BOOK REVIEWS

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: Re Stafin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. By Paul A. Cohen. Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life. By Judith Sealander. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By Michael A. Morrison. The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861. By Stephen B. Oates. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPhers The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Ferninism. By Janet Afary. Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times. By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. By Frederick Cooper. Religious Militancy and Self-Assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria. By Matthew Hassan Kukah and Toyin Falola. Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900. By B. Marie Perinbam. Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy toward Taiwan, 1950–1955. By Robert Accinelli. The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism. By Stanley Aronowitz. In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876–1930. By Jurgen Buchenau. Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost. Edited by Colin G. Calloway. A History of Chile, 1808–1994. By Simon Collier and William F. Sater. Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective. By Paul W. Drake. On Constitutional Ground. By John Hart Ely. Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule. By Emmett M. Essin. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790. By Joan R. Gundersen. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. By Paul Hendrickson. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830. By R. Douglas Hurt. Black Savannah: 1788–1864. By Whittington B. Johnson. The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend. By Donna J. Kessler. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. By Frieda Knobloch. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson. A History of the Confederate Navy. By Raymond Luraghi. “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Edited by Staughton Lynd. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928. By Matthew J. Mancini. Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. By Doug Owram. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. By Nell Irvin Painter. Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke. The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. By William H. Riker. Edited by Randall L. Calvert, John Mueller, and Rick K. Wilson. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff. Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue. Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876–1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood. State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Richard Zuczek. Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. By Nancy Abelmann. Empire & Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870. By C. A. Bayly. China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State. By Shaun Gerard Breslin. The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War. By Christopher Howe. Re-imaging Japanese Women. Edited, with an introduction, by Anne E. Imamura. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. By Xiaoyuan Liu. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937–1941. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Edited by Tu Weiming. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917. By Bruce F. Adams. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. By Dieter Arnold. Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British Fascism. By David Baker. Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914. By C. J. Bartlett. The Church for Others: Protestant Theology in Communist East Germany. By Gregory Baum. Europe under Napoleon, 1799–1815. By Michael Broers. Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47. Edited by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and David Howell. Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. Edited, with an introduction and chapter introductions, by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. By Edward ROSS Dickinson. The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in Central Europe. By Grzegorz Ekiert. Reinventing Germany: German Political Developments Since 1945. By Anthony Glees. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854–1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction, The Struggle for Modernity. Edited by Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790–1870. By David R. Green. The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688–89. Edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain. By Sybil M. Jack. A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000–1485. By Pamela Nightingale. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. By Henry Phillips. The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. Edited by Mark Pinson. Alfred Marshall's “Lectures to Women”: Some Economic Questions Directly Connected to the Welfare of the Laborer. Edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Eugenio Biagini, and Rita Mc Williams Tullberg. Medieval Society and the Manor Court. Edited by Zvi Razi and Richard Smith. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. By Eric Rentschler. Reforming the Russian Legal System. By Gordon B. Smith. King or Covenant? Voices from Civil War. By David Stevenson. Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834. By Charles Tilly. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560–1791. By Dale K. Van Kley. The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. By Geoffrey Wawro. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Edited by Paul G. Bahn. Fins de siècles: How Centuries End, 1400–2000. Edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman. Railways. Studies in Transport History Series]. Volume I, edited by Terri Gourvish; volume II, edited by Geoffrey Channon. Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation. By R. C. Finucane.