The English Historical Review articles from November 1995

The English Historical Review archives from November 1995

Child and adolescent labor in the late medieval city: a Flemish model in regional perspective.
November 1, 1995... DESPITE considerable recent research, we still know surprisingly little of how young people were raised and treated during the Middle Ages. Sermons, didactic treatises, court cases, property records, apprenticeship contracts, personal...

The London Evening Post and mid-eighteenth century British politics.
November 1, 1995... The seizure of Nutt & his man Meres [manager and printer respectively of the London Evening Post] is a measure highly approved of by all Friends to the Government & to the Liberty of the Press, which is disgrac'd and may at ...

Great Britain, Germany, and the Far-Eastern crisis of 1897-98.
November 1, 1995... IT WAS not until the exposure of China's internal and external weakness in the war with Japan in 1894 -- 5 that the chanceries of Europe became increasingly concerned with Chinese affairs. Before then, the Celestial Empire was widely seen as --...

New light on John Purvey.
November 1, 1995... UNDER his entry for the year 1382, the chronicler Henry Knighton told of a curious man he called the `quartus haeresiarcha' of the early Lollards (or Wycliffites).(1) This John Purvey was a simple chaplain who had become enamoured of heretical...

Jean Pelissier and the Office Central des Nationalites, 1912-1919.
November 1, 1995... ON 16-20 June 1912 a French journalist, Jean Pelissier, and a Lithuanian exile, Juozas Parsaitis, who went by the name of Jean Gabrys, organized a meeting at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris which they called Le Premier Congres Universel des...

Ambrose of Milan. Church and Court in a Christian Capital.
November 1, 1995... By NEIL B. McLYNN (Berkeley/Los Angeles: U. of California P., 1994; pp.xxiv + 406. $45). THIS is a splendid and important book. Ambrose captures our interest because of his stature at the time and because of his subsequent influence. An...

Fiefs and Vassals. The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted.
November 1, 1995... By SUSAN REYNOLDS (Oxford: U.P., 1994; pp. xi + 544. 20 [pounds sterling]. THIS book is conceived on the grand scale. In scope it reaches from the end of the Roman Empire to the fourteenth century; it embraces the whole of western Europe,...

The Envy of Angels. Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200.
November 1, 1995... By C. STEPHEN JAEGER (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1995; pp.xvi + 515. 37.95 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a difficult book; and its themes are not made the easier to grasp by the eclectic nature of the sources and literature on which it...

L'Argent du roi. Les finances sous Francois Ier.
November 1, 1995... By PHILIPPE HAMON (Paris: Comite pour l'Histoire Economique et Financiere de la France, 1994; pp. xliii + 609. Pb. F 249). RECENT research by scholars such as Richard Bonney, Francoise Bayard and Daniel Dessert has demonstrated the crucial...

Parliamentary Taxation in 17th-Century England. Local Administration and Response.
November 1, 1995... By M. J. BRADDICK (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 1994; pp.xi + 353. 35 [pounds sterling]). DOCTOR Braddick has attempted one of those tasks which we all hope someone else will do. He has tried to map the massive change...

The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 2 vols.
November 1, 1995... Edited by H. M. SCOTT (London: Longman, 1995; pp. 286, 315. 39.99 [pounds sterling] each; pb. 14.99[pounds sterling] each). THE thirteen essays by different authors, together with useful introductions to each volume and a general conclusion in...

The Works of John Wesley, vols. 19-22: Journals and Diaries. Parts 2-5: 1738-1743, 1743-1754, 1755-1765, 1765-1776.
November 1, 1995... Edited by W. REGINALD WARD and RICHARD P. HEITZENRATER (Nashville,Tenn.: Abingdon P., 1989-93; pp.xii + 495, xii + 518, xii + 480. $480. $49.95 each). As was noted in the review of Part I (ante, cix. 458), this new critical text of Wesley's...

The Hanging Tree. Execution and the English People, 1700-1868.
November 1, 1995... By V. A. C. GATRELL (Oxford: U.P., 1994; pp.XX + 634. 20 [pounds sterling]). V. A. C. GATRELL has written whet he acknowledges to tee a sensational book -`in the older, literal sense of that word' (p. ix). It is an account of executions in...

Germany After the First World War.
November 1, 1995... By RICHARD BESSEL (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1993; pp.XV + 325. 35 [pounds sterling]) ALTOGETHER, 13, 123, 011 Germans served in the armed forces during the First World War. At the end around two million had been killed, nearly three million...

Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar. Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival.
November 1, 1995... David N. Dumville's Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar. Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1992 pp.xiv + 234. 35 [pounds sterling] consists of six essays, linked thematically by the revival...

The Cartulary of Flavigny: 717-1113.
November 1, 1995... Students of the west Frankish realm should give a warm welcome to The Cartulary of Flavigny, 717-1113, ed. Constance Brittain Bouchard (Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1991; pp. ix + 166. $24). This makes conveniently available...

Amicitiae und Pacta. Bundnis, Einung, Politik und Gebetsgedenken im beginnenden 10. Jahrhundert.
November 1, 1995... The study of the remarkable confraternity books and prayer associations of the early Middle Ages has yielded evidence touching on the history, structure and kinship of local families, the personnel of monasteries in the Frankish realms and the...

The Peace of God. Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000.
November 1, 1995... The Peace of God. Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000, ed Thomas Head and Richard Landes (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1992; pp. xiv + 364. $49.95; pb. $19.75), is a set of essays devoted to a theme that is...

England in the Eleventh Century.
November 1, 1995... England in the Eleventh Century, ed. Carola Hicks (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1992; pp. xii + 356. 49.50 [pounds sterling]), claims to be a collection of twenty interdisciplinary essays. They might more accurately be characterized as...

The English Economy from Bede to the Reformation.
November 1, 1995... Since 1969 A. R. Bridbury has been the author of a series of articles examining key issues of medieval economic history stretching from the Dark Ages, by way of Domesday Book, medieval manors, the Black Death and late medieval towns to...

The Eadwine Psalter. Text, Image and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury.
November 1, 1995... Made at Christ Church, Canterbury, the Eadwine Psalter is a massive tome, whose lavishness of illumination, nobility of script, and handsomeness of lay-out make it one of the most impressive of surviving medieval manuscripts. The Eadwine...

Journeys Toward God. Pilgrimage and Crusade.
November 1, 1995... Twelve of the papers delivered to a symposium (a word which presumably is supposed to lend a touch of indefinable academic kudos to what used to be known more prosaically as a `conference') on pilgrimage and crusade at the University of...

The Medieval Church. A Brief History.
November 1, 1995... It requres a brave writer to attempt such a study as Joseph H. Lynch's The Medieval Church. A Brief History (London: Longman, 1992; pp. xiv + 385. 28 [pounds sterling]). Professor Lynch is well aware of the difficulties of the enterprise, but...

Byzantine Diplomacy. Papers from the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990.
November 1, 1995... It always used to be said that diplomacy was one of Byzantium's great strengths. It was assumed that it was conducted according to rational principles and was guided by interest of state. Byzantine Diplomacy. Papers from the Twenty-fourth...

Villages et villageois au moyen age.
November 1, 1995... The twenty-first annual conference of French medievalists in higher education was held in Caen in 1990. Its proceedings, appropriately for the centre of medieval archaeology in France, included interdisciplinary contributions on Villages et...

Medieval Flanders.
November 1, 1995... David Nicholas's Medieval Flanders (London: Longman, 1992; pp. xiv + 463. 34 [pounds sterling]) describes a region that did not have auspicious beginnings. Even the Vikings reputedly turned up Scandinavian noses at its swamps and forests at...

Studia in Honorem Eminentissimi Cardinalis Alphonsi M. Stickler.
November 1, 1995... A Festschrift for Cardinal Stickler must seek to do honour both to a distinguished historian and exponent of canon law and also to a mentor and friend to the many scholars who have known him at Rome during a long career which included service...

Friedrich II, vol. 1, Die Konigsherrschaft in Sizilien und Deutschland, 1194-1220.
November 1, 1995... As the eight-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Emperor Frederick II approached in 1994, so the attention and skills of medievalists were drawn again to one of the thirteenth century's most formidable rulers. Wolfgang Sturner's extremely...

The Dublin Guild Merchant Roll: c. 1190-1265.
November 1, 1995... On 15 May 1192 John, son of King Henry II, in his capacity as lord of Ireland, granted to the city of Dublin among other privileges the right to license all `reasonable guilds'. The grant appears to have occassioned the original compilation of...

Men and Women at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars.
November 1, 1995... Men and Women at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990; pp. xiv + 235. $39.50) is the first of John Hine Mundy's promised sequels to his The Repression of Catharism at Toulouse: The Royal...

Anjou-Kori Okleveltar/Documenta res hungaricas tempore regum Andegavensium illustrantia: 1301-1387, 4 vols.
November 1, 1995... Anjou-Kori Okleveltar/Documenta res hungaricas tempore regum Andegavensium illustrantia, 1301-1387. Vol. I: 1301-1305, ed. G. Kristo. Vol. II: 1306--10, ed. G. Kristo. Vol. VII: 1323, ed. L. Blazovich and L. Geczi. Vol. VIII: 1323, ed. L....

Begegnungen mit China. Die Entdeckung Ostasiens im Mittelalter.
November 1, 1995... Geographic exploration has a perennial appeal. Ever since Herodotus's fascination with the wanderings of Aristeas of Proconnesus -- or even before -- people were eager to read or listen to the tales of travellers and were taken also by stories...

Clerical Poll-Taxes of the Diocese of Lincoln: 1377-1381.
November 1, 1995... The clerical poll taxes of 1377-81 are the oft-ignored siblings of the lay assessments which provided sparks for the Peasants' Revolt. The extant documentation is incomplete, and has only recently begun to receive the attention it merits. The...

The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death. Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy.
November 1, 1995... `Defer not charities till death', wrote Francis Bacon, `for certainly, if a man judge it rightly, he that cloth so, is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.' Two centuries earlier, correspondents of Francesco Maria Datini, the...

Women, Work and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy. Women in York and Yorkshire, c. 1300-1520.
November 1, 1995... P. J. P. Goldberg's work on women in late medieval York has become familiar from a number of recent articles, and he has now presented a fuller account of his views in Women, Work and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy. Women in York and...

Isabel the Queen. Life and Times.
November 1, 1995... So closely bound together in history have been the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, that although a good modern life of the queen alone came out in Spanish in 1964 by Fr Tarsicio de Azcona, for a comparable English life serious...

Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence.
November 1, 1995... Sharon T. Strocchia's Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1992; pp.xix + 308. 32 [pounds sterling]) is less a study of death itself, in the tradition of Tenenti and Aries, than a study of Florentine...

The Early Reformation in Europe.
November 1, 1995... The Early Reformation in Europe, ed. Andrew Pettegree (Cambridge: U.P., 1992; pp. xii + 250. 27.95 [pounds sterling]; pb. 9.95 [pounds sterling]), offers an overview by various authors of the onset of the Reformation in ten distinct states or...

The Tudor Navy. An Administrative, Political and Military History.
November 1, 1995... David Loades is best known as a political historian, and he brings to To The Tudor Navy. An Administrative, Political and Military History (Aldershot: Scholar P., 1992; pp.x + 317. 35 [pounds sterling]) a sense of the navy's important role as...

The Myth of Absolutism. Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy.
November 1, 1995... Progress in academic endeavour takes place by the interchange of ideas, by the revision of accepted opinions, and the testing of new views by more detailed research. The good textbook draws upon the historiographical debate, and while it may...

Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates.
November 1, 1995... Despite its title, G. R. Evans's Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates (Cambridge: U.P., 1992; pp. XV + 328. 35 [pounds sterling]) is not primarily a historical study. The author, much involved in present-day ecumenical discussions,...

Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation. The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580.
November 1, 1995... After the storm and fury of establishing a Reformation movement had subsided, clergy and magistrates had to settle down to the long, slow business of trying to make everyday practice live up to reformed theory. This latter stage of painstaking...

Il processo inquisitoriale del cardinal Giovanni Morone, 2 vols.
November 1, 1995... As an effective supplement to the exemplary edition by Massimo Firpo and Dario Marcatto of Il processo inquisitoriale del cardinal Giovanni Morone (rev. ante, xcix. 877, cii. 479, ciii. 728, cv. 1021), a pair of volumes have been added, one by...

Henri III et son temps.
November 1, 1995... The renewed interest in the politics and society of France in the reign of Henri III is fully displayed in Henri III et son temps, ed Robert Sauzet (Paris: J. Vrin, 1992; pp. 332. Pb. F240), a collection of papers produced for a conference at...

Registre-Journal du regne de Henri III, vol. 1, 1574-1575.
November 1, 1995... The Registre-Journal du regne de Henri III. Vol. I: 1574-1575, by Pierre de l'Estoile, ed. Madeleine Lazard and Gilbert Schrenck (Geneva: Droz, 1992; pp. 287. Pb. n.p.), is presumably the first of many, since Volume One covers only seventeen...

Kaiser Maximilian II. Kultur und Politik im 16. Jahrhundert.
November 1, 1995... Historians have not neglected Maximilian II quite as seriously as certain of his successors among the Holy Roman Emperors of the early modern period; but that is not saying very much. Received views of the religious indecision of this uniquely...

Sir Stephen Powle of Court and Country. Memorabilia of a Government Agent for Queen Elizabeth I, Chancery Official, and English Country Gentleman.
November 1, 1995... Virginia F. Stern's Stephen Powle of Court and Country. Memorabilia of a Government Agent for Queen Elizabeth I, Chancery Official, and English County Gentleman (Selingsgrove/ London: Susquehanna U.P./Associated U.P., 1992; pp. 245. 29.95...

Tudor and Stuart Devon: The Common Estate and Government. Essays Presented to Joyce Youings.
November 1, 1995... Tudor and Stuart Devon: The Common Estate and Government. Essays Presented to Joyce Youings, ed. Todd Gray, Margery Rowe and Audrey Erskine (Exeter: U.P., 1992; pp. xix + 230. 25 [pounds sterling]), is a fitting tribute to its honorand. Since...

Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England.
November 1, 1995... At the beginning of the century A. F. Pollard felt it necessary to spell out that `no English writer's attitude towards the questions, with which alone political history is concerned, is more obscure or less important than Shakespeare's......

Religion and Society in Russia. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
November 1, 1995... The social and cultural history of religion in Russia, as opposed to Orthodox theology, has been sadly neglected over the past seventy-five years, for ideological reasons in Russia itself (and with little hope of immediate rectification, given...

Black Patie. The Life and Times of Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland.
November 1, 1995... Those of us who have, in recent years, suggested that the Scottish aristocracy was not uniquely barbaric are given distinct pause by Peter D. Anderson's Black Patie. The Life and Times of Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland...

Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints. Cornwall and Devon.
November 1, 1995... Nicholas Roscarrock was a Cornishman and a Catholic recusant who died about 1634. He spent the last twenty-six years of his life exiled from his own county at Naworth, the north-country home of his patron, Lord William Howard, where he settled...

War and Society in Early-Modern Europe: 1495-1715.
November 1, 1995... The first page of War and Society in Early-Modern Europe, 1495-1715, by Frank Tallett (London: Routledge, 1992; pp. xvi + 319. 40 [pounds sterling]), warns readers that it omits tactics and strategy, `descriptions of campaigns and the...

The Politics of the Ancient Constitution. An Introduction to English Political Thought.
November 1, 1995... Glenn Burgess's The Politics of the Ancient Constitution. An Introduction to English Political Thought (London: Macmillan, 1992; pp. xii + 293. 3 [pounds sterling],) is one of two fine recent surveys of the political vocabulary of early Stuart...

The Making of a Bourgeois State. War, Politics and Finance During the Dutch Revolt.
November 1, 1995... The success of the Dutch Revolt was not the result only of patriotic heroism, religious zeal, military and naval skill, and the aid of allies; it depended also on the working out of adequate administrative and fiscal arrangements in support of...

Richelieu and His Age.
November 1, 1995... Richelieu and His Age, ed. Joseph Bergin and Laurence Brockliss (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1992; pp. xvii + 28 8. [pounds sterling] is a collection of eight specialist studies originally presented as conference papers at Oxford in 1991. They are...

Town and Countryside in the English Revolution.
November 1, 1995... The preface to Town and Countryside in the English Revolution (Manchester: U.P., 1992; pp. ix + 278. 40 [pounds sterling]), ed. R. C. Richardson, promises `to overcome the traditional separation of [town and countryside] and examine the extent...

The Local Origins of Modern Society. Gloucestershire, 1500-1800.
November 1, 1995... In The Local Origins of Modern Society. Gloucestershire, 1500-1800 (London: Routledge, 1992; pp. xvi + 319. 40 [pounds sterling]) David Rollison uses local historical evidence to test theories about the progress of English society from...

The Devil's Dominion. Magic and Religion in Early New England.
November 1, 1995... `The limits of interpretation' of New England witchcraft have yet to be reached, for in The Devil's Dominion. Magic and Religion in Early New England (Cambridge: U.P., 1992; pp.x + 253. 30 [pounds sterling]) Richard Godbeer has produced a very...

War and Peace in the Baltic: 1560-1790.
November 1, 1995... Stewart P. Oakley's War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560-1790 (London: Routledge, 1992; pp.xvii + 222. 40 [pounds sterling]) examines the relations of the Baltic states and analyses the considerations which governed their dealings with one...

Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment.
November 1, 1995... Research on `unbelief' and `atheism', in various senses of these terms, has recently been proliferating, challenging the conclusions of classic studies such as Febvre's or Pintard's. As a step towards a new synthesis, and also as a substantial...

Secrets of the Kingdom. British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-1689.
November 1, 1995... In Deliver Us from Evil (rev. ante, cv. 193) and Enemies under his Feet Richard L. Greaves described the conspiracies against the government in the 1660s and 1670s. Secrets of the Kingdom. British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the...

Perry of London. A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753.
November 1, 1995... Jacob M. Price's contributions to the economic history of British America are noted for their outstanding quality and depth. To his wide-ranging command of the trade of Chesapeake Bay he has added Perry of London. A Family and a Firm on the...

The Rise of Public Science. Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750.
November 1, 1995... In the 1960s, pioneer studies by Hans, Musson, Robinson and Taylor demonstrated the extent of activity in the field of applied science in the period before the Industrial Revolution. This subject is now given a much-needed modern presentation...

Maps, Land and Society: A History with a Carto-Bibliography of Cambridgeshire Estate Maps, c. 1600-1836.
November 1, 1995... A. Sarah Bendall's Maps, Land and Society (Cambridge: U.P., 1992; pp. xxiv + 404. 75 [pounds sterling]), further defined in a subtitle as A History With a Carto-Bibliography of Cambridgeshire Estate Maps, c. 1600-1836, is a heavyweight in both...

Stato e funzionari nella Francia del Settecento: gli 'ingenieurs des ponts et chaussees.'
November 1, 1995... Much of the history of France during the half-century or more before 1789 centred around a struggle between centralizing, rationalizing and modernizing tendencies fostered, though sometimes ineffectively, by the government, and a social...

Making the Empire Work. London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790.
November 1, 1995... The breakdown of the relationship between the American colonies of British settlement and the mother country was a complex process, which in general has been examined by historians from the viewpoint of the centres of political authority and...

The Industrial Revolution and British Society.
November 1, 1995... It is good to have a collection of essays celebrating the contribution R. M. Hartwell made to the study of Britain's Industrial Revolution, for that contribution was distinctive and has proved to be of lasting value. But The Industrial...

Josiah Wedgwood: 1730-1795.
November 1, 1995... Despite or perhaps because of the long-announced forthcoming Josiah Wedgwood and the Industrial Revolution, by Neil McKendrick, we have continued to lack a modern biography of the great potter and entrepreneur. This unhappy state of affairs is...

The Refinement of America. Persons, Houses, Cities.
November 1, 1995... The Refinement of America. Persons, Houses, Cities, by Richard L. Bushman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992; pp. xix + 504. $40), is a finely crafted account of the spread of gentility in America. From fifteenth-century Italy to European...

The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century.
November 1, 1995... When Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for thirty-two years, came to compose his own epitaph for the monument eventually built by Flaxman in Westminster Abbey, he wrote that he `would have forbid that idle instance of...

'The King of the Alley': William Duer. Politician, Entrepreneur and Speculator, 1768-1799.
November 1, 1995... The spectacular bankruptcy of a colourful character in sleazy circumstances has a certain attraction for writers. Of the sheer tedium of failure, the painful attempt to regain credibility and creditworthiness, it is more difficult to write....

Louis XVI.
November 1, 1995... Until now, John Hardman has been best known as the editor (or co-editor) of two collections of French Revolution documents which all teachers of the subject find indispensable. His most important contribution to our understanding of...

The Deserted Village. The Diary of an Oxfordshire Rector, James Newton, of Nuneham Courtenay, 1736-86.
November 1, 1995... The Reverend James Newton, 1714-86, and the Reverend John Coker Egerton, 1829-88, have precious little in common save that they were both Oxford-educated Anglican parish priests, and that they both kept diaries which have now been published by...

The End of an Elite. The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution: 1786-1790.
November 1, 1995... The most revolutionary decision of the French Revolution was the attack on the separate identity of the Catholic Church, involving as it did the seizure of all its landed property. The role of the French bishops in this drama was of prime...

Triomphe et mort du droit naturel en Revolution: 1789-1795-1802.
November 1, 1995... Florence Gauthier's Triomphe et mort du droit naturel en Revolution, 1789-1795-1802 (Paris: PUF, 1992; pp. 310. Pb. F198) is an odd, idiosyncratic, and provocative book. The author's position is a radical one. Her central theme is that the...

The Men of No Property. Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century.
November 1, 1995... The approaching bicentenary of the 1798 Irish rebellion is already spawning the inevitable crop of monographs, biographies and collections of essays all relating to the turbulent history of the 1790s. The events which led to the cataclysm of...

The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
November 1, 1995... The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-Century Europe, ed Lenard R. Berlanstein (London: Routledge, 1992; pp. xvi + 176. Pb. 10.99 [pounds sterling]) forms part of a series entitled `Rewriting Histories'. It consists of nine papers,...

The Dundas Despotism.
November 1, 1995... In The Dundas Despotism (Edinburgh: U.P., 1992; pp. xii + 425. Pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]) Michael Fry deals mainly with the period from the 17705 to the 18205 in which Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, and then his son Robert, the second...

Humphry Davy. Science and Power.
November 1, 1995... Humphry Davy. Science and Power, by David Knight (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992; pp. xiii + 218. 30 [pounds sterling]), is a contribution to a new series under the rubric of the `Blackwell Science Biographies', of which Professor Knight is the...

Britain's Persian Connection: 1798-1828. Prelude to the Great Game in Asia.
November 1, 1995... Edward Ingram completes a magisterial trilogy with the publication of Britain's Persian Connection, 1798-1828. Prelude to the Great Game in Asia (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1992; pp. xx + 351. 40 [pounds sterling]). The outcome of some twenty-five...

Oxford History of Australia, vol. 2, 1770-1860. Possessions.
November 1, 1995... Australia, 1770-1860. It is an oft-told tale with familiar landmarks. Cook arrives, convicts follow. Penal settlements indirectly spawn pastoral empires. A vigorous society leaps from its unlikely foundations, and gold rushes complete the...

Women against Slavery. The British Campaigns, 1780-1870.
November 1, 1995... An admirably extensive search through the contemporary literature of the British abolitionist movement for references to female participants is recorded in Clare Midgley's Women against Slavery. The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 (London:...

Mission and Method. The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement.
November 1, 1995... The idea that modern history has been the history of the onward march of progress and civilization has taken a few knocks in this century, but it still informs Ann F. La Berge's Mission and Method. The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public...