Canadian Journal of History back issues from December 2001:
Political pathologies: Barnave and the question of national identity in revolutionary France. (1) (Abstract/Resume analytique).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Although Joseph Barnave (1761-1793) was one of the greatest leaders of the French Revolution in its early period -- politically powerful, intelligent, pragmatic, and extremely popular with a cross-section of French society -- he has been greatly neglected in both the popular imagination ...
Postpositivist interpretations of the Chemical Revolution. (1) (Abstract/Resume analytique).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Since its inception in the Enlightenment, the discipline of the history of science has occupied a contested intellectual terrain, shaped by philosophical and ideological forces associated with the development and cultural entanglements of science itself. While Enlightenment figures like ...
"The Winston of Germany": the British foreign policy elite and the last German Emperor.
Dec 01, 2001; ... "A zig-zag streak of lightning in the brain." H.H. Asquith (1) Lord Salisbury reputedly once remarked that he preferred foreign to domestic politics, for the latter dealt with issues, but the former with personalities. Like most gems of Cecilian cynicism, the statement contains ...
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VI: c. 1198-c. 1300. (Review article: waxing or waning? The late Middle Ages and the New Cambridge Medieval History).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume V: c. 1198-c. 1300, edited by David Abulafia. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxiii, 1,045 pp. $120.00 U.S. (cloth). Some sixty to seventy years on, Cambridge University Press is completely updating its ...
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VI: c. 1300-c. 1415. (Review article: waxing or waning? The late Middle Ages and the New Cambridge Medieval History).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VI: c. 1300-c. 1415, edited by Michael Jones. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxx, 1,110 pp. $120.00 U.S. (cloth). Some sixty to seventy years on, Cambridge University Press is completely updating its ...
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VII: c. 1415-c. 1500. (Review article: waxing or waning? The late Middle Ages and the New Cambridge Medieval History).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VII: c. 1415-c. 1500, edited by Christopher Allmand. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxi, 1,048 pp. $120.00 U.S. (cloth) Some sixty to seventy years on, Cambridge University Press is completely updating its ...
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. (Review article: history from below decks).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Boston, Massachusetts, Beacon Press, 2000. 433 pp. $30.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.00 U.S. (paper). Here is history told from below decks, ...
Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government. (Review article: Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, and John Pocock: the appeals of whigs old and new).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv, 339 pp; xiv, 422 pp. $49.95 US, each volume; $90.00 US, boxed set (cloth), $39.95 ...
Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. (the mistaken gestalt of science studies: Steve Fuller takes on Kuhn).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times, by Steve Fuller. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvii 472 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.50 U.S. (paper). We all know Thomas Kuhn. "Paradigm", "revolution", "crisis", "gestalt", "incommensurability" have ...
The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe, by Peter S. Wells, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. xii, 335 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). Imagine a book on Roman Germany in which no mosaic, no bath-house, no Mithraic ...
Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa, by David Cherry. Don Mills, Ontario, Clarendon Press, distributed by Oxford University Press, 1998. xii, 291 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth). What was the Roman achievement in North Africa? The purpose of this book is "to describe Rome's ...
Richard I. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Richard I, by John Gillingham. Yale English Monarchs. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 378 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth). Richard I, universally remembered as "Coeur de Leon," was a king whose career has given rise to intense speculation, thus providing an ...
Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Aristocratic life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230, by John W. Baldwin. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii, 359 pp. $52.95 U.S. (cloth). John W. Baldwin's study of aristocratic life in medieval ...
Medieval Scotland. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Medieval Scotland, by A.D.M. Barrell. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii, 296 pp. $55.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Medieval Scotland is one of the most recent books in the Cambridge Medieval Textbooks series. In keeping with ...
Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance, by Harry Berger, Jr. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xxi, 624 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). In Fictions of the Pose, Harry Berger, Jr., who has published on the work of ...
The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment, by George Huppert. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1999. 146 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). "What made France different from the rest of Europe was the profusion of public, ...
The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772, by Karen Friedrich. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 280 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). Divided by the Vistula River, the Prussian lands of the southern Baltic ...
Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment, by Brian Dolan. New York, St. Martin' s Press, 2000. xi, 232 pp., $59.95 U.S. (cloth). In the late eighteenth century, the French and British governments directly sponsored or covertly aided a number ...
Enlightenment and Community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the Quest for a German Public. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Enlightenment and Community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the Quest for a German Public, by Benjamin W. Redekop. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. ix, 263 pp. $70.00 U.S. (cloth). Enlightenment and ...
Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press. (Reviews: early modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press, by J. Christopher Warner. Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1998. ix, 163 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). Although examinations of Henrician literature and propaganda are hardly new, Warner adds an ...
Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North. (Reviews: early modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North, edited by Peter Millard. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. xix, 353 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). Roger North was one of the most interesting intellectuals in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England, who wrote ...
Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel. (Reviews: early modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel, by Clifford D. Conner. Signpost Biographies. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Combined Publishing, 2000. 333 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). In many ways the transit that Clifford D. Conner has chosen to trace in Colonel Despard: ...
Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis (Reviews: early modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis, edited by Michael T. Davis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv, 242 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). This work is a collection of short essays produced by scholars working in history, political ...
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856, by Trevor Royle. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xix, 564 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Everyone interested in history has an impression of the Crimean war, if only of the awesome destruction of the British Light Brigade, mistakenly ...
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas, by Lionel Gossman. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii, 608 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). There is a certain danger which comes from walking past the front porch of an elderly and learned neighbour ...
Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France, by Whitney Walton. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. 308 pp., $51.00 U.S. (cloth). Historians of gender have amply documented the process by which late eighteenth- and ...
Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914, by Jan Palmowski. Oxford Historical Monographs. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 391 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth). The notion that Germany took a special path into modernity has been challenged from ...
Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917, edited by Anna Geifman. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. ix, 310 pp. $62.95 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). Those expecting to find in this volume an updated reprise of a similarly-titled 1969 ...
Lenin: A Biography. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. xxv, 561 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth). With the countless tomes already available on the subject, including a three-volume political biography by this author, the first question that might ...
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991, by Richard Sakwa. Sources in History. New York, Routledge, 1999. xxi, 521 pp. $90.00 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). This solid volume is the latest in the Routledge series "Sources in History," designed in the first instance ...
Reading the Holocaust. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Reading the Holocaust, by Inga Clendinnen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 227 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). The author of this volume of essays, a historian of pre-Columbian America, seeks to confront the meaning of the Holocaust by reading ...
Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945, by Evan Burr Bukey. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 320 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). Following the Anschluss, Austria became, as Evan Burr Bukey puts it, "a site for the ...
Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents, by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, translators Thomas Hosington and Steven Shabad. Annals of Communism. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xvii, 448 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $35.00 U.S. (paper). The ...
Dimitrov & Stalin, 1934-1943. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Dimitrov & Stalin, 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives, edited by Alexander Dallin and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, translated by Vadim A. Staklo. Annals of Communism. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xxx, 278 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Dimitrov & Stalin ...
The Expectation of Justice: France, 1944-1946. (modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Expectation of Justice: France, 1944-1946, by Megan Koreman. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1999. xx, 340 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Indochina and Algeria notwithstanding, many historians now suggest that the French Fourth Republic should ...
The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Eras. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Eras, by Stephen Lovell. Studies in Russia and East Europe. New York, Macmillan Press, distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000. viii, 215 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). The phenomenon of the Russian ...
Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision, by Laurence Kitzan. Contributions to the Study of World Literature. Westport, Connecticut, and London, Greenwood Press, 2001. xii, 203 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). The term "Victorian" in the title of this book ...
Railways and the Victorian Imagination. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Railways and the Victorian Imagination, by Michael J. Freeman. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. vi, 264 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). In the preface to his splendid book on railways in Victorian culture, Michael Freeman confesses to having spent school holidays on ...
Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855, by S.M. Waddams. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. xvi, 315 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). S.M. Waddams is the first scholar to do a detailed analysis of the records of ...
Shopping For Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Shopping For Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End, by Erica Diane Rappaport. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii, 322 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). When Gordon Selfridge publicized the 1909 opening of his Oxford Street ...
Bonar Law. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Bonar Law, by R.J.Q. Adams. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xvii, 458 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Professor Adams has written an important political biography about the least-examined Conservative Prime Minister of the past century and the only Canadian-born ...
Britain and Central Europe 1918-1933. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Britain and Central Europe 1918-1933, by Gabor Batonyi. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, United Kingdom, Clarendon Press, distributed by Oxford University Press, 1999. vii, 240 pp. $101.50 Cdn (cloth). The new international order that arose out of the post-World War I ...
Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-39. (Reviews: modern Britain).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-39, by Peter Neville. Studies in Diplomacy. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv, 237 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth). On the eve of the Second World War, many of the ambassadors serving the United Kingdom abroad did their ...
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws From Prehistory to Removal (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws From Prehistory to Removal, edited by James Taylor Carson. Indians of the Southeast Series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiv, 133 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). In this recent addition to the University ...
The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture, by Dee E. Andrews. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. xv, 367 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). In this well-researched and ably-written book Dee E. Andrews explores the rise of ...
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Theda Perdue. Indians of the Southeast Series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi, 252 pp. $14.95 U.S. (paper). In this cogent work, Perdue demonstrates that changes in Cherokee women's status and ...
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland, by T. Stephen Whitman. New York, Routledge, 1997. xiv, 238 pp. $35.95 U.S. (cloth), $20.95 U.S. (paper). With its extensive evidence and thoughtful analysis, this book is a valuable addition ...
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 1,021 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). This War and Peace-sized tome is not bedtime reading ....
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 1,190 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). The editors of this massive tome may have ended their task ...
The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression, par Ronald Edsforth. Problems in American History. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. xiii, 324 pp. $62.95 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). Cet ouvrage analyse comment le gouvernement des Etats-Unis a ...
And a Time For Hope: Americans in the Great Depression. (Reviews: United States).
Dec 01, 2001; ... And a Time For Hope: Americans in the Great Depression, by James R. McGovern. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Publishers, distributed by Greenwood Press, 2000. xii, 354 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Earlier studies of the United States in the 1930s have generally ...
Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History, by James Lockhart. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xii, 397 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper). This collection of wide-ranging essays showcases the ongoing work of one ...
Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru, by Carolyn Dean. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1999. xi, 288 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The art history of colonial Latin America has come a long way during the last ...
Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91, by Roderick J. Barman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xviii, 548 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). Interpreting the life of Dom Pedro II, Brazil's emperor from 1840 to 1889, is no ...
The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army, by William F. Sater and Holger H. Herwig. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xi, 247 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth). This is a well-documented and at times ...
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. (Reviews: Africa and near East).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa, by Philip D. Curtin. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii, 256 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). In this excellent and richly-detailed monograph, Philip Curtin assesses the role ...
Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923. (Reviews: Africa and near East).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923, by Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 409 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). The publisher and the authors make expansive claims for the merits of this ...
Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace. (Reviews: Africa and near East).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, by Kenneth W. Stein. New York, Routledge, 1999. ix, 324 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). Anyone interested in getting a better grasp of the origins of the current ...
"Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
Dec 01, 2001; ... "Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific, par I.C. Campbell. Westport, Connecticut, 1998. xii, 167 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). En 1976, I. C. Campbell presenta sa these doctorale a l'universite d'Adelaide sur les European ...
Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850-1960. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850-1960, by Mafia Misra. Oxford Historical Monographs. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xiii, 242 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). One of the principal conduits through which British capital penetrated India was offered by the ...
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta, by Kathy Le Mons Walker. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi, 330 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). As with so many of his pithy formulations, Mao Zedong's use of the term ...
Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China, by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xi, 497 pp. $69.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). The title of this study of Chinese crime fiction is an intended pun for, in the ...
One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
Dec 01, 2001; ... One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937, by Lynda Schaefer Bell. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xvii, 290 pp. $51.00 U.S. (cloth). Silk is the epitome of Chinese culture, rich, soft, lustrous, the ...
The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution, by Jin Qiu. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 279 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). News of the death in September 1971 of Lin Biao, Chairman Mao Zedong's "close comrade in arms and ...
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausaleum. (Reviews: general and international).
Dec 01, 2001; ... Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausaleum, by Martin Edward Malia. Cambridge Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1999. xii, 514 pp. $36.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). Martin Malia has written a masterful extended essay in ...