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Book Review: Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500–2000

Book Review: Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration, 1500–2000

Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists

Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists

Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists

Dermatology remains a mystery to many doctors, and will do so increasingly as its toehold in the medical curriculum is eroded (in some medical schools it no longer features at all in the undergraduate curriculum). The history of the specialty, which began to develop as a distinct entity in the nineteenth century, is a fascinating subject. Skin disorders that we now regard as trivial—impetigo, head lice, scabies—were common and untreatable. Syphilis, with its protean cutaneous manifestations, was rampant and incurable. Simple bacterial infections of the skin could lead to septicaemia and death. The early descriptive dermatologists were remarkable clinical observers. Jonathan Hutchinson, for example, was the first person to describe sarcoidosis, lentigo maligna melanoma, melanoma of the nail bed, Peutz-Jegher syndrome (and its association with intussusception of the bowel), arsenical keratosis, Hutchinson's teeth (in congenital syphilis); the list is far from complete. Few doctors confined their interests to the skin alone; Erasmus Wilson, regarded by many as the leading dermatologist of his era, found time to bring Cleopatra's needle to London and amass a fortune on the stock exchange. The illustrations and clinical descriptions produced put many of our present-day efforts to shame. The changes that have occurred in therapy are also remarkable: much of the early therapeutic use of X ray was in the treatment of benign dermatological disorders (it continued to be widely used for childhood ringworm until 1958). Dr Crissey and his coauthors, all distinguished dermatologists and collectors of ‘dermatological memorabilia’, have produced a book containing a remarkable collection of illustrations, of dermatologists, of their original papers, of their clinical cases, and related material. They have interlaced this with descriptions of their subjects, and the significance of their work. There is much to fascinate and enchant any dermatologist with any sense of history. The advertisement for do-it-yourself X-ray equipment and the illustration of the first picture of the scabies mite are just two examples among many. The text likewise has plenty to capture the imagination: Kaposi (of the eponymous vascular tumour) changed his name from Cohen, because he thought that it would help his career if he sounded less Jewish. This is not a history of dermatology, and should not be bought by anyone expecting it to be so. There is no theme of progression from one topic to the next, and much is omitted (for example, there is no mention of penicillin). The work might best be described as a scrapbook assembled by three enthusiasts for their subject, whose love of dermatology shines through the pages. As such it is enormous fun, and would make a perfect Christmas or birthday present for your favourite dermatologist.

Book Review: Historical Atlas of Christianity

Book Review: Historical Atlas of Christianity

The Routledge historical atlas of religion in America. By Bret E. Carroll. (Routledge Atlases of American History.) Pp. 144 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour ills. New York–London: Routledge, 2000. £10.99 (paper). 0 415 92131 7; 0 415 92137 6

<i>The Routledge historical atlas of religion in America.</i> By Bret E. Carroll. (Routledge Atlases of American History.) Pp. 144 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour ills. New York–London: Routledge, 2000. £10.99 (paper). 0 415 92131 7; 0 415 92137 6

The Palgrave concise historical atlas of Eastern Europe

The Palgrave concise historical atlas of Eastern Europe

Introduction: Debating Empire

Debating Empire1 Tony Ballantyne This special issue, dedicated to assessing David Cannadine’s Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, is part of the ongoing debate over British imperialism that engages scholars, activists, and various communities in many parts of the world. The sources, nature and legacies of British imperialism have been the subject of renewed interest over the last decade and the question of empire has come to occupy an increasingly central place in cultural and political life in this post-colonial moment. In their very different ways, settler colonies such as Canada, Zimbabwe and New Zealand have been grappling with questions of indigenous sovereignty and land rights, while the question of ‘native title’ sprung to the foreground of Australian politics after the landmark Mabo decision in 1992 (which transformed Australian legal and political culture by recognising the existence and persistence of Aboriginal land ownership). The legacies of colonialism have also been at the forefront of political life in South Africa following the dismantling of the apartheid regime, framing many of the histories of racial exclusion and violence produced by the 20,000 witnesses that testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In South Asia the role of British colonialism in engendering the region’s ‘underdevelopment,’ environmental degradation, and religious and ethnic conflict is the subject of constant debate in bazaars, newspaper editorials, and classrooms. The pressures of post-colonialism has also been felt in the United States of America where activists and scholars alike have increasingly drawn attention to that nation’s status as a settler colony and the centrality of imperialism, both formal and informal, in the making of American cultures and identity. In Britain itself, many saw the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997 as marking the final act in the great drama of the rise and fall of the empire; but such a nostalgic view ignores the persistent legacies of British imperialism which are at the heart of ongoing debates over Northern Ireland, immigration, and the very nature of Britishness itself. During the 1990s the imperial past was increasingly scrutinised by scholars from a range of disciplines and studies of colonial discourse (enabled by Edward Said’s path-breaking Orientalism), imperial science and medicine, gender and sexuality, and popular culture jostled with the analytical staples of imperial history — high politics and economics. Partly as a result of this new interdisciplinary interest in empire, imperial history, a once moribund field that seemed near obsolescence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has re-emerged as an important and rejuvenated academic field and even a topic of public concern. The publication of the five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire in 1999 and 2000 marked the culmination of this rebirth. Wm. Roger Louis, the editor-in-chief of the series, argued that shifting ideological currents meant that a reassessment of the British empire and its historiography was much needed: The time [the mid 1990s] was ripe for a reappraisal. The ideological wars of the 1960s, the emotions raised by issues of nationalism and decolonization — all of these had diminished, and we were able to recruit historians of India and of Asia and of Africa as well as Britain to participate in the project. 2 Such an account of the significance of empire, which suggests that imperialism is of declining political importance and equates anti-colonialism with emotion, is disputed by several of the essays in this forum, but there is no doubt that the new Oxford History found wide academic and public support. Jointly funded by the Rhodes Trust and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oxford History was enabled by a huge (and continually expanding) body of research produced in dissertations, journal articles, edited collections and monographs. It also followed on the heels of other significant works of synthesis, most notably A.G. Hopkins and Peter Cain’s magisterial two volume study of the economics of empire, Dennis Judd’s Empire, P.J. Marshall’s The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire, the dictionaries of empire edited by Alan Palmer and James Olson and the historical atlases edited by Chris Bayly and Andrew Porter. 3 The Oxford History...

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: China Charlotte Furth, A Flourishing Yin: gender in China’s Medical History, 960–1665.Mobo C. F. Gao, Gao Village. A Portrait of Rural Life in Modern China.James R. Lilley and David Shambaugh, (eds.) China’s Military Faces the Future. Japan, Korea Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Kurosawa: film Studies and Japanese Cinema.Keiko McDonald, From Book to Screen: modern Japanese Literature in Film.Yasunori Fukuoka, Lives of Young Ethnic Koreans in Japan.Ah‐Jeong Kim and R. B. Graves (trans), The Metacultural Theater of Oh T’ae‐Sok. Five Plays from the Korean Avant‐Garde.Andrew Cobbing, The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: early Travel Encounters in the Far West. South, West &amp; Central Asia Satish Balram Agnihotri, Sex Ratio Patterns in the Indian Population: a Fresh Exploration. Southeast Asia Robert Cribb, Historical Atlas of Indonesia.Stefan Eklöf, Indonesian Politics in Crisis: the Long Fall of Suharto, 1996–98.Barbara Leigh, The Changing Face of Malaysian Crafts: identity, Industry and Ingenuity.Krishna Sen and David T. Hill, Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia. General Asia David Hanlon and Geoffrey M. White (eds.) Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific.Laksiri Jayasuriya and Kee Pookong, (eds.) The Asianisation of Australia?: some Facts about the Myths.

The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads

With 50 full-color original maps, and a keen and perceptive text, the preeminent historian of US railways has created an illustrated atlas that will delight general history readers and railroad fans alike. From the construction of the first US railroads in the 1830s to the advent of Amtrak, this outstanding work explores the revolutionary geographical expansion and rapid acceleration of American life made possible by the people who built, operated and rode the US railway systems. The Routledge Historical Atlas of American Railroads traverses some of the most exciting thoroughfares in our history and culture, and offers a unique view of young America. Anyone interested in the people and events that shaped the US, general readers, students and all railroad fans will make this a new standard work. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

Littell, Historical Atlas of Christianity

Littell, <i>Historical Atlas of Christianity</i>

The Americas

Mary K. Geiter, William PennJohn Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the ShawneesAndrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British CaribbeanFrancis Jennings, The Creation of America: Through Revolution to EmpireAndrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920William Benemann (ed.), A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849–1850Mary Lawlor, Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Clossing of the American WestPatricia Nelson Limerick, Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New WestEdwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Gerard T. Koeppel, Water for Gotham: A HistoryFirth Haring Fabend, Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of RevivalsAnthony Gronowicz, Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil WarEdward L. Widmore, Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York CityWilliam E. Van Vugt, Britain to America: Mid‐nineteenth‐century Immigrants to the United StatesAlan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in LynnMarie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing up Enslaved in the Antebellum SouthLee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie, Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965John Gurda, The Making of MilwaukeeGlenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth CenturyCatherine Clinton and Christine Lunardini, The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth CenturyLaura F. Edwards, Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War EraDeborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994Lois Brown (ed.), Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months, by His Teacher, Miss Susan PaulLinda Kerber and Jane Sherron De Hart, Woman’s America: Refocusing the Past, 5th ednDaniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive AgeDavid M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945Kevern Verney, Black Civil Rights in AmericaDaniel Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War IIMichael E. Birdwell, Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros Campaign against NazismG. H. Bennett, The American Presidency 1945–2000: Illusions of GrandeurAlan Brinkley, Liberalism and its DiscontentsMaurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960sGeorge F. Kennan, Sketches from a LifeGeorge F. Kennan, An American Family. The Kennans: The First Three GenerationsAbraham Ben‐Zvi, Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American–Israeli AlliancePatrick Tyler, Six Presidents and China: A Great Wall. An Investigative HistoryChristopher Sandars, America’s Overseas Garrisons: The Leasehold EmpireLaura McEnaney, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the FiftiesJonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel (eds), Americanization and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post‐war Europe and JapanUta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided GermanyNicola White, Reconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion IndustryReinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May (ed.), Here, There and Everywhere: The Foreign Politics of American Popular CultureGeorge L. Henderson, California and the Fictions of CapitalWilliam G. Dean et al. (ed.), Concise Historical Atlas of CanadaEdwin Early et al., The History Atlas of South AmericaCharles F. Walker, Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840Peter Beardsell, Europe and Latin America: Returning the Gaze

New historical atlas of religion in America

New historical atlas of religion in America

Book Reviews

American Indians and National Parks . By Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998. List of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, list of abbreviations, sources, notes, and index, xxii+319 pp. $40.00 cloth. The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West. By Valerie L. Kuletz. New York: Routledge, 1998. List of illustrations, legend of map symbols, list of acronyms, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. xxiii+336 pp. $22.99 paper. Heritage on Stage. By Steven D. Hoelscher. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Illustrations, tables, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xix+327 pp. $24.95 paper. Concise Historical Atlas of Canada. Edited by William G. Dean, et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Publisher's note, preface, acknowledgments, notes, and sources, iii+180 pp. $85.00 cloth. Third World Political Ecology. By Raymond L. Bryant and Sinead Bailey. New York: Routledge, 1997. Illustrations, preface, guide to further reading, bibliography, and index, xii+237 pp. $22.99 paper. Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. Edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema. New York, Routledge, 1998. Acknowledgments, bibliography, contributors, and index. i+294 pp. $21.99 paper. Wisconsin Revisited. By Nicolette Bromberg. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 80 pp. $20.00 paper. Race, Place, and the Law: 1836-1948. By David Delaney. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1998. Preface, notes, bibliography, and index, x + 229 pp. $17.95 paper. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. By Blake Gumprecht. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Acknowledgments, notes, and index, x+369 pp. $39.95 hardcover. Interface Culture: How Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. By Steven Johnson. New York: Basic Books, 1997. Preface, conclusion, notes, acknowledgments, and index. 264 pp. $13.00 paper. Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805. Edited by Stephen Haycox, James Barnett, and Caedmon Liburd. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Preface, introduction, notes, contribution, and index, xii+207 pp. $19.95 paper. Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes. By Inge Bolin. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1998. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index, xx+289 pp. $16.95 paper. Across Before Columbus? Edited by Donald Gilmore and Linda McElroy. Edgecomb, Maine: The New England Antiquities Research Association, 1998. Acknowledgments, contributor biographic notes, and index, vi +313 pp. $26.00 paper. Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space and Identity. Edited by John Bale and Chris Philo. New York: Routledge, 1998. Figures, contributors, and index, xi + 166 pp. $75.00 hardback. The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic. By David W. Teague. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1997. Illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, and index, x + 170 pp. $ 19.95 paper.

SHORTER NOTICES

Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era, by Jeremy Black (Stroud: Sutton, 2000; pp. xii–204. £25). ELIZABETH BAIGENT ELIZABETH BAIGENT School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 955–956, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.955 Published: 01 September 2001

Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era, Jeremy Black

Historical Atlas of Britain: The End of the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era, Jeremy Black

The historical atlas of the American Revolution

The historical atlas of the American Revolution

Reviews

Books reviewed:McGrath, Gerald and Sebert, Louis (eds) Mapping a northern land. The survey of Canada 1947–1994Cook, Karen Severud (ed) Images and Icons of the New WorldHodson, Donald County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703: a bibliography, Vol. III. Atlases published 1764–1789Neumann, Joachim Enzyklopädisches Wörterbuch Kartographie in 25 Sprachen, 2 erweiterte AusgabeKain, Roger and Ravenhill, William (eds) Historical Atlas of South‐West EnglandBeech, Geraldine (ed) Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: No. 4, Europe and TurkeyChasseaud, Peter Artillery's Astrologers: A history of British survey and mapping on the Western Front 1914–1918Molenaar, Martien An Introduction to the Theory of Spatial Object Modelling for GISLowenthal, Mary Alice (ed) Who's who in the history of cartography. The international guide to the subject (D9)Phlipponneau, Michel Là géographie appliquée. Du géographe universitaire au géographe professionelTaylor, Fraser D.R. (ed) Policy issues in Modern CartographyVelasco, Pedro Reques and Rodríguez, Vincente Rodríguez Atlas de la Población Española: Análisis de BaseMunicipalBradley, Raymond S. Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (Second edition)Brown, Lester R. et al. State of the World 1999Burch, David, Goss, Jasper and Lawrence, Geoffrey (eds) Restructuring Global and Regional Agricultures: Transformations in Australasian agri‐food economies and spacesMackney, E.C., Shewry, M.C. and Tudor, G.J. (eds) Land Cover Change: Scotland from the 1940s to the 1980sDriver, Felix and Gilbert, David (eds) Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identityde Haan, Leo and Blaikie, Piers (eds) Looking at Maps in the DarkWilson, R.C.L., Drury, S.A. and Chapman, J.L. (eds) The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and LifeShoard, M. A Right to Roam: Should We Open Up Britain's Countryside?Fisher, Martin, Ghazanfar, Shahina and Spalton, Andrew (eds) The Natural History of Oman: A Festschrift for Michael Gallagher

Mapping the Past: Historical Atlases and the Mingling of History and Geography

STEVEN HOELSCHER is assistant professor of American Studies and Geography at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America’s Little Switzerland (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998). A former editor of Historical Geography, his most recent book is edited with Paul Adams and Karen Till, and is called Textures of Place: Rethinking Humanist Geographies.

Mapping the Past: Historical Atlases and the Mingling of History and Geography Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas The Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region William Riebsame

Mapping the Past: Historical Atlases and the Mingling of History and Geography Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas The Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region William Riebsame

Review: Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, by The Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild

Book Review| August 01 2000 Review: Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, by The Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical AtlasThe Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild James P. Allen James P. Allen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2000) 69 (3): 475–477. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641721 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James P. Allen; Review: Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, by The Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild. Pacific Historical Review 1 August 2000; 69 (3): 475–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3641721 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 2000 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.