Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. Vietnam 1945: The Quest of Power. By David G. Marr. William Cooper's Town: Powers and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. By Alan Taylor. The Secret World of American Communism. By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism in the Cold War Era. By John E. Haynes. Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. By Richard Gid Powers. The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. By Ami Ayalon. The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal: The Master of the Word The State and Its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present. Edited by Nelly Hanna. Breaking the Chains: Slavery and its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony. Edited by Nigel Worden and Clifton Crais. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Volume I, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch. By Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920. By Charlotte G. Borst. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. By Elaine G. Breslaw. The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870. By Richard D. Brown. Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal. By Jeanne Nienaber Clarke. The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New England. By Cedric B. Cowing. Them Damned Pictures: Explorations in American Political Cartoon Art. By Roger A. Fischer. Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808–1856. Edited and Translated by Elborg Forster and Robert Forster. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Kevin K. Gaines. Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis. Edited by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss. Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross. By John F. Hutchinson. Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. By Harvey T. Jackson III. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’Movement and World War II. By Glen Jeansonne. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. By Michael Kammen. The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism. By Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh. Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. By James M. McPherson. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. By Donald L. Miller. O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian. By John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastian. Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman. Edited by David Morgan. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. By Thomas D. Morris. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. By Joane Nagel. The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945. By Thomas F. O'Brien. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962–1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration. By Robert A. Potash. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. By Jack N. Rakove. The Power and the Darkness: The Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the Game. By Mark Ribowsky. Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth. By Joseph G. Rosa. Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture. By Jennifer Scanlon. State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax. Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money. By Robert Wuthnow. A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism. By Clive J. Christie. Rescuing History From the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. By Prasenjit Duara. Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts 600–1400. By Valerie Hansen. Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919–1937. By Brian G. Martin. Competition and Collaboration: Parsi Merchants and the English East India Company in Eighteenth-Century India. By David L. White. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. By Judy Yung. Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle. By John Aberth Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises. By Steven E. Aschheim. Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945. By Yehuda Bauer. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598–1661. By Yves-Marie Berce. Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia. By Laurie Bernstein. The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536. By Michael Bush. European Jewry and the First Crusade. By Robert Chazan. Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion. Edited by Roger Chickering. The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium. Edited by Adelbert Davids. Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. By Peter Berresford Ellis. Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1889–1914. By David M. Gordon. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. By Roger V. Gould. The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Edited by John Guy. The Spanish Economy, From the Civil War to the European Community. By Joseph Harrison. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806. By Jonathan Israel. Volume I, The Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia. By Adele Lindenmeyr. The Druids: Priests of the Ancient Celts. By Paul R. Lonigan. Medieval Russia, 980–1584. By Janet Martin. Women in Antiquity. Edited by Ian McAuslan and Peter Walcot, with an introduction by Gillian Clark. Government and Institutions in the Post-1832 United Kingdom. Volume XXXIV, Studies in British History.] Edited, with an introduction, by Alan O'Day. Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. By Norman Roth. The Palazzo Vecchio, 1298–1532: Government, Architecture, and Imagery in the Civic Palace of the Florentine Republic. By Nicolai Rubinstein. Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860–1980. By Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits. Edited by Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker. Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940. By Simon Szreter. Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France. By Geoffrey Treasure. When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and The End of Empire in Egypt. By Robert Vitalis. Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years. By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982–1995. By George F. Kennan. Why the Allies Won. By Richard Overy.