Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Slavery in North Carolina, 1748–1775. By Lorin Lee Cary and Marvin L. Michael Kay. Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer. By David W. Zang. The African American Heritage of Florida. Edited by David R. Colburn and Jane L. Landers. Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution. By M. Steven Fish Whither Russia : Democracy or Communism? Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union. By Scott Shane Communism: The Vanished Specter. By Richard Pipes Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice, 1875–1902. By Vivian Bickford-Smith. The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast. By Robert B. Edgerton. The Church in Africa: 1450–1950. By Adrian Hastings. An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1914. Edited by Halil Inalcik, with Donald Quataert. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. By Cemal Kafadar. Development for Exploitation: German Colonial Policies in Main-land Tanzania, 1884–1914. By Juhani Koponen. Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land. By F. E. Peters. Henry Clay and the American System. By Maurice G. Baxter. MacArthur's Undercover War: Spies, Saboteurs, Guerrillas, and Secret Missions. By William B. Breuer. American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World. By Lea Brilmayer. The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. By Michael Burlingame. The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations. By Robert David Johnson. Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim. Edited by Robert E. May. A. P. Giannini and the Bank of America. By Gerald D. Nash. Canada Dry: Temperance Crusades before Confederation. By Jan Noel. The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture. By Guy Oakes. The American Kitchen: 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise. By Ellen M. Plante. The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley. By Glenda Riley. A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890–1937. By William G. Ross. Remembering the Maine. By Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels. The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion. By Jimmy K. Skaggs. Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776–1860. Edited by Mark D. Szuchman and Jonathan C. Brown. Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosi, 1692.1826. By Enrique Tandeter. Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy. By Robert A. Taylor. Robert E. Lee: A Biography. By Emory M. Thomas. Diplomats in Buckskins: A History of Indian Delegations in Washington City. By Herman J. Viola. Foreword by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Governing the White House: From Hoover Through LBJ. By Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult. Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy. By Robert H. Wiebe. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne. Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century. By Sinnappah Arasaratnam. Resistance and Reform in Tibet. Edited by Robert Barnett. Credit, Markets, and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India. Edited by Sugata Bose. Modern Indonesia: A History Since 1945. By Robert Cribb and Colin Brown. Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines. By Ken De Bevoise. The Origins of the Great Leap Forward: The Case of One Chinese Province. By Jean-Luc Domenach. Translated by A.M. Berrett. The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s. By Leonard A. Humphreys. The Politics of a Popular Uprising Bundelkhand in 1857. By Tapti Roy. The Anatomy of a Little War: A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair The Gulag at War: Stalin's Forced Labour System in the Light of the Archives. By Edwin Bacon. The French Communist Party in the Fifth Republic. By D. S. Bell and Byron Criddle. Death and Deliverance:‘Euthanasia’in Germany, 1900–1945. By Michael Burleigh. The Yoke of Christ: Martin Bucer and Christian Discipline. By Amy Nelson Burnett. The Politics of English Jacobinism: The Writings of John Thelwall. Edited by Gregory Claeys. The Crossroads of Justice: Law and Culture in Late Medieval France. By Esther Cohen. Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years’War. Edited by Anne Curry and Michael Hughes. Lords of Parliament: Studies, 1714–1914. Edited by R.W. Davis. Everyday Life in Medieval England. By Christopher Dyer. Paper & Iron: Hamburg Business anti German Politics in the Era of inflation, 1897–1927. By Niall Ferguson Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670–1789. By Daniel Gordon. The Young Turks in Opposition. By M. Sükrü Haniog?lu. Gladstone's Imperialism in Egypt: Techniques of Domination. By Robert T. Harrison. The Russian Far East: Historical Essays. By Amir Khisamutdinov. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva. By Robert M. Kingdon. Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678–81. By Mark Knights. Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and “the Jewish Question” in France. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic. By Donald Lateiner. Antisemitism: Its History and Causes. By Bernard Lazare. Introduction by Robert S. Wistrich. Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096–1204. By Ralph-Johannes Lilie. Translated by J. C. Morris and J, E. Ridings. The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain 1920–50. Edited by Robert Millward and John Singleton. The Military in Politics and Society in France and Germany in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Klaus-Jürgen Müller. Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain. By John Newsinger. Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England. By John Carmi Parsons. Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Russian City Teachers, 1860–1914. By Christine Ruane. Alexander Forbes of Brechin: The First Tractarian Bishop. By Rowan Strong. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. By Maria Tatar. Austria, 1938–1988: Anschluss and Fifty Years. Edited by William E. Wright. Men at Work: Labourers and Building Craftsmen in the Towns of Northern England, 1450–1750. By Donald Woodward. Feuding Allies: The Private Wars of the High Command. By William B. Breuer. The Family and Family Relationships, 1500–1900: England, France, and the United States of America. By Rosemary O'Day. British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918–1924. By Christine A. White.