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.