The English Historical Review articles from November 1999, page 2

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Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885.(Review)
November 1, 1999... By reviewing the interaction of religion upon the British Army, and the public's image of that army, in the nineteenth century, Kenneth Hendrickson, in Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885 (London:...

Sicily and the Unification of Italy. Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859-1866.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Sicily has proved an extremely difficult region to govern in the last two centuries. The Bourbons had to contend with the lawlessness of `armed bands' and peasant `squads', and with a powerful movement demanding separation from Naples....

The Catalytic Wars. A Study of the Development of Warfare, 1860-1870.(Review)
November 1, 1999... It is remarkable how the three great wars of the nineteenth century -- the Crimea, the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification -- have not been considered by historians in close relation to one another. At least Philip Howes, a...

Gardens of Empire. Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire.(Review)
November 1, 1999... This fascinating book, Gardens of Empire. Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire, by Donal P. McCracken (London: Leicester U.P., 1997; pp. xiii+242. 55 [pounds sterling]), opens up an important aspect of the British empire...

`This Rash Act'. Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Victor Bailey, Professor of History in the University of Kansas, is one of the most distinguished products of the Centre for the Study of Social History at the University of Warwick. A student of Edward Thompson, he has acquired a range and...

Mere Irish and Fior-Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, its Development and Literary Expression prior to the Nineteenth Century.(also 'Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century')(Review)
November 1, 1999... In 1986 Professor Joep Leerssen published (in Amsterdam) what was destined to become a cult book: Mere Irish and Fior-Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, its Development and Literary Expression prior to the Nineteenth Century....

Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario, by Lori Chambers (Toronto: U. of Toronto P., 1997; pp. x+237. 41 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14 [pounds sterling]), is a valuable addition to our growing understanding of changes in the law...

I documenti diplomatici italiani. Seconda serie, 1870-1896: Vol. xx (26 Iuglio 1886-30 Iuglio 1887).(Review)
November 1, 1999... In I documenti diplomatici italiani. Seconda serie, 1870-1896: Vol. xx (26 luglio 1886-30 luglio 1887), ed. Edoardo del Vecchio (Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, 1998; pp. lxvii+849. N.p.), the second date is the death of...

Managing the South African War, 1899-1902: Politicians v. Generals.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In his survey of the higher strategic management of the Second Boer War, Managing the South African War, 1899-1902: Politicians v. Generals (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Society, 1998; pp. ix+205. 30 [pounds sterling]),...

Monuments of Endlesse Labours: English Canonists and their Work, 1300-1900.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In 1590 Henry Swinburne bemoaned the `endlesse and invincible labours' of the `manifolde writers of the Civill and Ecclesiastical Lawes'; his struggle to bring them into a `narrow compasse' consumed 600 pages. J. H. Baker is to be...

The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914. Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The romance of Cambridge has given rise to an interesting historiography from Gwen Raverat's classic to studies of the `Cambridge mind' (whatever that is) and Graham Chainey's recent Literary History of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995). Its most...

The Making of Modern Bristol.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Making of Modern Bristol, ed. Madge Dresser and Philip Ollerenshaw (Tiverton: Redcliffe P., 1996; pp. x + 246. 17.95 [pounds sterling]), is a welcome addition to the literature on one of Britain's major provincial cities. It consists of a...

County Monaghan Sources in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... In recent years the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has helped scholars with its frequent publications as well as through the speed with which collections have been catalogued and made available. Notwithstanding electronic access,...

Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and Fascism in France.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Stanford University Press has performed an excellent service in recent years by translating much of the best historical writing in French on modern France. G Their latest offering, Michel Winock's Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and Fascism in...

Late-Imperial Russia. An Interpretation: Three Visions, Two Cultures, One Peasantry.(Review)
November 1, 1999... `Peasant studies', which emerged as a distinct area of academic interest in the 1970s, owed much to the rediscovery of the writings of the Russian `Organisation and Production' school of economists of the 1910s and 1920s, and of A. V....

The Garden and the Workshop. Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Habsburg fin de siecle has become perhaps the most fashionable topic for historians of the monarchy. The trend was begun by Carl E. Schorske in 1961 and still continues apace. The key question has always been: how could this apparently...

Modernism, History and the First World War.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The first successful tank produced in Britain was nicknamed Little Willie. It was quickly replaced by a larger model called, predictably, Big Willie. It was then renamed `Mother', as `it was the first of all tanks' (even though it was...

The Great War, 1914-18.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Spencer C. Tucker has, produced a very useful introductory survey in the handsome format of the `Warfare and History' series. The Great War, 1914-18 (London: UCL P., 1998, pp. xx + 272. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling])...

Gewohnliche Soldaten. Desertion und Deserteure im deutschen und britischen Heer, 1914-1918.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Christoph Jahr, in Gewohnliche Soldaten. Desertion und Deserteure im deutschen und britischen Heer, 1914-1918 (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998: pp. 419. DM78), compares the incidence of desertion in the German and British armies...

The Forgotten Front. The British Campaign in Italy, 1917-1918.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Forgotten Front. The British Campaign in Italy, 1917-1918, by George H. Cassar (London: Hambledon P., 1998; pp. xiii + 269. 35 [pounds sterling]), is the fourth book that the author has written about British strategy and the men who made...

British and American Naval Power. Politics and Policy, 1900-1936.(Review)
November 1, 1999... 1897 serves as the symbolic opening for Phillips Payson O'Brien's British and American Naval Power. Politics and Policy, 1900-1936 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998; pp. x + 274. 46.50 [pounds sterling]). In that year the celebrations of Queen...

Aftermath: Remembering the Great War in Wales.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Welsh commemoration of the men who died in the Great War privileged local over national identity. This is the central message of Angela Gaffney's Aftermath: Remembering the Great War in Wales (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 1998; pp. x+194. 25...

The Hammonds. A Marriage in History.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Lawrence Hammond and Barbara Bradby married in 1901 and so became (in G. M. Trevelyan's memorable phrase) `one flesh and one author'. The marriage was childless and dogged by ill-health, but together, as J.L. and Barbara Hammond, they...

The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Canada's labour historians have long hailed the 1919 Winnipeg general strike as a landmark in workers' protest. There are persuasive reasons why the explosion should have occurred in 1919 and in Canada's third largest city, but the apparent...

Russia After Lenin. Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In Russia After Lenin. Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929 (London: Routledge, 1998; pp. 266. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]), Vladimir Brovkin argues that Western historians of the `NEP era', especially those of the `revisionist' school,...

War and Faith. The Religous Imagination in France, 1914-1930.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Exciting developments have taken place in recent years in Great War studies, opening up issues such as national identity, industrial and social mobilization, cultural construction, class, religion, gender and collective memory. Annette...

Communism: National and International.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The history of Communism has never been a more vibrant field of study than at the present time. The collapse of the Eastern bloc and the opening of archives in Russia have combined with the demise of Communist parties and the decline of...

Fascist and Liberal Visions of War. Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Fascist and Liberal Visions of War. Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists, by Azar Gat (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. ix+334. 45 [pounds sterling]), completes a trilogy of intellectual-cultural histories of European military...

Arms for Spain. The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The question of arms supplies to the combatants in the Spanish Civil War has long been the subject of bitter disagreement and conflicting sources of information. Moreover, until recently there has been an absence of reliable data from one of...

Alternative to Appeasement. Sir Robert Vansittart and Alliance Diplomacy, 1934-1937.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Alternative to Appeasement. Sir Robert Vansittart and Alliance Diplomacy, 1934-1937, by Michael L. Roi (Westport, Conn./London: Praeger, 1997; pp. x + 198. 46 [pounds sterling]), is an admirable study of the paper conduct of diplomacy by the...

I documenti diplomatici italiani.(Review)
November 1, 1999... I documenti diplomatici italiani. Ottava Serie: 1935-1939: Vol. VII (1 luglio--31 dicembre 1937), ed. Gianluca Andre (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1998; pp. lxvii+947. N.p.), is much taken with the Spanish civil war and the...

The Paris Embassy of Sir Eric Phipps. Anglo-French Relations and the Foreign Office, 1937-39.(Review)
November 1, 1999... John Herman's closely written account, The Paris Embassy of Sir Eric Phipps. Anglo-French Relations and the Foreign Office, 1937-39 (Brighton: Sussex Academic P., 1998; pp. 276. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]), is a...

The British Government and the Holocaust. The Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership?(Review)
November 1, 1999... For the first quarter-century after the end of the Second World War, Britain's response to the needs of persecuted European Jewry was, by and large, warmly praised by Jewish historians. With the works of Bernard Wasserstein and others, from...

Das Nationalkomitee und der Westen: Die Reaktion der Westalliierten auf das NKFD und die Freien Deutschen Bewegungen, 1943-1948.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Das Nationalkomitee und der Westen: Die Reaktion der Westalliierten auf das NKFD und die Freien Deutschen Bewegungen, 1943-1948, by Heike Bungert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997; pp. 341. DM76), is the eighth in the series of Transatlantic...

Potsdam 1945. Konzept, Taktik, Irrtum?(Review)
November 1, 1999... Potsdam 1945. Konzept, Taktik, Irrtum?, ed. Heiner Timmermann (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 19971 pp. 427. Pb. DM132), contains twenty-six short essays on the Potsdam agreement by historians from Western, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia,...

The Death of the KPD. Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Patrick Major's book, The Death of the KPD. Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xiv + 335. 45 [pounds sterling]), is a fine study of the much neglected post-war history of the West German...

Deutsche und polnische Vertriebene. Gesellschaft und Vertriebenenpolitik in der SBZ/DDR und in Polen, 1945-1956.(Review)
November 1, 1999... When the war-time Allies confirmed, at the Potsdam Conference in August 1945, Poland's western border at the Oder and Nei[Beta]e and the allocation of its eastern regions to the Soviet Union, they authorized an 18 million population transfer...

The Anglican Canons, 1529-1947.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Anglican Canons, 1529-1947, a formidable volume edited by Gerald Bray (Woodbridge: Boydell P. for the Church of England Record Soc., 1998; pp. cxii+990. 95 [pounds sterling]), stands as the first critical edition of post-Reformation,...

The United States and Iran. In the Shadow of Mussadiq.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Published in the same year as James F. Goode's The United States and Iran. In the Shadow of Mussadiq (New York: St Martin's Press, 1997), Mary Ann Heiss's Empire and Nationhood. The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954...

Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Anfange der Bundesrepublik und die NS-Vergangenheit.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Norbert Frei's work on the young Federal Republic's management of coping with Germany's past in his excellent Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Anfange der Bundesrepublik und die NS-Vergangenheit (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1996; pp. 464. DM78) is of great...

Whitewashing Britain. Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The release of cabinet papers surrounding the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act prompted several works on British post-war immigration policy which challenged the established version. Of these Kathleen Paul, Whitewashing Britain. Race and...

The World Transformed.(Review)
November 1, 1999... At the end of the 1960s, Ostpolitik was part of the spirit of reform that animated the SPD, the FDP, and sections of the CDU. It had hardly anything to do with the student movement or the extra parliamentary opposition of these years. Among...

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic. Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The term `banana republic' was coined with Honduras in mind, and much of the limited corpus of serious historical writing about the country explores themes suggested by that image. This volume, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic. Region and...

Karnten. Von der deutschen Grenzmark zum osterreichischen Bundesland.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Karnten. Von der deutschen Grenzmark zum osterreichischen Bundesland, ed. Helmut Rumpler, University of Klagenfurt (Vienna: Bohlau, 1998, pp. xi + 843. DM175), is the second volume to appear in the ten-volume series, Geschichte der...

Dictionary of Liberal Biography.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The resurgence of Liberalism as a parliamentary force at the general election of 1997 makes this an appropriate time to look back over the individuals who have shaped the Liberal Party and its offshoots over two hundred years. But though...

Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Hilda Kean's topical and militantly entitled Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 (London: Reaktion Books, 1998; pp. 272. 19.95 [pounds sterling]) fills a vacuum between the works of historians of zoology, Harriet...

Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The second fascicule (CX, Laglenne-Lambert) of volume XIX of the Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, ed. M. Prevost and others (Paris: Latouzey & Ane 1997. pp. continuous. F275) follows the well-established pattern of this publication. Like...

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Arguably the most seminal work of the last twenty years in stimulating the still burgeoning sub-discipline of the study of nationalism has been Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism,...

European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective. 1850 to the Present.(Review)
November 1, 1999... European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective. 1850 to the Present (Lanham, Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997; pp. xvi + 323. 51 [pounds sterling]; pb. 18.95 [pounds sterling]), ed. Jytte Klausen and Louise A. Tilly, consists of...

War and the Illiberal Conscience.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Christopher Coker is remarkably widely read, writes well and discusses interesting ideas on virtually every page of War and the Illiberal Conscience (USA/UK: West-view E, 1998; pp. xvi + 240. 29.50 [pounds sterling]), but it compares...

Acton and History.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Both were Regius Professors, both notable Christians. Beyond those things it is not obvious what has attracted Owen Chadwick to Lord Acton over so many years. It could be Butterfield, a link across the decades. It could be bibliophilia:...

Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism, by Carl E. Schorske (Princeton: U.P., 1998; pp. xiv + 240. 16.95 [pounds sterling]), comprises thirteen essays, most of them published in recent years, by an eminent cultural...