Books in Summary

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and NaturalTheology in the Nineteenth Century, by Stephen G. Alter La Mythologie du Matriarcat, L'Atelie de Johann Jakob Bachofen, by Philippe Borgeaud with Nicole Durisch, Antje Kolde, Grégoire Sommer Social History: Problems, Strategies and Methods, by MilesFairburn Reflections on Revolutions, by Mark N. Katz Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, by Donald R. Kelley Who Do We Think We Are? Race and Nation in the Modern World, Philip Nicholson     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Introducción a la historia teorica (Introduction to Theoretical History ). By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. Introduced and edited by Pedro Piedras Monroy. Seeing Things Their Way : Intellectual History and the Return of Religion . Edited by Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory. Gatekeepers of the Arab Past : Historians and History Writing in Twentieth ‐Century Egypt . By Yoav Di‐Capua. The Historians ' Paradox : The Study of History in Our Time . By Peter Charles Hoffer. At the Limits of History : Essays on Theory and Practice . By Keith Jenkins. Recasting the Past : History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa . Edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola. Recent Themes in American Religious History : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Randall J. Stephens. Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Donald A. Yerxa.     

Books in Summary

James A. Diefenbeck, Wayward Reflections on the History ofPhilosophy
Thomas R. Flynn Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason. Volume 1:Toward an Existential Theory of History
Mark Golden and Peter Toohey (eds.) Inventing Ancient Culture:Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World
Zenonas Norkus Istorika: Istorinis Ivadas
Everett Zimmerman The Boundaries of Fiction: History and theEighteenth-Century British Novel     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Whispering City : Rome and Its Histories . By R. J. B. Bosworth. History in the Discursive Condition : Reconsidering the Tools of Thought . By Elizabeth Ermarth. The Enlightenment of Sympathy : Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today . By Michael L. Frazer. Nation and History : Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post ‐Zionism . By Yoav Gelber. Themes in Modern European History : Social Movement and Cultural Current . Edited by Vandana Joshi. Liberalism , Imperialism , and the Historical Imagination : Nineteenth ‐Century Visions of a Greater Britain . By Theodore Koditschek. A história na América Latina : Ensaio de crítica historiográfica . By Jurandir Malerba. A Global History of History . By Daniel Woolf.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: P. R. Ackroyd and C. R. Evans (Eds): The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vloume I, From the Beginnings to Jerome. T. E. Pollard : Johannine Christology and the Early Church (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, No. 13). James A. Brundage : Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader. Rufus B. Spain : At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865–1900. Hans Mol : Religion in Australia. A Sociological Investigation. G. J. Cuming (Ed.): The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith (Studies in Church History, Vol VI).     

Books in Summary

Stefan Jordan, Zukunft der Geschichte: Historisches Denken an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert
John C. Landon, World History and the Eonic Effect: Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution
Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History
Jacques Szaluta, Psychohistory: Theory and Practice
Paul Thompson, The Voice of the Past: Oral History
Michelle R. Warren, History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100–1300     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Geography And History : Bridging The Divide . By Alan R. H. Baker. ¿Qué Es La Historia Teórica ? By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. The Lost Italian Renaissance : Humanists , Historians , And Latin's Legacy . By Christopher S. Celenza. Sozialgeschichte als politische Geschichte : Werner Conze Und die Neuorientierung der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft nach 1945. By Thomas Etzemüller. Was ist Geschichte ? Einführung in die historische Methode . By Norbert Furrer. The New History and the Old : Critical Essays and Reappraisals . By Gertrude Himmelfarb. What History Tells : George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe . Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice. George L. Mosse Series in European and Cultural History. States And Citizens : History , Theory , Prospects . Edited by Quentin Skinner and Bo Stråth.     

Philosophical Fascination with Whole Historical Texts

Book reviewed in this article:
History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor By F. R. Ankersmit     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Whaling and Eskimos: Hudson Bay 1860-1915 , by W. G illies R oss
Winnipeg: A Social History of Urban Growth, 1874-1915 , by A lan F. A rtibise
The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 , by T om N aylor
Introduction to Marine Geology and Ceomorphology , by C uchlaine A.M. K ing
Introduction to Physical and Biological Oceanography , by C uchlaine A. M. K ing
The Geography of Soils: Formation, Distribution, and Management , by D onald S teila
Urban Modelling: Algorithms, Calibrations, Predictions , by M ichael B atty
Spatial Choice and Spatial Behavior , edited by R eginald G. G ollege and G erard R ushton
Maps in Minds: Reflections on Cognitive Mapping , by R oger M. D owns and D avid S tea
Marketing Geography: With Special Reference to Retailing , by Ross L. D avies     

Books in Summary

Books reviewed:
Pictures of Innocence: the History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood . By Anne Higonnet
Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy . By John Inglis
In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture . By Michael Kammen
A Romantic Historiosophy: The Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche . By Arthur McCalla
Michelet: La Magistrature de l'histoire . By Olivier Remaud
A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing . Edited by D. R. Woolf     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Homosexuals in History: Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts. By A.L. Rowse.
A Tool of Power: The Political History of Money. By William Wiseley.
The Early Greeks. By R. J. Hopper.
Greek Sanctuaries. By R. A. Tomlinson.
The Two Italies. Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes. By David Abulafia.
Tamers of Death. Volume I: The History of the Alexian Brothers jrom 1300 to 1789. By Christopher J. Kauffman.
Women of Action in Tudor England: Nine Biographical Sketches. By Pearl Hogrefe.
A New History of Ireland. Volume III: Early Modern Ireland, 1534–1691. Edited by T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, and F. J. Byrne.
The Growth of Victorian London. By Donald J. Olsen.
Exodusters: Black hfigratiotz to Kansas after Reconstruction. By Nell Irvin Painter.
When Farmers Voted Red: The Gospel of Socialism in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1910–1924. By Garin Burbank.
Another Part of the Twenties. By Paul A. Carter.
The Prophet's Amy : Trotskyists in America, 1928–41. By Constance Ashton Myers.
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist. By W. A. Swanberg.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith, Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America
George R. Zodrow, State Sales and Income Taxes: An Economic Analysis
Clive Granger, Empirical Modelling in Economics: Specification and Evaluation
Emil E. Malizia and Edward J. Feser, Understanding Local Economic Development
Richard Muir, Approaches to Landscape
Jan Albers, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape
Michel Bellet and Corine La'Harmet (eds.), Industry, Space and Competition: The Contribution of Economists of the Past
Stephanie S. Pincetl, Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development     

REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS

Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by neil SMITH, BASIL BLACKWELL
Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization by DAVID HARVEY
Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization by DAVID HARVEY
Tourism: A Community Approach by PETER E. MURPHY
China in Canada: A Dialogue on Resources and Development edited by R. LOUIS GENTILCORE
The Staffs of Life by E.J. KAHN JR, Little
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchamatan Highlands,     

Reviews

H enri D esroche : The Sociology of Hope.
D aniel W. P atterson : The Shaker Spiritual.
I iro K ajanto : Classical and Christian; Studies in the Latin Epitaphs of Medieval and Renaissance Rome.
M ark R. C ohen : Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews ca. 1065–1126.
J effrey R ichards : Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great.
P aul L awrence R ose : Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser.
P aul L awrence R ose (ed.): Jean Bodin: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics.
J oyce O ldham A ppleby : Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England.
J. A. S harpe : Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York (Borthwick Papers, No. 58).
K enneth M. B oyd : Scottish Church Attitudes to Sex, Marriage and the Family, 1850–1914.
P aul M c H ugh : Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform.
E dmund C ampion : John Henry Newman: Friends, Allies, Bishops, Catholics.
N. M errill D istad : Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) Shepherdstown
A lan D. G ilbert : The Making of Post-Christian Britain: A History of the Secularization of Modern Society.
A nn -M ari J ordens : The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sydney.
B rian K ennedy : Silver, Sin, and Sixpenny Ale: A Social History of Broken Hill, 1883–1921.
I an B reward : Grace and Truth: A History of the Theological Hall, Knox College, Dunedin 1876–1975.     

Edward Kelley’s Danish treasure hoax and Elizabethan antiquarianism

ABSTRACT

In 1583, Edward Kelley claimed to have made a number of archaeological discoveries on Northwick Hill in Worcestershire, including a forged document, the “Northwick scroll”, purportedly giving the location of treasure hidden by the Danes. The scroll was subsequently deciphered by Kelley’s employer, John Dee. Kelley’s hoax, which had to fool one of the country’s most learned men, was carefully constructed and drew on recent antiquarian work. However, Kelley also relied on older traditions of magical treasure hunting, thereby combining two apparently antithetical approaches to the past. The article uses the example of Kelley’s hoax to argue that hoaxes served a useful and illuminating function in the early development of archaeology by testing the boundaries of plausibility. Furthermore, Kelley’s synthesis of learned antiquarianism and treasure hunting challenges the view that Elizabethan antiquaries were unwilling to excavate. Kelley’s methodologies in constructing the hoax echoed those of William Camden and others by linking excavated objects with chronicles and landscape features to create an integrated account of an imagined past. However, the hoax’s success also rested on Dee’s willingness to become a treasure hunter, demonstrating that elite learned antiquarian endeavours were not always distant from the aims of traditional “hill diggers”.     

REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS

Field and Theory: Lectures in Geocryology, edited by Michael Church and Olav Slaymaker
Environmental Impact Assessment: The Canadian Experience edited by J.B.R. WHITNEY and V.W. MACLAREN
New Directions in Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada edited by V.W. MACLAREN and J.B.R. WHITNEY
Ecology, Impact Assessment and Environmental Planning by WALTER E. WESTMAN, John Wiley and Sons
The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China by VACLAV SMIL, M.E. SHARP
Forging a Consensus: Historical Essays on Toronto edited by VICTOR L. RUSSELL
Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History by J.M.S. CARELESS
Toronto since 1918: An Illustrated History by JAMES T. LEMON
Too Many, Too Long: Sudan's Twenty-Year Refugee Dilemma by JOHN R. ROGGE
North of 50°: An Atlas of Far Northern Ontario by J.E.J. FAHLGREN and GEOFFREY MATTHEWS
Progress in Industrial Geography edited by MICHAEL PACIONE
Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism edited by ALLEN J. SCOTT and MICHAEL STORPER     

Books in Summary

Finding Philosophy in Social Science By Mario Bunge
L'inchiesta e la prova: Immagine storiografica, pratica Giuridica e retorica nella Grecia classica By Paolo Butti de Lima
Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at Empire's End By D. R. Howland
Economics and the Historian By Thomas G. Rawski, et al .
Reading the Book of History: Intellectual Context and Educational Functions of Franciscan Historiography (1226-ca. 1350) By Bert Roest
Die Erfindung des amerikanischen Westens: Die Geschichte der Frontier-Debatte By Matthias Waechter     

Reviews

Book review in this Article
R. A. T omlinson : Greek Sanctuaries.
R upert F urneaux : The Roman Siege of Jerusalem.
B ernhard G rimm : Untersuchungen zur sozialen Stellung der frühen Christen in der römischen Gesellschaft.
J ane I. S mith : An Historical and Semantic Study of the term Islam as seen in a Sequence of Quran Commentaries.
H arry W. H azard (ed.): The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, volume III of Kenneth M. Setton (ed.).
R. J. M orris : Cholera, 1832: the Social Response to an Epidemic.
J udy B irmingham and C arol L iston : Old Sydney Burial Ground 1974.
A lan R oberts and E lizabeth M alcolm : Hunter Baillie: a History of the Presbyterian Church in Annandale.
B ruce M ansfield with F ay R ichardson : Knox: a History of Knox Grammar School, 1924–1974.
J ohn S. D unne : The Way of All the Earth: an Encounter with Eastern Religions.     

Reviews

Book review in this Article
B. W. J ones and R. D. M ilns (eds): The Use of Documentary Evidence in the Study of Roman Imperial History (Sources in Ancient History).
H arro H öpfl : The Christian Polity of John Calvin.
W alter K laassen (ed.): Anabaptism in Outline: Selected Primary Sources.
N orman M acdougall (ed.): Church, Politics and Society.
H arold P erkins : The Convict Priests.
J ames W aldersee : A Grain of Mustard Seed: The Society for the Propagation of the Faith and Australia, 1837–1977.
D onal A. K err : Peel, Priests and Politics.     

The Rise and Fall of the Post-War Settlement

The People's Peace: British History, 1945–1989. By Kenneth O. Morgan.
Power, Competition and the State : Vol. 2, Threats to the Postwar Settlement: Britain, 1961–74. By Keith Middlemas.
Power, Competition and the State: Vol. 3, The End of the Postwar Era. By Keith Middlemas.
Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective. By R. M. Punnett.
British Politics Since 1945: The Rise and Fall of Consensus. By David Dutton.
UK Political Parties Since 1945. Edited by Anthony Seldon.
British History, 1945–1987: An Annotated Bibliography. By Peter Catterall.