The English Historical Review articles from June 2002

The English Historical Review archives from June 2002

The English accession of James VI: `national' identity, gender and the personal monarchy of England *.
June 1, 2002... THERE is widespread agreement that when James VI of Scotland succeeded to his English throne in 1603, the transition from English queen to Scottish king gave rise to a range of political and cultural tensions. Of that range, this paper explores...

The politics of military recruitment in eighteenth-century Germany.
June 1, 2002... OF the great states of early modern Europe, the Holy Roman Empire, or old Reich, is usually numbered amongst the weakest. Not only did it become a general battleground during the Thirty Years War, but other powers were able to tap its resources...

A decision delayed: Britain's withdrawal from South East Asia reconsidered, 1961-68.
June 1, 2002... THE 1960s witnessed a decisive contraction of Britain's world position, as the pressures of indigenous resistance and metropolitan decline made it increasingly costly to sustain far-flung responsibilities and duties in Africa, the Middle and...

King Alfred's preface and the teaching of Latin in Anglo-Saxon England. (Notes And Documents).
June 1, 2002... Is the educational programme which King Alfred expounded in the introductory letter attached to his translation of Gregory the Great's Regula Pastoralis, the primary concern is with translating texts into English and teaching the young to read...

The English mission of Cardinal Petrus Hispanus, the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, and news from Castile at Carlisle (1307). (Notes And Documents).
June 1, 2002... IN the absence of significant documentary discoveries, it is unlikely that there will ever be much new to be said on the subject of Boniface VIII's arbitration of the conflicting claims to Gascony of Edward I of England and Philip IV of France...

`Not quite a gentleman': the Desk Diaries of the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments) to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1899-1915. (Notes And Documents).
June 1, 2002... THE process of recruitment to Britain's former overseas civil services has been at the centre of a number of critical studies in the post-colonial period, to a degree rarely attained during the age of empire. (1) In the case of the Colonial...

A History of Political Thought: from Ancient Greece to Early Christianity.(Abstract)
June 1, 2002... By JANET COLEMAN (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 363. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). This is the long awaited precursor, and now the sequel, to Iain Hampsher Monk's A History of Modern Political Thought (1992). This first volume takes us from...

Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform: Lotharingia, c. 850-1000.
June 1, 2002... By JOHN NIGHTINGALE (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp. xviii + 318. 50 [pounds sterling]). FOR the monastic reformers of the tenth century, the gap between the way of life they aimed at and that of unreformed monks needed to be portrayed as...

Suicide in the Middle Ages.
June 1, 2002... Vol. I: the Violent against Themselves; Vol. II: the Curse on Self-Murder. By ALEXANDER MURRAY (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999, 2000; pp. xxiii + 485, xxiii + 620. 30 [pounds sterling] each vol.). THESE are the first two parts of a massive...

Religion und Familie in der Hansestadt Lubeck anhand der Burgertestamente des 14. Jahrhunderts.
June 1, 2002... By BIRGIT NOODT (Lubeck: Schmidt-Romhild, 2000; pp. 618. DM 56). HISTORIANS of late medieval Germany mostly have to reconcile themselves to fewer documentary records, and fewer dense clusters of them, than survive elsewhere in western...

Eyewitnessing: the Uses of Images as Historical Evidence.
June 1, 2002... By PETER BURKE (London: Reaktion Books, 2001; pp. 224. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE author of this book has done a great deal to reconcile art history with general history. As long ago as 1972 he published Culture and Society in Renaissance...

Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642.
June 1, 2002... By DAVID PARROTT (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 599. 60 [pounds sterling]). HIS earlier articles have already established David Parrott's reputation as a specialist in the military history of the period of the Thirty Years' War; but...

A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration.
June 1, 2002... Edited by ALAN HOUSTON and STEVE PINCUS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 337. 45 [pounds sterling]). HERE is another fine contribution to the spate of edited collections of essays on aspects of early modern English history, spinning...

The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland.
June 1, 2002... Edited by MICHAEL HUNTER (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. 247. 50 [pounds sterling]). DURING the last two decades of the seventeenth century a number of intellectuals, in England as well as in Scotland, became interested in a phenomenon...

The Literatures of Colonial America: an Anthology.
June 1, 2002... Edited by SUSAN CASTILLO and IVY SCHWEITZER (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001; pp. xxii+602. 70 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). THIS vast treasure house of documents reaches beyond the territorial bounds of the United States, though...

The Oxford History of the British Empire.
June 1, 2002... The Oxford History of the British Empire. Ed. WM ROGER LOUIS. Vol. I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by NICHOLAS CANNY (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1998; pp. 533. 30 [pounds...

Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850.
June 1, 2002... By JULIA STAPLETON (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2001; pp. 220. 40 [pounds sterling]). THE most general question on which Julia Stapleton's book bears is that of how far intellectuals can or should assume public authority in the name of...

Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905.
June 1, 2002... By JANICE HOLMES (London: Irish Academic P., 2000; pp. xxii+281. 35 [pounds sterling]). JANICE Holmes, a lecturer in Irish history at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, offers a refreshingly distinctive perspective on revivalism in this...

A Victorian Marriage: Mandell and Louise Creighton.
June 1, 2002... By JAMES COVERT (London: Hambledon, 2000; pp. xvi+412. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). MRS CREIGHTON is regarded as the exception to the historian's rule that no close relative can succeed in writing biography. Mandell Creighton's Life is one of...

The Lancashire Working Classes, c.1880-1930.
June 1, 2002... By TREVOR GRIFFITHS (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp. 390. 55 [pounds sterling]). THIS book follows in a long and venerable tradition of writers such as John Foster, P. F. Clarke and Patrick Joyce, who have used studies of the Lancashire...

For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914.
June 1, 2002... By STEPHEN HEATHORN (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 2000; pp. xii+300. 35 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a study of the role of compulsory education in creating and promoting national identity during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods....

Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918.
June 1, 2002... Edited by ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FORSTER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 531. 35 [pounds sterling]). TREVOR Wilson once commented that he was not sure what `Total War' meant--as far as he could see, it just meant a `bloody big...

The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters.
June 1, 2002... Vol. 1: the Making of a Politician, 1915-1920; Vol. 2: the Reform Years, 1921-1927. Edited by ROBERT SELF (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 423, 461. 75 [pounds sterling] each). `NEVILLE Chamberlain to Hilda' or `to Ida': these are among the...

Weimar and Nazi Germany: Continuities and Discontinuities.
June 1, 2002... Edited by PANIKOS PANAYI (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000; pp. xvi+340. 42 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). THIS volume of original essays is the proverbial curate's egg of a book. Given the extraordinary profusion of...

Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory.
June 1, 2002... By DONALD BLOXHAM (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xix+273. 35 [pounds sterling]). THIS excellent book reminds us that one of the many ways to hit historical gold is to reshuffle the cards and deal them afresh. One might have thought that...

Justiz in der SBZ/DDR, 1945-1953: Transformation und Rolle ihrer zentralen Institutionen.
June 1, 2002... By HERMANN WENTKER (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2001; pp. 647. DM 147). THIS book covers the legal system of the Soviet Zone of Germany (SBZ), which became the German Democratic Republic (DDR) in 1949. It takes us from the early anti-fascist...

The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence.
June 1, 2002... By RICHARD J. ALDRICH (London: John Murray, 2001; pp. 733. 25 [pounds sterling]). IN this heavyweight contribution to the literature of the early Cold War period, Richard Aldrich sets out to demonstrate how the British and American...

The Verdict of Peace: Britain Between her Yesterday and the Future.
June 1, 2002... By CORELLI BARNETT (London: Macmillan, 2001; pp. 712. 20 [pounds sterling]). THE Verdict of Peace is the fourth volume in Correlli Barnett's extended appraisal of Britain's twentieth-century decline. It locates the origins of that decline...

A History of Polish Christianity. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Jerzy Kloczowski (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxxviii+ 385. 45 [pounds sterling]). Professor Kloczowski, the doyen of Polish ecclesiastical historians and a medievalist of distinction, attempts to fill the need for a short...

Ordering Women's Lives: Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Julie Ann Smith (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 256. 40 [pounds sterling]). This book announces itself as `a study of articulated norms for women's behaviour as devised by religious authorities in early medieval Europe'. What it in fact...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a Collaborative Edition. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... Vol. V MS C, ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. cxxi+150. 45 [pounds sterling]); Vol. VIII MS F, ed. Peter S. Baker (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. cxiii+158. 40 [pounds sterling]). Two...

The Saxon and Norman Kings. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Christopher Brooke (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001; pp. 196. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This revised edition of a book first published in 1963 still holds a useful place in a very congested field of historical writing....

Europa an der Wende vom 11. zum 12. Jahrhundert: Beitrage zu Ehren von Werner Goez. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Klaus Herbers (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001; pp. 285. Eur 49). As an important scholar of the eleventh- and twelfth-century Church and papacy, Werner Goez is perhaps best known to English-language historians for his masterly...

Metamorphosis and Identity. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Caroline Walker Bynum (New York: Zone Books, 2001; pp. 280. 19.50 [pounds sterling]). The book comprises four essays by the current doyenne of American medievalists; three are revisions of high-profile public lectures that have been...

Death in Medieval England: an Archaeology. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by D. M. Hadley (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 192. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Death and burial have received much attention in the last decade, but the subject can still be approached in new ways. This contribution uses both historical and...

English Episcopal Acta XX: York 1154-1181. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Marie Lovatt (Oxford: Oxford U.P. for the British Academy, 2000; pp. 224. 45 [pounds sterling]). Marie Lovatt's recent addition to the British Academy's English Episcopal Acta series is concerned with the archdiocese of York in the...

The Carmina Burana: Four Essays. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Martin H. Jones (London: King's College London, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, 2000; pp. 109. 15 [pounds sterling]). Cyril Edwards begins his contribution "All manuscripts are unique, but some are more unique than others:...

Musulmanes en Cataluna: Las comunidades musulmanas de las encomiendas templarias y hospitalarias de Asco y Miravet (siglos XII-XIV). (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Pascual Ortega (Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2000; pp. 192. N.p.). Pascual Ortega has produced a carefully researched local history of Muslim communities under Christian rule in the Catalan Ebro valley. The...

Gothic Europe, 1200-1450. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Derek Pearsall (London: Longman, 2001; pp. 277. 29.99 [pounds sterling]). In this commendably energetic and wide-ranging volume, in the series `Arts, Culture and Society in the Western World', Derek Pearsall offers a crisp and, given...

The Hereford Map: A Transcription and Translation of the Legends with Commentary. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Scott D. Westrem (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; pp. lxi + 476. Eur 55). In this lavish and detailed work, Scott Westrem has produced the essential handbook for the study of the Hereford Mappamundi, largest, most famous and most informative...

Freedom and Authority: Historical and Historiograhical Essays Presented to Grant G. Simpson. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Terry Brotherstone and David Ditchburn (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2000; pp. 292. 25 [pounds sterling]). This volume provides a remarkable degree of cohesion and focus for a Festschrift. The volume is divided into three sections:...

The Register of Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1296-1321. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... vol. 1 ed. J. B. Hughes (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Canterbury & York Soc.; pp. xxxix+174. 25 [pounds sterling]). This is the first of a two-volume calendar of the earliest surviving register for the medieval diocese of Coventry and...

The Age of Edward III. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. J. S. Bothwell (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for York Medieval P., 2001, pp. 232. 40 [pounds sterling]). Edward III's stock, high for the past fifty years, will be raised still higher by the eleven essays collected here. For a volume...

Theology at Paris, 1316-1345: Peter Auriol and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Chris Schabel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, pp. 368. 50 [pounds sterling]). The issue of future contingents, especially in connection with the theological problem of God's knowledge, is at the heart of fourteenth-century theology. The...

Crime in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Trevor Dean (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. 173. 20 [pounds sterling]). The study of crime in the middle ages has advanced to such an extent that it is now possible not only to identify the subject's salient features, but also to embark on...

Working with Water in Medieval Europe: Technology and Resource-Use. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Paolo Squatriti (Leiden: Brill, 2000; pp. xx+446. Eur 125). As contributors to this volume more than once observe, study of the place of water in medieval social and economic life has taken great strides in recent decades. That its...

Renda i fiscalitat en una ciutat medieval; Barcelona, segles XII-XIV. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Pere Orti Gost (Barcelona: C.S.I.C., 2000; pp. 736. N.p.). Dr Orti's thesis comes from the Sanchez Martinez stable and is built from fiscal records. It will, however, be used in a wider range of contexts where the richness of the Catalan...

The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Colin Richmond (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. 262. 45 [pounds sterling]). What more can one say about the best-known family of fifteenth-century England? A good deal, as Colin Richmond's trilogy, concluded with this volume, has...

Reports of Cases by John Caryll: Part I: 1485-1499. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. J. H. Baker (London: Selden Soc., 1999; pp. xxv+766. N.p.) and Part II: 1501-1522, ed. J. H. Baker (London: Selden Soc., 2000; pp. xxix+836. N.p.). There are reports of cases in the royal courts of London, about half of which had been...

Queen's Mate: Three Women of Power in France on the Eve of the Renaissance. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Pauline Matarasso (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. 317. 45 [pounds sterling]). Pauline Matarasso sets out to explore the lives of `some exceptional women', who `had the necessary leeway for exercising their talents' in government in late...

Penitence in the Age of Reformations. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer (Aldershot: Ashgate, St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, 2000; pp. 292. 49.50 [pounds sterling]). This book goes to the heart both of Luther's Anfechtung and its remedy. The...

Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Lucy Wooding (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 305. 40 [pounds sterling]). Making sense of the motives of those who supported reform in the sixteenth century Church seems to have become ever more difficult, and Lucy Wooding here makes a...

Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Jason Scott-Warren (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 273. 45 [pounds sterling]). Sir John Harington may be the best documented of all Elizabethan writers. His versatility, his energy, and his simultaneous commitment to print-publication...

Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Robert Tittler (Stanford: Stanford U.P., 2001; pp. 251. Pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). Now that the Cambridge Urban History of Britain has given us a standard, wide-ranging, general account of the experience of early modern English...

Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Peter Lake and Michael Questier (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. xx+296. 50 [pounds sterling]). The editors have assembled ten essays on post-Reformation English Protestantism and Catholicism, and divided them into three groups....

Early Modern Italy: a Social History. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Christopher Black (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. 279. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). In preparing this book, Christopher Black has handled an impressive range of publications covering some three centuries of various aspects of Italian...

Benandanti e inquisitori nel Friuli del Seicento. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Franco Nardon (Trieste: Edizioni Universita di Trieste, 1999; pp. 255. L 25,000). As the preface to this volume, by a leading expert in Friulian inquisition studies, Andrea Del Col, makes clear, Franco Nardon draws on his local...

The Parliaments of Early Modern Europe. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Michael A. R. Graves (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. 230. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Over the last forty years there has been an explosion of scholarly publication on the parliamentary assemblies of early modern Europe, but the last general...

Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Donna Bohanan (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 194. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). This study offers a useful introduction to the changing relationship between the central government and the provincial nobility in the seventeenth century....

La Societe paysanne en Nouvelle-Castille: Famille, mariage et transmission des biens a Pozuelo de Aravaca (1580-1640). (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Marie-Catherine Barbazza (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, 2000; pp. xvii + 361. F 300). Among the growing number of such local studies, this is distinguished both by the richness of the sources available and the skill with which they are...

Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: a Cultural Biography. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Leeds Barroll (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 226. 24.50 [pounds sterling]). Anne of Denmark, James VI and I's formidable consort, has not received much attention from royal biographers. Agnes Strickland, in The Lives of...

Curiosities and Texts: the Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Marjorie Swann (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2001; pp. 272. 35 [pounds sterling]). When Sir Hans Sloane died in 1753 at the age of 93, his unmanageably huge cabinet of curiosities was sold to the nation. It became the British...

Anatomy of a Siege: King John's Castle, Limerick, 1642. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Kenneth Wiggins (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. xix+306. 30 [pounds sterling]). To devote a book to the single siege of a particular castle may seem unduly expansive, but this account goes much further than the retelling of an...

Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern Central Europe. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Istvan Gyorgy Toth (tr. Tunde Vajda and Miklos Bodoczky) (Budapest: Central European U.P., 2000; pp. 266. 25.95 [pounds sterling]). Studies of the history of literacy abound, but they generally fall into one of two groups: in the first...

The Great Elector. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Derek McKay (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. 286. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). While Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia has long been recognized as one of the most important figures in seventeenth-century German and European history,...

Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Roy Porter (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 254. Pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). If this book was a CD it would be described as a mid-price re-issue. Although the title is different, this is a new edition of Health for Sale (Manchester U.P.,...

El Acercamiento hispano-neerlandes (1648-1678). (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Manuel Herrero Sanchez (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2000; pp. 427. Pb. n.p.). This excellent work of research is the revised version of a PhD thesis, undertaken under the direction of Professor K. N....

1688: a Global History. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by John E. Wills (London: Granta Books, 2001; pp. 330. 20 [pounds sterling]). This is an imaginative and often entertaining book by a veteran historian but definitely not a work of research. Rather it is a set of impressions of various key...

Two Antiquaries: a Selection from the Correspondence of John Aubrey and Anthony Wood. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Maurice Balme (Durham: Durham Academic P., 2001; pp. 168. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). John Aubrey and Anthony Wood met in 1665 and corresponded from then until Wood's death thirty years later; as a result, over 200 letters between the...

Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by John Coffey (Harlow: Longman (Pearson Education) 2000; pp. 244. 55 [pounds sterling]). After a period of eclipse, the history of toleration is once more in fashion, thanks partly to the stimulus provided by the tercentenary of the 1689...

The Politics of Trade: the Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Perry Gauci (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xvi+302. 45 [pounds sterling]). Perry Gauci sets out in this study to analyse the social and political impact of overseas traders from the reign of Charles II to that of George I. His...

The Making of the United Kingdom, 1660-1800: State, Religion and Identity in Britain and Ireland. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Jim Smyth (Harlow: Longman (Pearson Education), 2001; pp. 252. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). The juggernaut of `new British' history thunders on with this (usually) elegant textbook. In it, Jim Smyth takes a `three kingdoms' perspective...

The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by John E. Crowley (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 361. 32.50 [pounds sterling]). Ever since the appearance of Brewer, Plumb, and McKendrick's Birth of a Consumer Society in 1982, the eighteenth century `consumer revolution' has...

Venice Transfigured: the Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by John Eglin (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 262. 30 [pounds sterling]). This impressive and interesting work offers a major contribution to the study of British political thought and cultural politics. Altering perceptions of Venice...

Britain and Germany Compared: Nationality, Society and Nobility in the Eighteenth Century. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Joseph Canning and Hermann Wellenreuther (Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001; pp. 239. DM 30). Anglo-German historical comparison, that rich and relatively untilled field, is beginning to bear fruit, thanks not least to the efforts of...

The Lincolnshire Wolds in the Nineteenth Century. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Charles K. Rawding (Lincoln: Soc. for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2001 pp. 246. 25 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). As a distinctive pays the Lincolnshire Wolds is a prime candidate for a regional study, which...

Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West, 1560-1991. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. David Parker (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. 237. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). The concepts of revolution and revolutionary tradition, and specific revolutions, are analysed through an introductory chapter and eleven case-studies. The...

Religion und Politik in Deutschland und Grossbritannien (Religion and Politics in Britain and Germany). (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Richard Bonney, Franz Bosbach, and Thomas Brockmann (Munich: K. G. Saur, 2001; pp. 201. N.p.). This volume, the nineteenth in the series sponsored by the Coburg Society, provides yet another welcome occasion for British and German...

Life in a Penal Battalion of the Imperial Russian Army: the Tolstoyan N. T. Iziumchenko's Story. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... ed. Peter Brock and John L. H. Keep (York: William Sessions (Ebor P.), 2001; pp. 63. 7.20 [pounds sterling]). The experiences of those unfortunate citizens who fell foul of the authorities in the Imperial Russian state of the nineteenth...

Born to Rule: British Political Elites. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Ellis Wasson (Stroud: Sutton, 2000, pp. xvi+244. 20 [pounds sterling]). Given the continuous existence of a leadership elite in Britain arguably from the Conquest onwards, with the institutions of parliamentary rule in many respects...

Eton Established: a History from 1440-1860. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Tim Card (London: John Murray, 2001; pp. 212. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). Eton remains the most famous school in the English-speaking world, the school par excellence of the governing aristocracy for three centuries, a model repeatedly...

Labour in British Society, 1830-1914. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Donald M. MacRaild and David E. Martin (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 214. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This book is a very useful and reasonably priced addition to Macmillan's impressive Social History in Perspective series (General...

The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... Vol. I: Industry Work and Community; Vol. II: Trade Unions and Politics, by Alan Campbell (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 401 and 433. 45 [pounds sterling] each vol.). Alan Campbell introduces this excellent two-volume work by invoking...

The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture. (Shorter Notices).
June 1, 2002... by Lucy Bending (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 309. 37.50 [pounds sterling]). For the Victorians pain was a daily fact in a way that we cannot comprehend (aspirin was not commercially available until 1899). But power also means ...