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Books listed were recently received in the AHR office, do not lend themselves readily to unified reviews; the contents are therefore listed.


Comparative/World



Cross, J. P., and Buddhiman Gurung, editors. Gurkhas at War: In Their Own Words; The Gurkha Experience 1939 to the Present. London: Greenhill and Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 2002. Pp. 320. $39.95.

Krieger, Heike, editor. The Kosovo Conflict and International Law: An Analytical Documentation 1974–1999. (Cambridge International Documents Series, number 11.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xlv, 601. $120.00.


Asia



Bruce, David. Window on the Forbidden City: The Beijing Diaries of David Bruce, 1973–1974. (Centre of Asian Studies Occasional Papers and Monographs, number 145.) Edited by Priscilla Roberts. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. 2001. Pp. 653. HK $220.00.

Healey, Graham, and Chushichi Tsuzuki, editors. The Iwakura Embassy 1871–73: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe. In five volumes. Compiled by Kume Kunitake. Tokyo: Japan Documents; distributed by Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 2002. $775.00 the set.

Hori, Kyotsu , compiler. Writings of Nichiren Shonin: Doctrine 2. Edited by George Tanabe, Jr . Tokyo: Nichiren Shu Overseas Propagation Promotion Association; distributed by University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu. 2002. Pp. xi, 363. $23.00.

Kumar, Ravinder, and H. Y. Sharada Prasad, editors. Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series. Volume 26, (1 June 1954–30 September 1954). New Delhi: Jawahar-lal Nehru Memorial Fund; distributed by Oxford University Press, New York. 2000. Pp. 650. Rs. 750.00.

Kumar, Ravinder, and H. Y. Sharada Prasad, editors. Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series. Volume 27, (1 October 1954–31 January 1955). New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund; distributed by Oxford University Press, New York. 2000. Pp. 608. Rs. 750.00.

Kumar, Ravinder, and H. Y. Sharada Prasad, editors. Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series.. Volume 28, (1 February-31 May 1955). New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund. 2001. Pp. 636. Rs. 750.00.

Rustomji, Nari, editor. Verrier Elwin: Philanthropologist; Selected Writings. Paperback edition. New York: Oxford University Press and Shillong, India: North-Eastern Hill University. 2001. Pp. xii, 385. Rs. 525.00.

Singh, Amar . Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. Edited and commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph , with Mohan Singh Kanota . Boulder, Colo.: Westview. 2002. Pp. xii, 633. $40.00.


Oceania and the Pacific Islands



Goetzfridt, Nicholas J ., and Karen M. Peacock . Micronesian Histories: An Analytical Bibliography and Guide to Interpretations. (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, number 54.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 337. $79.00.


Canada and the United States



Bell, Margaret. When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood. (Women in the West.) Edited by Mary Clearman Blew. Afterword by Lee Rostad. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2002. Pp. xxix, 250. $24.95.

Benedict, George G. Army Life in Virginia: The Civil War Letters of George G. Benedict. Edited by Eric Ward. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 2002. Pp. x, 246. $26.95.

Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr., editor. African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology. In three volumes. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2001. Pp. xv, 293; xi, 296–615; xi, 618–1004. $275.00 the set.

Buckingham, Peter H., editor. Expectations for the Millennium: American Socialist Visions of the Future. (Contributions in American History, number 192.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xiii, 194. $62.50.

Cozzens, Peter, editor. Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890. Volume 2, The Wars for the Pacific Northwest. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 2002. Pp. xiv, 770. $49.95.

Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn, editor. American Women Activists' Writings: An Anthology, 1637–2002. New York: Cooper Square Press. 2002. Pp. xxix, 625. $37.95.

DeConde, Alexander, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrik Logevall, editors. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. In three volumes. 2d ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2002. Pp. xxxv, 559; ix, 622; ix, 706. $350.00 the set.

Duncombe, Bruce F., editor. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976. Volume 3, Foreign Economic Policy, 1969–1972; International Monetary Policy, 1969–1972. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2001. Pp. xxviii, 674. $54.00.

Gambone, Michael D. Documents of American Diplomacy: From the American Revolution to the Present. (Documentary Reference Collections.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xiii, 579. $105.00.

Grant, Ulysses S. The Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Edited by Brian M. Thomsen. Afterword by Thomas Fleming. New York: Forge. 2002. Pp. 524. $25.95.

Grossman, Joanne Thornton, compiler. Letters from Camp Written in 1917 and 1918 by Floyd Thornton. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing. 2001. Pp. v, 152. $16.00.

Hearn, Lafcadio. Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials. Edited by Simon J. Bronner. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2002. Pp. x, 242. $35.00.

Jefferson, Thomas. Jefferson on Jefferson. Edited by Paul M. Zall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2002. Pp. xv, 160. $25.00.

Jenkins, Robert L., editor. The Malcolm X Encyclopedia. Assisted by Mfanya Donald Tryman. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xix, 643. $74.95.

Kei, Wakaizumi. The Best Course Available: A Personal Account of the Secret U.S.-Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations. Edited by John Swenson-Wright. Reprint. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2002. Pp. x, 367. $49.00.

Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xii, 402. $65.00.

Lincoln, Abraham. This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by William E. Gienapp. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 236. $25.00.

Markham, Jerry W. A Financial History of the United States. In three volumes. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 2002. Pp. xxii, 437; xx, 412; xx, 449. $349, the set.

Marra, Dorothy Brandt . Cher Oncle, Cher Papa: The Letters of François and Berenice Chouteau. Edited by David Boutros . Translated by Marie-Laure Dionne Pal . Foreword by William E. Foley . Kansas City: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City. 2001. Pp. xiii, 304. $24.95.


McLaws, Lafayette . A Soldier's General: The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws. Edited by John C. Oeffinger . (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xx, 299. $34.95.

Moïse, Edwin E. Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, number 17.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. 2001. Pp. l, 493. $72.00.

Mooney, James E., editor. Eighteenth-Century Catalogues of the Yale College Library. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Beinecke Library, distributed by the University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 2001. Pp. $25.00.

Nelson, George. My First Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802–1804. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 2002. Pp. vii, 234. $29.95.

Ng, Wendy. Japanese American Internment during World War II: A History and Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 204. $45.00.

Palmer, Beverly Wilson, editor. Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott. Assisted by Holly Byers Ochoa and Carol Faulkner. (Women in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2002. Pp. liv, 580. $55.00.

Polenberg, Richard, editor. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. xxxii, 409. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Prados, John, editor. America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think About It. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2002. Pp. 436. $27.50.

Ramsey, J. G. M. Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey: Autobiography and Letters. Edited by William B. Hesseltine. Foreword by Robert Tracy McKenzie. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2002. Pp. xxxviii, 367. $26.00.

Ray, William R. Four Years with the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journals of William R. Ray, Co. F., Seventh Wisconsin Infantry. Edited by Lance Herdegen and Sherry Murphy. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 446. $27.50.

Schrecker, Ellen. The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture.) 2d ed. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xii, 308. $35.00.

Smith, Kathleen Lopp, and Verbeck Smith, editors. Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892–1902. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 389. Cloth $45.00, paper $24.95.

Sneed, Larry A. No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy. Reprint. Denton: University of North Texas Press. 2002. Pp. xxiii, 601. $24.95.

Claussen, Paul, Evan M. Duncan, and Jeffrey A. Soukup editors. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963. Volume 25, Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; United Nations; Scientific Matters. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2001. Pp. xl, 1155.

Urofsky, Melvin I., and Paul Finkelman, editors. Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History. Volume 1, From the Founding Through the Age of Industrialization. 2d. ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 547. $27.95.

Washington, George. The Papers of George Washington. Volume 12, October-December 1777. (Revolutionary War Series.) Edited by Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Assisted by David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 778. $70.00.

Williams, Roger. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience. (Baptists: History, Literature, Theology, Hymns; Classics of Religious Liberty, number 2.) Edited by Richard Groves. Foreword by Edwin Gaustad. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press. 2001. Pp. xxxv, 283. $34.00.

Wolseley, Garnet . The American Civil War: An English View: The Writings of Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley. Edited by James A. Rawley . Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 223. $26.95.


Caribbean and Latin America



Jopling, Carol F., compiler. Indios y Negros en Panama en los siglos XVI y XVII: Selecciones de los documentos del Archivo General de Indias. (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica Monograph Series, number 7.) Antigua: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica and South Woodstock, Vt.: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies. 1994. Pp. xxiii, 612. $30.00.

Lovell, W. George, and Christopher H. Lutz. Demografía e imperio: Guía para la historia de la poblacíon de la America Central española, 1500–1821. South Woodstock, Vt.: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies and Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala. 2001. Pp. xvii, 258. $17.00.

Salvin, Caroline . Un paraíso: Diarios guatemaltecos 1873–1874/A Pocket Eden: Guatemalan Journals 1873–1874. (Memorias y documentos/Memoirs and Documents, number 3.) Translated by Eddy H. Gaytán . South Woodstock, Vt.: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies. 2000. Pp. xiv, 354. $40.00.


Europe: Ancient and Medieval



Brooke, Christopher N. L., editor. The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Originally edited and translated by David Knowles. Rev. ed. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. lvii, 259. $74.00.

Burgess, Glyn S., and Clara Strijbosch. The Legend of St. Brendan: A Critical Bibliography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 2000. Pp. ix, 287. $23.50.

Haseldine, Julian, editor and translator. The Letters of Peter of Celle. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. lviii, 777. $150.00.

Murray, Jacqueline, editor. Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages: A Reader. (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, number 7.) Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview. 2001. Pp. xiv, 524.

Poos, L. R., editor. Lower Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Late-Medieval England: The Courts of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 1336–1349, and the Deanery of Wisbech, 1458–1484. (Records of Social and Economic History; New Series, number 32.) New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2001. Pp. lxv, 687.

Tock, Benôit-Michel , Michèle Courtois , and Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean , editors. La diplomatique française du Haut Moyen Age: Inventaire des chartes originales antérieures à 1121 conservées en France. In two volumes. (Atelier de Recherches sur les Textes Medievaux.) Assisted by Philippe Demonty . Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 2001. Pp. xv, 425; 428. €93.00 the set.


Europe: Early Modern and Modern



Allison, William Thomas . Witness to Revolution: The Russian Revolution Diary and Letters of J. Butler Wright. (Praeger Studies in Diplomacy and Strategic Thought.) Foreword by David S. Foglesong. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xx, 261. $66.95.

Andrés-Gallego, José, and Antón M. Pazos, editors. Archivo Gomá: Documentos de la Guerra Civil. Volume 1, Julio-Diciembre de 1936. With Carlos Carrascal del Solar and José Manuel Martínez Jiménez. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. 2001. Pp. 589.

Chojnacka, Monica, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, editors. Ages of Woman, Ages of Man: Sources in European Social History, 1400–1750. New York: Longman. 2002. Pp. viii, 285.

Croxton, Derek, and Anuschka Tischer, editors. The Peace of Westphalia: A Historical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. Pp. xxiii, 376. $96.00.

de Launay, Emmanuel Louis Alexandre. Mes soliloques: Autobiographie rêvée du comte d'Antraigues. Edited by Roger Barny. Foreword by Claude Mazauric. Paris: Editions du CTHS. 2001. Pp. 279. €13.00.

Gassert, Philipp, and Daniel S. Mattern, editors. The Hitler Library: A Bibliography. (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, number 52.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2001. Pp. viii, 567. $100.00.

Haggard, H. Rider. Diary of an African Journey: The Return of Rider Haggard. New York: New York University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 345. $38.00.

Leonard, Dick, and Mark Leonard, editors. The Pro-European Reader. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xxii, 254.

Oster, Malcolm. Science in Europe, 1500–1800: A Primary Sources Reader. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xix, 282. Cloth $69.95, paper $21.95.

Pejanovic, Mirko . Through Bosnian Eyes: The Political Memoirs of a Bosnian Serb. Translated by Marina Bowder . Foreword by Robert J. Donia . Sarajevo: TKD Sahinpasic. 2002. Pp. 238.

Rakovsky, Puah. My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland. (The Modern Jewish Experience.) Edited and Foreword by Paula E. Hyman. Translated by Barbara Harshav and Paula E. Hyman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 204. $24.95.

Roche, Daniel, editor. Almanach parisien en faveur des étrangers et des personnes curieuses. (Société Française d'Étude du XVIIIe Siècle; Lire le Dix-huitième Siècle.) Saint-Étienne, France: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne. 2001. Pp. 176. €18.30.

Rood, Coen. "Wenn ich es nicht erzahlen kann, muss ich weinen": Als Zwangsarbeiter in der Rustungsindustrie. (Lebensbilder: Judische Erinnerungen und Zeugnisse.) Trnaslated by Markus Merkl. Afterword by Brigette Axster. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Taschenbuch. 2002. Pp. 217. 9.90.

Rostislavov, Dmitrii Ivanovich. Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: The Memoir of a Priest's Son. Translated and edited by Alexander M. Martin. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2002. Pp. xliii, 236.

Skarvan, Albert . Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story. Translated and edited by Peter Brock . Toronto: University of Toronto Press; distributed by Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y. 2002. Pp. ix, 70. $8.95.

Sokoll, Thomas, editor. Essex Pauper Letters 1731–1837. (Records of Social and Economic History New Series, number 30.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xli, 727. $74.00.

Tone, Theobald Wolfe. The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763–98. Volume 2, America, France and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796. Edited by T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell, and C. J. Woods. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 435. $135.00.

Tsouras, Peter G., editor. Panzers on the Eastern Front: General Erhard Raus and his Panzer Divisions in Russia, 1941–1945. (World War II German Debriefs.) London: Greenhill, and Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 2002. Pp. 253. $34.95.

Wells, Catharine . East with Ensa: Entertaining the Troops in the Second World War. New York: Radcliffe Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 203. $49.50.

Williams, Helen Maria . Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England; Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution. Edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser . Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview. 2001. Pp. 295. $13.95.


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