Canadian Journal of History back issues from March 2006:
Kenya's "forgotten" engineer and colonial proconsul: Sir Percy Girouard and departmental railway construction in Africa, 1896-1912.(Biography)
Mar 22, 2006; ... I. Introduction Sir Percy Girouard's governorship of the East Africa Protectorate (EAP), as Kenya was known before 1920, has received mixed reviews from scholars because of the way his administrative career ended. Anthony A. M. Kirk-Greene has advanced the view that Girouard was ...
Police and presence: the Victoria police and public impressions of authority in Australia, 1900-1930 (1).(Thomas O'Callaghan and George Steward order for internal reports)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The first quarter of the twentieth century served as the confluence of transport, tele-communications, and time in Australia and other industrialized societies. (2) Although these elements of the Industrial Revolution made the largest impact on people living during this period, their ...
John Bull in search of a suitable Russia: British foreign policy and the failure of the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations, 1939 (1).
Mar 22, 2006; ... The failure of the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations in 1939 remains a subject of contention, even after several decades of spirited debate. The image of British and French generals on a slow boat steaming to Leningrad while the Nazis courted the Soviet leadership, quickly reaching ...
Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans.(Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss)(Nietzsche and Music)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans, by Joachim Kohler (trans. by Stewart Spencer). New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. 688 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss, by Lawrence Kramer. Berkeley, University of California Press, ...
Gustav Mahler: A Life In Crisis.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Gustav Mahler: A Life In Crisis, by Stuart Feder. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. viii, 353 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). The title of Stuart Feder's psychological biography of the composer Gustav Mahler describes the essentials of the text: Mahler's life and work ...
Prokofiev - A Biography: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Prokofiev--A Biography." From Russia to the West, 1891-1935, by David Nice. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2003. xviii, 390 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Sergey Prokofiev is by no means a composer with an undisputed reputation. Critical opinion on the place of his work ...
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories, by Craige B. Champion. Hellenistic Culture and Society, number 61. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. xv, 328 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Polybius, Greek statesman and Roman captive who, in the second century BCE, wrote the ...
Cleopatra and Rome.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Cleopatra and Rome, by Diana E. E. Kleiner. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 340 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Sovereign, siren, and spectacle during her brief lifetime (69-30 B.C.), Cleopatra's relationships to Roman leaders and to Rome ...
Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity, by Andrew S. Jacobs. Divinations Rereading Late Ancient Religion series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 249 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Over the past sixty years, essentially in the wake of ...
Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900, edited by Leslie Brubaker and Julia M. H. Smith. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi, 333 pp. $29.99 US (paper). If the paucity of sources has made writing the history of the early Middle Ages a difficult ...
Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100, by Leonora Neville. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii, 210 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Neville's Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 is a short monograph that reads well and is handsomely printed ....
The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III, by Nigel Saul. London, Hambledon and London, 2005. xii, 287 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). This book sets side by side three of the most memorable--if for very different reasons--of English medieval monarchs ...
The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages, by Robert Bartlett. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2004. xi, 168 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $14.95 US (paper). In his De doctrina Christiana 3.3, St Augustine of Hippo notes that ...
Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe, by Virginia Nixon. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xiii, 216 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). During a fifty-year period spanning the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the cult of ...
Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel 1510-1581.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), by Yvonne Petry. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden, Brill, 2004. ix, 191 pp. $125.00 US (cloth). In this short book, Petry presents a comprehensive account of the ...
Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After, by Peter Sahlins. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv, 454 pp. $67.50 U.S. (cloth), $27.95 U.S. (paper). In an increasingly global world where we travel, study, and work in countries other than ...
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany, by Lyndal Roper. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xiv, 362 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). We think of the baroque as something lush and excessive, and witch hunting certainly fits that stereotype ....
Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827.A Determined Scientist, by Roger Hahn. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xii, 310 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). One of the greatest scientists of all time, Laplace quite justly has been called the "French Newton." Dying in the same ...
The British Revolution, 1629-1660.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The British Revolution, 1629-1660, by Allen I. MacInnes. British Studies Series. Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xi, 337 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). The past couple of years have seen a bumper harvest of books on the historical events ...
Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: 'The Genius of this Age,'.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: 'The Genius of this Age,' by Stanley D.M. Carpenter. Cass Military Studies. New York, Frank Cass, 2005. xvi, 233 pp. $125.00 US (cloth), $36.56 US (paper). Carpenter has produced a book for two audiences academic ...
The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty, by Jeremy Black. London, Hambledon and London, 2004. xiv, 266 pp. $36.33 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Jeremy Black, professor of history at the University of Exeter, is a prolific author whose particular expertise has been the ...
This Meager Nature: Landscape and the National Identity in Imperial Russia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... This Meager Nature: Landscape and the National Identity in Imperial Russia, by Christopher Ely. De Kalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. 278 pp. $42.00 US (cloth). How refreshing and instructive to read a study of Russian landscape that departs from the ...
Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain 1808-1814, by Charles J. Esdaile. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. xii, 272 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). In June 1809, a renowned Spanish guerrilla leader, Juan Diaz Porlier, led a group of men up a ...
L'image de soi et de l'autre: Les Bulgares et leurs voisins dans les manuels d'histoire nationale 1878-1944.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... L'image de soi et de l'autre: Les Bulgares et leurs voisins dans les manuels d'histoire nationale (1878-1944), by Boriana Panayotova. Quebec, Les presses de l'universite Laval, 2005. This work can be inscribed within several bodies of literature, some of which have developed as ...
The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945, by Michael Kellogg. New Studies in European History Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 327 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). When Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing ...
Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium, by Alter Litvin and John Keep. London, Routledge, 2005. xi, 248 pp. $125.00 US (cloth), $41.95 US (paper). The triple confluence of the "archival revolution" after 1991, the demise of Soviet communism, and ...
Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin 1929-1933.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin 1929-1933, by Pamela E. Swett. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi, 337 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). If most studies on the origins of Nazism concentrate on the so-called high politics, this is clearly not the ...
Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich, by Kristin Semmens. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ix, 240 pp. $74.95 US (cloth). Kristin Semmens begins her study with the worry that hers is a "soft" topic that will be discounted because it does not focus squarely on ...
Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity, by Andre Mineau. Value Inquiry Book Series, number 161. Amsterdam and New York, Radopi, 2004. xiii, 244 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The question has been asked before: how could the Germans--the heirs of Kant and ...
Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto .(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto, by Tim Cole. New York, Routledge, 2003. xv, 303 pp. $125.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). Christian Gerlach and Gotz Aly called their 2002 book on the Holocaust in Hungary Das letzte Kapitel (The Last Chapter), indicating that the ...
From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948, by Robert A. Ventresca. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004, xiv, 354 pp. $68.00 US (cloth). In his richly imaginative analysis of the 1948 election in Italy, Robert ...
Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial, by Rebecca Wittmann. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. ix, 336 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Rebecca Wittmann has written an engaging and informative book on the origins, proceedings, and aftermath of the Auschwitz Trial, ...
A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century, by David Dutton. Houndmills, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii, 347 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paperback). In this postmodernist age, reading a well-written work of mainstream party ...
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, by Tammy Horn. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xiv. 314 pp. $27.50 US (cloth). Over the last few years, a number of books have been published that focus on the historical importance of a single creature, plant, ...
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Richard Franklin Bensel. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii, 302 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $24.00 US (paper). During the last half century or so, historians have approached the political history of the United ...
Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck, by John F. Marszalek. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. ix, 324 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). On a first glance at John F. Marszalek's new biography of General Henry ...
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, by Michael B. Ballard. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv, 490 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Dr. Ballard's work is among the latest to be written on the Vicksburg campaign, and earns a ...
Rally 'Round the Flag Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Rally 'Round the Flag Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag, by K. Michael Prince. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xi, 291 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). Historical memory studies of the American South have become thick on the ground lately, ...
Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics, by Mark Wahlgren Summers. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 352 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). It is easy to enjoy a book that includes the story of a ...
United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, by Stephen J. Randall. Second Edition. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. x, 418 pp. $34.95 Cdn (cloth). Oil has been central to ...
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, edited by Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 495 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $29.99 US (paper). Based on newly declassified documents released under the Nazi War ...
The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election, by Walter LaFeber. Vietnam, America in the War Years series. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. x, 217 pp. $24.95 US (cloth), $17.95 US (paper). More than three decades since the fall of Saigon, the ...
False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico, by Nora E. Jaffary. Engendering Latin America series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xvi, 257 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). In her brief preface, Nora Jaffary bares her two main motivations for writing this ...
The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850, by Peter Guardino. Latin America Otherwise series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. ix, 405 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Peter Guardino was one of the pioneers of the new ...
The Japanese in Latin America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Japanese in Latin America, by Daniel M. Masterson and Sayaka Funada-Classen. The Asian America Experience series. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2004. 335 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). The Japanese in Latin America by Daniel M. Masterson and Sayaka ...
Making Indigenous Citizens. Identity, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Making Indigenous Citizens. Identity, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru, by Maria Elena Garcia. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xi, 213 pp. $52.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In the late 1990s, in the wake of a fifteen-year civil war that ...
Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius, by Megan Vaughan. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xiv, 341 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). This is a sophisticated and fascinating portrait of slavery in Mauritius. Megan Vaughan ...
Z.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War, by Mehran Kamrava. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. xi, 497 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). For many in the West, the problems of the Middle East are both plain to see and difficult ...
The Artist as Professional in Japan.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Artist as Professional in Japan, edited by Melinda Takeuchi. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 262 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). "What is an artist?" Such a question has preoccupied philosophers in the West since the time of Plato. The question is very ...
A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China, by Ping-chen Hsiung. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2005. xvi, 351 pp.$70.00 US (cloth). Philippe Aries's influential thesis on "the discovery of childhood" in early modern Europe has, broadly ...
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, by Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xi, 725 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Peter Perdue's excursion into what he describes as "frontier environments, state building, ...
The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories, by Sumathi Ramaswamy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. xv, 334 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Sumathi Ramaswamy explores the imaginative geography of a place that never was ....
Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India, by Ravina Aggarwal. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2004. ix, 305 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Ravina Aggarwal's book comes as a welcome addition to the ...
No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840-1914.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840-1914, by Jim McAloon. Dunedin, New Zealand, University of Otago Press, 2002. 230 pp. $39.95 US (paper). Who were the rich in nineteenth-century South Island New Zealand? Other historians before McAloon have asked and ...
Indian Critiques of Gandhi.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Indian Critiques of Gandhi, edited by Harold Coward. SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2003. v, 287 pp. $97.52 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). The life and career of M.K. Gandhi provides the source for innumerable biographies and ...
Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community, par Jean DeBernardi. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 318 pp. 55.00 $ EU (couverture rigide). Ce dernier livre de Jean DeBenardi constitue une analyse tres detaillee ...
Policing Chinese Politics: A History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Policing Chinese Politics: A History, by Michael Dutton. Asia-Pacific series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xiii, 411 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Socialist policing in contemporary China gives the appearance of continuity, but really ...
God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust Through the Centuries, by Arthur Grenke. Washington, DC, New Academia Publishing, 2005. 314 pp. $24.00 US (paper). This is a book that was undoubtedly written with the best of intentions in trying to narrow the definitions of "holocausts" ...
Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age, by Anouar Majid. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xv, 270 pp. $49.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). The author, Anouar Majid, a Muslim from Morocco, is presently Chair of the English ...
Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America, by Philip Marchand. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 2005. xx, 444 pp. $37.99 Cdn (cloth). Philip Marchand might be bemused to find his book reviewed in these austere pages. It is not an academic history, nor even a ...
British Emigration, 1603-1914.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... British Emigration, 1603-1914, by Alexander Murdoch. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xi, 176 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The title and declared purpose of this short book largely belies its content. While the preface points to a "succinct survey" of three centuries of British ...
The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650, by Roger M. Carpenter. East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University Press, 2004. xxii, 179 pp. $27.95 US (paper). The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade ...
Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas.(The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas, by Isabel Vincent. Toronto, Random House Canada, 2005. xii, 276 pp. $34.95. The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family, by Robert A. Rosenstone ....
Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War, edited by Brian P. Farrell. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. xvii, 273 pp. $80.00 Cdn (cloth), $29.95 Cdn (paper). This collection is a festschrift in honour of the late ...
Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War H Leaders, by Gerhard L. Weinberg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xv, 292 pp. $28.00 US (cloth). With a good claim to being the doyen of historians of the Second World War, Gerhard L. Weinberg promises to be an ...