Canadian Journal of History back issues from December 2004:
"I am her majesty's subject": Prince George of Denmark and the transformation of the English male consort.(introduction in French)(Biography)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Une des figures historiques anglaises les plus enigmatiques a la fin du regne des Stuart est le prince George du Danemark (1653-1708), l'epoux de la reine Anne (1702-1714). A la difference de Philippe d'Espagne, l'epoux de Marie I (1553-1558) qui prit sa place a ses cotes en tant que ...
Creating an image of science: persuasion and iconography in A. Cressy Morrison's Man in a Chemical World.(introduction in French)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Le portrait de la science et du scientifique moderne fut le resultat d'interactions complexes entre les savants, les sources mediatiques et le public. En 1937, les chimistes etaient le groupe de savants le plus large et le plus puissant dans les Etats Unis; mais ils faisaient pietres ...
Radio Free Europe's impact on the Kremlin in the Hungarian crisis of 1956: three hypotheses.(introduction in French)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Dans cet article, nous devoilons les emissions incendiaires de Radio Free Europe (RFE), jusqu'ici non mentionnees et nous juxtaposons chronologiquement, pour la premiere fois, des documents d'archives de la Russie, de la Hongrie et des Etats-Unis qui ont ete publies ces dernieres annees ....
Where is history heading?(What is History Now?)(The New History: Confessions and Conversations)(Historical Representation)(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... What is History Now? edited by David Cannadine. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xiv, 172 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). The New History: Confessions and Conversations, edited by Maria Lucia G. Pallares-Burke. Cambridge, Polity, 2002. vi, 247 pp. $69.95 US (cloth), ...
Cannae: the Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War, by Gregory Daly. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xviii, 253 pp. $31.95 US (cloth). Gregory Daly begins with an opening chapter giving a brief summary of the political and military background of the Romans and the ...
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... A History of the Church in the Middle Ages, by F. Donald Logan. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xiv, 367 pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). For many years, countless university professors in the English-speaking world relied upon Richard Southern's magisterial ...
The Beginnings of English Law.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Beginnings of English Law, by Lisi Oliver. Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002. xiv, 297 pp. $63.00 US (cloth). Lisi Oliver's recent entry into discussions of the earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon written laws has the merits of ...
Roger II of Sicily: a Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West, by Hubert Houben, translated by Graham A. Loud and Diane Milburn. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxv, 231 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.99 US (paper). "One can only live well in the clear ...
King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330, by Roy Martin Haines. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xviik 604 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). In the introduction to his study of Edward II, Roy Haines sets himself the task of weaving a ...
English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century, by Michael Hicks. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xvii, 261 pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $31.95 US (paper). In the last forty years of scholarship on fifteenth-century England, more bricks have been made than walls. Research ...
Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany by Norbert Schindler. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv, 311 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). Originally titled Widerspenstige Leute: Studien zur Volkskultur in der fruhen Neuzeit, ...
Paris in the Age of Absolutism: an Essay.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Paris in the Age of Absolutism: An Essay, by Orest Ranum. Revised edition. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 403 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This a revised edition of a book first published in 1968. It is beautifully composed, with elegant ...
The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse, by Rebecca Messbarger. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002. 209 pp. $48.00 US (cloth). Following in the footsteps of precious few studies on ...
Pilgrimage: the English Experience from Becket to Bunyan.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan, edited by Colin Morris and Peter Roberts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 256 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This impressive collection of essays, which originated in a 1999 symposium at the University of Kent, ...
The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Beginnings of English Protestantism, edited by Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi, 242 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $19.99 US (paper). This collection challenges the accepted truth developing in English Reformation historiography over ...
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, by Eamon Duffy. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001. xvi, 232 pp. $25.00 US (cloth), $14.00 US (paper). The Voices of Morebath brings to life the ways in which a small Devon village of ...
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters, by A. E. MacRobert. New York, I. B. Tauris, 2002. x, 235 pp. $49.50 US (cloth). A. E. MacRobert's book concerns what Hans Villius has described as "the most frequently discussed event in the history of Scotland," namely the murder of ...
Sir John Hawkins: the Queen's Slave Trader.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Sir John Hawkins: The Queen's Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. xiv, 402 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Great men suffer by comparison with their greater contemporaries. Twelve books about Sir John Hawkins have appeared in English since 1895; fifteen ...
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England, by Garthine Walker. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 310 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Virtually every study of early-modem English crime has found that between ...
Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England, by Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi, 311 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Patricia Phillippy's Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England is intended to respond to recent work studying ...
Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by John Kent. British Lives series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi, 229 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.99 US (paper). Can anything new be said about John Wesley? Everything depends on how one defines ...
Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914, by Harold Mah. Ithaca, New York, and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xii, 227 pp. $41.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Harold Mah argues that German and French thinkers in the eighteenth and ...
The Peninsular War: a New History.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Peninsular War: A New History, by Charles Esdaile. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. xv, 587 pp. $58.95 Cdn (cloth). As the title suggests, Charles Esdaile's The Peninsular War. A New History is a revisionist work. Esdaile presents the reader with a paradoxical story where ...
Gender and the Modern Research University: the Admission of Women to German Higher Education.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914, by Patricia M. Mazon. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. x, 297 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The women of nineteenth-century Germany have been strikingly absent in almost ...
National Cultures and International Competition: the Experience of Schering AG 1851-1950.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950, by Christopher Kobrak. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 394 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, ...
From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914, by Paul B. Miller. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 277 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). For understandable reasons, historians have largely portrayed European ...
All Russia is Burning!: a Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... All Russia is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia, by Cathy A. Frierson. Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002. x, 318 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). If the student of modern Russian history ...
The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia, by Maureen Perrie. Studies in Russian and Eastern European History. New York, Palgrave, 2001. xv, 255 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Remembered by the Russians for his cruelty and the punitive expeditions of his secret police, ...
Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, by Polymeris Voglis. New York, Berghahn Books, 2002. x, 250 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.50 US (paper). Polymeris Voglis set out with an important goal with regard to the historiography of the Greek Civil War: to ...
Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940, by Talbot C. Imlay. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. x, 393 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). This book is about the prelude to, and early going of, the Second World War. It is a ...
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: the Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, by Bryan Mark Rigg. Modern War Studies. Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxi, 433 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $16.95 US (paper). In 1935, the Third ...
European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War, edited by Neville Wylie. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi, 368 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). This weighty collection of fourteen essays on neutral and "non-belligerent" powers in Europe during the Second ...
Alamein.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Alamein, by Jon Latimer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. xiii, 400 pp. $27.95 US (cloth), $17.95 US (paper). During the early winter of 1942-43 the significance of the victory of the British/Commonwealth forces at Alamein was evident to most astute ...
Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950-1971, by Hubert Zimmermann. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 275 pp ....
Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland, by Roger Took. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2004. xvi, 365 pp. $27.50 US (cloth), $17.00 US (paper). In many ways, this is quite an extraordinary book. It details the explorations of the north west of Russia by an ...
In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain, by James Epstein. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xi, 206 pp. $ $60.00 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Assembled here are updated and amended pieces previously published between ...
Queen Victoria.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Queen Victoria, by Walter L. Arnstein. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. 254 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $16.95 US (paper). Queen Victoria has come to symbolize nineteenth-century Britain in the public imagination in a way that is only comparable to Elizabeth I's dominance of the ...
Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, by Philippa Levine. New York, Routledge, 2003. ix, 480pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). Despite its rather prosaic title, this is an ambitious study of British imperialism during the ...
Emmeline Pankhurst.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Emmeline Pankhurst, by Paula Bartley. London, Routledge, 2002. xii, 284 pp. $88.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Emmeline Pankhurst transcends her sole identification with suffrage in Paula Bartley's incisive biography. Bartley offers an analysis of Pankhurst as social reformer ...
The Oxford Movement: a Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times, by C. Brad Faught, University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xi, 184 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). There is no shortage of books on the Oxford movement. The ...
Just Taxes: the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979, by Martin Daunton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 406 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This is the second volume of Professor Daunton's detailed history of the politics of taxation in the United Kingdom; the ...
Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Liquidation of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire, by Roy Douglas. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.viii, 190 pp. $69.95 US (cloth). A remarkable paradox exists between the stated determination of British statesmen to hold their empire together and its ...
British Trade Unions since 1933.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... British Trade Unions since 1933, by Chris Wrigley. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 106 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $15.00 US (paper). The British trade union movement had a very good run from 1933 to the election of ...
Irish Volunteers in the Second World War.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Irish Volunteers in the Second World War, by Richard Doherty. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002. 378 pp. 29.95 US (cloth). More than a hundred thousand Irish men and women volunteered to serve in the British armed forces during the World War II. These men and women came not only ...
At the Edge of Empire: the Backcountry in British North America.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... At the Edge Empire: The Backcountry in British North America, by Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ix, 210 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $17.95 US (paper). Eric Hinderaker's and Peter C. Mancall's At the Edge of Empire is an ...
Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes: Origins and Development of the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793-1941, by Donald Chisholm. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001, 883 pp. $130.00 US (cloth). Donald Chisholm's definitive exploration of the US Navy's officer personnel ...
Stepping Stones to Nowhere: the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945, by Galen Roger Perras. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2003. xvi, 274 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This is a good book. There area number of reasons ...
The Cold War Era.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Cold War Era, by Fraser J. Harbutt. Problems in American History, number 6. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2002. x, 371 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $33.95 US (paper). The writing of this review coincided with the death and funeral of President Ronald Reagan. Listening to the ...
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies, edited by Sylviane A. Diouf. Western African Studies. Co-published with James Currey. OCBC African Studies. Athens, Ohio, and Oxford, Ohio University Press and Swallow Press, 2003. xxvii, 241 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). ...
The Jew, the Arab: a History of the Enemy.(Israel, the impossible Land)(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy, by Gil Anidjar. Cultural Memory in the Present series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xxv, 261 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Israel, the impossible Land, by Jean-Christophe Attias and Esther Benbassa, translated ...
Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900, by David A. Graff. Warfare and History series. New York, Routledge, 2002. viii, 288 pp. $114.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). The word "medieval" is usually associated with Europe and conjures up images of knights on crusade in heavy armour, ...
Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895, by Paul C. Winther. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003. xviii, 429 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). In the recent historiography of British imperialism few topics have enjoyed as ...
An Intellectual History of Modern China.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... An Intellectual History of Modern China, edited by Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. 607 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). This volume is dedicated to the memory of renowned China scholar and Harvard professor (1950-87) ...
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service, by Frederic Wakeman Jr. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2003. xxii, 650 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Spymaster lifts the lid on a political legacy of the twentieth century that remains highly topical today, ...
The Four Nations: a History of the United Kingdom.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Four Nations: A History of the United Kingdom, by Frank Welsh. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002. xxviii, 478 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). There have been many changes since A.J.P. Taylor asserted the necessity for the primacy of England within British history in his book ...
Robin Hood: a Mythic Biography.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, by Stephen Thomas Knight. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xxiv, 247 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). Over the past decade, Stephen Knight has spearheaded a resurgence in the literary study of Robin Hood texts, analyzing them more closely ...
Who We Are: a History of Popular Nationalism.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism, by Robert H. Wiebe. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002. xx, 282 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). In 1967, Robert Wiebe published The Search for Order, 1877-1920, an examination of Americans' efforts to create a new democratic social ...
The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa, edited by Robert H. Taylor. The Making of Modern Freedom series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xviii, 329 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Can a single volume do justice to the breadth of ideas of freedom brought forth on two ...
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture.(Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative)(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Marc Chagall on Art and Culture, edited by Benjamin Harshav. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 225 pp. $49.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US paper. Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative, edited by Benjamin Harshav. Stanford, California, Stanford ...
Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948: the Politics of Preference.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948: The Politics of Preference, by Francine McKenzie. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xii, 351 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). "Consultation" and "cooperation," as enshrined in classic works by H. Duncan Hall, W. K. Hancock, and Nicholas ...
Allies and Adversaries: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and United States Strategy in World War II.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and United States Strategy in World War II, par Mark A. Stoler. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxii, 380 pp. $49.50 EU (couverture rigide), $21.95 EU (poche). Voila un ouvrage qui ...
Toward Nuclear Abolition: a History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present.(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present, by Lawrence Wittner. The Struggle Against the Bomb, volume 3. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003, vii, 657 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $32.95 US (paper). ...
Books received but not reviewed: January-December 2004.(Bibliography)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Allinson, Gary D., Japan's Postwar History. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv, 223 pp. Anderson, Mary J. (ed.), The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch. Life Writing Series. Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004 ....