Book Reviews

Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. By Ellen Carol DuBois. Thank You St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. By Robert Orsi. Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996. By Daryl Michael Scott. In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community. By Anne M. O. Griffiths. Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989. By Barbara M. Cooper. TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955–1965. By Susan Geiger. The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization, 1712–1920. By Sundiata A. Djata. The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf; 1745–1900. By Hala Fattah. A History of the African Societies to 1870. By Elizabeth Isichei. The Holy War in Western and Islamic Traditions. By James Turner Johnson. An Aristocracy in Political Crisis: The End of Indirect Rule and the Emergence of Party Politics in the Emirates of Northern Nigeria. By Alhaji Mahmood Yakubu. The Amercas : Ancient Civilizations of the New World. By Richard E. W. Adams. The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin. By Douglas Anderson. Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870–1930. By Hal S. Barron. American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity. By Paul K. Conkin. Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change. By John C. Ewers. Foreword by William T. Hagan. Samuel Adam: Radical Puritan. By William M. Fowler Jr. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. By John Lewis Gaddis. The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy. Edited by David Gray Adler and Larry N. George. The Civil War on CD-ROM, V1.5 Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History. By David A. Hollinger. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Peter Iverson. Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West. Edited with introductions by Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage. Improbable Dangers: US. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After. By Robert H. Johnson. In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture. By Michael Kammen. Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840–1875. By Larry Lankton. Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828–1876. By Jean V. Matthews. Power in the Blood: Land, Memory and a Southern Family. By John Bentley Mays. A Stupendous Effort: The 87th Indiana in the War of the Rebellion. By Jack K. Overmyer. Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States. By Lora Romero. Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League For Peace and Freedom Before World War II. By Linda K. Schott. Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996. By Michael Daryl Scott. In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Emigration in America. By Rita J. Simon. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US. History. By Rogers M. Smith. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939. By Daniel Soyer. Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. By Lynn Stephen. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Edited by Donald F. Stevens. From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru. By Mark Thurner. Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present. By Ann Wagner. Asia and the Pacific : Japan's Postwar History. By Gary D. Allinson. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 B.C.-1900 A.D. By Gang Deng. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. Edited by Donald Denoon, with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea, and Karen Nero. Another History: Essays on China from a European Perspective. By Mark Elvin. The Travels of Dean Mahornet. By Michael H. Fisher. Japan Among the Great Powers 1890–1990. By Sydney Giffard. Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution. By Andrew Edmund Goble. The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Taoism: Growth of a Religion. By Isabelle Robinet. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea. By Gi-Wook Shin. Europe : Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815. By Ken Alder. The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866–1880. By John F. Beeler. Resistance, Representation, and Community. Edited by Peter Blickle. Latinity and Literary Society at Rome. By W. Martin Bloomer. Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Edited by Mary Buckley. Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide. By Michael Burleigh. Workhouse Children. By Frank Crompton. Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870–1914. By Anna Davin. Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined. By Miles H. Davidson. contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England. By Mary J. Dobson. Am Economic History of the Silk Insustry. 1830–1930. By Giovanni Federico. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe. By Bert S. Hall. The Religious Life of Richard 111: Piety and Prayer in the North of England. By Jonathan Hughes, with a foreward by Jeremy Catto. The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades. By Ann Hyland. Foreword by Michael Prestwich. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. By Cemal Kafadar. Philip of Spain. By Henry Kamen. Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649–1653. By Sean Kelsey. Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898–1904. By Tuomo Polvinen. Translated by Steven Huxley. The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis. By William D. Rubinstein. Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era. By Lawrence Sondhaus. Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day. By Joan Thirsk. Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863–1914. By Theodore Weeks. Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion. By H. L. Wesseling. General , Comparative , Historiographical : The Illustrated History of the Housewife, 1650–1950. By Una A. Robertson. Russian-American Dialogue on Cultural Relations, 1776–1914. Edited by Norman E. Saul and Richard D. McKinzie. The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources. By Dennis A. Trinkle, Dorothy Auchter, Scott A. Merriman, and Todd E. Larson. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism. By Sheldan Watts.