The English Historical Review articles from September 2001

The English Historical Review archives from September 2001

British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales(*).
September 1, 2001... THE names used to define countries and peoples have figured prominently in studies of how national identities were articulated in medieval Europe. Notions of identity are, after all, integrally bound up with the words used to express them....

Edward III's Prisoners of War: The Battle of Poitiers and its Context(*).
September 1, 2001... THE battle of Poitiers, fought on 19 September 1356, stands almost precisely at the mid-point of a period lasting a little over a century during which France suffered a sequence of military disasters unparalleled in its history. From Courtrai...

Counsel and Consent in Fifteenth-Century Genoa.
September 1, 2001... How did the political elites of the surviving independent republics in Renaissance Italy debate and decide on important matters of policy? Scholarly interest and research into this question has often focused on the informal networks of faction,...

War and National Identity in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Isles(*).
September 1, 2001... EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY armed conflicts have been identified by some historians as one of the ingredients promoting a popular sense of Britishness. Linda Colley, in particular, has pointed to the ways in which war helped to bring together the...

A Draft of the 1531 `Acte for Poysoning'(*).
September 1, 2001... IN its second session, the Reformation Parliament passed `An Acte for Poysoning' (22 Henry VIII c. 9). The statute created a new treason and a new sanction previously unknown to the common law: it declared wilful murder by means of poison high...

The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. By PEREGRINE HORDEN and NICHOLAS PURCELL (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. 761. Pb. 24.99 [pounds sterling]). THE publication of The Corrupting Sea is a notable intellectual event. Caveat...

Prince Henry `the Navigator': A Life.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Prince Henry `the Navigator': A Life. By PETER RUSSELL (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. xvi+448. 20 [pounds sterling]). PRINCE Henry (1394-1460) was the great-grandson of Edward III of England and the grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke...

Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. By DIARMAID MACCULLOCH (London: Penguin, 2000; pp. xvii+284. 25 [pounds sterling]). IN the era of revisionism, the Edwardian Reformation took quite a beating. The emphasis on...

The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation. By PETER LORD (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. 416. 30 [pounds sterling]). DURINg the last ten years there has been a remarkable upsurge in interest in the history of Welsh art and...

Kingship and Favouritism in the Spain of Philip III, 1598-1621.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Kingship and Favouritism in the Spain of Philip III, 1598-1621. By ANTONIO FEROS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xvi+299. 40 [pounds sterling]). ANTONIO Feros has written a wide-ranging and provocative study of the development of...

England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context.(Review)
September 1, 2001... England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context. By JONATHAN SCOTT (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. xii+546. 45 [pounds sterling]; Pb. 17.95 [pounds sterling]). IN the middle of this grand...

After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II.(Review)
September 1, 2001... After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II. By JOHN MILLER (Harlow: Longman, (Pearson Education), 2000; pp. ix+318. 55 [pounds sterling]). FOLLOWING major works on the impact of Catholicism in the late...

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth.
September 1, 2001... Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth. By ALEXANDER J. MACGILLIVRAY (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000; pp. 373. 20 [pounds sterling]). SIR Arthur Evans (1851-1941) began his inaugural lecture as Keeper of the...

The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-43.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-43. By ANDREW THORPE (Manchester/New York: Manchester U.P., 2000; pp. xi+308. 47.50 [pounds sterling]). THIS scholarly study is notable for its utilization of archival material from the Russian...

Economie et territoire en Lusitanie romaine.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Economie et territoire en Lusitanie romaine, by Jean-Gerard Gorges and German Rodriguez Martin (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, 1999; pp. 555. F 260). Economie et territoire en Lusitanie romaine, ed. Jean-Gerard Gorges and Francisco German...

Anglo-Saxon England (28).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Anglo-Saxon England (28), ed. Michael Lapidge et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999; pp. 428. 65 [pounds sterling]). A patriotic celebration was held at Wantage, Berkshire, in October 1849 to mark the thousandth birthday of King Alfred,...

Church Organisation in Ireland, AD 650 to 1000.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Church Organisation in Ireland, AD 650 to 1000, by Colman Etchingham (Maynooth: Laigin Publications (for U. of Ireland, 2000; pp. 538. IR 36 [pounds sterling]). Colman Etchingham's Church Organisation in Ireland, AD 650 to 1000 is a...

Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of her Ninetieth Birthday.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the Occasion of her Ninetieth Birthday, ed. Simon Taylor (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 208. 39.50 [pounds sterling]). A worthy...

Medieval Welsh Manscripts.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Medieval Welsh Manscripts, by Daniel Huws (Aberystwyth: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. xvi+352. 50 [pounds sterling]). Daniel Huws's Medieval Welsh Manuscripts is a user-friendly collection of papers providing the best available guide to the...

Immunes ab omni reloneo: Etude de diplomatique, de philologie et d'histoire sur l'exemption de tonlieux au haut Moyen Age et specialement sur la `Praeceptio de navibus'.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Immunes ab omni reloneo: Etude de diplomatique, de philologie et d'histoire sur l'exemption de tonlieux au haut Moyen Age et specialement sur la `Praeceptio de navibus', by A. J. Stoclet (Brussels/Rome: Brepols, 1999; pp. 576. Pb. n.p.). ...

Les origines de la feodalite: Hommage a Claudio Sanchez Albornoz.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Les origines de la feodalite: Hommage a Claudio Sanchez Albornoz, ed. Joseph Perez and Santiago Aguade Nieto (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez -- Universidad de Alcala, 2000; pp. 253. F 160). This volume contains the proceedings of a conference...

Sealed From Within: Self-Authenticating Insular Charters.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Sealed From Within: Self-Authenticating Insular Charters, by David Howlett (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1999; pp. 110. 45 [pounds sterling]). David Howlett's Sealed From Within: Self-Authenticating Insular Charters comes with its own remarkable...

The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Viking-Age Rune-Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia, by Birgit Sawyer (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 269. 55 [pounds sterling]). The essential internal evidence for the late pagan and early Christian history...

The Creation of the Principality of Antioch 1098-1130.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Creation of the Principality of Antioch 1098-1130, by Thomas Asbridge (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000; pp. xii+233. 45 [pounds sterling]). Historians of the Latin East have tended to follow the major surviving western narrative...

Crusader Castles.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Crusader Castles, by Hugh Kennedy (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. xvi+221. 12.95 [pounds sterling]). The appearance in affordable paperback of this elegant, erudite and accessible study first published in 1994 (rev. ante, cxi. 1239)...

The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307).(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307), by Joseph P. Huffman (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan P., 2000; pp. 361. 37 [pounds sterling]). Joseph P. Huffman set out to make the subject of Anglo-German...

Somerled and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Somerled and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland, by John Marsden (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2000; pp. 180. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). It is not altogether clear at what market John Marsden's Somerled and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland is...

The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority, by Peter Damian-Grint (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 1999; pp. 292. 45 [pounds sterling]). Recent studies of Anglo-Norman historiography have concentrated on...

The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power and Social Change, 1000-1300.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power and Social Change, 1000-1300, by Orri Vesteinsson (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2000; pp. 318. 48 [pounds sterling]). `The first historical study of high-medieval Iceland to be published in English'...

Die Welfen: Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819-1252).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Die Welfen: Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819-1252), by Bernd Schneidmuller (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2000; pp. 378. DM 35). The Welfs, Otto of Freising observed, customarily produce great dukes, while the `Henrys of Waiblingen' -- the...

Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230, by John W. Baldwin (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. xvii+359. 38.50 [pounds sterling]). While many historians continue...

Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary.
September 1, 2001... Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary, by Martyn Rady (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000; pp. xvi + 231. 45 [pounds sterling]). Martyn Rady's book traces the development of Hungarian landholding and noble society from the origins of the...

Hungary in the Thirteenth Century.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Hungary in the Thirteenth Century, by Z. J. Kosztolnyik (Boulder/New York: E. Eur. Monographs/Columbia U.P., 1996; pp. 510. 36 [pounds sterling]). Some two centuries ago, the historian and former Jesuit priest, Stephen Katona (1732-1811),...

Lambert of Ardres: The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Lambert of Ardres: The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, translated and with introduction by Leah Shopkow (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2000; pp. 264. 35 [pounds sterling]). This English translation of Lambert of...

The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages, by Malcolm Barber (Harlow: Longman/Pearson Education, 2000; pp. xvi + 282. 55 [pounds sterling]). The need for a scholarly, up-to-date and reliable survey of dualist...

Friedrich II: Der Kaiser, 1220-1250.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Friedrich II: Der Kaiser, 1220-1250 (Band II), by Wolfgang Sturner (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2000; pp. 659. DM 98). In 1992 Wolfgang Sturner published the first volume of his biography of Emperor Frederick II, subtitled Die...

Koning Arthur in Brabant (12de-14de eeuw): Studies over riddercultur en vorstenideologie.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Koning Arthur in Brabant 12de-14de eeuw): Studies over riddercultur en vorstenideologie, by P. Avonds (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999; pp. 241. N.p.). In Koning Arthur in Brabant (12de-14de eeuw): Studies over riddercultuur en vorstenideologie,...

War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360.(Review)
September 1, 2001... War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360, by Clifford J. Rogers (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000; pp. xviii+458. 45 [pounds sterling]). In this important study, Clifford Rogers challenges received orthodoxies...

Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England, ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. 270. 30 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This is a...

Hereford Cathedral: A History.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Hereford Cathedral: A History, ed. Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller (London: Hambledon P., 2000; pp. xxxii + 672. 25 [pounds sterling]). A fitting memorial to one of its editors is Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller's Hereford Cathedral: A History....

Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe, ed. Sarah Rees Jones, Richard Marks and A. J. Minnis (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer/York Medieval Press, 2000; pp. 226. 45 [pounds sterling]). A volume bearing the intriguing title Courts and Regions in...

Charles d'Orleans in England, 1415-1440.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Charles d'Orleans in England, 1415-1440, ed. Mary-Jo Arn (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2000; pp. x+231. 45 [pounds sterling]). The English captivity of Charles, Duke of Orleans, after his capture at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, represented an...

The Cornish Lands of the Arundels of Lanherne, Fourteenth to Sixteeth Centuries.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Cornish Lands of the Arundels of Lanherne, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries, ed. H. S. A. Fox and O. J. Padel (Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Soc. 1998; pp. clv+279. Pb. 18 [pounds sterling]). This volume (No. 41) of the Devon and...

An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. c. 1380-c. 1509.(Review)
September 1, 2001... An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. c. 1380-c. 1509. Fasc. I: The Bodleian Library, Oxford I MSS Additional-Digby, ed. A. E. Nichols, M. T. Orr, K. L. Scott and L. Dennison (Turnhout: Harvey Miller,...

Andalucia a fines de la Edad Media: Estructuras, Valores, Sucesos.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Andalucia a fines de la Edad Media: Estructuras, Valores, Sucesos, by Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada (Cadiz: Cadiz U.P., 1999; pp. 368. N.p.). Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada's Andalucia a fines de la Edad Media; Estructuras, Valores, Sucesos...

The Jews of Europe After the Black Death.
September 1, 2001... The Jews of Europe After the Black Death, by Anna Foa (tr. Andrea Grover) (Berkeley: U. of California P., 2000; pp. 276. 40 [pounds sterling]). From its title, one might suppose that this is a book about the Jews of medieval Europe in the...

The Miracles of St John Capistran.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Miracles of St John Capistran, by Stanko Andric (Budapest: Central European U.P., 2000; pp. x+454. 31.95 [pounds sterling]). This portrait of the life and miracles of John Capistran traces the saint's route to join the defence of...

Thomas More.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Thomas More, by John Guy (London: Arnold, 2000; pp. xviii+251. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.99 [pounds sterling]). This book is one of the first in the new `Reputations' series, and, as such, it comes with a warning. Those who idealize...

Recinti: Donne, clausura e matrimonio nella prima eta moderna.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Recinti: Donne, clausura e matrimonio nella prima eta moderna, by Gabriella Zarri (Bologna: II Mulino, 2000; pp. 498. L 48,000). Gabriella Zarri, in Recinti: Donne, clausura e matrimonio nella prima eta moderna, states in the introduction...

The French Reactions to the Rough Wooings of Mary Queen of Scots.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The French Reactions to the Rough Wooings of Mary Queen of Scots, by Elizabeth Bonner (Sydney: Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, U. of Sydney, 1998; pp. 161); These two volumes of the Sydney Society for Scottish History...

The Politique of Henri II: De Facto Rule in Scotland, 1550-1554.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Politique of Henri II: De Facto Rule in Scotland, 1550-1554, by Elizabeth Bonner (Sydney: Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, U. of Sydney, 1999; pp. 107. Pb. n.p.). These two volumes of the Sydney Society for Scottish...

Meta incognito. A Discourse of Discovery: Martin Frobisher's Arctic Expeditions, 1576-78.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Meta incognito. A Discourse of Discovery: Martin Frobisher's Arctic Expeditions, 1576-78. Vols. I and II, ed. Thomas H. B. Symons et al. (Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1999; pp. 636. $45). In 1861-2, the American Charles Francis...

Searching for Franklin: The Land Arctic Searching Expedition, 1855.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Searching for Franklin: The Land Arctic Searching Expedition, 1855, ed. William Barr (London: The Hakluyt Soc., 1999; pp. xv+292, 45 [pounds sterling]). In 1861-2, the American Charles Francis Hall undertook an expedition to discover the...

Material London, ca. 1600.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Material London, ca. 1600, ed. Lena Cowen Orlin (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P., 2000; pp. 393. 48.50 [pounds sterling]). At a recent conference in Manchester it was suggested that the object would soon succeed the body as the hottest...

A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean.(Review)
September 1, 2001... A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean, by Molly Greene (Princeton: Princeton U. P., 2000; pp. 228. 20.50 [pounds sterling]). Fernand Braudel's rich evocation of the Mediterranean world depends on a...

Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era, by Jeremy Black (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. xii + 204. 25 [pounds sterling]). An historical atlas tells history through maps. Any text or other material is...

The Writing of Royalism, 1628-1660.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Writing of Royalism, 1628-1660, by Robert Wilcher (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 403. 40 [pounds sterling]) Robert Wilcher's The Writing of Royalism is a substantial addition to the recent studies in which Lois Potter, James...

The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings, ed. T. L. Underwood (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 260. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Professor Underwood has published the first...

Silver, Trade and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Silver, Trade and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe, by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2000; pp. 351. $60). `It is time', write Stanley and Barbara Stein in the Conclusion to...

Migration and Society in Britain, 1550-1830.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Migration and Society in Britain, 1550-1830, by Ian. D. Whyte (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 198. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Migration and Society in Britain, 1550-1830, by Ian. D. Whyte, comprehensively surveys the migration history of...

The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740, by Donald A. Spaeth (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2000; pp. 279. 40 [pounds sterling]). Beset by internal divisions and the rise of nonconformity, supporters of the Church...

The Glorious Revolution.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Glorious Revolution, by Evelyn Cruickshanks (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 126. Pb. 13.50 [pounds sterling]). The Tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution in 1988/9 resulted in renewed interest and reinterpretation of this event. Drawing...

Miners and Mariners of the Seven Gorge: Probate Inventories for Benthall, Broseley, Little Wenlock and Madeley, 1660-1764.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Miners and Mariners of the Seven Gorge: Probate Inventories for Benthall, Broseley, Little Wenlock and Madeley, 1660-1764, ed. Barrie Trinder and Nancy Cox (Chichester: Phillimore, 2000; pp. ix+357. 25 [pounds sterling]). This is a...

Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales.
September 1, 2001... Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales, ed. Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2000; pp. xiv+320. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Compared to studies in women's history in late modern Welsh...

Das Reich und Osterreich, 1648-1740.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Das Reich und Osterreich, 1648-1740, by Harm Klueting (Munster: LIT Verlag, 1999; pp. 129. DM 39.80). The circumstances of Klueting's book are explained in a prefatory cri de coeur. The work originally appeared in a volume to celebrate the...

Reichsstandische Libertat und habsburgisches Kaisertum.(Review)
September 1, 2001... (Reichsstandische Libertat und habsburgisches Kaisertum, ed. Heinz Duchhardt and Matthias Schnettger (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1999; pp. 362. Pb. DM 58). The circumstances of Klueting's book are explained in a prefatory cri de coeur. The...

Las visitas pastorales de Espana (siglos XVI-XX).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Las visitas pastorales de Espana (siglos XVI-XX), by Maria Milagros Carcel Orti (Oviedo: Asociacion de Archiveros de la Iglesia, 2000; pp. 190. Pb. n.p.) When the Council of Trent laid on bishops the obligation of carrying out regular...

The Women of Colonial Latin America.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Women of Colonial Latin America, by Susan Migden Socolow (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 237. 30 [pounds sterling]; pb. 10.95 [pounds sterling]). The Women of Colonial Latin America, ed. Susan Migden Socolow, provides a...

The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord, by William Gibson (London: Routledge, 2001; pp. 269. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Religion in this period has been recovering from earlier neglect, yet students have lacked an adequate...

Konigsbilder: Sprechen, Singen und Schreiben uber den franzosischen Konig in der ersten Halfte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Konigsbilder: Sprechen, Singen und Schreiben uber den franzosischen Konig in der ersten Halfte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, by Jens Ivo Engels (Bonn: Bouvier, 2000; pp. 333. DM 85). Historical scholarship has told us a great deal about how...

Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, by Jon Butler (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 2000; pp. 324. 18.50 [pounds sterling]). Jon Butler's Becoming America synthesizes the considerable literature on the eighteenth-century colonies...

The Irish Political System, 1740-1765.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Irish Political System, 1740-1765, by Eoin Magennis (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 231. 39.50 [pounds sterling]). High politics in eighteenth-century Ireland have recently been elucidated by a series of excellent studies. To the...

Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siecle: Introduction et repertoire biographique (1700-1808).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siecle: Introduction et repertoire biographique (1700-1808), by Didier Ozanam (Madrid/Bordeaux: Casa de Velazquez, 1998; pp. 578. F 240). The acute shortage of biographical information about the servants...

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, by Janet Todd (New York: Columbia U.P., 2000; pp. xxii + 516. 25 [pounds sterling]). In his Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin describes her Letters from Sweden as `a book calculated to make a...

Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850, by Pamela Sharpe (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 226. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). Pamela Sharpe's Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy,...

Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815, by Robin Eagles (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. 229. 45.50 [pounds sterling]). At one level, Robin Eagles's Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815 may be taken as a straightforward, scholarly...

Eriarvoisuus, valistuksen lupaus ja rasismi.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Eriarvoisuus, valistuksen lupaus ja rasismi, ed. Pekka Isaksson and Jouko Jokisalo (Helsinki: SHS, 1999; pp. 180. Pb. n.p.). The title of this publication of the Suomen Historiallinen Seura, Eriarvoisuus, valistuksen lupaus ja rasismi, ed....

Bengalen im Umbruch: Die Herausbildung des britischen Kolonialstaates 1754-1793.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Bengalen im Umbruch: Die Herausbildung des britischen Kolonialstaates 1754-1793 by Michael Mann (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2000; pp. 469. DM 148). Mann's `Bengal in transition' discusses a momentous phase of colonial state formation, from...

Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848, ed. Michael T. Davis (London: Macmillan, 2000; pp. xv+242. 42.50 [pounds sterling]). This volume is a festschrift to Malcolm I. Thomis, and is a book that is long overdue. For a generation of...

Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791, 1792, 1793.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Anna Maria Falconbridge: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, ed. Christopher Fyfe (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P., 2000; pp. 236. Pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). The association of Alexander...

The Younger Pitt.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Younger Pitt, by Michael Duffy (Harlow: Longman (Pearson Education), 2000; pp. 247. 55 [pounds sterling]). John Ehrman's massive, three-volume homage to the Younger Pitt will stand for some time yet as the authorized version of that...

Aftermath: Post-Rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow, 1799-1803.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Aftermath: Post-Rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow, 1799-1803 by Ruan O'Donnell (Dublin: Irish Academic P., 2000; pp. 272. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.95 [pounds sterling]). Ruan O'Donnell's Aftermath: Post Rebellion Insurgency in...

When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850.
September 1, 2001... When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850, by Daniel Headrick (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. ix+246. 22.50 [pounds sterling]). In this impressive and interesting work, Headrick...

A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.(Review)
September 1, 2001... A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, by Donald Denoon Philippa Mein-Smith, with Marivic Wyndham (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; pp. xiv+523. 60 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The authors of this volume in The...