Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone : 740-368-3642 Fax : 740-368-3643 E-mail: brhistor@cc.owu.edu Web address: http://www.cc.owu.edu/~histor/ There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa. By David Reynolds. The Life and Times of Poncho Villa. By Frederick Katz. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. By Woody Holton. Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean. By Madhavi Kale. In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. By Rosemarijn Hoefte. The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. By Dorothy Shineberg. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. By Kate Fleet. The Persian Presence in the Islamic World. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabbagh. A Concise History of South Africa. By Robert Ross. Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. By John-Manuel Andriote. Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. By Jeanie Attie. Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History. Edited, with an introduction, by Michael Bellesiles. A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective. By Herman Belz. Jefferson Davis's Generals. Edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Gregg Cantrell. Security with Solvency: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Shaping of the American Military Establishment. By Gerald Clarfield. Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen. Edited by David Colbert. A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. By Gioia Diliberto. Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. By James P. Duffy. Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918. By Byron Farwell. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. By Richard Wightman Fox. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union & Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. By Howard Jones. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey Kimball. Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism. By Bryan F. Le Beau. All the Daring of a Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. By Elizabeth D. Leonard. The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. By Richard Longstreth. Brennan and Democracy. By Frank I. Michelman. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. By George Anthony Peffer. An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton. By Richard A. Posner. How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Belinda Robnett. Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I. Marcus and Howard P. Segal. Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. By C. Edward Skeen. Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953. By E. Timothy Smith. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. By Mark David Spence. Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840. By Charles F. Walker. Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions. By Marilyn J. Westerkamp. The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power, By Donald W. White. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. By Gary D. Allinson. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. By Susan B. Hanley. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy. Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China. By Roxann Prazniak. Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War. By Tadayoshi Sakurai. With an introduction by Roger J. Spiller. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry. By Samita Sen. Threshold of Terror. The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution. By Rodney Allen. “Final Solution”: Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews. By Götz Aly. Translated by Belinda Cooper and Allison Brown. Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Sebastian Balfour and Paul Preston. The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530. By Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier. Translated by Elizabeth Fackelman. Revised and edited by Edward Peters. Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy. By Phyllis Pray Bober. Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. By Carolyn A. Conley. Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler. Edited by Frank J. Coppa. Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s. Edited by Howard Elcock and Michael Keating. Interpreting the Russian Revolution. By Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii. Jews in a Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Martin Goodman. A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550. By Edwin S. Hunt and James M. Murray. The Collective and the Individual in Russia. By Oleg Kharkhordin. Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Thomas F. Madden. Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution. By Nicholas A. Lambert. Five Days in London: May 1940. By John Lukacs. Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to Lenin's Mausoleum. By Martin Malia. The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy. By Richard K. Marshall. Culture, Religion, and Demographic Behavior: Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace, 1750-1870. By Kevin McQuillan. Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800. Edited by Michael North and David Ormrod. Ireland and Her Neighbors in the Seventh Century. By Michael Richter. Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens. By James P. Sickinger. Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies. By Roderick Stackelberg. The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher. By W. Jeffrey Tatum. Hanoverian Britain and Empire: Essays in Memory of Philip Lawson. Edited by Stephen Taylor, Richard Connors, and Clyve Jones. British Generals in the War of 1812: High Command in the Canadas. By Wesley B. Turner. Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization. By Frederic J. Baumgartner. Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 2, 1927-1934. Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith. Translated by Rodney Livingstone and others. The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Colonial Photography and Exhibitions: Representations of the “Native” People and the Making of European Identities. By Anne Maxwell. Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. By Margaret H. McFadden. Gout: The Patrician Malady. By Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau. Failed Imagination? New World Orders of the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Williams.