| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Linda Grant De Pauw. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1998. Pp. xvii, 395. $24.95.

History today is not so much a coherent academic discipline as an assemblage of loosely related sub-fields. The traditional divisions of time and space persist, but these now frame social and economic history as well as narratives of politics and war. New methodologies and theoretical approaches have inspired systematic reappraisal of earlier findings while simultaneously inviting us to discover history in nooks and crannies of the human experience previously overlooked. The result is a body of published research swollen to such immense proportions that few historians would claim to have mastered the relevant material for an entire sub-field. It thus requires considerable courage for an individual to pursue even a narrowly defined theme from prehistory to the present. When, as in the present book by Linda Grant De Pauw, the theme is expansive and conjoins two richly developed sub-fields—military and women's history—the exercise is fraught with peril. For the treatment of those periods outside the author's own expertise (here the American Revolution), the secondary literature becomes critical. Poor choices invite errors of fact, method, and concept. . . .

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