Canadian Journal of History back issues from December 2005:
A note from the editor.(Editorial Perspectives/Perspectives de la redaction)(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2005; ... In March 1966, the History Department of the University of Saskatchewan issued the first number of a new academic periodical. Contained in its 128 pages were three full-length articles--one on the fifteenth-century papacy, another on fin-de-siecle socialism in France, and the third on ...
Historians as nationalists.(Editorial Perspectives/Perspectives de la redaction)
Dec 01, 2005; ... What kind of people become historians, and why do they choose this vocation? A majority of them have been interested in the history of their homeland states for a variety of reasons: a majority of American historians prefer to study US history while a majority of French historians prefer ...
Historians as explorers.(Editorial Perspectives/Perspectives de la redaction)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Canadian Journal of History was founded to give a voice to those historians in Canada who are not historians of Canada--Hugh Johnson's non-nationalist explorers of "the unusual and the exotic." Over the years, the editors and most members of the editorial board have been Canadians (by ...
How I became a Canadian history buff.(Guest Commentary/Commentaire de l'invite)
Dec 01, 2005; ... As a budding young broadcaster, and while working in the public system, I was fortunate to be enlisted as a member of a select group of communicators. We were about to learn a lot more about our country. Canada was approaching its Centennial in 1967; there would be many special programs to ...
History and fiction.(Guest Commentary/Commentaire de l'invite)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Despite the fact that my university education focused on historical studies, and that I completed an MA at the University of Saskatchewan, for most of my adult life I have been a writer of novels, short stories, and plays. Some people have professed surprise at this, perhaps believing that ...
"Revanche ou Relevement": the French peace movement confronts Alsace and Lorraine, 1871-1918.
Dec 01, 2005; ... Meeting in Paris in 1849, an international assembly of "friends of peace" listened to Victor Hugo as he evaluated the revolutionary events that had taken place there and across Europe the previous year. Hugo regarded these events as an important step in the inexorable march toward a ...
Liberal internationalism, The League of Nations Union, and the mandates system.
Dec 01, 2005; ... Dans cet article, nous examinons l'emergence de l'internationalisme liberal en Grande Bretagne apres la Premiere Guerre mondiale. La Bretagne prit une part active dans les organismes internationaux de l'apres-guerre, en partie pour conserver sa position de puissance imperiale. Cette ...
Rising to the challenge: historians and the "impossible" history of Paris.(Paris: Deux mille ans d'histoire)(Seven Ages of Paris)(Paris: Capital of Modernity)(Planning Paris Before Haussmann)(Paris: Biography of a City)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Paris: Deux mille ans d'histoire, by Jean Favier. Paris, Fayard, 1997. 1007 pp. 32.00 [euro] (paper). Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Home. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 480 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $16.00 US (paper). Paris: Biography of a City, by Colin Jones ....
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Charlemagne: Father of a Continent, by Alessandro Barbero. Translated by Allan Cameron. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. 426 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Charlemagne, ruler of the Franks (771-814), brought together under one ruler many diverse people in Europe: the ...
Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Cumans and Tatars : Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365, by Istvan Vasary. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2005. xvi, 230 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). Until now, the only monograph on Pechenegs and Cumans available in English was Andras Paloczi-Horwith's ...
Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds.(Demon Possession in Elizabethan England)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds, by Darren Oldridge. New York, Routledge, 2005. x, 198 pp. $33.95 US (cloth). Demon Possession in Elizabethan England, by Kathleen R. Sands. Westport, ...
Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, by Gary K. Waite. European Culture and Society series. Houndmills and Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan 2003, viii, 284 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $30.95 US (paper). Another book on witchcraft and witch-hunting?! ...
Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers, by Hilary J. Bernstein. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 313 pp. $57.50 US (cloth). The study of urban politics and civic life is one of the most dynamic fields in early ...
The Duke of Alba.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Duke of Alba, by Henry Kamen. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2004. viii, 204 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third Duke of Alba (1507-82), is best known--both to historians and in the popular imagination--for orchestrating Philip II's ...
Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France, by Mary D. Sheriff. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi, 303 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). It is appropriate that this book's author begins her exploration of the relationship ...
Apogee of Empire: Spain and the New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Apogee of Empire: Spain and the New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789, by Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ix, 464 pp. $52.00 US (cloth). At the middle of the eighteenth century, three empires--Spain, France and ...
Working Women in English Society: 1300-1620.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620, by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 291 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $32.99 US (paper). This able and readable book adds to the growing corpus on women's work in medieval and early modern Europe ....
Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought, by Belinda Roberts Peters. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, vii, 243 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Belinda Peters has written a book that is both thoughtful and informative. By discussing the political events of the ...
Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution, by Jonathan Scott. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii, 402 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Jonathan Scott is still wrapping up the loose ends of his dissertation and the field of British history is ...
The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture, by Mordechai Feingold. New York and Oxford, New York Public Library/Oxford University Press, 2004. xv, 218 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). The Newtonian Moment has been published as a companion volume ...
Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War, by Patricia A. Weitsman. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. x, 244 pp. $49.50 US (cloth). Why do states ally? Patricia A. Weitsman is not the first scholar to address this important question. An entire chapter of ...
Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity 1885-1945.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity 1885-1945, by Thomas M. Lekan. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004, 334 pp, $52.00 US (cloth). in this ambitious book Thomas Lekan makes an original contribution to environmental ...
Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: Geschichte und Personlichkeiten der Bibliothek Warburg mit Berucksichtigung der Bibliothekslandschaft und der Stadtsituation der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: Geschichte und Personlichkeiten der Bibliothek Warburg mit Berucksichtigung der Bibliothekslandschaft und der Stadtsituation der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, by Hans-Michael Schafer. Berliner Arbeiten zur ...
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930: Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930: Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2003. ix, 269 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Of the many ...
Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn, by Kees Gispen. Monographs in German History, volume 6. New York, Berghahn Books, 2002. xvi, 356 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.50 US (paper). Histories of German invention, while praising such key ...
Les debuts du syndicalisme feminin chretien en France, 1899-1944.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Les debuts du syndicalisme feminin chretien en France, 1899-1944, by Joceline Chabot. Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2003. 234 pp. 17,10 Euros. Joceline Chabot's thoughtful and insightful history of syndicalisme feminin chretien during the first half of the twentieth ...
Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War and Mass Politics, 1905-1925.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War and Mass Politics, 1905-1925, by Joshua A. Sanborn. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. x, 278 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Recent years have seen a wide-ranging and provocative re-appraisal of the ...
Decisions for War, 1914-1917.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Decisions for War, 1914-1917, edited by Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi, 266 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $17.99 US (paper). How did the murder of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Balkans lead to a war between ...
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, by Kate Brown. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. xii, 308 pp. $47.50 US (cloth), $18.95 US (paper). Kate Brown's investigation of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands (kresy) between 1923-53 ...
The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism, by Bruce Campbell. Lexington, Kentucky, The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. ix, 278 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). This book shows how the previous political and military experiences of the top leadership of the ...
The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany, by Eric Michaud. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Cultural Memory in the Present series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. 368 pp. $65.00 US (cloth); $24.95 US (paper). Originally published in French in 1996, this well-researched and nicely ...
Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt.(Nazi Chic?: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt, by Eugenia Paulicelli. Dress, Body, Culture series. Oxford and New York, Berg, 2004. xii, 227 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich, by Irene Guenther. Dress, Body, Culture series ....
Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice, by Christopher Lloyd. Houndsmill, United Kingdom, Palgrave, 2003.256 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The Second World War remains powerfully present in our world: a point of reference for foreign policy ...
Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule, by Karel C. Berkhoff. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. xiii, 463 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Images of Ukrainians welcoming Wehrmacht soldiers with traditional bread and salt have ...
Resistance with the People: Repression and Resistance in Eastern Germany: 1945-1955.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Resistance with the People: Repression and Resistance in Eastern Germany, 1945-1955, by Gary Bruce. Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xx, 290 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $32.95 US (paper). This book has much to commend it, not least ...
Russia: Experiment with a People.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Russia: Experiment with a People, by Robert Service. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. 406 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $15.92 US (paper). Robert Service in his book Russia: Experiment with a People looks at the complex relationship between the government and ...
Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England, by Martin J. Wiener. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi, 296 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). In this provocative and lively book, Martin Wiener traces the attitudes and responses to male violence ...
Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army, by Andrew Mark Eason. Studies in Women and Religion Series. Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. xiv, 246 pp. $35.95 US (paper). The editors of Wilfrid Laurier University's series on ...
Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, by Mark Hampton. Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2004. ix, 218 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). As Mark Hampton suggests in the introduction to this valuable book, newspapers are not simply source material for modern historians wanting ...
A New England? Peace and War, 1886-1918.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... A New England? Peace and War, 1886-1918, by G. R. Searle. New Oxford History of England series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. xxii, 951 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Defining periods requires historians to balance conflicting imperatives that include dates, major events, and ...
The Irish War of Independence.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Irish War of Independence, by Michael Hopkinson. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxi, 274 pp. $60.00 Cdn (cloth). It is not surprising that Michael Hopkinson's first book, Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (Dublin, 1988) was a ...
The Sioux: The Dakota and Lakota Nations.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Sioux: The Dakota anal Lakota Nations, by Guy Gibbon. Peoples of America series. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2003. xii, 311 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Guy Gibbon, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota, has written a ...
Uncas: First of the Mohegans.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Uncas: First of the Mohegans, by Michael Leroy Oberg. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2003. ix, 268 pp. $27.50 US (cloth). The mention of the name "Uncas" generally conjures up the fictional character from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Cleverly ...
Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775, by Michael N. McConnell. Studies in War, Society, and the Military Series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xi, 211 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Michael McConnell opens a fascinating window on ...
Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America, by John Demos. The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. xi, 98 pp. $19.95 US (paper). Throughout his long career, John Demos has ...
Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898, by Elizabeth D. Samet. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xii, 273 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). The title of this book represents an enormously ambitious undertaking. The author is an ...
Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country, by John W. W. Mann. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xxii, 258 pp. $24.95 US (cloth). In 1907, the United States government removed the Lemhi Shoshone Indians from their native home on ...
Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul 1849-1883.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul 1849-1883, by Jocelyn Wills. St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005. xi, 290 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). Jocelyn Wills has systematically mined the primary sources of the ...
The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I, by Thomas Fleming. New York, Basic Books, 2003. xi, 343 pp. $17.50 US (paper). Fans of Woodrow Wilson should steer well clear of this book, while those who dislike the twenty-eighth President of the United States will most ...
Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century, by Glenna Matthews. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii, 313 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). The world-renowned "Silicon Valley" of California ...
Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico, by Laura A. Lewis. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 262 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). Laura Lewis's Hall of Mirrors, in its second year of ...
Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913, by William R. Summerhill. Stanford Studies in Social Science History. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. 297 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). The study is concerned with the first wave of ...
Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica, by Deborah Thomas. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2004. xiv, 357 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). In Modern Blackness: Nationalism, ...
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, by Lesley Gill. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2004. xviii, 281 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Lesley Gill is an ...
A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present, edited by Patrizia Palumbo. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2003.332 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). The book is a collection of essays representing the ...
Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, by Susan L. Burns. Asia-Pacific series. A Weatherhead Study of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. x, 282 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US ...
State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Race Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1900-1950.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Race Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1900-1950, by Richard S. Hill. Wellington, Victoria University Press, 2004. 317 pp. $34.95 US (paper). Richard S. Hill's State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy makes an important contribution ...
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan, by Adrienne Lynn Edgar. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. 296 pp. $37.50 US (cloth). Le Turkmenistan, Etat d'Asie Centrale, est devenu independant en 1991 a la suite de la dislocation de l'Union sovietique. Il avait, ...
From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC, by Pitman B. Potter. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xi, 259 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Any doubts as to whether Pitman Potter's monograph has been meticulously researched ...
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era, by Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. ix, 450 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). "There are no universal ethics," begins Micheline Ishay her History of Human ...
Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770, by James H. Sweet. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 296 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Among the most invigorating scholarly ...
Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955, edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven. Studies in Legal History. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi, 592 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Fourteen detailed and well-documented ...
Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World, edited by Michael A. Morrison and Melinda Zook. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ix, 192 pp. $68.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). In Revolutionary Currents, Michael Morrison and Melinda Zook ...
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World, by Jon F. Sensbach. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. 302 pp. $22.95 US (cloth). In this book, Jon F. Sensbach uses the remarkable life of an obscure Afro-Atlantic mulatto woman named ...
Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle, by Roslyn Poignant. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xv, 302 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). In early 1883, R.A. Cunningham, a rather unsavory showman, removed nine North Queensland Aborigines from Australia ...