From the end of the Middle Ages to the close of the 19th century
By Zoltán Bruckner ∙ May 15, 1999
Zoltán Bruckner was born in 1930 in Hungary, where he also grew up and studied theology and engineering. He left Hungary in the wake of the 1956 uprising. He holds a Master’s degree in civil engineering, and has worked in Austria, the United States and Sweden (where he currently resides). He has long had a…
By Kevin Beary ∙ June 1, 1998
Kevin Beary is a teacher who writes from his home in New York. For decades now, African American leaders have been calling for a formal United States apology forthe American role in the slave trade, with some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt status as something they are owed for a legacy of…
By Brian Chalmers ∙ January 1, 1996
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain, by Benzion Netanyahu. New York: Random House, 1995. Hardcover. 1390 pages. Illustrations. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. $50. Brian Chalmers is the pen name of a Roman Catholic priest who teaches at a major East coast university. It is nearly impossible to dig into any chapter of…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
“Militaristic” Germany? As this recent Canadian newspaper chart shows, the notion that Germany has been a particularly warlike country is a myth. Of the 278 wars fought by Europeans between 1480 and 1940, Germany was involved in only eight percent. The most “warlike” countries were England, France and Spain. (This information is also given in…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ March 1, 1994
The Wanderers, by Ingrid Rimland. Stockton, Calif.: Crystal Books (2731 Lost Creek Court, Stockton, CA 95207), 1988. Softcover. 304 pages. Most Journal readers are at least sketchily aware of the vast and criminal expulsions of more than 14 million Germans from their ancestral homes in the heart of Europe, planned, ordered, and facilitated by American,…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ May 1, 1993
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, by David E. Stannard. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hardcover. 358 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $26. ISBN 0 19 507581 1. Most Americans today would, after a little reflection, admit that the white man’s discovery and conquest of the Americas were a…
By Nelson Rosit ∙ April 1, 1992
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, by David Hackett Fischer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, hardbound, 946 pages, illustrations, maps, index, $39.95. ISBN 0-19-503794-4. David Hackett Fischer has performed several notable services in writing Albion's Seed. First, he has brought to American historiography the approach of the French school of the Annales begun…
By Frederick Kerr ∙ October 1, 1991
Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe 1815-1945, by Shmuel Almog. Translated from the Hebrew by Ralph Mendel. Oxford, New York, et al: Pergamon Press, 1990, 160 pp., illustrated, $56.00; ISBN 0-08-037254-6 Hardcover; ISBN 0-08-037774-2 Paperback. The addition of “Holocaust Studies” to school curriculum has emerged as a growth industry in American education. Courses are being…
By James Hawkins ∙ October 1, 1990
The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588 by Felipe Fernandez-Artnesto. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, hardbound, 300 pages, index, illustrations, $22.95. ISBN: 0-19-822926-7. For over four hundred years, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 has been celebrated by the English as a glorious God-sent victory in which the Protestant David…
By James Hawkins ∙ July 1, 1990
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare, by John Keegan. New York: Viking, 1989, hardbound, 292 pages, index, photographs, $21.95. ISBN:0-670-81416-4. Since the publication of his book The Face of Battle (1976), which skillfully blended letters, diaries and reminiscences of those actually present at the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme to…
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