The English Historical Review articles from June 2004

The English Historical Review archives from June 2004

English ministers, Irish politicians and the making of a parliamentary settlement in Ireland, 1692-5 *.
June 1, 2004... At the conclusion of the Irish war of 1689-91, the new Williamite government faced the arduous task of trying to bring about a settlement of a devastated and divided country. Government finances were in a critical state, with rapidly...

Religion and politics the Saint-Napoleon festivity 1852-70: anti-clericalism, local patriotism and modernity *.
June 1, 2004... ON 15 August 1865, like every town and village in France, the commune of Leers (Nord) prepared itself for what had become a familiar joint celebration: the commemoration of the national festivity, the Saint-Napoleon, together with the...

Edward the confessor's return to England in 1041 *.
June 1, 2004... Tandem revocato Eadwardo, Adelredi regis filio, mediante Alwino Wintoniensi episcopo et Godwino comite, convocatis apud Hursteshevet totius Angliae baronibus, ita demum in regem suscipiendus auditur, si eis Cnudi leges et filiorum eius...

The continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum: some revisionist perspectives *.
June 1, 2004... OF the numerous chroniclers' accounts of the reign of Richard II one particular narrative provides a unique insight into the King's character and actions during the last years of his reign. Under its account of events in 1398, the...

Remembering a hero: Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of her husband.
June 1, 2004... Col. Hutchinson saith w[ha]t was donne by him was out of noe ill intent, that he hath seene ye ill effects of it, & hath since endea[voured] to bring ye k[ing] back hee hath not advanta[ged] himselfe by these times & throwes himselfe upon ye...

The Victoria History of the County of Northampton. Vol. V: Cleley Hundred.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Victoria History of the County of Northampton. Vol. V: The Hundred of Cleley. Edited by PHILIP RIDEN (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2002; pp. xvi + 466. 90[pounds sterling]). NORTHAMPTONSHIRE has attracted much pioneering scholarship since...

Markets in Early Medieval Europe. Trading and 'Productive' Sites, 650-850.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Markets in Early Medieval Europe. Trading and Productive Sites, 650-850. Edited by TIM PESTELL and KATHARINA ULMSCHNEIDER (Macclesfield: Windgather P., 2003; pp. xvi + 304. 25[pounds sterling]). THE major trading sites or coastal emporia...

Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture. Edited by WARREN C. BROWN and PIOTR GORECKI (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003; pp. 344. 45[pounds sterling]). THE twelve papers in this interesting volume are the product...

The Digital Domesday Book: the Scholar's Edition.(Audiobook Review)
June 1, 2004... The Digital Domesday Book: The Scholar's Edition. ALECTO Historical Editions (London: Phillimore, 2002. 4 CD-ROMs. 2,500[pounds sterling]). DOMESDAY databases are like buses: you wait nine hundred and sixteen years and two come at once....

St Anselm and the Handmaidens of God: a Study of St Anselm's Correspondence with Women.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... St Anselm and the Handmaidens of God: A Study of St Anselm's Correspondence with Women. By SALLY N. VAUGHN (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002; pp. 335. 60[pounds sterling]). AMONG the 475 surviving letters of St Anselm, monk, philosopher and...

Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France. By HENRY HEELER (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 2003; pp. 307. 40[pounds sterling]). ITALIAN immigration into sixteenth-century France was not particularly significant as a proportion of the total...

A Religion of the Word: the Defence of the Reformation in the Reign of Edward VI.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... A Religion of the Word: The Defence of the Reformation in the Reign of Edward VI. By CATHARINE DAWES (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2003; pp. xxiv + 264. 49.99[pounds sterling]). A RELIGION OF THE WORD is a detailed survey of the printed...

The Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Reformation: Europe's House divided , 1490-1700. By DIARMAID MACCULLOCH (London: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2003; pp. xxvii + 832. 25[pounds sterling]). IT has been fashionable for some time to write down the Enlightenment as having...

Reformation in Britain and Ireland.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Reformation in Britain and Ireland. By FELICITY HEAL (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. xvii + 568. 80[pounds sterling]). THIS is a most worthy addition to a distinguished series: The Oxford History of the Christian Church. Compared to...

The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace. By BRIAN CUMMINGS (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 470. 60 [pounds sterling]). THIS is one of the most important books on the Reformation to have been published in our time. The...

The Field and the Forge; Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial West.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Field and the Forge; Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial West. By JOHN LANDERS (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. xiii + 440. 55 [pounds sterling]). IN spite of the title and the cover illustration this turns out to...

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England. Edited by KEVIN SHARPE and STEVEN N. ZWICKER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 363. 50 [pounds sterling]). THIS collection of essays makes valuable contributions to the history...

The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture, 1500-1730.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture, 1500-1730. By DANIEL WOOLF (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. 421. 55 [pounds sterling]). WE have good biographies of individual antiquaries and historians of early modern...

The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Edited by DAVID LOEWENSTEIN and JANELLE MULLER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 1038. 100 [pounds sterling]). I PERCEIVE the project of the Cambridge History of English...

Isaac Vossius and his Circle: His Life until his Farewell to Queen Christina of Sweden, 1618-1655.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Isaac Vossius and his Circle: His Life until his Farewell to Queen Christina of Sweden, 1618-1655. By FRANS F. BLOK (Groningen: Egbert Forsten P., 2000; pp. 520. F 125). THE author of this handsome tome--well-bound with, shall I say...

The Library of Anthony Wood.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Library of Anthony Wood. By NICOLAS K. KIESSLING (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Soc., 2002; pp. 758- N.p.). SINCE the publication in 1956 of Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson's edition of the library catalogue of John, Lord Lumley,...

The Peninsular War: a New History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Peninsular War: A New History. By CHARLES ESDAILE (London: Allen Lane, 2002, pp. 587. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE saga began with Napoleon's order to Portugal in July 1807 to observe the Continental Blockade. Events moved to their...

Bulwer Lytton: the Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters. By LESLIE MITCHELL (London: Hambledon, 2003; pp. xxi + 292. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). IT was so tempting to make fun of Edward Bulwer Lytton that his contemporaries...

Humboldt auf Reisen? Die Rezeption des 'deutschen Universitatsmodells' in den franzosischen und britischen Reformdiskursen (1810-1870).(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Humboldt auf Reisen? Die Rezeption des 'deutschen Universitatsmodells' in den franzosischen und britischen Reformdiskursen (1810-1870). By MARC SCHALENBERG (Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2002; pp. 520. Eur 50.50). THE 'Humboldtian' idea of the...

Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited by CHRISTOPHER CLARK and WOLFRAM KAISER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. 368. 50 [pounds sterling]). IN their introduction to this very useful collection,...

Home Rule: an Irish History, 1800-2000.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800-2000. By ALVIN JACKSON (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003; pp. 405. 25 [pounds sterling]). IN a title reminiscent of his recent, Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (1998), Alvin Jackson, one of the...

Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War. By GORDON CORRIGAN (London: Cassell, 2003; pp. 431. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). THANKS to much excellent research by British and Commonwealth scholars since the early 1980s, few...

A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927. By S. A. SMITH (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon P., 2000; pp. 315. 45 [pounds sterling]). As S. A. Smith notes in the introduction to A Road is Made, even readers 'otherwise unfamiliar' with the...

Mass Conservatism: the Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s. Edited by STUART BALL and IAN HOLLIDAY (London: Frank Cass, 2002; pp. xvi + 248. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 17.50 [pounds sterling]). A STRIKING feature of the modern...

Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization. by ELIZABETH HARVEY (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2003; pp. xx + 384. 25 [pounds sterling]). THE Nazi campaign to Germanise Poland during the Second World War, which...

Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City. by NORMAN DAVIES and ROGER MOORHOUSE (London: Pimlico, 2003; pp. xix + 585. 12.50 [pounds sterling]). The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999. By...

Britain Since 1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Britain Since 1945. Edited by JONATHAN HOLLOWELL (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003; pp. xvi + 464. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). IT is very difficult to judge a book when the general editor of the series opens the volume with a statement that each...

A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. By MATTHEW CONNELLY (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. xviii + 400. 38.99 [pounds sterling]). THE Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) is...

Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History. By JONATHAN CLARK (London: Atlantic Books, 2003; pp. xiv + 336. 25 [pounds sterling]). DESPITE its title this book is not a general philosophical or methodological discussion of...

Gerhard Ritter: Geschichtswissenchaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Gerhard Ritter: Geschichtswissenchaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert. By CHRISTOPH CORNELISSEN (Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 2001; pp. 757. DM 98). THE historian Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967), now largely forgotten, was once one of the most...

A History of the University of Manchester, 1973-1990.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... A History of the University of Manchester, 1973-1990. By BRIAN PULLAN, with Michel Abendstern (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2004; pp. xiii + 334. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). THIS is another good example of the new breed of university...

Les societies occidentales du milieu du VIe siecle a la fin du IXe siecle.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Les societies occidentales du milieu du VIe siecle a la fin du IXe siecle, by Philippe Depreux (Rennes: Rennes U.P., 2002s; pp. 304. Eur 19). This is a brief 'tour d'horizon' of early medieval social history. It was written to help...

Personlichkeitsausdruck und Personlichkeitswahrnehmung im Zeitalter der Investiturkonflikte: Studien zu den Briefsammlungen des Anselm von Canterbury.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Personlichkeitsausdruck und Personlichkeitswahrnehmung im Zeitalter der Investiturkonflikte: Studien zu den Briefsammlungen des Anselm von Canterbury, by Thomas Michael Kruger (Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2002; pp. 270. Eur 44.80). This study...

Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300, by Jean Dunbabin (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp, 2.07. Pb. 18.99 [pounds sterling]). 'They took those people that they thought had any goods--men and women-and put...

Littere Baronum: the Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Littere Baronum: The Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne, ed. Theodore Evergates (Toronto: Toronto U.P., 2003; pp. 210. 32 [pounds sterling]). Medievalists will be much in Professor Evergates's debt for this clear and...

Das Eigene und das Fremde: Identitat und Fremdheit in den Chroniken Adams von Bremen, Helmolds von Bosau und Arnolds von Lubeck.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Das Eigene und das Fremde: Identitat und Fremdheit in den Chroniken Adams von Bremen, Helmolds von Bosau und Arnolds von Lubeck, by Volker Scior (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002; pp. 375. Eur 59.80). For some time now, the Other has been a...

Philippe III, le hardi.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Philippe III, le hardi, by Gerard Sivery (Paris: Fayard, 2003; pp. 359. Eur 22). This biography constitutes the last of five produced by Gerard Sivery to add substance to the picture of Louis IX which he offered in his much-lauded St...

Reading Gild Accounts, 1357-1516.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Reading Gild Accounts, 1357-1516 (Parts I and II), ed. Cecil Slade (Reading: Berkshire Record Soc. 6 and 7, 2002; pp. cviii + 181 and 231. 25 [pounds sterling] each vol.). Reading was a town that initially owed its growth to the Abbey to...

The St Albans Chronicle: the Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham. Vol. I: 1376-1394.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The St Albans Chronicle: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham. Vol. I: 1376-1394, ed. and tr. John Taylor, Wendy R. Childs and Leslie Watkiss (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2003; pp. cxvii + 1029. 135 [pounds sterling]). Thomas Walsingham is...

I vescovi dell'Italia settentrionale nel basso medioevo: Cronotassi per le diocesi di Cremona, Pavia e Tortona nei secoli XIV e XV.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... I vescovi dell'Italia settentrionale nel basso medioevo: Cronotassi per le diocesi di Cremona, Pavia e Tortona nei secoli XIV e XV, ed. Piero Majocchi and Mirella Montanari (Pavia: U.P. di Pavia, 2002; pp. 214. Eur 26). This volume is...

Dante and the City.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Dante and the City, by Catherine Keen (Stroud: Tempus, 2003; pp. 288. Pb. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). During his long years of political exile, Dante repeatedly recalled, in his letters and in the poem for which he is universally known,...

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers, by G. R. Evans (London/New York: Routledge, 2002; pp. xxxvi + 183. 11.99 [pounds sterling]). Routledge Key Guides is a well-established series of handbooks which define and discuss key concepts, thinkers or...

Is the Church too Asian? Reflections on the Ecumenical Councils.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Is the Church too Asian? Reflections on the Ecumenical Councils, by Norman Tanner (Bangalore, India: Dharmaram Publications, 2002; pp. 91. Pb. 5 [pounds sterling]). This short book sets forth the revised version of Tanner's Placid...

Quellen zur Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Grossen Konzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts. Teil II: Die Konzilien von Pavia/Siena, Basel und Ferrara/Florenz (1438-1445).(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Quellen zur Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Grossen Konzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts. Teil II: Die Konzilien von Pavia/Siena, Basel und Ferrara/Florenz (1438-1445), ed. and tr. Jurgen Miethke and Lorenz Weinrich (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche...

Sumptuary Law in Italy, 1200-1500.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Sumptuary Law in Italy, 1200-1500, by Catherine Kovesi Killerby (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. 191. 40 [pounds sterling]). This slim, elegantly written volume, published as part of the Oxford Historical Monographs series, is certain to...

'Dare et habere': Il mondo di un mercante milanese del Quattrocento.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... 'Dare et habere': Il mondo di un mercante milanese del Quattrocento, by M. Gazzini (Florence: Firenze U.P., 2002; pp. xxi + 189. Eur 13. Also available as an e-book from Reti Medievali). In 1425 Donato Ferrario, a merchant in Milan, had a...

Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes and Fine Clothing.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes and Fine Clothing, by Carole Collier Frick, (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2002; p. 347. 33.50 [pounds sterling]). This study focuses upon the making and wearing of dress in...

Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England, ed. Fiona Somerset, Jill C. Havens and Derrick G. Pitard (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003; pp. 344. 50 [pounds sterling]). This is a collection of thirteen articles by historians...

Une paroisse raconte ses morts: L'obituaire de l'eglise Saint-Paul a Villeneuve (XIV-XV siecles).(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Une paroisse raconte ses morts: L'obituaire de l'eglise Saint-Paul a Villeneuve (XIV-XV siecles), by Arthur Bisseguer (Lausanne: U. de Lausanne P., 2003; pp. 199. N.p.). How can an obscure parish remember its dead? By putting their names...

Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, by David Starkey (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003; pp. xxviii + 852. 25 [pounds sterling]). David Starkey is an immensely successful populariser of history, whether through television or the written...

The Swiss Reformation.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Swiss Reformation, by Bruce Gordon (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. xxiv + 368. 49.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). This is to my knowledge the first book-length study of the Swiss Reformation to appear in...

Stories from Gaelic Ireland: Microhistories from the Sixteenth-century Irish Annals.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Stories from Gaelic Ireland: Microhistories from the Sixteenth-century Irish Annals, by Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2003; pp. 224. 39.95 [pounds sterling]). This is a most valuable work,...

Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620, by Claire S. Schen (Aldershot: Ashgate (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History), 2002; pp. 281. 55 [pounds sterling]) There have been various studies of popular piety and the...

John Foxe and his World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... John Foxe and his World, ed. Christopher Highley and John N. King (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. xx + 297. 55 [pounds sterling]). This volume contains seventeen of the papers given at the Third International John Foxe Colloquium, held in...

Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648, ed. Mack P. Holt (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 263. N.p.) Under a title the terms of which are nowhere defined (the introduction says no more than that both Renaissance and Reformation...

'Questo passo dell'heresia': Pietrantonio di Capua tra Valdesiani, "Spirituali" e Inquisizione.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... 'Questo passo dell'heresia': Pietrantonio di Capua tra Valdesiani, "Spirituali" e Inquisizione, by Dario Marcatto (Naples: Bibliopolis, 2003; pp. 262. Eur 35). In the mid-sixteenth century investigations by the Roman Holy Office into...

Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: the Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: The Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America, by Robert W. Thurston (Harlow: Longman, 2001; pp. xvi + 202. 20 [pounds sterling]). Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, by...

Venice Triumphant: the Horizons of a Myth.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth, by Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, tr. Lydia G. Cochrane (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2002; pp. xxii + 386. 29.50 [pounds sterling]). This is a brave and beautiful book. There is something noteworthy...

The Renaissance Bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, by Jerry Brotton (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. 243. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). This is Jerry Brotton's third book on the renaissance. The first, and the most interesting, was...

The Unending Frontier: an Environmental History of the Early Modern World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World, by John F. Richards (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2003; pp. xiv + 682. 52 [pounds sterling]). This accomplished study by a scholar with a background in Indian...

Europe and the World, 1650-1830.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Europe and the World, 1650-1830, by Jeremy Black (London/New York: Routledge, 2002; pp. 192. Pb. n.p.). To tackle so sprawling a subject in less than two hundred pages represents a major challenge, but it is one which Jeremy Black in his...

Irish Migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Irish Migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820, ed. Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2003; pp. 208. Eur 45). This volume emanated from a second international conference organised in 2000 by the Irish in...

The Cult of King Charles the Martyr.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Cult of King Charles the Martyr, by Andrew Lacey (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2003: pp. 310. 50 [pounds sterling]). Perhaps the most important recent trend in the historiography of early modern England has been the stress on continuity...

Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History, by Owen Davies (London: Hambledon, 2003; pp. xv + 246. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). As the author makes clear in his introduction, 'cunning folk' is a neglected subject, at best treated as a...

The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink, ed. Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore (London: Rivers Oram P., 2003; pp. xvi + 256. Pb.n.p.). A collection of essays gathered around the theme of London's streets is an...

Sensory Worlds in Early America.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Sensory Worlds in Early America, by Peter Charles Hoffer (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2003; pp. 334. 29.50 [pounds sterling]). In the last fifteen to twenty years several historians have begun to research and write on the past...

Eurafricans in West Africa: Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Eurafricans in West Africa: Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, by George E. Brooks (Athens, OH/Oxford: Ohio U.P./James Currey, 2003; pp. xxv + 355. Pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). ...

The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion: a Sect in Action in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion: A Sect in Action in Eighteenth-Century England, by Alan Harding (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2003; pp. 415. 65 [pounds sterling]). With the scholarly biographies of the Countess of Huntingdon by Edwin...

The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800, by J. C. S. Mason (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for The Royal Historical Soc., 2001; pp. xv + 279. 45 [pounds sterling]). Studies of the Protestant missionary movement...

Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France, by Andrea A. Rusnock (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xvi + 249. 45 [pounds sterling]). In her opening sentence Andrea Rusnock explains very...

The University of Edinburgh: an Illustrated History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The University of Edinburgh: An Illustrated History, by Robert D. Anderson, Michael Lynch and Nicholas Phillipson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. P., 2003, pp. 216. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). In the long eighteenth...

Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870, by Peter Kirby (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. 172. 16.50 [pounds sterling]). In an earlier generation of historiography a book with this title and these dates would have told a story of...

The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City, by Patrick Joyce (London: Verso, 2003; pp. 276. 18 [pounds sterling]). The use of the word 'liberalism' might, Joyce reflects at the start of his book, mislead the unwary reader. He...

Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Oonagh Walsh (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2003; pp. 224. 40 [pounds sterling]). Interest in migration and diaspora studies, reports the editor of this volume, has...

The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France, ed. Jo Burr Margadant (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2000; pp. 298. $48; pb. $17.95). Biography, Jo Burr Margadant suggests in the introduction to this collection,...

The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-2000.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-2000, by Doreen Rosman (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003; pp. xiv + 399. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]). That a book like this is necessary, and that the CUP think it...

The English Nation: the Great Myth.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The English Nation: The Great Myth, by Edwin Jones (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2003; pp. xxiv + 456. Pb. 7.99 [pounds sterling]). Edwin Jones was a student of Herbert Butterfield, under whose direction he wrote a 1958 PhD thesis about the...

Franz Conrad yon Hotzendorf: Architect of the Apocalypse.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Franz Conrad yon Hotzendorf: Architect of the Apocalypse, by Lawrence Sondhaus (Boston/Leiden: Humanities P./Brill, 2000; pp. 271. $79.50). The subject of this biography was the Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff for most of the...

The Great War: an Imperial History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Great War: An Imperial History, by John H. Morrow, Jr. (London: Routledge, 2003; pp. xvi + 352. 25 [pounds sterling]). The scope of Professor Morrow's new book is broader than its title suggests. Essentially this is a new...