Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237259
Stephen Petrus
lead the IOC. They used compressed and air brushed photographs making it look like ski courses were minutes outside of the city rather than hours. Statements about travel times between downtown Denver and race venues were not technically lies since they were at the outer limits of what the laws of physics allowed, but they were profoundly misleading. The Denver organizers even spied on other groups bidding for 1976 and paid for IOC members to visit their city. The records of the Denver Olympic Committee make it clear that the people in Colorado considered these trips bribes. The attitude of these sports administrators was that having a successful bid was the most important issue. Once the IOC gave Denver the Olympics, the Denver bidders planned to revise their plans to accord with reality and believed the Committee would basically accept these adjustments— which was probably an accurate assessment of how things stood in 1970. In short, Berg does a good job in letting the brazen dishonesty of these individuals speak for itself. Since many of these facilities needed to be in the mountains, the Denver Olympic Committee placed them in towns littered all over the Rockies. The problem was the people living in these municipalities were wealthy, influential and had no interest whatsoever in cooperating with Denver. They liked their communities as they were, and had the resources to object in ways that politicians had to heed. The plans to build facilities for which there was little post-Olympic utility was a big issue. Since the number of Americans that bobsled and luge can probably be measured in the hundreds, the tracks for these medal events had the makings of a boondoggle. Who was going to pay for these facilities and how much would they cost were other difficult issues that Olympic organizers preferred not to answer. At this point, the people of Denver and Colorado were not opposed to the Olympics per say, but when the Rocky Mountain News published a series of article on the misleading efforts of the Denver Olympic Committee and how it had hidden the price of building facilities, a majority of the public in both Denver and Colorado turned against hosting. The coalition that had opposed the Olympics quickly fell apart. The city and state continued to grow. “In that historical backdrop, it becomes clear that the Denver Olympics represent the zenith, not the genesis, of Colorado’s anti-growth resistance” (185). As Berg points out, the story of the Denver Olympics has contemporary relevance. Since the lavish waste of the 2008 Summer Olympics, citizen opposition in a number of cities have shut down host bids for many of the reasons that the people of Colorado faced in the 1970s. Many U.S. cities also face issues about building stadiums for professional sports teams that involve similar issues about public subsidies for sporting events. As a result, this book is going to be relevant for scholars in several fields of history but also in urban planning and
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237254
Suzanna Krivulskaya
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237245
Whitney T. Bendeck
as having practiced honor violence (192–197) before his 1396 return to Florence when Pitti conformed to the practices of Florence’s government, even as he remained a warrior (197–198). In this, Pitti stands as a symbolic synthesis of the mercantile and chivalric (203-204). While perhaps necessary to render the project manageable, the focus on the male urban Florentine chivalric elite, read as a stable and coherent group, without extended engagement with the constituent families’ economic interests, religious values, or rural connections, inevitably leaves a partial picture, one that is most convincing for the period up to the 1360s. Implicitly addressed to Florentinists, Sposato’s work draws needed attention to the role of chivalry, makes extensive use of literary evidence, and presents important prosopographical research. In sum, Forged in the Shadow of Marsmakes a valuable contribution to the broader historiographic movement to reintegrate violence and its politics into Renaissance history.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237263
James Smith
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237246
Brian Brege
cloth was produced in the Waterloo Mill, Cork’s glass in the Waterloo Glass House Company, Londoners danced in the Royal Waterloo Assembly rooms and industrialization came to the town ... in the form of the waterloo Iron Works... .” (191). Reynolds’s impressive list does not end there. He goes on to mention places, gardens and even boats named for the battle. The point is made. Reynolds’s book is absolutely worth reading for those interested in the cultural history of the nineteenth century and the political impact of the battle of Waterloo on the British mindset. His use of a wide variety of sources including paintings and literature but also the material manifestations of the Waterloo spirit in everyday life and the role played by the printed press present a rich canvas of the leisured life of the middle-class Victorian. The quality of the book would have been enhanced if the minor mistakes against the situation in situ had been corrected: the forest of Soignes is in no way related to the Ardennes as Byron incorrectly indicated. But Byron had the excuse of poetic license. The farm of Hougoumont, constistently labeled as chateau here, is what one could call a fortified farm not a chateau. The Dutch guide Jean Hornn could not possibly have had a French name and a quick search reveals him to have been Johannes Horn from Bergen. I have enjoyed reading this book and would undoubtedly have enjoyed it even more if I had seen that Reynolds has actually visited Waterloo itself, because by distancing himself from the location and the locals he displays a certain unnecessary arrogance and ignorance that is exposed when he, for instance, writes about the French side of Waterloo – meaning (I assume) the French-speaking side. Waterloo was still largely Flemish(or Dutch-) speaking in 1815 and the border with France was not anywhere near. A short visit would have taught him that Mont Saint Jean was not on the French side either (151). The book is illustrated and, knowing the paintings and illustrations included, I can confirm that the choices made are good but OUP has not invested in color illustrations as a result of which the reader is shown pictures in grey tones that seem to have been pasted over with a whitish emulsion of the kind used to treat and preserve Victorian newspapers. “Who Owned Waterloo” addresses all students and scholars of nineteenth century culture and the imprint of historiography on nationhood. It demonstrates the intricate ways in which victories as well as losses were and still are recuperated and appropriated to serve and uphold the idea of the great British identity. It is well researched and worth reading.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237251
Caitlin Glosser
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237257
H. Meiring
{"title":"Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age","authors":"H. Meiring","doi":"10.1080/03612759.2023.2237257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2023.2237257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220055,"journal":{"name":"History: Reviews of New Books","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128376078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237248
Maria Carreras
as having practiced honor violence (192–197) before his 1396 return to Florence when Pitti conformed to the practices of Florence’s government, even as he remained a warrior (197–198). In this, Pitti stands as a symbolic synthesis of the mercantile and chivalric (203-204). While perhaps necessary to render the project manageable, the focus on the male urban Florentine chivalric elite, read as a stable and coherent group, without extended engagement with the constituent families’ economic interests, religious values, or rural connections, inevitably leaves a partial picture, one that is most convincing for the period up to the 1360s. Implicitly addressed to Florentinists, Sposato’s work draws needed attention to the role of chivalry, makes extensive use of literary evidence, and presents important prosopographical research. In sum, Forged in the Shadow of Marsmakes a valuable contribution to the broader historiographic movement to reintegrate violence and its politics into Renaissance history.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237244
Kaori Abe
{"title":"Sir Robert Ho Tung: Public Figure, Private Man","authors":"Kaori Abe","doi":"10.1080/03612759.2023.2237244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2023.2237244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220055,"journal":{"name":"History: Reviews of New Books","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124834111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2023.2237247
Mariana P. Candido
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