The English Historical Review articles from July 1993

The English Historical Review archives from July 1993

A county community in early fourteenth-century Ireland: the case of Louth.
July 1, 1993... THE study of late medieval Irish history in a broader 'British' context has led to a re-evaluation of the nature of English power in the lordship. The relative weakness of royal authority, as represented by the king's ministers in Dublin, in...

'Pro Expenis Ambassatorum': diplomacy and financial administration in the reign of Henry VII.
July 1, 1993... THE revival of the Chamber as the central department of royal finance is regarded as one of Henry VII's most important achievements. This 'chamber system' is often seen as the result of the failures and inefficiencies of the Exchequer, as the...

The Jacobite revolution settlement, 1689-1696.
July 1, 1993... HOGMANAY 1716 was set to be a cheerless affair for the Jacobite army gathered at Perth. The collapse of the English rising at Preston and the check the Scottish Jacobites had received at Sheriffmuir the previous November had dampened the...

Class and gender in the making of urban Toryism, 1880-1914.
July 1, 1993... FOR most of the Victorian era the major cities of England were bastions of political Liberalism, but between the mid-1870s and 1900 many increasingly fell under the sway of a revitalized Conservative party.(1) There have been two main...

The fall of Anne Boleyne revisited.
July 1, 1993... AT the Tower Green on 19 May 1536, Queen Anne, the second wife of Henry VIII, was heard to pray, as the hangman from Calais was ending her life with a stroke of the sword, 'To Jesus Christ I commend my soule; Lord Jesu receive my soule.'(1)...

Architecture and the After-Life.
July 1, 1993... OF ALL the forms that clothe human vanity the architecture of death is among the most beguiling. The vanity is staggering: Roger II of Sicily erected sarcophagi in Cefalu cathedral as a perpetual reminder of his death and 'the famous memory of...

A History of Palestine, 634-1099.
July 1, 1993... IT IS doubtful whether any other small tract of the earth has a more controversial history than Palestine, and Gil has essayed a detailed account of nearly five centuries of this. The period is a critical one, for at its outset in the 630s,...

The English Church and the Continent in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Cultural, Spiritual, and Artistic Exchanges.
July 1, 1993... AS ENGLAND has always been in social, economic and cultural contact with the mainland of Europe, a history of that intercourse is both desirable and feasible. The movements of travellers, the exchange of goods, whether in trade or as munuscula,...

The Image of Aristocracy in Britain, 1000-1300.
July 1, 1993... DR Crouch's title is too circumscribed and modest to describe quite accurately the book that he has written. He is concerned, not so much with how the aristocracies of England, Wales and Scotland appeared to themselves and their contemporaries,...

The Origins of the English Legal Profession.
July 1, 1993... THE emergence of the first lay profession beside that of arms is an historical theme on which many scholars have touched. Dr Brand brings to it a detailed knowledge of the records of the king's courts, especially the Court of Common Pleas,...

Henry V.
July 1, 1993... IN HIS Introduction Professor Allmand indicates the difficulties that face a biographer of Henry V. There is, first, the temptation to debunk his 'outsize' Shakespearean reputation, especially since this rests largely on military aggression...

The Estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640.
July 1, 1993... THE absence of a systematic study of the royal estates in the early modern period has long been bewailed by both agrarian and fiscal historians for whom the title of this volume may well arouse extravagant expectations. It is in fact not a...

General History of Africa, vol. 5, Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
July 1, 1993... THE General History of Africa produced under the auspices of UNESCO is at last nearing completion. This is the seventh volume to appear out of a total of eight. The final volume, dealing with the period since 1935, is announced as forthcoming....

Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700-1825.
July 1, 1993... ONE of John P. LeDonne's reasons for liking Boris Mironov's recent book on Russian towns (Russkii gorod v 1740--1860-e gody, Leningrad, 1990) was that 'it should... compel other scholars to take a hard look -- if the Marxist bogey could only...

Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution.
July 1, 1993... 'A REPUBLIC -- if you can keep it.' Thus the venerable philosopher-statesman, to the lady who asked, 'Dr Franklin, what have you given us?' Were the American people, then, equal to the task of preserving their own freedom? What had become of...

The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945.
July 1, 1993... NATIONAL Socialist Germany represents the most barbaric episode in an often barbaric century, but its singularity demands particular attention. Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann argue that the Third Reich was above all else a racial...

The West German Economy, 1945-1955.
July 1, 1993... RECENT explanations for the German economic miracle in the 1950s and 1960s have moved away from the traditional arguments about American aid and the opening up of a free market after years of command economics. Both these books concentrate on...

Caligula: The Corruption of Power.
July 1, 1993... Augustus was the key figure in the whole Julio-Claudian period, which was crucial in the history of the Roman Empire and hence of Western civilization, since during these years it was decided how far Roman power and influence should extend and...

Claudius.
July 1, 1993... Augustus was the key figure in the whole Julio-Claudian period, which was crucial in the history of the Roman Empire and hence of Western civilization, since during these years it was decided how far Roman power and influence should extend and...

Helvetia Sacra. Sezione I. Vol. VI, Arcidiocesi e diocesi: La diocesi di Como. L'arcidiocesi di Gorizia. L'amministrazione apostolica ticinese, poi diocesi di Lugano. L'arcidiocesi di Milano.
July 1, 1993... The documentation of the religious institutions of Switzerland -- her bishoprics, secular and collegiate churches, and monasteries -- proceeds apace with exemplary thoroughness and clarity. The latest in the series, Helvetia Sacra. Sezione I,...

Clerical Celibacy in East and West.
July 1, 1993... In his doctoral thesis presented to the Gregorian University at Rome, Clerical Celibacy in East and West (Leominster: Fowler Wright Books, 1988; pp. xiv + 226. Pb. n.p.), Roman Cholij challenges many widely held opinions. In his submission,...

Migration, and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England.
July 1, 1993... The obscure and complex history of the Germanic migrations to Britain in the fourth and fifth centuries features only distantly in Nicholas Howe's Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1990; pp. xiii +...

Die Synoden der Karolingerzeit im Frankenreich und in Italien.
July 1, 1993... The Carolingian age witnessed more intensive conciliar activity than any other period in the early medieval church. Records survive of 220 synods between the years 721 and 904 which either occurred in the Carolingian realms or dealt with...

Monastische Reformen im 9. und IO. Jahrhundert.
July 1, 1993... The papers read to the autumn 1986 meeting of the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis fur mittelalterliche Geschichte are, with one exception, published in Monastische Reformen im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert, ed. Raymund Kottje and Helmut Maurer (Sigmaringen:...

La Mutation de l'an mil. Lournand, village maconnais de l'Antiquite au feodalisme.
July 1, 1993... Guy Bois's La Mutation de l'an mil. Lournand, village maconnais de l'Antiquite' au feodalisme (Paris: Fayard, 1989; pp. 284. Pb. F120) is an essay in post-Marxist historical materialism. Its main argument, that the transition from the...

Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England.
July 1, 1993... For William of Malmesbury the whole island of Britain was so ablaze with the relics of its native saints that it was scarcely possible to pass through a village of any consequence without hearing the name of a new one, not counting the numbers...

Otto III und Boleslaw Chrobry: das Widmungsbild des Aachener Evangeliars, der 'Akt von Gnesen' und das fruhe polnische und ungarische Konigtum; eine Bildanalyse und ihre historischen Folgen.
July 1, 1993... In Otto III und Boleslaw Chrobry: das Widmungsbild des Aachener Evangeliars, der 'Akt von Gnesen' und das fruhe polnische und ungarische Konigtum; eine Bildanalyse und ihre historischen Folgen (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1989; pp. 147. DM60),...

Englische Verfassungsgeschichte: Mittelalter.
July 1, 1993... That English and German students should understand the earlier history of each others' countries is an ideal brought unilaterally a little closer by Kurt Kluxen in his Englische Verfassungsgeschichte: Mittelalter (Darmstadt: Wissenschaft-liche...

Studien uber die Anfange der Mission in Livland.
July 1, 1993... Studien uber die Anfange der Mission in Livland, ed. Manfred Hellmann (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1989; pp. 168. Pb. DM48) and La cristianizzazione della Lituania. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di storia ecclesiastica in occasione del VI...

La cristianizzazione della Lituania. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di storia ecclesiastica in occasione del VI centenario della Lituania cristiana, 1387-1987.
July 1, 1993... Studien uber die Anfange der Mission in Livland, ed. Manfred Hellmann (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1989; pp. 168. Pb. DM48) and La cristianizzazione della Lituania. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di storia ecclesiastica in occasione del VI...

Studien zum Formular der papstlichen Justizbriefe von Alexander III. bis Innocenz III., 1159-1216.: die non obstantibus-Formel.
July 1, 1993... The proliferation of monastic foundations in the twelfth century increased the significance of the papal court of justice and caused the rapid development of its delegated courts. Requests for mandates stretched the central organization to its...

Gil inizi del cristianesimo in Livonia-Lettonia. Atti del Colloquio internazionale di storia ecclesiastica in occasione dell' VIII centenario della Chiesa in Livonia, 1186-1986.
July 1, 1993... The year 1986 was the 800th anniversary of the arrival in Livonia of the likeable canon regular, Meinhard. The papal Comitato di Scienze Storiche, putting aside the predictable objections when a single date is associated with the beginnings of...

Medieval Frontier Societies.
July 1, 1993... The proceedings of a conference at Edinburgh in 1987, Medieval Frontier Societies, ed. Robert Bartlett and Angus Mackay (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1989; pp. xiv + 388. [pound]40) presents a series of essays arranged under the broad themes of...

The Deserted Medieval Village of Thrislington, County Durham. Excavations, 1973-74.
July 1, 1993... The subject of David Austin's The Deserted Medieval Village of Thrislington, County Durbam. Excavations, 1973--74 (Lincoln: Soc. for Medieval Archaeology, 1989; pp. xi _ 211. Pb. [pound]20) is unexceptional among villages excavated during the...

The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery.
July 1, 1993... The English Translations series of the Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature opens with The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery, trans. and ed. Muriel Heppell (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., for Ukrainian Research Inst., 1989;...

Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and Its Legacy.
July 1, 1993... Beasts and Bird of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and Its Legacy, ed. Willene B. Clark and Meradith T. McMunn (Philadelphia: U. Pennsylvania P., 1989; pp. 244. [pound]28.45), is a collection of eleven essays written to honour the memory of...

Magic in the Middle Ages.
July 1, 1993... If Richard Kieckhefer's new book Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. x + 219. [pound]20; pb. [pound]6.95) is indeed a teaching book and incorporates the fruits of detailed research by a large number of scholars, its approach is...

From Birth to Old Age: The Human Life Cycle in Medieval Thought, 1250-1350.
July 1, 1993... Michael E. Goodich's From Birth to Old Age. The Human Life Cycle in Medieval Thought, 1250--1350 (Lanham, Md./New York: U.P. of America, 1989; pp. x + 210. [pound]29.50) is both wider and narrower in scope than most monographs on medieval ideas...

Reconquista und Landesherrschaft. Studien zur Rechts-und Verfassungsgeschichte Spaniens im Mittelalter.
July 1, 1993... In recent decades the strong tradition of German scholarship in Spanish medieval history has been upheld in the writings of Odilo Engels, although he has by no means limited himself to this field of study. Reconquista und Landesherrschaft....

Studia Luxemburgensia. Festschrift Heinz Stoob zum 70. Geburtstag.
July 1, 1993... Studia Luxemburgensia. Festschrift Heinz Stoob zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Friedrich Bernward Fahlbusch and Peter Johanek (Warendorf: Verlag Fahlbusch-Holscher-Rieger, 1989; pp. xxxvi + 464. Pb. DM92.50) differs from most contributions to the genre...

Die Gemeinde als alternatives Ordnungsmodell. Zur sozialen und politischen Differenzierung des Germeindebegriffs in den innerstadtischen Auseinandersetzungen des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. Mainz, Magdeburg, Munchen, Lubeck.
July 1, 1993... Germany in the later Middle Ages presents the scholar with a rich variety of town types, from the self-governing city state with its own territory to the small provincial town under the thumb of a lay or ecclesiastical overlord. Gudrun Gleba...

God and Man in Medieval Spain: Essays in Honour of J.R.L. Highfield.
July 1, 1993... God and Man in Medieval Spain: Essays in Honour of J. R. L. Highfield, ed. Derek W. Lomax and David Mackenzie (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1989; pp. xxiv + 168.[pound]24; pb. [pound]12.50) is a collection of nine solid and closely-focused...

Kingship, Law and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V.
July 1, 1993... The meat of Edward Powell's Kingship, Law and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1989; pp. xi + 319. [pound]35) is an analysis of the proceedings of King's Bench in the Midland counties and especially...

John Colet.
July 1, 1993... John B. Gleason's John Colet (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1989; pp. xiii + 416. $47.50) gives us a new Colet. Frederic Seebohm's 'Oxford Reformer' is shown to be a myth that must now be laid to rest. Professor Gleason argues...

Investimenti e civilta urbana, secoli XIII-XVIII.
July 1, 1993... Investimenti e civilta urbana, secoli XIII-XVIII, ed. Annalisa Guarducci (Florence: Le Monnier, 1989; pp. 1017. Pb. L100,000) offers, very belatedly, thirty-five papers delivered in 1977 at the ninth annual conference of the F. Datini Institute...

The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg.
July 1, 1993... The idea that Protestantism 'improved' the status of women is one of the enduring myths about the Reformation. Like many myths, it rests on a romanticized view of the past and a selective reading of the sources. But Lyndal Roper does not take...

Balthasar Hubmaier: Theologian of Anabaptism.
July 1, 1993... Balthasar Hubmaier (?1485--1528) is generally regarded as the most articulate of the first-generation Anabaptist theologians, engaging with a number of major questions -- religious and political -- of his day. Although a German edition of his...

Mary Tudor: A Life.
July 1, 1993... Most biographies of Mary Tudor have wallowed in her frustrations and unhappiness: David Loades's brisk and unsentimental account in Mary Tudor. A Life (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989; pp. xiii + 410. [pound]19.95; pb. [pound]10.95) is therefore...

Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot ... Scottish-Danish Relations, c. 1450-1707, 2 vols.
July 1, 1993... Thomas Riis's Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot... Scottish--Danish Relations, c. 1450--1707 (2 vols., Odense: U.P., 1988; pp. 296, 393. Pb. DKK267.21) fills a notable geographical gap in the study of Scotland's relations with northern Europe...

Histoire de l'Empire ottoman.
July 1, 1993... Robert Mantran is both the editor and a contributor to Histoire de l'Empire ottoman (Paris: Fayard, 1989; pp. 810. Pb. F250) and in his Introduction gives a clear statement of the book's aims. It should replace Hammer's Geschichte des...

Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule.
July 1, 1993... L. J. Reeve's splendid first book, Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xi + 325. [pound]35), is particularly welcome for its skilful exploitation of the crucial interplay between domestic and foreign politics....

The Urban Patriciate: Lubeck and Venice, 1580-1700.
July 1, 1993... In The Urban Patriciate: Lubeck and Venice, 1580--1700 (Cologne/Vienna: Bohlau, 1986; pp. xvi + 267. Pb. n.p.), Alexander Francis Cowan charts changes in the composition of the dominant class in two contrasting environments. He compares a...

The Late King's Goods: Collections, Possessions and Patronage of Charles I in the Light of the Commonwealth Sale Inventories.
July 1, 1993... Like Imelda Marcos, Henrietta Maria was in exile when she received news of the sale of her precious pictures, furniture, jewellery and clothes; even the petticoats she had been obliged to abandon during her flight from Cornwall. The piecemeal...

The Writings of William Walwyn.
July 1, 1993... Barbara Taft and the late Jack R. McMichael have edited in The Writings of William Walwyn (Athens, Ga.: U. of Georgia P., 1989; pp. xvi + 584. $45) an invaluable collection of the works, and attributed works of a leading seventeenth-century...

Utopian Communism and Political Thought in Early Modern England.
July 1, 1993... Barbara Taft and the late Jack R. McMichael have edited in The Writings of William Walwyn (Athens, Ga.: U. of Georgia P., 1989; pp. xvi + 584. $45) an invaluable collection of the works, and attributed works of a leading seventeenth-century...

The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598-1701.
July 1, 1993... Though much has been written about the impact of the European maritime nations upon the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Audiencia of Hispaniola, Peter T. Bradley's The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598--1701 (London:...

La Presse de la Fronde (1648-1653): les mazarinades. Vol. I: La Conquete de l'opinion.
July 1, 1993... La Presse de la Fronde (1648--1653): les mazarinades. Vol. I: La Conquete de l'opinion (Geneva: Droz, 1989; pp. xi + 486. Pb. n.p.) is the first of two volumes in which Hubert Carrier will report on more than thirty years of meticulous research...

From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro.
July 1, 1993... In From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro (Oxford: U.P., for Littman Library, 1989; pp. xviii + 531. [pound]45), Yosef Kaplan argues that Orobio's life and work 'are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish...

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, 1671-1713, and Le Refuge Francais: Correspondence.
July 1, 1993... Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, 1671--1713, and Le Refuge Francais: Correspondence, ed. Rex A. Barrell (Lewiston, NY/Lampeter/Queenston, Ont.: Edwin Mellen P., 1989; pp. 276. $59.95); is a scholarly presentation of the...

Letters of George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1698-1732.
July 1, 1993... Daniel Szechi, whose reputation was established by a monograph (rev. ante, cii. 723) on that most evasive and tortuous of subjects, the influence of Jacobitism on mainstream Tory politics between 1710 and 1714, has turned his hand to a...

Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth Century.
July 1, 1993... The reputation of Hanoverian England suffered for many years at the hands of liberals, determined to show how benighted it was before Bentham and reform arrived upon the scene, and of Marxists, who insisted that the new acquisitive spirit of...

A History of the Prussian Junkers.
July 1, 1993... More than thirty years ago, before he turned to central Europe, F. L. Carsten opened the minds of English historians to a constitutional development in parts of Germany, wholly different both from their own and from the stereotypes about the...

Exoticism in the Enlightenment.
July 1, 1993... The essays in Exoticism in the Enlightenment, ed. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (Manchester: U.P., 1990; pp. x + 230. [pound]35), are a useful addition to the abundant and often difficult literature dealing with European reactions to that wider...

Culture and Revolution.
July 1, 1993... Culture and Revolution, ed. Paul Dukes and John Dunkley (London: Pinter Publ., 1990; pp. ix + 165. [pound]25), is a collection of twelve essays, most of them originally papers delivered at the Third Annual Cultural History Conference held at...

The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
July 1, 1993... David Lieberman's The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: U.P., 1989; pp. xiii+312. [pound]30) is a volume in a series which aims to show 'the development of ideas in their concrete...

Buffon: un philosophe an Jardin du Roi.
July 1, 1993... People who write about the Enlightenment tend to circumnavigate Buffon with cautious respect. This is understandable enough: the thirty-six volumes of his Histoire naturelle are daunting in themselves, and if one is to understand what Buffon...

Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History.
July 1, 1993... Systematic measurement of human height in samples of population over time is the essence of the latest cliometric technique, anthropometry. It is applied by John Komlos in his new study Nutrition and Economic Development in the...

Louis XV.
July 1, 1993... Michel Antoine is the world's leading authority on Louis XV, and on the governmental system over which he presided. Having given us, in 1970, a definitive analysis of the workings of the royal council during the reign, which included a...

Women in the Age of the American Revolution.
July 1, 1993... The United States Capitol Historical Society continues its valuable series of 'Perspectives on the American Revolution' with a volume of essays on Women in the Age of the American Revolution, ed. Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert...

Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789-1795.
July 1, 1993... Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789--1795, ed. Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady (London: Heinemann, 1989; pp. xxvii + 371. [pound]25), is the fourteenth and final volume in the Yale Edition of James Boswell's journals. The present volume...

Napoleone e Roma: la politica della consulta romana.
July 1, 1993... Adecree issued by Napoleon on 17 May 1807, from the imperial camp in Vienna, reunited the Papal States to the French Empire and proclaimed Rome an imperial and free city. The last article of the decree set up an Extraordinary Consulta with the...

Poverty, Migration, and Settlement in the Industrial Revolution: Sojourners' Narratives.
July 1, 1993... The English system of settlement, on which poor relief was based, has come under fresh scrutiny in recent years, and has been used as a new source for assessing social conditions. James Stephen Taylor's Poverty, Migration, and Settlement in the...

Thomas Arnold, Head Master: A Reassessment.
July 1, 1993... The greatest of the nineteenth-century headmasters were powerful characters, powerfully projected. Many pupils were impelled to hero-worship; others were driven resentfully into their shells -- as Samuel Butler was by the man he subsequently...

The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853-56.
July 1, 1993... The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853--56, by Andrew D. Lambert (Manchester: U.P., 1990; pp. xxi + 369. [pound]35), begins and ends on a challenging, indeed one might say a preposterous, note. Despite his title, evidently chosen by the...

Materiele Cultuur en Levensstijl. Een onderzoek naar de taal dingen op het Nederlandse platteland in de 19e eeuw: de Zaanstreek, Oost-Groningen, Ost-Brabant.
July 1, 1993... Probate inventories must be approached with caution. Items of little monetary value (but nevertheless of interest to the historian or ethnologist) may be omitted, while items of worth may already have been given away shortly before death. In...

Rebecca's Children: A Study of Rural Society, Crime and Protest.
July 1, 1993... The Rebecca Riots are etched into the folklore of Wales, and have already been the subject of a major academic study by David Williams [The Rebecca Riots, (1955)], a book which opened up the social history of nineteenth-century rural Wales....

Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France.
July 1, 1993... The creation of the provincial art museum is one of the grandest achievements of nineteenth-century culture: it is worth emphasizing 'provincial' in this context, for apart from the special case of Italy, such museums did not -- like those, for...

Die Herausforderung des europaischen Staatensystems: Nationale Ideologie und staatliches Interesse zwischen Restauration und Imperialismus.
July 1, 1993... The contributors to Die Herausforderung des europaischen Staatensystems: Nationale Ideologie und staatliches Interesse zwischen Restauration und Imperialismus, ed. Adolf M. Birke and Gunther Heydemann (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989;...

Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
July 1, 1993... The subject of Carl Woodring's Nature into Art. Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1989; pp. xvi + 326. [pound]23.95) is one that has exercised cultural historians of earlier...

The Underdraining of Farmland in England during the Nineteenth Century.
July 1, 1993... Twenty years ago A. D. M. Phillips penned a brief essay on underdrainage; since then he has written a series of articles about the subject usually in relation to particular estates across the country. Only now has he brought together his...

Histoire du reve. Regards sur l'imaginaire des Francais au XIX siecle.
July 1, 1993... Dreams are both universal and unique, a part of the human condition, but the visions they produce and the way they are interpreted belong to particular historical epochs. Yannick Ripa, in Histoire du reve. Regards sur l'imaginaire des Francais...

A Victorian Parson: The Life and Times of Thomas Prankerd Phelps, Rector of Ridley, Kent, 1840-1893.
July 1, 1993... It is good to be reminded of the little things of history, the generally quiet but by no means uneventful ways in which a great many people spend their lives. Such a reminder is amply provided by Gerald van Loo's A victorian Parson: The Life...

Promoters, Patriots and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-Century English Canada.
July 1, 1993... In Promoters, Patriots and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-Century English Canada (Toronto/Buffalo: U. of Toronto P., 1989; pp. x + 294. [pound]28; pb. [pound]11.95), M. Brook Taylor explores the work of historians who wrote prior to...

Americans and the Holy Land through British Eyes, 1820-1917: A Documentary History.
July 1, 1993... Americans and the Holy Land through British Eyes, 1820--1917. A Documentary History, by V. D. Lipman (Upton-upon-Severn: The Author/Self-Publishing Assoc., 1989; pp. 320. [pound]14.95), is a useful and interesting collection of documents...