Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism. By Gareth Davies. In the Currents : Making Headway in Ethiopian Social History The Making of Modern Ethiopia: 1896–1974. By Teshale Tibebu. Ethiopia: Power and Protest, Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. By Gebru Tareke. Africa and the Middle East Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East. Edited by David Garnham and Mark Tessler. The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy. By Burton I. Kaufman. From Slave Trade to “!Legitimate Commerce”: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Edited by Robin Law. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. By Bernard Lewis. Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville. By Phyllis M. Martin. Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940–93. Edited by B. A. Ogot and W. R. Ochieng. The Americas How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. By Stephen Aron. Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WW II. By Nat Brandt. Making Peace with the 60s. By David Burner. Masters of War. By Robert Buzzanco. Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador. By Warren R. DeBoer. On the Side of My People: A Religious Life Of Malcolm X. By Louis A. DeCaro Jr. Robert Kennedy: The Final Years. By Brian Dooley. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. By David M. Esposito. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815–1840. By Daniel Feller. More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Rioting in America. By Paul A. Gilje. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. The Passing of Starr Faithfull. By Jonathan Goodman. Man of the People: The Life of Harry S. Truman. By Alonzo L. Hamby. The Press of the Young Republic, 1783–1833. By Carol Sue Humphrey. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation. By Willard Carl Klunder. Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions. By Lloyd Kramer. Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability: An Interpretive Profile. By L. B. Kuppenheimer. Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776–1995. By David E. Kyvig. Race Relations Within Western Expansion. By Alan J. Levine. George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency. By David Mervin. The New Crusades, The New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969–1991. By David T. Morgan. A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850–1920. By Donald J. Pisani. Christmas in America: A History. By Penne L. Restad. Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity and Mexican Culture. By Claudia Schaefer. The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800–1880. Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway. A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas. By Jeannie M. Whayne. Asia and the Pacific Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China. By Richard L. Davis. The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. By Sheldon Garon. Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. By Stephanie Lawson. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433. By Louise Levathes. Agricultural Production and Indian History. Edited by David Ludden. The Japanese Kimono. By Hugo Munsterburg. Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins. Europe And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918–1930. By Alan M. Ball. Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931. Edited by Eugenio Biagini. Einstein: A Life. By Denis Brain. The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England. By Michelle P. Brown. The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity. By Kate Cooper. Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic. By Anthony Corbeill. The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt. Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600–1987. By Richard J. Evans. The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. By Ilya V. Gaiduk. Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning. By Eugenia C. Kiesling. Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945–1958. By Paul W. T. Kingston. Denmark in the Thirty Years’War, 1618–1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State. By Paul Douglas Lockhart. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg. Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1995. Edited by Reiner Pommerin. The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs. Edited by Donald J. Raleigh, compiled by A. A. Iskenderov. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780–1914. By Richard Rodger. The War for the German Mind: Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers. By Arthur L. Smith Jr. The Prussian Army, 1640–1871. By Jonathan R. White. The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic. By Roger Woods. General , Comparative , Historiographical Colbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade. By Glenn J. Ames. The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective. Edited by Victoria de Grazia with Ellen Furlough. The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification. By Mary N. Hampton. “Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide. By Sven Lindqvist. Translated by Joan Tate. Progress: Fact or Illusion? Edited by Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish. Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. By James M. Perry. Tobacco in Atlantic Trade: The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675–1775. By Jacob M. Price. World History: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present. By Hugh Thomas.