Volume: 40 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1990 |
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Joseph Wright of Derby and the exhibition at the Tate. |
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Ross Hassig questions whether the rationale behind the fighting in Mexico which Cortes encountered in 1519 has not been misunderstood. |
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Paul Cartledge on democracy - from ancient Greece to modern Eastern Europe. |
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'...Thou shalt not strive officiously to keep alive' - Michael Burleigh describes how the traditional debate over euthanasia was given a perverted twist by the... |
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Political cartoonists are the sharpshooters of the artistic world; theirs is a skilled but risky profession. Peter Mellini draws a line on the marksman James '... |
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Andrew Fettegree looks at how the life and death of a radical religious maverick points up the tensions between individualism and order in Reformation Europe. |
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'What's the matter with kids today?' Beth Bailey looks at the teen dreams of America's golden post-war years and finds ambivalence about their attitudes to... |
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Richard Welch charts the extraordinary explosion in American music and argues for its impact on society as a whole. |
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Ann Hills on attempts to recreate authentic historic houses and grounds |
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John Springhall on violence in the 19th-century media |