The English Historical Review articles from June 2001

The English Historical Review archives from June 2001

Liudprand of Cremona's Account of his Legation to Constantinople (968) and Ottonian Imperial Strategy(*).
June 1, 2001... IF the argument of this paper were to be stated in a sentence, it would be that Liudprand of Cremona wrote his Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana in 968/969 primarily for the Lombard Dukes of Capua and Benevento in South Italy, to impress...

The Heraldic Charge Against the Earl of Surrey, 1546-47.
June 1, 2001... HENRY VIII died in the early hours of 28 January 1547, leaving the throne to his nine-year-old son Edward. Had Henry departed a few months earlier, it appears that England would have been governed during Edward's minority by a coalition...

The Rise and Fall of Emanuel Mendes da Costa: A Severe Case of `the Philosophical Dropsy'?(*).
June 1, 2001... WHO was Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-91)? If the name evokes any response from the reader it will probably be in connection with his infamous activities while serving as clerk to the Royal Society. Appointed to that position in February 1763...

The `Singapore Strategy' and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the Dispatch of Force Z(*).
June 1, 2001... ON the evening of 8 December 1941, two British capital ships -- the newly completed battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the First World War-era battlecruiser HMS Repulse -- set out from the naval base at Singapore to disrupt Japanese landings in...

The English Revenue of Richard I.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... HISTORIANS tracing the demise of the `Angevin empire' have traditionally focused on the reign of King John for explanations, placing the twin disasters of the loss of Normandy in 1204 and the restrictions on Angevin kingship in England in 1215...

`Warkworth's Chronicle' Reconsidered(*).
June 1, 2001... THE historical narrative known as Warkworth's Chronicle, first printed by the Camden Society in 1839(1) from Peterhouse MS. 190, ff. 214v-225 (deposited in Cambridge U. L.), and hereafter described as P, has recently been republished in a new...

Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas. Ed. PETER BURKE, BRIAN HARRISON and PAUL SLACK (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 399. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE most overworked footnote in scholarly journals is: `I will hope to...

Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. By LESLIE BRUBAKER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. xxiii+489. 60 [pounds sterling]). AFTER many years this important study of a...

The Northern Danelaw: Its Social Structure, c. 800-1100.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Northern Danelaw: Its Social Structure, c. 800-1100. By D. M. HADLEY (London: Leicester U.P., 2000; pp. x+374. 55 [pounds sterling]). THE pecularities of the northern Danelaw have been subjected to intensive historical scrutiny for more...

The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest. By GRAHAM LOUD (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000; pp. 329. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). AT long last there is an English-language textbook on the...

The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. VI: c. 1300-c. 1415.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. VI: c. 1300-c. 1415. Ed. MICHAEL JONES (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxx+1110. 75 [pounds sterling]). THE appearance of this volume in the New Cambridge Medieval History marks an important...

The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725. By ADRIAN DAVIES (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. xvi+261. 40 [pounds sterling]). DR DAVIES's new book falls within a succession of other distinguished works in Quaker social history, including...

The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714. By CHARLES IVAR MCGRATH (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 314. 35 [pounds sterling]). THE period 1692-1714 has long been recognized...

Alexander Sigismund von Pfalz-Neuburg, Furstbischof von Augsburg 1690-1737.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Alexander Sigismund von Pfalz-Neuburg, Furstbischof von Augsburg 1690-1737. By JOSEF JOHANNES SCHMID (Weissenhorn: Anton H. Konrad Verlag, 1999; pp. 522. DM 88). THERE can be few dissertations which have made the transition into print in...

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. By ELIGA H. GOULD (Chapel Hill/London: U. of N. Carolina P., 2000; pp. 262. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). E. H. GOULD'S...

The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker: Politics and History in the Age of Reform.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker: Politics and History in the Age of Reform. By WILLIAM THOMAS (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 339. 45 [pounds sterling]). WHY exhume now the quarrel between Macaulay and Croker? Even to call it a quarrel...

Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology. By DANIEL GASMAN (New York: Peter Lang, 1998; pp. 408. 42 [pounds sterling]). GASMAN brings bad tidings to scholars who have spent decades painstakingly attempting to unlock the mysteries...

The Balkans, 1804-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Balkans, 1804-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers. By MISHA GLENNY (London: Granta Books, 1999; pp. xxvi + 726. 25 [pounds sterling]). UNWARY readers might be inclined to welcome a one-volume Balkan history, written in a lively...

The Population of Europe: A History.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Population of Europe: A History, by Massimo Livi-Bacci (tr. De N. and C. Ipsen) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 220. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Good synthetic treatments of European historical demography are...

Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History, by Mark D. Herber (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. 701. Pb. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History, by...

The Apothecaries' Garden: A History of Chelsea Physic Garden.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Apothecaries' Garden: A History of Chelsea Physic Garden, by Sue Minter (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. 210. 25 [pounds sterling]). The Apothecaries' Garden: A History of the Chelsea Physic Garden, by Sue Minter, is the first comprehensive...

Imperium/Empire/Reich.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Imperium/Empire/Reich, ed. Franz Bosbach and Hermann Hiery (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1999; pp. 211+plates. N.p.). Queen Victoria was only ever Empress of India but she revelled in the imperial title, signing herself Victoria RI (Regina...

Jahrhundertwenden: Endzeit- und Zukunftsvorstellungen vom 15. bis zum 20 Jahrhundert.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Jahrhundertwenden: Endzeit- und Zukunftsvorstellungen vom 15. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen et al. (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999; pp. 402. DM78). Both current millennium awareness and traditional...

The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire, by Philip D. Curtin (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 294. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). Based on `eclectic empiricism', Professor Philip D....

War and Competition between States.(Review)
June 1, 2001... War and Competition between States, ed. Philip Contamine (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 347. 45 [pounds sterling]). This latest volume in the series `The Origins of the Modern State in Europe: 13th to 18th Centuries', published under the...

The Victoria History of the Counties of England.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Somerset, Vol. VII: South-East Somerset, ed. Robert Dunning (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for Institute of Historical Research, 2000; pp. xxii+ 276. 70 [pounds sterling]). The Victoria History of...

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages, by Yitzhak Hen and Matthew Innes (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 284. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). Among the most substantial of the eleven excellent contributions...

Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain, ed. William O. Frazer and Andrew Tyrrell (London: Leicester U.P., 2000; pp. 283. 45 [pounds sterling]). This collection of essays is a welcome attempt to bring insights from the social sciences to...

Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages, ed. J. A. Burrows and Ian P. Wei (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. 188. 45 [pounds sterling]). Medieval Futures is not about the pre-modern stock-market, but it does illuminate...

The Medieval Calendar Year.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Medieval Calendar Year, by Bridget Ann Henisch (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 1999; pp. 232. 33.80 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.30 [pounds sterling]). Bridget Ann Henisch's The Medieval Calendar Year is a fluently written and...

Routledge History of Philosophy.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Routledge History of Philosophy. Vol. III: Medieval Philosophy, ed. John Marenbon (London: Routledge, 1998; pp. xxxiii+ 510. 55 [pounds sterling]). In publishing a ten-volume history of philosophy, Routledge has expressed the desire to...

Veiled Women.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Veiled Women. Vol. I: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England. Vol. II: Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066, by Sarah Foot (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 228 and 274. 75 [pounds sterling]). These two volumes by...

Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203, by J. A. Everard (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 242. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). This book tackles a period usually skated over by Breton historians and an area largely...

Chronica Francisci Pratensis.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Chronica Francisci Pratensis, ed. Jana Zachova (Prague: Nadace Patriae, 1997; pp. 233. N.p.). Among the consequences of the changes wrought in the political landscape of east-central Europe at the end of the twentieth century has been a...

Die Rektorbucher der Universitat Heidelberg. Band I: 1386-1410.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Die Rektorbucher der Universitat Heidelberg. Band I: 1386-1410. Heft III, ed. Jurgen Miethke (Heidelberg: Heidelberg U.P., 1999; pp. 523-828. SFr 51). The latest addition to the Libri Actorum Universitatis Heidelbergensis in the ongoing...

Protocollum Contubernii: Visitation und Rechnungsprufung von 1568-1615.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Protocollum Contubernii: Visitation und Rechnungsprufung von 1568-1615, ed. Gerhard Merkel (Heidelberg: Heidelberg U.P., 2000; pp. 375. SFr 60). The latest addition to the Libri Actorum Universitatis Heidelbergensis in the ongoing editing...

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford.(Review)
June 1, 2001... A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford, ed. Andrew G. Watson (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. xxvii+150. 60 [pounds sterling]). Andrew G. Watson's A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of...

Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue, by Laura F. Hodges (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000; pp. 285. 50 [pounds sterling]). Given the depressing quality of so much current work on Chaucer, Hodges's analysis of...

The Register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486-1500.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486-1500. Vol. III: Norwich `sede vacante' 1499, ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Canterbury & York Soc., 2000; pp. 324. 30 [pounds sterling]). This is the...

Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu, by Leslie C. Orr (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 205. 45 [pounds sterling]). Women's history in medieval India is a field still in its infancy, and Leslie C. Orr's...

Das Milieu der Nacht. Obrigkeit und Randgruppen im spatmittelalterlichen London.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Das Milieu der Nacht. Obrigkeit und Randgruppen im spatmittelalterlichen London, by Frank Rexroth (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999; pp. 450. DM 89). This contribution, from the Max-Planck-Instituts fur Geschichte (No. 153), is one...

Citta, Chiesa e culti civici in Bologna medievale.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Citta, Chiesa e culti civici in Bologna medievale, by Antonio Ivan Pini (Bologna: CLUEB, 1999; pp. 343. L 45,000). The extent to which the cults of Italian civic patron-saints could be affected by political needs, invention, the misreading...

The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk, 1440-1580.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk, 1440-1580, by Jane Whittle (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 361. 45 [pounds sterling]). The extent to which economic and social change in the sixteenth century was...

The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, by Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 324. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). It is refreshing to...

Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c.1100-c.1700: Essays in Honour of Claire Cross.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c. 1100-c.1700: Essays in Honour of Claire Cross, ed. Diana Wood (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for the Eccles. Hist. Soc., 1999; pp. 595. 40 [pounds sterling]). This long, scholarly and deeply...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West, by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton (London: Reaktion Books, 2000; pp. 224. 25 [pounds sterling]). There has been some increase of interest in recent years in artistic contacts between...

Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 314. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). `Civic humanism' is a label invented by Hans Baron in 1925 to describe what he believed to...

The Reformation World.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Reformation World, ed. Andrew Pettegree (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. 576. 120 [pounds sterling]). It is good to know that publishers believe in the Reformation, and think it sells books. In recent years we have had Reformation...

Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650, by James D. Tracy (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; pp. 386. $29.95; pb. $19.95). It is good to know that publishers believe in the Reformation, and think it sells books. In recent years we have had...

John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature.(Review)
June 1, 2001... John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature, by Deborah E. Harkness (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 252. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). Located on the margins between magic, religion and experimental...

The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Tudor England.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Tudor England, by Retha M. Warnicke (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 343. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). No one writes history like Retha M. Warnicke. The plump endnotes attached to almost...

The Reign of James VI.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Reign of James VI, ed. Julian Goodare and Michael Lynch (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000; pp. 280. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Many books are described as welcome: The Reign of James VI, ed. Julian Goodare and Michael Lynch, is...

Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain, by Keith Wrightson (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 372. 25 [pounds sterling]). It is rare to find a survey of economic and social history that one might recommend people...

Von der reichen hansischen Burgeruniversitat zur armen mecklenburgischen Landeshochschule: Das regionale und soziale Besucherprofil der Universitaten Rostock und Butzow in der Fruhen Neuzeit (1500-1800).(Review)
June 1, 2001... Von der reichen hansischen Burgeruniversitat zur armen mecklenburgischen Landeshochschule: Das regionale und soziale Besucherprofil der Universitaten Rostock und Butzow in der Fruhen Neuzeit (1500-1800), by Matthias Asche (Stuttgart: Franz...

Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, by Daniel M. Swetschinski (London/Portland, Oregon: The Littmann Library of Jewish Civilization, 2000; pp. 380. 39.50 [pounds sterling]). There have been two...

Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England, by Penelope Gouk (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1999; pp. 308. 30 [pounds sterling]). Penelope Gouk's Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England takes a...

Aristocrat and Regicide: The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, The Ermine Unicorn (1623-1657).(Review)
June 1, 2001... Aristocrat and Regicide: The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, The Ermine Unicorn (1623-1657), by Jeff Richards (London: New Millennium, 2000; pp.548. 19.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). Jeff Richards's...

Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645-1661.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645-1661, by Laura Lunger Knoppers (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 249. 35 [pounds sterling]). Laura Lunger Knoppers's Constructing Cromwell deserves a welcome from two kinds of...

England in the 1670s: `This Masquerading Age'.(Review)
June 1, 2001... England in the 1670s: `This Masquerading Age', by John Spurr (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 350. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). One of the tests of a scholar is the ability to turn a bad idea into a good book, and John...

Absolutism in Central Europe.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Absolutism in Central Europe, by Peter H. Wilson (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. 173. Pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). The historiography of early modern European absolutism has been long beset with a certain ambivalence as to whether the...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Languages of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Languages of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780. Vol. II: Shaftesbury to Hume, by Isabel Rivers (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 386. 45 [pounds sterling]). In Reason, Grace and...

Scottish Society, 1707-1830: Beyond Jacobitism, towards Industrialisation.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Scottish Society, 1707-1830: Beyond Jacobitism, towards Industrialisation, by Christopher A. Whatley (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. 354. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). The last thirty years or so have seen a...

Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870, by Katrina Honeyman (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 204. Pb. 15.50 [pounds sterling]). The place of women in the story of England's industrial development has been the topic of some...

The Rural Poor in Eighteenth-Century Wales.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Rural Poor in Eighteenth-Century Wales, by David W. Howell (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. 317. 35 [pounds sterling]). The primary objective of David Howell's The Rural Poor in Eighteenth-Century Wales is to recover something of the...

Bishop Benson's Survey of the Diocese of Gloucester, 1735-1750.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Bishop Benson's Survey of the Diocese of Gloucester, 1755-1750, by John Fendley (Bristol: Bristol & Glos. Archaeol. Soc., 2000; pp. 204. N.p.). In the early eighteenth century bishops began to issue visitation articles directed to the...

The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, by David Eltis (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 353. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). Over the past three decades lively historical debate on the quantitative...

Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora, by James Walvin (London/New York: Cassell, 2000; pp. 180. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). In Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora,...

Histoire de Bresil, 1500-2000.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Histoire de Bresil, 1500-2000, by Bartolome Bennasar and Richard Marin (Paris: Fayard, 2000; pp. 629. F 180). The 500th anniversary celebrating the Portuguese `discovery' of what is today Brazil had the fortunate effect of encouraging many...

Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740-1745.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740-1745, by Joris van Eijnatten (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1999; pp. 355. L64,000). Except among scholars of the eighteenth-century...

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, by Fred Anderson (New York: Knopf, 2000; pp. 862. $40). `It is in the nature of great events', wrote Francis Parkman, in Montcalm and Wolfe...

The British Isles and the War of American Independence.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The British Isles and the War of American Independence, by Stephen Conway (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 407. 55 [pounds sterling]). In British historiography the American War of Independence has suffered by comparison with the French...

The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. VII: India: The Hastings Trial, 1789-1794.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. VII: India: The Hastings Trial, 1789-1794, ed. P. J. Marshall (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 728. 75 [pounds sterling]). The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke (general editor, Paul...

Paternalism and Politics: The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Paternalism and Politics: The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Kim Lawes (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 229. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). At the heart of this book is a study of the Tory paternalist Michael...

The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Rise of Caring Power: Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands, by Annemieke van Drenth and Francisca de Haan (Amsterdam: Amsterdam U.P., 1999; pp. 295. Euro 49.50). This study of Elizabeth Fry and Josephine...

The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History, by Peter Borsay (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 434. 55 [pounds sterling]). The Image of Georgian Bath 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History, by Peter Borsay, should...

Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870, by Rosemary Mitchell (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 314. 48 [pounds sterling]). Rosemary Mitchell's Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870, is a...

B. O. Lille ja kirkkohistorian-opetuksen alkuvaiheet Aleksanterin yliopiston teologisessa tiedekunnassa.(Review)
June 1, 2001... B. O. Lille ja kirkkohistorian-opetuksen alkuvaiheet Aleksanterin yliopiston teologisessa tiedekunnassa, by Tarja-Liisa Luukkanen (Helsinki: SKS, 2000; pp. 208. Pb. n.p.). B. O. Lille was one of a coterie of university graduates who in the...

John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control.(Review)
June 1, 2001... John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control, by Joseph Hamburger (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 1999; pp. xx+239. 21.95 [pounds sterling]). Joseph Hamburger's John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control was, sadly, his last book. He died in 1997...

The Gladstone-Granville Correspondence.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Gladstone-Granville Correspondence, ed. Agatha Ramm (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 1998; pp. 518. 45 [pounds sterling]). The Gladstone-Granville Correspondence, ed. Agatha Ramm, with a supplementary...

Suomalaisuuta rakentamassa: Arkkiteht Sebastian Gripenberg kultturifennomanian lipunkantajana.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Suomalaisuuta rakentamassa: Arkkiteht Sebastian Gripenberg kultturifennomanian lipunkantajana, by Sirpa Haila (Helsinki: SHS, 1998; pp. 174. Pb. n.p.). The Historiallinen Seura has promoted a study by S. Haila, Suomalaisuutta rakentamassa:...

Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914, by Paula Bartley (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. 229. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Both these books deal with facets of English sexuality from the mid-nineteenth century until the eve of...

Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England, by Louise A. Jackson (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. 209. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Both these books deal with facets of English sexuality from the mid-nineteenth century until the eve of the First...

Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: Vol. II: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: Vol. II: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II, by Richard S. Wortman (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2000; pp. 586. 38 [pounds sterling]). Following his magisterial first...

Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900, by John Dickie (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. 209. 30 [pounds sterling]). Ever since the political unification of Italy in the middle of the nineteenth century,...