The English Historical Review articles from September 2003

The English Historical Review archives from September 2003

A strategy of reaction: the Armadas of 1596 and 1597 and the Spanish struggle for European hegemony.
September 1, 2003... In his seminal work, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy posited three explanations for the failure of the Spanish Habsburgs to attain European hegemony. First and foremost, the 'military revolution' of early modern Europe...

A woman in the public sphere; Dorothy Wadham and the Foundation of Wadham College, Oxford *.
September 1, 2003... EARLY modern women, like their medieval predecessors, frequently found themselves thrust into tasks which social convention assigned to men. Queens regnant are the obvious case. Much more typical, however, were widows who found themselves...

The Attlee government, the imperial preference system and the creation of the GATT *.
September 1, 2003... DURING September 1947, Anglo-American economic diplomacy met with a crisis, hard on the heels of that which had attended the suspension of sterling convertibility the previous month. The multilateral trade talks taking place in Geneva, which...

Unpublished Burke letters (III), 1763-96 *.(Notes And Documents)
September 1, 2003... THIRTY-FOUR letters from Edmund Burke are here printed for the first time. An additional letter, nominally by his son, Richard Burke, Jr. (1758-94), but in substance reporting Burke's response to the criticisms of his Reflections on the...

Saint Augustine.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By SERGE LANCEL, translated by ANTONIA NEVILL (London: SCM P., 2002; pp. xviii + 590. 25 [pounds sterling]). PUBLISHED in French in 1999 and very promptly translated into English, Serge Lancel's biography of Augustine of Hippo is a...

Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By JUDITH HERRIN (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002; pp. 304. 20 [pounds sterling]; pb. 8.99 [pounds sterling]). JUDITH Herrin's study is a welcome contribution to a topic now very popular in Byzantine studies. Once historians happily...

Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam.(1000-1150)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By DOMINIQUE IOGNA-PRAT, translated by GRAHAM ROBERT EDWARDS. (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P., 2002; pp. xv + 407. 40.50 [pounds sterling]). THIS book is an excellent English translation of an original French edition published in 1998 under...

Why Magna Carta? Angevin England Revisited.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By NATALIE FRYDE (Munster: Lit Verlag, 2001; pp. 259; DM 49.80). MAGNA Carta seems no longer to be an active field of study. The Bibliography of the present work contains nothing of importance written in the last decade. The last...

The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By SAMUEL K. COHN, JR. (London: Arnold, 2002; pp. 318. 50 [pounds sterling]). FOR many generations almost all historians and scientists have assumed that the pestilences which ravaged Europe between the Black Death of 1347-52 and the...

Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries and Waterworks after the Roman Empire.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By ROBERTA J. MAGNUSSON (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2001; pp. xiv + 238. 28 [pounds sterling]). ROBERTA Magnusson's book is a useful contribution to our appreciation and understanding of the ability of medieval people to apply...

Scotland and Europe: the Medieval Kingdom and its Contacts with Christendom, 1214-1560.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By DAVID DITCHBURN (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2000; pp. 335. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). IT is surely common ground among historians that the origins of the Western European nation state are to be found in the late middle ages. This...

The King's Cardinal: the Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By PETER GWYN (London: Pimlico, 2002 pp. xxii + 666. Pb. 15 [pounds sterling]). THIS is a much-needed reprint of an important study. Unfortunately, the publishers were not able to make contact with the author in time for any revisions to...

Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by THOMAS COGSWELL, RICHARD CUST and PETER LAKE (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 304. 45 [pounds sterling]). HERE are a dozen of Conrad Russell's undergraduates, researchers or seminar participants felicitating him on reaching...

Population and Society in an East Devon Parish: Reproducing Colyton, 1540-1840.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By PAMELA SHARPE (Exeter: U. of Exeter P., 2002; pp. xvi + 408. 45 [pounds sterling]. FOR a generation now Colyton has been the most famous and intriguing parish in early modern England. Its register was the first in England to which...

The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By SERHII PLOKHY (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. 401. 45 [pounds sterling]). THIS book addresses several important and sensitive issues in Ukrainian history. Plokhy starts by analysing the ethnic and social origins of the Cossacks of...

The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: the Structure of Power.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By COLIN IMBER (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xiv + 405. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). WRITING a general history of the Ottoman empire is no easy task. The empire was huge, and its history long. It is therefore no surprise...

Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal Authority.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By JOHN J. HURT (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. xvii + 217. 45 [pounds sterling]). FEW historians of Louis XIV escape unscathed from Professor Hurt's sustained attack on 'revisionism'. In one memorable paragraph, he asserts that...

The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By GUY ROWLANDS (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. xxi + 404. 50 [pounds sterling]). PROBABLY for reasons of intellectual fashion, the growth of the army in the seventeenth century has not always received the attention from historians...

George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1681-1731: a Study in Jacobitism.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By DANIEL SZECHI (East Linton: Tuckwell P., 2002; pp. 230. 20 [pounds sterling]). GEORGE Lockhart of Carnwath is the sort of political figure, not greatly significant in his own right but intimately engaged with much larger and more...

History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By E. M. JOHNSTON-LIIK (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002; 6 vols. 450 [pounds sterling]). THESE six volumes represent an heroic endeavour and remarkable achievement. They contain biographies of 2,271 members known to have sat...

Staat und Offentlichkeit im Kurfurstentum Bayern der Spataufklarung.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By MICHAEL SCHAICH (Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2001; pp. xxxvi + 473. N.p.). MORE than fifty years have passed since Geoffrey Barraclough published The Origins of Modern Germany, in which he dismissed the period between the end of the...

Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By L. W. B. BROCKLISS (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. xiv + 471. 55 [pounds sterling]). ESPRIT-CLAUDE-FRANCOIS Calvet was born in Avignon in 1728. Apart from a couple of years in Paris as a young man, he lived there until he died in...

Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties, 1832-1841.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By PHILIP SALMON (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 2002; pp. 302. 40 [pounds sterling]). PHILIP Salmon's most welcome study is devoted to the workings of the Reform Act of 1832--more importantly, to their...

Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By ABIGAIL GREEN (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001; pp. 386. 45 [pounds sterling]) STATE BUILDING and nationhood are among German historiography's most durable subjects, but in Abigail Green's fine book we see them in a strikingly new...

The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875-1998.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By WILLIAM J. CALLAHAN (Washington, DC: Catholic U. of America P., 2000; pp. xviii + 695. $49.95). THIS monumental study of the Catholic Church in Spain since 1875 continues the analysis which William J. Callahan began with his earlier...

Churchill: a Study in Greatness.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By GEOFFREY BEST (London: Hambledon, 2001; pp. 370. 19.95 [pounds sterling]). GEOFFREY Best tells us at the outset that he wrote this book for a rather Disraelian reason, to satisfy his own curiosity about a towering figure who had had a...

The Cripps Version: the Life of Sir Stafford Cripps.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By PETER CLARKE (London: Allen Lane, 2002; pp. xviii + 474. 25 [pounds sterling]). IN a world suffering from a surfeit of political biographies a good case needs to be made for adding to the genre. Peter Clarke succeeds admirably in...

Early Irish Kingship and Succession.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Bart Jaski (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2000; pp. 360. 39.95 [pounds sterling]). This book is a detailed study of royal succession in pre-Norman Ireland together with some more general chapters on early Irish kingship. Its strength lies...

A History of Old English Literature.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by R. D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. 346. 40 [pounds sterling]). To write a 'history of Old English literature' might seem a modest enough goal, but over the decades it has presented almost insuperable...

A History of the Church in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by F. Donald Logan (London/New York: Routledge, 2002; pp. xiv+368. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). Despite the near impossibility of providing an adequate summary of the complex development of the medieval Christian...

Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ca. 1025-1098, by W. Scott Jessee (Washington, DC: Catholic U. of America P., 2000; pp. 206. $54.95). The career of Robert the Burgundian of Sable was undoubtedly remarkable. Grandson of Robert I of France, he was a younger son of...

Domesday Book.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Elizabeth Hallam and David Bates (Stroud: Tempus, 2002; pp. 222. 25 [pounds sterling]). This collection of papers derives in part from a conference held in 2000 at the Public Record Office. The conference was attended by a mixture of...

William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2002; pp. 396. 65 [pounds sterling]). This volume contains Williams two complete Lives of Saints, Wulfstan and Dunstan, and the fragmentary Lives of Patrick, Benignus and...

Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory and Historiography.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried and Patrick J. Geary (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 353. 35.70 [pounds sterling]). In terms of modern concepts of the medieval past this is, historiographically considered, an intriguing volume. It...

Masters of the Sacred Page: Manuscripts of Theology in the Latin West to 1274.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Lesley Smith (Notre Dame, Indiana: U. of Notre Dame P., 2001; pp. 190. $48.95). This is the second in Notre Dame's three-volume illustrated history of the medieval book. The collection, compiled and introduced by Lesley Smith,...

Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle et al. (Louvain-la-Neuve: Federation Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Medievales, 1996; pp. xx+402. Eur 44). This work gathers 21 papers from a linked series of sessions organized by the International...

Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Vol. 2: Afro-European Supremacy, 1125-1225 (African Gold Production and the First European Silver Production Long-Cycle), by Ian Blanchard (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001; pp. xxxv+369. Eur 88). This volume is the second part of a...

Medieval Economic Thought.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Diana Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2002; pp. 259. 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.95 [pounds sterling]). Each word in this title invites a maximum or minimum interpretation. For all three the author has chosen the maximum. The Middle...

Medieval Town Planning: a Modern Invention?(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Tony Scrase (Bristol: U. of the West of England P., 2002; pp. 132. Pb. 8 [pounds sterling] (from Faculty of the Built Environment, Bristol--Occasional Paper No.12)). Tony Scrase draws on his knowledge of history, archaeology, town...

Le Supplice et la gloire: La croix en Poitou.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. R. Favreau (Poitiers: Soc. des Antiquaires de l'Ouest, 2000; pp. 239. Eur 28.97). Poitiers has a distinctive place in the history of the cult of the Cross in the West. The arrival of a major Cross-relic from Constantinople in 569 was...

Twelfth-Century English Archidiaconal and Vice-archidiaconal Acta.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. B. R. Kemp (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Canterbury & York Soc., Vol. 92, 2001; pp. lv+ 263. 30 [pounds sterling]). Professor Kemp's long-standing interest in twelfth-century archdeacons has already borne fruit in his authoritative...

The Welsh Princes: the Native Rulers of Wales, 1063-1283.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Roger Turvey (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2002; pp. xxxi+215. Pb. 15.99 [pounds sterling]). In spite of the claim in the editor's preface that 'until now, there has not been a book published devoted specifically to the country's ruling...

Papal Ceremonial at Rome in the Twelfth Century.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Susan Twyman (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Henry Bradshaw Soc., 2002; pp. 251. 40 [pounds sterling]). In this study Susan Twyman studies one particular aspect of papal ceremonial in twelfth-century Rome, the adventus processions...

Women, Art and Patronage: From Henry III to Edward III (1216-1377).(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Loveday Lewes Gee (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002; pp. 219. 45 [pounds sterling]). Students of women's patronage of the arts in medieval England have until recently been rather hard-pushed for useful literature. Veronica Sekules's...

Heresy, Philosophy and Religion in the Medieval West.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2003... by Gordon Left (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. 322. 57.50 [pounds sterling]). This volume collects nineteen articles, four not previously published, of an eminent intellectual historian. It contains the perceptive and original surveys of...

Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio mediaevalis.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Vol. CLXXIX: Oswaldi de Corda, Opus pacis, ed. Belinda A. Egan (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; pp. 97. Eur 97). 'What is greater than the union of Christendom?' With this question Jean Gerson challenged King Charles VI to heal the continuing...

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Vol. XXI: 6-10 Henry V (1418-1422), ed. J. L. Kirby and Janet H. Stevenson (Woodbridge: The Boydell P. for The Public Record Office, 2002; pp. xvii+462. 120 [pounds sterling]). Inquisitions post mortem, many carried out quite quickly...

Criminalita e giustizia in Germania e in Italia: Pratiche giudiziarie e linguaggi giuridici tra tardo medioevo ed eta moderna.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Marco Bellabarba, Gerd Schwerhoff and Andrea Zorzi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001; pp. 373. Eur 22). To the distinguished series of conference proceedings organized by the Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento has now been added this...

The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... tr. John M. Klassen (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001; pp. 134. Pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). The tragic life and death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has made familiar to a mass twentieth-century public the evils of arranged marriages...

Statute Rolls of the Irish Parliament: Richard III--Henry VIII.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Philomena Connolly (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2002; pp. xlviii+363. Eur 65). This volume has been a long time in the making. Its appearance marks the completion of an ill-starred project to publish the enactments of the medieval Irish...

'Triumphs of English': Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Tudor Court.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Marie Axton and James P. Carley (London: British Library, 2000; pp. 276. 45 [pounds sterling]). More, Skelton, Surrey and Wyatt have in their different ways overshadowed Henry Parker, Lord Morley, as leading authors of the early...

The Tudors.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Richard Rex (Stroud: Tempus, 2002; pp. 243. Pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). The sixteenth century must be one of the most heavily populated areas of English history. No one with a television set and a taste for costume drama can fail to...

Les Sorciers a l'assaut du village Gollion (1615-1631).(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Fabienne Taric Zumsteg (Lausanne: Edns. du Zebre, 2000; pp. 363. Pb. n.p.). Ever since the study of witchcraft became an important aspect of the study of early modern Europe, historians have advanced numerous theories to explain the...

The Restoration: England in the 1660s.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by N. H. Keeble (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002; pp. xviii+270. 55 [pounds sterling]; pb. 16.99 [pounds sterling]). Regime change takes many forms. In Britain in 1660 it was motivated by internal collapse, initiated by military defection and...

Robert Boyle (1627-1691): Scrupulosity and Science.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Michael Hunter (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2000; pp. 293. 50 [pounds sterling]). Since 1990 an astonishing transformation has taken place in our knowledge of the central figure in late seventeenth-century British scientific life, Robert...

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Ophelia Field (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002; pp. xv+560. 20 [pounds sterling]). In this massive book, her first, Ophelia Field has reserved her best work for the last chapter, 'Afterlife', a survey of the voluminous literature...

Errant Plagiary: the Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Anne Kugler (Stanford: Stanford U.P., 2002; pp. 288. 42.95 [pounds sterling]). Sarah, wife of Sir William Cowper, second Baronet, and mother of the Whig Lord Chancellor, mitigated her unhappy married lot by keeping voluminous diaries...

Charles Whitworth, Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Janet M. Hartley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; pp. xvi + 242. 45 [pounds sterling]). Charles Whitworth (1675-1725) was a career diplomat. Starting out as a clerk in the Board of Trade, he went on to serve in Vienna, The Hague, Berlin and...

Colonial America: From Jamestown to Yorktown.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Mary K. Geiter and W. A. Speck (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. 228. Pb. 17.99 [pounds sterling]). The strength of this work of synthesis lies in the hundred years following the restoration of Charles II. In detail it...

The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Michael P. Fitzsimmons (University Park, PA: Penn State U.P., 2003; pp. 245. $49.95). This new book by Michael Fitzsimmons makes an important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution. He argues that, during the...

The Duke of Portland: Politics and Party in the Age of George III.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by David Wilkinson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. 197. 45 [pounds sterling]). The third duke of Portland was twice prime minister and yet had no modern biography. At this basic level, therefore, this book fills a real gap....

Frauen und Manner des Burgertums: Eine Familiengeschichte (1750-1850).(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Rebekka Habermas (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000; pp. 456. DM 84). Rebekka Habermas uses a study of two Nuremberg families linked by marriage to investigate the relationship between status and gender in an emerging middle...

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Jeremy Burchardt (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 2002; pp. 287. 45 [pounds sterling]). The long running debate about the condition of rural society in the 1830s and 1840s is joined by Jeremy Burchardt with the...

A Good and Wise Measure: the Struggle for the Canadian-American Border, 1783-1842.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Francis M. Carroll (Toronto: U.P of Toronto, 2001; pp. xxiii + 462. 50 [pounds sterling]; pb. 20 [pounds sterling]). Canada and the United States share a border which is more than four thousand miles in length (excluding the border...

Anglican Resurgence under W. F. Hook in Early Victorian Leeds: Church Life in a Nonconformist Town, 1836-1851.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Harry W. Dalton (Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 2002; pp. 158. 15 [pounds sterling]). This volume of the Thoresby Society (the Leeds Historical Society) charts the resurgence of the Church of England in the Nonconformist stronghold of...

Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy 1846-55.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by David Brown (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2002; pp. 239. Pb 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This book is among the first fruits of the transfer of the Broadlands archives to the University of Southampton, where they will nourish historical...

Canada, 1849.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Derek Pollard and Ged Martin (Edinburgh: U. of Edinburgh, Centre of Canadian Studies, 2001; pp. 256. 15 [pounds sterling]). For more than twenty years the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh has been host to an...

The Great Exhibition and its Legacy.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Franz Bosbach and John R. Davis, with Susan Bennett, Thomas Brockmann and William Filmer-Sankey (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2002; pp. 440. Eur 78). This is Volume XX in the series of Prince Albert Studies, which are the proceedings of...

The Ultimate Spectacle: a Visual History of the Crimean War.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Ulrich Keller (Amsterdam: Gordon & Breach, 2001; pp. 296. N.p.). In recent years numerous historians have attempted to evaluate the nineteenth century's huge output of images as historical evidence; Michael Hiley, Peter Paret and...

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. XI: 1863 and Vol. XII: 1864.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Frederick Burkhardt and Duncan M. Porter (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1999 and 2001, pp. xlii+1038 and xl+694. N.p. and 55 [pounds sterling]). The early 1860s saw Darwin preoccupied with sexual selection in animals and man. These two...

Making and Remaking Italy: the Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Albert Russell Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg (Oxford: Berg, 2001; pp. xviii+332. 42.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Based on a multidisciplinary conference held at Berkeley in 1997, this well-edited collection...

Re-presenting the Past: Women and History.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Ann-Marie Gallagher, Cathy Lubelska and Louise Ryan (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2001; pp. xvii+224. Pb. 19.99 [pounds sterling]). The attraction of this collection of ten new, mostly research-based, essays on nineteenth- and...

The Corset: a Cultural History.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Valerie Steele (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2003; pp. 199. 15 [pounds sterling]). 'Hubby dear--I don't like these... corsets because I am uncomfortable and they make me feel sick.' No wonder: Jessie Liddell Hart was squeezed into a...

The British Peace Movement, 1870-1914.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Paul Laity (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2001; pp. 270. 40 [pounds sterling]). Our understanding of the emergence and evolution of a 'peace movement' in Britain from the eighteenth century onwards has been vastly enhanced over the last...

Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Jonathan Wright (Oxford: Oxford U.P, 2002; pp. 601. 30 [pounds sterling]). It is a relief to find a weighty tome on a twentieth-century German politician not called Adolf Hitler, but a slight disappointment to discover that Jonathan...

Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... ed. Jorgen Sevaldsen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum P., U. of Copenhagen, 2003; pp. 658. 43 [pounds sterling]). Summarizing the attitude of Danes towards Great Britain five years after the end of the Second World War, the British Council...

German Travel Cultures.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Rudy Koshar (Oxford: Berg, 2000; pp. 241. 42.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This book is a well-written and imaginative approach to German culture between c. 1900 and 1960, and constitutes a valuable resource for...

Frank Ryan.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Fearghal McGarry (Dublin: Dundalgan P., for The Historical Association of Ireland, 2002; pp. 89. Pb. n.p.). The present reviewer once referred to Frank Ryan as being, with the exception of Michael Collins, 'the most admired political...

Mythische Koharenz: Diskursanalyse des volkischen Antisemitismus.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Eva-Maria Ziege (Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002; pp. 301. Eur 29). Ziege's analysis of several key texts of the volkisch movement takes its methodological apparatus from Pierre Bourdieu. Ziege stresses the nature of the...

France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Nicola J. Cooper (Oxford: Berg, 2001; pp. 240. 42.99 [pounds sterling]; pb. 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This is a typical example of the genre of post-colonial studies; the reader will find little of the reality of colonial Indochina as...

Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Lee Congdon (DeKalb: Northern Illinois U.P., 2001; pp. 223. $40). Throughout the twentieth century Hungarian intellectuals in exile made a significant contribution to the scientific and cultural life of a wide range of countries in...

Geschichte der europaischen Universitat.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by Wolfgang E. J. Weber (Stuttgart: Verlag Kohlhammer, 2002; pp. 268. Eur 19). This book aims to provide a survey of the history of European universities from the twelfth century to c. 1990 and, for the modern period, it also embraces...

The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... by J. B. Harley (ed. P. Laxton) (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2002; pp. xv + 331. Pb. 15 [pounds sterling]). This is a very welcome and well-produced paperback edition of a book first published in 2001. It is a collection of...

Notices of periodicals and occasional publications mainly of 2002.
September 1, 2003... THE FOLLOWING list is based on actual inspection of the periodicals concerned, which in many cases are sent to the REVIEW by the courtesy of their editors and publishers, and which are read by contributors to whom the Editors wish to express...