Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (Eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment. Agnew, J., and Duncan, J. (Eds.), The Power of Place: bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations. Wood, S. (Ed.) The transformation of work? Skill, flexibility and the labour process. Hall, P. and Preston, P. The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation 1846–2003.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Doug Aberly (Ed.) Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment. James Duncan and David Ley (Eds.) place/culture/representation. Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston (Eds.) From Maps to Metaphors: Charles Jencks. Heteropolis: Los Angeles, the riots and the strange beauty of hetero-architecture. J. Norwine. A Postmodern Tao : A Guide to Apprehending Ways of Meaning in Pathless Lands. Doreen Massey . Space. place and gender.     

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W. Natter, T.R. Schatski and J.P. Jones III (Eds.) Objectivity and its Other
Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson (Eds.) Postmodern Cities and Spaces     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Robert A. Beauregard . Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities. R.A. Beauregard . Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities Gerry Kearns and Chris Philo (Eds.) Selling Places: the City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present. Thomas Richards . The Imperial Archive. Robert Gooding-Williams (Ed.) , Reading Rodney King - Reading Urban Uprising.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Doreen Massey , Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production .
Ron Martin and Bob Rowthorn (Eds.), The Geography of De-industrialization .
Stephen Pinch , Cities and Services: The Geography of Collective Consumption .
Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Martin Goodwin and Fred Gray , Housing, States and Localities .
David A. M. Lea and D. P. Chaudhri (Eds.), Rural Development and the State .
Morris, R. J. and J. Langton (Eds.) Atlas of Industrializing Britain 1780—1914 .
Pierre Clavel , The Progressive City: Planning and Participation 1969—1984 .
P. Lawless and F. Brown (1986) Urban Growth and Change in Britain,
K. Hoggart and E. Kofman (Eds.) Politics, Geography and Social Stratification .
Paul Lawless and Colin Raban (Eds.), The Contemporary British City .
Espaces Temps Réfléchir les sciences sociales. Voyage au centre de la ville. Eloge de l'urbanité .
Dunford, M. F. Capital, the state and regional development .
P. Hall, M. Breheny, R. McQuaid and D. Hart Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor .     

Reviews

Books reviewed: R. Blong, D. Sinai and C. Packham, Natural Perils in Australia and New Zealand David Robertson and Aynsley Kellow (eds), Globalization and the Environment: Risk Assessment and the WTO Libby Robin, Defending the Little Desert, The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia H. Millward, K. Beesley, B. Ilbery And L. Harrington (Eds), Agricultural And Environmental Sustainability In The New Countryside A. G. Aguilar And I. Escamilla (Eds), Problems Of Mega Cities: Social Inequalities, Environmental Risk And Urban Governance A.s. Fotheringham, C. Brunsdon And M. Charlton, Quantitative Geography: Perspectives On Spatial Data Analysis     

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Book reviewed in this article: Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York. London, Tokyo Jagdish N. Bhagwati, The World Trading System at Risk Alfred Maizels, Commodifies in Crisis. WIDER Studies in Development Economics Mike Featherstone (ed.) Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. London paperback. Mike Featherstone, Consumer Culture and Postmodernism Geertje Lycklama h Nijeholt (ed.), Towards Womens Strategies for the 1990s. Challenging Governmen? and the State     

Book Reviews

Shelley, Fred M., Archer, J. Clark, Davidson, Fiona M. and Brunn, Stanley D. Political Geography of the United States
Healey, Patsy, Cameron, Stuart, Davoudi, Simin, Graham, Stephen and Madani-Pour, Ali (Eds) Managing Cities: The New Urban Context
Radhakrishnan, Rajagopalan Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location     

Book reviews

The Geography of Europe's Futures. Ian Masser, Ove Sviden and Michael Wegener, London, Belhaven Press, 1992, 225 pp., £12.99, ISBN 1 85293 231/2 7/5.

Cities and Regions in the New Europe. Mick Dunford and Grigoris Kafkalas (Eds), London, Belhaven Press, 1992, 339 pp., £42.00, ISBN: 1 85293 221 X.

Regional Development and Contemporary Industrial Response: Extending Flexible Specialisation. Huib Ernste and Verena Meier (Eds), London, Belhaven Press, 1992, 256 pp., £35.00, ISBN: 1 85293 214 7.

Understanding Information: Business, Technology and Geography. K. Robins (Ed.), London, Belhaven Press, 1992, 207 pp., £37.50, ISBN: 1 85293 109 4.

Humanising the City? Social Contexts of Urban life at the Turn of the Millennium. Anthony P. Cohen and Katsuyoshi Fukui (Eds), Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 228 pp., £29.50 hb., ISBN 0 7486 0388 3.     

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Regions in Europe. Patrick Le Galès and Christian Lequesne (Eds). London, Routledge, 1998, 305. pp., ISBN 0 415 16483 4

Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Landscapes of Labour Inequality. Paul Lawless, Ron Martin and Sally Hardy (Eds). London, Jessica Kingsley 1998, 280 pp., £17.95 pb, ISBN 1 85302 341 8

Cities Back from the Edge. Roberta Brandes Gratz (with Norman Mintz). Chichester, John Wiley, 1998, £24.95, ISBN 0 471 14417 7     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia. By Chase F. Robinson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 206. $59.95.) Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East. By Jonathan P. Berkey. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 143. $30.00.) The Fall of Apartheid: The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki. By Robert Harvey. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 257. $65.00.) Medieval Africa, 1250–1800. By Roland Oliver and Anthony Atmore. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 251. $59.95.) West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta‐Bani Anticolonial War. By Mahir Saul and Patrick Royer. (Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2001. Pp. xiii, 404. $65.00.) Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief. By Peter Aleshire. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Pp. xiii, 354. $30.00.) Jazz Age Jews. By Michael Alexander. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 239. $24.45.) Theodore Roosevelt. By Louis Auchincloss. (New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2002. Pp. xvi, 155. $20.00.) Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. By Arnold J. Bauer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 245. $59.95.) No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. By Larry Berman. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 334. $27.50.) The Strange Death of American Liberalism. By H. W. Brands. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 200. $22.50.) The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. By Michelle Brattain. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 301. $35.00.) “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837–1916. Edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 241. $39.95.) African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896–1936. By Floris Barnett Cash. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 2001. Pp. x, 213. $64.00.) Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961–1969. By Thomas Clarkin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 376. $34.95.) Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915. By Catherine Cocks. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 287. $37.50.) Reading the Maya Glyphs. Michael D. Coe and Mark Van Stone. (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001. Pp. 176. $21.95.) Implementing the Constitution. By Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 186. $35.00.) Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth‐Century Dress Reform in the United States. By Gayle V. Fischer. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 262. $24.00.) Faith of Our Mothers: The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush. By Harold I. Gullan. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. 394. $25.00.) Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948–1974. By Theodore Hamm. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 209. $16.95.) In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature—Pre‐Columbian to the Present. By Miguel León‐Portilla and Earl Shorris, with Sylvia S. Shorris, Asención H. de León‐Portilla, and Jorge Klor de Alva. (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 720. $39.95.) Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918. By Gerald W. McFarland. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 272. $29.95.) Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. By Sioban Nelson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 240. $55.00.) The New Left: A History. By William L. O’Neill. (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2001. Pp. xi, 128. $11.95.) Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. By Clifford Putney. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 300. $39.95.) Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir. By Cheri Register. (New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Pp. 278. $13.00.) One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. By Kenneth D. Rose. (New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 301. $28.95.) The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance. By Dan Rottenberg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 262. $29.95.) John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001. Pp. x, 294. $60.00.) The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. By Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan. (New York: Viking, 2000. Pp. xv, 640. $29.95.) Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. By Grant Wacker. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 364. $35.00.) Mormon History. By Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen, with a contribution by Armand L. Mauss. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 279. $32.50.) Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic. By Richard A. Warren. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. ix, 202. $60.00.) Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. 262. $29.95.) Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xv, 336. $19.95.) Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius. By David W. Zang. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 180. $29.95.) China since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition. By Joseph Fewsmith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 313. $21.95.) The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.–A.D. 907. By Charles Holcombe. (Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai’i Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 332. $24.95.) Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 209. $29.95.) Japan: A Modern History. By James L. McClain. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 632, appendices. $35.00.) Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. By the Military History Institute of Vietnam. Translated by Merle L. Pribbenow. Foreword by William J. Duiker. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 494. $49.95.) Napoleon. By R. S. Alexander. (London: Arnold, 2001. Pp. viii, 273. $18.50.) The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. By David Armitage. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 239. $54.95.) Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle. By Lenard R. Berlanstein. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 300. $45.00.) Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. By Walter Burkert. Translated by Peter Bing. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 110. $28.00.) The Polish‐Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500–1795. Edited by Richard Butterwick. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xix, 249. $65.00.) David Livingstone. By Meriel Buxton. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvi, 215. $60.00.) Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present. By Norman Davies. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 483. $17.95.) Oliver Cromwell. By J. C. Davis. (London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 243. $65.00.) Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. By Geoff Eley. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 698. $35.00.) Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847–1928). By Coryne Hall. (New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 2001. Pp. xiv, 402. $37.95.) Britain in the First Millenium. By Edward James. (London: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 310. $24.95.) Philip V of Spain: The King Who Reigned Twice. By Henry Kamen. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $29.95.) The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793–1795. By Michael L. Kennedy. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000. Pp. viii, 312. $69.95.) Saint‐Simon and the Court of Louis XIV. By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie with the collaboration of Jean‐François Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 432, $35.50.) Sympathy for the Devil: Neutral Europe and Nazi Germany in World War II. By Christian Leitz. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. 213. $40.00.) War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I. By Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $64.95.) The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II. By Giles MacDonogh. (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. 416. $27.95.) Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 387. $39.95.) The People's Bread: A History of the Anti‐Corn Law League. By Paul Pickering and Alex Tyrrell. (London: University of Leicester Press, 2000. Pp. x, 304. $99.00.) Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I. By Marsha L. Rozenblit. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 252. $49.95.) Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire. By Antonio Santosuosso. (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 265. $26.00.) Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. vii, 312. $55.00.) Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200–1565. By Walter Simons. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 333. $65.00.) Voices of Revolution 1917. By Mark D. Steinberg. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 395. $29.95.) Radio London and Resistance in Occupied Europe: British Political Warfare, 1939–1943. By Michael Stenton. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 423. $37.00.) Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany. By B. Ann Tlusty. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xii, 288. $59.50.) Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England. Edited by Daniel J. Vitkus. Introduction by Nabil Matar. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 376. $22.50.) Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg. Translated and annotated, with an introduction, by David A. Warner. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 410. $75.00.) An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: Demographic, Economic, and Social Transition. By Michael Wintle. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 399. $70.00.) Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. Edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 338. $24.95.) The God That Failed. Edited by Richard H. Crossman, with a foreword by David C. Engerman. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xl, 273. $16.50.) Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. By David Glassberg. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2001. Pp. xvii, 267. $18.95.)     

Book reviews

The Restless Urban Landscape. Paul L. Knox (Ed.), New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1993, 285pp.

Towards a New Economic Order: Postfordism, Ecology and Democracy. Alain Lipietz, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992, 206pp.

London: A New Metropolitan Geography. Keith Hoggart and David R. Green (Eds), London, Edward Arnold, 1992, pbk.

Regional Innovation Policy: Case‐studies from the Ruhr Area, Baden‐Württemberg and the North East of England. Robert Hassink, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Rijksuniversiteit, 1992, 187pp., ISBN 90–6809–155–7.

Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. F. W. Carter and D. Turnock (Eds), London, Routledge, 1993, 249 pp., ISBN 0–415–06229–2.

From Garden Cities to New Towns: Campaigning for town and Country Planning 1899–1946.. Dennis Hardy, London, E. and F. N. Spon, 1992, 340pp., £39.95 hbk.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Robert Beauregard (Ed.) Atop the Urban Hierarchy .
G. Cook (Ed.) The Future of Antarctica: Exploitation versus Preservation.
K. Suter Antarctica: Private Property or Public Heritage.
P. Simpson-Housley Antarctica: Exploration Perception and Metaphor.
Dharam Ghai and Jessica M. Vivian (Eds.) Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development.
A. Parker, M. Russo, D. Sommer and P. Yaeger (Eds.) Nationalisms and Sexualities . and Richard Walker The New Social Economy, Reworking the Division of Labor.
Andrew Sayer and Richard Walker The New Social Economy, Reworking the Division of Labor.     

Book Notes

John C. Campbell and Naoki Ikegami, The Art of Balance in Health Policy Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System .
Terry N. Clark and Vincent Hoffman-Martinot (Eds.), The New Political Culture .
Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gailc, The Work of Cities .
Stephen E. Condrey (Ed.), Handhook of Human Resource Management in Government .
Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution: Twency-Five years of Intergovernmental Reform .
William M. Epstcin, Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor .
Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward L. Rubin, Judicial Policy Making und the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons .
Stephen J. McGovern, Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, DC .
William K. Nester, A Short History cf American Industrial Policies .
Richard J. Payne, Getting Beyond Race: The Changing American Culture .
Jon Pierre (Ed.), Partnerships in Urban Governance: European und American Experience .
Mark G. Popovich (Ed.), Creating High-Performance Government Organizations .
Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton (Eds.), Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications .
Janie S. Steckenrider and Tonya M. Parrot (Eds.), New Directions in Old-Age Policies .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Hudson, Ray & Lewis, Jim (Eds.), Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State. A. Williams (Ed.), Southern Europe Transformed. Political and economic change in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Neil Smith , Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. R.J. Johnston and P.J. Taylor , (Eds.) A World in Crisis? James Anderson (ed.) The Rise of the Modern State.     

Review Article: ‘Managing’ Women in War and Peace

UTE DANIEL.The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War, trans. Margaret Ries. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997. Pp. xii, 343. $18.50 (us), paper; DEBORAH THOM. Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xvi, 224. $59.50 (us); FRANCES H. EARLY. A World without War: How US Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 265. $22.95 (us), paper, LUCY NOAKES. War and the British: Gender, Memory, and National Identity. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. vi, 218. $59.50 (us); JANE SLAUGHTER. Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945. Denver: Arden Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 171. $22.50 (us), paper; DALIA OFER and LENORE J. WEITZMAN, eds., Women in the Holocaust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 402. $30.00 (us).     

Book reviews

Gender and the Built Environment: Emancipation in Planning, Housing and Mobility in Europe. L. Ottes, E. Poventud, M. van Schendelen and G. Segond von Banchet (Eds), Assen, Van Gorcum, 1995, 298 pp, pb, ISBN 9 0232 3027 2 (no stated price)

Baltic Europe in the Perspective of Global Change. Antoni Kuklinski (Ed.), Warsaw, Oficyna Naukowa, 1995, 517 pp, pb, ISBN 83 85505 27 X (no stated price)

Trading Industries—Trading Regions. H. Noponen, J. Graham and A. R. Markusen (Eds), London/New York, The Guildford Press, 1993, x + 310 pp, £16.99 pb, ISBM 0 89862 753 2

Competitive Cities: Succeeding in the Global Economy. H. Duffy, London, Spon, 1995, 190 pp, £24.99 hb, ISBN 0 419 19840 7

De l'atelier au territoire: Le travail en quête d'espace (From workshop to territory: labour looking for new spaces). Thérèse Evette and François Lautier (Eds), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1994, 248 pp, £15.00 pb, ISBN 2 7384 3159 3     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
S. Chant (ed.) Gender and Migration in Developing Countries
C. Philo (compiler) New Words, New Worlds: Reconceptualising Social and Cultural Geography. Conference Proceedings .
Beatriz Colomina (ed.) Sexuality and Space .
T. J. Barnes and J. S. Duncan (Eds.) Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Recent Prize ‐Winning Books in History The Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World. By Jeremy Adelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.) Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. By Joseph Harsh. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.) The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.) Review Essay World War I: A Tragedy , Not a Pity The Pity of War. By Niall Ferguson. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xliii, 563. $30.00.) Affrica and the Middle East Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth‐Century Morocco. By Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 166. $49.95.) Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. By R. Stephen Humphreys. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 297. $29.95.) Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth‐Century West Central Africa. By Colleen Kriger. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heineman, 1999. Pp. xxi, 261. $59.95.) Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People. By David Maxwell. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xii, 292. $59.95.) The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684‐1706. By John K. Thornton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.50.) THE AMERICAS Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People. By Thomas A. Abercrombie. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 603. $27.00.) Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. $32.50.) Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850‐1920. By Stephen Bell. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 292. $55.00.) Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861‐1865. By William Blair. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 206. $32.50.) Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 377. $29.95.) Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800. Edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1998. Pp. xv, 484. $24.95.) John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 331. $45.00.) The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769‐1828. By Evan Cornog. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 224. $29.95.) The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820‐1890. By John M. Coward. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 244. $39.95.) Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890‐1939. By Sandra McGee Deutsch. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 491. $60.00.) A Young Man's Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860‐1929. By George Emery and J. C. Herbert Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 184. $39.95.) Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in theAmerican West. By Mark Fiege. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 340. $35.00.) Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth‐Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 240. $34.95.) The Antietam Campaign. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. 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