History: Review of New Books back issues from March 1999:
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 7, c.1415-c.1500.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Allmand, Christopher, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 7, c. 1415-c.1500 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1,048 pp., $95.00, ISBN 0-521-38296-3 Publication Date: 1998 More years ago than I like to remember, I first encountered the Cambridge Medieval History ...
Nixon's Vietnam War.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Kimball, Jeffrey Nixon's Vietnam War Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 495 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0924-5 Publication Date: November 1998 Other than several biographies of Nixon and Kissinger and some key memoirs, the scholarly literature on the latter years of the Vietnam ...
Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, 1954-1973.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Friedland, Michael B. Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, 1954-1973 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 326 pp., $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-2338-4 cloth ISBN 0-8078-4646-5 paper Publication Date: September ...
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Schrecker, Ellen Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America Boston: Little, Brown 573 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-316-77470-7 Publication Date: April 1998 Based on extensive research in the secondary literature and in formerly classified records, Many Are the Crimes extends our ...
Black Diplomacy: African Americans in the State Department, 1945-1969.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Krenn, Michael L. Black Diplomacy: African Americans in the State Department, 1945-1969 Armonk: M.E. Sharpe 224 pp., $58.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN: 0-7657-0380-2 cloth ISBN: 0-7657-0381-0 paper Publication Date: January 1999 Michael L. Krenn, an associate professor of history ...
The Ghetto.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Wirth, Louis The Ghetto New Brunswick: Transaction 362 pp., $29.95, ISBN 1-5600-0963-7 Publication Date: December 1997 Few who have studied American Judaism, or for that matter almost any field of Jewish history, are totally unfamiliar with Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, a classic of ...
Arctic Diplomacy: Canada and the United States in the Northwest Passage.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Elliot-Meisel, Elizabeth B. Arctic Diplomacy: Canada and the United States in the Northwest Passage New York: Peter Lang 225 pp., $43.95, ISBN 0-8204-3826-X Publication Date: September 1998 Mention the Northwest Passage to most Canadians and most likely their minds go back to ...
The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Stoll, Steven The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California Berkeley: University of California Press 302 pp., $35.00 cloth, ISBN 0-520-21172-3 Publication Date: November 1998 When Americans visit their local market's produce section ...
Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Jacobsen, Douglas, and William Vance Trollinger Jr., eds. Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans 508 pp., $28.00, ISBN 0-8028-4298-4 Publication Date: September 1998 Traditionally, historians of twentieth-century ...
Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Bogue, Allan G. Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 557 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3039-3 Publication Date: April 1998 Frederick Jackson Turner has found his Boswell in Allan G. Bogue, whose erudite, admiring, yet analytic and ...
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Kealey, Linda Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour, and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920 Toronto: University of Toronto Press 260 pp., $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8020-2874-8 cloth ISBN 0-8020-7378-6 paper Publication Date: April 1998 The contributions of women in ...
Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour, and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Jacobson, Matthew Frye Whiteness of a Different European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race Cambridge: Harvard University Press 338 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-674-06371-6 Publication Date: November 1998 Matthew Frye Jacobson, an associate professor of American studies and history at ...
The Spotsylvania Campaign.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The Spotsylvania Campaign Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 272 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2402-X Publication Date: May 1998 The appearance of another volume in the University of North Carolina Press series Military Campaigns of the Civil War ...
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Sutherland, Daniel E. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 247 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-42530-0 Publication Date: November 1998 In Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign, University of Arkansas ...
Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Blair, William Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 New York: Oxford University Press 206 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-1951-1864-2 Publication Date: September 1998 Now an associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, William Blair ...
In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Marquis, Greg In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 399 pp., $34.95 cloth, ISBN: 0-7735-1792-8 Publication Date: September 1998 Rarely does a work with an intriguing title live up to its promise. Greg ...
The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Baum, Dale The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State during the Civil War Era Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 283 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-8071-2245-9 Publication Date: January 1999 Texas, although quite distinct from the other ten Confederate ...
Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Weiner, Marli E Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880 Urbana: University of Illinois Press 308 pp., $19.95 paper, ISBN 0-252-06623-5 Publication Date: November 1997 In this lucid study, Marli F. Weiner explores gender and race relations between ...
The Iroquois in the War of 1812.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Benn, Carl The Iroquois in the War of 1812 Toronto: University of Toronto Press 272pp., $21.95 paper, ISBN 0-8020-8145-2 Publication Date: October 1998 Most Americans remember only fragments about the War of 1812: "Old Ironsides," the "Star-Spangled Banner," and Andrew ...
Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Ratcliffe, Donald J. Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 Columbus: Ohio State University Press 336pp., $52.50, ISBN 0-8142-0775-8 Publication Date: September 1998 Donald J. Ratcliffe is a British scholar who teaches American history at ...
From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Cottrol, Robert J., ed. From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England Armonk: M. E. Sharpe 222 pp., $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0110-9 cloth ISBN 0-7656-0111-7 paper Publication Date: January 1998 Africans and their descendants ...
The American Counter Revolution, 1783-1800: A Retreat from Liberty.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Tise, Larry E. The American Counter Revolution, 1783-1800: A Retreat from Liberty Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 672 pp., $49.95. ISBN 0-8117-0100-X Publication Date: January 1999 A number of historians, including Charles Beard, Merrill Jensen, Charles Royster, and Forrest ...
A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Belz, Herman A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield 288 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-8643-4 Publication Date: September 1998 There is no question that constitutionalism, the idea that laws should ...
The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Field, Peter S. The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833 Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 272 pp., $39.95, ISBN 1-55849-143-0 Publication Date: December 1998 In The Crisis of the Standing Order, Peter ...
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Thompson, C. Bradley John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 340 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0915-6 Publication Date: November 1998 John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty seeks to explain and recover the importance of John Adams's major political ...
John Peebles' American War: The Diary of a Scottish Grenadier, 1776-1782.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Gruber, Ira D., ed. John Peebles' American War: The Diary of a Scottish Grenadier, 1776-1782 Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books 582 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-8117-0881-0 Publication Date: September 1998 Located in the Cunninghame of Thorntoun Papers in the Scottish Record Office, the ...
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Lyerly, Cynthia Lynn Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810 New York: Oxford University Press 251 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-1951-1429-9 Publication Date: September 1998 Cynthia Lynn Lyerly offers a readable and carefully researched account of Methodism's appeal in the South in the ...
Tecumseh: A Life.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Sugden, John Tecumseh: A Life New York: Henry Holt 512 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8050-4138-9 Publication Date: May 1998 Tecumseh: A Life is a monumental book about an extraordinary man. After three decades of research at various European and North American archives, private libraries, ...
Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Gomez, Michael A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South University of North Carolina Press 384 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2387-2 Publication Date: April 1998 Michael A. Gomez, a history professor at the ...
The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 700-1835.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... La Vere, David The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 700-1835 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 198 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-2927-5 Publication Date: October 1998 University of North Carolina at Wilmington historian David La Vere has taken advantage of a growing ...
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Joseph, Gilbert, Catherine Legrand, and Ricardo Salvatore, eds. Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations Durham: Duke University Press 575 pp., $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2085-1 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2099-1 paper Publication Date: ...
On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of Rich and Poor.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of Rich and Poor Boulder: Westview Press 243pp, $27.00, ISBN 0-8133-3499-3 Publication Date: October 1998 Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, professor emeritus of Latin American history at the University of California at San Diego, has ...
Latin America: Politics and Society since 1930.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Bethell, Leslie, ed. Latin America: Politics and Society since 1930 New York: Cambridge University Press 480 pp., $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-521-59390-5 cloth ISBN 0-521-595827 paper Publication Date: November 1998 Latin America: Politics and Society since 1930 is a ...
Bread, Or Bullets!: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Casanovas, Joan Bread, Or Bullets!: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 320 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8229-4070-1 cloth ISBN 0-8229-5675-1 paper Publication Date: November 1998 Except for the large number ...
The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Johnson, Lyman L., and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds. The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 240 pp., $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8263-1924-6 cloth ISBN 0-8263-1906-8 paper Publication Date: September 1998 ...
New Views of Borderlands History.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Jackson, Robert H., ed. New Views of Borderlands History Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 242 pp., $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8263-1938-6 cloth ISBN 63-1937-8 paper Publication Date: November 1998 This volume brings together the empirically rich works of ...
Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Behlmer, George K. Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940 Stanford: Stanford University Press 455 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-3313-9 Publication Date: September 1998 George K. Behlmer, a professor of history at the University of Washington and author ...
The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Hoppen, K. Theodore The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886 Oxford: Clarendon Press 808 pp., $45.00 ISBN 0-19-822834-1 Publication Date: April 1998 The volumes in the Oxford History of England, published over fifty years ago, have remained among the most widely consulted and ...
"This Rash Act": Suicide across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Bailey, Victor "This Rash Act": Suicide across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City Stanford: Stanford University Press 349 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-3123-3 Publication Date: August 1998 Victor Bailey's monograph is a thorough statistical and descriptive account of 729 suicides ...
Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Herzog, Don Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders Princeton: Princeton University Press 559 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04831-2 Publication Date: October 1998 The French Revolution aroused an ideological debate of great intensity and profound depth within Britain between 1789 and ...
Britain and the American Revolution.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Dickinson, Harry T., ed. Britain and the American Revolution New York: Addison, Wesley, Longman 284 pp., $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-582-31861-0 cloth ISBN 0-582-31839-4 paper Publication date: August 1998 This collection of essays by eight eminent, well-published scholars ...
George III.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Hibbert, Christopher George III New York: Basic Books 480 pp, $27.00, ISBN 0 465 02723 7 Publication Date: March 1999 Written for the general adult reading public, Christopher Hibbert's biography is an accessible but unoriginal account of George III. The monarch emerges not as ...
Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Banner, Stuart Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 318 pp., $64.95, ISBN: 0-5216-2231-X Publication Date: August 1998 This excellent book could not have appeared at a more appropriate time, ...
Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Prest, Wilfrid Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815 New York: Oxford University Press 363 pp., $27.95 paper ISBN 0-19-820418-3 Publication Date: September 1998 Albion Ascendant, by Wilfrid Prest, is a story of changes: agrarian, demographic, imperial, industrial, ...
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Johns, Adrian The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making Chicago: University of Chicago Press 753 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-226-40121-9 Publication Date: October 1998 In the tradition of great scholarship, The Nature of the Book celebrates cross-disciplinary research, ...
Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Sharpe, Kevin, and Stephen N. Zwicker, eds. Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution Berkeley: University of California Press 376 pp., $19.95 paper, ISBN 0-520-20920-6 Publication Date: August 1998 These diverse ...
Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Beaver, Daniel C. Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690 Cambridge: Harvard University Press 462 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-674-75845-5 Publication Date: November 1998 During the last decade or two, scholars have begun to look at the history of ...
Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Mendelson, Sara, and Patrica Crawford Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 Oxford: Clarendon 436 pp., $90.00, ISBN 0-1982-0124-9 Publication Date: October 1998 Sara Mendelson and Patrica Crawford's Women in Early Modern England is a marvelous achievement. Seeking to uncover ...
Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Graves, Michael A. R. Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley New York: Longman 239 pp., $63.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-5823-0289-7 cloth ISBN 0-5823-0308-7 paper Publication Date: September 1998 Michael A. R. Graves, an associate professor of history at the University of ...
Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Ellis, Steven G. Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule New York: Addison Wesley Longman 437 pp., $28.95 paper, ISBN 0-5820-1901-X Publication Date: November 1998 Steven G. Ellis, of the National University of Ireland, Galway, ...
Medicine in the English Middle Ages.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Getz, Faye M. Medicine in the English Middle Ages Princeton: Princeton University Press 192 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-691-08522-6 Publication Date: December 1998 As Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, was dying of anthrax and fever in 1205, his ministering physician, Master ...
Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Lynch, Joseph H. Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England Ithaca: Cornell University Press 272 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3527-7 Publication Date: September 1998 Baptism has from the beginning been one of Christianity's central sacraments. Yet it is an act ...
Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and Fascism in France.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Winock, Michel Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and Fascism in France Trans. Jane Marie Todd Stanford: Stanford University Press 351 pp, $55.00., ISBN 0-8047-3286-8 Publication Date: September 1998 Michel Winock, of the history faculty of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, has ...
Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Patch Jr., William L. Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic New York: Cambridge University Press. 358 pp., $54.95, ISBN 0-521-62422-3 Publication Date: August 1998 In this well-written and important work, the result of many years of careful research and ...
The Lion and the Star: Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Communities, 1919-1945.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Friedman, Jonathan C. The Lion and the Star: Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Communities, 1919-1945 Lexington: University of Kentucky Press 306 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8131-2043-8 Publication Date: June 1998 The Lion and the Star, by Jonathan C. Friedman of the Survivors ...
Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Crew, David E Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler New York: Oxford University Press 287 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-19-505311-7 Publication Date: April 1998 In Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler, David Crew, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at ...
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War: Explaining World War I New York: Basic Books 563 pp., $30.00 ISBN 0-465-05711-X Publication Date: February 1999 Now that the counterfactual approach's devotees and detractors have had ample opportunity to consider Niall Ferguson's pot shots at ...
Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmont Nobility, 1861-1930.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Cardoza, Anthony L. Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmont Nobility, 1861-1930 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 248 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-521-59303-4 Publication Date: September 1998 This is a monograph in the Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture series, ...
A History of the Popes, 1830-1914.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Chadwick, Owen A History of the Popes, 1830-1914 Oxford: Clarendon 614 pp., $135.00, ISBN 0-19-826922-6 Publication Date: July 1998 A History of the Popes, 1830-1914 is Owen Chadwick's latest contribution to the Oxford History of the Christian Church, a series that he coedits ....
Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Fiszman, Samuel, ed. Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791 Bloomington: Indiana University Press 562 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-253-33317-2 Publication Date: October 1997 Of all the countries to emerge from the fallen Soviet Empire, ...
The Grand Strategy of Philip II.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Parker, Geoffrey The Grand Strategy of Philip II New Haven: Yale University Press 446 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-07540-5 Publication Date: November 1998 Geoffrey Parker's The Grand Strategy of Philip II is history on a grand scale. In it, Parker has distilled the fruit of thirty ...
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Judah, Tim The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia New Haven: Yale University Press 320 pp., $16.00 paper, ISBN 0-3000-7656-8 Publication Date: December 1998 The theme of Tim Judah's volume is aptly described in its title, The Serbs: History, Myth and the ...
The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Burke, Peter The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries Oxford: Blackwell 284 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-631-19845-8 Publication Date: October 1998 The European Renaissance, by Peter Burke, is a part of an international series, The Making of Europe, directed by Jacques Le Goff. ...
The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by "Hugo Falcandus": 1154-69.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Loud, Graham A., and Thomas Wiedemann The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by "Hugo Falcandus": 1154-69 New York: Manchester University Press 286 pp., $79.95 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 0-7190-4894-X cloth ISBN 0-7190-5435-4 paper Publication Date: September 1998 The testimony of ...
Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Rosenwein, Barbara H., ed. Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages Ithaca: Cornell University Press 256 pp., $16.95 paper, ISBN 0-8014-8343-3 Publication Date: January 1998 Anger's Past is a compilation of articles that began as a session at the American ...