The English Historical Review articles from June 2003

The English Historical Review archives from June 2003

Armed force and civic legitimacy in Jack Cade's Revolt, 1450.
June 1, 2003... IN the last weeks of May 1450, the power of the county of Kent assembled in arms under its elected constables and thereby set in motion Jack Cade's Rebellion. Having mustered themselves at the gathering places traditionally used by each...

The trial of Charles I *.
June 1, 2003... THE execution of Charles I was a defining moment in early modern British history. Perhaps for that very reason, the preceding trial has rarely been investigated in any depth. The story of the regicide was fundamental to anglophone political...

The languages of loyalism in Southern Africa, c. 1870-1939 *.
June 1, 2003... AFTER almost half a century of neglect, the neo-Britains of the British empire--those settler societies where indigenous peoples were dispossessed, and where Europeans came to form a significant part of the population--are again attracting...

The Defence Requirements Sub-Committee, British strategic foreign policy, Neville Chamberlain and the path to appeasement *.
June 1, 2003... THE Defence Requirements Sub-Committee (DRC) is not an unknown topic. Created on 14 November 1933 to examine the worst deficiencies of the British defence establishment, the DRC has been at the heart of studies concerned with British...

Notes of an early fifteenth-century research assistant, and the emergence of the 267 articles against Wyclif. (Notes And Documents).
June 1, 2003... FROM 1377 onwards the ideas and writings of John Wyclif were a recurrent source of trouble for the authorities at Oxford University. The tale of how the university tried to disentangle itself from the contamination of fostering a heresiarch,...

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By RALPH HANNA (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 371. 80 [pounds sterling]). MANY readers of this journal will regard descriptive catalogues of manuscripts as primarily bibliographic tools, of marginal relevance to the historical...

A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Edited by CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL and ELISABETH VAN HOUTS (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2003; pp. xix+ 298. 40 [pounds sterling]). ELEVEN scholars working in the field of Anglo-Norman history in the tenth to the twelfth centuries, a popular...

Valdo di Lione e i 'poveri nello spirito': Il primo secolo del movimento valdese (1170-1270).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By CARLO PAPINI (Turin: Editrice Claudiana, 2001; pp. 542. Eur 19.63). WHILE English-speaking readers have recently welcomed two general works on the topic, G. Audisio, The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival c. 1170-1570...

The English Manor, c. 1200-c. 1500.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Selected sources translated and annotated by MARK BAILEY (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. xiii+258. 49.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ALL those who teach and research English medieval history must grapple at...

Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Action in the York Corpus Christi Plays.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Action in the York Corpus Christi Plays. By SARAH BECKWITH (Chicago/London: U. of Chicago E, 2001; pp. xviii+294. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the...

Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By GEOFFREY PARKER (London: Allen Lane/Penguin P., 2002; pp. 412. 25 [pounds sterling]). GEOFFREY Parker's new book is a collection of essays. There are, unsurprisingly, four on Philip II and his world, four on early modern warfare and,...

Les Huguenots et le roi: Le combat politique de Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1572-1600).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By HUGUES DAUSSY (Geneva: Droz, 2002; pp. 694. N.p.). THIS massive book is the first major study in any language of the political career of the Huguenot nobleman Philippe Duplessis-Mornay in nearly seventy years. And while Raoul Patry's...

Le Portugal au temps du comte-duc d'Olivares (1621-1640): Le conflit de juridictions comme exercice de la politique.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By JEAN-FREDERIC SCHAUB (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, 2001; pp. 521. N.p.). THIS is an original, intelligent and well-researched book, which avoids being simply a straightforward study of Habsburg government in Portugal under Philip IV and...

Britain in Revolution, 1625-1660.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By AUSTIN WOOLRYCH (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. 814. 25 [pounds sterling]). WITH this massive textbook Professor Woolrych draws together the labours of half a century of personal research into English history between 1642 and 1660,...

Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500-1840.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500-1840. Edited by PETER CLARK and RAYMOND GILLESPIE (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2001; pp. xiv+312. 40 [pounds sterling]). Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland: Change,...

Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': the Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By DAVID WOMERSLEY (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. 452. 65 [pounds sterling]). IN the last few years there has been some excellent research published on Edward Gibbon, the celebrated author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire....

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By LINDA COLLEY (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002; pp. xx+438. 20 [pounds sterling]). LINDA Colley describes her book as a 'work of both individual recovery and imperial revision' (p. 3). This is later elaborated by drawing a distinction...

The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By MUNRO PRICE (London: Macmillan, 2002; pp. 425. 20 [pounds sterling]). MUNRO Price's Fall of the French Monarchy is the kind of book that we see all too rarely. Thanks to years of research across several European countries, he has...

The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. VII: 1850-1914.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... (Parts I and II). Edited by E. J. T. COLLINS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xxxiv+2277. 195 [pounds sterling]). PUBLICATION of Parts I and II of this volume completes a series, first planned in 1956, extending from prehistoric...

Natasha's Dance: a Cultural History of Russia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By ORLANDO FIGES (London: Allen Lane, 2002; pp. xxxiii+729. 25 [pounds sterling]). GIVEN the number of cultural histories of Russia, the venture is clearly an alluring one. Russia's historical experience, eccentric to but not divorced...

Empire: the Russian Empire and its Rivals.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By DOMINIC LIEVEN (London: John Murray, 2000; pp. xlii+486. 27.50 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a bravura work, incisively and engagingly written, which combines a remarkable grasp of broad historical developments with a wealth of insight...

Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance, 1887-1938.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By PETER CAIN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 320. 45 [pounds sterling]). J. A. HOBSON was one of the most apparently influential English thinkers of modern times. He was the author of two (not one) 'capitalist theories' of imperialism,...

Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By PHILIP MORGAN (London: Routledge, 2002; pp. xxii+216. Pb. n.p.). AT the beginning of his final chapter in the book under review Morgan may dismay those of his readers who thirst for theory and who find palingenesis a word for everyday...

Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By JUDITH KEENE (London/New York: Leicester U.P., 2001; pp. 310. 25 [pounds sterling]). DURING a recent correspondence arising from one of the Guardian's regular celebrations of the International Brigade, an expatriate Spaniard wrote to...

France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By JULIAN JACKSON (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. xix+660. 25 [pounds sterling]). This magnificent book should be the standard work in English on the French experience of Occupation. Julian Jackson set out to write 'a new interpretative...

The Balkans Since the Second World War.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By R. J. CRAMPTON (London/New York: Longman (Pearson), 2002; pp. xxxiv+374. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). THE word 'Balkan' today carries a number of implications, usually all negative, but none that correspond to its original, neutral...

The Roman Era: the British Isles, 55 BC-AD 410.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Peter Salway (Oxford: Oxford U.E, 2002; pp. xxi+286. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]) This volume is the first of a projected eleven-volume series entitled The Short Oxford History of the British Isles under the...

The Early History of Greed: the Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Richard Newhauser (Cambridge: Cambridge U.E, 2000; pp. 246. 40 [pounds sterling]) In avarice, medievalists have found a door to pass from the world of moral discourse to that of social relations. In the 1970s, analysis of the...

The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars. Part II: AD 363-630: a Narrative Sourcebook.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed., and compiled by, Geoffrey Greatrex and Samuel N. C. Lieu (London: Routledge, 2002; pp. xxxii + 37z. 60 [pounds sterling]) This volume follows on from a previous one, The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, AD 226-363: A...

The Carolingian Economy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Adriaan Verhulst (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 160. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]) Adriaan Verhulst died at the end of 2002 at the age of 73. He was the lineal successor to Henri Pirenne and then...

The Myth of Nations: the Medieval Origins of Europe.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Patrick J. Geary (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2002; pp. 199. 17.95 [pounds sterling]) Patrick Geary, as an historian of early medieval Europe, has rightly been appalled at the way that European nationalists find the origins of their...

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca. 680-850): the Sources.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. xxxi+324. 55 [pounds sterling]) The authors, who combine expertise in art and architecture (Brubaker) and history and institutions (Haldon), have produced this impressive...

Poblamiento altomedieval navarro: Base socio-economica del espacio monarquico.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Julia Pavon Benito (Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 2001; pp. 424. Pb. n.p.) This book could serve as an example of the strengths of the new approaches to the study of medieval history adopted in Spain in the course of the...

Wo ist Thomas Becket? Der ermordete Heilige zwischen Erinnerung und Erzahlung.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Stefanie Jansen (Husum: Matthiesen Verlag (Historische Studien 465), 2002; pp. 240. Eur 40) This work, a doctoral thesis from the university of Frankfurt am Main submitted in 2000, takes its title from the words uttered by the four...

The Society of Norman Italy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. G. A. Loud and A. Metcalfe (Leiden: Brill, 2002; pp. xxii+381. Eur 129) This most welcome book offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to the impact of the Norman settlement upon the society of South Italy and Sicily from the...

Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: the County of the Perche, 1000-1226.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Kathleen Thompson (Woodbridge/Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002; pp. 225. 40 [pounds sterling]) Dr Thompson's book, while thoroughly infused with recent French scholarship, does not fit easily into the series of local histories...

Medieval Ireland: an Archaeology, 1100-1600.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Tadhg O'Keeffe (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 192. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) The study of medieval archaeology in Ireland has really 'come of age'; with the publication of this, the second recent academic synthesis of the subject. It...

Chronicle of Alfonso X.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... tr. Shelby Thacker and Jose Escobar (Studies in Romance Languages, 47) (Lexington: U. of Kentucky P., 2002; pp. 267. N.p.) This is a pretty meretricious piece of publishing riding on the back of the current burgeoning interest in the...

The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Simon R. Doubleday (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard U.P., 2001; pp. 198. 30.95 [pounds sterling]) This impressive study of one of medieval Castile's leading families prompts the reflection that English-language literature on the Spanish...

Per una storia dei santuari cristiani d'Italia: approcci regionali.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Giorgio Cracco (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002; pp. 493. Eur 28.50) The book begins with a brilliant introduction by Giorgio Cracco, focusing on seventeenth-century sanctuaries, but also reflecting on the contrast with modern culture:...

Hagiographies: Histoire internationale de la litterature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines a 1550 (Vol. III).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Guy Philippart (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; pp. 462. Eur 155) This is the third of four projected volumes which, when completed, will offer a handbook of Latin and vernacular hagiographical literature throughout the pre-Tridentine Roman...

The Heraldry in Merton College, Oxford.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Alan Bott (Oxford: Merton College, Oxford, 2001; pp. 236. N.p.) In 1930 a committee investigating the heraldry in the hall of Merton College, Oxford, reported 'this decoration does something to instruct undergraduates in the history of...

The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St Albans, 1290-1349.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Michelle Still (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 329.45 [pounds sterling]). This is the latest volume in the series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West, under the general editorship of Brenda Bolton. The privileged and...

A Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. David Nicolle (Woodbridge: Boydell E, 2002; pp. lx + 269. 40 [pounds sterling]). If the Trade Descriptions Act applied to book titles, this volume would be in breach of it. We have come to expect, from such things as the extensive...

Aussenpolitik in Spatmittelalter: Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen dem Reich und England.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 1377-1422, by Arnd Reitmeier (London/Paderborn: Schoningh (Publications of the German Historical Institute), 1999; pp. 572. Eur 50). Arnd Reitmeier provides a valuable survey of the political and diplomatic mechanisms of his chosen...

The Court Rolls of Walsham Le Willows, 1351-99.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Ray Lock (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Suffolk Records Soc., 2002; pp. 234. 30 [pounds sterling]). In this volume, Ray Lock and the Suffolk Records Society complete the formidable enterprise of printing, in translation, more than 250...

The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and their Financial Records, c. 1275 to 1540.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Barbara Harvey (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2002; pp.lxii+270. 60 [pounds sterling]). Westminster Abbey was one of the small group of major medieval English monasteries that suffered relatively little disruption when Henry VIII brought...

Charters of the Vicars Choral of York Minster. Vol. II: County of Yorkshire and Appropriated Churches to 1558.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Nigel J. Tringham (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, for Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., 2002; pp. 158. 40 [pounds sterling]). The bulk of the property of the York Vicars Choral lay in the city itself and has been fully covered by the same...

A Companion to Chaucer.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. xvii+515. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Intended as both a contribution to original research and a general introduction for students, the Chaucer Companion brings together a series of...

The Oxford English Literary History. Vol. 2: Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford U.R, 2002; pp. xviii+661. 30 [pounds sterling]). James Simpson's study, the second volume in the new Oxford English Literary History series under the general editorship of Jonathan Bate, boldly bestrides...

The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Ethan Knapp (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U.P., 2001; pp. 210. 32.95 [pounds sterling]). Thomas Hoccleve is a poet whose significance transcends the quality of his verse. Indeed, one could be forgiven for concluding that he...

Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. D. A. Trotter (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. 237. 35 [pounds sterling]). This volume offers an update on research in this increasingly important area of cultural study by collecting some of the papers read at a colloquium...

Letters of Medieval Women.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Anne Crawford (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2002: pp. 262. 20 [pounds sterling]). This edition conveniently republishes 104 letters from women between 1130 and 1506 otherwise available only in manuscript, in antiquarian collections in...

Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Lauro Martines (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001; pp. 357. 29.50 [pounds sterling]) The main purpose of this work, concerned with the period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, is to suggest the relationship...

The Worlds of Richard III.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by A. J. Pollard (Stroud: Tempus, 2001; pp. 190. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) This volume brings together all Professor Pollard's articles on Richard III, with the addition of illustrations and one brief new piece. The papers, written...

Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Kathleen Kamerick (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002; pp. 292. 40 [pounds sterling]) This full and careful book explores the relations between late medieval believers and the images they saw in parish and pilgrimage churches and in the...

Renaissance Monarchy: the Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Glenn Richardson (London: Arnold, 2002: pp. xvi + 246. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) Glenn Richardson sets himself the ambitious task of comparing the three great rulers of Western Europe in the first half of the...

Henry VIII's Coastal Artillery Fort at Camber Castle, Rye, East Sussex.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Martin Biddle, Jonathan Hiller, Ian Scott and Anthony Streeten (Oxford: Oxbow Books, for English Heritage, 2001; pp. xx + 374. 40 [pounds sterling]) Henry VIII's breach with Rome generated a vast construction campaign as England...

The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: the Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Stability in Britain and Ireland.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Jane E. A. Dawson (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xvii + 251. 45 [pounds sterling]) Archibald Campbell, fifth earl of Argyll, died at the age of thirty-five in 1573, having played a central role in Scottish politics for the last...

Emperor Maximilian II.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Paula Sutter Fichtner (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. 344. 25 [pounds sterling]) Maximilian II (1525-1576), who reigned as Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 to his death, is one of the least known Habsburg rulers of Early Modern...

A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Anita Pacheco (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. xx + 391. 65 [pounds sterling]) Blackwell's is a familiar name in the production of companions to a range of subjects in history, literature and cultural studies. This volume combines...

Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Elizabeth Baldwin (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002; pp. 287. N.p.) This is a brave and interesting attempt to marry the worlds of early modern musicology and social history. Baldwin argues that music was...

Die doppelte Konfessionalisierung in Irland: Konflikt und Koexistenz im 16. und in der ersten Halfte des 17. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Ute Lotz-Heumann (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000; pp. 510. DM 198) This book is an attempt to deploy 'confessionalization' theory in the history of Ireland in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. That theory was originally...

Neo-Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess and Rowland Wymer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. 270. 45 [pounds sterling]) New historicism currently rules criticism of early modern literature. This domination arose less by argument than...

Buona Amicitia? Die romisch-savoyischen Beziehungen unter Paul V. (1605-1621: Studien zur fruhneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik in Italien.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Tobias Morschel (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2002; pp. 436. Eur 45) This book represents the thorough virtues of a German doctoral thesis, from which it originated. A substantial part of the volume is devoted to fairly technical...

For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Luis R. Corteguera (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 2002; pp. xviii+231. 22.50 [pounds sterling]) In his account of the celebrations held in Barcelona in 1625 for the birth of an Infanta in Madrid, Andres de Almansa y Mendoza, one of the...

Christianity and Community in the West. Essays for John Bossy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Simon Ditchfield (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; pp. xxix+322. 49.50 [pounds sterling]) To mark the completion of John Bossy's professorship at the University of York a number of colleagues and associates, from York itself and from...

Altri Modi: Etnografia dell' agire simbolico nei processi friulani dell'Inquisizione.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Gian Paolo Gri (Trieste: Edizioni U. di Trieste, 2001; pp. 214. Eur 15) Among those who have contributed to recent studies on the Roman Inquisition in Friuli and to the debate on popular belief there, in the early modern period, in...

Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Anne Jacobson Schutte (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001; pp. 337. 31 [pounds sterling]) Some years ago Anne Jacobson Schutte presented in English translation the autobiography of Cecilia Ferrazzi, the box maker's daughter...

Witches and Neighbours: the Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Robin Briggs (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. 400. 60 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]) This is the second edition of Robin Briggs's major study of European witchcraft, which, in 1996, instantly became the one book that all...

The Peace of Westphalia: a Historical Dictionary.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Derek Croxton and Anuschka Tischer (Westport, CT/London: Greenwood P., 2001; pp. xx+376. 79.95 [pounds sterling]) A dictionary of states, personalities, events, prior negotiations, juridical and diplomatic issues involved in the Treaty...

The Cromwellian Protectorate.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Barry Coward (Manchester/New York: U. of Manchester P., 2002; pp. 248. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]) Barry Coward knows his Cromwell. Among a wealth of good short studies to have appeared in the last dozen years, his Oliver Cromwell...

An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657-1727.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by William E. Burns (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. 228. 45 [pounds sterling]) In An Age of Wonders, William E. Burns uses attitudes to such anomalous events as monstrous births, rains of blood, earthquakes, comets and strange...

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002; pp. xx+324. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) Histories of oceans are much with us these days, their ultimate inspiration Fernand Braudel's seminal Mediterranean...

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by David Armitage (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 239. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]) 'Political thought', as understood in Cambridge in the 1990S, dealt with secular, non-legal discourse about the nation state....

Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607-1800.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Kenneth Morgan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. P., 2000; pp. 152. Pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]) During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the uneven distribution of the factors of production necessitated a steady stream of servants and...

Crime, Justice and Discretion.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Peter King (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 383. 55 [pounds sterling]). The last thirty years have seen an enormous amount of work on crime and criminality from the middle ages onwards; some of the most distinguished contributions, as...

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. H. T. Dickinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. xxx+ 550. 85 [pounds sterling]). This companion is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of eighteenth-century studies. The thirty-eight chapters from thirty-six scholars provide an...

Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull (Berkeley/London: U. of California P., 2001; pp. xxii+364. 24.95 [pounds sterling]). During the past twenty years the history of mental disorder in Britain has matured into a field of unusual interest...

Matthew and George Culley: Travel Journals and Letters, 1765-1798.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... ed. Anne Orde (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2002; pp. 274. 35 [pounds sterling]). Matthew, George, and the rather more shadowy James, Culley, were among the pioneers of English agricultural improvement in the eighteenth...

L'espace du roi: La cour de France au chateau de Versailles, 1682-1789.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by William Ritchey Newton (Paris: Fayard, 2000; pp. 588. F 295). L'espace du roi is a welcome contribution to current knowledge about early modern courts and the architectonic space of royal palaces. General readers will find particularly...

French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Simon Burrows (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000 pp. 272. 40 [pounds sterling]). This book joins a growing number of studies of the Press in France and England during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Simon Burrows examines...

The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talents, Merit.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Rafe Blaufarb (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. 227. 45 [pounds sterling]). Finding a title for this book must have been difficult. Nor is the one it received entirely satisfactory. Those who open it expecting a general survey...

Gentleman Radical: a Life of John Horne Tooke, 1756-1812.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Christina and David Bewley (London/New York: Tauris, 1998; pp. 297. 42 [pounds sterling]). After her excellent biography of Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1981) Christina Bewley turned to the career of another radical, Horne Tooke....