Steve Zdatny
Biographic Data
| ID | 3911062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Zdatny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Zdatny |
| SIGNATURE | ZDATNY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Scent of Empires
This is a difficult book to summarise and review. Karl Schlögel is a German historian, a prize-winning scholar of Stalinism. But here he does not follow the usual conventions of the trade. The history of smell is far from the author’s previous work on dictatorship and terror; as a matter of fact, he confesses to knowing little about the subject at the start, aside from his memory of the heavy scent of official Communism in East Germany, which tur…
The Clean Body
Reviewed by: The Clean Body: A Modern History by Peter Ward Steve Zdatny Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. xi + 313 pp. Ill. $34.95 (9780773559387). This fascinating and elegantly written new book by Peter Ward, emeritus professor of history at the University of British Columbia, explores the underappreciated revolution in hygiene that transformed sensibilities and practices in the mode…
Julian Jackson. De Gaulle
Working from recently opened archives and an astonishing array of published and unpublished sources, Julian Jackson presents a life of Charles de Gaulle that offers no startling revelations but gives a largely familiar story an unmatched sense of richness, intimacy, and complexity. De Gaulle was born into a nationalistic Catholic family from the north. He was heavily influenced by Charles Péguy and Maurice Barrès, and his deeply nineteenth-centur…
The old regime of hygiene
This article provides an object lesson in the history of the longue durée , reflected in the comprehensive filthiness of rural life in the nineteenth century. Political upheaval had not changed the material conditions of peasant existence or sensibilities relating to hygiene. Economic revolution had as yet made no practical difference to the dirtiness of daily life. Peasants under the Second Empire lived much as they had under the Old Regime – in…
France's Long Reconstruction
Chapman’s exemplary monograph begins with a familiar but necessary survey of a ruined France. There was a widespread agreement that recovery from war and occupation would require “modernizing” but no consensus on what that meant. Charles De Gaulle had one set of ideas, but the Resistance had a different set. Socialists, progressive Catholics, and Communists all had their own visions, which overlapped in some ways but conflicted in others. Moreove…
The old regime of hygiene
This article provides an object lesson in the history of the longue durée , reflected in the comprehensive filthiness of rural life in the nineteenth century. Political upheaval had not changed the material conditions of peasant existence or sensibilities relating to hygiene. Economic revolution had as yet made no practical difference to the dirtiness of daily life. Peasants under the Second Empire lived much as they had under the Old Regime – in…
The old regime of hygiene
This article provides an object lesson in the history of the longue durée , reflected in the comprehensive filthiness of rural life in the nineteenth century. Political upheaval had not changed the material conditions of peasant existence or sensibilities relating to hygiene. Economic revolution had as yet made no practical difference to the dirtiness of daily life. Peasants under the Second Empire lived much as they had under the Old Regime – in…
France's Long Reconstruction
Chapman’s exemplary monograph begins with a familiar but necessary survey of a ruined France. There was a widespread agreement that recovery from war and occupation would require “modernizing” but no consensus on what that meant. Charles De Gaulle had one set of ideas, but the Resistance had a different set. Socialists, progressive Catholics, and Communists all had their own visions, which overlapped in some ways but conflicted in others. Moreove…
Julian Jackson. De Gaulle
Working from recently opened archives and an astonishing array of published and unpublished sources, Julian Jackson presents a life of Charles de Gaulle that offers no startling revelations but gives a largely familiar story an unmatched sense of richness, intimacy, and complexity. De Gaulle was born into a nationalistic Catholic family from the north. He was heavily influenced by Charles Péguy and Maurice Barrès, and his deeply nineteenth-centur…
The Clean Body
Reviewed by: The Clean Body: A Modern History by Peter Ward Steve Zdatny Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. xi + 313 pp. Ill. $34.95 (9780773559387). This fascinating and elegantly written new book by Peter Ward, emeritus professor of history at the University of British Columbia, explores the underappreciated revolution in hygiene that transformed sensibilities and practices in the mode…
The Scent of Empires
This is a difficult book to summarise and review. Karl Schlögel is a German historian, a prize-winning scholar of Stalinism. But here he does not follow the usual conventions of the trade. The history of smell is far from the author’s previous work on dictatorship and terror; as a matter of fact, he confesses to knowing little about the subject at the start, aside from his memory of the heavy scent of official Communism in East Germany, which tur…
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)