Canadian Journal of History back issues from August 2001:
The Good of this Service Consists in Absolute Secrecy: The Earl of Dunbar, Scotland and the Border (1603-1611).
Aug 01, 2001; ... I. It is true there be some affairs which require extreme secrecy, which will hardly go beyond one or two persons besides the king: neither are those councils unprosperous, for, besides the secrecy, they commonly go on constantly in one spirit of direction, without ...
GENDER AND THE SHIFTING GROUND OF REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS: THE CASE OF MADAME ROLAND.(Jeanne-Marie Roland)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Roland's death, as much as her life, has captured the imagination of modern historians and literary scholars, and it has everything to do with timing. As a supporter of the Brissotins(1) and a woman active in politics, her execution was a vivid illustration of the ...
Technical Knowledge and the Mental Universe of Manchester's Early Cotton Manufacturers.
Aug 01, 2001; ... This essay focuses on the role that learned knowledge -- as distinct from practice -- played in the First Industrial Revolution. It departs from the view that only skilled artisans, who seldom cracked a book, held the key to British industrial prowess.(1) Our emphasis is not upon water ...
Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999, x, 324 p. $29.75 Cdn. Like some fine wine, the publisher's blurbs announce "Latour nouveau!" These are intoxicating times in the history of ...
The Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek and Jean-Louis Margolin. Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press, ...
The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Francois Furet. Translated by Deborah Furet. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii, 596 pp. $35.00. As East European archives open for researchers and more and more facts ...
The Revolutions of 1989 (Re-Writing Histories).(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Revolutions of 1989 (Re-Writing Histories) edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu. London and New York: Routledge. 1999. x, 270 pp. $Can HB. 135.00. As East European archives open for researchers and more and more facts continue to emerge, communism is no longer what it was thought ...
Horace: Poetics and Politics.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Horace: Poetics and Politics, by V.G. Kiernan. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xi, 204 pp. $61.95 U.S. (cloth). V.G. Kiernan is, I gather, an eminent marxisant historian of the modern world. As a boy in the 1920s he conceived an undying love for the ancient Roman poet ...
Romanization in the Time of Augustus.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Romanization in the Time of Augustus, by Ramsay MacMullen. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 222 pp. $25.00 U.S. (cloth). The American classicist Henry T. Rowell was once heard to proclaim from the cavea of a Cambridge lecture theatre that it was "the ...
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate, by Susan P. Mattern. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. xviii, 259 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Twenty-five years ago, Edwin Luttwak's The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (Baltimore, 1976) triggered ...
The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire, by Michael Grant. New York, Routledge, 1999. xviii, 121 pp. $45.00 Cdn (cloth). If there is a cottage industry in the world of classical scholarship, it takes the form of Michael Grant, Inc. Over a period of six decades Grant has ...
Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading, by Paul Saenger. (Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture). Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xx, 480 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). In Space Between Words Paul Saenger presents the fully ...
Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen, by Ann Trindade. Dublin, Ireland, Four Courts Press, 1999. 240 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). Writing the lives of medieval women is no simple task, and this new biography of Berengaria is no exception to the general rule. Ann ...
Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, by John Larner. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xiii, 250 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World is another engaging work by John Larner, the author of several books on medieval Italy ....
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Volume II, East Anglia, Central England and Wales.
Aug 01, 2001; ... Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, Volume II, East Anglia, Central England and Wales, by Anthony Emery. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv, 724 pp. $195.00 U.S. (cloth). Outside of the relatively full attention which has been paid to castles and ...
Neue Impulse der Reiseforschung.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Neue Impulse der Reiseforschung, edited by Michael Maurer. Berlin, Germany, Akademie Verlag, 1999.420 pp. 126.74 DM or 64.80 EU. This valuable book emerged from a 1993 conference and contains the presentations plus a lengthy research report on the diverse approaches to travel in ...
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture, by Leonard Barkan. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xxxiv, 428 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). What happens when contemporary culture confronts its past in an ...
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance, by Peter Godman. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 366 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). The volume is an in-depth analysis of Florentine humanism at the turn of the sixteenth century ...
Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning, by Andrea Carlino. Translated by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv, 266 pp. $29.00 U.S. (cloth). In 1587 the cadaver of the hanged criminal Rodolfo di ...
Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements, by William Monter. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. vi, 324 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Until recently, study of the religious crisis in sixteenth-century France has concentrated ...
The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715, by Paul Kleber Monod. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. x, 417 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.00 U.S. (paper). Weber's disenchanted world lurks behind the scene in this survey of European ...
Early Modern Spain: A Social History.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Early Modern Spain: A Social History, by James Casey. New York, Routledge, 1999. x, 305 pp. $150.00 Cdn (cloth), $49.99 Cdn (paper). As in Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo's (1612-67) beautiful View of the City of Zaragoza on the cover of the paperback edition, James Casey ...
War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740, by Erik A. Lund. (Series: Contributions in Military Studies, number 181). Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 242 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). Early modern European military ...
Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740-1745.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740-1745, by Joris van Eijnatten. (Series: Studi e Testi per la Storia della Tolleranza in Europa nei Secoli XVI-XVIII). Florence, Italy, Leo S. Olschki, 1998. viii, 355 pp. 64000 Lira or ...
Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women, by Jolanta T. Pekacz. (Series: The Age of Revolution and Romanticism, volume 25). New York, Peter Lang, 1999. 256 pp. $51.95 U.S. (cloth). The role of women in the intellectual and cultural life of old ...
Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press, by J. Christopher Warner. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York, Boydell Press, 1998. ix, 163 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). Although examinations of Henrician literature and propaganda are hardly new, ...
Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England, edited by Muriel C. McClendon, Joseph P. Ward, and Michael MacDonald. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 372 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). This Festschrift for Paul ...
Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England, edited by Susan Frye and Karen Robertson. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xviii, 350 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). While far from the first examination of women's group activities, Maids and ...
Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820, by Mark Salber Phillips. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2000. xvii, 369 pp. $57.50 U.S. (cloth), $25.95 U.S. (paper). This is a challenging, yet highly readable account, of what to the ...
Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective, by Susan Vandiver Nicassio. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxi, 335 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.00 U.S. (paper). The theatre is rarely a successful venue for relating history accurately: the ...
Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police.
Aug 01, 2001; ... Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police, by Charles A. Ruud and Sergei A. Stepanov. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. ix. 394 pp: $39.95 Cdn (cloth). In late nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, the address "Fontanka 16" became a shorthand for "secret ...
Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914, by Yanni Kotsonis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 272 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). Historians have often presented -- without serious examination -- the co-operative movement ...
The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany, by Jeffrey Verhey. (Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of modern Warfare 10). New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 268 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). Now that the so-called "Fischer ...
Intellectuals and the German Nation: Collective Identity in an Axial Age.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Intellectuals and the German Nation: Collective Identity in an Axial Age, by Bernhard Giesen. Translated by Nicholas Levis and Amos Weisz. (Series: Cambridge Cultural Studies). New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 246 pp. $74.95 U.S. (cloth), $27.95 U.S. (paper). This ...
The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI, by Georges Passelecq and Bernard Suchecky. Introduction by Garry Wills, translated by Steven Rendall. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1997. xxiv, 319 pp. $25.00 U.S. (cloth), $14.00 U.S. (paper). John Cornwell's recent book, Hitler's Pope: The Secret ...
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, by John Cornwell. New York, Viking, 1999. xi, 430 pp. $42.00 Cdn (cloth). There was no more controversial figure in the twentieth-century papacy than Pius XII. Many in the Catholic establishment today who wistfully long for the era ...
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, by Christopher R. Browning. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 185 pp. $42.95 U.S. (cloth), $15.95 U.S. (paper). In his new book Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, the respected American historian Christopher ...
The Nazi War on Cancer.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Nazi War on Cancer, by Robert N. Proctor. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. x, 380 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). There are few smokers who, while forced to spend a cigarette break outdoors on a frigid winter day, have not muttered under ...
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev. Translated by Shirley Benson. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. ix, 765 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth). If one were to set aside Lenin and Trotskii's ambitions for the ...
George IV.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... George IV, by E. A. Smith. (Series: Yale English Monarchs). New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 306 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.50 U.S. (paper). The case against George IV which E. A. Smith seeks to redress was summed up by J. A. Hamilton who, when he went ...
The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925, by Dale A. Johnson. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 248 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). Although many studies of religion in particular communities or periods in modern Britain have appeared in recent years, studies of ...
Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition, by Thomas Hennessey. New York, Routledge, 1998. xxi, 280 pp. $128.00 Cdn (cloth), $39.99 Cdn (paper). Dr. Hennessey helpfully states his premise in the book's opening line: namely, "that a conflict of national identity lies at the ...
The Evolution of British General Practice.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948, by Anne Digby. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 376 pp. $127.50 U.S. (cloth). Anne Digby has followed up her recent work on the economics of medical practice in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early ...
"The Battle for Health": A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... "The Battle for Health": A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930-51, by John Stewart. (Series: History of Medicine in Context). Brookfield, Vermont and Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999. v, 259 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). Anne Digby has followed up her recent work on ...
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, by Joyce Appleby. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. viii, 322 pp. $26.00 U.S. (cloth), $16.00 U.S. (paper). In her latest book Joyce Appleby examines those children of the founders of the ...
Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, by Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, distributed by Scholarly Book Services, 1997. xii, 396 pp. $82.50 U.S. (cloth), $32.95 U.S. (paper). ...
Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States, by Cindy Aron. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xi, 324 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). This interesting examination of the rise of vacationing in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America ...
Cultures in Conflict: The American Civil War.
Aug 01, 2001; ... Cultures in Conflict: The American Civil War, by Steven E. Woodworth. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2000. xx, 220 pp. $45.00 U.S. Steven E. Woodworth notes that the concept of "Culture Wars" so "aptly used" by presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan at the 1992 ...
Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann Fabian. New York, Routledge, 1999. xiii, 250 pp. $28.99 Cdn (paper). Here is a question for the moral theorist in our age of dot-com instant millionaires and Wall Street gone berserk: How do you ...
The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan, by Linda Przybyszewski. (Series: Studies in Legal History). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, distributed by Scholarly Book Services, 1999. xii, 286 pp. $82.50 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). In ...
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society, by Jennifer Terry. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix, 537 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth), $20.00 U.S. (paper). An American Obsession is a monograph of encyclopedic dimension. In an ...
The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900, by Frank Ninkovich. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix, 320 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth), $18.00 U.S. (paper). No president figures more centrally in the history of American foreign relations than Woodrow ...
The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Andrew E. Hunt. New York, New York University Press, 1999. xi, 259 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). In 1965, Undersecretary of State George Ball advised President Lyndon Johnson that the American war effort in Vietnam was ...
Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico, edited by Stuart B. Schwartz. Boston and New York, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvi, 271 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). The overthrow of the "Aztec Empire" by Hernando Cortes and his fellow conquistadores ...
Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes, edited by Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall. Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah Press, 1998. vi, 328 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). Last wills and testaments have provided much grist for scholarly ...
The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom, by Grant D. Jones. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xxvii, 568 pp. $69.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Here, ostensibly, is an account of the conquest of the Itza Maya, the last of the independent lowland Maya ...
Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States, by Don M. Coerver and Linda B. Hall. Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 1999. x, 289 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The study of U.S.-Latin American relations operates as a veritable ...
The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America, by Nancy Mitchell. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, distributed by Scholarly Book Services, 1999. xiv, 312 pp. $82.50 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). Distinguishing the ...
Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question, by Michael Doran. (Series: Studies in Middle Eastern History). New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 230 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). With the trend of historical scholarship since the 1960s ...
Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King, by Margaret Negodaeff-Tomsik. Ottawa, Canadian Medical Association, 1999. 236 pp. $24.95 Cdn (paper). Margaret Negodaeff-Tomsik has written an interesting book on the life of Dr. Leonora Howard King, a Canadian medical missionary ...
Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service, by Richard J. Aldrich. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiv, 500 pp. $34.95 U.S. (cloth). Richard J. Aldrich's impressive new study arrives with a disclaimer at the end ....
Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages.
Aug 01, 2001; ... Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages, by Eugen Weber. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 294 pp. $26.50 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). It is not easy to get this book under control. Weber's "apocalypses," so many and ...
Museums and Memory.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Museums and Memory, edited by Susan A. Crane. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. x, 257 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). "Memory," observed John Locke, is "the Storehouse of our Ideas." Reciprocally, museums have, as Susan Crane explores in her ...
The Sciences in Enlightened Europe.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, edited by William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii, 566 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $27.50 U.S. (paper). Throughout the English-speaking academy all but the most die-hard ...
Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology.(Review)
Aug 01, 2001; ... Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology, by William C. Summers. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 230 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). This is the biography of a great Canadian scientist, whose discoveries were all the more extraordinary because he ...