Canadian Journal of History back issues from March 2009:
"La bebida nacional": pulque and Mexicanidad, 1920-46.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... "It is said that all true Mexicans like pulque." --Larry Barretto (1) "El pulque ha sido uno de los componentes bdsicos de la cultura mexicana, desde antes de la Conquista hasta nuestros dias [Pulque has been a basic component of Mexican culture since before the ...
Where are all the mother-heroines? Images of maternity in Soviet films of the 1930s.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 1946 sociologist Nicholas Timasheff proposed that the 1930s marked an era in Soviet history that he termed the "Great Retreat." Timasheff argued that, beginning in 1934, the Soviet government backtracked from its revolutionary stance vis-a-vis women and the family because Party leaders ...
Disregarding the Atlantic "special relationship": the Eden Cabinet in the lead-up to the invasion of the Suez Canal zone.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I. British policy in the Middle East and growing strains in the Anglo-American partnership in the mid-1950s In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the United Kingdom played a major military and strategic role in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. Its ...
Perennite et presence d'un mythe Jeanne d'Arc, l'Europeenne?(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Que peut-on souhaiter aujourd'hui a Jeanne d'Arc? A cette question du magazine l'Histoire de fevrier 2007, l'historien Jacques le Goff declarait alors: << J'aimerais aujourd'hui voir le destin de Jeanne dans l'imaginaire europeen ( ...) L'Europe que j'appelle de mes voeux ne ...
Reflecting on Canada's role in the world: a foreign policy review of rival prime ministerial memoirs.('Memoirs: 1939-1993' and 'My Years as Prime Minister')(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Memoirs: 1939-1993, by The Rt Hon. Brian Mulroney. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2007. xi, 1121 pp. $50.00 Cdn (cloth). My Years as Prime Minister, by The Rt Hon. Jean Chretien. Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007. 435 pp. $39.95 Cdn (cloth). In the early ...
Ancient Religions.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ancient Religions, by Sarah lies Johnston, General Editor. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. xvii, 266 pp. $19.95 (paper). Ancient Religions is a collection of nineteen essays culled from a larger work from 2004, Religions of the ...
The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great, by David Pratt. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 413 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great offers an engaging and comprehensive analysis of political thought and court culture in Wessex ...
Conrad II 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Conrad II 990-1039: Emperor of Three Kingdoms, by Herwig Wolfram, tra slated by Denise A. Kaiser. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xx, 475 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). The inclination to tell stories, sad or otherwise, about the deaths, lives, and deeds of ...
Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London, by Frank Rexroth. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 411 pp. $115.00 Cdn (cloth). Although a great deal of study has already been devoted to power, authority, and misbehavior in English towns generally and in London ...
A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film, by John Aberth. New York, Routledge, 2003. xii, 332 pp. $29.95 Cdn (paper). John Aberth, acknowledging the importance of film in shaping many people's view of the middle ages, sets out to explore the use of film to medieval ...
War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559, by Steven Gunn, David Grummitt, and Hans Cools. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. pp. xiv, 395. $126.50 US (cloth). This is a dense, serious work of scholarship, of greatest interest to those who have ...
Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, by Bruce T. Moran. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2006.210 pp. $16.95 US (paper). Bruce T. Moran's treatment of early modern ...
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies, by Nicolas Wey Gomez. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2008. xxiv, 592 pp..$39.95 US (cloth). The canonical narrative of Christopher Columbus's voyages, long prevalent in the schools, states that he sailed west ...
Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850, by Paula Sutter Fichtner. London, Reaktion Books, 2008. 205 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). In the nearly thirty years since the appearance of Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars from across the humanities have ...
Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy, by Diana Robin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007. xxvi, 365 pp., $45.00 US (cloth). The study of early modern women is now a well-established and highly regarded field. Diana ...
Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age, by Cristian Berco. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2007. x, 201 pp. $55.00 Cdn (cloth). Cristian Berco's study is the product of extensive archival research into the records of the Spanish ...
Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars.(Hobbes, Bramhall and the Polities of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars, edited by Jason McElligott and David L. Smith. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 252 pp. $99.00 US (cloth). Hobbes, Bramhall and the Polities of Liberty and Necessity. A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and ...
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland and America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland and America, by Richard B. Sher. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi, 815 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). In his insistence that the Scottish Enlightenment is ...
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms 1638-1652.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms 1638-1652, by Ian Gentles. Harlow, United Kingdom, Pearson Longman, 2007, xvi, 522 pp. $36.00 US (paper). Some historians, (particularly those seeking to shift the traditional anglocentric focus of the British wars of the ...
Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914, by Andrew Lees and Lynn Hollen Lees. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 300 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $28.99 US (paper). It may be said that it is nigh impossible to think about the cultural history of Europe during ...
The Fall of Napoleon, Vol. 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Fall of Napoleon, Vol. 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814, by Michael V. Leggiere. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvii, 686 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Michael V. Leggiere's account of the invasion of France in 1813-14 is uncompromisingly devoted to what ...
British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906, by Eugenio F. Biagini. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi, 421 pp. $105.00 US (cloth). Irish Home Rule and British politics in the late nineteenth century are not new subjects for historical inquiry, but in this ...
Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919: Volume 2: A Cultural History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919: Volume 2: A Cultural History, edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 545 pp. $110.00 US (cloth). Whereas the first volume of Capital Cities at War (1999) utilized ...
Making Spaniards." Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-30.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Making Spaniards." Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-30, by Alejandro Quiroga. Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xi, 234 pp. 69.95 US (cloth). The title of Alejandro Quiroga's short but suggestive study calls to mind two recent ...
Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, by Reginald C. Stuart. Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiii, 404 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In Dispersed Relations, historian Reginald Stuart ...
A Nation of Counterfeiters.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A Nation of Counterfeiters, by Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007.457 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Stephen Mihm has written a hefty, entertaining, and fascinating piece on money, counterfeiting, and the flimsy economy of the antebellum United ...
Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, by Anthony E. Kaye. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. x, 365 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). In Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, Anthony Kaye examines the process of ...
Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861, by Raul A. Ramos. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiii, 297 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Drawing insights from transnational and ethnic studies, Ramos challenges the traditional telling of ...
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History, by Milton C. Sernett. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2007. xi, 409 pp. $24.95 US (paper). Today Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913) is remembered in the United States and around the world as a foremost heroine of ...
Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, by Earl J. Hess. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii, 216. $39.95 US (cloth). Historians of other genres usually groan upon the announcement of the publication of ...
Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910, by Andrew R. Graybill. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiii, 277 pp. $31.25 Cdn (paper). Andrew R. Graybill has reinterpreted the settlement of the Great Plains in ...
The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney, by Michael Barrier. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. xviii, 393 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Few artists achieve international admiration. Few entrepreneurs build their financial empires on childhood fantasies. Walt Disney did ...
The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930, by Rebecca Earle. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2007. vii, 367 pp. $23.95 US (paper), $84.95 US (cloth). Mexico after the 1910 revolution is the place and time most often cited ...
Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico, edited by Elisa Servin, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2007. 424 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). In his 1990 book, El pulso de los ...
Fetishes & Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Fetishes & Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century, by Roger Sansi. New York, Berghahn Books, 2007. ix, 213 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Roger Sansi's Fetishes & Monuments offers a rather refreshing set of approaches to the cultural processes which historians ...
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A History of Sub-Saharan Africa, by Robert O. Collins and James M. Burns. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 406 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.99 US (paper). Robert O. Collins and James M. Burns have produced a text that reflects not only the depth of their ...
The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy, by Nigel Worden. New York, Blackwell, 2007, fourth edition, xviii, 198 pp. $31.99 Cdn (paper). Any historian of Africa teaching at the college level can testify to a long standing problem in academic publishing ....
The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905, by T. (3. Otto. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 352 pp. $150.00 Cdn (cloth). It is immediately clear that T. G. Otte has spent an inordinate amount of time in The National Archive and sundry ...
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History, by Paul Clark. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 352 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $22.99 US (paper). The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution evokes images of the Red Guard, social upheaval, and political turmoil that lasted ...
Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia, edited by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Rana Mitter. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007. xii, 368 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This important volume takes on the perilous but intriguing ...
Love in South Asia: A Cultural History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Love in South Asia: A Cultural History, edited by Francesca Orsini. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 368 pp. $123.00 US (cloth). Many essays in this cultural history of love in South Asia grapple with a central question: if love is always mediated by oral, literary, ...
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India c. 1500-1900.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India c. 1500-1900, by Ramya Sreenivasan. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2007. viii, 276 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Ramya Sreenivasan's book explores the tale of Padmini, a legendary Rajput queen in ...
Australia's Empire.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Australia's Empire, edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward. Oxford History of the British Empire, Companion Series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. xiii, 419 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). Australia's Empire is the first comprehensive, collaborative reassessment of ...
The Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, by John Gray. Toronto, Doubleday Canada, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. $29.95 Cdn (cloth), $17.95 Cdn (paper). Most historians concentrate on one country or one phenomenon, but John Gray sweeps across the world from the Middle ...
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions, de Luke Clossey. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 327 pp. $99.00 US (couverture rigide). Le phenomene de la mondialisation n'est pas nouveau, nous rappelle Luke Clossey. En fait, peu d'institutions ou ...
Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. x, 263 pp. $24.95 US (paper). Though the origin of the phrase "middle passage" is found in ...
Canada and the British Empire.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Canada and the British Empire, edited by Phillip Buckner. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. vii, 320 pp. $75.00 Cdn (cloth). Editor Phillip Buckner explains the motivation for this collection in the preface: one in a series of companions to the multi-volume Oxford History ...
The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control, by Jennifer Karns Alexander. Baltimore, Maryland, The John Hopkins Press, 2008. xvii, 233 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). How did "efficiency" become such an embedded and moral value within our world? Is it a positive attribute ...
Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment, by Joachim Radkau. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii, 430 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $24.99 US (paper). Engaging with the past is an endeavor which even at the best of times is fraught with questions about the ...
The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau, by William J. Turkel. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2007. 352 pp. $85.00 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). William Turkel's The Archive of Place tells the story of a diverse, relatively isolated region of British ...
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought, by Robert J. Richards. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008. xx, 551 pp. $39.00 US (cloth). Ernst Haeckel was the leading German Darwinist of the late nineteenth century, and his work is ...
Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, edited by Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell. German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 492 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). "Everyone found guilty of ...
The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade by Gerard J. DeGroot. Harvard University Press, 2008. xi, 528 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Gerard De Groot is an American-born professor of modern history at St. Andrews in Scotland, and author of a number of books ...
Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, edited by Drew Hayden Taylor. Toronto, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008. $22.95 Cdn (paper). The anthology Me Sexy, edited by Drew Hayden Taylor (the title echoing his 2005 edited anthology, Me Funny), explores Native sex and ...
Erratum.(Correction notice)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Please note that there was an error in Volume XLIII, number 3, on page 514. The name of the reviewer should be Bonnie MacLachlan. The correct citation should read: MacLachlan, ...