Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Songs of Zion: The African American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa. By James T. Campbell. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. By George Chauncey. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. By Liza C. Dalby. Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947–1974. By Barton C. Hacker. Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. By Marilynn S. Johnson. Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence. By Anthony Molho. The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence. By Laura Ikins Stern. Dependence in Context in Renaissance Florence. By Richard Trexler. The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis. By Farhad Daftary. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. By Liisa H. Malkki. People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800–1990. By James C. McCann. The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian. By Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski. Translated by Robert Cornman. With a Foreward by Shaye J. D. Cohen. Party Politics and Decolonisation: the Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951–1964. By Philip Murphy. Autowork. Edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth, with the assistance of Stephan Merlino. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917. By Gail Bederman. Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago. By Roger Biles. Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP. By Mary C. Brennan. The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. By Andrew Burstein. The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present. By Ballard C. Campbell. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. By Dan T. Carter. The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth. By William R. Casto. In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. Barry Goldwater. By Robert Alan Goldberg. Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina. By Donna J. Guy. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania. By Owen S. Ireland. Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland. By Jeanette Keith. Women and Power in Native North America. Edited by Laura F. Klein and Lilian A. Ackerman. Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Edited, with an introduction, by David Thomas Konig. Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru. By Florencia E. Mallon. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, & the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. By Stephanie McCurry. Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle, 1969–1979. By Maria José Moyano. Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador. By Linda A. Newson. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885–1920. By Mary E. Odem. Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton. Kenneth O'Reilly. The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: A History of the American Presidency. Volume I, From the Origins Through McKinley Volume II, Theodore Roosevelt Through George Bush. By Michael P. Riccards. Coffee, Society and Power in Latin America. Edited by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach. Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike. By John A. Salmond. The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Amy Gilman Srebnick. The Grammar of the Machine: Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States. By Edward W. Stevens Jr. The Nightingale's Song. By Robert Timberg. Fulbright: A Biography. By Randall Bennett Woods. Japan and the World Since 1868. By Michael A. Barnhart. Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. By Jacques Gernet. Translated by Franciscus Verellen. Raja Rammohan Ray: The Father of Modern India. By Bruce C. Robertson. Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel. By Bui Tin. The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan. By Conrad Totman. Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney. Napoleon Conquers Austria: The 1809 Campaign for Vienna. By James R. Arnold. Medieval Canon Law. By James A. Brundage. Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences. By Christopher Bennett. Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th-18th Centuries: Theme B, Economic Systems and State Finance. Edited by Richard Bonney. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788–907 By Charles Bowlus. The Age of Upheaval: Edwardian Politics, 1899–1914. By David Brooks. Britain Since 1939: Progress and Decline. By David Childs. The Naked Heart. By Peter Gay. Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe: Historical Essays, 1978–1991. Edited by David Herlihy. Work, Gender and Family in Victorian England. By Karl Ittman. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. Edited by David Knowles and R. Neville Hadcock. Wealth, Kinship and Culture: The Seventeenth-Century Newdigates of Arbury and their World. By Vivienne Larminie. Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925–1936. Edited by Lars T. Lih, Oleg V. Naumov, and Oleg V. Klevniuk. Translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. Foreward by Robert C. Tucker. The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety. Edited by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Reform, Revolution and Reaction: Archbishop John Thomas Troy and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1787–1817. By Vincent J. McNally. Nazi Justiz: Law of the Holocaust. By Richard Lawrence Miller. The Conquest of tke Reick: D-Day to V-E Day—A Soldier's History. By Robin Neillands. The Republican Movement: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France. By Philip Nord. The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War. By Denis Richards. The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine & Emigration. By Robert James Scally. The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment. By Liselotte Steinbrügge. Translated by Pamela E. Selwyn. Calvin in Context. By David Steinmetz. Politics and the Parlement of Paris under Louis XV 1754–1774. By Julian Swann. Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress or Cycle? Edited and translated by Theodore Taranovski, with the assistance of Peggy McInerny. Politics, Religion, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of De Lamar Jensen. Volume XXVII of Sixteenth Century Studies Essays and Studies]. Edited by Malcolm R. Thorp and Arthur J. Slavin. Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951. By Richard Vinen. The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s. By Eugen Weber. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referenda1 Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846–1922. By Corinne Comstock Weston. Decisions for War, 1914. Edited by Keith Wilson. Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872. By Reginald E. Zelnick. Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. Edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mandelsohn, and Howard Segal. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922. By David Northrup. Drugs and Narcotics in History. Edited by Roy Porter and Mikulá? Teich.