Table of Contents

In This Issue

xiii

Articles

Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles
By A. Roger Ekirch	343
Mother Ada Wright and the International Campaign to Free the Scottsboro Boys
By James A. Miller, Susan D. Pennybacker, and Eve Rosenhaft	387
"A New World for Women"? Abortion Law Reform in Britain during the 1930s
By Stephen Brooke	431
Was the Third Reich Movie-Made? Interdisciplinarity and the Reframing of "Ideology"
By Scott Spector	460
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass
By Nancy J. Jacobs	485

Review Essay

The Fates of Human Societies: A Review of Recent Macrohistories
By Gale Stokes	508

Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Shepard Krech III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History.
By Andrew C. Isenberg	526
Richard A. Muller. The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition.
By Larissa Taylor	526
Niccolò Guicciardini. Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736.
By Margaret C. Jacob	527
Lisbet Koerner. Linnaeus: Nature and Nation.
By Martin S. Staum	528
Ernst Wolfgang Becker. Zeit der Revolution!—Revolution der Zeit? Zeiterfahrungen in Deutschland in der Ära der Revolutionen 1789–1848/49.
By Karl Wegert	529
Bouda Etemad. La Possession du monde: Poids et mesures de la colonisation (XVIIIe-XXe siècles).
By Bernard Waites	530
Ruth Leys. Trauma: A Genealogy.
By Geoffrey Cocks	531
Gerald N. Izenberg. Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky through World War I.
By Chandak Sengoopta	532
Nicholas Reeves. The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality?
By David Culbert	532
Marco Mariano. Lo storico nel suo labirinto: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tra ricerca storica, impegno civile e politica.
By Luigi Rossi	533
Peter Novick. The Holocaust in American Life.
By Marc Lee Raphael	534
Edmund Morris. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.
By Michael Rogin	535
Ewa Domanska. Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism.
By Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth	536

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein, editors. War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica.
By John K. Evans	537
Martin van Creveld. The Rise and Decline of the State.
By Charles Tilly	539
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe. The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530–1750).
By James D. Tracy	539
Mira Wilkins and Harm Schröter, editors. The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy 1830–1996.
By Christopher Armstrong	540
Elisabeth W. Sommer. Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727–1801.
By Samuel S. Hill	541
Yukiko Koshiro. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan.
By Rikki Kersten	542
Ursula Lehmkuhl. Pax Anglo-Americana: Machtstrukturelle Grundlagen anglo-amerikanischer Asien- und Fernostpolitik in den 1950er Jahren.
By Georg Schild	543
Rachel P. Maines. The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction.
By Susan E. Cayleff	544

ASIA

John W. Chaffee. Branches of Heaven: A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China.
By Linda Walton	546
Matthew H. Sommer. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China.
By Neil J. Diamant	546
Norman Kutcher. Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State.
By Jerry Dennerline	548
Susan Mann. Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century.
By R. W. L. Guisso	548
Gregor Benton. New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938–1941.
By Diana Lary	549
Jin Qiu. The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution.
By Tony Saich	550
Mark Ravina. Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan.
By Constantine N. Vaporis	551
Adeeb Khalid. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia.
By Shirin Akiner	552
Jane Drakard. A Kingdom of Words: Language and Power in Sumatra.
By Rita Smith Kipp	552
Alfred W. McCoy. Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy.
By Michael Paul Onorato	553
Peter Jackson. The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History.
By Gavin R. G. Hambly	554
Susan Bayly. The New Cambridge History of India.
By Frank F. Conlon	555

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Nancy Christie. Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada.
By Cynthia Comacchio	556
Edelgard Mahant and Graeme S. Mount. Invisible and Inaudible in Washington: American Policies toward Canada.
By Joel J. Sokolsky	557
Dana Frank. Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism.
By Michael Goldfield	558
Charles K. Hyde. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s.
By James A. Mulholland	559
Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America.
By John T. Juricek	560
Jane Landers. Black Society in Spanish Florida.
By David J. Weber	561
Jeffrey Robert Young. Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837.
By Anthony Gene Carey	562
Charles E. Clark. The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town.
By Robert Blair St. George	563
Edward J. Cashin. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier.
By E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.	564
John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture 1776–1882.
By Robert G. Lee	564
Robert Kelley Schneiders. Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri.
By Philip V. Scarpino	565
Stephanie S. Pincetl. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development.
By William G. Robbins	566
Catherine E. Kelly. In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century.
By Mary H. Blewett	567
Joseph P. Ferrie. Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840–1860.
By Kenneth J. Winkle	568
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America.
By Quinton Hosford Dixie	569
Christopher Waldrep. Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817–80.
By David M. Oshinsky	569
Lester D. Stephens. Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815–1895.
By Steven M. Stowe	570
James Turner. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton.
By Frederic Cople Jaher	571
D. G. Hart. The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education.
By Conrad Cherry	572
James H. Moorhead. World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925.
By Paul S. Boyer	573
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Michael M. Sokal, and Bruce V. Lewenstein. The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
By Nancy Smith Midgette	574
Jacqueline M. Moore. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880–1920.
By Charles W. Eagles	575
Irma Watkins-Owens. Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900–1930.
By Kenneth L. Kusmer	575
Lillian Serece Williams. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900–1940.
By Wendell E. Pritchett	576
Jared N. Day. Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Urban Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943.
By James J. Connolly	577
Edward J. Escobar. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900–1945.
By Zaragosa Vargas	578
Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870–1940.
By Madelon Powers	579
Lorine Swainston Goodwin. The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879–1914.
By Janet Golden	580
Linda Gordon. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
By Paula S. Fass	581
Regina Morantz-Sanchez. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn.
By Virginia G. Drachman	582
Kathleen Kennedy. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I; Susan Zeiger. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919.
By Nancy K. Bristow	583
M. Alison Kibler. Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville.
By Kathryn J. Oberdeck	585
Kathryn J. Oberdeck. The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884–1914.
By Mark Pittenger	586
John M. Carroll. Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football.
By Murray Sperber	586
Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930.
By William O. Walker III	587
Walter F. Pratt, Jr. The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910–1921.
By Edward A. Purcell, Jr.	588
David Alistair Yalof. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees.
By Cornell W. Clayton	589
Ruth G. O'Brien. Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935.
By William G. Ross	590
Suzanne Mettler. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy.
By Elizabeth Faue	591
June Hopkins. Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer.
By Martha H. Swain	592
Michael E. Birdwell. Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism.
By Gregory D. Black	593
Shawn Francis Peters. Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution.
By Merlin Owen Newton	594
Gerald D. Nash. The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West.
By Joseph E. Taylor III	595
Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay, editors. The Atomic West.
By Hal K. Rothman	595
Arthur Herman. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator.
By Ellen Schrecker	597
John Fousek. To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War; Christian G. Appy, editor. Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966.
By Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht	598
Philip Jenkins. The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945–1960.
By John Earl Haynes	599
Kenneth R. Philp. Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933–1953; Thomas W. Cowger. The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years.
By John R. Wunder	600
Mark R. Scherer. Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945–1995.
By Donald L. Fixico	602
Kai Bird. The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy; Brothers in Arms.
By Robert D. Schulzinger	603
Kathleen Christison. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy.
By Steven Z. Freiberger	604
Nick Cullather. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954.
By Richard H. Immerman	605
Rebecca E. Klatch. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s.
By Gregory L. Schneider	606
Andrew E. Hunt. The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
By Melvin Small	606
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War.
By Harvard Sitkoff	607
Keith Beattie. The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.
By David Burner	608
Beth Bailey. Sex in the Heartland.
By Jay A. Gertzman	609
John R. Chávez. Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968–1993.
By David G. Gutiérrez	610
Jaap Kooijman. . . . And the Pursuit of National Health: The Incremental Strategy Toward National Health Insurance in the United States of America.
By Georgina Feldberg	611

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington, editors. The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History.
By Robert J. Stewart	611
René De La Pedraja. Latin American Merchant Shipping in the Age of Global Competition.
By Jeremy Baskes	612
Ada Ferrer. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898.
By Philip A. Howard	613
Dorothy Tanck de Estrada. Pueblos de indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750–1821.
By Sonya Lipsett-Rivera	614
Carlos Marichal and Mario Cerutti, compilers. Historia de las grandes empresas en México, 1850–1930.
By Steven Topik	615
Natividad Gutiérrez. Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State.
By David G. LaFrance	616
Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel, editors. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers.
By Donald F. Stevens	617
Kay B. Warren. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala.
By David McCreery	618
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear. Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960.
By James P. Brennan	619
Mirta Zaida Lobato, editor. Política, médicos y enfermedades: Lecturas de historia de la salud in la Argentina.
By Mark D. Szuchman	620

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Leslie Kurke. Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece.
By Sue Blundell	622
Nicholas F. Jones. The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy.
By Frank L. Vatai	622
V. G. Kiernan. Horace: Poetics and Politics.
By Robert Gurval	624
David Frankfurter. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance.
By Jonathan P. Berkey	624
Georges Arabatzis. Éthique du bonheur et orthodoxie à Byzance (IVe-XIIe siècles).
By Timothy E. Gregory	625
Isabel Moreira. Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul.
By Yitzhak Hen	626
Paul Saenger. Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading.
By Michael Richter	627
Mary Dockray-Miller. Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England.
By Clarissa Atkinson	628
H. E. J. Cowdrey. Pope Gregory VII: 1073–1085.
By Bernard Hamilton	628
Debra J. Birch. Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages: Continuity and Change.
By Margaret Harvey	629
Constance A. H. Berman. The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe.
By John A. Nichols	630
William J. Courtenay. Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait.
By J. M. M. H. Thijssen	631
Bridget Ann Henisch. The Medieval Calendar Year.
By Ronald Hutton	632

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Allan Ellenius, editor. Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation.
By Richard A. Jackson	632
Bernd Roeck. Kunstpatronage in der Frühen Neuzeit: Studien zu Kunstmarkt, Künstlern und ihren Auftraggebern in Italien und im Heiligen Römischen Reich (15.-17. Jahrhundert).
By Jeffrey Chipps Smith	633
Pieter Lagrou. The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945–1965.
By Arthur Marwick	634
Rolf Torstendahl, editor. State Policy and Gender System in the Two German States and Sweden, 1945–1989; Teresa Kulawik. Wohlfahrtsstaat und Mutterschaft: Schweden und Deutschland 1870–1912.
By Madeleine Hurd	635
N. J. G. Pounds. A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria.
By Horton Davies	637
A. N. McLaren. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558–1585.
By Retha M. Warnicke	637
Alexandra Walsham. Providence in Early Modern England.
By Ian Green	638
David Zaret. Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England.
By Adrian Johns	639
Joseph M. Levine. Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England.
By Lawrence Manley	640
Rachel Weil. Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680–1714.
By Melinda S. Zook	641
Jeremy Gregory. Restoration, Reformation and Reform, 1660–1828: Archbishops of Canterbury and Their Diocese.
By Peter Marshall	642
Hannah Barker. Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England.
By Paul Monod	643
Mark W. Weatherall. Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine at Cambridge 1800–1940.
By Helge Kragh	644
Dale A. Johnson. The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825–1925.
By Susan Thorne	645
John Martin. The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931.
By Eric Jones	646
Martin Kolinsky. Britain's War in the Middle East: Strategy and Diplomacy, 1936–42.
By Robert Holland	647
Ruán O'Donnell. The Rebellion in Wicklow, 1798.
By Marianne Elliott	648
Patrick M. Geoghegan. The Irish Act of Union: A Study in High Politics 1798–1801.
By Jim Smyth	648
Sean Farrell. Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784–1886.
By Donald Harman Akenson	649
Bernadette Whelan. Ireland and the Marshall Plan, 1947–57.
By John D. Fair	649
Jordi Maluquer de Motes. España en la crisis de 1898: De la gran depresión a la modernización económica del siglo XX.
By William J. Callahan	650
Stanley G. Payne. Fascism in Spain 1923–1977.
By Paul Preston	651
Ann W. Ramsey. Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540–1630.
By Keith P. Luria	652
Anne Bonzon. L'esprit de clocher: Prêtres et paroisses dans le diocèse de Beauvais (1535–1650).
By William Monter	653
A. Annette Finley-Croswhite. Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589–1610.
By Charlotte C. Wells	654
Caroline Hannaway and Ann La Berge, editors. Constructing Paris Medicine.
By Harvey Mitchell	655
Robin Walz. Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris.
By Miriam R. Levin	657
Marjorie A. Beale. The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900–1940.
By Matt Matsuda	658
Bud Burkhard. French Marxism between the Wars: Henri Lefebvre and the "Philosophies."
By Wayne Thorpe	659
Sarah Farmer. Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane; Caroline Wiedmer. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France; Nancy Wood. Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe.
By Omer Bartov	660
Francisca de Haan. Gender and the Politics of Office Work, the Netherlands, 1860–1940.
By Carole Elizabeth Adams	662
Aldo Stella. Il "Bauernführer": Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare.
By Elisabeth G. Gleason	663
Wolfgang Behringer. Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night.
By Trevor Johnson	664
Vera Lind. Selbstmord in der Frühen Neuzeit: Diskurs, Lebenswelt und kultureller Wandel am Beispiel der Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein.
By Craig Koslofsky	665
Stefan Brakensiek. Fürstendiener-Staatsbeamte-Bürger: Amtsführung und Lebenswelt der Ortsbeamten in niederhessischen Kleinstädten (1750–1830).
By Charles Ingrao	666
Hermann Butzer. Diäten und Freifahrt im Deutschen Reichstag: Der Weg zum Entschädigungsgesetz von 1906 und die Nachwirkung dieser Regelung bis in die Zeit des Grundgesetzes.
By Beverly Heckart	667
Young-Sun Hong. Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919–1933.
By Paul Weindling	667
Anson Rabinbach. In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment.
By John McCole	668
Rainer Behring. Demokratische Außenpolitik für Deutschland: Die außenpolitischen Vorstellungen deutscher Sozialdemokraten im Exil 1933–1945.
By Stefan Berger	669
Gavriel Rosenfeld. Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich.
By Jeffry M. Diefendorf	670
Barbara Fait. Demokratische Erneuerung unter dem Sternenbanner: Amerikanische Kontrolle und Verfassunggebung in Bayern 1946.
By Hermann J. Rupieper	671
Alan L. Nothnagle. Building the East German Myth: Historical Mythology and Youth Propaganda in the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1989.
By Catherine Epstein	672
Günter Bischof. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945–55: The Leverage of the Weak.
By William E. Wright	673
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348–1434.
By R. Burr Litchfield	673
Craig Kallendorf. Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance.
By Margaret L. King	674
Frank A. James III. Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer.
By Euan Cameron	675
Tommaso Astarita. Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy.
By Thomas V. Cohen	676
Dianella Gagliani. Brigate nere: Mussolini e la militarizzazione del Partito fascista repubblicano.
By Alexander De Grand	677
Hans Fredrik Dahl. Quisling: A Study in Treachery.
By Oddvar K. Hoidal	678
Marja Kokko. Sisaret, toverit: Naisten järjestäytyminen, ryhmätietoisuus ja kansälaistuminen Jyväskylässä 1800-luvun lopulta 1930-luvulle.
By Niilo Kauppi	679
Mikael Korhonen. Finlands ryska fordringar: Ekonomisk uppgörelse med Ryssland efter 1917; Privata ersättningsfrågr I ett jämförande internationalellt sammanhang.
By A. F. Upton	680
Mark Bassin. Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865.
By Daniel Brower	681
Yanni Kotsonis. Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861–1914.
By Scott J. Seregny	682
David Wartenweiler. Civil Society and Academic Debate in Russia 1905–1914.
By Samuel D. Kassow	683
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.
By J. Arch Getty	684
Andres Kasekamp. The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia.
By Roger Griffin	685
Martin Dean. Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941–44.
By Andrew Ezergailis	686
David M. Glantz and Jonathan H. House. The Battle of Kursk.
By M. K. Dziewanowski	687

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Pnina Lahav. Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century.
By Mordechai Kremnitzer	688

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, editors. Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives.
By Richard Rathbone	689
David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone, editors. Africa's Urban Past.
By Phyllis M. Martin	690
Colleen E. Kriger. Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth-Century West Central Africa.
By Candice L. Goucher	691
Richard B. Allen. Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius.
By Philip M. Allen	691
Benedict Carton. Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa.
By Elizabeth Schmidt	692

Film Reviews

The Emperor's Assassin (Jing ke ci qin wang). Directed by Kaige Chen. Qin Song (also known as The Emperor's Shadow). Directed by Xiaoen Zhou.
By Zhiwei Xiao	694
Hans Staden. Directed by Luiz Alberto Pereira. How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como era gostoso o meu francês). Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
By Darién J. Davis	695
The Trench. Directed by William Boyd.
By Nicholas J. Cull	697
Malena. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
By Stanislao G. Pugliese	698

Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Lorraine Daston, editor. Biographies of Scientific Objects.	700
Susan A. Crane, editor. Museums and Memory.	700
Marcia Landy, editor. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media.	700
Iain Hampsher-Monk, Karin Tilmans, and Frank Van Vree, editors. History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives.	700

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky, editor. The Breakout: The Origins of Civilization.	701
Ian Nish and Yoichi Kibata, editors. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations.	701
Marc Lee Raphael, editor. The Margins of Jewish History.	701
Richard Handler, editor. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology.	701
Pier Angelo Toninelli, editor. The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World.	701
Maggie Andrews and Mary M. Talbot, editors. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture.	702

ASIA

Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan, editors. Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India.

702

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Craig E. Colten, editor. Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change.	702
David Buisseret and Steven G. Reinhardt, editors. Creolization in the Americas.	702
John C. Inscoe, editor. Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation.	702
Janet L. Coryell et al, editors. Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be.	703
Joel H. Silbey, editor. Russian-American Dialogue on the History of U.S. Political Parties.	703
David F. Schmitz and T. Christopher Jespersen, editors. Architects of the American Century: Individuals and Institutions in Twentieth-Century U.S. Foreign Policymaking.	703
Martin J. Medhurst and H. W. Brands, editors. Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History.	703

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

William O. Frazer and Andrew Tyrrell, editors. Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain.

704

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Heinz Duchhardt and Gerhard May. Union-Konversion-Toleranz: Dimensionen der Annäherung zwischen den christlichen Konfessionen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert.	704
Anja Victorine Hartmann, Malgorzata Morawiec, and Peter Voss, editors. Eliten um 1800: Erfahrungshorizonte, Verhaltensweisen, Handlungsmöglichkeiten.	704
Dean Kotlowski, editor. The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro.	704
Archivi audiovisivi Europei: Un secolo di storia operaia.	705
J. R. Wordie, editor. Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815–1939.	705
Peter Catterall, Colin Seymour-Ure, and Adrian Smith, editors. Northcliffe's Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896–1996.	705
Heinz Duchhardt and Matthias Schnettger, editors. Reichsständische Libertät und Habsburgisches Kaisertum.	705
James Retallack, editor. Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830–1933.	706
Dieter Dowe, Jürgen Kocka, and Heinrich August Winkler, editors. Parteien im Wandel vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik: Rekrutierung—Qualifizierung—Karriern.	706
John E. Lesch, editor. The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century.	706
Luigi Blanco, editor. Amministrazione, formazione, e professione: Gli ingegneri in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento.	707
Mark Mazower, editor. After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943–1960.	707
Zvi Gitelman et al., editors. Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk.	707
John Morison, editor. Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1955.	708
Lee Edwards, editor. The Collapse of Communism.	708

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, Jean-Pierre Chrétien, and Claude-Hélène Perrot, compilers. Afrocentrismes: L'histoire des Africains entre Égypte et Amérique.

708

Documents and Bibliographies	709
Other Books Received	712
Communications	720
Index	724

Topical Table of Contents

Administration
630, 649, 666, 673
Agriculture
566, 646, 682
Anthropology
552, 563, 624, 670
Art
532, 617, 632, 633
Biography
527, 528, 533, 535, 550, 564, 571, 586, 588, 592, 597, 603, 624, 678, 688
Business/Finance
540, 558, 559, 595, 615, 649, 673
Career/Professions
582, 645, 662, 666, 667
Childhood/Youth
553, 606, 672
Civil Wars
549, 677
Class
546, 551, 555, 556, 562, 567, 575, 579, 657, 666
Colonial/Postcolonial
530, 560, 611, 613, 614, 650, 691, 692
Comparative
537, 539, 541, 624, 634, 635
Constitutional
588, 589, 594, 648, 667, 671, 673
Crime and Violence
569, 578, 665, 677, 686
Cultural
534, 546, 548, 550, 552, 560, 562, 563, 564, 573, 574, 585, 586, 587, 598, 608, 611, 617, 622, 632, 633, 637, 638, 640, 652, 657, 658, 674, 676, 681, 691
Demography
526, 530, 690
Economics
528, 539, 540, 557, 558, 568, 587, 590, 595, 612, 615, 622, 646, 649, 650, 680, 691
Education/Students
553, 571, 572, 586, 609, 614, 631, 644, 683
Empire
539, 546, 548, 561, 625, 637, 648, 650, 681
Environment
526, 565, 566
Ethnicity
534, 539, 552, 564, 568, 618, 692
Family
548, 556, 628, 641, 692
Film
532, 593, 617
Folklore
563
Foreign Relations/Diplomatic
543, 557, 587, 598, 604, 605, 647, 649, 669, 671, 673, 680, 687
Frontiers/Borderlands
526, 564, 681
Gender
532, 546, 548, 553, 556, 579, 583, 585, 619, 630, 635, 637, 641
Genocide
660, 686
Health/Disease
530, 611, 620
Historiography
529, 533, 536, 572, 630, 640
Ideology
532, 542, 552, 569, 593, 597, 599, 613, 618, 622, 624, 625, 651, 659, 669, 670, 672, 674, 677, 678, 683, 684
Immigration/Migration
564, 568, 575
Indigenous Peoples
526, 560, 564, 565, 600, 602, 614, 616, 618
Institutions
539, 540, 543, 551, 555, 574, 592, 603, 616, 62