Albion articles from January 2004

Albion archives from January 2004

Providence, predestination and progress: or, did the Enlightenment fail?
January 1, 2004... Early in 2002, the earth experienced a near-miss: an asteroid passed within a whisker (in astronomical terms) of the planet. (1) Had it struck, it would have done so with a force six hundred times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. No...

Building a new nursing service: respectability and efficiency in Victorian England*.
January 1, 2004... The main problem in staffing military hospitals with female nurses, Florence Nightingale explained in 1857, was to find "respectable and efficient women" who would be willing to undertake such work. Many women would apply for the positions but...

Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166. Volume I: Domesday Book.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... K. S. B. Keats-Rohan. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166. Volume I: Domesday Book. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 1999. Pp. Vii, 563. $110.00. ISBN 0-851-15722-X. K. S. B....

Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Coss and Maurice Keen, eds. Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. x, 278. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-850-1. Growing out of a conference held at Cardiff in 1997, this fine...

Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Colin Morris and Peter Roberts, eds. Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 268. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-80811-1. This collection of articles makes an important and timely...

Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mary C. Erler. Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 228. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81221-6. Mary C. Erler identifies "lives and...

Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Kathleen Kamerick. Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 292. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-29312-7. One of the consequences of the...

The Lollards.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Richard Rex. The Lollards. (Social History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xv, 188. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-59752-4. This most welcome book is a brief survey of Lollardy, "England's only native medieval heretical movement"...

Reassessing Tudor Humanism.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Jonathan Woolfson, ed. Reassessing Tudor Humanism. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 286. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-97144-2. This timely collection of essays greatly augments current knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon known as "Tudor...

Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Marshall. Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 344. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-820773-5. The question of how men and women responded to the proscription of the doctrine of purgatory...

Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Marjo Kaartinen. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. Viii, 210. $60.00. ISBN 0-333-96924-3. In the words of its author Marjo Kaartinen's Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation...

The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 242. $20.00 paper. ISBN 0-521-00324-5. The editors encouraged nine highly-respected historians to address a...

The Battle for the Bible in England, 1557-1582.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Cameron A. MacKenzie. The Battle for the Bible in England, 1557-1582. New York: Peter Lang. 2002. Pp. 338. $69.95. ISBN 0-8204-5810-4. Cameron MacKenzie has compared four English Bibles in use in Elizabethan England: the Great Bible of...

The English Experience in France, c. 1450-1558: War, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... David Grummitt, ed., The English Experience in France, c. 1450-1558: War, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. x, 228. $69.95. ISBN 0-7456-0535-3. Deriving from a conference at the Public Record Office in...

The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Joseph Lowenstein. The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. x, 349. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-49040-8. The Author's Due explores the means by which the sixteenth century printer's...

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Patricia Phillippy. Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 311. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81489-8. Death, and its literary outcrop, elegy, has long been noted as one...

The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Vanessa Harding. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. Xvi, 343. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81126-0. In this masterful book, Vanessa Harding showcases many years of research...

Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... D. Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 229. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-77102-1. This book...

Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland; Change, Convergence and Divergence.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds. Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland; Change, Convergence and Divergence. New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2002. Pp. Xvii, 278. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-726248-1. ...

Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the Seventeenth Century: Alderman Cockayne's Project.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Joel D. Benson. Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the Seventeenth Century: Alderman Cockayne's Project. (Studies in British History Volume 66.) Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. ii, 127. $99.95. ISBN...

Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Richard L. Greaves. Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 693. ISBN 0-8047-4530-7. This is probably the fullest, most informative account of Bunyan's work in context...

Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... John Watkins. Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 264. $60.00. ISBN 0- 521-81573-8. With the recent celebration of the four-hundredth anniversary of...

The Crown's Servants: Government and the Civil Service Under Charles II, 1660-1685.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... G. E. Aylmer. The Crown's Servants: Government and the Civil Service Under Charles II, 1660-1685. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 303. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-820826-X. The last book of a great historian is always a cause for...

Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... David M. Turner. Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740. (Past and Present Publications.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 236. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-79244-4. Fashioning Adultery offers a...

The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lois G. Schwoerer. The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xxvii, 349. $42.95. ISBN 0-8018-6727-4. Lois Schwoerer's study of Henry Care, Restoration journalist and...

Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper 1644-1720.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Anne Kugler Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper 1644-1720. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 288. $55.00. ISBN 0-8047-3418-6. Anne Kugler's Errant Plagiary is a detailed, engaging analysis of...

"An Exact and Industrious Tradesman": The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711-1720.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... S. D. Smith, ed. "An Exact and Industrious Tradesman": The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711-1720. (Records of Social and Economic History, New Series 34.) New York: Oxford University Press for The British Academy. 2002. Pp. cxxxii,...

Parliamentary Politics of a County and its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Susan Mitchell Sommers. Parliamentary Politics of a County and its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth Century. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. Pp. xxii, 218. $64.95. ISBN 0-275-97513-4. Elections and...

Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth Century Britain.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... John Kent. Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth Century Britain. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. vi, 229. $50.00. ISBN 0-521-45532-4. The illustration on the dust jacket of this book, a traditional painting of...

The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tom Williamson. The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870. Exeter, U. K.: University of Exeter Press. 2002. Pp. x, 199. $32.00 paper. ISBN 0-85989-634-X. The meaning of the term "agricultural revolution," like...

Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Rajani Sudan. Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. 200. $45.00. ISBN 0-8122-3656-4. In response to postcolonial studies that see European...

London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799.(Reviews of Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Michael T. Davis, ed. London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799. 6 volumes. Burlington, Vt.: Pickering and Chatto; dist. by Ashgate, Burlington, Vt. 2002. Pp. 2,328. $795.00. ISBN 1-8519-6734-6. Pickering and Chatto is known for high prices,...

Stemming the Torrent: Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotions, 1830-1872.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Gesa Stedman. Stemming the Torrent: Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotions, 1830-1872. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. X, 275. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0643-0. A British journalist opined in 1865 that the forces of...

The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... F. David Roberts. The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 569. $65.00. ISBN 0-8047-4532-3. David Roberts's latest contribution to our understanding of early...

John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Frank M. Turner, John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 740. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-09251-2. In view of the plethora of studies on John Henry Newman in recent years,...

The Victorian Illustrated Book.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Richard Maxwell, ed. The Victorian Illustrated Book. (Victorian Literature and Culture.) Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia. 2002. Pp. xxx, 440. $45.00. ISBN 0-8139-2097-3. The history of British printing was, during the...

Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Joan DelPlato. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875. Cranbury, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; dist. by Associated University Presses. 2002. Pp. 283. $85.00. ISBN 0-8386-3880-5. Hot, languid,...

Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... William M. Kuhn. Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria. London: Duckworth; dist. By International Publishers Marketing, Dulles, Va. 2002. Pp. xvi, 302. $29.95. ISBN 0-7156-3065-2. Although the front cover is not a...

Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Nadia Urbinati. Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 293. $37.50. ISBN 0-226-84277-0. During the last third of the twentieth century many valuable...

Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions. (Writing Science.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 196. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-3926-9. To see a total solar eclipse--with the...

Imagined Londons.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Pamela K. Gilbert, ed. Imagined Londons. Albany, N. Y.: State University of New York Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 257. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-5502-5. This lively, readable, and eclectic collection of essays about London moves from the Victorian...

Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Wendy M. Gordon. Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. 2002. Pp. x, 234. $22.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-5526-2. ...

Julian Pauncefote and British Imperial Policy, 1855-1889.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Leigh Wright. Julian Pauncefote and British Imperial Policy, 1855-1889. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America; dist. by Rowman and Littlefield. 2002. Pp. xvi, 141. $26.00 paper. ISBN 0-7618-2202-X. Julian Pauncefote (1828-1902), 1st...

Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lawrence Goldman. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 430. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-33053-X. Some two decades ago, shortly after Paul...

The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Haia Shpayer-Makov. The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. x, 293. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0337-7. The history of the first modern police in Britain...

Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Carol E. Morgan. Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England. (Women's and Gender History.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xi, 224. $27.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-23930-3. To what extent were women...

The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822-1904.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Sandra J. Peacock. The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822-1904. (Studies in Women and Religion, Volume 43.) Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. vii, 301. $99.95. ISBN 0-7734-7180-4. The Victorian...

Roger Quilter: His Life and Music.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Valerie Langfield. Roger Quilter: His Life and Music. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. Xviii, 375. $70.00. ISBN 0-85115-871-4. With the triumph of high Modernism after the Second World War, charm was banished from the art of...

The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Anne Helmreich. The English Garden and National Identity, The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914 (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 282. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-59293-3. ...

Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887-1938.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Cain. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887-1938. New York: The Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 320. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-820390-X. Paralleling the words of Peter Cain ("I make no claim to have read...

"The Blood of Our Sons": Men, Women and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Nicoletta F. Gullace. "The Blood of Our Sons": Men, Women and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. 284. $39.95. ISBN 0-312-29446-8. This is a book in two halves. The first half...

Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Leese. Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 229. $49.95. ISBN 0-333-96926-X. This book is as an excellent account of British soldiers of the First World...

British Culture and the First World War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... George Robb. British Culture and the First World War. (Social History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. ix, 274. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-71572-1. It is always difficult to review a book on a subject very close to the one that...

Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christopher McKee. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2002. P. 265. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-674-00736-0. The scene has been described elsewhere of the time when the British...

British Women and the Spanish Civil War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Angela Jackson. British Women and the Spanish Civil War. (Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. Xiii, 316. $100.00. ISBN 0-415-27797-3. Wars have presented a challenge for historians of...

Britain, America and Rearmament in the 1930s: The Cost of Failure.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christopher Price. Britain, America and Rearmament in the 1930s: The Cost of Failure. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xvi, 228. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-92292-1. For many years now historians have mostly treated the Appeasers with a certain...

Britain and Germany in Europe, 1949-1990.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Jeremy Noakes, Peter Wende, and Jonathan Wright, eds. Britain and Germany in Europe, 1949-1990 (Studies of the German Historical Institute London.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 398. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-924841-9. ...

A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Margaret H. B. Sanderson. A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 244. $26.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-169-8. It is scarcely an original angle from which to approach a book, but...

George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1681-1731: A Study in Jacobitism.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Daniel Szechi. George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1681-1731: A Study in Jacobitism. East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. x, 230. $31.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-132-9. Daniel Szechi has produced a biography of George Lockhart to accompany the...

Culloden and the Last Clansman.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... James Hunter. Culloden and the Last Clansman. Edinburgh, U.K.: Mainstream Publishing; dist. by Trafalgar Square, No. Pomfret, Vt. 2002. Pp. 238. $29.95. ISBN 1-84018-483-3. Despite their connection to the Stuart dynasty, the Stewarts of...

The Welsh Princes: The Native Rulers of Wales, 1063-1283.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Roger Turvey The Welsh Princes: The Native Rulers of Wales, 1063-1283. (The Medieval World.) New York: Longman. 2002. Pp. xxxi, 215. $22.00 paper. ISBN 0-582-30811-9. In this new book Roger Turvey provides a valuable introduction to a...

Soccer and Society: South Wales 1900-1939.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Martin Johnes. Soccer and Society: South Wales 1900-1939. (Studies in Welsh History.) Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press; dist. by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago. 2002. Pp. xii, 238. $39.95. ISBN 0-7083-1741-3. Martin...

The Worlds of the East India Company.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... H. V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby, eds. The Worlds of the East India Company. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press with the National Maritime Museum and University of Leicester. 2002. Pp. xvii, 246. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-877-3. ...

Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Jennifer Siegel. Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia. New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. By Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xviii, 273. $39.50. ISBN 1-85043-371-2. This monograph begins, rather shakily, with a...

Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Jeffrey Cox. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940. Stanford, Calif:: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 357.$55.00. ISBN 0-8047-4318-5. The dictionary definition of a fault line is a fracture in...

The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947-1954.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Raffi Gregorian. The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947-1954. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xviii, 335. $75.00. ISBN 0-333-80148-2. There has been renewed academic interest of late in the field of...

Britain's Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice Between Europe and the World? 1945-1968.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Saki Dockrill. Britain's Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice Between Europe and the World? 1945-1968. (Cold War History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xvi, 293. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-73236-7. Forget 1956 as a turning point in British...

Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Paul A. Townend. Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity. Dublin: Irish Academic Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2002. Pp. Viii, 327. $49.50. ISBN 0-7165-2737-5. At a gathering of Hibernicists in Charlottesville, Va. in May 2003...