Canadian Journal of History back issues from September 2007:
"Race" and gender in non-Durkheimian French sociology, 1893-1914.
Sep 22, 2007; ... The non-Durkheimian sociologists in the institutions founded by Rene Worms were not simply biological determinists. A hard-line contingent among Worms's associates continued to accept the anthropological paradigm of racial hierarchy, but a larger group questioned the validity of the ...
The foreign office and Anglo-Italian involvement in the Red Sea and Arabia, 1925-28.
Sep 22, 2007; ... This article examines Britain's response to Italy's forward policy in the Red Sea region during the mid-to-late 1920s. Previous examination and understanding of Anglo-Italian relations during this period has tended to focus on issues other than such concrete case studies, consequently ...
The taint of communism: the Movement for Colonial Freedom, the Labour Party, and the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1954-70.
Sep 22, 2007; ... In the British politics of decolonization, the Labour Party and the various anticolonial organizations were forced to craft their political strategies ever mindful of the uneasiness that the decolonization process engendered among the British electorate. (1) The most effective anticolonial ...
The Anglo-American global imperial legacy: is there a better way?(The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain; Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World; A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire; Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors )(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks. Cambridge, Belknap Press, 2006. ix, 389 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World by Brian W. Richardson. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2005. ix, 240 ...
The complexity of empire.(India before Europe; The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833; The Tropics and the Travelling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856; Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... India before Europe, by Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 314 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833, by H.V. Bowen. Cambridge, Cambridge ...
Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, by Florin Curta. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxviii, 496 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $34.99 US (paper). The goal of Florin Curta's new book in the Cambridge Medieval Textbooks ...
Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000, by Hans J. Hummer. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 299 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). Hans Hummer has produced an ...
Russian Identities: A Historical Survey.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Russian Identities: A Historical Survey, by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Nicholas Riasanovsky is a classic Russian historian, whose textbooks have been an indispensable item on the desks of many generations of ...
600 Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... 600 Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789, by J. Michael Hayden and Malcolm R. Greenshields. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xx, 604 pp. $80.00 Cdn (cloth). This book is an offshoot of a research programme ...
The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400, by Roisin Cossar. Medieval Mediterranean series. Leiden, Brill, 2006. xiv, 228 pp. $116.00 US (cloth). The study of the laity during the Middle Ages has been an active area of interest to researchers in recent years. In ...
Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution, by William R. Newman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii, 250 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). Alchemy is a pseudo-science infused with religious notions and did ...
Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine, edited by John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii, 277 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In recent years, scholars working in the fruitful fields of East European religion have begun ...
The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology, and Magic in Renaissance Prague.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology, and Magic in Renaissance Prague, by Peter Marshall. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 2006. 276 pp. $34.00 Cdn (cloth). This is the latest in a long line of books written by Peter Marshall for a general readership, and represents a ...
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia, by Allyson M. Poska. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 270 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Husbands giving dowries to wives, daughters chosen as heirs, brothers married to sisters: this is how the ancient Greek ...
Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800, by Larrie D. Ferreiro. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2007. xxiv, 441 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). This is an extremely ...
Marshal Schomberg, 161.5-1690, "The Ablest Soldier of His Age ": International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Marshal Schomberg, 161.5-1690, "The Ablest Soldier of His Age ": International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe, by Matthew Glozier. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2005. xxiv, 250 pp. $69.50 US (cloth) $35.00 US (paper). The military ...
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches, edited by Jay M, Smith. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. x, 346 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Based on a conference held in 2002 at the National Humanities Center, ...
The Constitutional Revolution: An Essay in the History of Enyland, 1450-1642.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Constitutional Revolution: An Essay in the History of Enyland, 1450-1642, by Alan Cromartie. Ideas in Context series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 309 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Alan Cromartie has delivered precisely what the title of his book promises: an ...
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642, by David Cressy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, xiv, 446 pp. $75.00 Cdn (cloth). This book powerfully brings to the fore the ongoing debate between historians about the nature of England's "troubles." Should the ...
School for Citizens: Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial Russia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... School for Citizens: Theatre and Civil Society in Imperial Russia, by Murray Frame. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. x, 262 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). Murray Frame's School for Citizens is a welcome and much-needed addition to the scholarly literature on tsarist ...
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, by Robert D. Crews. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. viii, 463 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Not all of the inhabitants of the Russian empire were Orthodox Christians. Indeed, from the fifteenth ...
The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, by David Andress. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. viii, 441 pp. $26.00 US (cloth), $17.00 US (paper). In writing about the Terror in the French Revolution, Andress has attempted to provide what he ...
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, by David A. Bell. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. x, 420 pp. $27.00 US (cloth). This is in some ways a very impressive book. David Bell offers us a sweeping account of the structure of Old ...
Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon, by Howard G. Brown. Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii, 461 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Determining when the French Revolution came to an end is linked to the ...
Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970, by Jonathan Dewald. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xi, 241 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). Historical accounts of nineteenth-century European culture usually depict that era's ...
Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France, by Elinor Accampo. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 312 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). In Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit, Elinor Accampo does an excellent job of ...
In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser, by Paul Van Pul. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Pen and Sword Military, 2006. xxii, 266 pp. 19.99 [euro] (cloth). In one of the lesser-known events of World War I, the Belgians, on 3 November 1914, flooded thousand of acres of ...
Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: The Rural Settlement of Refugees, 1922-1930.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: The Rural Settlement of Refugees, 1922-1930, by Elisabeth Kontogiorgi. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 380 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). In the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, Turkey demanded, and Greece ...
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and documents.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker. London, Hayward Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2006. 272 pp. $38.00 US (paper). The finely produced exhibition catalogue, Undercover Surrealism, includes valuable short essays by ...
Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars, by Clifford Rosenberg. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2006. xx, 241 pp. $57.50 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). When France succeeded the United States after World War I as the most popular ...
Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Noble Nationalists: The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy, by Eagle Glassheim. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 299 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). The tenacity of the landed aristocracy in maintaining its privileged status is an outstanding ...
Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940, by Raffael Scheck. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 202 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This concise yet authoritative monograph breaks new ground in the packed field of World War II ...
June 1941: Hitler and Stalin.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... June 1941: Hitler and Stalin, by John Lukacs. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. x, 169 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). June 1941: Hitler and Stalin is the latest work by the prolific historian, John Lukacs. One writer has argued that great historians are not, in ...
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945-1964).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, volume 2: Reformer (1945-1964), edited by Sergei Khrushchev, translated by George Shriver and Stephen Shenfield. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv, 856 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Large Sections of Nikita ...
Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, by Joan Wallach Scott. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi, 191 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.00 US (paper). Joan Scott's history of the mouvement pour la parite, a movement that emerged in France to ...
Italian Politics: Adjustment under Duress.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Italian Politics: Adjustment under Duress, by Martin J. Bull and James L. Newell. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005. xiv, 262 pp. $25.95 US (paper). The authors of this generally well-informed survey of the changes in Italy's politics since the collapse of the country's Cold ...
The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England, by Matthew McCormack. Gender in History. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005. x, 222 pp. 55.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). To say that this book on masculinity and Georgian politics is long ...
The Jamestown Project.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2007. viii, 380 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Beginnings usually are glorious, more in hindsight than in the moment. History often exalts occasions that participants ...
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, by Ned Blackhawk. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 372 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Ned Blackhawk provides a compelling analysis of the relations between Great Basin Indians and ...
The French Navy and the Seven Years' War.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The French Navy and the Seven Years' War, by Jonathan Dull. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xiii, 445 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). It was the world's first world war. From 1754 to 1763 the fleets and armies of England ...
For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace, by Mark Zuehlke. Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006. xiv, 443 pp. $37.95 Cdn (cloth). For most modern North Americans, the War of 1812 is something of an after-thought, when it is even thought of at all ....
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, by Scott A. Sandage. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xii, 362 pp. $16.95 US (paper). While the space occupied by genial losers in American popular culture may be larger now than it was a century ago, there ...
Faith, Duty and Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1829-1960.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Faith, Duty and Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle, 1829-1960, by Gilian Sutherland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 262 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This engaging book is a biography of Anne Jemima Clough and her niece Thena Clough and a history of the ...
Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America, by Beth A. Salerno. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix, 233 pp. $38.00 US (cloth). In this short but powerful book, Beth A. Salemo documents the formation of two hundred and ...
All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 18501950, by Robert E. Kohler. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii, 363 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). The idea of systematically collecting and naming living creatures takes form in the early modern period. In ...
On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment, by Geoff Cunfer. Environmental History Series. College Station, Texas, Texas A & M University Press, 2005. xii, 292 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $28.00 US (paper). Scholars and the general public usually consider the Great Plains a ...
The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston, by Roberto R. Trevino. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 308 pp. $22.50 US (paper). The faith may be catholic, but its practitioners and practices are not uniform ....
The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migration of Black and White Southerners Transformed America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migration of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, by James N. Gregory. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv, 446 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Since the publication of Alain ...
Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained, by David M.K. Sheinin. The United States and the Americas series. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 2006. xii, 285 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). David M. K. Sheinin's recent contribution to the ...
The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850, by Cecilia Mendez. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xvi, 343 pp. $23.95 US (paper). In 1825, shortly after Peruvian independence, an indigenous muleteer, Antonio Abad ...
Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State, by Julia Rodriguez. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 306 pp. $24.95 US (paper). Shaped by Foucauldian subjects (the analysis of medical practices, hygiene, prisons, and other techniques of ...
Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State, 1906-2001.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State, 1906-2001, by Florencia E. Mallon. Radical Perspectives series. Durham, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvii, 319 pp. $22.95 US (paper). In the last decade a ...
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, by Jocelyn Olcott. Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. ix, 337 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $21.80 US (paper). Understanding citizenship as practice--rather than only as ...
Mandela: A Critical Life.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Mandela: A Critical Life, Tom Lodge. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xx, 270 pp. $26.00 US (cloth). In this compelling biography of Nelson Mandela, Tom Lodge charts his subject's life from his pristine beginnings in Qunu along South Africa's eastern coast to his meteoric ...
From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier, by David McDermott Hughes. Culture, Place, and Nature series. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. xvii, 285 pp. $55.00 Cdn (cloth). In the mid-1990s, David McDermott Hughes arrived with "high ...
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives by Richard M. Eaton. The New Cambridge History of India series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii, 221 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). This compact but wide-ranging volume simultaneously attacks two large ...
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism, by Marianne Kamp. Jackson School Publications in International Studies. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. ix, 332 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). Focusing on the lives of women in Uzbekistan during ...
America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy, by Naoko Shibusawa. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006. 397 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). This work of cultural history examines US-Japan relations from a unique vantage point, namely through the change in the ...
The Cambridge History of Warfare.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Cambridge History of Warfare, edited by Geoffrey Parker. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii, 515 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.99 US (paper). Geoffrey Parker's Cambridge History of Warfare is a brief survey of (Western) military history from 600 BCE to the ...
Geography and Revolution.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Geography and Revolution, edited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. vii, 433 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). It is an axiom of historiography that the way the past is constructed is a function of the cultural priorities of a ...
Human Remains: Dissections and Its Histories.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Human Remains: Dissections and Its Histories, by Helen MacDonald. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005. xiv, 220 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Helen MacDonald's fascinating book is not so much about the performance of human dissection, whose history has been thoroughly explored in ...
Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, by George Weisz. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. xxx, 359 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). The history of the evolution of medical specialization in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany is a ...
Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, by John S. Rigden. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. ix, 173 pp. $14.95 US (paper). 2005 saw the centenary of what has come to be known as Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis. In six months, the young patent clerk ...
History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History, by Sande Cohen. Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society series. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. vii, 307 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). The relationship between history and theory is fraught with ...
The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession, edited by Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix, 289 pp. $23.99 US (paper). Over the last decade, debates over a purported "Revolution in Military ...