Essays in History

Volume Forty, 1998

Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.

Editor: Ed Lengel.


Editorial Board: James Guba, Robert Haggard, Nicole Herz, Brent Kellmer, Louisa Parker Mattozzi, Kevin Sheets.

All material copyrighted by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 1997.

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Articles

Anne C. Stinehart. "Renowned Queen Mother Mathilda:" Ideals and Realities of Ottonian Queenship in the Vitae Mathildis reginae (Mathilda of Saxony, ?895 - 968)."

Daniel P. Barr. A Monster So Brutal: Simon Girty and the Degenerative Myth of the American Frontier, 1783 - 1900."

E.C. Walterscheid. "Thomas Jefferson and the Patent Act of 1793."

Robert T. Chase. "Class Resurrection: The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 and Resurrection City."

Nicole Herz. "It's Personal Before It's Political: Ambition and Angst in the Lives of Indian Civil Servants, 1880-1950"



Book Reviews



Robert Haggard. A review of Alexis De Tocqueville, Memoir on Pauperism, Chicago, 1997, and Robert Humphreys, Sin, Organized Charity, and the Poor Law in Victorian England, New York, 1995.

Ed Lengel. A review of Mark Meigs, Optimism at Armageddon: Voices of American Participants in the First World War, New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Louisa Parker Mattozzi. A review of Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, New York: Nan A. Talese, 1996.

Nicole Herz. A review of Peter Gay, The Pleasure Wars, volume 5 of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998.