The English Historical Review articles from November 2001

The English Historical Review archives from November 2001

Hirelings and shepherds: Archbishop Berenguer of Narbonne (1191-1211) and the ideal Bishop.
November 1, 2001... IT is for his occupation of the see of Narbonne that Archbishop Berenguer (1191-1211) is best known to historians. Narbonne in the twelfth century was one of the richest cities in Languedoc, and was the seat of an archbishop whose province...

The Admission of Lairds to the Scottish Parliament.
November 1, 2001... The Parliament should represent the haill body of the common-weal... and it were ane gryt absurdity that every mean craftsman within boroughs in a manner should have avice in Parliament, in sa far as be their votes their commissioners to the...

Lord Salisbury `Watching Committee' and the Fall of Neville Chamberlain, May 1940 *.
November 1, 2001... ON 28 May 1937 Neville Chamberlain entered 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister. Earlier, the retiring Stanley Baldwin suggested to Chamberlain, `it will be a wonderful thing for you if you can bring about European peace'. (1) Chamberlain...

Extraordinary privilege: the trial of Penenden Heath and the Domesday inquest *. (Notes And Documents).
November 1, 2001... ONE of the reasons that the monks of Christ Church Canterbury held the memory of Archbishop Lanfranc so dear was their recollection of his strenuous work to establish and preserve the rights of the church. As the monks told it in the years...

The Queen's council in the Middle Ages *.
November 1, 2001... IN February 1605, James I established the judicial subsection of the council of his queen, Anne of Denmark, as a separate court. In 1641 Sir John Lamb, chancellor of Queen Henrietta Maria, claimed to have evidence for such a court during the...

A History of Derbyshire. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... A History of Derbyshire. By GLADWYN TURBUTT (Cardiff: Merton Priory P., 1999; 4 vols: pp. 1748. 120 [pounds sterling]). UNLIKE many English counties, Derbyshire produced no classic history in the eighteenth century. Yet a glance at the...

City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective. Edited by JAMES D. TRACY (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 697. 50 [pounds sterling]). ACROSS the world, many cities have been walled since early times, whether one thinks of...

The Medieval Cult of St Petroc. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The Medieval Cult of St Petroc. By KAREN JANKULAK (Woodbridge: Boydell P., pp. 363. 45 [pounds sterling]). No mortal knows the number of the saints, but it is certainly in the tens of thousands, and each one has a story. Sometimes it is...

The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England. By KATHERINE J. LEWIS (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. 286. 45 [pounds sterling]). No mortal knows the number of the saints, but it is certainly in the tens of thousands,...

The Silent Masters: Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The Silent Masters: Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages. By PETER GOOMAN (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2000; pp. 372. 38 [pounds sterling]). CENSORSHIP, scholarship, popes, dissent, control, Bernards, and Peters....

The Welsh King and his Court. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The Welsh King and his Court. Edited by T. M. CHARLES-EDWARDS, MORFYDD E. OWEN and PAUL RUSSELL (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. 603. 25 [pounds sterling]). For any scholar attempting to engage with the medieval past of Wales, the...

Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England. By IAN GREEN (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. xxiii+691. 65 [pounds sterling]). THIS is the second part of a projected trilogy. The first part was Ian Green's study of catechisms, The...

Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660: International Calvinism and the Rearmed Church in Hungary and Transylvania. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660: International Calvinism and the Rearmed Church in Hungary and Transylvania. By GRAEME MURDOCK (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2000; pp. 359. 548 [pounds sterling]). INTERNATIONAL Calvinism remains one of the...

The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, c.1550-1640. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, c.1550-1640, by STEVE HINDLE (London: Macmillan P., 2000; pp. 338. 45 [pounds sterling]). No reader of these two books will doubt either the current vigour of early modern English...

State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550-1700. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550-1700, by MICHAEL J. BRADDICK (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 448. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). No reader of these two books will doubt either the current vigour...

The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: St Edward's `Laws' in Early Modern Political Thought.
November 1, 2001... The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: St Edward's `Laws' in Early Modern Political Thought. By JANELLE GREENBERG (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 343. 45 [pounds sterling]). THE pre-eminent figures of seventeenth-century...

Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1850. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1850. By VLADIMIR JANKOVIC (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. 272. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). GIVEN the omnipresence, disruptive potential, and variability of the...

France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society. (Book Reviews).
November 1, 2001... France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society. By CHARLES SOWERWINE (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. xxvi + 505. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). WHERE should a history of modern France start? Maurice Larkin, in a...

`Godless Communists': Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932.
November 1, 2001... `Godless Communists': Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. By WILLIAM B. HUSBAND (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois U.P., 2000; pp. 241. 36 [pounds sterling]). Two new studies focused on the NEP era (1921-8) exemplify the...

Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St Petersburg, 1900-1929.
November 1, 2001... Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St Petersburg, 1900-1929. By LAURA L. PHILLIPS (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois U.P., 2000; pp. 212. 38 [pounds sterling]). Two new studies focused on the NEP era (1921-8) exemplify the...

Utopie als Ideolagie: Geschichtsdenken und politisches Handeln im Dritten Reich.
November 1, 2001... Utopie als Ideolagie: Geschichtsdenken und politisches Handeln im Dritten Reich. By FRANK-LOTHAR KROLL (Paderborn: Schoningh, 1991; pp. 368. DM 88). FOR the first thirty years after his suicide Hitler was so much loathed that no...

Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture.
November 1, 2001... Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture. Edited by GEORGE K. BEHLMER and FRED M. LEVENTHAL (Stanford, CA: Stanford U.E, 2000; pp. 277. 35 [pounds sterling]). THIS book represents a timely...

A Concise History of Byzantium. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... A Concise History of Byzantium, by Warren Treadgold (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 273. Pb. 3.99 [pounds sterling]). Treadgold's book is divided into eight chapters: an introduction and conclusion and six sections organized into...

Orientalism: A Reader. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Orientalism: A Reader, ed. A. L. Macfie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2000; pp. 382. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). `There could be no Orientalism without, on the one hand, the Orientalists, and on the other, the...

History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity, by Charles W. Hedrick, Jr., (Austin: U. of Texas P., 2000; pp. 338. 25 [pounds sterling]). Anglo-Saxon historians remember the names of Eanfrith and Osric, kings...

Treasure in the Medieval West. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Treasure in the Medieval West, ed. Elizabeth M. Tyler (York: York Medieval P., 2000; pp. 174. 45 [pounds sterling]). Although the boundaries of time and place give this collection of nine papers a kind of coherence, only the first five...

Spain: A History. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Spain: A History, ed. Raymond Carr (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 318. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). Raymond Carr presents a highly accessible introduction to Spanish history from the first evidence of human civilization in the cave...

Britain in the First Millennium. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Britain in the First Millennium, by Edward James (London: Arnold, 2001; pp. 310. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). In the introduction to his book, the author claims to innovate in three ways: by taking as his subject...

Die Kapetinger. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Die Kapetinger, by Joachim Ehlers (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2000; pp. 310. DM 32.95). As a jacket note explains, this is the first full history of the Capetians to be published in German. None the less, Professor Ehlers is treading...

Early Deira: Archaeological Studies of the East Riding in the Fourth to Ninth Centuries AD. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Early Deira: Archaeological Studies of the East Riding in the Fourth to Ninth Centuries AD, ed. Helen Geake and Jonathan Kenny (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2000; pp. 140. 28 [pounds sterling]). Edited by Helen Geake and Jonathan Kenny, this...

The English in the Twelfth Century: Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The English in the Twelfth Century: Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values, by John Gillingham (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. 289. 50 [pounds sterling]). Reviewing John Gillingham's new book has been a most agreeable...

The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 1066-c.1280. (Short Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 1066-c. 1280, ed. Barbara Harvey (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 317. 11.99 [pounds sterling]). In her conclusion to the volume, Barbara Harvey asks the...

The Early Humiliati. (Short Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Early Humiliati, by Frances Andrews (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 353. 45 [pounds sterling]). The medieval utopian impulse animating social experimentation found its natural home among voluntary religious associations engaged...

Salisbury Cathedral. The West Front: A History and Study in Conservation. (Short Notices).
November 1, 2001... Salisbury Cathedral. The West Front: A History and Study in Conservation, ed. Tim Ayers (Chichester: Phillimore, 2000; pp. 264. 40 [pounds sterling]). There can be few medieval cathedrals in England which have been so intensively studied...

Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University. (Short Notices).
November 1, 2001... Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse, Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stoudt and Anne T. Thayer (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998; pp. 414. Euro 49) This is a substantial collection of twenty-one papers...

England under Edward I and Edward II, 1259-1327.
November 1, 2001... England under Edward I and Edward II, 1259-1327, by Sandra Raban (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 204. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). This volume, one of a series on the History of Medieval Britain, is comprehensive in...

Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History. (Short Notices).
November 1, 2001... Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History, by G. A. Loud (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 334. 57.50 [pounds sterling]). In the Mezzogiorno of the central Middle Ages, with its numerous small and...

Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. (Short Notices).
November 1, 2001... Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power, ed. W. J. Connell and A. Zorzi (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 357. 40 [pounds sterling]). This impressive essay collection based, with modifications, on conference papers...

The Westminster Missal (Missale ad usum Ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis). (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Westminster Missal (Missale ad usum Ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis), ed. John Wickham Legg (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Henry Bradshaw Soc., 2000; pp. 1731. 95 [pounds sterling]). Produced by John Wickham Legg for the Henry Bradshaw...

Family and Household in Medieval England. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Family and Household in Medieval England, by Peter Fleming (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 162. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Students will have cause to be grateful for this latest contribution to the `Social History in Perspective'...

The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster: Public Authority and Private Power, 1399-1461. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The King, the Crown, and the Duchy of Lancaster: Public Authority and Private Power, 1399-1461, by Helen Castor (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 343. 50 [pounds sterling]). Recent efforts to re-conceptualize the constitutional history of...

The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture, ed. Darryll Grantley and Nina Taunton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 253. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). This is a collection of fourteen essays by literary scholars, placed in four...

The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths, ed. A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie and Ralph Hanna (London: The British Library, 2000; pp. 264. 45 [pounds sterling]). Jeremy Griffiths was fascinated by codicological...

Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Anne Curry and Elizabeth Matthew (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, The Fifteenth Century, vol. I, 2000; pp. 195. 45 [pounds sterling]). The proceedings of the periodic...

The Merchant Taylors' Company of London: Court Minutes, 1486-1493. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Merchant Taylors' Company of London: Court Minutes, 1486-1493, ed. Matthew Davies (Stamford: Paul Watkins, for Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, 2000; pp. 342. N.p.) The court minutes of the Merchant Taylors are the fullest to...

The Libraries of King Henry VIII (CBMLC Vol. VII). (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Libraries of King Henry VIII (CBMLC Vol. VII), ed. James E Carley (London: The British Library, 2000; pp. xcii+407. 85 [pounds sterling]). James Carley's edition of The Libraries of King Henry VIII tells us much about Henry VIII's...

Elizabeth I: Collected Works. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Elizabeth I: Collected Works, ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose (Chicago: Chicago U.P., 2000; pp. 446. 25 [pounds sterling]). Handsomely produced, this book is an invaluable resource for students of history and...

Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer, by James McDermott (New Haven/ London: Yale U.P., 2001; pp. 509. 25 [pounds sterling]). Frobisher was never elected to the Victorian pantheon of Elizabethan naval heroes, perhaps because he was...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe, by Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 360. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]). ...

Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640, by Alison Wall (London: Arnold, 2000; pp. 217. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Written primarily for students, this book addresses what Alison Wall describes as a paradox in...

Bloody Marsh: A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Bloody Marsh: A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis, by Peter Warner (Macclesfield: Windgather P., 2000; pp. 246. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The interest of the history of Walberswick (Suffolk) in the earlier seventeenth century is...

Calvin: A Biography. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Calvin: A Biography, by Bernard Cottret (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000; pp. 376. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). It is an interesting question why John Calvin should have proved such a difficult subject for historical biographers. In marked...

Jean Calvin: Vies paralleles. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Jean Calvin: Vies paralleles, by Denis Crouzet (Paris: Fayard, 2000; pp. 480. F150). It is an interesting question why John Calvin should have proved such a difficult subject for historical biographers. In marked contrast to Luther,...

Artisans in Europe, 1300-1914. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Artisans in Europe, 1300-1914, by James R. Farr (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 306. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). This welcome, impressive and authoritative textbook looks at urban artisans in part of Europe,...

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, by Merry E. Wiesner (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 325. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). The publication of a second edition of Merry Wiesner's Women and Gender in Early...

Ausgewahlte Abhandlungen. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Ausgewahlte Abhandlungen, by Wolfgang Reinhard (Berlin: Dunkler & Humblot, 1997; pp. 463. Pb.n.p.). Over the last thirty years and more Wolfgang Reinhard has established a firm reputation as one of the most versatile and stimulating of...

Dutch Society, 1588-1713. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Dutch Society, 1588-1713, by J. L. Price (Harlow: Longman, 2000; pp. 306. 55 [pounds sterling]). Students of Dutch and early modern European history have learnt to regard the contributions of Leslie Price with respect and this, the third...

Political Thought in the Dutch Republic: Three Studies. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Political Thought in the Dutch Republic: Three Studies, by Ernst Kossmann (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2000; pp. 197. NLG 50). It is in many ways a great pity that Ernst Kossmann's path-breaking long...

The Early Modern Atlantic Economy. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Early Modern Atlantic Economy, ed. by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000, pp. 369. 40 [pounds sterling]). This collection of thirteen essays honours Jacob M. Price, an economic historian whose...

The Devil Early Modern England. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Devil Early Modern England, by Darren Oldridge (Stroud: Sutton, 2001; pp. 216. 20 [pounds sterling]). The Devil is in many respects a key character in early modern English history, yet so far no full-scale scholarly account of his...

Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700, by Peter Dear (London: Macmillan (Palgrave), 2001; pp. 208. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Peter Dear's is an undergraduate textbook of the Scientific...

Der Friede von Rijswijk, 1697. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Der Friede von Rijswijk, 1697, ed. Heinz Duchhardt, Matthias Schnettger and Martin Vogt (Mainz: Philipp von Zebern, 1998; pp. 340. DM 58). The international peace congress at Rijswijk which concluded the Nine Years' War in the autumn of...

Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698, by Anthony Cross (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 172. 35 [pounds sterling]). Peter I, the Great, of Russia (r. 1682-1725) is one of the...

Miekka ei laske leikkia: Suomi suuressa pohjan sodassa, 1700-1714. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Miekka ei laske leikkia: Suomi suuressa pohjan sodassa, 1700-1714, by Antti Kujala (Helsinki: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Historiallisia Tutkimuksia 211, 2001; pp. 367. Pb.n.p.). Antti Kujala has written a thoroughly professional study...

The Realms of Verse, 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Realms of Verse, 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building, by Matthew Reynolds (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 300. 40 [pounds sterling]). Matthew Reynolds locates his analysis of the relationship between Victorian...

Les institutions de la monarchie francaise a l'epoque moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siecle. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Les institutions de la monarchie francaise a l'epoque moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siecle, by Bernard Barbiche (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999; pp. 430. F 139). The French excel in the production of well-structured textbooks for...

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791, by Dale K. Van Kley (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1996; pp. 390. 25 [pounds sterling]). Dale Van Kley has almost single-handedly forced the...

Feodalisme, societe et revolution francaise: Etudes d'histoire moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siecles. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Feodalisme, societe et revolution francaise: Etudes d'histoire moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siecles, by Guy Lemarchand (Caen: CRHQ, for U. of Caen, 2000; pp. 380. F 220). The retirement of Guy Lemarchand from the University of Rouen in 1997...

Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, by David B. Ruderman (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2000, pp. 291. 24.95 [pounds sterling]). David Ruderman's study of the Anglo-Jewish...

French Anti-Slavery: The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... French Anti-Slavery: The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848, by Lawrence C. Jennings (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 320. 35 [pounds sterling]). This is the first detailed analysis, in any language, of the...

Women In British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Women In British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat, ed. Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 179. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This collection of essays provides a most welcome addition to the...

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855, by S. D. Waddams (Toronto/London: U. of Toronto P., 2000; pp. 315. 48 [pounds sterling]). There has been a great deal of interest in recent...

Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the `Improvement' of the World. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the `Improvement' of the World, by Richard Drayton (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 346. 25 [pounds sterling]). The history of science and Empire is a field that has grown...

Les Britanniques face a la revolution francaise de 1848. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Les Britanniques face a la revolution francaise de 1848, by Fabrice Bensimon (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000; pp. 451. F 250). Towards the end of his life, the great Anglophile French historian, Elie Halevy, observed that the British reacted to...

Histoire de Rio de Janeiro. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Histoire de Rio de Janeiro, by Armelle Enders (Paris: Fayard, 2000; pp. 408. F 150). Histoire de Rio de Janeiro is the latest addition to the series on `Great Cities of the World', a collection that offers a socio-cultural exploration of...

Protection and Politics: Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815-1852. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Protection and Politics: Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815-1852, by Anna Gambles (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. 291. 40 [pounds sterling]). This represents another fine addition to the Royal Historical Society's relaunched...

The Rise of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1918. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Rise of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1918, by Ian Machin (London: Macmillan, 2001; pp. 173. 15.50 [pounds sterling]). This book, which forms part of Macmillan's British Studies series, edited by Jeremy Black, offers a standard account,...

Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914.
November 1, 2001... Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914, by Alice Freifeld (Washington, DC/Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center P./Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 398. 35 [pounds sterling]). For decades after 1948 the common people became the...

Religion, Business and Society in North-East England: The Pease Family of Darlington in the Nineteenth Century. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Religion, Business and Society in North-East England: The Pease Family of Darlington in the Nineteenth Century, by Anne Orde (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 2000; pp. 131. Pb. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). The Pease family rose to regional prominence...

Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century, by Ted Wilson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000; pp. 212. 40 [pounds sterling]). Ted Wilson provides an introductory survey of the international...

Civilizing the Urban: Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, c. 1870-1914. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Civilizing the Urban: Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, c. 1870-1914, by Andy Croll (Cardiff: U. Wales P., 2000; pp. 240. 25 [pounds sterling]). The `linguistic turn' in social history has been concerned with displacing the...

The Irish Diaspora. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Irish Diaspora, ed. Andy Bielenberg (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000; pp. 368. 45 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). The substantial literature on Irish emigration and settlement has been usefully augmented by this new...

Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany, by Margaret Lavinia Anderson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2000; pp. 483. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 5.95 [pounds sterling]). This is an important contribution to...

The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences and Reception, 1905-1920. (Shorter Notices).
November 1, 2001... The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences and Reception, 1905-1920, by Mark S. Morrisson (Madison: U. of Wisconsin P., 2001; pp. 279. N.p.). Between the dates covered by this book there was a revolution in our knowledge...