Book Reviews

Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By William B. Taylor. Democratization of Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824–1861. By William G. Shade. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. By Mark M. Smith. The Ancient Near East, c. 3,000–330 B.C. 2 vols. By Amelie Kuhrt. Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State. By Nadim N. Rouhana. Palestine and the Palestinians. By Samih K. Farsoun with Christina E. Zacharia. Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896. By Abbas Amanat. African Women: A Modern History. By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids. By Heinz Halm. Life in the Ancient Near East: 3100–332 B.C.E. By Daniel C. Snell. Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru. By Thomas Spear. South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance. Edited by Les Switzer. Ancient Civilizations of the New World. By Richard E. W. Adams. The Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624–1996. By Selma Berrol. Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. By Benson Bobrick. The New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution. By Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, and Kathleen M. Sullivan. Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. By Leslie Midkiff DeBauche. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Edited by Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch. Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region & State in Honduras, 1870–1972. By Dario A. Euraque. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. By Annette Gordon-Reed. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803. By Kimberly S. Hanger. With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union. By William C. Harris. Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector. By James W. Hilty. The End of the American Avant Garde. By Stuart D. Hobbs. FDR and the Creation of the U.N. By Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee in the West That Was. By Charles W. Allen. Edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen. Giants in the Cornfield: The 27^th Indiana Infantry. By Wilbur D. Jones Jr. Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. By Jay Kinsbruner. Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810–1996. By Enrique Krauze. Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880–1920. By Clare V. McKanna Jr. Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640–1750. By Kenneth Mills. Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State. By Charles Noble. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870. By Katherine Ott. Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. By Amos Perlmutter. Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850. By Cynthia Radding. Black Movements in America. By Cedric J. Robinson. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William C. Roy. Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery. By Stuart B. Schwartz. A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History. Edited by John David Smith and Thomas H. Appleton Jr. Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America. By Gerald Sorin. From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow. Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic. By Len Travers. Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars. By Frank E. Vandiver. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. By J. Samuel Walker. Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. By Vernon J. Williams Jr. A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens. By Donald Yacovone. Voices From Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire. By Marina Carter. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. By Bruce Cumings. Multicultural Japan, Palaeolithic to Postmodern. Edited by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki. The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents. By Peter Duus. Women in Modern India. Volume IV.2 of The New Cambridge History of India. By Geraldine Forbes Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror. By Ata-Malik Juvaini. Translated by J. A. Boyle. Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan. By J. Victor Koschmann. Europe : Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France. Edited by Christine Adams, Jack R. Censer, and Lisa Jane Graham. Government, Religion and Society in Northern England 1000–1700. Edited by John C. Appleby and Paul Dalton. The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. By Jeremy Black. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. By Bernadette J. Brooten. The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789–1799. By Alan Forrest. Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth-Century England: Life, Work and Schooling. By Meg Gomersall. Raymond Poincaré. By J. F. V. Keiger. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorship in Comparison. Edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin. Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century. By Valerie A. Kivelson. The First Punic War. By J. F. Lazenby. Giant of the Grand Siécle: The French Army, 1610–1715. By John A. Lynn. Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798–1871. By Shulamit S. Magnus. The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306–1328. By Colm McNamee. Germany, 1870–1945: Politics, State Formation, and War. By Peter Pulzer. The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814–1848. By William M. Reddy. Growing Old in the Middle Ages: “Winter Clothes us in Shadow and Pain”. By Shulamith Shahar. Trans. By Yael Lotan. Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700–1850. By Pamela Sharpe. Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918–1920. By Jonathan D. Smele. The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages from the Eighth Century to 1340. By J. F. Verbruggen. Second edition, translated by Sumner Williard and Mrs. R. W. Southern. Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. By Eric D. Weitz. Passchendaele and the Royal Navy. By Andrew Wiest. Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Posada Carbhe The Western Medical Tradition: 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800. By Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, and Andrew Wear. Canals and Inland Navigation. Edited by Gerald Crompton. The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. By Samuel Hynes. The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. By Kevin McDermott and Jeremy Agnew.