BOOK REVIEWS

Recent Prize-Winning Books in History The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870 Between Mutiny and Obedience Review Essay: Clio Goes to the Ballpark Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908 Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer Sol Whites History of Colored Baseball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886–1936 Africa and the Middle East Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1838 Colonialism in the Congo Basin: 1880–1940 The Americas: Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914 James Buchanan and the American Empire The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement Lion of the Forest: James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990 Coca Prohibition in Peru: The Historical Debates The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police, 1895–1897 Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster The Populist Persuasion: An American History Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Andersonville: The Last Depot. By William Marvel Three Frontiers: Family, land, and society in the American West, 1850–1900 The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854–1920 Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives Small Worlds, Large Questions: Explorations in Early American Social History, 1600–1850 Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870–1900 Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium The Evolution Controversy in America Asia and the Pacific American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire. By Ruan Ming The Sorrow of War_: A Novel of North Vietnam Turbans and Traders: Hong Kong's Indian Communities Europe The Diplomats, 1939–1979 William Tyndale, A Biography Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Finde-Siècle Europe The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770–1868 Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium Saint Peter: A Biography Battle Tactics of the Western Front Sidonius Apollinaris and the Full of Rome AD 407–485 Dictionary of East European History since 1945 The German Colonial Empire 1884–1919 The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400–1700 Nazi Germany at War Disraeli Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany The Social Legacy of Communism Pence Without Victory for the Allies 1918–1932 The Impact of the Reformation Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism An Economic History of Medieval Europe Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198–1216 Constitutional Royalism and the Search For Settlement, c. 1640–1649 The Russian Fur East: A History Socialism and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire 1876–1923 The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782–1992 Neither Kingdom Nor Nation: The Irish Quest for Constitutional Rights, 1698–1800 John Stuart Mill and India Turkey: A Modern History General, Comparative, Historiographical International Relations Since 1945: A History Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make Gender Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in History