Canadian Journal of History back issues from August 2000:
Romanitas and the Roman Family: The Evidence of Apuleius's Apology(1).
Aug 01, 2000; ... I At the turn of the third century Tertullian claimed that the pallium traditionally worn at Carthage was altogether being replaced by the Roman toga, a change of taste the theologian found irritating enough to provoke in the De pallio an acerbic assault on what he perceived as ...
`Escheat with Heir': Guardianship, Upward Mobility, and Political Reconciliation in the Reign of Edward III.(feudalism in 12th century England)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The later Middle Ages was a period when royal feudal rights are usually considered to have been in retreat in England.(1) The importance of the military summons had gone into decline in the thirteenth century and most knights' fees were so fragmented as to make any enforcement of feudal ...
Commerce, Industry, and the Laws of Newtonian Science: Weber Revisited and Revised.(Max Weber)
Aug 01, 2000; ... <Pre>I am happy that you are at liberty to confound your enemies. Invention isso rare and so useful a quality that it ought to be protected andencouraged to the utmost. It is a misfortune to your cause that it is to bedetermined not by men of science or by men of business ...
Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, by William Caferro. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xx, 251 pp. $39.95 U.S. The Victorian writer J.A. Symonds once characterized the Renaissance as "the most marvellous period the world has ever known." ...
Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405, by Benjamin G. Kohl, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xxvi, 466 pp. $45.00 U.S. The Victorian writer J.A. Symonds once characterized the Renaissance as "the most marvellous period the world has ever known." Symonds' ...
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Sport and Society in Ancient Greece, by Mark Golden. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii, 216 pp. $59.95 (cloth) $19.95 (paper). Sport and Society in Ancient Greece is the latest volume in the successful Cambridge series, "Key Themes in Ancient History." This ...
Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome, by Richard C. Beacham. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 306 pp. $35.00. In April, 44 B.C., at the height of the chaos and uncertainty which followed the assassination of Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius ...
A History of the Byzantine State and Society.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... A History of the Byzantine State and Society, by Warren Treadgold. Stanford California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xxiii, 1019 pp. $79.50 U.S. (cloth), $34.95 U.S. (paper). George Ostrogorsky's A History of the Byzantine State and Society, first published in German in ...
Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420, by Elizabeth Sutherland. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 282 pp. $35.00. Despite the proliferation in recent years of scholarly works on the social and familial lives of medieval women, few books have treated this subject ...
Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, New Series -- Number 25: Transitions.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, New Series -- Number 25: Transitions, edited by Paul Maurice Clogan. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xiii, 177 pp. $68.00 U.S. The latest volume in this series contains six original essays, a ...
Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century, by Richard Kieckhefer. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 1997. viii, 384 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The history of literate magic in the middle ages has tended to be ...
The German Reformation.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The German Reformation, edited by C. Scott Dixon. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. vii, 288 pp. $26.95. In this volume of the Blackwell Essential Readings in History series, the editor has collected eight "key essays on the most recent interpretations of the ...
Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe, by Auke Jelsma. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, 1998. xii, 192 pp. $76.95 U.S. In this book the author has collected a series of eleven previously published essays which all in some way ...
The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864, edited by John B. Roney and Martin I. Klauber. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1998. xiv, 228 pp. $59.95 U.S. The title is slightly misleading. Only half of the essays are examinations of the changing image ...
The Early Modern European Economy.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Early Modern European Economy, by Peter Musgrave. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii, 236 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). The self-proclaimed purpose of this book is to present a revisionist essay on the late twentieth century historiography of the early modern ...
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World, by John M. Headley. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xxv, 399 pp. $55.00. In Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World, John Headley has written the first monographic analysis of the ...
Patrons, Artisans and Instruments of Science, 1600-1750.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Patrons, Artisans and Instruments of Science, 1600-1750, by Silvio A. Bedini. Aldershot, England, Variorum, distributed by Ashgate, 1999. xvi, 336 pp. $120.95 U.S. The thirteen essays in this richly rewarding volume range over the transition of instruments from models of the ...
France in the Enlightenment.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... France in the Enlightenment, by Daniel Roche. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998.723 pp. $39.95. Arguably Daniel Roche is the most important living French historian writing on the period before 1800. His writings are ...
The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640, edited by Peter Marshall. Don Mills, Ontario, Arnold, distributed by Oxford University Press, 1997. xi, 344 pp. $40.50. Readers of the twelve scholarly essays and excellent introduction by Peter Marshall will quickly confront a ...
Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719).(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719), edited by Frances Willmoth. New York, Boydell Press, 1997. xiv, 271 pp. $81.00. A first-rate sheaf of essays complementing each other, written with clarity by specialists, each ...
Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815, by Jeremy Black. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCL Press, distributed by Taylor & Francis, 1999. viii, 332 pp. $49.95. In this wide-ranging book, Jeremy Black, a prolific producer of publications on many aspects of eighteenth-century ...
Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830, by Leith Davis. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. viii, 219 pp. $39.50 U.S. Leith Davis explores a century-long struggle to define a viable national identity in the teeth ...
The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World, by Aleksandr B. Kamenskii, translated and edited by David Griffiths. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1997. xii, 306 pp. $65.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). At first glance, these three studies share ...
The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917, by Peter Waldron. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. vii, 189 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). At first glance, these three studies share only their interest in the history of the Russian empire. They address different periods from ...
Social Identity in Imperial Russia.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Social Identity in Imperial Russia, by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xi, 260 pp. $35.00. At first glance, these three studies share only their interest in the history of the Russian empire. They address different ...
Tactics and Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Tactics and Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon, by Rory Muir. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. x, 342 pp. $35.00. Rory Muir is a young historian of great talent who was educated at Adelaide University (Australia). He is ecumenical in his selection of ...
Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990, edited by Dieter Buse and Juergen Doerr. New York, Garland Publishing, 1998. 1iii, 1,158 pp. 2 volumes, $175.00. It is striking that prior to 1998 there existed no reliable, English-language ...
Studies in the Interwar European Economy.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Studies in the Interwar European Economy, by Derek H. Aldcroft. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate. x, 229 pp. $72.95 U.S. Modern scholarship on the economic history of the interwar period has generally avoided focussing on a single factor to explain the economic crisis of the era. By ...
The Weimar Republic.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Weimar Republic, by Stephen J. Lee. New York, Routledge, 1998. viii, 136 pp. $11.99 U.S., $17.99 Can. It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods in German history whose interpretation requires an extraordinary degree of ...
The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, by Ruth Henig. New York, Routledge, 1998. xix, 87 pp. $11.99 U.S., $17.99 Can. It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods in German history whose interpretation requires an extraordinary degree ...
Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German Fascism.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German Fascism, by Morgan Philips Price, edited by Tania Rose. London, Pluto Press, 1999. xxiv, 220 pp. $39.95 Can. It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods in German ...
Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic, by William L. Patch, Jr. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix, 358 pp. $54.95. Few figures of the Weimar Republic's troubled last years have received more historical attention or generated more controversy ...
A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945, by Michael Richards. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 314 pp. $59.95. One of General Franco's central post-war objectives was to maintain a festering division of Spain ...
The Mind Aflame: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict In and After the Soviet Union.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Mind Aflame: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict In and After the Soviet Union, by Valery Tishkov. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, 1997. xv, 334 pp. $29.95 (paper). Inspired by the devastating and tragic ethnic wars and confrontations that have scarred the ...
1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, by Michael Jabara Carley. Chicago, Illinois, Ivan R. Dee, 1999. xxv, 321 pp. $39.95. Michael Jabara Carley's monograph on the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations presents an interesting historiographical ...
World War Two in Europe: An Encyclopedia.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... World War Two in Europe: An Encyclopedia, edited by David T. Zabecki. New York, Garland Publishing, 1999. xvii, 1920 pp. Two volumes, $195.00. David Zabecki's Encyclopedia is a research tool serving an audience of both scholars and afficionados of the conflict. Here are World ...
The Causes of the Second World War.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Causes of the Second World War, by Andrew J. Crozier. Malden Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1997. xvi, 320 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). A retrospective view at the end of the twentieth century may indeed place the Second World War as "the greatest conflict in ...
Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest, by Randall L. Schweller. New York, Columbia University Press, 1998. x, 268 pp. $57.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.50 U.S. (paper). A retrospective view at the end of the twentieth century may indeed place the Second ...
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia, by Gabriel Gorodetsky. New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press, 1999. xvi, 408 pp. $29.95 U.S. Gabriel Gorodetsky is a professor of history at the Tel Aviv University and has written previous books on Anglo-Soviet ...
Les relations economiques franco-allemandes de 1945 a 1955: De l'occupation a la cooperation.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Les relations economiques franco-allemandes de 1945 a 1955: De l'occupation a la cooperation, by Sylvie Lefevre. Paris, Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere, 1998. xviii, 527 pp. 249 FF. Sylvie Lefevre's book on postwar Franco-German economic relations is not the ...
The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II, by Gabrielle Hecht. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 1998. xiv, 453 pp, $45.00. In 1945 peace returned to Europe, but it did not bring relief from the financial, material, and human ...
The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years, by Lawrence S. Kaplan. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, distributed by Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 280 pp, $22.50 (paper), $65.00 (cloth). In 1945 peace returned to Europe, but it did not bring relief from the financial, material, ...
Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990, by Harry Hendrick. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 114 pp. $44.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). This book provides an overview of the current literature on the history of children and childhood in modern England. It ...
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854, by Christopher Hamlin. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. vii, 368 pp. $64.95. The name of Edwin Chadwick is synonymous with Victorian public health. Generations of history students have ...
The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Worm History Perspective.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Worm History Perspective, by Timothy H. Parsons. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. xi, 153 pp. $53.00 U.S. (cloth), $11.95 U.S. (paper). This is the first work in a new series entitled Critical Issues in History, the goal ...
Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Press.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Press, by Judith Knelman. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1998. xii, 322 pp. $50.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper). It is difficult to resist the grim allure of accounts of "murder most foul." Judith Knelman's ...
Women at Cambridge.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Women at Cambridge, by Rita McWilliams Tullberg. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxvii 230 pp. $22.95 U.S. Groucho Marx is supposed to have said: "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me." This saying comes to mind at the conclusion of Rita ...
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, by Nicholas Lambert. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 410 pp. $39.95 U.S. Nicholas Lambert has written what amounts to a lengthy defence of Sir John Fisher and his radical rethinking of naval strategy ....
British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939: "Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst".(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939: "Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst," by Paul W. Doerr. New York, Manchester University Press (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1998. xi, 291 pp. $28.50. In this book, Paul W. Doerr takes a refreshingly straightforward and accessible ...
The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 1942-1947.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament, 1942-1947, by Chris Madsen. London, England, Frank Cass, distributed by I.S.B.S., 1998. xx, 277 pp. $55.00 U.S. This work examines a perfect naval victory and an unknown one -- Britain's destruction of German seapower in 1945-46 ....
New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects, edited by Brian Brivati and Tim Bale. New York, Routledge, 1997. xi, 212 pp. $31.99. Nineteen hundred and six, 1945, 1979, and now, apparently, 1997: these are the counters in the historical trainspotter's game of determining the ...
The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America, by Patricia U. Bonomi. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 290 pp. $29.95. The most serious scandal about Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury has been his treatment by ...
The Popular Press, 1833-1836.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Popular Press, 1833-1836, by William E. Huntzicker. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 210 pp. $65.00. Bemidji, Minnesota, known for Babe the Blue Ox and Bob Dylan, is also the home of William E. Huntzicker, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication, Bemidji ...
Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States, by Stephen R. Kandall. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1996. x, 353 pp. $29.95 U.S. In Substance and Shadow, Stephen Kandall, Chief of Neonatology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, ...
Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture, by David E. Nye. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 224 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $17.50 (paper). The relationship between land, landscape, and technological progress has always been a dominant ...
Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of the Vietnam War.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of the Vietnam War, by Ezra Y. Siff. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1999. xix, 172 pp. $49.95. On August 2, 1964, there was a brief clash between a U.S. destroyer and three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, in ...
In the Stream of History.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... In the Stream of History, by Warren Christopher. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xvii, 566 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). As political power changes hands early in 2001, followers of U.S. public affairs should be prepared for an onslaught of memoirs ...
The Essential Codex Mendoza.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Essential Codex Mendoza, edited by Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Reiff Anawalt. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1997. xiii, 268 pp. $39.95 U.S. Among the many first peoples of the Americas, the Mesoamericans had a writing tradition most like that of ...
Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920, by Stephen Bell. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xv, 292 pp. $55.00. Brazil's far south has more in common with Uruguay and eastern Argentina than with the rest of the country. The region's climate ...
Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle Class Lives in Brazil.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle Class Lives in Brazil, by Brian P. Owensby. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xv, 334 pp. $45.00 U.S. Brazilian historiography, particularly that of the 1980s, had a major concern with the 1930 revolution ...
Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era, by Michael N. Pearson. Baltimore, Maryland, John Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 202 pp. $35.95 U.S. (cloth). A distinguished scholar of early modern Asian and European interaction in ...
War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903, by Risto Marjomaa. Helsinki, Finland, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998. 305 pp. At the turn of the nineteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa's ...
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower, by Kenneth G. Henshall. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvi, 242 pp. $45.00 U.S. The book covers, as advertised, the entire history of Japan from the Stone Age to the present, getting better as it goes along and the author ...
Sun Yat-sen.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Sun Yat-sen, by Marie-Claire Bergere, translated from the French by Janet Lloyd. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. ix, 480 pp. $49.50 U.S. This timely biography of Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), written by Marie-Claire Bergere, a well-known French scholar of ...
Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction.(Review)
Aug 01, 2000; ... Science and Technology in Worm History: An Introduction, by James T. McClellan III and Harold Dom. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. viii, 404 pp. $18.95. If I could attach bells and whistles and flashing lights to this review I would do so, because ...