Book Reviews

Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below: The Agrarian Transvaal at the Turn of the Century. By Jeremy Krikler. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400—1680. By John Thorton. Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda. By Justin Willis. The Americas : “Brother Woodrow”: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson. By Stockton Axson. Edited, with an introduction, by Arthur S. Link. Liberty, Justice, Order: Writings as Past Politics. By John Morton Blum. The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s. By Christine Bolt. Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement. By John M. Carroll. Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. By Roger Daniels. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 2828–1853. By James D. Dilts. The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 2835–1955. By Laurence F. Gross. The Making and Remaking of Asian America through Immigration Policy, 1850–1990. By Bill Ong Hing. The Arabists: Romance of an American Elite. By Robert D. Kaplan. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family. By Bernice Kert. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. By William Leach. Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans, 1917–1920. By David W. McFadden. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and US. Foreign Policy in Asia. By Ronald L. McGlothlen. Cortés: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico. By Richard Lee Marks. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator. By Martin J. Medhurst. George Washington and American Constitutionalism. By Glenn A. Phelps. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement. By James R. Ralph, Jr. Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism. By Philippa Strum. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. By Robert M. Utley. Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940. By Mark Wasserman. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. By Marjorie Spruill Wheeler. Asia and the Pacific : The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period. By Leonard Y. Andaya. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. By Liza Crihfield Dalby Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chiek-Ju. Edited by Lloyd E. Eastman. Economy, Society and Politics in Bengal: Jalpaiguri 1869–1947. By Ranajit Das Gupta. Old Malacca. By Sarnia Hayes Hoyt. Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China. Edited by Linda Cooke Johnson. Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagar Rule. By Noboru Karashima. The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. By Mark P. Parillo. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers'Jaws. Edited and translated by Lynn A. Struve. Europe : A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c. 1422–c. 2485. By Eric Acheson. Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884–1914. By Andrew Adonis. The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security, 1918–1957. Edited by R. Ahmann, A. M. Burke, and M. Howard. Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830–1871. By Ronald Aminzade. Germany after the First World War. By Richard Bessel. The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. By R 0. Bucholz. Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony, c. 970–c. 1130. By Marcus Bull. Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–1651. By Charles Carlton. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. By David G. Chandler. The Greek Civil War, 1943–1950: Studies of Polarization. Edited by David H. Close. Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. By Dora P. Crouch. Marriage, Wife-Beating, and the Law in Victorian England. By Maeve E. Doggett. Fragile Lives: Violence, Power, and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Arlette Farge. Translated by Carol Shelton. Russian Peasant Women. Edited by Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola. Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany. By Caroline Ford. National Socialist Rule in Germany: The Führer State, 1933–1945. By Norbert Frei. Translated by Simon B. Steyne. Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642–1649. By Christopher Hibbert. Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640. By Ronald C. Jennings. History and the Historians of Medieval Spain. By Peter Linehan. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914–1950. By Joseph McAleer. Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pietà of Florence. By Carol Bresnahan Menning. Revolution and Restoration: England in the 1650s. Edited by John Morrill. The First Jesuits. By John W. O'Malley. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. By R. A. C. Parker. Patronage and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850–1900. By Dermot Quinn. The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648–1652. By Orest Ranum. A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847. By Joachim Remak, with a foreword by James M. McPherson. Capitalism, Culture, and Decline in Britain 1750–1990. By W. D. Rubinstein. One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo. By Alan Schom. Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat. By Raphael Sealey Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789–1790. By Barry M. Shapiro. The City and the Crown: Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600–1740. By John P. Spielman. Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theater in Seventeenth-Century Spain. By Louise K Stein. European Revolutions, 1492–1992. By Charles Tilly. The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500–1650. By H. F. K. van Nierop. Translated by Maarten Ultee. German Resistance against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad 1938–1945. By Klemens von Klemperer. Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian Britain. By Frank H. Wallis. The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. By David Welch. The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France. By Michael Wolfe. General : The Past in Ruins: Tradition and the Critique of Modernity. By David Gross. Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History. By E. L. Jones.