Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies. By Jeffrey Herf. China: Understanding Its Past. By Eileen H. Tamura, Linda K. Menton, Noren W. Lush, Francis K. C. Tsui, and Warren Cohen. The Oxford History of the British Empire in Five Volumes : The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Nicholas Canny. The Eighteenth Century. Edited by P. J. Marshall. The Nineteenth Century Edited by Andrew Porter. The Twentieth Century Edited by Judith M. Brown and William Roger Louis. Historiography Edited by Robin W. Winks. Africa and the Middle East : The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. By Joel Beinin. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold‐Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility & Containment, 1915–1946. Edited by Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace, and Wolfram Hartmann. Weathered By Miracles. By Thomas A. Idinopulos. War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I. By Donald M. McKale. Slavery arid Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. By Ehud R. Toledano. The Americas : Argentina, the United States, and the Anti‐Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984. By Ariel Armony. The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. By Carl Benn. Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American‐Israeli Alliance. By Abraham Ben‐Zvi. Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. By Mary Warner Blanchard. The Shape of the River: Long‐Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. By William G. Bowen and Derek Bok. Peronism arid Argentina. Edited by James P. Brennan. Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. By Thomas J. Brown. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches. By James Tunstead Burtchaell. The Roosevelt Women. By Betty Boyd Caroli. Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750–1830. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute. Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the Modern World. By James Chace. Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. By Campbell Craig. The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780–1833. By Peter S. Field. Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890–1930. By Patrick Frank. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. By Gary W. Gallagher. Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth‐Century America. By Nan Goodman. Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. By Paul Goodman. Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth‐Century City. By Amy S. Greenberg. The Upset that Wasn't: Harry S. Truman and the Crucial Election of 1948. By Harold I. Gullan. Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861–1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. The Rood to Appomattox. By Robert Hendrickson A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Hogan. Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. Contested Cornmunities, Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's EI Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–19.51. By Thomas Miller Klubock. The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount. By Buckner F. Melton Jr. The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. By John T. Noonan Jr. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870–1920. By Madelon Powers. George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman. By Thomas J. Rowland. Race arid Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angela Suburb. By Leland T. Saito. The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth‐Century American Culture. By Susan Scheckel. The Reconstruction Presidents. By Brooks D. Simpson. Asia and the Pacific: “Gone Native” in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. By I. C. Campbell. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. By Edward J. Drea. Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. By Michael N. Pearson. Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th‐Century Tosa. By Luke S. Roberts. Europe: War and Faith: The Religious Imagination in France, 1914–1930. By Annette Becker. Translated from French by Helen McPhail. Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. By David Alan Brown. Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena. By William Caferro. My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin By Peter Gay. From Polrziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. By Peter Godman. Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West. Edited by Guy Halsall. Making Saints: Religion arid the Public Image of the British Army, 1809–1885. By Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. By Lindsey Hughes. Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture and Literature in Nineteenth‐Century England. By Joss Marsh. Freud arid the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Uniori. By Martin Mdler. Bordering Russia: Theory and Prospects for Europe's Baltic Rim. Edited by Hans Mouritzen. Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past. By Anton Pelinka. Herodotus. By James Romm. In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945–1948. By Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Ghosts iri the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society. By Jean‐Claude Schmitt. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers De Doliances of 1789. By Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, with contributions by Timothy Tackett and Philip Dawson. Foreword by Charles Tilly. White, Mutiny: British Military Culture in India. By Peter Stanley. The Invention of the Crusades. By Christopher Tyerman. Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime. By Dmitri Volkogonov. Edited and translated by Harold Shukman. Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. By Robert G. L. Waite. General, Comparative, Historiographical: The Columbia History of the 20th Century. Edited by Richard W. Bulliet. The History of Diplomatic Immunity. By Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. By Daniel T. Rodgers. Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World. By Michael R. Rose.