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Documents and Bibliographies
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COMPARATIVE/WORLD
Pomykalski, Wanda E. The Horror Trains: A Polish Woman Veteran's Memoir of World War II. Pasadena, Md.: The Minerva Center. 1999. Pp. xiii, 362. $50.00.
Sakurai, Tadayoshi. Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of Port Arthur. Forewords by Count Okuma and Roger Spiller. Translated by Masujiro Honda. Edited by Alice Mabel Bacon. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. xxv, 269. $15.00.
ASIA
Kaempfer, Engelbert. Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed. Edited and translated by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 545. Cloth $64.00, paper $34.95.
Pant, Govind Ballabh. Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant. Volume 10. Edited by B. R. Nanda. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xxxiii, 488. $21.95.
Shuichi, Katō.
A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World.
Translated by Chia-ning Chang.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp.
xxxvi, 470. $50.00.
Szymusiak, Molyda. The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood 19751980. Translated by Linda Coverdale. Foreword by Jane Hamilton-Merritt. (Vietnam War Era Classics Series.) Reprint. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 245.
Xiao Di, Zhu. Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China. Foreword by Ross Terrill. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 255. $34.95.
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
Abzug, Robert H. America Views the Holocaust, 19331945: A Brief Documentary History. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture.) New York: St. Martin's. 1999. Pp. xv, 236. $39.95.
Adams, Lois Bryan. Letter from Washington, 18631865. Edited by Evelyn Leasher. (Great Lakes Books.) Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 1999. Pp. 369. $39.95.
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. Edited by Victoria Bissell Brown. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture.) Reprint. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. 1999. Pp. xii, 276. $39.95.
Alexander, Irvin. Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War. Edited by Dominic J. Caraccilo. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 1999. Pp. ix, 340. $24.95.
Ayling, Augustus D. A Yankee at Arms: The Diary of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts Volunteers. Edited by Charles F. Herberger. (Voices of the Civil War Series.) Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 301. $36.00.
Brownlow, Parson. Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book. Edited by Stephen V. Ash. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1999. Pp. 157. Cloth $29.95, paper $12.95.
Burgett, Donald R. Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne. Novato, Calif.: Presidio. 1999. Pp. xiii, 225. $24.95.
Burlingame, Michael, and John R. Ettlinger, editors. Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Paperback edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 393. $22.95.
Campbell, Alexander, and James Campbell. "Him on the One Side and Me on the Other": The Civil War Letters of Alexander Campbell, 79th New York Infantry Regiment and James Campbell, 1st South Carolina Battalion. Edited by Terry A. Johnston, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 190. $24.95.
Clayton, Sarah Conley. Requiem for a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South. Edited by Robert Scott Davis Jr. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 213. $32.95.
Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 19641968. Volume 15, Germany and Berlin. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1999. Pp. xxx, 813. $45.00.
Ebey, Winfield Scott. The 1854 Oregon Trail Diary of Winfield Scott Ebey. Edited by Susan Badger Doyle and Fred W. Dykes. (Emigrant Trails Historical Studies Series, number 2.) Independence, Mo.: Oregon-California Trails Association. 1997. Pp. xiii, 247. Cloth $27.95, paper $14.95.
Edison, Thomas A. The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 4, The Wizard of Menlo Park, 1878. Edited by Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier, and Louis Carlat. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998. Pp. xlvii, 919. $75.00.
Ehrhart, W. D. Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Vietnam War. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 334. $29.50.
Fleharty, Stephen F. "Jottings from Dixie": The Civil War Dispatches of Sergeant Major Stephen F. Fleharty, U.S.A. Edited by Philip J. Reyburn and Terry L. Wilson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 262. $29.95.
Guilds, John Caldwell, editor. Arkansas, Arkansas: Writers and Writings from the Delta to the Ozarks, 15411969. Volume 1. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1999. Pp. xxii, 605. $42.00.
Hammon, Neal O., editor. My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone. Foreword by Nelson L. Dawson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1999. Pp. xi, 176. $19.00.
Hoagland, Edgar D. The Sea Hawks: With the PT Boats at War. Novato, Calif.: Presidio. 1999. Pp. viii, 237. $24.95.
Housewright, Wiley L., compiler and editor. An Anthology of Music in Early Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1999. Pp. xiv, 325. $19.95.
Houston, Sam. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston. Volume 3, 18481852. Edited by Madge Thornall Roberts. Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press. 1999. Pp. vii, 508. $32.50.
Iriye, Akira. Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture.) New York: St. Martin's. 1999. Pp. xii, 258. $39.95.
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., Joanne Nagel, and Troy Johnson. editors. Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom. 2d ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 300. Cloth $45.00, paper $15.00.
Kelsey, Mavis P., Sr. Twentieth-Century Doctor: House Calls to Space Medicine. (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities, number 4.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 408. $29.95.
Kendall, George Wilkins. Dispatches from the Mexican War. Edited by Lawrence Delbert Cress. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1999. Pp. 448. $57.50.
King, John M. Three Years with the 92nd Illinois: The Civil War Diary of John M. King. Edited by Claire E. Swedberg. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 1999. Pp. ix, 262. $24.95.
Latour, Arsène Lacarrière. Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 181415: With an Atlas. Edited by Gene A. Smith. (Historic New Orleans Collection.) Rev. ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, in association with the Historic New Orleans Collection. 1999. Pp. xlii, 358. $49.95.
Marks, Leo. Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 19411945. New York: Free Press. 1998. Pp. 613. $27.50.
Marshall, Jeffrey D., editor. A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters. Foreword by Edwin C. Bearss. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1999. Pp. xviii, 357. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00.
Noy, Gary, editor and compiler. Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West. (A Bison Original.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 467. $22.00.
Post, Charles Johnson. The Little War of Private Post: The Spanish-American War Seen Up Close. Foreword by Graham A. Cosmas and Marylou K. Gjernes. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 340. $15.00.
Rasmussen, Knud. Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition. Foreword by Terrence Cole. (Classic Reprint Series, number 6.) Reprint. Fairbanks, Alas.: University of Alaska Press. 1999. Pp. xl, 415. Cloth $35.95, paper $24.95.
Robbins, Mary Susannah, editor. Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 1999. Pp. xxv, 317. Cloth $49.95, paper $24.95.
Robins, Elizabeth. The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900. Edited by Victoria Joan Moessner and Joanne E. Gates. Fairbanks, Alas.: University of Alaska Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 390. $22.95.
Robinson, Frazier, and Paul Bauer. Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Forewords by John "Buck" O'Neil and Gerald Early. (Sports and Entertainment.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 230. $27.95.
Santoli, Al. To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians. Foreword by Jane Hamilton-Merritt. (Vietnam War Era Classics Series.) Reprint. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1999. Pp. xxvi, 367.
Smith, Marian Elizabeth, and Eugene T. Petersen. A Chance for Love: The World War II Letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR. Edited by Eugene T. Petersen. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 461.
Stave, Bruce M., and John F. Sutherland. From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America. Assisted by Aldo Salerno. Paperback edition. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1999. Pp. xviii, 281.
Stiles, T. J., editor and compiler. Founding Fathers. Foreword by William Pencak. (In Their Own Words.) New York: Perigree. 1999. Pp. xxxviii, 359. $16.00.
Tinling, Marion, editor and compiler. With Women's Eyes: Visitors to the New World, 17751918. Reprint. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1999. Pp. xvii, 207. $13.95.
Venzon, Anne Cipriano, editor. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia. Assisted by Paul L. Miles. (Military History of the United States, number 3.) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, number 1205.) Paperback edition. New York: Garland. 1999. Pp. xx, 830. $39.95.
Weintraut, Linda, and Jane R. Nolan, compilers and editors. "In the Public Interest": Oral Histories of Hoosier Broadcasters. Assisted by John Warner. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 1999. Pp. ix, 318.
White, Phillip M., compiler. The Kickapoo Indians, Their History and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, number 41.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1999. Pp. xxvi, 118. $55.00.
Whitman, Walt. The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War. Edited by John Harmon McElroy. Boston: David R. Godine. 1999. Pp. xix, 167. $29.95.
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
Alva, Bartolomé de. A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634. Edited by Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller. Assisted by Lu Ann Homza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1999. Pp. x, 174. $40.00.
Cieza de León, Pedro de. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World Encounter. Edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. (Latin America in Translation.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 501. Cloth $64.95, paper $21.95.
Schele, Linda, and Peter Mathews. The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs. Photographs by Macduff Everton and Justin Kerr. (A Touchstone Book.) New York: Simon and Schuster. 1998. Pp. 431. $20.00.
EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL
Bates, David. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normanorum: The Acta of William I (10661087). New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University. 1998. Pp. xxxviii, 1153. $175.00.
Briggs, Charles F. Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275-c. 1525. (Cambridge Studies in Paleography and Codicology, number 7.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 207. $69.95.
Coates, Alan. English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University. 1999. Pp. xxi, 211.
Jones, Christopher A., editor and translator. \Jlfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, number 24.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 255. $69.95.
Matheson, Lister M., editor. Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles. (Medieval Chronicles, number 2.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell. 1999. Pp. x, 157. $75.00.
McGurk, P., editor and translator. The Chronicle of John of Worcester. Volume 3, The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 1141. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University. 1998. Pp. l, 351. $99.00.
de Pizan, Christine. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry. Edited by Charity Cannon Willard. Translated by Sumner Willard. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. Pp. 223. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95.
Shirley, Janet, translator. Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century: The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text. (Crusader Texts in Translation.) Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate. 1999. Pp. 156. $61.95.
Tugwell, Simon, editor. Bernardi Guidonis Scripta de Sancto Dominico. (Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica, number 27.) Rome: Dominican Historical Institute. 1998. Pp. 311.
EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN
Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Foreword by Roger Kimball. (An Elephant Paperback.) Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 1999. Pp. xl, 211. $14.95.
Bishop, Alan, and Mark Bostridge, editors. Letters from a Lost Generation: The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends; Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. Pp. xix, 427. $29.95.
Boswell, James. James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 2, 17661776. Edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring. (The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.) New Haven: Yale University Press. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 1998. Pp. xviii, 303. $70.00.
Brind, Harry. Lying Abroad: Diplomatic Memoirs. New York: Radcliffe. 1999. Pp. xi, 260. $39.50.
Brockington, William S., Jr., editor. Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys. Foreword by Geoffrey Parker. (Praeger Series in War Studies.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 1999. Pp. xlix, 429. $75.00.
Burke, Edmund. The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Volume 1, The Early Writings. Edited by T. O. McLoughlin, James T. Boulton, and William B. Todd. New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University. 1997. Pp. xv, 589. $140.00.
Di Simone, Mariapina,
et al., editors. Documenti per la storia delle relazioni italo-polacche
(19181940)/Dokumenty dotyczace historii stosunków polsko-w|floskich
(19181940 r.). (Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di stato: Fonti,
number 26.) Rome: Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali. In 2
volumes. 1998. Pp. xxvii, 798; 7991615.
Douglas, James G. Memoirs of Senator James G. Douglas (18871954): Concerned Citizen. Edited by J. Anthony Gaughan. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 212. $49.95.
Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste. A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 18261829. Edited and translated by August Frugé and Neal Harlow. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xxx, 254. $29.95.
Fuhrmann, Joseph T., editor. The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914-March 1917. (Documentary Reference Collections.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 1999. Pp. 773. $125.00.
Hilberg, Raul, Stanislaw Staron, and Josef Kermisz, editors. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom. Translated by Stanislaw Staron. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 1999. Pp. viii, 420. $18.95.
I documenti diplomatici italiani: Seconda serie; 18701896. Volume 20 (26 luglio 188630 luglio 1887). Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato. 1998. Pp. lxvii, 849.
Kaplan, Chaim A. Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Foreword by Israel Gutman. Edited and translated by Abraham I. Katsch. Reprint. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. 1999. Pp. 410. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95.
Kolb, Eberhard, and Ludwig Richter, editors. Nationalliberalismus in der Weimarer Republik: Die Führungsgremien der Deutschen Volkspartei 19181933. Volume 1, 19181925. (Quellen zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, third series, number 9.) Düsseldorf: Droste. 1999. Pp. 648.
Kolb, Eberhard, and Ludwig Richter, editors. Nationaliberalismus in der Weimarer Republik. Volume 2, 19261933. (Quellen zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, third series, number 9.) Düsseldorf: Droste. 1999. Pp. 1323.
Lindley, Keith. The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge. 1998. Pp. xii, 201. Cloth $65.00, paper $19.99.
Nelken, Halina. And Yet, I Am Here! Translated by Halina Nelken and Alicia Nitecki. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 276. $27.95.
Nubola, Cecilia, editor. Per una banca dati delle visite pastorali italiane: Le visite della diocesi di Trento (15371940). (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico, number 49.) Bologna: Mulino. 1998. Pp. 517. L. 70,000.
Sandstrom, Roy E., editor. Comrades-in-Arms: The World War I Memoir of Captain Henri de Lécluse, Comte de Trévoëdal. Translated by Jacques F. Dubois. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 227. $35.00.
Schueler, Julia. Elsewhere: A Memoir. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 238. $27.95.
Sprecher, Drexel A. Inside the Nuremberg Trial: A Prosecutor's Comprehensive Account. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. In two volumes. 1999. Pp. xvii, 712; vi, 1580.
Tone, Theobald Wolfe. The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 176398. Volume 1, Tone's Career in Ireland to June 1795. Edited by T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell, and C. J. Woods. New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University. 1998. Pp. xl, 540. $120.00.
Tracy, Nicholas. editor. The Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War. Volume 1, 17931798. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 1999. Pp. xiii, 366. $39.95.
Tracy, Nicholas. editor. The Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War. Volume 2, 17991804. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 1999. Pp. vii, 375. $39.95.
Varon, Laura. The Juderia: A Holocaust Survivor's Tribute to the Jewish Community of Rhodes. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 1999. Pp. x, 166. $35.00.
Wagner, Gottfried. Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy. Translated by Della Couling. New York: Picador. 1999. Pp. viii, 310. $25.00.
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA
Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. vii, 279. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.95.
Baladouni, Vahé, and Margaret Makepeace, editors. Armenian Merchants of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: English East India Company Sources. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, number 88, part 5.) Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society. 1998. Pp. xxxvii, 294. $22.00.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Kalley, Jacqueline A., Elna Schoeman, and L. E. Andor, compilers. Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Assisted by Abdul Samed Bemath, Claire Kruger, and Beth Strachan. Foreword by Peter Vale. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1999. Pp. xvii, 904. $145.00.
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