The English Historical Review articles from September 1998

The English Historical Review archives from September 1998

Justice and bureaucracy: the English royal writ and '1258.'
September 1, 1998... Between the Norman Conquest and the close of the thirteenth century writing, written records and literacy all developed rapidly and in tandem, as Michael Clanchy has shown.(1) We know that, by the mid- to late thirteenth century, England had a...

The deposition and abdication of Edward II.
September 1, 1998... In 1327 Edward III was crowned king of England in the place of his father, Edward II, who was still alive. This was an unprecedented event in post-Conquest England: one which upset the accepted order of things, threatened the sacrosanctity of...

Persuasions to peace: the Luxembourg-Marigny-Gaguin Embassy and the state of Anglo-French relations, 1489-90.
September 1, 1998... Anglo-French relations in the late Middle Ages were dominated by the demands of the Plantagenet kings for recognition of their sovereignty over the old Angevin lands, such as Normandy and Aquitaine, and by the aggressive assertion of their...

Slave sales in colonial Charleston. (South Carolina)
September 1, 1998... Slave sales in British America were the focal point at which British transatlantic traders and local merchants disposed of cargoes of enslaved Africans, filling the coffers of British merchants and supporting the economic livelihood of planters...

Rethinking the politics of protection: Conservatism and the corn laws, 1830-52.
September 1, 1998... Taken together, the political cataclysms of 1846, 1906 and 1997 confirm the British Conservative party as an ideologically-driven phenomenon. Historically, however, Conservatism's academics and practitioners have often rejected the term...

The History of Government from the Earliest Times, vol. 1: Ancient Monarchies and Empires, vol. 2: The Intermediate Ages, vol. 3: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State.
September 1, 1998... The History of Government from the Earliest Times. Vol. I: Ancient Monarchies and Empires. Vol. II: The Intermediate Ages. Vol. III: Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State. By S. E. Finer (Oxford: U.P., 1997; pp. xviii + 1701. 100 [pounds...

Rex, Dux and Gens. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung des saschsischen Herzogtums im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert.
September 1, 1998... Rex, Dux und Gens. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung des saschsischen Herzogtums im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert. By Matthias Becher (Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 1996; pp. 373. DM98). Already distinguished for work on the earlier Carolingians, Matthias...

The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Elizabethan Politics.
September 1, 1998... The Sound of Virtue. Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Elizabethan Politics. By Blair Worden (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 1996; pp. xxv + 406. 40 [pounds sterling]). Historians and scholars of literature live in the same street, and in semidetached...

The Christian's ABC: Catechisms and catechizing in England, c. 1530-1740.
September 1, 1998... The Christian's ABC. Catechisms and Catechizing in England, c. 1530-1740. By Ian Green (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. xiv + 767. 70 [pounds sterling]). Ian Green's The Christian's ABC is a work of extraordinary, even intimidating scholarship...

The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688-1832.
September 1, 1998... The Long Eighteenth Century. British Political and Social History, 1688-1832. By Frank O'Gorman (London: Arnold, 1997; pp. xvi + 415- Pb. 15-99 [pounds sterling]). It has become fashionable in recent years to employ the concept of a `long'...

External Contracts and the Economy of Late Roman and Post-Roman Britain.
September 1, 1998... Despite a growing corpus of books and papers on the subject, the events of the period following the official end of Roman power remain controversial. K. R. Dark has followed his previous book, Civitas to Kingdom (Leicester, 1994) with an...

Mission und Christianisierung: Formen und Folgen bei Angelsachsen und Franken im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert.
September 1, 1998... The story of the conversion first of the Anglo-Saxons and then of the Continental Saxons and other Germanic peoples to Christianity is a well ploughed field. For the mission of Augustine of Canterbury and the legacy of Columba of Iona, there...

Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey.
September 1, 1998... The aims of the Anglo-Saxon Charters committee of the British Academy and Royal Historical Society, namely to establish authoritative texts of these fundamental documents, are admirably fulfilled in the fifth and latest volume to appear under...

Beatrix von Canossa und Tuszien: Eine Untersuchung zur Geschichte des 11. Jahrhunderts.
September 1, 1998... Countess Beatrice of Tuscany (1013/26-76) has been remembered as a wife and as a mother very much more than as a ruler in her own right. Margrave Boniface of Tuscany to whom she was married from 1037 until 1052 and Duke Godfrey the Bearded of...

The Chronicle of John of Worcester, vol. II: The Annals from 450 to 1066.
September 1, 1998... The appearance of The Chronicle of John of Worcester. Vol. II: The Annals from 450 to 1066, ed. R. R. Darlington and P. McGurk (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1995, pp. lxxxvi + 717.80 [pounds sterling]), is an event of major importance, long and...

La Premiere Croisade: L'Occident chretien contre l'Islam. Aux origines des ideologies occidentales.
September 1, 1998... Jean Flori's La Premiere Croisade. L'Occident chretien contre l'Islam. Aux origines des ideologies occidentales (Paris: Editions Complexe, 1997; pp. 287. Pb. F56), offers a summary account of the First Crusade, followed by an examination of...

Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and Egnland, 890-1215.
September 1, 1998... In Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society. Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1997; pp. xix + 243. 33.50 [pounds sterling]), Bruce L. Venarde challenges what he defines as the prevailing view of female...

English Episcopal Acta XI. Exeter, 1046-1184.
September 1, 1998... While the readership of books on currently fashionable themes is often as ephemeral as their subjects, the sell-by date of a well-edited text extends over generations, and those noticed here can expect to have an extremely long shelf-life....

'Der Guote Priester Meinhart': Ein Augstiner-Chorherr als Apstel und erster Bischoff von Livland. Anmerkungen zur Wiedererrichtung des cultus Sancti Meinardi, vols. 1-2.
September 1, 1998... The cult of saints, like works of history, is often a slave to fashion. Ulrich Nersinger's study of Bishop Meinhard, the Apostle of Livonia (c. 1130/4-1196),... Der Guote Priester Meinhart'. Ein Augstiner-Chorherr als Apostel und erster...

Die Abtei Venosa und das Monchtum im normannisch-staufischen Suditalien.
September 1, 1998... The monastery of the Holy Trinity, Venosa, was founded by Drogo de Hauteville in the 1040s on the site of an abandoned early-Christian basilica just outside the walls of that town. In 1069 Drogo's younger brother Robert Guiscard (by then ruler...

Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience.
September 1, 1998... Of the many books devoted to the subject of medieval warfare, few which tackle a long period prove to be authoritative in their treatment of both the conduct of war and the composition and organization of armies. Let it be said at the outset...

The Great Famine.
September 1, 1998... The north European famine of the early fourteenth century was the most devastating of all medieval subsistence crises. Successive years of abnormal rainfall, a run of bitter winters, and a livestock murrain which prolonged the crisis beyond...

Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics, and Technology.
September 1, 1998... In Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century. Discipline, Tactics, and Technology (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1996; pp. 216. 35 [pounds sterling]), Kelly DeVries sets out to establish the often decisive importance of infantry in medieval...

King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England.
September 1, 1998... Both students and general readers are understandably fascinated by the Black Death. Such a shocking and catastrophic episode, quite apart from its sensationally macabre aspects, seems to offer an example of a single event which changed the...

The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Selected Documents.
September 1, 1998... The sea and the need to repel its incursions form the dominant theme of The Medieval Lindsey Marsh. Select Documents, ed. A. E. B. Owen (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for Lincolnshire Record Soc., 1996; pp. xxi + 185. 35[pounds sterling]). This...

The Chronicle of Adam of Usk, 1377-1421.
September 1, 1998... Adam of Usk is unlikely to figure in any list of the major chroniclers of the later Middle Ages. Yet the appearance of a new edition of The Chronicle of Adam of Usk, 1377-1421, translated and edited by C. Given-Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon P....

La ville et la cour: Des bonnes et des mauvaises manieres.
September 1, 1998... English historiography has been far less marked by the impact of Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process (first published in 1939) than has the German, the French and the Italian. Even in these spheres, what had at one stage become a virtual...

City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe.
September 1, 1998... City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson (Minneapolis/London: U. of Minnesota P., 1994; pp. xx + 331. Pb. $19.95) presents a mixed bag of less sustained quality, although its division amongst...

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, vol. 1.
September 1, 1998... Despite a century and a half of research on the English medieval house, there is still much to do. Indeed, Anthony Emery's massive new survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Vol. x: Northern England (Cambridge: U.P.,...

Machiavelli's Virtue.
September 1, 1998... Harvey C. Mansfield's Machiavelli's Virtue (Chicago/London: U. of Chicago P., 1996; pp. xvi + 371. 23.95 [pounds sterling]) provides an insight into one particular school of interpretation of Machiavelli's political thought. All but one of...

Louis XI et Charles le Hardi: De Peronne a Nancy, 1468-1477. Le conflit.
September 1, 1998... Insouciant obiter dicta about monarchs building modern states and feudal opponents attempting to thwart them have been so passe for so long that one finds them rather shocking. There are too many of them in Jean-Marie Cauchies's Louis XI et...

The Plumpton Letters and Papers.
September 1, 1998... Although one of only four surviving late medieval English letter collections, the Plumpton correspondence has been known only through Thomas Stapleton's edition of 1839 from early seventeenth-century copies made for Sir Edward Plumpton. The...

Repetorium Columbianum.
September 1, 1998... The Repertorium Columbianum was designed by the late Professor Fredi Chiapelli as an enduring contribution to the quincentennial commemoration of Columbus's first voyage. His project, the direction of which was taken over on his death by...

Dangerous Talk and sTrange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII.
September 1, 1998... Sharon L. Jansen's Dangerous Talk and Strange Behaviour. Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 232. 26.50 [pounds sterling]) surveys ground familiar to Tudor historians from G. R. Elton's...

The True Law of Kingship: Concepts of Monarchy in Early-Modern Scotland.
September 1, 1998... J. H. Burns's The True Law of Kingship. Concepts of Monarchy in Early Modern Scotland (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. ix + 315. 37.50 [pounds sterling]) provides a difficult but worthwhile introduction to the tradition of Scottish political...

Thomas Arden in Faversham: The Man Behind the Myth.
September 1, 1998... Thomas Arden in Faversham. The Man behind the Myth, by Patricia Hyde (Faversham: The Faversham Society, 1996; pp. xii + 614. 37.50 [pounds sterling]), is really two books in one. The first is the book of the title, a biography of the victim of...

Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England, 1584-1601.
September 1, 1998... David Dean's Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England. The Parliament of England, 1584-1601 (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xv + 311. 35 [pounds sterling]) is a sequel to the late Sir Geoffrey Elton's The Parliament of England, 1559-1581...

Donna, disciplina, creanza cristiana dal XV al XVII secolo: Studi a testi a stampa.
September 1, 1998... Donna, disciplina, creanza cristiana dal XV al XVII secolo. Studi e testi a stampa, ed. Gabriella Zarri (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1996; pp. 797. Pb. L150,000), is really two books in one. In the first half of this imposing tome...

The Wild and the Sown: Botany and agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850.
September 1, 1998... Delightfully illustrated with reproductions of early botanical drawings, Mauro Ambrosoli's The Wild and the Sown. Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xxiv + 460. 50 [pounds sterling]) traces man's...

Reformation to Revolution, Politics and Religion in Early Modern England.
September 1, 1998... Margo Todd's edition of essays Reformation to Revolution. Politics and Religion in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 1995; pp. 279. N.p.) is somewhat reminiscent of the Readers' Digest approach to knowledge. Like that journal it...

Charles I.
September 1, 1998... The complex historiography of the reign of Charles I is surveyed with clarity, authority and perception in Michael B. Young's Charles I (London: Macmillan, 1997; pp. 223. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 10.99 [pounds sterling]). Like other...

Thomas Hobbes.
September 1, 1998... Trying to write a conceptually accurate but intellectually transparent account of the life and works of Thomas Hobbes within the space of less than 150 pages is a stern and perhaps impossible task. Although A. P. Martinich has written, in his...

The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire and Beyond, 1540-1750.
September 1, 1998... In June 1540 the first two Jesuits, Francis Xavier and the Portuguese noble Simao Rodrigues, reached the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, where they were welcomed by the king, Dom Joao III. Francis Xavier was allowed by Dom Joao to travel to Goa,...

Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds.
September 1, 1998... Rural Images. Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds, ed. David Buisseret (Chicago/London: U. of Chicago P., 1996; pp. xii + 184. 43.95 [pounds sterling]) consists of a series of essays which, if not as comprehensive as the title suggests,...

Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth, 1660-1722.
September 1, 1998... The recent revival of interest in the late Stuart era has tended to concentrate on national themes of politics and religion. These have developed conceptual models, some of them offering rival contexts. Thus a debate has arisen over the...

Court, Cloister and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800.
September 1, 1998... Court, Cloister and City. The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800, by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995; pp. 576. 25 [pounds sterling]), is the first general survey to encompass the art of Central Europe as...

Burgerstadt und absoluter Kriegsberr: Danzig and Karl XII, im Nordischen Krieg.
September 1, 1998... The Great Northern War of 1700-21, like many aspects of Baltic and Scandinavian history, has not fared well in western European historiography. We still lack a good overview of the war in a major Western language; this is unfortunate and...

Der Staatsbegriff im petrinischen Russland.
September 1, 1998... For any aspiring historian of Petrine Russia with a working knowledge of German, Gundula Helmert's Der Staatsbegriff im petrinischen Russland (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1996; pp. 357. Pb. DM 128) provides a highly useful and readable...

The Elightenment's 'Fable': Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society.
September 1, 1998... In recent years it has become increasingly unclear whether one can talk with any clarity of a specifically English Enlightenment without either assimilating English and continental developments unhistorically or pushing the English...

Culture and Society in Britain, 1660-1800.
September 1, 1998... Jeremy Black has the reputation of having published more contributions to eighteenth-century history than any other historian. To his prodigious output must now be added a collection of essays which he has edited, Culture and Society in...

English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century.
September 1, 1998... Servants were ubiquitous in the `long' eighteenth century in England, and the tasks they performed and conditions of service they experienced were incredibly varied. In her survey, Servants. English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford:...

Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature.
September 1, 1998... Visions of Empire. Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature, ed. David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xvii + 370. 40 [pounds sterling]), a beautifully produced book, presents the proceedings of a...

Enlightenment and Conservatism in the Dutch Republic: The Political Thought of Elie Luzac, 1721-1796.
September 1, 1998... The Enlightenment in Holland has not attracted much attention in English language scholarship until very recently, but with Wyger R. E. Velema's Enlightenment and Conservatism in the Dutch Republic. The Political Thought of Elie Luzac,...

William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire.
September 1, 1998... The collection of essays edited by Stewart J. Brown, William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire (Cambridge: U.P., 1997. pp. xii + 276. 35 [pounds sterling]) is uneven and necessarily fragmentary; nor does it have any serious connection with...

The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party, 1768-1773.
September 1, 1998... W. M. Elofson's The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party, 1768-1773 (Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's U.P., 1996; pp. xi + 266. 28 [pounds sterling]) is a book with a very clear thesis. The followers of Newcastle...

Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France.
September 1, 1998... The French Revolution established the rule of lawyers rather more readily than the rule of law. From the Estates General of 1789, where almost half the representatives of the tiers etat were barristers, to the legislative councils of the...

Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment.
September 1, 1998... David Sorkin's Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment (London: Peter Halban, 1996; pp. xxv +214. 20 [pounds sterling]) offers a welcome concise introduction to an important figure of European intellectual history, albeit limited by...

The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94.
September 1, 1998... John Lynn's The Bayonets of the Republic. Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94 (London: Westview P., 1996; pp. xii + 356. Pb. n.p.) is a justly praised study that seeks to reconcile the `new military history' and...

Les Archives du Directoire Executif: Inventaire des articles AF III I a 51J.
September 1, 1998... Archivists, bibliographers, chartistes... (and so on)...xerographers, yawners, Zeitgeist-aficionados: rejoice! An addition to the famous compendious green-bound volumes bearing the imprimatur of the Archives Nationales is with us! How many...

Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson.
September 1, 1998... Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914. Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson, ed. Negley Harte and Roland Quinault (Manchester: U.P., 1996; pp. xvi +255. 45 [pounds sterling]), originated in a presentation of essays to an invited audience in...

Europe Under Napoleon, 1799-1815.
September 1, 1998... For a variety of reasons, the anglophone historiography of the Napoleonic era has over the past thirty years become increasingly deficient. While almost every other field of study has witnessed dramatic advances inspired by the `new history',...

The Romanians, 1774-1866.
September 1, 1998... Keith Hitchins's The Romanians, 1774-1866 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1996; pp. xi + 337. 50 [pounds sterling]) is the `prequel' to his admirable study Rumania, 1866-1947 (rev. ante. cxi. 1344) which this reviewer described in the EHR as `the most...

Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden.
September 1, 1998... On 21 August 1846, for the first time in its history, the Lower Chamber of the Baden parliament passed a motion in support of Jewish emancipation. The vote had little effect on the course of official Jewish policy in the state, for the Grand...

Das unendiche meer der Lufte: Luftverschmutzung, Industrialisierung und Risikodebatten im 19. Jahrhundert.
September 1, 1998... In the early 1980s environmental history became fashionable within the historical profession, and ever since it has slowly yet increasingly established itself as a recognized part of the discipline. Franz-Josef Bruggemeier's Das unendliche...

Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres.
September 1, 1998... In the past decade, histories of women's lives have been pouring forth from Irish presses. In Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Public and Private Spheres (Dublin: Irish Academic P., 1997; pp. 238. 32 [pounds sterling]),...

The New Police in Nineteenth-Century England.
September 1, 1998... Following the path of Clive Emsley and Robert Reiner, David Taylor adopts a spirit of sceptical synthesis as he rehearses the historiographical controversy between consensual Whigs and conflictual revisionists in a useful overview of The New...

Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965.
September 1, 1998... James Simpson's Spanish Agriculture. The Long Siesta, 1765-1965 (Cambridge: U.P., 1995; pp. xx + 316. 40 [pounds sterling]) is the latest word in an already long polemic about the evolution of modern Spanish agriculture. I am sure it will not...

Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity.
September 1, 1998... James Eli Adams's Dandies and Desert Saints. Styles of Victorian Masculinity (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 1995; pp. x + 249. Pb. 12.50 [pounds sterling]) provides important contributions both to our understanding of nineteenth-century notions...

Huxley: Evolution's High Priest.
September 1, 1998... Adrian Desmond is one of today's most exciting historians of the Victorian era. Specializing in the science in and around Britain's capital, he has shown us things about which specialists in the field had absolutely no inkling. Moreover, he...

Society and the Professions in Italy, 1890-1914.
September 1, 1998... In Italy, the tendency for much of the agenda of post-war historiography to be shaped by party political considerations for long retarded the emergence of social history. In the last fifteen years, however, this has changed, and numerous...

I documenti diplomatici italiani.
September 1, 1998... The last months of Crispi's too exciting ministry are recorded in I documenti diplomatici italiani. Seconda Serie: 1870-1896. Vol. XXIII: 1 settembre 1889-8 febbraio 1891, ed. Giampiero Carocci (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato,...

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914.
September 1, 1998... Given its size and importance, the paper industry has been rather neglected in historical writing. Now Gary Bryan Magee in Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry. Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914...

Les Representations de l'Affaire Dreyfus dans la presse en France et a l'etranger.
September 1, 1998... Anniversaries are a mixed blessing. Conferences are summoned at which experts jump familiar fences; others less expert cast about for some appropriate contribution that can be researched and written up in time, and occasionally someone says...

Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820.
September 1, 1998... Electoral sociology stimulated some of the seminal historical studies of British political life since 1830, works which properly retain a classic status. Yet the approach has long seemed weary, not least because it contrived to make the chief...

Religion in the Age of Decline: Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, 1870-1920.
September 1, 1998... S. J. D. Green's Religion in the Age of Decline. Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, 1870-1920 (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xv + 426. 45 [pounds sterling]) is a study of the churches in Halifax, Keighley and Denholme, based...

World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization.
September 1, 1998... In the mid-eighties the notion took hold that by far the best results for growth and prosperity in the past, the present and the future were and would be created by a system of small enterprises co-ordinated within a regional framework. This...

Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920.
September 1, 1998... Passions excited by revolutionary events generate quantities of literature, quality and objectivity often falling by the wayside. The Russian civil war of 1918 to 1921 is no exception. Many accounts of these events are either tendentious or...

A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940.
September 1, 1998... Although she has had to wait so long Eileen Power has found in Maxine Berg's A Woman in History. Eileen Power, 1889-1940 (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xv + 292. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.95 [pounds sterling]), the kind of sympathetic and...

Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal, 1890-1939.
September 1, 1998... Dagmar Engels's Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal, 1890-1939 (Delhi: Oxford U.P., 1996; pp. xii + 282. N.p.) explores an Indian milieu in which rapid social change was accompanied by painful conflicts and tensions in the most intimate areas of...

Weimar Germany: The Republic of the Reasonable.
September 1, 1998... Few would deny the value of seeking to view the Weimar Republic as other than a mere ante-room to Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. Paul Bookbinder underlines this point in Weimar Germany. The Republic of the Reasonable (Manchester: U.P.,...

The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany.
September 1, 1998... For a long time many historians of National Socialism assumed that the dangerous classes in inter-war Germany had been the middle classes, that middle-class support was crucial for the rise of National Socialism to power. Since the mid-1980s...

Piccole patrie. Feste popolari tra regione e nazione durante il fascismo.
September 1, 1998... A velvet revolution is taking place in Fascist studies. A series of brilliant works by Emilio Gentile have appeared on crucial aspects of Mussolini's movement and regime over the last twenty years, complemented by monographs from such scholars...

The Princess of India in the Endgame of Empire.
September 1, 1998... Most standard texts relegate Princely India to the status of a footnote when considering the British transfer of power in the subcontinent, lan Copland in The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire (Cambridge: U.P., 1997; pp. xiv + 302. 35...

The Weimar Insanity: Photographs and Propaganda from the Nazi era.
September 1, 1998... The genesis of The Weimar Insanity. Photographs and Propaganda from the Nazi Era, by Christopher Hurndall (Lewes: The Book Guild, 1996; pp. xiii + 191. 14.95 [pounds sterling]), lay in the discovery, fifty years ago, of a trunk full of Nazi...