Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Review Essay Dennis B. Downey, Terrorism and the Loss of Being Walter Laqueur. A History of Terrorism. Mark S. Hamm. In Bad Company: America’s Terrorist Underground. Edward T. Linenthal. The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. Africa and the Middle East Philip D. Curtin. Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700–1900. Humphrey J. Fisher. Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa. The Americas Stephen E. Ambrose. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B‐24s over Germany. Samuel Basch. Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian’s Empire. Volker R. Berghahn. America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. William C. Berman. From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency. Alexander Bloom, ed. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. Susan Branson. These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. Paul Buhle and David Wagner. A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Blacklist. Judith A. Carney. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Caleb Crain. American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. Robert M. Fogelson. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950. Nancy Gentile Ford. Americans All!: Foreign‐born Soldiers in World War I. Frank R. Freemon. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War. James N. Giglio. Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man. Earl J. Hess. Pickett’s Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg. Gary R. Hess. Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Lee Kennett. Sherman: A Soldier’s Life. Henry Kissinger. Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21^st Century. Cathy Luchetti. Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier. Gloria L. Main. Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. Louis A. Pérez Jr. Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Formation of Nineteenth‐Century Cuba. David M. Pletcher. The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion across the Pacific, 1784–1900. David J. Russo. American Towns: An Interpretive History. Edward Steers Jr. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Eric Van Young. The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810–1821. Michael Vorenberg. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Steven Watts. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Robert Whitney. State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920–1940. Linda Williams. Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. Barry K. Wilson. Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst. Asia and the Pacific Suzanne Gay. The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. Nicholas Tarling. A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945. Xiaoqun Xu. Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937. Dingxin Zhao. The Power of Tiananmen: State‐Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. Europe Gregory S. Aldrete. Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome. Abraham Ascher. P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Samuel H. Baron. Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962. Leeds Barroll. Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. Christopher M. Bellitto. Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations. Pierre Birnbaum. The Idea of France. Jean‐Francois Breton. Arabia Felix: From the Time of the Queen of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D. Arden Bucholz. Moltke and the German Wars, 1864–1871. Nicholas Doumanis. Italy. Pál Engel. The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526. Geoffrey Hosking. Russia and the Russians: A History. Chris Humphrey. The Politics of Carnival: Festive Misrule in Medieval England. Edward Ingram. The British Empire as a World Power. Katherine Ludwig Jansen. The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. Ian Kershaw. Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis. Adam J. Kosto. Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200. John F. Matthews. Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code. P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart. Satan’s Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth‐Century Scotland. P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart. Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400–1800. Steven A. McKinion, ed. Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader. Annika Mombauer. Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. Brian Parsons. The London Way of Death. Derek J. Penslar. Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. Bob Reece. The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales. Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson, eds. Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein. Matthew Stibbe. German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914–1918. Marjorie Swann. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. Ramie Targoff. Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco‐Prussian War. David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco‐Prussian War. Lucy E. C. Wooding. Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Benjamin Woolley. The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. General, Comparative, Historiographical Martin Bernal. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. Simon A. Cole. Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Ian Jackson. The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East‐West Trade, 1948–63. Adrienne Mayor. The First Fossil Hunters. Sam Wineburg. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.