Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana, 1875–1917. By K. O. Laurence Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838–1918. By Walton Look Lai Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation. Edited by Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro, and Edward D. Beechert Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt. By Wunyabari O. Maloba Torture and Modernity: Self, Society, and the State in Modern Iran. By Darius M. Rejali Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870–1939. By Elizabeth Schmidt Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans. By Suraiya Faroqhi From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of An American Sport, 1840–1940. By E. John B. Allen The South and the New Deal. By Roger Biles The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt. By Jordan A. Schwarz Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860–1912. By Ardis Cameron Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. By Richard J. Carwardine Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War. By Curtis D. Johnson Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War. By William Y. Chalfant “No Sorrow like Our Sorrow”: Northern Protestant Ministers and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. By David B. Chesebrough The Presidency of Andrew Jackson. By Donald B. Cole Up From Communism. By John P. Diggins Antisemitism in America. By Leonard Dinnerstein Intervention! The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1917. By John S. D. Eisenhower The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800. By Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick In the Absence of Towns: Settlement and Country Trade in Southside Virginia, 1730–1800. By Charles J. Farmer The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front. By J. Matthew Gallman Mexico and the Spanish Conquest. By Ross Hassig The Nation and Its City: Politics, “Corruption,” and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861–1902. By Alan Lessoff The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. By Forrest McDonald The People of Quito, 1690–1810: Change and Unrest in the Underclass. By Martin Minchom Los Comanches: The Horse People, 1751–1845. By Stanley Noyes A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War. By Stephen B. Oates Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays. By Howard N. Rabinowitz General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel. By Hal T. Shelton The Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South. By Mitchell Snay Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico. By Hugh Thomas The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America. By Bernard A. Weisberger Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution: The English Connection. By Paul W. Wilderson Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the United States of Europe. By Pascaline Winand The Rise of Confucian Ritualism In Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics and Lineage Discourse. By Kai-wing Chow Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764–1858. By Michael H. Fisher Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1785–1895. By Eugene F. Irschick The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan. By Robert J. McMahon The Origins of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History. By Dian H. Murray China, 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan. By Douglas R. Reynolds Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture. By Jonathan D. Spence The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan. By Nagatsuka Takashi The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949–1958. By Qiang Zhai In Europe's Name, Germany and the Divided Continent. By Timothy Garton Ash The Later Roman Empire, AD 284–430. By Averil Cameron Bisexuality in the Ancient World. By Eva Cantarella. Trans. by Cormac ó Cuilleanáin The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. By John B. Dunlop Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. By Dyan Elliott The Gilded Youth of Thermidor. By François Gendron. Translated by James Cookson Church, State and Society, 1760–1850. By William Gibson Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times. By M. Grant The Weimar Republic. By Helmut Heiber First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism. By H. Larry Ingle The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company. By John Keay Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left In Postwar France. By Sunil Khilnani Diplomacy. By Henry Kissinger Politics, Censorship and the English Reformation. By David Loades The Culture of Labourism: The East End Between the Wars. By John Marriott Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G. E. Aylmer. Edited by John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandzvich, 1718–1792. By N. A. M. Rodger ‘We are but Women’: Women in Ireland's History. By Roger Sawyer Mazzini. By Denis Mack Smith The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867–1918: Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism. By Lawrence Sondhaus Fathers & Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War. By Barry S. Strauss Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea. By John Sweetman The Work of William Morris. By Paul Thompson The New Regime: Transformation of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s. By Isser Woloch Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece. By Leslie Worley D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. By Stephen E. Ambrose Women's Work The First 20,000 Years. By Elizabeth Wayland Barber Emerging Feminism from the Revolution to World War. Edited by Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot At All Costs! Stories of Impossible Victories. By Bryan Perrett The Industrial Revolution in World History. By Peter N. Stearns Taxation & Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State. By Sven Steinmo