The English Historical Review articles from June 2000

The English Historical Review archives from June 2000

The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381. Part I: Bedfordshire-Leicestershire.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Throughout the later Middle Ages, the English government attempted to resolve the fiscal inequities associated with a system of direct taxation reliant upon communal quotas. Carolyn C. Fenwick's meticulous edition, The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379...

Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British?(*).
June 1, 2000... ETHNIC and national identities have historical roots, both in the complex concatenation of events that brought them into being, and in the simplified historical myths by which they are sustained. The origins of peoples and nations have,...

Louis XIV, Vittorio Amedeo II and French Military Failure in Italy, 1689-96(*).
June 1, 2000... THE Nine Years War (1688-97) was the most intensive war fought by France before the eighteenth century, but it has also been one of the most overlooked and under-researched conflicts in French history. Received wisdom pronounces the war...

Germany and France before the First World War: A Reassessment of Wilhelmine Foreign Policy.
June 1, 2000... For forty years, France has pursued a grandiose policy. It has secured an immense empire for itself in the world. It is everywhere. During this time, an inactive Germany did not follow this example and today it needs its place in the sun......

Christian Conservatives and the Totalitarian Challenge, 1933-40(*).
June 1, 2000... AN address broadcast by the BBC on 14 July 1940 contained the following passage: And now it has come to us to stand alone in the breach, and face the worst that the tyrant's might and enmity can do. Bearing ourselves humbly before...

The New Cambridge Medieval History.Vol. V: c. 1198-1300.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. V: c. 1198-1300, ed. DAVID ABULAFIA (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xxiii + 1045. 75 [pounds sterling]). IN 1929, Volume VI of the original Cambridge Medieval History, entitled `The Victory of the...

Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars. By ARIHIRO FUKUDA (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xiii + 175. 35 [pounds sterling]). IN this slim but muscular study the relationship between...

George IV.(Review)
June 1, 2000... George IV. By E. A. SMITH (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1999; pp. xiv + 306. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE long-held verdict upon George IV has been that he was an indifferent regent and king, and also an idle and dissolute man, whose...

Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain. By TIMOTHY LARSEN (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1999; pp. 300. 40 [pounds sterling]). LARSEN'S book represents an original and stimulating addition to a...

Fur eine Wehrhafte Demokratie. Albert Grzesinski und die Preussische Politik in der Weimarer Republik.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Fur eine Wehrhafte Demokratie. Albert Grzesinski und die Preussische Politik in der Weimarer Republik. By THOMAS ALBRECHT (Bonn: Dietz, 1999; pp. 383. DM19.80). IT is rather astonishing that more has not been written about Albert...

Ankunft im Westen. Ein Essay zur Erfolgsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ankunft im Westen. Ein Essay zur Erfolgsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik. By AXEL SCHILDT (Frankfurt: S. Fischer, 1999; pp. 224. DM38). A PLETHORA of publications on German post-war history marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Federal...

Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research.(Review)
June 1, 2000... `Sociohistorical Research' in the subtitle of John R. Hall's Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xii + 316. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]) means...

Theatres of Memory, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Volume II of Samuel's Theatres of Memory, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain (London: Verso, 1999; pp. xxii + 391. Pb. 16 [pounds sterling]) is necessarily a very different book, composed as it is from completed, or near completed, existing...

Landmarks in Western Science. From Prehistory to the Atomic Age.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Of all the strands that make up the history discipline, none is more vulnerable to the snares of the idea of progress than the history of science. The accumulation, over the centuries, of knowledge of nature and the eventual success with...

Historical Atlas of South-West England.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Tipping the scales at just over nine pounds in its handsome slipcase, the Historical Atlas of South-West England, ed. Roger Kain and William Ravenhill (Exeter: U.P., 1999; pp. xxii + 564. 55 [pounds sterling]), is a heavyweight in every sense....

The British Library Studies in Map History. Vol II: English Maps: A History.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The British Library Studies in Map History. Vol II: English Maps: A History, by Catherine Delano-Smith and Roger J. P. Kain (London: The British Library, 1999; pp. xiv + 320. 25 [pounds sterling]), is a book which has been eagerly awaited by...

La douleur et le droit.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ever since the immediately post-lapsarian moment at the gates of Eden, pain and the law have become substantial, if not defining, parts of the human condition. The ambitious and wide-ranging essays edited by Bernard Durand, Jean Poirier, and...

Scrivere di santi: Atti del II Convegno di studio dell' Associazione italiana per lo studio della dantita, dei culti e dell' agiografia, Napoli, 22-25 Ottobre 1997.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Many of the contributions to Scrivere di santi: Atti del II Convegno di studio dell' Associazione italiana per lo studio della dantita, dei culti e dell' agiografia, Napoli, 22-25 Ottobre 1997, ed. Gennaro Luongo (Rome: Viella, 1998; pp. 536. L...

The Circle of War in the Middle Ages.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Circle of War in the Middle Ages, ed. Donald J. Kagan and L. J. Andrew Villalon (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. xvi + 185. 40 [pounds sterling]), offers a diverse compilation of twelve papers on medieval warfare. It suffers problems: the...

The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The preface to Della Hooke's The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England (London: Cassell, for Leicester U.P., 1998; pp. 240. 49.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.99 [pounds sterling]) makes clear that hers is a very personal view. Archaeology is expensive...

Comunidades locales y transformaciones sociales en la Alta Edad Media. Hampshire (Wessex) y el sur de Castilla, un estudio comparativo.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ignacio Alvarez Borge's Comunidades locales y transformaciones sociales en la Alta Edad Media. Hampshire (Wessex) y el sur de Castilla, un estudio comparativo (Logrono: U. de la Rioja, 1999; pp. 198. Pb. n.p.) is the welcome fruit of a...

Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, c. 500-1066.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Few books can be so deceiving and so readily open to criticism as Ann Williams's Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, c. 500-1066 (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. xxvii + 243. Pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]). First, the company it keeps...

Images of the Medieval Peasant.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Valuable and stimulating, Images of the Medieval Peasant (Stanford: U.P., 1999; pp. xxii + 459. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]), by Paul Freedman, considers culture at the symbolic, imaginary or discursive level, focusing...

The Shock of Medievalism.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In The Shock of Medievalism (Durham: Duke U.P., 1998; pp. x + 315. N.p.), Kathleen Biddick does not mean by medievalism what most of us do. She despises and rejects Stubbs and Maitland, whose works she has apparently not read with any...

The Legends of the Saints.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Those familiar with the tales that provided the focus of Hippolyte Delehaye's book Les Legendes hagiographiques, first published in French in 1905, might agree with Bernard Shaw that saints enjoy far more dangerous lives than kings and...

Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution. The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In his final testament, Pope Gregory VII named first among the three bishops whom he deemed most fitted to succeed him Bishop Anselm II of Lucca (elected 1073; died 1086), and it would seem that he was, indeed, Gregory's preferred candidate....

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1066-1300.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Between the 1930s and 1950s Sir Charles Clay, in a series of articles in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, followed by two volumes of York Minster Fasti published in the Yorkshire Archaeological Soc. Record Series, vols. 123-4, provided...

The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were an important era in Scots literature. The Anglo-Scottish conflicts were fought with the quill as well as the sword; Scottish origin legends and the king-lists were collected and copied for use as...

Growing Old in the Middle Ages.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Two books reviewed here on the themes of old age and death in the Middle Ages are intended for both academic and general readers. They are based on wide consultation of historical literature rather than intense research into primary sources....

Death and Burial in Medieval England.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Two books reviewed here on the themes of old age and death in the Middle Ages are intended for both academic and general readers. They are based on wide consultation of historical literature rather than intense research into primary sources....

English Medieval Books. The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The investigation of the book-holdings of Reading Abbey in English Medieval Books. The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal, by Alan Coates (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. xxi + 211. 40 [pounds sterling]) throws some fresh...

Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland. The English in Louth, 1170-1330.(Review)
June 1, 2000... As has become customary in these days of the `hard sell', the subtitle of Brendan Smith's Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland. The English in Louth, 1170-1330 (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. xvi + 189. 35 [pounds sterling]) reveals a...

Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Law, 1150-1900.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The English common law system, with its celebrated stress upon case law and precedent, encouraged the view that a lawyer-made law was the business of lawyer-trained lawyers. Legal education was correspondingly seen as a professional...

A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The celebration of business enterprise is a less fashionable mode of academic history than it was thirty years ago. Submitting the business history of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to that tradition involves much of the old...

Die Chronik des Saba Malaspina.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A hundred years after the project was first assigned to Otto Cartellieri, his successors, Walter Koller and August Nitschke, have brought out their critical edition of the ten books of Die Chronik des Saba Malaspina (Hanover, Monumenta...

The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought, by M. S. Kempshall (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. x + 401. 45 [pounds sterling]) is a multi-disciplinary, multi-generic exploration of its titular key idea as articulated by eight leading...

Under the Hammer. Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1306.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Anyone writing about Edward I and the Scots faces the problem of a feast of English sources, and a famine of Scottish ones. In Under the Hammer. Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1306 (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 1998; pp. xiii + 255. 14.99 [pounds...

The Rise and Decline of the State.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Histories of government and the state have been in vogue, it might almost be said fashionable, of recent years. Martin van Creveld's The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. 439. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds...

The Court Rolls of Walsham Le Willows, 1303-50.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Court Rolls of Walsham Le Willows, 1303-50, ed. R. Lock (Woodbridge: Boydell P. for Suffolk Record Soc., 1998; pp. 373. 30 [pounds sterling]), sheds a great deal of light on life in a populous corner of East Anglia in a critical period...

The Transformation of Europe, 1300-1600.(Review)
June 1, 2000... David Nicholas's The Transformation of Europe, 1300-1600 (London/New York: Arnold, 1999; pp. 486. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]) is the first volume of a new `Arnold History of Europe'. His expertise in the Netherlands and...

St Birgitta of Sweden.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Bridget Morris's St Birgitta of Sweden (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. xiv + 202. 35 [pounds sterling]) inaugurates a promising new series of monographs, Studies in Medieval Mysticism, under the general editorship of Anne Clark Bartlett and...

Les Appels flamands au Parlement de Paris. Regestes des dossiers de proces reconstitues d'apres les registres du Parlement et les sources conservees dans les depots d'archives de Belgique et du Nord de la France.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Anyone who has tried to follow cases through the medieval Parlement de Paris will gratefully recognize the Herculean achievement of Serge Dauchy in Les Appels flamands au Parlement de Paris. Regestes des dossiers de proces reconstitues d'apres...

Incunabula: Studies in Fifteenth-Century Printed Books (presented to Lotte Hellinga).(Review)
June 1, 2000... The occasion for the festschrift, Incunabula: Studies in Fifteenth-Century Printed Books (presented to Lotte Hellinga), ed. Martin Davies (London: The British Library, 1999; pp. xviii + 650. 50 [pounds sterling]), is Dr Lotte Helllinga's...

Kulturelle Reformation: Sinnformationen im Umbruch, 1400-1600.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Attempts to explain the impact of reforming doctrines in sixteenth-century Germany have in recent years moved away from the welter of movements and events in the 1520s to unearth instead the underlying transformations in cultural and mental...

Raguse et l'Empire Ottoman (1430-1520).(Review)
June 1, 2000... The most basic problem facing any historian of the Ottoman Empire is the linguistic diversity of the source materials. This is especially true of the period down to the end of the first quarter of the sixteenth century, when the Ottoman...

Regional Identity and Economic Change. The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600.(Review)
June 1, 2000... It is hard to imagine a border region in late medieval Western Europe of greater complexity than the territories and towns along the Upper Rhine, between Strasbourg and Basel, and into the Black Forest, presented in Tom Scott's meticulously...

La chasse sous l'Ancien Regime.(Review)
June 1, 2000... With the revival of interest in court history, a study of the hunt, an activity to which French monarchs devoted a considerable amount of their time, is to be welcomed. In La chasse sous l'Ancien Regime (Paris: Fayard, 1996; pp. 462. F140),...

Lotte politiche e riforme istituzionali a Firenze tra il 1494 e il 1502.(Review)
June 1, 2000... `Although Florentine history has always fascinated scholars, the period between 1494 and 1512, less well-known than is generally supposed, poses disturbing questions that have not, hitherto, received full answers.' Thus Giorgio Cadoni prefaces...

The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor, by Bruce R. Smith (Chicago: U.P., 1999; pp. xiv + 386. Pb. 16.75 [pounds sterling]), is not only an account of sound perception in an age mute to history, but a wide-ranging...

Contracting a Cure. Patients, Healers and the Law in Early Modern Bologna.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The very considerable research behind Gianna Pomata's Contracting a Cure. Patients, Healers and the Law in Early Modern Bologna (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1998; pp. x + 294. 35 [pounds sterling]) was initially aimed at popular...

Spiritualia and Pastoralia, vol. 4.(Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 69)(Review)
June 1, 2000... Volume LXIX of the Collected Works of Erasmus (Toronto: U.P., 1999; pp. xxxi + 464. 93 [pounds sterling]) comprises the fourth volume of the Spiritualia and Pastoralia, ed. John W. O'Malley and Louis A. Perraud, of which the first and fifth (66...

Les Inquisitions modernes dans les pays-bas meridionaux (1520-1633). Tome II: Les victimes.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The second volume of Aline Goosens's Les Inquisitions modernes dans les pays-bas meridionaux (1520-1633). Tome II: Les victimes (Brussels: Editions de l'Universite de Bruxelles, 1998; pp. 251. F203) builds on its predecessor, a careful study of...

From Cranmer to Davidson: A Miscellany.(Review)
June 1, 2000... From Cranmer to Davidson: A Miscellany, ed. Stephen Taylor (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Church of England Record Soc., 1999; pp. x + 478. 50 [pounds sterling]), is a well-produced miscellany, so miscellaneous indeed as to defy brief notice....

Calvin and Bernard of Clairvaux.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Studies in Reformed History and Theology is a series recently relaunched by Princeton Theological Seminary as a varied forum for concise monographs, some historical, others more purely doctrinal -- remarkably, all supplied gratis to those `who...

The Doctrine of the Sacraments in the Heidelberg Catechism: Melanchthonian, Calvinist, or Zwinglian?(Review)
June 1, 2000... Studies in Reformed History and Theology is a series recently relaunched by Princeton Theological Seminary as a varied forum for concise monographs, some historical, others more purely doctrinal -- remarkably, all supplied gratis to those `who...

The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The history of early modern Catholicism has received sustained scrutiny in the last two decades. In The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xi + 240. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]), R. Po-Chia...

Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series of the Reign of Mary I, 1553-1558.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The first volume of the original series of the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic appeared nearly one hundred years ago, edited by Robert Lemon. It was unsatisfactory in many ways, particularly in the very severe compression of the documents....

John Knox and the British Reformations.(Review)
June 1, 2000... This lively collection of essays, John Knox and the British Reformations, ed. Roger A. Mason (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. xvi + 297. 49.50 [pounds sterling]), is the product of a conference held in July 1997 in honour of the 450th anniversary...

The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620, by Charles Parker (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xv + 221. 35 [pounds sterling]), will be of considerable interest to early modern social/reformation...

Urban Patronage in Early Modern England: Corporate Boroughs, the Landed Elite, and the Crown, 1580-1640.(Review)
June 1, 2000... One vital cog in the machinery of provincial politics in early modern England is effectively illuminated by Catherine F. Patterson in Urban Patronage in Early Modern England: Corporate Boroughs, the Landed Elite, and the Crown, 1580-1640...

Culture and Power in England, 1585-1685.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Conventionally, a gulf has separated the study of politics from that of culture in early modern England, and historians have only lately begun to adopt more integrated and interdisciplinary approaches. In Culture and Power in England, 1585-1685...

Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe, ed. Robert Oresko, G. C. Gibbs and H. M. Scott (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xxi + 671. 65 [pounds sterling]), H. G. Koenigsberger begins his introductory essay on `Republicanism,...

Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In his account of Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690 (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U.P., 1998; pp. xiv + 462. 30.95 [pounds sterling]), Daniel C. Beaver draws on social and cultural anthropology...

The World of the Country House in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The English gentry have left behind them a lavish trail of documentation relating to both their public and private lives. J. T. Cliffe has already used their seventeenth-century archives to study Yorkshire families and, in an important trilogy,...

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In 1997, new perspectives in the history of race relations were opened by a joint meeting at University College, London, of the Neale Colloquium on British history and the Commonwealth Fund Colloquium on American history. The results are now...

`Asylum For Mankind': America, 1607-1800.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Marilyn C. Baseler's `Asylum For Mankind" America, 1607-1800 (Ithaca/ London: Cornell U.P., 1998; pp. xi + 353. 31.50 [pounds sterling]) takes its title, and a measure of inspiration, from advice offered by an immigrant (Thomas Paine) to the...

The Discovery of River Gambra by Richard Jobson, 1623.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The narrative of an English expedition 460 miles up the Gambia River in West Africa in 1620-21, The Discovery of River Gambra by Richard Jobson, 1623, ed. David P. Gamble and P. E. Hair (London: The British Library for The Hakluyt Soc., 1999;...

The World of the Favourite.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The emergence of the modern state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has been the focus of much research and speculation in recent years. It is not surprising, therefore, that the traditional figure of the royal favourite, and his...

The Civil Wars. A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638-60.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Although the late John Kenyon made his name as a historian of the post-Restoration period, he had, after persuasion by a well-known publisher, successfully turned his hand to Civil War studies. The last product of this interest is the volume...

An Unhappy Civil War.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Much learned ink has been spilt on the Civil War, or Great Rebellion, with a concentration on political affairs and military campaigns, matters of consuming interest for generations of historians, teachers, and students of various ages....

Merchants and Gentry in North-East England, 1650-1830: The Carrs and the Ellisons.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A. W. Purdue's Merchants and Gentry in North-East England, 1650-1830: The Carrs and the Ellisons (Sunderland: Sunderland U.P., 1999; pp. xxi + 273. N.p.) chronicles the histories of two important Tyneside families. Their beginnings were...

Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, 1660-1720.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Susan E. Whyman's Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, 1660-1720 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. xiv + 287. 45 [pounds sterling]) is based upon a massive archive. The correspondence on Whyman's...

Parliament and Locality, 1660-1939.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Essays in Parliament and Locality, 1660-1939, ed. David Dean and Clyve Jones (Edinburgh: U.P., for Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust, 1998; pp. 145. Pb. n.p.), explore `the positive interaction of parliament and locality, a key ingredient to...

The Great Plague.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Stephen Porter's The Great Plague (Stroud: Sutton, 1999; pp. 213. 20 [pounds sterling]) makes an excellent companion volume to his The Great Fire of London (Stroud, 1996). It has the same virtues: clarity of exposition, sensitivity to...

Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays presented to Lois Green Schwoerer.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays presented to Lois Green Schwoerer, ed. Howard Nenner (Rochester, NY: U. of Rochester P., 1997; pp. ix + 230. 39.50 [pounds sterling]), will be of great interest to any...

Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State, ed. Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey (Manchester/New York: Manchester U.P., 1999; pp. 171. 12.99 [pounds sterling]), adds many valuable insights to the picture of childhood in the...

Selbstorganisation und Chaostheorie in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Das Beispiel des Gewerbe- und Rustungsdorfes Bomlitz, 1680-1930.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Olaf Mussmann, in Selbstorganisation und Chaostheorie in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Das Beispiel des Gewerbe- und Rustungsdorfes Bomlitz, 1680-1930 (Leipzig: Universitatsverlag, 1998; pp. 334. DM62), applies ideas derived from chaos theory and...

The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000.(Review)
June 1, 2000... If you need a blockbuster to mark devolution, T. M. Devine's The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (London: Penguin P., 1999; pp. xxiii + 696. 25 [pounds sterling]) is it. It is judicious, comprehensive and scholarly, but marred by seriously...

Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860.(Review)
June 1, 2000... In Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (Cambridge: U.P., 1999; pp. 334. 30 [pounds sterling]), Judith Miller presents an old subject in a new way. By standing back far enough to focus on the 150...

A Taste for Diversions: Sport in Georgian England.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Dennis Brailsford's A Taste for Diversions: Sport in Georgian England (Cambridge: Lutterworth P., 1999; pp. 255. Pb. 15 [pounds sterling]) will be warmly welcomed for the invaluable contribution it makes to our understanding of the sporting...

Wissenschaft als kulturelle Praxis, 1750-1900.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Wissenschaft als kulturelle Praxis, 1750-1900, ed. Hans Erich Bodecker, Peter Hanns Reill and Jurgen Schlumbohm (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999; pp. 426. DM 89), documents the shift away from traditional learning and scholarship to the...

Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Karen O'Brien's Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xii + 249. 37.50 [pounds sterling]) is an unusual book in that it started life as a doctoral thesis but yet it is a tour...

British Politics in an Age of Reform.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Students and teachers of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British history will surely welcome Michael J. Turner's British Politics in an Age of Reform (Manchester: U.P., 1999; pp. x + 230. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.99 [pounds...

The Rule of the Rich? Adam Smith's Argument Against Political Power.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Adam Smith continues to inspire very different approaches in economists, political scientists, historians of ideas, and Scots. In The Rule of the Rich? Adam Smith's Argument Against Political Power (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U.P.,...