The English Historical Review articles from November 1999

The English Historical Review archives from November 1999

Piety and Religious Practice in the Rural Dependencies of Renaissance Florence(*).
November 1, 1999... As Denys Hay's Birkbeck lectures showed, research on the Italian Church for the fifteenth century, especially outside Rome, lagged seriously behind work on the English Church, in part because of what Hay identified as the confusion between the...

Reconstruction and Resettlement: The Politicization of Irish Migration to Australia and Canada, 1919-29(*).
November 1, 1999... ON 2 September 1922, the Weekly Irish Independent printed a letter from Patrick Kennedy, a former constable of the recently disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Writing from Perth, Western Australia, Kennedy complained bitterly that he and...

`Maximum Disavowable Aid': Britain, the United States and the Indonesian Rebellion, 1957-58(*).
November 1, 1999... THE post-war relationship between Britain and the United States was founded on a shared determination to resist the challenge presented to their interests and beliefs by the policies and Communist ideology of the Soviet Union and, from 1949,...

Finding the Forger: An Alleged Decree of the 679 Council of Hatfield(*).
November 1, 1999... NEW textual evidence for the Anglo-Saxon period is rare and historians have generally looked to archaeologists for new discoveries. However, buried in the pages of Birch's Cartularium Saxonicum and in the third volume of Haddan and Stubbs's...

Royal Interest in Glastonbury and Cadbury: Two Arthurian Itineraries, 1278 and 1331(*).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 1999... THE iron-age hill-fort at Cadbury in Somerset has long been claimed by Arthurian enthusiasts to have been the legendary site of Camelot. This association is known to date back to the sixteenth century, when the antiquarian John Leland wrote,...

A Continuation of the Manuel d'histoire de Philippe VI for the Years 1328-39(*).(original French text included)(Transcript)
November 1, 1999... In 1885, J.-D. Guigniaut and J. N. de Wailly published substantial excerpts from a moderately interesting chronicle in French which compiled the works of a variety of authors for the period from the beginning of the world to the early...

A Letter of Jane, Duchess of Northumberland, in 1553(*).(original transcript of letter included)(Transcript)
November 1, 1999... ON Thursday 20 July, at Cambridge, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland abandoned his attempt to place Lady Jane Grey on the English throne and proclaimed Mary Tudor in her stead. On Tuesday 25 July he was committed to the Tower.(1) His wife,...

Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750. By RALPH HOULBROOKE (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xiv + 435. 55 [pounds sterling]). THIS very substantial monograph finds one of the most distinguished social historians of early...

The History of the University of Oxford.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford. Edited by NICHOLAS TYACKE (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1997; pp. xxii + 1008. 75 [pounds sterling]). THIS splendid book is the latest addition to the multi-volume...

Histoire des Chemins de Fer en France.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Histoire des Chemins de Fer en France. Vol. I: 174-1883. By FRANCOIS CARON (Paris: Fayard, 1997; pp. 700. F 220) SINCE his thesis on the Compagnie du Nord (published 1973), Francois Caron has been the leading expert on French railway...

A History of the Popes, 1830-1914.(Review)
November 1, 1999... A History of the Popes, 1830-1914. By OWEN CHADWICK (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. x + 614. 70 [pounds sterling]). A NEW volume in the Oxford History of the Christian Church, of which the brothers Chadwick are the editors, must be...

Histoire des populations de l'Europe.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Histoire des populations de l'Europe. I: Des origines aux premices de la revolution demographique, ed. Jean-Pierre Bardet and Jacques Dupaquier (Paris: Fayard, 1997; pp. 660. N.p.), is an ambitious attempt to summarize the current state of...

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Jill Harries's Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: U.P., 1999: pp. ix + 235. 37.50 [pounds sterling]) will be welcomed by specialists in the Later Roman Empire and it should become the starting point for the medieval historian who...

The Sixth Century Production, Distribution and Demand.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Sixth Century Production, Distribution and Demand, ed. Richard Hodges and William Bowden (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1998; pp. 302. NLG 149), forms part of a massive project, supported by the European Science Foundation, of conferences and...

Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire (Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee, 1998; pp. xv+289. 25 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]), Peter Sawyer contributes an important Volume III to the History of Lincolnshire. His broad learning...

Encomium Emmae Reginae.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Encomium Emmae Reginae, ed. Alistair Campbell and Simon Keynes (Cambridge: U.P., for the Royal Historical Society, 1998; pp. cli+112. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]), makes available a text of interest to historians of...

Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The publication of Dudo of St Quentin: History of the Normans, trans. Eric Christiansen (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1998; pp. xxxvii + 260. 50 [pounds sterling]), makes more widely accessible the work of a man whose name today is more...

Soziales Handeln im Zeichen des `Hauses', Zur Okonomik in der Spatantike und im fruhen Mittelalter.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Historians have recognized how long it was before Christian authors began to approach the subject of the church in a systematic way. Thus, none of the great thirteenth-century Summae had a section de ecclesia, and H.-X. Arquilliere edited James...

Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages. Continuity and Change.(Review)
November 1, 1999... As a revised version of a 1994 University of London thesis, Debra J. Birch's Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages. Continuity and Change (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1998; pp. 238. 35 [pounds sterling]) provides eloquent testimony to the...

The First Crusade. The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The reissue of a classroom classic is always to be welcomed, especially when it comes as a revised edition at an affordable price. Edward Peters's The First Crusade. The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials (Philadelphia:...

The History of the Albigensian Crusade. Peter of Les Vaux-de-Cernay's Historia Albigensis.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The celebrated chronicling of Innocent III's contentious anti-Cathar war by a starry-eyed camp-following Cistercian monk has long lacked an English translation. The deficiency has been very effectively remedied in The History of the Albigensian...

The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Medieval European hagiography is full of children. Its systematic exploitation by historians of childhood was long overdue. Now, like buses, two monographs arrive simultaneously. The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval...

Chevaliers et Chevalerie au Moyen Age.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In Chevaliers et Chevalerie Moyen Age (Paris: Hachette, 1998; pp. 307. F118), Jean Flori has provided French students with an up-to-date and chronologically broad survey of knighthood and chivalry, in an affordable paperback with adequate...

Dodnash Priory Charters.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The obscure Augustinian priory of Dodnash, which had only a handful of canons even before the Black Death, none the less left quite a large number (215) of original charters. These passed at the Dissolution into the hands of the Tollemache...

England's Jewish Solution. Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The expulsion of England's Jewish community in 1290 has long been a focus of scholarly interest, but Robin R. Mundill's England's Jewish Solution. Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290 (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xxviii+332. 40 [pounds sterling])...

Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The title of J.M.M.H. Thijssen's book, Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400 (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P, 1998; pp. xiii+187. 33.50 [pounds sterling]), suggests a full examination of a subject recently opened up by...

The Government of Medieval York. Essays in Commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The contributors to The Government of Medieval York. Essays in Commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter, ed. Sarah Rees-Jones (York: Borthwick Institute, 1997: pp. 163. Pb. 10.80 [pounds sterling]), use this charter granting York county status...

Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales.(Review)
November 1, 1999... M. W. Thompson's Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. xiv + 207. 535 [pounds sterling]) adds a further contribution to his valuable studies of major medieval buildings, following The Decline of the Castle...

Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Lutz Kaelber, in Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities (Pennsylvania: Penn State U.P., 1998; pp. 278. $55; pb. $19.95), claims to have written the book that Max Weber had always planned to write, a...

Charity and Welfare. Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia.(Review)
November 1, 1999... James Brodman has been somewhat unlucky in the amount of material which has been published since he began work a decade ago on his Charity and Welfare. Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 1998; pp....

Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Historians of the Mongol Empire, Russia and even the late Byzantine Empire should find much of interest in Donald Ostrowski's Muscovy and the Mongols. Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xiv+...

The Armburgh Papers. The Brokholes Inheritance in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex c. 1417-c. 1453.(Review)
November 1, 1999... To the only four fifteenth-century letters collections has now been added a fifth, The Armburgh Papers. The Brokholes Inheritance in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, c. 1417-c. 1453, ed. Christine Carpenter (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer,...

The Black Douglases. War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The Black Douglases used to be the over-mighty magnates par excellence of late medieval Scotland, for those who sought such things. Michael Brown, in The Black Douglases. War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455 (Phantassie:...

Violence, Custom and Law. The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In 1249, an Anglo-Scottish jury of twenty-four local men `said unanimously that if any misdoer dwelling in Scotland... shall have done wrong to anyone within the realm of England whether by robbery or by homicide or in any other manner whence...

Gesta Hispaniensia ex Annalibus suorum dierum Collecta, tomo I, libri I-V.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Alfonso de Palencia, Latin secretary to King Henry IV of Castile and historian, was unfortunate in losing the favour of Queen Isabella at a crucial stage in his career. Ever since he had been a member of the household of Bishop Alonso de...

Controlling Misbehaviour in England, 1370-1600.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Marjorie Keniston McIntosh will be familiar to historians of late medieval and early modern England as the author of two very well founded monographs on the history of Havering atte Bower in Essex, both of which demonstrate the importance of...

Martin Luther. The Christian between God and Death.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The leitmotiv of Richard Marius's Martin Luther. The Christian between God and Death (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard U.P., 1999; pp. xv+542. 19.95 [pounds sterling]) can easily be summed up: why was Luther not Erasmus? Marius believes that the...

James V. The Personal Rule, 1528-42.(Review)
November 1, 1999... With the publication of James V. The Personal Rule, 1528-42, by Jamie Cameron (East Lothian: Tuckwell P., 1999; pp. xvii+378. 30 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]), the latest volume in Norman Macdougall's excellent `Stewart...

`Practical Divinity'. The Works and Life of Reverend Richard Greenham.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Historians of sixteenth-century English religion, preoccupied for so long with ecclesiastical politics and formal systematic theology, have lately been looking further afield. Pastoral practice and prescription, clerical training, catechizing,...

The Garden, the Ark, the Tower and the Temple. Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In the French Geneva Bible there are only four illustrations. These are a map locating the Garden of Eden, pictures of Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel, and a detailed plan of Solomon's Temple. These four images of human knowledge in the Bible...

The Pity of War.(Review)
November 1, 1999... At the outset of his provocative and immensely readable study, The Pity of War (London: Penguin P., 1998; pp. xii + 624. 18.99 [pounds sterling]), Niall Ferguson poses ten bold, revisionist questions. These include: was the war (of 1914-18)...

Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion. The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Stuart Carroll's revised doctoral thesis, Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion. The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xv+298. 35 [pounds sterling]) breaks new ground in several respects. It...

The Welsh Gentry, 1536-1640. Images of Status, Honour and Authority.(Review)
November 1, 1999... For some time now, historians have been rethinking the Tudor constitution in its British context. The borderlands of the English territories have become the new focus of attention, and questions are being asked about the dynamics that powered...

Reading the Book of Nature. The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Although Galileo famously claimed that the Book of Nature was written in the language of mathematics, much recent historical labour has been devoted to excavating and interpreting alternative visions of natural inquiry, whether magical,...

Beyond the Persecuting Society. Religious Toleration before the Enlightenment.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In recent years the liberal whig paradigm of the progressive rise of religious toleration as European society made the transition from the `medieval' to `modern' era has suffered some serious battering. The Protestant Reformation is no longer...

The Practice of Patriarchy. Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The principal themes of Julie Hardwick in The Practice of Patriarchy. Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France (Pennsylvania: Penn State U.P., 1998; pp. xvi+240. $55; pb. $19.95) are stated in its title. The author...

Port Cities and Intruders. The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era.(Review)
November 1, 1999... It takes great courage and a huge investment of intellectual capital for an established area specialist to undertake a serious research project on another continent, albeit one long closely linked with the original point of scholarship through...

Sermons at Court. Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Peter E. McCullough's Sermons at Court. Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xv+237. 35 [pounds sterling]) is the latest volume in a distinguished series, Cambridge Studies in Early Modern...

Buckingham and Ireland, 1616-1628. A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Victor Treadwell's Buckingham and Ireland, 1616-1628. A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1998; pp. 441. 45 [pounds sterling]) is a distinguished addition to the current wave of work on the `archipelagic' dimension of early...

The Scottish Parliament, 1639-1661. A Political and Constitutional Analysis.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Reading John R. Young's The Scottish Parliament, 1639-1661. A Political and Constitutional Analysis (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1996; pp. x+362. 30 [pounds sterling]) is a very informative business, and totally exhausting. It is an impressive...

Catholic Synods in Ireland, 1600-1690.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Throughout the first ninety years of the seventeenth century the Catholic church in Ireland is known to have held sixty-six synods. The resulting decrees survive for forty-three. These furnish the material which is methodically analysed by...

The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Paul Jeffery's welcome study, The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren (London: Hambledon P., 1996; pp. xix+385. 25 [pounds sterling]), offers the first scholarly attempt, outside the pages of Colvin's Dictionary, to elucidate the design and...

Gentlemen and Spectators. Studies in Journals, Opera and the Social Scene in Late Stuart London.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Henrik Knif's enterprising and informative hook, Gentlemen and Spectators. Studies in Journals, Opera and the Social Scene in Late Stuart London (Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1995; pp. 302. Pb.n.p.), is, as its title indicates, a...

The Williamite War in Ireland, 1688-1691.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In The Williamite War in Ireland, 1688-1691 (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1998; pp. 256. N.p.), Richard Doherty offers an accessible account of the military campaigns. This is set in a minimal discussion of the local politics of Ireland and England...

From Reformation to Improvement. Public Welfare in Early Modern England.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In From Reformation to Improvement. Public Welfare in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1999; pp. 179. 25 [pounds sterling]), Paul Slack explores a sequence of approaches towards public welfare across 250 years. His highly...

The Identity of Geneva. The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864.(Review)
November 1, 1999... `O John Calvin, where art thou now?' Such was the reaction of an amused James Boswell when, on a visit of 1764, he observed that morals in Calvin's city had declined so far as to permit card-playing on a Sunday. It is not difficult for a modern...

Angelique Arnauld.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In Angelique Arnauld (Paris: Fayard, 1998; pp. 505. F170), Fabian Gastellier turns his attention to Angelique, the famous reforming abbess of the Port Royal nunnery. Angelique was perhaps the most extraordinary member of the influential Arnauld...

La Derniere guerre entre la republique de Venise et l'Empire Ottoman, 1714-1718.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Conflict between the Ottoman Empire and its Christian neighbours in the 1710s is usually discussed in terms of Peter the Great's failure at the Pruth in 1711 and the Austrian success, under Prince Eugene, in 1716-17, particularly the capture of...

A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The society of imperial Russia was, at least until its last decades, in many ways so complex and so different from any to be found in western Europe that a reasonably short, clearly arranged and up-to-date account of it will be very useful to...

Urbane and Rustic England. Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660-1780.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The central thesis of Carl Estabrook's fascinating and challenging study, Urbane and Rustic England. Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660-1780 (Manchester: U.P., 1998: pp. xiv+317. 49 [pounds sterling]) is that `The gap...

Britannia's Glories: The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In recent years, Nicholas Rogers and Kathleen Wilson have, separately, focused the attention of historians of eighteenth-century British politics on the popular agitation for war against Spain which engulfed the Walpole ministry from 1738 and...

German Armies. War and German Politics, 1648-1806.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Broadening out from his study of war and society in Wurttemberg published in 1995, P. H. Wilson has written an extended account of military organization in the Holy Roman Empire, German Armies. War and German Politics, 1648-1806 (London: UCL...

Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia.(Review)
November 1, 1999... No scholar during the last generation has done more than Isabel de Madariaga to illuminate the history of eighteenth-century Russia and in particular the reign of Catherine II. The substantial collection of her articles, Politics and Culture in...

Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime Paris. Studies in the History of the Skilled Workforce.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Recent emphasis on the importance of the luxury trades and consumerism reflects a significant, historiographical and ideological shift from the study of the links between revolutions, class antagonisms, and the development of modern capitalism,...

European and Native American Warfare, 1675-1815.(Review)
November 1, 1999... A rich account of the complexities of European expansion and native response is offered by Armstrong Starkey in his European and Native American Warfare, 1675-1815 (London: UCL P., 1998; pp. 208. Pb. 13.95 [pounds sterling]). His is an account...

Le basculement religieux de Paris au XVIIIe siecle. Essai d'histoire politique et religieuse.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Le basculement religieux de Paris au XVIIIe siecle. Essai d'histoire politique et religieuse (Paris: Fayard, 1998; pp. 619. N.p.), by Pierre Chaunu, Madeleine Foisil and Francoise de Noirfontaine, incorporates the findings of theses (48 of...

Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Professor W. A. Speck's robustly argued Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820 (London/New York: Longman, 1998; pp. 244. 42 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]) provides...

Anglo-American Securities Regulation. Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Legal historians have often had difficulty in integrating the development of technical doctrine into a wider political and social context, with the result that much legal history remains largely inaccessible to the non-specialist. The success...

Sir William Jones, 1746-94. A Commemoration.(Review)
November 1, 1999... `History is unkind to polymaths', as Alexander Murray cogently observes in his editorial preface to Sir William Jones, 1746-94. A Commemoration (Oxford: U.P., on behalf of University College, Oxford, 1998; pp. xvi+169. N.p.), a collective...

Britain and the American Revolution.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The American Revolution is unlikely to top anyone's list of subjects most in need of a new volume of interpretative essays, and one might expect there to be limits to the originality with which old themes can be reworked, yet Britain and the...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The new volume XXXIV of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Barbara Oberg et al. (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1999; pp. lxii + 641. 55 [pounds sterling]), spans the period from the late fall of 1780 to the spring of 1781 and continues the...

Louis XVI and the Comte de Vergennes: Correspondence, 1774-1787.(Review)
November 1, 1999... The re-evaluation of the political history of ancien regime France has been advanced greatly in recent decades. Scholars such as Peter Campbell, John Rogister and Julian Swann have greatly enhanced our understanding of politics in the reign of...

Charity, Philanthropy and Reform. From the 1690s to 1850.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Charity, Philanthropy and Reform. From the 1690s to 1850, ed. Hugh Cunningham and Joanna Innes (London: Macmillan, 1998, pp. xi+262. 45 [pounds sterling]), offers two editorial essays and nine case-studies which treat the development of social...

The Travails of Conscience. The Arnauld Family and the Ancien Regime.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In The Travails of Conscience. The Arnauld Family and the Ancien Regime (Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard U. P., 1998; pp. xvi+297. 27.95 [pounds sterling]), Alexander Sedgwick examines the emotional turmoil of many Arnauld family members, as...

Newspapers, Politics and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Hannah Barker's Newspapers, Politics and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1998; pp. xi+202. 35 [pounds sterling]) is a well-researched and carefully argued study of the influence of London and provincial...

The British Monarchy and the French Revolution.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Based on her University of London doctoral dissertation, Marilyn Morris's The British Monarchy and the French Revolution (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1998; pp. 229. 20 [pounds sterling]) is a useful contribution to the efforts being made by a...

The Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793, 1795.(Review)
November 1, 1999... With The Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793, 1795 (London/New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999; pp. xvi+232. 142 [pounds sterling]; pb. 13.99 [pounds sterling]), Jerzy Lukowski has rendered a notable service to European historians. Despite the...

Reichskonstitution und Nation: Verfassungsreformprojekte fur das Heilige Romische Reich Deutscher Nation im Politischen Schrifttum von 1648 bis 1806.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Wolfgang Burgdorf's weighty volume, Reichskonstitution und Nation: Verfassungsreformprojekte fur das Heilige Romische Reich Deutscher Nation im Politischen Schrifttum von 1648 bis 1806 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1998; pp. x+578. N.p.), is an...

Science in the Service of Empire. Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Scientific knowledge was pursued in the eighteenth century for the betterment of mankind. This attracted stare attention, for new knowledge seemed a way to solve problems in a competitive international context. The organization of public...

Albion Ascendant. English History 1660-1815.(Review)
November 1, 1999... In a review of a survey of the `long eighteenth century' written by Frank O'Gorman, I noted that, despite the concept being widely used by historians, curiously until recently there had been no textbook which covered the whole period in a...

Escape from the Market. Negotiating Work in Lancashire.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Michael Huberman's work has become well known in recent years. In a series of important articles he has demonstrated his ability to combine insights from economic theory with a genuine feel for, and knowledge of, social and economic history on...

Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Over a hundred Political Unions are listed in the appendix to Nancy D. Lopatin's study of Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832 (London: Macmillan, 1999; pp. xii+236. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). As an exercise in...

Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa.(Review)
November 1, 1999... Slavery in the French empire did not end with its abolition by the National Assembly in 1848. Indeed, 1848 is the starting point for Martin Klein's excellent Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (Cambridge: U.P., 1998; pp. xxi+354....

West Africa before the Colonial Era. A History to 1850.(Review)
November 1, 1999... There are many usable general histories of both the continent and regions of Africa which cover the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries; but up-to-date surveys of Africa's pre-colonial past are sadly rare. This reflects the increasing...