The armor of light. Stained glass in western France, 1250–1325. By Meredith Parsons Lillich. (California Studies in the History of Art, 23. A Centennial Book.) Pp. xxix + 420 incl. numerous ills. + 61 colour plates. Berkeley–Los Angeles–Oxford: University of California Press, 1994. $150. 0 520 05186 6 - The cathedral. The social and architectural dynamics of construction. By Alain Erlande-Brandenburg. Translated by Martin Thom. (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture.) Pp. xxii + 378 incl. 161 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (first publ. as La cathédrale, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1989). £60. 0 521 41118 1

The year 2008 was one of fruitful disjunctions. I spent the fall teaching at Stanford but commuting to the University of California, Los Angeles, to cochair the inaugural Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities. During the same period, I was curating—at the Canadian Center for Architecture, in Montreal—an exhibition devised to mark the centenary of the publication of “The Founding Manifesto of Futurism,” by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Whereas other centennial shows (at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, and at the Palazzo Reale, in Milan) sought to celebrate the accomplishments and legacies of Marinetti's avant-garde, the Canadian exhibition, Speed Limits, was critical and combative in spirit, more properly futurist (though thematically antifuturist). It probed the frayed edges of futurism's narrative of modernity as the era of speed to reflect on the social, environmental, and cultural costs. An exhibition about limits, it looked backward over the architectural history of the twentieth century to look forward beyond the era of automobility.

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Cindy S. Aron. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 324. $35.00 and Orvar Löfgren. On Holiday: A History of Vacationing. (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, number 6.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 320. $29.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/105.3.901 ◽

2000 ◽

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The Imperial Kaleidoscope - Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India. Edited by Dagmar Engels and Shula Marks. London: British Academic Press/German Historical Institute, 1994. Pp. viii+349. $59.50. - The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during British Colonial Rule. By Kumari Jayawardena. New York and London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x + 310. $62.95. - Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922–1992. By Shahid Amin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 256. $16.95. - The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. Edited by P. J. Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 400. $39.95. - Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present. By Denis Judd. London: HarperCollins, 1996. Pp. xxiv + 517. $35.00. - The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. By Lawrence James. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. xvi+704. $35.00.

Journal of British Studies ◽

10.1086/386178 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 460-467 ◽

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FINANCE, RELIGION, AND THE FRENCH STATE

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10.1017/s0018246x98008371 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 565-570

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ROBIN BRIGGS

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L'argent du roi: les finances sous François Ier. By Philippe Hamon. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière, Ministère de l'Economie, 1994. Pp. xliii+609. ISBN 2-11-087648-4. 249F.The king's army: warfare, soldiers, and society during the wars of religion in France, 1562–1576. By James B. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi+349. ISBN 0-521-55003-3. £45.00.One king, one faith: the parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century. By Nancy Lyman Roelker. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+543. ISBN 0-520-08626-0. £50.00.A city in conflict: Troyes during the French wars of religion. By Penny Roberts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp. xi+228. ISBN 0-7190-4694-7. £40.00.The birth of absolutism: a history of France, 1598–1661. By Yves-Marie Bercé, translated by Richard Rex. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp. viii+262. ISBN 0-333-62757-1. £15.50.The French sixteenth century has always posed serious difficulties for historians. It was a time of rapid change and, in its later decades, of massive disorder, so that there are many large and complex issues to unravel. The need for close analysis as an antidote to over-hasty generalizations is obvious, yet on many issues the archives are frustratingly scanty or even non-existent. A group of recent books tackles these problems with considerable ingenuity and a fair degree of success, even if some of the gaps in the evidence inevitably defy the authors' best efforts.

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