Vol. IV, No. II, May 2000

Journal of Early Modern History

Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts


 

Articles

Richard A. Cosgrove

Reflections on the Whig Interpretation of History

Christian Windler 
Tributes and Presents in Franco-Tunisian Diplomacy
 
Book Review Section

Review Article

Craig Clunas

Cultural History

Burke, Varieties of Cultural History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997)

Book Reviews:

  • Botwinick, Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997)
  • Stone, Vico's Cultural History. The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples, 1685-1750 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997)
  • Burden, The Mapping of North America. A List of Printed Maps, 1511-1670 (Rickmansworth, England: Raleigh Publications, 1996)
  • Cormack, Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997)
  • McGrail, Ancient Boats in North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500 (London and New York: Longman, 1998)
  • Thornton, The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonine Movement 1684-1706 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  • Sigerist, editor, Paracelsus: Four Treatises of Theophrastes von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
  • Genuth, Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)
  • Reeves, Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)
  • Bogucka, The Lost World of the "Sarmatians": Custom as the Regulator of Polish Social Life in Early Modern Times (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, 1997)
  • Phillips and Phillips, Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
  • Mueller, The Venetian Money Market. Banks, Panics and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
  • Tittler, The Reformation and the Towns in England. Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
  • Mentzer, editor, Sin and the Calvinists: Morals Control and the Consistory in the Reformed Tradition (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc., 1994)
  • Houlbrooke, Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
  • Gibson, A Social History of the Domestic Chaplain, 1530-1840 (London and Washington, D.C.: Leicester University Press, 1997)