Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Recent Prize–Winning Books In History Richard S. Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II. Bernard F. Reilly, The Kingdom of Leon–Castilla under King Alfonso VII, 1126–1157 James A. Percoco, A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History Review Essay Mark E. Neely Jr., “Lincoln: Icon, Talisman, Touchstone” Barry Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. John Patrick Diggins, On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History. Africa and the Middle East oussef M. Choueiri, Arab Nationalism: A History. Sevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire Owen White, Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895–1960 The Americas Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. KennonDavid Sloan (eds), Neither Separate Nor Equal: Congress in the 1790s. Stephen F. Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post–Communist Russia. Charles C. Cole Jr., A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio. Nancy F. Cott. (ed.), No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Bryant Simon (eds), Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Lawrence H. Feldman (ed.), Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. John Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, and the American Revolution. Webb Garrison, Mutiny in the Civil War. By Max Harris, Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. Keith P. Jacobi, Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery. Richard L. Kiper, Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Ana Melick, Chile’s Political Culture and Parties: An Anthropological Explanation Forrest McDonald, States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876 Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution James Moorhead, World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925 Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality William R. Nester, “Haughty Conquerors”: Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763 Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 Louis A. Pérez Jr., On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture Jon Roper, The American Presidents: Heroic Leadership From Kennedy to Clinton Margarete Sandelowski, Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing David F. Schmitz, Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man S. S. Schweber, In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist Birgitte Søland, Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s Mark A. Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II Sumit Guha, Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991. Victor S. Kaufman, Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China. By Xin Zhang, Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900–1937. John Aberth, From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages Bevin Alexander, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat Stuart Andrews, The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789–99 Anthony Arthur, The Tailor–King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster Robert Asprey, The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Nigel Aston, Religion and Revolution in France, 1780–1804 Jan Bondeson, The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale Marjorie Chibnall, The Normans Adam R. A. Claasen, Hitler’s Northern War: The Luftwaffe’s Ill–Fated Campaign, 1940–1945 Anthony Cross, Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar Since 1698 Alexander De Grand, The Hunchback’s Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882–1922 Donald Denoon and Philippa Mein–Smith with Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, and Bruce Masters, The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period Richard J. Evans, Lying About History: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial Christopher E. Forth, Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891–1918 Richard A. Gabriel, Great Captains of Antiquity David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson, The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook Robert Justin Goldstein, The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth–Century Europe Thomas Harrison, Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus Europe Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents Jerzy Kloczowski, A History of Polish Christianity David Clay Large, Berlin Elizabeth Makowski, Canon Law and Cloistered Women: “Periculoso” and Its Commentators John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I Ian Ousby, Occupation: The Ordeal of France Michael Rapport, Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: The Treatment of Foreigners 1789–1799. J. P. Riley, Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting H. Sidky, The Greek Kingdom of Bactria: From Alexander to Eucratides the Great Angela K. Smith, The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism, and the First World War David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne Raymond G. Stokes, Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945–1990 Victoria E. Thompson, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830– 1870 Richard F. Wetzell, Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880–1945 Bernd Widdig, Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany Susan Zuccotti, Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy Anton Blok, Honour and Violence. Richard Hough, Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century. Brian Stock, After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. Jay Winter, Geoffrey Parker, and Mary R. Habeck (eds.), The Great War and the Twentieth Century.