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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870 Between Mutiny and Obedience Review Essay: Clio Goes to the Ballpark Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908 Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer Sol Whites History of Colored Baseball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886–1936 Africa and the Middle East Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1838 Colonialism in the Congo Basin: 1880–1940 The Americas: Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914 James Buchanan and the American Empire The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement Lion of the Forest: James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990 Coca Prohibition in Peru: The Historical Debates The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police, 1895–1897 Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster The Populist Persuasion: An American History Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Andersonville: The Last Depot. By William Marvel Three Frontiers: Family, land, and society in the American West, 1850–1900 The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854–1920 Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives Small Worlds, Large Questions: Explorations in Early American Social History, 1600–1850 Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870–1900 Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium The Evolution Controversy in America Asia and the Pacific American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire. By Ruan Ming The Sorrow of War_: A Novel of North Vietnam Turbans and Traders: Hong Kong's Indian Communities Europe The Diplomats, 1939–1979 William Tyndale, A Biography Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Finde-Siècle Europe The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770–1868 Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium Saint Peter: A Biography Battle Tactics of the Western Front Sidonius Apollinaris and the Full of Rome AD 407–485 Dictionary of East European History since 1945 The German Colonial Empire 1884–1919 The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400–1700 Nazi Germany at War Disraeli Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany The Social Legacy of Communism Pence Without Victory for the Allies 1918–1932 The Impact of the Reformation Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism An Economic History of Medieval Europe Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198–1216 Constitutional Royalism and the Search For Settlement, c. 1640–1649 The Russian Fur East: A History Socialism and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire 1876–1923 The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782–1992 Neither Kingdom Nor Nation: The Irish Quest for Constitutional Rights, 1698–1800 John Stuart Mill and India Turkey: A Modern History General, Comparative, Historiographical International Relations Since 1945: A History Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make Gender Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in History     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading. By Jonathan Riley-Smith. The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton, c. 1176–1239. By Ralph Turner. Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe. By R. W. Southern. Crown and Nobility, 1271–1461. By Anthony Tuck. The Royal Household and the King's Affinity: Service, Politics and Finance in England, 1360–1413. By Chris Given-Wilson. Doctors and Medicine in Medieval England, 1340–1530. By Robert S. Gottfried. Renaissance Reviuals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576–1980. By Wendy Griswold. The Quakers and the English Revolution. By Barry bay. Let Your Words Be Few. Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers. By Richard Bauman. A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King: Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, 1652–1722. Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d‘Orléans. Trans. and introduced by Elborg Forster. The French Army and Politics, 1870–1970. By Alistair Horne. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. By Martin Gilbert. Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe. By John Gillingham. The Wedemeyer Mission: American Politics and Foreign Policy during the Cold War. By William Stueck. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870–1920. By James T. Kloppenberg. China Through the Ages: History of a Civilization. By Franz Michael. The Bakufu in Japanese History. Edited by Jeffrey P. Mass and William B. Hauser. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. By James Axtell. Colonial Augusta: “Key to the Indian Country.” Edited by Edward J. Cashin. The Southern Indians and Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1816. By Florette Henri. Smugglers & Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution. By John W. Tyler. Joel Barlow: A Connecticut Yankee in an Age of Revolution. By Samuel Bernstein. George Washington and the American Military Tradition. By Don Higginbotham. A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. By Henry Mayer. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850. By Joan M. Jensen. Zachary Taylor: soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. [Southern Biography Series.] By K. Jack Bauer. Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes. By Thelma S. Guild and Harvey L. Carter. Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856–1905. By Barbara M. Brenzel. Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country, 1786–1846. By James R. Gibson. New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862–1882. By Gerald David Jaynes. John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. [Southern Biography Series.] By Robert E. May. Into The Wilderness With The Army of The Potomac. By Robert Garth Smith. Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without A History. By Lucy M. Cohen. The “Spider Web.” Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant. By Margaret Susan Thompson. Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865–1917. By Charles J. Rooney Jr. When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865–1867. By Dan T. Carter (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1865. Pp. xiii, 285. $12.95.) Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey. By Carlos A. Schwantes. The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870–1900. [Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.] By John C. Teaford. Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City, Philadelphia, 1800–1854. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860–1900. By Roger Lane. The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. By Maury Klein. The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. Spirit of Vengeance: Nativism and Louisiana Justice, 1921–1924. By John V. Baiamonte Jr. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee. By Robert J. Norrell. The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball. By Janet Bruce. Hard Times & New Deal in Kentucky: 1929–1939. By George T. Blakey. Bluegrass: A History. By Neil V. Rosenberg. Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1950. By Robert A. Pollard. Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948–1968. By Thomas J. Noer. Social Change in the United States, 1945–1983. By William Issel. By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. By Paul Boyer. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, The United States, and the Modern Historical Experience. By Gabriel Kolko.     

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Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. By Ellen Carol DuBois. Thank You St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. By Robert Orsi. Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996. By Daryl Michael Scott. In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community. By Anne M. O. Griffiths. Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989. By Barbara M. Cooper. TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955–1965. By Susan Geiger. The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization, 1712–1920. By Sundiata A. Djata. The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf; 1745–1900. By Hala Fattah. A History of the African Societies to 1870. By Elizabeth Isichei. The Holy War in Western and Islamic Traditions. By James Turner Johnson. An Aristocracy in Political Crisis: The End of Indirect Rule and the Emergence of Party Politics in the Emirates of Northern Nigeria. By Alhaji Mahmood Yakubu. The Amercas : Ancient Civilizations of the New World. By Richard E. W. Adams. The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin. By Douglas Anderson. Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870–1930. By Hal S. Barron. American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity. By Paul K. Conkin. Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change. By John C. Ewers. Foreword by William T. Hagan. Samuel Adam: Radical Puritan. By William M. Fowler Jr. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. By John Lewis Gaddis. The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy. Edited by David Gray Adler and Larry N. George. The Civil War on CD-ROM, V1.5 Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History. By David A. Hollinger. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Peter Iverson. Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West. Edited with introductions by Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage. Improbable Dangers: US. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After. By Robert H. Johnson. In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture. By Michael Kammen. Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840–1875. By Larry Lankton. Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828–1876. By Jean V. Matthews. Power in the Blood: Land, Memory and a Southern Family. By John Bentley Mays. A Stupendous Effort: The 87th Indiana in the War of the Rebellion. By Jack K. Overmyer. Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States. By Lora Romero. Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League For Peace and Freedom Before World War II. By Linda K. Schott. Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996. By Michael Daryl Scott. In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Emigration in America. By Rita J. Simon. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US. History. By Rogers M. Smith. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939. By Daniel Soyer. Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. By Lynn Stephen. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Edited by Donald F. Stevens. From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru. By Mark Thurner. Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present. By Ann Wagner. Asia and the Pacific : Japan's Postwar History. By Gary D. Allinson. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 B.C.-1900 A.D. By Gang Deng. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. Edited by Donald Denoon, with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea, and Karen Nero. Another History: Essays on China from a European Perspective. By Mark Elvin. The Travels of Dean Mahornet. By Michael H. Fisher. Japan Among the Great Powers 1890–1990. By Sydney Giffard. Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution. By Andrew Edmund Goble. The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Taoism: Growth of a Religion. By Isabelle Robinet. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea. By Gi-Wook Shin. Europe : Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815. By Ken Alder. The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866–1880. By John F. Beeler. Resistance, Representation, and Community. Edited by Peter Blickle. Latinity and Literary Society at Rome. By W. Martin Bloomer. Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Edited by Mary Buckley. Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide. By Michael Burleigh. Workhouse Children. By Frank Crompton. Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870–1914. By Anna Davin. Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined. By Miles H. Davidson. contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England. By Mary J. Dobson. Am Economic History of the Silk Insustry. 1830–1930. By Giovanni Federico. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe. By Bert S. Hall. The Religious Life of Richard 111: Piety and Prayer in the North of England. By Jonathan Hughes, with a foreward by Jeremy Catto. The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades. By Ann Hyland. Foreword by Michael Prestwich. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. By Cemal Kafadar. Philip of Spain. By Henry Kamen. Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649–1653. By Sean Kelsey. Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898–1904. By Tuomo Polvinen. Translated by Steven Huxley. The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis. By William D. Rubinstein. Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era. By Lawrence Sondhaus. Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day. By Joan Thirsk. Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863–1914. By Theodore Weeks. Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion. By H. L. Wesseling. General , Comparative , Historiographical : The Illustrated History of the Housewife, 1650–1950. By Una A. Robertson. Russian-American Dialogue on Cultural Relations, 1776–1914. Edited by Norman E. Saul and Richard D. McKinzie. The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources. By Dennis A. Trinkle, Dorothy Auchter, Scott A. Merriman, and Todd E. Larson. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. By Sheldan Watts.     

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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History: Providence island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. The New Rural History: A Subject Whose Time Has Come Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930. Africa and the Middle East The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. The Americas: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. The George R. “Bob” Caron Story—Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay: Fire of a Thousand Suns. Science and Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison. The Scottish High Church Tradition in America: An Essay in Scotch-Irish Ethnoreligious History. The Abolitionists & The South, 1831-1865. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994. The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II. Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side. Rural Guatemala: 1760-1940. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. “Lest We Forget:” A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland. The Sixties and the End of Modern America. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt. Asia and the Pacific China in World History. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. The Cambridge History of China. Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III:4, Ideologies of the Raj. The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. A History of Brunei. Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution. Europe: Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule. Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England. Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage. Asquith As War Leader. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune. A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Charlotte Brontë. A Passionate Life. Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England. Captain James Cook: A Biography. Poland Since 1944: A Portrait of Years. Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. New French Thought: Political Philosophy. The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500. Gladstone 1875-1898. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494-1545. Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London, 1850-1915. Who Are The Macedonians? Exile and Destruction. The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Economic Structures of Antiquity. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle. London at War, 1939-1945. kathinka Zitz-Halein and Female Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany. General, Comparative, Historiographical The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. The pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim states and the Pacific Islands.     

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The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: Re Stafin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. By Paul A. Cohen. Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life. By Judith Sealander. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By Michael A. Morrison. The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861. By Stephen B. Oates. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPhers The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Ferninism. By Janet Afary. Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times. By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. By Frederick Cooper. Religious Militancy and Self-Assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria. By Matthew Hassan Kukah and Toyin Falola. Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900. By B. Marie Perinbam. Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy toward Taiwan, 1950–1955. By Robert Accinelli. The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism. By Stanley Aronowitz. In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876–1930. By Jurgen Buchenau. Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost. Edited by Colin G. Calloway. A History of Chile, 1808–1994. By Simon Collier and William F. Sater. Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective. By Paul W. Drake. On Constitutional Ground. By John Hart Ely. Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule. By Emmett M. Essin. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790. By Joan R. Gundersen. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. By Paul Hendrickson. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830. By R. Douglas Hurt. Black Savannah: 1788–1864. By Whittington B. Johnson. The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend. By Donna J. Kessler. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. By Frieda Knobloch. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson. A History of the Confederate Navy. By Raymond Luraghi. “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Edited by Staughton Lynd. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928. By Matthew J. Mancini. Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. By Doug Owram. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. By Nell Irvin Painter. Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke. The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. By William H. Riker. Edited by Randall L. Calvert, John Mueller, and Rick K. Wilson. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff. Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue. Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876–1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood. State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Richard Zuczek. Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. By Nancy Abelmann. Empire & Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870. By C. A. Bayly. China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State. By Shaun Gerard Breslin. The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War. By Christopher Howe. Re-imaging Japanese Women. Edited, with an introduction, by Anne E. Imamura. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. By Xiaoyuan Liu. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937–1941. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Edited by Tu Weiming. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917. By Bruce F. Adams. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. By Dieter Arnold. Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British Fascism. By David Baker. Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914. By C. J. Bartlett. The Church for Others: Protestant Theology in Communist East Germany. By Gregory Baum. Europe under Napoleon, 1799–1815. By Michael Broers. Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47. Edited by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and David Howell. Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. Edited, with an introduction and chapter introductions, by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. By Edward ROSS Dickinson. The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in Central Europe. By Grzegorz Ekiert. Reinventing Germany: German Political Developments Since 1945. By Anthony Glees. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854–1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction, The Struggle for Modernity. Edited by Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790–1870. By David R. Green. The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688–89. Edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain. By Sybil M. Jack. A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000–1485. By Pamela Nightingale. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. By Henry Phillips. The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. Edited by Mark Pinson. Alfred Marshall's “Lectures to Women”: Some Economic Questions Directly Connected to the Welfare of the Laborer. Edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Eugenio Biagini, and Rita Mc Williams Tullberg. Medieval Society and the Manor Court. Edited by Zvi Razi and Richard Smith. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. By Eric Rentschler. Reforming the Russian Legal System. By Gordon B. Smith. King or Covenant? Voices from Civil War. By David Stevenson. Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834. By Charles Tilly. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560–1791. By Dale K. Van Kley. The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. By Geoffrey Wawro. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Edited by Paul G. Bahn. Fins de siècles: How Centuries End, 1400–2000. Edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman. Railways. [Studies in Transport History Series]. Volume I, edited by Terri Gourvish; volume II, edited by Geoffrey Channon. Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation. By R. C. Finucane.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Hagen Schulze, States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present. P. M. Kitromilides, Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy: Studies in the Culture and Political Thought of South-Eastern Europe Richard Caplan and John Feffer (eds.), Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict. Tom Garvin, 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy. Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism. Anssi Paasi, Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: The Changing Geographies of the Finnish-Russian Border. Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism 1914–1945. Hubertus F. Jahn, Patriotic Culture in Russia During World War I. Paul B. Rich, Prospero's Return? Historical Essays on Race, Culture and British Society. Stephen Haseler, The English Tribe: Identity, Nation and Europe. Timothy D. Sisk, Power-Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts. Stephanie Lawson, Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific. Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner and Sarah Nuttall (eds.), Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature, and History in South Africa and Australia.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Kenneth G. Holum, Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. Edith Ennen, The Medieval Woman. Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jean F. O'Barr, Anne B. Vilen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl (eds), Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages. Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family. Kate Mertes, The English Noble Household 1250–1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule. Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific. Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting Women. Essays in Colonial History. Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century England. Catherine Lowman Wessinger, Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism (1847–1933). Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860–1931. Joanna Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Stephanie Urdang, And Still They Dance: Women, War and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Erik Asard and W. Lance Bennett, Democracy and the Marketplace of Ideas: Communication and Government in Sweden and the United States. Andre Blais, Donald E. Blake, and Stephane Dion, Governments, Parties, and Public Sector Employees. William J. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907–1933. James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D. Wald, Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles Over Gay Rights in American Communities. Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett (Eds.), Environmental Policy: Transnational Issues and National Trends. John Carver, Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations (2nd ed.). Larry N. Gerston, Public Policy Making: Process and Principles. Michele M. Hoyman, Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities. David L. Imbroscio, Reconstructing City Politics: Alternative Economic Development and Urban Regimes. Sheldon Kamieniecki, George A. Gonzalez, and Robert O. Vos (Eds.), Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability. Samuel Krislov, How Nations Choose Product Standards and Standards Change Nations. Brian K. Landsberg, Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice. Duncan MacRae, Jr. and Dale Whittington, Expert Advice for Policy Choice. William R. Nester, American Industrial Policy: Free or Managed Markets? William R. Nester, The War for America's Natural Resources. Howard Risher, Charles H. Fay, and Associates, New Strategies for Public Pay: Rethinking Government Compensation Programs.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone : 740–368–3642 Fax : 740–368–3643 Recent Prize ‐Winning Books in History : Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. Women of the Anti‐Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters. By Clare Taylor. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. Africa and the Middle East : Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Edited by Stanley Burstein. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000B.C.‐A.D. 400. By Christopher Ehret. The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Oazdaglis. By Jane Hathaway. God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam. By Peter Partner. The Americas : America Views the Holocaust, 1933–1945: A Brief Documentary History. By Robert H. Abzug. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. By Loren Baritz. The Roots of African‐American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities. By Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. By W. Jeffrey Bolster. The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. By Bruce Chadwick. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876–1926. By Steven Conn. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920. By Perry R. Duis. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson. By Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. By Lawrence Otis Graham. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish‐American and Philippine‐American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism. By Daniel Horowitz. Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. By Robert David Johnson. The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. By Grant D. Jones. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By Friedrich Katz. The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904–1924. By Henry Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self and Society in North Carolina, 1880–1920. By James L. Leloudis. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. By Harry Liebersohn. Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. By Paul C. Mishler. Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927–1948. By Michael Monteon. American Heritage Great Minds of History: Interviews by Roger Mudd: Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, Richard White, Gordon Wood. Edited by Roger Mudd. Introduction by Richard Snow. Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. By Lawrence R. Samuel. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938–1948. By Barbara Dianne Savage. Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain. Edited by Susan Schroeder. Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen W. Sears. Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815–1836. By Harlow W. Sheidley. Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities. By Joseph G. Tregle Jr. Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. By Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro Garcia. Translated by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. Asia and the Pacific : The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy towards Student Political Activism. 1927–1949. By Huang Jianli. Kingship and Authority in South Asia. Edited by J. F. Richards. Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. By Deryck Scarr. Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power. By Hira Singh. The Chen's Greet Continent: China in Western Minds. By Jonathan D. Spence. Nations and States in Southeast Asia. By Nicholas Tarling. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. By Sandra C. Taylor. Europe : The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society, and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew Ayton and J. L. Price. Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. By Lillian Bisson. Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth‐Century Athens. Edited by Deborah Boedeker and Kurt A. Raaflaub. Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society 1921–1929. By Vladimir Brovkin. In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr. The Rise and Full of Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo‐Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance. By Edward Chaney. Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa. By David Cherry. Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local Self‐Government (the Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarist Government, and the State Council before and during World War I. Edited by Mary Schaeffer Conroy. Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant‐Garde and Politics in Paris 1905–1914. By David Cottington. Dudo of Saint Quentin: History of the Normans. Translated into English, with introduction and notes, by Eric Christiansen. Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. By Nancy Louise Frey. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece. By Mark Golden. The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Edited by Arthur Gribben. The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300—‐1600. By Louis Haas. The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius. By Debra Hershkowitz. Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. By Patrice Higonnet. British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–1830. By Peter Jupp. Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris. By Ian Kershaw. The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe. By Jacques Lévesque. Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720. By Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism. By Susan Morrissey. Working‐class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Beacontree Estate. By Andrzej Olechnowicz. Dublin Slums, 1800–1925: A Study in Urban Geography. By Jacinta Prunty. Facing West: Oriental Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Compiled by the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions. By Steven L. Solnick. National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria. By Erika Thurner. Edited and translated by Gilya Gerda Schmidt. Nationalism, Anti‐Semitism, and Fascism in France. By Michel Winock. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. By Amanda Vickery. General , Comparative , Historiographical : Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson. Edited by Gerald J. Russello.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Philosophy and the Historical Understanding. By W. B. Gallie. The Third Dimension: Studies in Literary History. By Robert E. Spiller. George of Bohemia: King of Heretics. By Frederick G. Heymann. The Politics of Discretion: Pufendorf and the Acceptance of Natural Law. By Leonard Krieger. DNVP: Right-Wing Oposition in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1924. By Lewis Hertzman. Kurt Schumacher: A Study in Personality and Political Behavior. By Lewis J. Edinger. France, Germany, and the New Europe, 1945–1963. By F. Roy Willis. The Spread of Italian Humanism. By Roberto Weiss. Literature and the Pastoral. For interpretation the many work of Eugenio Garin are incomparable. Things Seen. By Victor Hugo. Selected, translated, and edited by David Kimber, with an Introduction by Janna Richardson. A Medieval Oxfordshire Village: Cuxham, 1240 to 1400. By P. D. A. Harvey. Edward III and the Scots: The Formative Years of a Military Career, 1327–1335. By Ranald Nicholson. The English reformation. BY A. G. Dickens. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558–1641. By Lawrence Stone. The Office of Speaker. By Philip Laundy. Wellington and His Friends, Letters of the First Duke selected and edited by the 7th Duke of Wellington. Before the Socialists: Studies In London and Politics, 1861–1881. By Royden Harrison. The Origins of the Labour Party, 1880–1900. By Henry Pelling. Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s. By Peter Stansky. The Golden Age of Wireless. By Asa Briggs. Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a puritan Town, 1630–1649. By Darrett B. Rutman. As a highly interpretive, analytical study of unusual focus, Winthrop's Boston is an imaginative and valuable book. The Theatre in Colonial America. By Hugh F. Rankin. Colonials and Partriots: Historic Places Commemorating Our FOrebears, 1700–1783. By Frank B. Sarles, Jr. and Charles E. Shedd. Edited by John Porter Bloom and Robert M. Utley. The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution. By H. Trevor Colbourn. East Florida as a British Province, 1763–1784. By Charles Lock Mowat. Slaery and Jeffersonian Virginia. By Robert McColley. Theodore Sedgwick, Federalist: A Political Portrait. By Richard E. Welch The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway, Kept on the Expedition of Western Exploration, 1803–1806. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Milo M. Quaife. Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier. By Walter Brownlow Posey. The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815–1828. By George Dangerfield. Jacksonian Democracy and the Historians. By Alfred A. Cave. Freedom and Franchise: The Political Career of B. Gratz Brown. By Norma L. Peterson. The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists. Edited (with an Introduction) by Martin Duberman. After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina during Reconstruction, 1861–1877. By Joel Williamson. The Southern States Since the War, 1870–1871. By Robert Somers. Guide to Florida. By “Rambler.” Edited with an Introduction by Rembert W. Patrick. The Deep South in Transformation. Edited by Robert B. Highsaw. Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826–1876. By James D. Norris. Boss Twed's New York. By Seymour J. Mandelbaum. Governor Theodore Rooseelt: The Albany Apprenticeship, 1898–1990. By G. Wallace Chessman. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890–1920. By Aileen S. Kraditor. Community Planning in the 1920's: The Contribution of the Regional Planning Association of America. By Roy Lubove. Where the Light Falls: A Portrait of Edwin Arlington Robinson. By Chard Powers Smith. Central America. By Mario Rodriguez. The Caste War of Yucatan. By Nelson Reed. Foreword by Howard F. Cline. The Cuban Revolution and Latin America. By Boris Goldenberg. A History of Medieval Islam. By J. J. Saunders. Muslim Civilization in India. By S. M. Ikram. Edited by Ainslie T. Embree. India Under Morely and Minto: Politics Behind Revolution, Repression and Reforms. By M. N. Das. Mao and the Chinese Revolution. By Jerome Ch'ên. An Instance of Treason, Ozaki Hotsumi and The Sorge Spy Ring. By Chalmers Johnson. The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847. By Stephen H. Roberts. French at Kilwa Island. By G. S. P. Freeman-Granville. Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy. By Charles A. Beard. Public Opinion. By Walter Lippmann. The Rise of the Spanish American Empire. By Salvador de Madariaga. The Mind of Germany: The Education of a Nation. By Hans Kohn. Midwestern Progressive olitics: A Historical Study of its Origins and Development, 1870–1958. By Russell B. Nye. The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy to the Farewell Address. By Felix Gilbert. Medieval England, as Viewed by Contemporaries. By W. O. Hassall. An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World. By Harry Elmer Barnes. Three volumes. Third editiion, revised. Based on the 1941 edition of Reynal and Hitchock. The Greeks Overseas. By John Boardman. The Histories. By Tecitus. A New Translation by Kenneth Wellesley. The Vikings. By Joannes Bronstad. Translated by Kalle Skov. London Life in the Eighteenth Century. By M. Dorothy George. London Life in the Eighteenth Century. By M. Dorothy George. The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. By Guenter Lewy. The English Revolution, 1688–1689. By G. M. Trevelyan. Medieval Europe: A Short History. By C. Werren Hollister. The Reform of Parliament. By Benard Crick. The Life of Washington. By Mason L. Weems. Edited by Marcus Cunliffe. Philosophy of History. By Alan and Barbara Donagan. Understanding the American Past: American History and its Interpreters. By Edward N. Saventh.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana, 1875–1917. By K. O. Laurence Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838–1918. By Walton Look Lai Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation. Edited by Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro, and Edward D. Beechert Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt. By Wunyabari O. Maloba Torture and Modernity: Self, Society, and the State in Modern Iran. By Darius M. Rejali Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870–1939. By Elizabeth Schmidt Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans. By Suraiya Faroqhi From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of An American Sport, 1840–1940. By E. John B. Allen The South and the New Deal. By Roger Biles The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt. By Jordan A. Schwarz Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860–1912. By Ardis Cameron Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. By Richard J. Carwardine Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War. By Curtis D. Johnson Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War. By William Y. Chalfant “No Sorrow like Our Sorrow”: Northern Protestant Ministers and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. By David B. Chesebrough The Presidency of Andrew Jackson. By Donald B. Cole Up From Communism. By John P. Diggins Antisemitism in America. By Leonard Dinnerstein Intervention! The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1917. By John S. D. Eisenhower The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800. By Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick In the Absence of Towns: Settlement and Country Trade in Southside Virginia, 1730–1800. By Charles J. Farmer The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front. By J. Matthew Gallman Mexico and the Spanish Conquest. By Ross Hassig The Nation and Its City: Politics, “Corruption,” and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861–1902. By Alan Lessoff The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. By Forrest McDonald The People of Quito, 1690–1810: Change and Unrest in the Underclass. By Martin Minchom Los Comanches: The Horse People, 1751–1845. By Stanley Noyes A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War. By Stephen B. Oates Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays. By Howard N. Rabinowitz General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel. By Hal T. Shelton The Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South. By Mitchell Snay Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico. By Hugh Thomas The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America. By Bernard A. Weisberger Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution: The English Connection. By Paul W. Wilderson Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the United States of Europe. By Pascaline Winand The Rise of Confucian Ritualism In Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics and Lineage Discourse. By Kai-wing Chow Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764–1858. By Michael H. Fisher Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1785–1895. By Eugene F. Irschick The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan. By Robert J. McMahon The Origins of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History. By Dian H. Murray China, 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan. By Douglas R. Reynolds Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture. By Jonathan D. Spence The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan. By Nagatsuka Takashi The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949–1958. By Qiang Zhai In Europe's Name, Germany and the Divided Continent. By Timothy Garton Ash The Later Roman Empire, AD 284–430. By Averil Cameron Bisexuality in the Ancient World. By Eva Cantarella. Trans. by Cormac ó Cuilleanáin The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. By John B. Dunlop Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. By Dyan Elliott The Gilded Youth of Thermidor. By François Gendron. Translated by James Cookson Church, State and Society, 1760–1850. By William Gibson Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times. By M. Grant The Weimar Republic. By Helmut Heiber First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism. By H. Larry Ingle The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company. By John Keay Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left In Postwar France. By Sunil Khilnani Diplomacy. By Henry Kissinger Politics, Censorship and the English Reformation. By David Loades The Culture of Labourism: The East End Between the Wars. By John Marriott Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G. E. Aylmer. Edited by John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandzvich, 1718–1792. By N. A. M. Rodger ‘We are but Women’: Women in Ireland's History. By Roger Sawyer Mazzini. By Denis Mack Smith The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867–1918: Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism. By Lawrence Sondhaus Fathers & Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War. By Barry S. Strauss Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea. By John Sweetman The Work of William Morris. By Paul Thompson The New Regime: Transformation of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s. By Isser Woloch Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece. By Leslie Worley D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. By Stephen E. Ambrose Women's Work The First 20,000 Years. By Elizabeth Wayland Barber Emerging Feminism from the Revolution to World War. Edited by Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot At All Costs! Stories of Impossible Victories. By Bryan Perrett The Industrial Revolution in World History. By Peter N. Stearns Taxation & Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State. By Sven Steinmo     

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: The Impeachment of Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in 1386 in the Context of the Reign of Richard II. By J.S. Roskell. Property and Politics: Essays in Later Medieval English History. Edited by A.J. Pollard. Henry VII. By Roger Lockyer. Lancastrians and Yorkists: The Wars of the Roses. By David R. Cook. The Reign of Mary I. By Robert Tittler. All the Queen's Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart's Scotland. By Gordon Donaldson. Lordship to Patronage: Scotland 1603–1745. By Rosalind Mitchison. The House of Lords 1603–1649: Structure, Procedure and the Nature of Its Business. By Elizabeth Read Foster. Stuart Royal Proclamations. Volume II: Proclamations of King Charles I 1625–1646. Edited by James F. Larkin. The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640–1790. By Philip Jenkins. Two Diaries of the Long Parliament. Edited by Maija Jansson. Party and Management in Parliament 1660–1784. Edited by Clyve Jones. A Handlist of British Parliamentary Poll Books. Edited by John Sims. The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle 1724–1750. Edited by Timothy J. McCann. Soame Jenyns. By Ronald Rompkey. British Parliamentary Parties 1742–1832: From the Fall of Walpole to the First Reform Act. By B.W. Hill. The Younger Pitt: The Reluctant Transition. By John Ehrman. The British Political Tradition. By W.H. Greenleaf. Victorian Radicalism: The Middle-Class Experience 1830–1914. By Paul Adelman. Crosses on the Ballot: Patterns of British Voter Alignment since 1885. By Kenneth D. Wald. Lloyd George: Backbencher. By W.R.P. George. Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890–1918. By Keith Laybourn and Jack Reynolds. Neville Chamberlain. Volume One: Pioneering and Reform 1869–1929.By David Dilks. Wars and Welfare: Britain 1914–1945. By Max Beloff. The Legend of Red Clydeside. By Iain McLean. Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill 1939–41. By Martin Gilbert. Civil Liberties in Britain during the Second World War: A Political Study. By Neil Stammers.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Arnold Hermann , To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides: The Origins of Philosophy. G. R. Evans (ed.), The First Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Elizabeth A. Castelli , Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion). Frederick B. Davis , The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri (eds), Women and Faith. Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Anthony Kenny , A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume Two: Medieval Philo‐sophy. Joshua Trachtenberg , Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Charles Christopher Mierow , trans., Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. Dianne Hall , Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140–1540. Matthew Levering , Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Maribel Fierro (ed.), Judíos y Musulmanes en al‐Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales. Alessandro Barbero , Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Anne Winston ‐Allen , Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Theresa Coletti , Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. Anneke B. Mulder ‐Bakker , Lives of the Anchoresses. The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Virginia Nixon , Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. Eamon Duffy , Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Robert Frykenberg (ed.) and Alain Low , assoc. (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross‐Cultural Communication since 1500. Alister E. McGrath , The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation, 2d ed. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Bernard Joassart , Érudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Presentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. Michiel Wielema , The March of the Libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750). William Gibson , Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761. Paul E. Kerry , Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. John Harvey (ed.). Edmund Jones, The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Roger Lee Brown (ed.), The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–1849. R. Tudor Jones , Congregationalism in Wales. R. Tudor Jones , Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales 1890–1914. Raymond Brady Williams , Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration. Lawrence Rigel and Rosita Rosenberg , Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years. Daniel Carey (ed.), Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Maria Hsia Chang , Falun Gong: The End of Days. Heinz Halm , Shi ‘ism. Adrian Hastings , Alistair Mason , and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Alister E. McGrath , Theology: The Basics. Margaret Miles , The Word Made Flesh. A History of Christian Thought. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Jack Goody , Islam in Europe. Robert Haight , Christian Community in History: Vol. 1, Historical Ecclesiology. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie (eds), History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Jorgen Nielson , Muslims in Western Europe. John David Dawson , Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Nils Holger Petersen , Mette Birkedal Bruun , Jeremy Llewellyn , and Eyolf Østrem (eds), The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era Mac Dixon–Fyle, A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912–1984: The Potts–Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs Steven Heydemann (ed.), War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East Linda Heywood, Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present Dariush Zahedi, The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability Rod Andrew, Jr., Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839–1915 Richard Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century Gregg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas Edward S. Curtis, The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis Stephen Davis, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions William C. Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens Olivier Debroise, Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War John S. D. Eisenhower with Joanne T. Eisenhower, Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I Victoria Getis, The Juvenile Court and the Progressives Fred Greenbaum, Men Against Myths: The Progressive Response John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History Gerald Horne, From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965–1980 Norris Hundley Jr., The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, A History Revised Edition Takeshi Inomata and Stephen Houston (eds.), Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya. Volume I, Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis William G. Jordan, Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914–1920 Jeff Kinard, Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War John Lear, Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City John Lynch, Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays John Allen Macaulay, Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution John Miller Morris (ed.), A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars Roger H. Tuller, “Let No Guilty Man Escape”: A Judicial Biography of “Hanging Judge” Isaac C. Parker Bill Werber and C. Paul Rogers, III, Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s Jeffrey D. Wert, Gettysburg: Day Three Jian Chen, Mao's China and the Cold War Mary Somers Heidhues, Southeast Asia: A Concise History Philip C. C. Huang, Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared Claude Markovits, The Global World of Indian Merchants 1750–1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama Kamakshi P. Murti, India: The Seductive and Seduced “Other” of German Orientalism Richard Sims, Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868–2000 Irena Backus, Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg J. H. Baker, The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law Noel Barber, The Week France Fell, June 10–16, 1940 Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher (trans.), The World of El Cid: Chronicle of the Spanish Reconquest Peter Biller, The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought Constance Brittain Bouchard, “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson (eds.), Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece Thomas S. Burns and John W. Eadie (eds.), Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity Norma Clarke, Dr. Johnson's Women Stephen Coote, Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II Claire A. Culleton, Working–Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914–1921 Sean Dobson, Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910–1920: The Story of a Relationship Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages Christopher Dyer, Everyday Life in Medieval England Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents Robert F. Haggard, The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870–1900 Lawrence James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India Roy MacLeod (ed.), The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World Gary Marker and Rachel May (trans., eds.), Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758–1821 Kostiantyn P. Morozov, Above and Beyond: From Soviet General to Ukrainian State Builder Peter Neville, Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937–1939 Gavriel Rosenfeld, Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich John H. Rosser, Historical Dictionary of Byzantium Edward Royle, Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789–1848 Robert Service, Lenin: A Biography Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington (eds.), Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Places, Rhetoric Andrew Stockley, Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782–1783 Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16^th to the 20^th Century Carol Wilton, Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800–1850 Anders Winroth, The Making of Gratian's Decretum.[Volume IL, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought] Isser Woloch, Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship Peter L. Bernstein, The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild, The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom E. 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Book Reviewed in this article: Historical Sociology. By Philip Abrams The Concept of Class: An Historical Introduction. By Peter Calvert. Late Roman Fortifications. By Stephen Johnson. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. By Wayne A. Meeks. Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations Under Early Hapsburg Absolutism, 1511–1636. By Hermann Rebel. Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480–1599. By Miriam Usher Chrisman. Luther's Last Battles: Politics and Polemics 1531–46. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr. European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Woodruff D. Smith. Social Protest, Violence and Terror in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe. Edited by W. Mommsen and G. Hirschfeld. Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England. Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights. By John A. Phillips. Slavery and British Society 1776–1846. Edited, with an introduction, by James Walvin. Peasants and Power: The Whiteboy Movements and their Control in Pre-Famine Ireland. By Michael Beames. De Valera and the Ulster Question, 1917–1973. By John Bowman. The Wildness Pleases. The Origins of Romanticism. By Christopher Thacker. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900. By Peter J. Bowler. The Chouans: The Social Origins of Popular Counter-Revolution in Upper Brittany, 1770–1796. By Donald Sutherland. Ideology and Experience: Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair. By Stephen Wilson. Karamanlis: The Restorer of Greek Democracy. By C. M. Woodhouse. Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich. By Joseph W. Bendersky. French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914–1918 / 1940–1944. By Richard Cobb. Zionism: The Formative Years. By David Vital. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. By Yisrael Gutman. Translated from the Hebrew by Ina Friedman. Kronstadt, 1917–1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy. By Israel Getzler. Soviet Policy in East Asia. Edited by Donald S. Zagoria. The Practice of Piety: The Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England. By Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe. War, Politics, & Revolution in Provincial Massachusetts. By William Pencak. Early Maryland in a Wider World. Edited by David B. Quinn. Abraham Clark and the Quest for Equality in the Revolutionary Era, 1774–1794. By Ruth Bogin. Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening of the Far Northwest, 1821–1852. By Theodore J. Karamanski. John Dickenson: Conservative Revolutionary. By Milton E. Flower. Ambivalent Conspirators: John Brown, The Secret Six, and A Theory of Slave Violence. By Jeffrey Rossbach. The Imperiled Union: 1861–1865. Volume II: Stand in the Day of Battle. By William C. Davis. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880–1920. By David L. Carlton. Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell: Napoleon of the Southwest. By Lawrence R. Murphy. Custer Victorious: The Civil War Rattles of General George Armstrong Custer. By Gregory J. W. Urwin. Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma. By William W. Savage, Jr. George Gauld: Surveyor and Cartographer of the Gulf Coast. By John D. Ware, Revised and completed by Robert R. Rea. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World. By Mott T. Greene. A Patron for Pure Science: The National Science Foundation's Formative Years, 1945–57. By J. Merton England. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections. Edited by Donald A. Krueckeberg. The Air-Line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing about America. By Kenneth S. Lynn. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. By Michael H. Hunt. HAP: The Story of the US. Air Force and the Man Who Built It, General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. By Thomas M. Coffey. The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs. By Robert Dallek F. D. R.: An Intimate History. By Nathan Miller. Oklahoma Politics: A History. By James R. Scales and Danney Goble. Counting Sheep: From Open Range to Agribusiness on the Columbia Plateau. BY Alexander Campbell McGregor. The Cattle Guard: Its History and Lore. By James F. Hoy. The Code of the West. By Bruce A. Rosenberg.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919–1933. By Frank Costigliola St. Martin and His Hagiographer: History and Miracle in Sulpicius Severus. By Claire Stancliffe St. James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela. By R. A. Fletcher The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. By Guido Ruggiero Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200–1800. By Thomas A. Green Robin Hood: An Historical Enquiry. By John Bellamy Policing Victorian London: Political Policing, Public Order, and the London Metropolitan Police Force. By Phillip Thurmond Smith From Irving to Olivier: A Social History of the Acting Profession in England 1880–1983. By Michael Sanderson Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh. By Richard B. Sher Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1832–1885. By K. Theodore Hoppen KingGeorge V. By Kenneth Rose Colbert. By Inès Murat Church, State, and Society Under the Bourbon Kings of France. Edited by Richard M. Golden Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade During the Eighteenth Century. By Steven Laurence Kaplan Populist Religion and Left-wing Politics in France, 1830–1852. By Edward Berenson Victors and Vanquished: The German Influence on Army and Church in France after 1870. By Allan Mitchell Cavour. By Denis Mack Smith Church, Politics, and Society in Spain, 1750–1874. [Harvard Historical Monographs.] By William J. Callahan Economy and Foreign Policy: The Struggle of the Great Powers for Hegemony in the Danube Valley, 1919–1939. By György Ránki Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt The French Revolution in Germany; Occupation and Resistance in the Rhineland, 1792–1802 by T. C. W. Blanning The Alternative Culture: Socialist Labor in Imperial Germany. By Vernon L. Lidtke Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1897–1914. By Roger Fletcher Communism in Germany Under the Weimar Republic. By Ben Fowkes Germany and Republican China. By William C. Kirby A Refuge From Darkness. Wilfrid Israel and the Rescue of the Jews. By Naomi Shepherd The Nuremberg Trial. By Ann Tusa and John Tusa Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839–1939. By Margaret Forster Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584–1606. By David Beers Quinn Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut. By Jackson Turner Main Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. By Neil Longley York An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution. [Perspectives on the American Revolution Series.] Edited by Ronald Hoffman, Thad W. Tate and Peter J. Albert To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783. By E. Wayne Carp The Last Rising: The Newport Insurrection of 1839. By David J. V. Jones The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828–1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease Boston 1700–1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics. Edited by Ronald P. Formisano and Constance K. Burns The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815–1860. By Henry C. Binford Shaky Palaces: Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston's Suburbanization. [Columbia History of Urban Life Series.] By Matthew Edel, Elliott D. Sclar, and Daniel Luria Martin Van Buren and the American Political System. By Donald B. Cole The Presidency of Martin Van Buren. By Major L. Wilson Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century. By Barbara Jean Fields The Confederate Governors. Edited with an introduction by W. Buck Yearns Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays. Edited by Jack Tager and John W. Ifkovic Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco. By Robert M. Senkewicz, S.J. Tribal Dispossession and the Ottawa Indian University Fraud. By William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner As Long as the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake River Reservation. By Martha C. Knack and Omer C. Stewart The First World War. By Keith Robbins Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905. By Geoffrey C. Ward The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights. By Robert Fredrick Burk In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982. [Contemporary American History Series.] By Steven F. Lawson Caring for the Retarded in America: A History. [Contributions in Medical History, Number 16.] By Peter L. Tyor and Leland V. Bell Walking to Work: Tramps in America, 1790–1935. Edited by Eric H. Monkkonen America's Business. By James Oliver Robertson In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. By David A. Hollinger Man, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885–1911. By Clifton B. Kroeber     

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Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below: The Agrarian Transvaal at the Turn of the Century. By Jeremy Krikler. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400—1680. By John Thorton. Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda. By Justin Willis. The Americas : “Brother Woodrow”: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson. By Stockton Axson. Edited, with an introduction, by Arthur S. Link. Liberty, Justice, Order: Writings as Past Politics. By John Morton Blum. The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s. By Christine Bolt. Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement. By John M. Carroll. Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. By Roger Daniels. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 2828–1853. By James D. Dilts. The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 2835–1955. By Laurence F. Gross. The Making and Remaking of Asian America through Immigration Policy, 1850–1990. By Bill Ong Hing. The Arabists: Romance of an American Elite. By Robert D. Kaplan. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family. By Bernice Kert. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. By William Leach. Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans, 1917–1920. By David W. McFadden. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and US. Foreign Policy in Asia. By Ronald L. McGlothlen. Cortés: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico. By Richard Lee Marks. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator. By Martin J. Medhurst. George Washington and American Constitutionalism. By Glenn A. Phelps. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement. By James R. Ralph, Jr. Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism. By Philippa Strum. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. By Robert M. Utley. Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940. By Mark Wasserman. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. By Marjorie Spruill Wheeler. Asia and the Pacific : The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period. By Leonard Y. Andaya. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. By Liza Crihfield Dalby Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chiek-Ju. Edited by Lloyd E. Eastman. Economy, Society and Politics in Bengal: Jalpaiguri 1869–1947. By Ranajit Das Gupta. Old Malacca. By Sarnia Hayes Hoyt. Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China. Edited by Linda Cooke Johnson. Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagar Rule. By Noboru Karashima. The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. By Mark P. Parillo. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers'Jaws. Edited and translated by Lynn A. Struve. Europe : A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c. 1422–c. 2485. By Eric Acheson. Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884–1914. By Andrew Adonis. The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security, 1918–1957. Edited by R. Ahmann, A. M. Burke, and M. Howard. Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830–1871. By Ronald Aminzade. Germany after the First World War. By Richard Bessel. The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. By R 0. Bucholz. Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony, c. 970–c. 1130. By Marcus Bull. Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–1651. By Charles Carlton. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. By David G. Chandler. The Greek Civil War, 1943–1950: Studies of Polarization. Edited by David H. Close. Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. By Dora P. Crouch. Marriage, Wife-Beating, and the Law in Victorian England. By Maeve E. Doggett. Fragile Lives: Violence, Power, and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Arlette Farge. Translated by Carol Shelton. Russian Peasant Women. Edited by Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola. Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany. By Caroline Ford. National Socialist Rule in Germany: The Führer State, 1933–1945. By Norbert Frei. Translated by Simon B. Steyne. Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642–1649. By Christopher Hibbert. Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640. By Ronald C. Jennings. History and the Historians of Medieval Spain. By Peter Linehan. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914–1950. By Joseph McAleer. Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pietà of Florence. By Carol Bresnahan Menning. Revolution and Restoration: England in the 1650s. Edited by John Morrill. The First Jesuits. By John W. O'Malley. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. By R. A. C. Parker. Patronage and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850–1900. By Dermot Quinn. The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648–1652. By Orest Ranum. A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847. By Joachim Remak, with a foreword by James M. McPherson. Capitalism, Culture, and Decline in Britain 1750–1990. By W. D. Rubinstein. One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo. By Alan Schom. Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat. By Raphael Sealey Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789–1790. By Barry M. Shapiro. The City and the Crown: Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600–1740. By John P. Spielman. Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theater in Seventeenth-Century Spain. By Louise K Stein. European Revolutions, 1492–1992. By Charles Tilly. The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500–1650. By H. F. K. van Nierop. Translated by Maarten Ultee. German Resistance against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad 1938–1945. By Klemens von Klemperer. Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian Britain. By Frank H. Wallis. The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. By David Welch. The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France. By Michael Wolfe. General : The Past in Ruins: Tradition and the Critique of Modernity. By David Gross. Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History. By E. L. Jones.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Athenian Popular Religion. By Jon D. Mikalson. Life in Egypt under Roman Rule. By Naphtali Lewis. Rome's North West Frontier: The Antonine Wall. By William Hanson and Gordon Maxwell. Mohammed, Charlemagne, & The Origins of Europe: Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis. By Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse. Ranulf of Chester: A Relic of the Conquest. By James W. Alexander. Community, Class, and Careerism: Chesire and Lancashire Society in the Age of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. By Michael J. Bennett. The Perilous Vision of John Wyclif. By Louis Brewer Hall. Castiglione: The Ideal and the Real in Renaissance Culture. Edited by Robert Hanning and David Rostand. The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550–1670. By Brian Pullan. Charles I and the Popish Plot. By Caroline M. Hibbard. The House of Lords, 1603–1649: Structure, Procedure, and the Nature of its Business. By Elizabeth Read Foster. Historians, Puritanism, and the English Revolution: The Religious Factor in English Politics Before and After the Interregnum. By Michael G. Finlayson. Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Keith L. Sprunger. Shetland and the Outside World, 1469–1969. Edited with an introduction by Donald J. Withrington. The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the Industrial Revolution. By Katrina Honeyman. The Gift of Government: Political Responsibility from the English Restoration to American Independence. By J. R. Pole. The Richard B. Russell Lectures, Number One. From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth-Century Oxford. By A. J. Engel. Shadows in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918–1956. By Robert 0. Collins. Exile Politics during the Second World War. The German Social Democrats in Britain. By Anthony Glees. Ideology and Culture an Seventeenth-Century France. By Erica Harth. Napoleon Ill and the Concert of Europe. By William E. Echard. Alphonse de Lamartine. A Political Biography. By William Fortescue. War in the Modern Great Power System 1495–1975. By Jack S. Levy. The Birth of A New Europe: State and Society in the Nineteenth Century. By Theodore S. Hamerow. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. By Thomas P. Hughes. Poland: Genesis of a Revolution. Edited, with an introduction, by Abraham Brumberg. Scandinavia during the Second World War. Edited by Henrik S. Nissen. Translated by Thomas Munch-Petersen. The Soviet Union and the Arms Race. By David Holloway. Black Southerners, 1619–1869. By John B. Boles. The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley. By Gilbert C. Din and A. P. Nasatir. Sons of Liberty: The Masculine Mind in Nineteenth-Century America. By David G. Pugh. Neither Peace Nor War: Franco-American Relations, 1803–1812. By Clifford L. Egan. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. By J. C. A. Stagg. The Triumph of Sectionalism: The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844–1856. By Stephen E. Maizlish. Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830–3860. By R. J. M. Blackett. Two if by Sea: The Development of American Coastal Defense Policy. By Robert J. Browning III. Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier. By Juliet E. K. Walker. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. By Stephen W. Sears. Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin. By James Lee McDonough and Thomas L. Connelly. Eros and Modernization: Sylvester Graham, Health Reform, and the Origins of Victorian Sexuality in America. By Jayme A. Sokolow. Westering Man, The Life of Joseph Walker. By Bil Gilbert. Attorney for the Frontier: Enos Stutsman. By Dale Gibson, with Lee Gibson and Cameron Harvey. Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux. By Raymond Wilson. The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, 1900–1942. By Arrell Morgan Gibson. History of Agriculture in Ohio to 1880. By Robert Leslie Jones. Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861–1895. By Clayton W. Williams. Edited by Ernest Wallace. Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement. By William K. Wyant. The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900–1934. By Lester D. Langley. Another Part of the Fifties. By Paul A. Carter. The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in Unites States Foreign Policy from Truman to Reagan. By Seyom Brown. Inside the Warren Court. By Bernard Schwartz with Stephan Lesher.     

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Herodolos the Historian: His Problems, Methods and Originality. Roman Foreign Policy in the East: 168 B.C. to A.D. 1. Kings and Queens of Early Britain. English Medieval Diplomacy. Criminal Law and Society in Late Medieval and Tudor England. The Power of the Early Tudor Nobility: A Study of the Fourth and Fifth Earls of Shrewsbury. Renaissance Essays. The English Aristocracy: A Comparative Synthesis. English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century. A Social Geography. The Unfortunate Duke: Henry Pelham, Fifth Duke of Newcastle, 181 1–1864. The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone. The Scaremongers. The Advocacy of War and Rearmament, 1896–1914. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge Among Gentlemanly Specialists. The Maupeou Revolution: A Study in the History of Libertarianism, France, 1770–1774. Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Royal Republicans: The French Naval Dynasties Between the World Wars. Pierre Laval: Traitor or Patriot? Diplomacy in Iron: The Life of Herbert von Bismarck. The Western Allies and the Politics of Food Agrarian Management in Postwar Germany. The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought. The Princess of Siberin: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles. Strategy and Supply: The Anglo-Russian Alliance, 1914–1917. The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police. The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, December 1917–1922. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789. The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607–1980. The Evolution of the southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746–1832. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with the English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744. Politics and Statesmanship: Essays on the American Whig Party. First Lady: The Life of Lucy Webb Hayes. The Breadstealers: The Fight Against the Corn Laws, 1838–1846. The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops an the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle: The Civil War Experience. Phil Sheridan and His Army. Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19th-Century South. The Haymarket Tragedy. The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business in the Midwest. By Steven L. Piott. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. x, 194. $35.00.) Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War. The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946–1948. Dirksen of Illinois: Senatorial Statesman. The Hoosier Politician. Officeholding and Political Culture in Indiana, 1896–1920. Frank Murphy: The Washington Years. Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences. Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II. The Empire of the Seas: A Biography of Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt, USN. The Indian Man: A Biography of James Mooney. American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Vine Deloria, Jr. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. Pp. 258. $16.95.) Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State. American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions. Still the Golden Door. The Third World Comes to America.