Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge (eds) Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, vol. 3 of A History of Women in the West Roger Sawyer, ‘We are but Women’: Women in Ireland's History Esther S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon (eds) Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800–1945 Patricia Crawford, Women and Religion in England 1500–1720 Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women. Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Esther S. Cope, Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie     

Tender is the Nocturnal Lament

“Behold, the bleak, rocky towering mountains are deadly dry. Please, do bestow a sign upon them.” (Amos Oz, “Strange Fire”)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Central Place Theory, by Leslie J. King, Scientific Geography Series, Volume 1, edited by Grant Ian Thrall. Gravity and Spatial Interaction Models, by Kingsley E. Haynes and A. Stewart Fotheringham. Industrial Location, by Michael J. Webber. Factorial Ecology, by Wayne K. D. Davies.     

REVIEW

Cargo Cult—Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond. By Lamont Lindstrom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1993. Pp. xiv + 246.     

Renaissance Women

Books reviewed in this article: Judith Brown and Robert Davies (eds), Gender and Society in RenaissanceItaly Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe (eds), Marriage in Italy, 1300‐1600 Deanna Shemek, Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy Paola Tinagli, Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation,Identity     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Conceptual Revolution in Geography, ed. Wayne K. D. Davies . Geography of Transportation, by Edward J. Taaffe and Howard L. Gauthier , Jr Scientific Methods of Urban Analysis, by Anthony J. Catanese . Urban Analysis: Readings in Housing and Urban Development, edited by Alfred N. Page and Warren R. Seyfried . Attitude Measurement for Marketing Strategies, by C. D. Hughes . Behavioral Decisions in Organizations, by A. O. Elbing . Progress in Geography, Volume 5, edited by Christopher Board , Richard J. Chorley , Peter Haggett , and David R. Stoddart .     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Joel F. Harrington (ed.), A Cloud of Witnesses: Readings in the History of Western Christianity G. W. Trompf, Early Christian Historiography. Narratives of Retributive Justice John Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages Isabel Moreira, Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul H. R. Lyon, The English Church 940–1154 Anna Silvas (trans.), Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources Lucy E. C. Wooding, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England Robert M. Kingdon (general ed.), Thomas A. Lambert and Isabella M. Watt (eds.), Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: Volume 1: 1542–1544 T. L. Underwood (ed.), The Acts of the Witnesses. The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and other Early Muggletonian Writings Peter Gaunt (ed.), The English Civil War. The Essential Readings Rosemary Moore, The Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666 Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English Society 1655–1725 Horton Davies and Marie–Hélène Davies, French Huguenots in English–Speaking Lands Donal Kerr, Jean–Claude Colin, Marist. A Founder in an Era of Revolution and Restoration: The Early Years 1790–1836 Geraint Tudur, Howell Harris. From Conversion to Separation 1735–50 Linda Wilson, Constrained by Zeal: Female Spirituality amongst Nonconformists, 1825–1875 Paul Nicholls, Khaki and the Confessional: A Study of a Religious Issue at the 1900 General Election in England Bernard Joassart, Hippolyte Delehaye. Hagiographie critique et modernisme Vol. I–II Robert P. Erickson and Sussannah Heschel (eds.), Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust Eberhard Bethge, Victoria J. Barnett (ed.), Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A Biography Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fiction from Tegel Prison, Vol. 7 Derek H. Davis, Religion and the Continental Congress 1774–1789: Contributions to Original Intent Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment Dwight N. Hopkins, Down, Up, And Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology Kimberly Rae Connor, Imaging Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr, Episcopalians and Race.Civil War to Civil Rights Peter Homans (ed.), Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory At Century’s End Stephen Malley Jr and Xiaoxin Wu (eds.), China and Christianity. Burdened Past, Hopeful Future Sue Hamilton, Early Buddhism: A New Approach     

Archaeometric Clearinghouse XX

Abstract

This article is a review of three recent monographs concerned with the later Middle Cypriote and Late Cypriote periods on Cyprus (ca. 1700–1200 B.C.). Each study focuses narrowly on archaeological, philological, or historical problems associated specifically with Cyprus or more generally with interrelations among Aegean, Cypriote, and eastern Mediterranean cultures. Oblivious to common interests, the authors reflect their own particularistic concerns: philology, toponymy, stone anchors. The three publications reviewed serve both as a framework and as a vehicle for presentation of a balanced discussion of archaeological, historical, and theoretical problems associated with Middle/Late Bronze Age Cyprus and its role in eastern Mediterranean maritime trade. In conclusion, and as an alternative, a concise synthesis of cultural and socio-historical patterns on Cyprus ca. 1700–1200 B.C. is presented.

The three volumes under review are: L. Hellbing, Alasia Problems. StudMedArch 57 (P. Åström's Förlag: Göteborg 1979); D. E. McCaslin, Stone Anchors in Antiquity: Coastal Settlements and Maritime Trade Routes in the Eastern Mediterranean. StudMedArch 61 (P. Åström's Förlag: Göteborg 1980); J. Strange, Caphtor/Keftiu, A New Investigation. Acta Theologica Danica 14 (E. J. Brill: Leiden 1980).     

Demagoguery as Pathology: Interpreting European Politics Today

The End of Europe by James Kirchick and The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray evince many of the very same political and discursive pathologies which they successfully diagnose in European politics. Both authors have discovered that Europe’s current situation is as much a result of irresponsible public policies and mismanaged crises as of a decay in European political thinking, a decay manifested in Europe’s ever-more simplistic, anti-deliberative—in a word, demagogic—public discourse. And yet, Europeans of today find themselves in a social, political, and economic crisis in part because they lack the discursive means to recognize and deliberate on the very crisis they are in. The result is a damaging political state of affairs which makes escape from itself nearly impossible—a political pathology. Kirchick and Murray do a fine job of capturing the true character of this discourse in their books, yet they do so by unwittingly reproducing it themselves, thereby revealing the difficulties inherent in reforming a political culture from within.     

Colonies and Colonisation in Bulwer Lytton’s The Caxtons,A Strange Story and The Coming Race

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, an eminently popular novelist, published The Caxtons in 1849. Though sub-titled A Family Picture and mainly concerned with domestic life, it included a lengthy disquisition on colonisation and emigration, its value to British society and its role in extending civilisation by spreading ‘God’s law, improvement’. His colonial example was ‘Australia’. A Radical MP in the 1830s, but opposed to the encroachment of ‘democracy’ and supportive of the Corn Laws, in the early 1850s Lytton turned to the Conservative Party. In 1858–59 he served as secretary of state for the colonies. In the light of his experience, his view of Australia and of self-governing colonies was modified, as A Strange Story (1862) shows. But in 1871, in The Coming Race, an elaborate satire on democracy and egalitarianism, he made a distinct addition to the colonial theme of The Caxtons. He did not doubt that ‘improvement’ and colonisation produced evidence of ‘the triumph of civilization’, but a metaphor embedded in the later novel indicated the inevitability of displacement of aboriginal inhabitants by Anglo-Saxon settlers.     

When the Moral Mentors Lapse: A Comparative Study of Estonian and Belarusian Clergy Jokes

Abstract

The religious sphere has inspired much humour, but there are not many historically and culturally contextualized comparative studies of humorous tales and jokes about the clergy. This article aims to compare Estonian and Belarusian joke lore, outline the main topics of clergy jokes, and show their interconnectedness with and dependence upon their respective political, cultural, and ideological mainstreams. We claim that the jokes highlight the incongruity between the normative and the real world order. We position our interdisciplinary study within Christie Davies’s models of joke target choice. Davies’s aim was to produce a theory that could be applied to different corpora of jokes throughout times and cultures. Testing the theory against our data shows that it has wider implications and a high potential for analysing various forms and targets of humorous folklore from a comparative and historical perspective.     

After the demise: the normalization of soviet history

The Stalin Years: A Reader. Edited by Christopher Read (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), xv?+?241 pp. €14.99 paper.

The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin, 1917–1929. By E. H. Carr, with a new introduction by R. W. Davies (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), xxxix?+?200 pp. €14.99 paper.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City. Sothern, Billy New Geographies of Race and Racism. Dwyer, Claire and Bressey, Caroline. The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and the Environment in the 21^st Century. Martine, George, McGranahan, Gordon, Montgomery, Mark and Fernádez‐Castilla, Rogelio (eds). The Geographies of Garbage Governance: Interventions, Interactions, and Outcomes. Davies, Anna R. Driving Spaces: A Cultural‐Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway. Merriman, Peter.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article: Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh David F. Noble, A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science Jutta Schwarzkopf, Women in the Chartist Movement Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle Class. Explorations in Feminism and History Ed Cohen, Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities June Purvis, A History of Women's Education in England Felicity Hunt, Gender and Policy in English Education. Schooling for Girls 1902-1944 Andrew Davies, Leisure, Gender and Poverty. Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1939 Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding (eds) Workers’Worlds. Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939 Jo Fisher, Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America Manchester Women's History Group Bibliography Project, Resources for Women's History in Greater Manchester Clare Whiteman and Richard Storey, Women at Work and in Society. Modern Records Centre Sources Booklet No 1 Michelle Perrot (ed.) Writing Women's History Joke J. Hermsen and Alkeline van Lenning (eds) Sharing the Difference. Feminist Debates in Holland Hillary Hinds, Ann Phoenix and Jackie Stacey (eds) Working Out. New Directions for Women's Studies Karen Often, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall (eds) Writing Women's History: International Perspectives     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Agricultural geography by P. Laut An historical introduction to the economic geography of Great Britain by Wilfred Smith The world's villages edited by T.O. Newnham Southwest Pacific by K.B. Cumberland Atlas of Australian Soils (C.S.I.R.O. in association with Melbourne Major soil groups of New Guinea and their distribution by H.A. Haantjens, J.J. Reynders, W.L.P.J. Mouthaan and F.A. van Baren Capitalism, primitive and modern. Some aspects of Total economic growth by T. Scarlett Epstein Proceedings of the Fifth New Zealand Geography Conference, Auckland, August, 1967 The blockfields of northeastern Tasmania by N. Caine Population geography by M.G.A. Wilson Of islands and men. Studies in Pacific history by H.E. Maude Maps and their makers by G.R. Crone Landforms of cold climates by J.L. Davies Pacific market-places edited by H.C. Brookfield The draining of the Fens by H.C. Darby Fitzroy Region, Queensland: Resources series prepared by and available from Departmentof National Development, Canberra: Australia, New Zealand and the South-west Pacific by J.H. Holmes The farthest coast edited by C.C. Macknight Atlas of Australian Resources, Second series, 1962 continuing, prepared and distributed by the Department of National Development, Canberra. Map sheet accompanied by booklet commentary. The Mediterranean valleys. Geological changes in historical times by C. Vita-Finzi Landscape studies by J.H. Shaw and F.G. Kirkwood Longmans Australian Geographies edited by G.H. Lawton     

The Case of William Dick: Ransom County, North Dakota

In May 2009, a decision of the United States Supreme Court with North Dakota roots turned fifty years old. A case unique in the annals of the law, Dick v. New York Life Insurance Company ¹ still fascinates lawyers today. Factually, the case presented a strange question: could an experienced hunter accidentally shoot himself not once, but twice? Some of North Dakota's finest lawyers, including Philip Vogel, Donald Holand, and Norman Tenneson, aimed to get to the bottom of that matter. The judges were equally impressive: Judge Ronald Davies of the federal district court; Judge John Sanborn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; and Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Felix Frankfurter. Finally, as a matter of Supreme Court jurisprudence, Dick may have been the last time the High Court granted a petition for certiorari in a case that turned almost exclusively on questions of fact. In honor of its golden anniversary, this article recounts the captivating story of Dick v. New York Life.     

Some aspects of the Polar Regions

Die Vegetationsverhältnisse der illyrischen Länder. By Dr. Günther Beck v. Mannagetta, Prag. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1901. 6 plates, 18 figures in text, and 2 maps. Pp. xv + 534.

Finland As It Is. By Harry de Windt, F.R.G.S. London: John Murray, 1901. Pp. 316. Price 9s.

Springtime in the Basque Mountains. By A. L. Liberty. London : Grant Richards, 1901. Pp. 299. Price 12s.

An Artist's Walks in Bible Lands. By Henry A. Harper, author of Walls in Palestine, etc.; with a Photogravure Frontispiece and 55 other Illustrations from Drawings by the Author. London: The Religious Tract Society. Pp. 256. Price 6s. net.

A Geography of Asia, including the East Indies. By Lionel W. Lyde, M.A., F.R.G.S. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1900. Price 1s. 6d.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple : Narrative of Four Years’ Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior. By Susie Carson Rijniiart, M.D. Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh and London, 1901. Pp. 406. Price 6s.

Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate. By S. Le Strange. Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1900. Price 16s.

John Chinaman. By E. H. Parker. London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1901. Price 8s.

The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh. Edited by E. E. Ravenstein. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1901. Pp. viii + 209.

The Land of the Wine. By A. J. Drexel Biddle, F.K.G.S., F.E.S.A., F.R.M.S. London: Funchal, Drexel Biddle, Publisher. Philadelphia and San Francisco. 1901.

The Sherbro and its Hinterland. By T. J. Alldridge, F.R.G.S. London : Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1901. Price 15s.

The Thirteen Colonies. By Helen Ainslie Smith. New York and London : E. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901. Price 12s.     

History repeats itself—flooding in moray in August 1970

GEOMORPHOLOGY

The cycle of Erosion in Different Climates. By Pierre Birot. Translated by C. I. Jackson and K. M. Clayton. 9×6. 144pp. 21 figs. Batsford, 1968. 35s.

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Geography and Regional Administration. By T. W. Freeman. 8 ¼ × 5 ¼. 200 pp. 34 figures. Hutchinson, University Library, London, 1968. 13/6d.

BRITISH ISLES

Eday and Hoy: a Development Survey. R. Miller and S. Luther‐Davies. 10 × 8. 94 pp. Issued by Department of Geography, University of Glasgow, 1968. 12/6d.

EDUCATIONAL

The British Isles: a colour geography, J. B. Goodson, 10×7 ½. Pp 121, 284 illustrations. Nelson, London, 1968. 18s 6d.     

1. INDIA IN A WORLD: DILEMMAS OF SOVEREIGNTY

Azfar Moin's The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam prompts a consideration not only of the histories of Islam and early modern connected histories of Central and South Asia, but also of current debates about local and global history‐writing. Moin's work intersects with a strand of comparative world history—following Victor Lieberman's Strange Parallels—but also engages strands of historical anthropology, bringing to light a range of compelling stakes for global historians, historians of South Asia, and scholars of nationalism alike. Though Moin's work pushes the boundaries of connected histories centered on South Asia, his focus on a trans‐regional millennial science avoids questions of the local within new global histories.     

The Alexander‐gosling expedition

The Water of Leith from Source to Sea. By John Geddie. Illustrated by Joseph Brown. Edinburgh: W. H. White and Co., Ltd., 1896. Pp. 220.

Wild Life in Scotland. By J. H. Crawford, F.L.S. Illustrations by John Williamson. London: John Macqueen, 1896. Pp. 280. Price 8s. 6d.

Annals of Garelochside: Being an Account, Historical and Topographical, of the Parishes of Row, Rosneath, and Cardross. By William Charles Maughan, author of Bosneath Past and Present, etc., etc. With Illustrations by Alexander M'Gibbon, Esq., Architect. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1897. Pp. xii + 331.

The United States of America, 1765–1865. ("Cambridge Historical Series.”) By Edward Ciianning, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History in Harvard University. Cambridge: University Press, 1896. Pp. 352. With three maps.

Bohemia. By C. Edmund Maurice. ("Story of the Nations Series.”) London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 533. Price 5s.

Madagascar before the Conquest—the Island, the Country, and the People. With Chapters on Travel and Topography, Folk‐lore, Strange Customs and Superstitions, the Animal Life of the Island, and Mission Work and Progress among the Inhabitants. By the Rev. James Sibree, F.R.G.S. With Maps and Illustrations from Photographs. London: Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 382 and Map. No Index. Price 16s.

Blandt Nordpolen's Naboer. Af Eivind Astrup. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug and Co.’s Forlag, 1896.

The Work of the Tibetan Expedition, 1889–90, under the Command of M. V. Pievtsof. Part III. (In Russian.) St. Petersburg: Tipografia M. Stasiu‐levich, 1896. Pp. 126.

Grundzüge der Pflanzenverbreitung auf der iberischen Halbinsel. Von Moritz Willkomm. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1896. Pp. xiv + 395. Price 12 M.; bound 13.50 M.

Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot. By George Wherry, M.A., M.C. Cantab., F.E.C.S., etc. Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1896. Pp. xi + 174. Price 5s. net.

Dolomite Strongholds—the last untrodden Alpine Peaks. An Account of Ascents of the Croda da Lago, the Little and Great Zinnen, the Cinque Torri, the Fünffinger Spitze, and the Langkofel. By the Rev. J. Sanger Davies, M.A. Second Edition. London: George Bell and Sons, 1896. Pp. 176. Price 3s. 6d.

Bibliographie de l'Année 1895 (Annales de Géographie, No. 23). Paris: Armand Colin et Cie., 1896. Pp. 288.

Nouveau Dictionnaire de Géographie Universelle. Ouvrage commence par M. Vivien de Saint‐Martin et continué par Louis Eousselet. Supplément, Fasc. 1–4—Aa‐Berlin. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1895–6.