Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : Elliott Hall IV, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware , OH 43015 Telephone : 740–368–3642 Fax : 740–368-3643 E-mail BRHISTOR@cc.owu.edu Recent Prize -Winning Books in History : Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg. Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria arid the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. By Louise Young. Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey P. Kimball. Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War. Edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. Africa and the Middle East : Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Boubacar Barry. Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery. By Palmira Brummett. Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa. By Ivan Evans. All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By Khaled Fahmy. Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950–1954. By Mary Ann Heiss. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. Edited by James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni. Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire. By Osumaka Likaka. The African Diaspora. Edited by Alusine Jalloh and Stephen E. Maizlish. Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. By Ann O'Hear. The Americas : The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era. By Albert Boime. Worker's Control in Latin America, 1930–1979. Edited by Jonathan C. Brown. The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925. By Elisabeth S. Clemens. When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth Century America. By Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn. Not Like Us: Immigrants arid Minorities in America, 1890–1924. By Roger Daniels. The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past. Edited by John Patrick Diggins. Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. By Dinesh D'Souza. The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan. By Don E. Dumond. Confederate Military History on CD-ROM. Edited by Clement A. Evans. Rethinking American Indian History. Edited by Donald Fixico. Wall Street: A History. By Charles R. Geisst. Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science. By James Gilbert. Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. By Frederic W. Gleach. Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South. By Kenneth S. Greenberg. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800. By Eric Hinderaker. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961. By Walter L. Hixson. Plain Folk of the South Revisited. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. Desertion During the Civil War. By Ella Lonn. Public versus Private Power during the Truman Administration: A Study of Fair Deal Liberalism. By Phyllis Komarek de Luna. Black Leadership. By Manning Marable. Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917–1921. By Charles H. McCormick. American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest. By Gregory H. Nobles. William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863–1910. By Ben Procter. Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire. By Lex Renda. How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Belinda Robnett. Indian Women of Early Mexico. Edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade. By Jeff Shesol. A Signal Victory, The Lake Erie Campaign 1812–1813. By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T. Altoff. Asia and the Pacific : Early Daoist Scriptures. By Stephen R. Bokenkamp. Gandhi: A Life. By Yogesh Chadha. The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917–1947. By Ian Copland. Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. By Ranajit Guha. The Japanese City. Edited by P. P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton. Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning, 1774–1873. By James Lee and Cameron Campbell, with contributions by Chris J. Myers and Yizhuang Ding. Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. By Sow-Theng Leong. Europe : Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Margaret Aston and Colin Richmond. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. By Robin Briggs. Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century. By Youssef Cassis. Bolshevik Women. By Barbara Evans Clements. Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. By David Cressy. The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World. By Doyne Dawson. Women of the Twelfth Century. Volume I, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others. By Georges Duby. Translated by Jean Birrell. Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation. By David Dutton. The Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815. By David Gates. Holocaust Journey. By Martin Gilbert. Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers. By Anthony Grafton. On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler. By Theodore S. Hamerow. The Romanians, 1774–1866. By Keith Hitchins. The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540–1580. By Caroline Litzenberger. The Hitler of History. By John Lukacs. James IV. By Norman MacDougall. Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach. By S. P. MacKenzie. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape. By Emilio Sereni. Translated by R. Burr Litchfield. Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918–1948. By A. J. Sherman. Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. By David W. Tandy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 296. $45.00.) King George II and Queen Caroline. By John Van Der Kiste. Medieval Women in Their Communities. Edited by Diane Watt. Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620–1643. By Tom Webster. The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria. By Richard Williams. General , Comparative , Historiographical : The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order. By Robert Latham. A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States. By Sheila Rowbotham. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. By Leila J. Rupp. Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States. By Michael M. Sheng.