Albion articles from December 2002

Albion archives from December 2002

The Kingdom's case: the use of casuistry as a political language 1640-1692.
December 22, 2002... It has now become orthodoxy for historians to write about political texts as being part of discourses or languages. This approach has much merit. At the very least, the work of Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock and John Dunn has encouraged...

John Bright, radical politics, and the ethos of Quakerism *.
December 22, 2002... During his own lifetime John Bright (1811-1889) assumed an iconic status in the history both of Quakerism and of middle-class radical politics as "the Tribune of the people." Yet he remains an anomalous figure, difficult to place in the...

Two cultures, one university: the institutional origins of the "two cultures" controversy (1).
December 22, 2002... [T]he life of a country is determined by its educational ideals --Scrutiny, 1932 [I]t is obligatory for us...to look at our education with fresh eyes. --C.P. Snow, 1959 In 1959 C. P. Snow turned a phrase that continues to...

Islands of Law: A Legal History of the British Isles.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Richard S. Tompson. Islands of Low: A Legal History of the British Isles. New York: Peter Lang. 2000. Pp. x, 339. ISBN 0-8204-4898-2. The changing fortunes of legal history as a subdiscipline of British studies are symbolized by Richard...

Death in Medieval England: An Archaeology. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... D. M. Hadley. Death in Medieval England: An Archaeology. Stroud, U.K.: Tempus Publishing Ltd.; dist. by Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S.C. 2001. Pp. 192. [pounds sterling]17.99. ISBN 0-7524-1470-4. D. M. Hadley's book belongs to a spate...

The Normans in their Histories: Propaganda, Myth and Subversion.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Emily Albu. The Normans in their Histories; Propaganda, Myth and Subversion. Rochester, N. Y.; Boydell & Brewer. 2001. Pp. x, 260. $90.00. ISBN 0-85115-656-8. There is much to appreciate in Emily Albu's study of how the Normans appeared in...

Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Anthony Musson. Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N.Y. 2001. Pp. xii,...

The Age of Edward III.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... J. S. Bothwell, ed. The Age of Edward III. York: York Medieval Press; dist. by Boydell and Brewer, Rochester, N. Y. 2001. Pp. vi, 232. $75.00. ISBN 1-903153-06-9. This welcome volume is the product of a conference held at the Centre for...

Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Rita Copeland. Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xii + 245. S64.95. ISBN 0-521-65238-3. ...

The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Philip Edwards. The Making of he Modern English State, 1460-1660 (British Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. vii, 439. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-312-23614-X. Scholars and experts are not the primary audience for Philip Edwards' new...

Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Ashley Null. Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 298. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-827021-6. By examining underused manuscripts (an appendix provides a description of...

English Warfare, 1511-1642.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Mark Charles Fissel. English Warfare, 1511-1642. (Warfare and History.) New York: Routledge. 2001. Pp. xviii, 382. $25.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-21482-3. This is a superbly written and brilliantly researched book. Fissel "examines English land...

Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Marjorie Swann. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. 280. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3610-6. In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann...

Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Adam Fox. Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700. (Oxford Studies in Social History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 497. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-820512-0. Adam Fox's Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 is a...

Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, Rhetoric.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington, eds. Communities in Early Modern England' Networks, Place, Rhetoric. (Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modem Britain.) Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York,...

The Royal Doctors 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Elizabeth Lane Furdell. The Royal Doctors 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 2001. Pp. x, 305. $65.00. ISBN 1-58046-051-8. Furdell's new book is a surprising offering, one...

The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Michael Mendle, ed. The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 297. $64.95. ISBN-0-521-65015-1. This book is the product of a conference held at the...

Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Tim Cooper. Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. viii, 238. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0301-6. At first consideration, the subject matter of this book might seem...

The Royal Image and the English People.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Nicola Smith. The Royal Image and the English People. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xii, 234. $84.95. ISBN 1-84014-672-9. Today the image of royalty is ubiquitous. In Canada, Britain, and Australia, for instance, we see the queen's...

Samuel Pepys: A Life. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Stephen Coote. SAMUEL PEPYS: A LIFE. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xiii, 386. $27.95. ISBN 0-321-23929-7. Stephen Coote has produced the kind of popular history that is often purchased and seldom read. No doubt, copies will soon appear in...

The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Tim Harris, ed. The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500 -1850. (Themes in Focus.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 295. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-72223-X. Tim Harris has gathered a timely and impressive set of essays on a subject of increasing...

Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Kenneth Morgan. Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800. (New Studies in Economic and Social History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. vi, 120. $11.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-58814-6. For almost a century the...

Susanna Annesley Wesley (1669-1742): A Biography of Strength and Love (The Mother of John and Charles Wesley).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Samuel J. Rogal. Susanna Annesley Wesley (1669-1742):A Biography of Strength and Love (The Mother of John and Charles Wesley). Bristol, Ind.; Wyndham Hal/Press. 2061. Pp. viii, 205. $36 00 paper. ISBN 1-55605-328-2. The author acknowledges...

Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688-1783.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Jeremy Black. Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688-1783. (Palgrave History of Britain.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. viii, 312. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-53831-5. There is no shortage of texts that cover eighteenth-century Britain, and now...

The Georgian Town, 1680-1840.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Joyce M. Ellis. The Georgian Town, 1680-1840. (Social History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. viii, 182. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-71134-3. In view of the extensive coverage of eighteenth-century urban history in volume two of the...

Defining a British State: Treason and National Identity, 1608-1820.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Lisa Steffen. Defining a British State: Treason and National Identity, 1608-1820. (Studies in Modem History.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 245. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-92034-1. Treason was one of the most serious political actions in Britain...

Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Richard Yeo. Encyclopaedic Visions.. Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxi, 336. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-65191-3. Time was, not so long ago, when a visitor in practically any...

Christopher Smart: Clown of God.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Chris Mounsey. Christopher Smart: Clown of God. (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture.) Cranbury, N. J.: Bucknell University Press. 2001. Pp. 342. $49.50. ISBN 0-8387-5483-X. Chris Mounsey's biography of...

Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Michael Scrivener. Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. Pp. 305. $55.00. ISBN 0-271-02109-8. Although the author of this book proves himself a...

The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... G.E. Bentley, Jr. The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 2001. Pp. xxvii, 532. $39.95. ISBN 0-300-08939-2. I will begin with...

The London Town Garden 1700-1840. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. The London Town Garden 1700-1840. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 289. $60.00. ISBN 0-300-08538-9. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan has set himself the difficult task of persuading his readers that...

Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Christine Kenyon-Jones. Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. viii, 229. $74.95. ISBN 0-7546-0332-6. This new study is to be welcomed as a thoughtful contribution to the growing literature...

Time and Work in England 1750-1830. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Hans-Joachim Voth. Time and Work in England 1750-1830. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 304. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924194-5. This is a fascinating and important book, which...

Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Patricia E. Johnson. Hidden Hands: Working- Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 224. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-8214-1389-9. Critics of Victorian literature have yet to engage class...

Florence Fenwick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Rosemary T. VanArsdel. Florence Fenwick wick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator. (The Nineteenth Century.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xvi, 249. S74.95. SBN 0-7546-0331-8. Rosemary VanArsdel has written a biography...

Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Alan Rauch. Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 293. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-2668-x. "Let knowledge grow from more to more," Tennyson exhorted in his...

Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Pamela J. Walker. Pulling/he Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain. Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 337. $35.00. ISBN 0-520-22591-0. Despite the several histories of the Salvation Army...

Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... John Wolfe. Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 331. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-726238-4. Stanhope Forbes' painting "Reading the news of the Queen's...

Women, Priviledge and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Amanda Vickery, ed. Women, Priviledge and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present. (The Making of Modern Freedom.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 413. $60.00. ISBN 0-8047-4284-7. Amanda Vickery's volume is...

William Tinsley (1831-1902): "Speculative Publisher'. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Peter Newbolt. William Tinsley (1831-1902): "Speculative Publisher ". Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xv, 370. $104.95. ISBN 0-7546-0291-5. William Tinsley was a London publisher whose name appears often in biographical and...

G.K. Peatling. British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925: From Unionism to Liberal Commonwealth. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... G.K. Peatling British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925: From Unionism to Liberal Commonwealth Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. xvi, 316. $52.50. ISBN 0-7065-2661-1. This is a brief...

The International Impact of the Boer War. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Keith Wilson, ed. The International Impact of the Boer War. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. ix, 214. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-23973-4. Keith Wilson's collection of essays on the Great Powers' view of the Boer War is a timely contribution to subject...

The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914: An Aristocrat among Working Men. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Patrick Duffy. The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914: An Aristocrat among Working Men. (Modern Economic and Social History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2000. Pp. xii, 231. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0255-9. This is perhaps an especially appropriate...

Print in Transition, 1850-1910: Studies in Media and Book History. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Laurel Brake, Print in Transition, 1850-1910: Studies in Media and Book History. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xv, 341. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-77047-1. One of the smallest and liveliest academic organizations in the field of British Studies is...

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Jonathan Rose. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 534. $50.00. ISBN 0-300-08886-8. This is a book for which its publishers make large claims. Its subject is the...

Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Mohammad Gholi Majd. Great Britain Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1911. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. xiii, 429. $59.95. ISBN 0-8130-2111-1. This book attempts to expose the full extent of British imperial...

Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Jonathan Hollowell, ed. Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations. (Contemporary History in Context.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xix, 206. $60.00. ISBN 0-333-80404-X. The century-long political, strategic, and financial partnership...

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. Volume II 1840-1950. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Martin Daunton, ed. The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. Volume Ill 1840--1950. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xxvi, 944. $140.00. ISBN 0-521-41707-4. In recent decades, in a process accelerated and distorted by...

Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... John Eade. Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City. New York: Berghahn Books. 2000. Pp. viii, 198. $49.95. ISBN 1-57181-736-0. This slim volume poses large questions about plausibly significant shifts in the representation of...

Kent in the Twentieth Century. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Nigel Yates, ed. Kent in the Twentieth Century. (Kent History Project, 6.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell & Brewer. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 418. $90.00. ISBN 0-85115-5871-1. The cover of this book is somewhat ambiguous and unattractive, depicting a...

The British Economy in the Twentieth Century. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Alan Booth. The British Economy in the Twentieth Century. (British Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 244. ISBN 0-333-69841-X. This short book, dedicated to the late Sidney Pollard, is probably the most comprehensive and...

Europe in Exile: European Exile Communities in Britain 1940-45. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Martin Conway and Jose Gotovitch, eds. Europe in Exile: European Exile Communities in Britain 1940-45. New York: Berghahn Books. 2001. Pp. vi, 281. $69.95. ISBN 1-57181-759-X. This edited volume arises from a project on Belgian refugees in...

The Politics of Crisis: An Interpretation of British Politics, 1931-1945. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Geoffrey K. Fry. The Politics of Crisis: An Interpretation of British Politics, 1931-1945. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 304. $68.00. ISBN 0-333-72619-7. The period between the financial crisis of 1931, which brought down the second...

Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-40. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... John Swift. Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the a Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-40. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. ix, 209. $60.00. ISBN 0-333-80087-7. Both Clement Attlee and the Labour party emerged during the 193 Os as suitable...

The Labour Party and Taxation: Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Richard Whiting. The Labour Party and Taxation: Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 294. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-57160-X. Although the levying of taxation is a...

Engagement With the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... William Palmer. Engagement With the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians. Lexington, Ky.: The University of Kentucky Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 372. $32.00. ISBN 0-8131-2206-6. In recent years scholars have...

Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Asa Briggs. Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvi, 413. $78.00. ISBN 0-333-75023-3. In 1997 Michael Young wrote to Asa Briggs: "It is mad to do reviews, but I do some to make me read the book" (p. 314)....

Men of Law in Pre-Reformation Scotland. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... John Finlay. Men of Law in Pre-Reformation Scotland. (Scottish Historical Review Monographs Series No. 9.) East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2000. Pp. x, 253. $31.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-165-5. May 1532 marks a watershed in the development...

Satan's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Satan 's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. East Linton, U. K.: Tuckwell Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 225. $26.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-136-1. Witchcraft and magic are hot topics in recent...

The Second Disruption: the Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of the Free Presbyterian Church. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... James Lachlan MacLeod. The Second Disruption. the Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of the Free Presbyterian Church. (Scottish Historical Review Monographs Series No. 8.) East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press Ltd. 2000. Pp. x,...

Scottish Nationality. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Murray G. H. Pittock. Scottish Nationality. (British History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xii, 187. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-72663-4. This is a bard book to categorize. Pittock intends it to be a contribution to the ongoing...

"Rebellious and Contrary": The Glasgow Dockers, 1853-1932. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... William Kenefick. "Rebellious and Contrary": The Glasgow Dockers, 1853-1932. (Scottish Historical Review Monograph No. 10.) East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2000. Pp. xx, 284. $26.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-180-9. The Glasgow dockers were...

Labour in Glasgow, 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... J. J. Smyth. Labour in Glasgow, 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism. (Scottish Historical Review Monograph No. 11.) East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 228. $2695 paper. ISBN 1-86232-137-X. Finding electoral success...

Sport, Scotland and the Scots. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Grant Jarvie and John Burnett, eds. Sport, Scotland and the Scots. East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2000. Pp. x, 277. S26.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-130-2. This collection of richly informative essays provides an excellent overview of the...

The British Empire as a World Power. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Edward Ingram. The British Empire as a World Power. London: Frank Cass; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. xv, 282. $54.50. ISBN 0-7146-5151-6. In his latest book, Edward Ingram argues that any analysis of Britain's behavior in the...

Empire: The History of the British Empire. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Trevor Lloyd. Empire: The History of the British Empire. New York: Hambledon and London; dist. by New York University Press, New York, N. Y. 2001. Pp. x, 245. $29.95 ISBN 1-85285-259-3. In a bibliographical reference to his earlier book,...

Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Paul Dixon. Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xviii, 334. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-72968-4. There is nothing like the smile of a newborn baby to bring out the best in each of us. Unfortunately, this...