures of medieval European history, we still do not have a satisfactory biography of him: an omission all the more to be regretted since he is one of the few early medieval rulers whom we can...

The Debate on the Norman Conquest.(Review)
February 1, 2000... No account of its subject exceeds The Debate on the Norman Conquest by Marjorie Chibnall (Manchester: U.P., 1999; pp. 168. 45; pb [pounds sterling]. 14.99 [pounds sterling]) for usefulness in proportion to length. Dr Chibnall provides a closely...

Templum Nobilissimum: Adam av Bremen, Uppsalatemplet och konfliktlinjerna i Europa kring ar 1075.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Adam of Bremen's apparently well-informed description of the gilded temple of Uppsala, its three idols, novennial hecatombs and victim-hung grove with holy tree, `the capital of barbaric superstition' flourishing in the teeth of missionaries...

Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The purpose of K. S. B. Keats-Rohan's Domesday People. A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166. I. Domesday Book (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. 563. 60 [pounds sterling]) is importantly laudable. Such a...

Jews and Other Minorities in Byzantium.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Andrew Sharf (1915-90) was born in Rostov-on-Don, brought up in the East End of London, where he received a sound classical education and an introduction to Trotskyite politics, served in the British army in India during the war, graduated from...

La Signoria Rurale nel Medioevo Italiano.(Review)
February 1, 2000... La Signoria Rurale nel Medioevo Italiano, ed. A. Spicciani and C. Violante (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 1998; pp. 252. N.p.) is the second of two collections of essays to emerge from a seminar on the nature of rural lordships in the Middle Ages, held...

The Invention of the Crusades.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Christopher Tyerman's new book, The Invention of the Crusades (London: Macmillan, 1998; pp. 170. Pb. 11.99 [pounds sterling]), might have been called `(Re-)Inventing the Crusades', since it deals with an ongoing process. The inventors are...

Family, Commerce, and Religion in Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, c. 1000-c. 1300.(Review)
February 1, 2000... During the central Middle Ages, Cologne and London featured prominently as centres of economic, political and indeed diplomatic activities. Despite several specialist case-studies, a comparative examination of the two has been notably absent....

The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by `Hugo Falcandus', 1154-69.(translation by Graham Loud and Thomas Wiedemann)(Review)
February 1, 2000... The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by `Hugo Falcandus', 1154-69, translated and annotated by Graham Loud and Thomas Wiedemann (Manchester: U.P., 1998; pp. x+286. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]), is the principal source for...

Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The six essays which make up Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire, ed. Helene Ahrweiler and Angeliki Laiou (Washington, DC: Harvard U.P., for Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998; pp. ix + 205. 18.50 [pounds...

Medieval Papal Representatives in Scotland: Legates, Nuncios, and Judges-Delegate, 1125-1286.(Review)
February 1, 2000... It is well known that most of the dioceses of the ecclesia Scoticana were by the end of the twelfth century together recognized by the papacy as a `special daughter' directly under Rome, free from the supervision of any archbishop (not least...

Die Verwaltung der Kastelle im Konigreich Sizilien unter Kaiser Friedrich II. und Karl I. von Anjou.(Review)
February 1, 2000... It is unusual for a book first published in 1914 to be sent for review; and even more unusual when such a book is truly worth a serious notice. Yet such is the case with Eduard Sthamer, Die Verwaltung der Kastelle im Konigreich Sizilien unter...

Dokumente zur Geschichte der Kastellbauten Kaiser Friedrichs II. und Karls I. von Anjou. Vol. I: Capitinata (Capitanata). Vol. II. Apulien und Basilicata.(Review)
February 1, 2000... It is unusual for a book first published in 1914 to be sent for review; and even more unusual when such a book is truly worth a serious notice. Yet such is the case with Eduard Sthamer, Die Verwaltung der Kastelle im Konigreich Sizilien unter...

Political Thought and the Realities of Power in the Middle Ages.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The first joint conference of the British Centre for Historical Research and the Max-Planck Institut in Gottingen, which was held in 1996, has resulted in the publication of twelve papers in English and German under the title Political Thought...

Medieval Finds from Excavations in London. Part 7: Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Both catalogue and survey, Brian Spencer's Medieval Finds from Excavations in London. Part 7: Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges (London: The Stationery Office, 1998; pp. x+349. 50 [pounds sterling]) is the culmination of the author's many...

William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella. The Contemporary History.(Review)
February 1, 2000... William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella. The Contemporary History, ed. Edmund King (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. cix+143. 40 [pounds sterling]) completely revises K. R. Potter's 1955 edition, which used a Latin text established by Sir Roger...

Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae, Vol. III: Diocese de Reims. Repertoire prosopographique des eveques, dignitaires et chanoines des dioceses de France de 1200 a 1500.(Review)
February 1, 2000... In Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae, Vol. III: Diocese de Reims. Repertoire prosopographique des eveques, dignitaires et chanoines des dioceses de France de 1200 a 1500 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998; pp. xiv+664. N.p.), Pierre Desportes has produced a...

Los Judios del reino de Navarra. Registros del sello, 1339-1387.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The stereotype of the Jew as `usurer' or moneylender dominated much medieval polemic and continues to be a preoccupation of historians today. In general terms, it has been supposed that the experience of Iberian, or `Sephardic', Jews in the...

The Elefanthy. The Hungarian Nobleman and his Kindred.(Review)
February 1, 2000... This slender volume, The Elefanthy. The Hungarian Nobleman and his Kindred, by Erik Fugedi (Oxford: CEUP., 1998; pp. ix + x74. 25 [pounds sterling]), the translated work of a remarkable Hungarian historian, contains new information about feudal...

A Guide to Medieval English Tithe Barns.(Review)
February 1, 2000... A Guide to Medieval English Tithe Barns, by James W. Griswold (Portsmouth, NH: Randall, 1999; pp. 96. Pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]), is unreliable, despite its attractive format. American scholarship in the past has notably contributed to the...

From Author to Audience. John Capgrave and Medieval Publication.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The large number of surviving manuscripts of the works of the fifteenth-century Augustinian friar, John Capgrave, copied by Capgrave himself or under his supervision, provide a rare, perhaps unique, insight into the working practices of a...

John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England.(Review)
February 1, 2000... John Shirley is well known to scholars of fifteenth-century English literature as a minor poet, translator, and scribe of manuscripts, and especially for having transcribed and preserved the minor poems of Chaucer and Lydgate. According to his...

Ale, Beer, and Brewster in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600, by Judith M. Bennett (New York/Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1996; pp. xv+260. 42.50 [pounds sterling]), is a study of women's changing involvement in the brewing trade....

Deutsche Prokuratoren an der romischen Kurie in der Fruhrenaissance.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Proctors acted at the Roman curia for clients across late medieval Europe. Andreas Sohn, in his Deutsche Prokuratoren an der romischen Kurie in der Fruhrenaissance (1434-1474)(Cologne: Bbhlau, 1997; pp. x+432. DM98), reckons that over five...

Greek Emigres in the West 1400-1520.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Byzantine scholars who escaped the flames of Constantinople in 1453, clutching Greek manuscripts to ignite the new learning of the West, have had a long and honourable innings -- indeed in 1787 Edward Gibbon devoted much of Chapter 66 of...

The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany.(Review)
February 1, 2000... In The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: MIT P., for Zone Books, 1998; pp. 608. 29.95 [pounds sterling]), Jeffrey E Hamburger argues that scholars should pay greater attention to the role...

The Jews in Rome. Vol II: 1551-1557.(Review)
February 1, 2000... In July 1555, Pope Paul IV issued the bull Cum nimis absurdum, which ordered the creation, for the first time, of a ghetto in which the Jews of Rome were to be confined. Kenneth Stow, in The Jews in Rome. Vol. II: 1552-1557 (Leiden/New York:...

The English Reformation and the Laity. Gloucestershire, 1540-1580.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The debate about the nature of the English Reformation continues to spawn local studies. Caroline Litzenberger has already published in this field, and her book, The English Reformation and the Laity. Gloucestershire, 1540-1580 (CamBridge:...

John Foxe: An Historical Perspective.(Review)
February 1, 2000... John Foxe: An Historical Perspective, ed. David Loades (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999; pp. 256. 52.50 [pounds sterling]), contains the papers delivered at the second John Foxe Colloquium. It is a mixed bag, not as consistent as the first. It...

Niederlandische Exulanten im England des 16. und fruhen 17. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
February 1, 2000... For some years, research on the protestant refugee communities has been booming and has resulted in a number of interesting studies. Raingard Esser's book on Niederlandische Exulanten im England des 16. und fruhen 17. Jahrhunderts (Berlin:...

Het fiscale vermogen in Brabant, Vlaanderen en in de heerlijkheid Mechelen: de Honderdste Penning van de hertog van Alva (1569-1572).(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Duke of Alva's notorious Tenth Penny tax met with determined opposition and was eventually a failure, but another part of the package of fiscal measures that he tried to introduce during his governorship of the Habsburg Netherlands was more...

The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640.(Review)
February 1, 2000... For The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640 (London: Macmillan, 1998; pp. ix+335. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]), Patrick Collinson and John Craig assembled fourteen essays and wrote an introduction. This proved to be...

Kunstpatronage in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Studien zu Kunstmarkt, Kunstlern und ihren Auftraggebern in Italien und im Heiligen Romischen Reich.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Bernd Roeck's Kunstpatronage in der Fruhen Neuzeit. Studien zu Kunstmarkt, Kunstlern und ihren Auftraggebern in Italien und im Heiligen Romischen Reich (15. bis 17. Jahrhundert) (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999; pp. 236. DM 48)...

Government by Polemic: James I, the King's Preachers, and the Rhetorics of Conformity, 1603-1625.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Covering well-trodden ground and rehearsing at length a series of ageing historiographical debates, Lori Anne Ferrell, in Government by Polemic: James I, the King's Preachers, and the Rhetorics of Conformity, 1603-1625 (Cambridge: U.P., 1998;...

The Empress, the Queen and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain.(Review)
February 1, 2000... While the reigns of Philip II and Philip IV of Spain have received considerable attention from historians, that of Philip III (1598-1621) has only recently become the subject of serious investigation. The archives are rich, and there is much to...

Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Theodore Rabb has been working on Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629 (Princeton: U.P., 1998; pp. xii+412. 37.50 [pounds sterling]) for some forty years. The result is not a biography. In the absence of private papers, Professor...

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Despite the importance of Ottoman warfare, to the history of Europe as much as to the history of the Ottoman Empire, relatively few historians have given the subject their attention. The appearance of Rhoads Murphey's Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700...

The Altars and Altarpieces of the New St Peter's: Outfitting the Basilica, 1621-1666.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Altars and Altarpieces of the New St Peter's. Outfitting the Basilica, 1621-1666, by Louise Rice (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xvi+478. 65 [pounds sterling]) is the first comprehensive study of how papal patronage worked in relation to the...

Lawyers, Litigation and English Society Since 1450.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Debt has always formed the staple business of the civil courts. It pervades Lawyers, Litigation and English Society since 1450 (London: Hambledon P., 1998; pp. x+274. 40 [pounds sterling]), Christopher W. Brooks's wide-ranging and partly new...

The Neat House Gardens: Early Market Gardening Around London.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Neat House Gardens. Early Market Gardening Around London, by Malcolm Thick (Totnes: Prospect Books, 1998; pp. 175. Pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]) sets its subject, perhaps the most productive 200 acres of land in England in the seventeenth...

The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The history of London after the Fire has attracted more than its fair share of topographical antiquarianism. Cynthia Wall's The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xviii+277. 37.50 [pounds sterling])...

England in the 1690s: Revolution, Religion and War.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The reign of William III has long been one of the most inaccessible periods of modern British history. This is largely due to its politics being unusually complex and difficult to explain. Even Macaulay, who dealt with the years after 1689 in...

Defoe and the New Sciences.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Ilse Vickers's Defoe and the New Sciences (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xvi+196. 35 [pounds sterling]) will interest students of Daniel Defoe and historians of literature and science. In the first of its two parts, Vickers anatomizes Francis...

British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800.(Review)
February 1, 2000... British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800, by Colin Kidd (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. 302. 35 [pounds sterling]), represents an important contribution to the rapidly expanding literature...

Eighteenth Century Scotland: New Perspectives.(Review)
February 1, 2000... That yet another volume of essays on this much researched period of Scottish History can be welcome is rather surprising. We seem in a relatively short time to have gone from territory thinly covered by the intrepid few to ground crowded with...

Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815, by Jeremy Black (London: UCL P., 1999; pp. xii+ 322. 27.50 [pounds sterling]), has an overt agenda. According to Black, Britain in 1815 was 1the strongest power in the world'. In view of the military...

Per una banca dati delle visite pastorali italiane: Le visite della diocesi di Trento, 1537-1940.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Per una banca dati delle visite pastorali italiane: Le visite della diocesi di Trento (1537-1940), ed. Cecilia Nubola (Bologna: il Mulino, 1998; pp. 517. L 70,000), comes from a group which in 1979 decided to dedicate to Hubert Jedin, the...

The Identity of the Scottish Nation.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The worst thing about William Ferguson's The Identity of the Scottish Nation (Edinburgh: U.P., 1998; pp. 341. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]) is the cover: a Victorian painting of `Wallace defending Scotland' by David Scott,...

An Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace.(Review)
February 1, 2000... In their attempt to assess and collect revenue from local markets in Bengal during the late eighteenth century, the East India Company amassed an enormous amount of material on the functioning of the province's commercial economy. Including...

Un nouveau patriotisme francais: La France face a la puissance anglaise a l'epoque de la guerre de Sept Ans.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Based upon an impressive array of contemporary and secondary sources, Edmond Dziembowski's Un nouveau patriotisme francais: La France face a la puissance anglaise a l'epoque de la guerre de Sept Ans (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998;, pp. 566....

Science and Exploration in the Pacific: European Voyages to the Southern Oceans in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Captain James Cook continues to fascinate both scholars and the wider public. As the latter queued to visit a replica of Endeavour when it sailed around the British coast in 1997, a group of the former gathered at Greenwich for a conference...

`A Revolution in Sentiments, Manners and Moral Opinions': Catharine Macaulay und die politische Kultur des englischen Radikalismus, 1760-1790.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The steadily developing interest of German historians in modern British and American history is shown once again in Vera Nunning's, `A Revolution in Sentiments, Manners and Moral Opinions' Catharine Macaulay und die politische Kultur des...

Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson.(Review)
February 1, 2000... It was not until 1986 that the Vinerian lectures of Blackstone's successor were published. Their editor, Thomas M. Curley, has followed this publication with a meticulously researched biography of their author, Sir Robert Chambers: Law,...

Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The nordic realms had become a tourist attraction by the end of the eighteenth century, but `not only for pleasure', as the motto over the proscenium arch in the Theatre Royal at Copenhagen announces. Most of the visitors whose accounts are...

Between Worlds. Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Between Worlds. Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1775-1815 (London: Viking, 1997: pp. 590. $NZ69.95), by Anne Salmond, is a sequel to her Two Worlds, which covered the period 1642-1772. The present volume starts with Cook's second...

The East in the West.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The history of knowledge and science has been a growth area in recent years and its influence is now being felt in the fields of imperial and colonial history. A central concern of much recent scholarship in this area has been to challenge the...

The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Zaheer Baber's The Science of Empire, Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India (New York: State U. of N.Y.P., 1996; p. 289. $23.95) is a more narrowly focused examination of the development of science in South Asia from...

Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Harry Liebersohn's Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xii+179. 35 [pounds sterling]) contributes to the growing interest in how the original inhabitants of the New World influenced...

Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Don Herzog's Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders (Princeton, NJ: U.P., 1998; pp. xvi+560. 19.95 [pounds sterling]) is at once a perplexing and rewarding book. In seeking to write a history of British conservatism between t789 and 1834 he...

The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848: Trade Unions, Strikes and Political Movements.(Review)
February 1, 2000... As Martin J. Mitchell observes in the introduction to The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848: Trade Unions, Strikes and Political Movements (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1998; pp. 286. 20 [pounds sterling]), certain views have dominated the...

Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement.(Review)
February 1, 2000... 1952 was a good year for the history of public health in Britain. Within a matter of months R. L. Lewis's Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement and S. E. Finer's Edwin Chadwick appeared, establishing the basis for modern scholarship in...

Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830-1860.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The justification for `another story about nationalism in Scotland', Graeme Morton writes in his Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830-1860 (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1999; pp. xi+227. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]), lies in the...

Aryans and British India.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The concept of the Aryan and the intellectual discipline which spawned it, Orientalism, have both become `taboo'. The first because of its notorious adoption by the Nazis; the second, once the respectable pursuit of knowledge about the...

The Emancipation of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Comparative history continues to be in vogue. The Emancipation of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, ed. Rainer Liedtke and Stephen Wendehorst (Manchester: U.P., 1999; pp. x+223. 45 [pounds sterling]), is temptingly sub-titled Minorities and the...

Britain's Century: A Political and Social History, 1815-1905.(Review)
February 1, 2000... W. D. Rubinstein's Britain's Century A Political and Social History 1815-1905 (London: Arnold, 1998; pp. xv+352. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]) is a student textbook written unashamedly on the assumption that `even budding...

The Long Dispute: Maori Land Rights and European Colonisation in Southern New Zealand.(Review)
February 1, 2000... When Harry C. Evison began research on the history of the Maori people of New Zealand's South Island in 1948, he was refused access to government records because official policy decreed that Maori `should be encouraged to look to the future,...

Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The history of women in Britain has enjoyed a mood-swing recently, with the focus turning away from working-class experience and back toward elites. One result has been descriptive narratives of the Aristocrats kind, destined for popular...