In This Issue

xiii

Articles

From Famine to Five Points: Lord Lansdowne's Irish Tenants Encounter North America's Most Notorious Slum
By Tyler Anbinder	351
Of Civilization and Savages: The Mimetic Imperialism of Japan's 1874 Expedition to Taiwan
By Robert Eskildsen	388

AHR Forum: Asia and Europe in the World Economy

Introduction
By Patrick Manning	419
Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture
By Kenneth Pomeranz	425
The Search for European Differences and Domination in the Early Modern World: A View from Asia
By R. Bin Wong	447
Modern Inequality and Early Modernity: A Comment for the AHR on Articles by R. Bin Wong and Kenneth Pomeranz
By David Ludden	470

Review Essay

News, Public, Nation
By Michael Schudson	481

Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Pekka Masonen. The Negroland Revisited: Discovery and Invention of the Sudanese Middle Ages.
By Jay Spaulding	496
Maghan Keita. Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx.
By Wilson J. Moses	497
David Cannadine. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire.
By Antoinette Burton	497
J. G. A. Pocock. Barbarism and Religion.
By D. R. Woolf	498
John Farrenkopf. Prophet of Decline: Spengler on World History and Politics.
By Georg G. Iggers	500
Susan Wells. Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine.
By Emily K. Abel	501
Carol Groneman. Nymphomania: A History.
By Rachel Maines	501
Mark C. Carnes, editor. Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other).
By James Goodman	502
Dominick LaCapra. History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies.
By Paul Friedland	503
Giuseppe Papagno. Un modello per la storia: Materiale, attività, funzione.
By Charles Tilly	504
David Gross. Lost Time: On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture.
By Patrick H. Hutton	505

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy, editors. Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation.
By Nicholas J. Miller	506
Elazar Barkan. Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices.
By Audrey Thomas McCluskey	507
David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World.
By Virginia Berridge	509
Thomas R. Dunlap. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
By Harriet Ritvo	509
Ferenc Morton Szasz. Scots in the North American West, 1790–1917.
By John H. M. Laslett	510
Alice Bullard. Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900.
By William B. Cohen	511
Antoinette Burton, editor. Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities.
By Nancy Rose Hunt	512
M. Cristina Zaccarini. The Sino-American Friendship as Tradition and Challenge: Dr. Ailie Gale in China, 1908–1950.
By Gael Graham	513
Kevin Ruane. The Rise and Fall of the European Defense Community: Anglo-American Relations and the Crisis of European Defense, 1950–55.
By Kevin Smith	514
Rolf Steininger. Der Mauerbau: Die Westmächte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958–1963.
By Georg Schild	515

ASIA

Shih-shan Henry Tsai. Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle.
By John W. Dardess	515
D. E. Mungello. The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785.
By Kathleen L. Lodwick	516
Jonathan Hay. Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China.
By Susan Naquin	517
Paul S. Ropp. Banished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet.
By Harriet T. Zurndorfer	518
Ryan Dunch. Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China 1857–1927.
By R. Keith Schoppa	519
Weili Ye. Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927.
By Daniel H. Bays	519
Henrietta Harrison. The Making of the Republican Citizen: Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China 1911–1929.
By Peter Zarrow	520
Shu-mei Shih. The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937.
By Wang Zheng	521
Xin Zhang. Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900–1937.
By Michael Gasster	522
Jeffrey P. Mass. Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu: The Origins of Dual Government in Japan.
By Janet R. Goodwin	523
James L. Huffman. Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan.
By Timothy Cheek	524
Masahiro Yamamoto. Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity; Joshua A. Fogel. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography.
By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka	525
Tim Maga. Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials.
By Richard H. Minear	526
Ines G. Zupanov. Disputed Mission: Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical Knowledge in Seventeenth-century India.
By Geoffrey A. Oddie	527
Shaharyar M. Khan. The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India.
By Geraldine Forbes	528
Elsbeth Locher-Scholten. Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies 1900–1942.
By Rita Smith Kipp	528
Brian McAllister Linn. The Philippine War 1899–1902.
By Greg Bankoff	530

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Robert Lewis. Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930.
By Christina Burr	531
Michael Bliss. William Osler: A Life in Medicine.
By Bonnie Ellen Blustein	532
Rogan Kersh. Dreams of a More Perfect Union.
By Keith E. Whittington	532
Francis G. Hutchins. Tribes and the American Constitution.
By Sidney L. Harring	533
Michael J. Gerhardt. The Federal Appointment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis.
By Kermit L. Hall	534
Timothy James Lockley. Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750–1860.
By Whittington B. Johnson	535
Ross Frank. From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750–1820.
By Cheryl E. Martin	536
Patricia Cleary. Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America.
By Deborah A. Rosen	537
Susan Branson. These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia.
By Jean V. Matthews	538
Gayle V. Fischer. Pantaloons and Power: Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States.
By Carol Kolmerten	538
Ezra Greenspan. George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher.
By Gerald J. Baldasty	539
Ian R. Bartky. Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America.
By Lindy Biggs	540
Howard Bodenhorn. A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in the Era of Nation-Building.
By George D. Green	541
Philip J. Schwarz. Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation.
By Stanley Harrold	542
James Simeone. Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic.
By James E. Davis	543
Christopher J. Olsen. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830–1860.
By Manisha Sinha	544
Wallace Hettle. The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War.
By Christopher J. Olsen	545
Lyde Cullin Sizer. The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850–1872.
By Judith Ann Giesberg	546
Shawn Michelle Smith. American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture.
By Patricia Johnston	547
Russell F. Weigley. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865.
By Mark Grimsley	548
Patricia C. Click. Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862–1867.
By Martin Crawford	549
Roger H. Tuller. "Let No Guilty Man Escape": A Judicial Biography of "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker.
By Lawrence H. Larsen	550
Ted Tunnell. Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
By Joseph G. Dawson III	550
John C. Rodrigue. Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Lousiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880.
By Sharon Ann Holt	551
Dan R. Frost. Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South.
By Christie Anne Farnham	552
Edward J. Cashin and Glenn T. Eskew, editors. Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia.
By David Goldfield	553
Larry Eugene Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr. Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865–1895.
By William E. Montgomery	554
Ferenc Morton Szasz. Religion in the Modern American West.
By Eldon G. Ernst	555
Robert M. Fogelson. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950.
By Carl Abbott	556
Sven Beckert. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896.
By Frederic Cople Jaher	557
Xinyang Wang. Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890–1970.
By K. Scott Wong	558
Eric Sandweiss. St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape.
By Andrew Hurley	559
Thomas M. Spencer. The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877–1995.
By Steven Hoelscher	560
Marguerite S. Shaffer. See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880–1940.
By Susan Schulten	561
James E. Snead. Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology.
By Steven Conn	562
Mansel G. Blackford. Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000.
By Donald J. Pisani	562
John F. Kasson. Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America.
By Howard P. Chudacoff	563
Sheila Tully Boyle and Andrew Bunie. Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement.
By Susan Curtis	564
Nancy Gentile Ford. Americans All! Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I.
By Jennifer D. Keene	565
Elmer R. Rusco. A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act.
By Larry Burt	566
David E. Bernstein. Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal.
By Merl E. Reed	567
Timothy J. Minchin. The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980.
By Colin J. Davis	567
Clete Daniel. Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States.
By Robert E. Weir	568
Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry.
By August W. Giebelhaus	569
Scott Hamilton Dewey. Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945–1970.
By Christopher Sellers	570
Laura McEnaney. Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties.
By Richard M. Fried	571
Kenneth D. Rose. One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture.
By Laura A. Belmonte	572
Alexander Bloom, editor. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now.
By Terry Anderson	573
Larry Berman. No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam.
By George C. Herring	574
Andrea Slane. A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy.
By Michael E. Birdwell	574
William N. Eskridge, Jr. Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet.
By Patricia A. Cain	576
Kirk Jeffrey. Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care.
By Audrey B. Davis	577
Jordan Goodman and Vivien Walsh. The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-cancer Drug.
By John Parascandola	577

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
By Philip A. Howard	578
Jeremy Baskes. Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821.
By A. J. Bauer	579
Thomas Benjamin. La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History.
By John Mason Hart	580
Stephen R. Niblo. Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption.
By James W. Wilkie	581
José R. Deustua. The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru.
By John Fisher	582
Mariano Ben Plotkin. Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina.
By Lawrence J. Friedman	583
Javier Auyero. Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita.
By Richard J. Walter	585
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Gendered Compromises: Political Culture and the State in Chile, 1920–1950.
By Paul W. Drake	586

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Mary T. Boatwright. Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire.
By Julian Bennett	586
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome.
By M. J. Edwards	587
Claude Carozzi. Apocalypse et salut dans le christianisme ancien et médiéval.
By Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak	588
Natalia Lozovsky. "The Earth Is Our Book": Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400–1000.
By Bernard S. Bachrach	589
Rachel L. Stocking. Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom, 589–633.
By Isabel Moreira	590
Joseph Pérez and Santiago Aguadé Nieto, editors. Les origines de la féodalité: Hommage à Claudio Sánchez Albornoz.
By Adam J. Kosto	591
Bernard S. Bachrach. Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire.
By Charles R. Bowlus	592
W. Scott Jessee. Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, ca. 1025–1098.
By George T. Beech	593
Adam J. Kosto. Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200.
By James F. Powers	593
Alfred Haverkamp, editor. Hildegard von Bingen in ihrem historischen Umfeld: Internationaler wissenschaftlicher Kongreß zum 900 jährigen Jubiläum, 13.-19. September 1998, Bingen am Rhein.
By Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski	594
Maureen C. Miller. The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy.
By Mary Stroll	595
Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parvis Mottahedeh, editors. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World.
By Nina G. Garsoian	596
Beverly Mayne Kienzle. Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145–1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard.
By Constance H. Berman	598
Antony Leopold. How to Recover the Holy Land: The Crusade Proposals of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries.
By Jonathan Riley-Smith	599
Kenneth Fowler. Medieval Mercenaries.
By Richard W. Kaeuper	600
Stanko Andric. The Miracles of St. John Capistran.
By Nora Berend	600

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Stephan R. Epstein, editor. Town and Country in Europe, 1300–1800.
By Steven A. Epstein	601
Patrick O'Brien et al., editors. Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London.
By R. A. Houston	603
Martin Rheinheimer. Arme, Bettler, und Vaganten: Überleben in der Not 1450–1850.
By Lee Palmer Wandel	604
Ole Peter Grell and Roy S. Porter , editors. Toleration in Enlightenment Europe; Joris van Eijnatten. Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands; The Stinstra Affair 1740–1745.
By Adam Sutcliffe	604
Niall Ferguson. The House of Rothschild.
By Robert Forster	606
J. W. Burrow. The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914.
By John Andrew Bernstein	608
Norman M. Naimark. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.
By Aviel Roshwald	609
Edward E. Ericson III. Feeding the German Eagle: Soviet Economic Aid to Nazi Germany, 1933–1941.
By J. David Cameron	610
John Connelly. Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945–1956.
By Nancy M. Wingfield	611
Andy Wood. The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520–1770.
By Ann Hughes	612
Laura Lunger Knoppers. Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait and Print, 1645–1661.
By R. C. Richardson	613
John Eglin. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660–1797.
By David Armitage	614
Edward Royle. Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789–1848.
By Roger Price	615
James A. Secord. Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
By Patrick Brantlinger	616
K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell. Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion.
By Josef L. Altholz	617
R. J. M. Blackett. Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War.
By J. Matthew Gallman	617
Robert F. Haggard. The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1879–1900.
By Nancy LoPatin-Lummis	618
Christopher Breward. The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion, and City Life 1860–1914.
By John Tosh	619
Stephen Heathorn. For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880–1914.
By Julia Wrigley	620
Jenny Hazelgrove. Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars.
By Elaine C. Showalter	621
Suke Wolton. Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War: The Loss of White Prestige.
By Nicholas Evan Sarantakes	622
David Dunthorn. Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940–1950.
By James K. Hopkins	623
Nigel Townson. The Crisis of Democracy in Spain: Centrist Politics under the Second Republic, 1931–1936.
By Pamela B. Radcliff	624
Margaret M. McGowan. The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France.
By George Huppert	625
Georges Vigarello. A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century.
By Rachel G. Fuchs	625
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660–1870.
By Michael Kwass	626
Simon Burrows. French Exile Journalism and European Politics 1792–1814.
By Jeremy D. Popkin	628
Linda L. Clark. The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830.
By Charles E. McClelland	629
David Allen Harvey. Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830–1945.
By Stephen L. Harp	630
Jonathan Beecher. Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism.
By Alan B. Spitzer	631
Bertrand Taithe. Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France.
By Ann F. La Berge	632
Jacques Portes. Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870–1914.
By Richard Kuisel	633
Christopher E. Forth. Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891–1918.
By Philip Nord	634
Gary K. Waite. Reformers on Stage: Popular Drama and Religious Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515–1556.
By Andrew Pettegree	635
Marco H. D. van Leeuwen. The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800–1850.
By Annemieke van Drenth	636
Birgitte Søland. Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s.
By Doris H. Linder	637
Olle Larsson. Biskopen visiterar: Den kyrkliga överhetens möte; Inger Hammar . Emancipation och religion: Den svenska kvinnorörelsens pionjärer i debatt om kvinnans kallelse ca 1860–1900.
By Göran Malmstedt	638
Klaus Vondung. The Apocalypse in Germany.
By Peter Paret	639
Marc Forster. Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque: Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550–1750.
By Robert Bireley	640
Pamela E. Selwyn. Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment 1740–1810.
By Benjamin W. Redekop	641
Elisabeth Mantl. Heirat als Privileg: Obrigkeitliche Heiratsbeschränkungen in Tirol und Vorarlberg 1820 bis 1920.
By Robert Lee	642
Ulrike Kirchberger. Aspekte deutsch-britischer Expansion: Die Überseeinteressen der deutschen Migranten in Großbritanien in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
By Richard A. Voeltz	643
Rudy Koshar. German Travel Cultures.
By Joan Campbell	644
Alfred C. Mierzejewski. The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway.
By D. E. Showalter	644
Michael H. Kater. Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits.
By Michael Meyer	646
Jan-Werner Müller. Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity.
By Robert G. Moeller	647
Jeffrey R. Watt. Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva.
By R. Po-chia Hsia	648
Olivier F. Dubuis. Le faux monnayage dans le Pays de Vaud (1715–1750): Crime et répression.
By Julius R. Ruff	649
Christopher S. Celenza. Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis.
By Charles L. Stinger	650
Ann Crabb. The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance.
By Jacqueline Murray	651
Monica Chojnacka. Working Women of Early Modern Venice.
By Thomas Kuehn	652
Ruth Ben Ghiat. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945.
By Simonetta Falasca Zamponi	653
István György Tóth. Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern Central Europe.
By Larry Wolff	654
Katalin Péter, editor. Beloved Children: History of Aristocratic Childhood in Hungary in the Early Modern Age.
By Hugh Cunningham	655
Alice Freifeld. Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848–1914.
By Lee Congdon	656
James Gow and Cathie Carmichael. Slovenia and the Slovenes: A Small State and the New Europe.
By Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj	657
Chester S. L. Dunning. Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty.
By Carol B. Stevens	658
Marshall T. Poe. "A People Born to Slavery": Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476–1748.
By Charles J. Halperin	658
Christine D. Worobec. Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia.
By Laurie Bernstein	660
Ann Hibner Koblitz. Science, Women and Revolution in Russia.
By Christine Ruane	661
Richard Mowbray Haywood. Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855.
By Patricia Herlihy	661
Abraham Ascher. P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia.
By George Yaney	662
Robert Service. Lenin: A Biography.
By Robert C. Williams	663
David L. Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis, editors. Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices.
By Jeffrey Brooks	664
David L. Ransel. Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria.
By Barbara Alpern Engel	665
Catherine Merridale. Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia.
By Anna Geifman	666

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Marilyn Booth. May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt.
By Jane Hathaway	667
Tore T. Petersen. The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 1952–7.
By James F. Goode	668

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

T. C. McCaskie. Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village 1850–1950.
By David Owusu-Ansah	669
Andreas Eckert. Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel: Douala 1880 bis 1960.
By Andrew R. Carlson	670
Toyin Falola. Nationalism and African Intellectuals.
By Terence Ranger	670
Clive Glaser. Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935–1976.
By Helen Bradford	671

Film Reviews

Bride of the Wind. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
By John C. Tibbetts	673
Conspiracy. Directed by Frank Pierson.
By Alan E. Steinweis	674
Lumumba. Directed by Raoul Peck.
By Amy Abugo Ongiri	675
No Man's Land (Nikogarsnja zemlja). Directed by Danis Tanovi.
By Catherine Portuges	675

Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hanns Reill, editors. What's Left of Enlightenment? A Postmodern Question.

677

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, editors. The Dynamics of Military Revolution 1300–2050.	677
Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore, editors. The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800–2000.	677
Larry Eugene Jones, editor. Crossing Boundaries: The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and America.	678
Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton, editors. Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies.	678
Crispin Bates, editor. Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora.	678

ASIA

C. X. George Wei and Xiaoyuan Liu, editors. Chinese Nationalism in Perspective: Historical and Recent Cases.

678

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Steven E. Woodworth, editor. Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg.	678
Glenn Feldman, editor. Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.	679
Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston, editors. The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America.	679

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Gabriel Haslip-Viera, editor. Taíno Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics.

679

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Michael J. Braddick and John Walter, editors. Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland.	679
Gigliola Fragnito, editor. Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy.	680
Michael Balfour, editor. Theatre and War 1933–1945.	680

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Chris Youé and Tim Stapleton, editors. Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays for John E. Flint.

680

Documents and Bibliographies	681
Other Books Received	684
Communications	692

Topical Table of Contents

Administration
523, 581, 590, 592, 629, 644, 662
Agriculture
670
Anthropology/Archaeology
562, 586
Art/Architecture
517, 547, 595, 613, 625
Biography
515, 517, 528, 532, 537, 539, 550, 564, 606, 613, 631, 662, 663, 667
Business/Finance
539, 541, 557, 568, 569, 606, 626, 644, 649, 651
Careers/Professions
626, 629, 562
Childhood/Youth
655, 671
Class
522, 527, 531, 535, 547, 553, 557, 560, 604, 612, 618, 619, 620, 630, 636, 644, 652
Colonial/Postcolonial
497, 511, 512, 521, 527, 528, 579, 643, 667, 670
Comparative
500, 506, 507, 509, 512, 596, 601, 603, 604, 609, 611
Constitutional
533, 543
Crime/Violence
507, 526, 550, 600, 625, 648, 649, 671
Cultural
501, 504, 516, 517, 519, 520, 538, 544, 555, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 569, 571, 572, 573, 574, 580, 583, 588, 603, 613, 614, 616, 621, 625, 626, 633, 634, 637, 639, 644, 646, 648, 653, 654, 657, 658, 660, 664, 666
Demography
617, 642
Diasporas
509
Economic
509, 536, 537, 541, 556, 562, 567, 568, 578, 579, 581, 582, 601, 606, 610, 626, 661, 668
Education/Students
519, 552, 611, 620, 654
Empire
497, 515, 586, 596, 622, 643, 667
Environment/Landscape
509, 562, 570, 578, 589
Ethnicity
510, 558, 565, 657
Exploration/Travel
561, 633, 658
Family
642, 651, 655, 665
Film
574
Folklore
621
Foreign Relations/Diplomatic
514, 515, 530, 574, 610, 622, 623, 628, 668
Frontiers/Borderlands
510, 515, 536, 550
Gay/Lesbian
576
Gender
501, 512, 521, 528, 537, 544, 547, 553, 563, 586, 619, 621, 625, 637, 667, 671
Genocide
525, 609
Health/Disease
532, 583
Historiography
496, 497, 498, 500, 502, 503, 504, 505, 525, 555, 569, 591, 609
Ideology
496, 520, 524, 545, 574, 609, 617, 623, 631, 646, 653, 663
Immigration/Migration
511, 542, 558, 565, 628, 642, 643, 651
Indigenous Peoples
511, 533, 566, 579
Industry
531, 569, 577
Institutions
534, 541, 552, 554, 593, 617, 636, 638
Intellectual
496, 497, 498, 500, 503, 506, 516, 517, 518, 519, 521, 532, 552, 580, 587, 588, 594, 598, 600, 604, 614, 625, 631, 632, 633, 634, 639, 641, 647, 653, 658, 664, 670
Journalism
524, 628
Labor
551, 567, 568, 612, 637
Language/Linguistics
532
Legal/Legislative
501, 507, 526, 533, 534, 550, 567, 570, 576, 593, 625, 649
Literature
497, 502, 518, 521, 539, 546, 588, 589, 599, 604, 608, 616, 625, 635, 639, 641, 650
Local/Regional
522, 535, 543, 544, 549, 550, 551, 553, 555, 560, 562, 598, 600, 612, 630, 640, 669, 670
Material Culture
619