Albion articles from September 2002

Albion archives from September 2002

King, commons, and commonweal in Holinshed's Chronicles.
September 22, 2002... Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles was the most ambitious English historical work of the sixteenth century. It was also the last work in the English chronicle tradition, and as such has remained relatively unappreciated both as an achievement in...

Guilt by association: the atheist cabal and the rise of the public sphere in Augustan England.
September 22, 2002... It is a cliche of literary history that the natives of the long eighteenth century were uniquely "clubbable" men and women. As Peter Clark points out, by the mid-eighteenth century voluntary associations of all sorts had become "an essential...

Sex in the cinema: war, moral panic, and the British film industry, 1906-1918 (1).
September 22, 2002... The film era in Britain commenced in early 1896, but its moral impact on viewers was not considered very much during its first decade. (2) This was primarily because film was dispersed in a variety of venues like music halls and fairgrounds...

The Haskins Society Journal. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... C. P. Lewis, ed. The Haskins Society Journal. (Studies in Medieval History, Volume 9, 1997.) Rochester, N. Y: Boydell & Brewer. 2001. Pp. x, 205. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-831-5. It is regrettable that this volume, a collection of papers drawn...

The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 1066-1280. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Barbara Harvey, ed. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 1066-1280. (The Short Oxford History of the British Isles.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 317. $11.99 paper. ISBN 0-19-873139-6. Recent decades has seen a call...

Henry I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... C. Warren Hollister. Henry I. (Yale English Monarch Series.) New Haven, Conn,: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 554. $39.95. ISBN 0-300-08858-2. Warren Hollister's magisterial study of the reign of Henry I (1100-1135) marks the climax...

Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Nancy Bradley Warren. Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 276. $55.00. ISBN: 0-8122-3583-5. Nancy Warren has written a...

Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ken Farnhill. Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550. York: York Medieval Press; dist. by Boydell and Brewer, Rochester, N. Y. 2001. Pp. ix, 237. $90.00. ISBN 1-903153-05-0. In this carefully researched...

God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... John A. A. Goodall. God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp.xx, 361. n.p. ISBN 0-7546-0047-5. The search of individuals for salvation in the pre-Reformation...

The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Colin Richmond. The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist by Palgrave, New York, N.Y. 2000. Pp. x, 262. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-5990-9. The late medieval gentry have been of considerable...

Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... James McDermott. Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 509. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08380-7. The life of Martin Frobisher deserves a biographer with sufficient determination to create a...

Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... John Bossy. Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story. New Haven, Cona.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 189. $25.00. ISBN 0-300-08400-5. This superbly conceived and crafted book is in scope and execution likely worth more than a...

Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Nigel Llewellyn. Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xxviii, 471. $120.00. ISBN 0-521-78257-0. (Reviews of Books) England's wealth of early modern funeral monuments is one of the...

Power and Protest in England 1525-1640. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Alison Wall. Power and Protest in England 1525-1640. (Reconstructions in Early Modern History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 217. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-340-61022-0. The central question addressed by this book is, "how did...

The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Diarmaid MacCulloch. The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xviii, 284. $27.95. ISBN 0-312-23830-4. The little Tudors are no more. Beginning with the magisterial work of David Loades on Mary I...

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Barbara M. Benedict. Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 321. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-042634. This book begins where Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park's Wonders and the...

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 368. $74.95. ISBN 0-521-78102-7. ...

Subject Matter: Technology the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Joyce B. Chaplin. Subject Matter: Technology the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 411. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-00453-1. Subject Matter is a sparkling,...

The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: St. Edward's "Laws" in Early Modern Political Thought. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Janelle Greenberg. The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: St. Edward's "Laws" in Early Modern Political Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 343. $69.95. ISBN: 0-521-79131-6. The Ancient Constitution--now...

Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner. Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. (Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modem Britain). Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York,...

Envisioning the Worst: Representations of "Hottentots" in Early Modern England. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Linda E. Merians. Envisioning the Worst: Representations of "Hottentots" in Early Modern England. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2001. Pp. 289. $46.50. ISBN 0-87413-738-1. Merians' thesis is that, in early modem British discourse,...

The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy" "Heterodoxy" and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Peter Lake. The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy" "Heterodoxy" and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. Stanford: Stan for University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 422. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-4128-x. Stephen Denison was a second rank...

Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... David Loewenstein. Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 413. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77032-7. This challenging...

Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Rebecca Herissone. Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. (Oxford Monographs in Music.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 316. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-816700-8. From their beginnings as a 1996 dissertation, "The Theory and...

Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Meredith Baldwin Weddle. Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 348. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-513138-X. The subtitle of Meredith Weddle's erudite study...

Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Frederick Valletta. Witchcraft Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2000. Pp. xv, 272. $74.95. ISBN 0-7546-0244-3. The most noteworthy feature of this book is that it is not simply about witchcraft trials....

Country Cottages: A Cultural History. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Karen Sayer. Country Cottages: A Cultural History. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N.Y. 2000. Pp. vii, 229, $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-4752-8. Raymond Williams's The Country and the City has been revisited by...

Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess 1657-1715. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Molly McClain. Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess 1657-1715. New Haven, Coon.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 262. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08411-0. The Somerset dukes of Beaufort were one of the most successful noble dynasties in early...

Reading the Skies: a Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Vladimir Jankovi. Reading the Skies: a Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 272. $55.00. ISBN 0-226-39215-5. In 1799 a meteorological writer proposed a plan to de-humidify...

Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Suvir Kaul. Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia. 2000. Pp. vii, 337. $19.50 paper. ISBN 0-8139-1968-1. Suvir Kaul's Poems of Nation, Anthems of...

The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal, eds. The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 320. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-691-01013-7. The other Hogarth is not new. The role of women,...

Women, Writing and the Public Sphere. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Cliona O Gallchoir and Penny Warburton, eds. Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 320. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77106-4. The editors of this...

Farm Production in England 1700-1914. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett and B. Afton. Farm Production in England 1700-1914. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 295. [pounds sterling]45.00. ISBN 0-19-820804-9. This book attempts to provide an answer to that much...

Acupuncture, Expertise, and Cross-Cultural Medicine. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Roberta E. Bivins. Acupuncture, Expertise, and Cross-Cultural Medicine. (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modem History). New York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. xi, 263. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-91893-2. This is a far richer study than its bland and...

Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Andrew Stockley. Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 272. $75.00. ISBN 0-85989-615-3. The author studies the Peace of...

Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Edward Royle. Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N.Y. 2000. Pp. ix, 214. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-4802-8. Nearly twenty...

William Motherwell's Cultural Politics 1797-1835. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Mary Ellen Brown. William Motherwell's Cultural Politics 1797-1835. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 2001. Pp. xii, 265. $39.95. ISBN 0-8131-2188-4. William Motherwell was a writer of middling social status. His father was an...

Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Judith Plotz. Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xvi, 304. $49.95. ISBN 0-312-22735-3. The disappearance and death of "childhood" in the advent of modernity and the mass media has been lamented in books...

Literary Magazines and British Romanticism. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Mark Parker. Literary Magazines and British Romanticism. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 213. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-78192-2. In this book Mark Parker establishes the importance of a...

The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Paul A. Pickering and Alex Tyrrell. The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League. New York: Leicester University Press, Continuum. 2000. Pp. x, 304. [pounds sterling]45.00. ISBN 0-7185-0218-3. Even when history was past...

National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Marjorie Morgan. National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain. (Studies in Modern History.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 271. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-71999-9. Marjorie Morgan's study of travel in Victorian Britain expands on previous...

Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Christina Bashford and Leanne Langley, eds. Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xix, 402. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-816730-X. The book reflects the excitement and...

Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808-30.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Richard R. Follett. Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808-30. (Studies in Modem History). New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xi, 231. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-80388-4. This concise study seeks to...

Becoming Victoria. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Lynne Vallone. Becoming Victoria. New Haven; Conn.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 256. $26.95. ISBN 0-300-08950-3. Royal childhoods have been better recorded than those of their subjects. Philippe Aries, in his Centuries of...

Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Graeme J. Milne. Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port Liverpool: Liverpool University Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2000. Pp. x, 243. $56.95. ISBN 0-85323-606-2. Much has...

An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Peter H. Hoffenberg. An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xxvii, 418. $50.00. ISBN 0-520-218914. The literature on...

Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Laurence Kitzan. Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision. (Contributions to the Study of World Literature.) Number 104. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 204. $59.95. ISBN 0-313-31778-X. The...

Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson, eds. Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. x, 251. $74.95. ISBN 0-7546-0289-3. ...

A History of Water in Modern England and Wales. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... John Hassan. A History of Water in Modern England and Wales. New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N. Y. 1998. Pp. ix, 214. $79.95. ISBN 0-7190-4308-5. In this ambitious text John Hassan traces the two-hundred...

The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism, Volume IV: The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers, 1859-70.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Michael Slater and John Drew, eds. The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism, Volume IV: The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers, 1859-70. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2000. Pp. xxxv, 476. n. p. ISBN 0-8142-08754 As its...

Gladstone Centenary Essays. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... David Bebbington & Roger Swift, eds. Gladstone Centenary Essays. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore.: 2000. Pp. xiii, 286. $54.95. ISBN 0-85323- 925-8. William Ewart Gladstone was born in 1809, in the era of...

Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Michael Nelson. Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera. London: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2001. Pp. xiii, 204. $35.00. ISBN 1-86064-646-8. This is a handsome-looking volume, with extensive scholarly apparatus,...

Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... David B. Elliott. Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 266. 545.00. ISBN 1-58456-030-4. It is probably an exaggeration to label Charles Fairfax Murray "the unknown...

Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Janice Holmes. Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905. Dublin: Irish Academic Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2000. Pp. xxii, 281. $52.50. ISBN 0-7165-2692-1. The phenomenon of revival, originally a movement expressing an...

A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Arthur J. McIvor. A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950. (Social History in Perspective). New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xii, 276. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-59616-1. A volume in the Social History in Perspective series, Arthur McIvor's History...

Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... A. J. Sherman. Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. 264. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-8018-6620-0. Devotees know the fascination of the vast genre of British imperial memoirs....

The Unknown 1930's: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929-1939.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Jeffrey Richards, ed. The Unknown 1930's: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929-1939. (Cinema and Society Series). New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Paigrave, New York, N.Y. 1998. Pp. xi, 276. $22.50. ISBN 1-86064-628-X. This...

German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Matthew Stibbe. German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918. (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 269. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-78296-1. Fear and loathing of the...

The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-1943.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Andrew Thorpe. The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-1943. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N.Y. 2000. Pp. xi, 308. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-5312-9. Time was when just two scholars could claim...

Britain and the Ruhr Crisis. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elspeth Y. O'Riordan. Britain and the Ruhr Crisis. (Studies in Military and Strategic History.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 237. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-76483-8. The occupation of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian forces in January 1923 has...

Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players, 1911-1925. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Katharine Cockin. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players, 1911-1925. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 239. $59.95. ISBN 0-333-68696-9. Katharine Cockin's study of the Pioneer Players, a subscription society that...

Churchill: A Study in Greatness. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Geoffrey Best. Churchill: A Study in Greatness. New York: Hambledon & London; dist. by New York University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 370. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-253-4. "We are all worms," Winston Churchill reportedly told Violet Bonham Carter...

The Commonwealth and Europe: The Commonwealth and Britain's Applications to Join The European Communities. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Alex May, ed. Britain, The Commonwealth and Europe: The Commonwealth and Britain's Applications to Join The European Communities. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xx, 188. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-80013-3. This book originated in a conference on...

Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 & British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning, But Laughing. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth Maslen. Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. viii, 248. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-72953-6. Margaret D. Stetz. British Women's Comic Fiction, 1890-1990: Not Drowning, But...

His Majesty's Enemies: Great Britain's War Against Holocaust Victims and Survivors. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Itamar Levin. His Majesty's Enemies: Great Britain's War Against Holocaust Victims and Survivors. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2001. Pp. xviii, 238. $49.95. ISBN 0-275-96816-2. In the last twenty years, as interest in the study of the...

The Bow Group: A History. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... James Barr. The Bow Group: A History. London: Politico's Publishing; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 248. $45.95. ISBN 1-84275-001-1. Most British historians accept that the Labour party's surprising and sweeping general...

Histoires d'outre-Manche: Tendances recentes de l'historiographie britannique. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Frederique Lachaud, Isabelle Lescent-Giles, and Francois-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Histoires d'outre-Manche: Tendances recentes de l'historiographie britannique. Paris: University of Paris-Sorbonne Press. 2001. Pp. 357. n.p. ISBN 2-84050-185-6. ...

The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Michael Hunter. The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer. 2001. Pp. vii, 247. $90.00. ISBN 0-85115-801-3. Beginning with the groundbreaking efforts of...

Highland Resistance: The Radical Tradition in the Scottish North. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Iain Fraser Grigor. Highland Resistance: The Radical Tradition in the Scottish North. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. 2000. Pp. 240. $29.95. ISBN 1-84018-265-2. This volume purports to provide a survey of radical action on the Scottish...

Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Douglas M. Haynes. Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. vii, 231. $37.50. ISBN 0-8122-3598-3. Douglas M. Haynes' book explores the development of...

"India's Prisoner": A Biography of Edward John Thompson 1886-1946. .(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Mary Lago. "India's Prisoner": A Biography of Edward John Thompson 1886-1946. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 388. $39.95. ISBN 0-8262-1299-9. In May 1993, William Radice, translator of Rabindranath Tagore's...