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Other Books Recevied
The following books were recently received in the AHR office. Books listed here do not include works scheduled for review.
Methods/Theory
| Curthoys, Ann, and John Docker. Is History Fiction? Sydney: University of New South Wales. 2006. Pp. viii, 296. $39.95.Embry, Charles R., and Barry Cooper, editors. Philosophy, Literature, and Politics: Essays Honoring Ellis Sandoz. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 354. $44.95.Fuglestad, Finn. The Ambiguities of History: The Problem of Ethnocentrism in Historical Writing. (Tid og Tanke.) Oslo: Unipub/Oslo Academic Press. 2005. Pp. 151. 229.00 KR.Golinski, Jan. Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 236. $25.00.Sewell, William H., Jr. Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning.) Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 412. $27.50.
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Comparative/World
| Andrews, David M., editor. The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations After Iraq. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 293. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.Antoun, Richard T. Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America. (New Directions in Anthropology, volume 25.) New York: Berghahn Books. 2005. Pp. xii, 325. $75.00.Bilbija, Ksenija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, and Leigh A. Payne, editors. The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 138. Cloth $60.00, paper $19.95.Black, Jeremy. Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xix, 294. $27.95.Carl, Horst, Hans-Henning Kortüm, and Dieter Langewiesche, et al., editors. Kriegsniederlagen: Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen. Berlin: Akademie. 2004. Pp. viii, 471. €49.80.Dallas, Gregor. 1945: The War That Never Ended. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 739. $40.00.DeGuzmán, María. Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 372. Cloth $74.95, paper $24.95.Frankel, Jonathan, editor. Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism. (Studies in Contemporary Jewry, number 20.) New York: Oxford University Press. for the Avraham Hamman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the University of Jerusalem. 2004. Pp. xv, 393. $55.00.Geisler, Michael E., editor. National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the National Narrative. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2005. Pp. xlii, 284. Cloth $60.00, paper $26.00.Gerges, Fawaz A. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 345. $27.00.Glick, Leonard B. Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 370. $30.00.Hont, Istvan. Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 541. Cloth $49.95.Human Rights and the World's Major Religions. In five volumes. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2005. $399.95 the set.Ignatieff, Michael. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 212. $16.95.Jones, Robert Alun. The Secret of the Totem: Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. 347. $49.50.Jorland, Gerard, Annick Opinel, and George Weisz, editors. Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspective/La quantification medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 417. Cloth $80.00, paper $34.95.Kertzer, David I., editor. Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West. New York: Holmes and Meier. 2005. Pp. x, 219.de L'estoile, Benoît, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud, editors. Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 340. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.Magner, Lois N. A History of Medicine. 2d ed. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis Group. 2005. Pp. xii, 611. Cloth $69.95.Meyer, Melissa L. Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. vii, 263. Cloth $85.00, paper $23.95.Murphy, Justin D. Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. (Weapons and Warfare.) Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC Clio. 2005. Pp. xiii, 317. $85.00.Parker, Geoffrey. editor. The Cambridge History of Warfare. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 515. Cloth $55.00, paper $22.99.Postma, Johannes. The Atlantic Slave Trade. (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500–1900.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. xxii, 177. $24.95.Proceedings of the British Academy 125: 2003 Lectures. New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2004. Pp. viii, 476. $99.00.Rubenstein, Joshua, and Vladimir P. Naumov. Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Translated by Laura Esther Wolfon. (Annals of Communism.) Abridged edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xxvii, 435. $25.00.Slocum, J. David, editor. Terrorism, Media, Liberation. Foreword by J. David Slocum. (Rutgers Depth of Field Series.) New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 353. $24.95.Spiller, Roger. An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 403. $29.95.Ulin, David L. The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith. New York: Penguin. 2004. Pp. x, 290. $15.00.Umbach, Maiken, and Bernd Hüppauf, editors. Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 265. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.van der Heyden, Ulrich, and Holger Stoecker, editors. Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen: Europäsche Missionsgesellschaften in politischen Spannungsfeldern in Afrika und Asien zwischen 1800 und 1945. (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv, number 10.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2005. Pp. 700. €90.00.Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xxix, 1178. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.99.Weiss, Thomas G., Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly, editors. UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice. (United Nations Intellectual History Project.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 520. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.95.
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Asia
| Ali, Sálim, Jim Corbett, and Verrier Elwin. Lives in the Wilderness: Three Classic Indian Autobiographies. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 265. Paper $24.95.Bose, Sumantra. Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 307. $16.95.Drakeley, Steven. The History of Indonesia. (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 201.Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. (Oxford India Paperbacks.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 361. $22.00.Hung, Wu. Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. 272. $35.00.Johnson, Rob. A Region in Turmoil: South Asian Conflicts Since 1947. (Contemporary Worlds.) London: Reaktion Books. 2005. Pp. 268. $16.47.Khan, Shaharyar M. Cricket: A Bridge of Peace. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 238. Cloth $29.95.Khattak, Mohammad Aslam Khan. A Pathan Odyssey. Edited with a foreword by James W. Spain. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 271. Cloth $29.95.Lindberg, Anna. Modernization and Effeminization in India: Kerala Cashew Workers since 1930. (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, number 95.) Copenhagen, Denmark: NIAS. 2005. Pp. xii, 200. £45.00.Long, Roger D., editor. 'Dear Mr. Jinnah': Selected Correspondence and Speeches of Liaquat Ali Khan, 1937–1947. Foreword by Stanley Wolpert. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xliv, 328. Cloth $29.95.Low, D. A., editor. Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle 1917–47. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xvii, 513. $39.95.Ludden, David. Early Capitalism and Local History in South India. (Oxford India Paperbacks.) 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xxxii, 310. $19.95.Ludden, David, editor. Making India Hindu: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xxi, 350. $29.95.Mehrotra, S.R., and Edward C. Moulton, editors. Selected Writings of Allan Octavian Hume: Volume 1 (1829–1867) District Administration in North India, Rebellion and Reform. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. cxxi, 786. $74.00.Metcalf, Thomas R. Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 317. Cloth $29.95.Nagl, John A. Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Foreword by General Peter J. Schoomaker. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xxix, 249. $17.00.Singh, Khushwant. A History of the Sikhs. In two volumes. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 419: xiv, 561. Volume 1 $12.95, volume 2 $24.96.Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 264. $35.00.Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 232. $35.00.
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Oceania and the Pacific Islands
| Blair, Anne. Ted Serong: The Life of an Australian Counter-insurgency Expert. (The Australian Army History Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 238. $59.95.Horner, David. Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars. (The Australian Army History Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 452. $65.00.Hurst, James. Game to the Last: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli. (The Australian Army History Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 267. £28.99.Mein Smith, Philippa. A Concise History of New Zealand. (Cambridge Concise Histories.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 302. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.99.Tamis, Anastasios Myrodis. The Greeks in Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 205. $27.99.
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Canada and the United States
| Abbott, Carl, Stephen J. Leonard,, and Thomas J. Noel. Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. Fourth Edition. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 2005. Pp. xvi, 553. $29.95.Alexander, Roberta Sue. A Place of Recourse: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1803–2003. (Ohio University Press Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest.) Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 417. $60.00.Allison, Robert J. Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779–1820. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2005. Pp. 253. $34.95.Baker, Jean H. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. New York: Hill and Wang. 2005. Pp. 277. $25.00.Baskerville, Peter A. Sites of Power: A Concise History of Ontario. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 296. $29.95.Blum, Rony. Ghost Brothers: Adoption of a French Tribe by Bereaved Native America. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 448. $80.00.Bragdon, Kathleen J. The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast. (The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture.) Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 292. $22.95.Brown, Margaret Kimball. History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. Tucson, Ariz.: Patrice Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 348. $22.95.Carter, Thomas, and Elizabeth Collins Cromley. Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes. (Vernacular Architecture Studies.) Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2005. Pp. xxv, 120. $19.95.Chadwick, Bruce. The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2005. Pp. 399. $24.95.Cohen, Warren I. America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War. (America's Recent Past, number 1.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2005. Pp. 204. $21.95.Cook, Timothy E., editor. Freeing the Presses: The First Amendment in Action. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 187. $39.95.Delaney, Douglas E. The Soldiers' General: Bert Hoffmeister at War. (Studies in Canadian Military History, number 7.) Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 299. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95.Derr, Mark. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. Paperback edition. New York, N.Y.: North Point Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 380. $15.00.Desmond, Lawrence A., and Donna M. Norell. The Case for Fr. Charles Dominic Ffrench (1775–1851). Yorkton, Saskatchewan: Laverdure and Associates. 2004. Pp. 205. $14.95.Dickinson, Anthony B., and Chesley W. Sanger. Twentieth-Century Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 254. $49.95.Dubber, Markus Dirk. The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government. Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 268. $24.50.Dye, Victoria E. All Aboard for Sante Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 163. $24.95.Entin, Martin A. Edward Archibald: Surgeon of the Royal Vic. (The Fontanus Monograph Series, number 16.) Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press for McGill University Libraries. 2004. Pp. xi, 195. $60.00.Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. Foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Images edited by Cheryl Magazine. New York: Ballantine Books. 2005. Pp. xxix, 269. $25.95.Gansler, Laura Leedy. The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier. New York: Free Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 255. $25.00.Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Hollis Robbins, editors. In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondswoman's Narrative. New York: Basic Books. 2004. Pp. xxii, 458. $27.50.Jackson, John P., Jr. Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. (Critical America.) New York: New York University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 291. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.00.Jones, Landon Y. William Clark and the Shaping of the West. Paperback edition. New York: Hill and Wang. 2004. Pp. 394. $15.00.Kaplan, Alice. The Interpreter. New York: Free Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 240. $25.00.Kelley, Donald R., editor. Divided Power: The Presidency, Congress, and the Formation of American Foreign Policy. (Fulbright Institute Series on International Affairs, number 3.) Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 216. Cloth $45.00, paper $21.95.Kimball, John R. H. Disasters &c.: The Martime World of Marblehead 1815–1865. Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall. 2005. Pp. vii, 191. $25.00.Lamar, Howard R. Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 370. $29.95.Lansing, Ronald B. Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier. Pullman: Washington State University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 305. $21.95.Larson, John Lauritz, and Michael A. Morrison, editors. Whither the Early Republic: A Forum on the Future of the Field. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 199. $19.95.Lytle, Mark Hamilton. America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 416. $30.00.Mack, Charles R., and Henry H. Lesesne, editors. Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 196. $39.95.Mackey, Mike. Inventing History in the American West: The Romance and Myths of Grace Raymond Hebard. Powell, Wyo.: Western History Publications. 2005. Pp. 123. $14.95.Mara, Melina. Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate. Foreword by Cokie Roberts. Introductions by Barbara Mikulski and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Interviews by Helen Thomas. (Focus on American History Series.) Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 123. $34.95.Mason, Jennifer. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900. (Animals, History, Culture.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 229. $55.00.McBride, Genevieve G., editor. Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 486. $37.95.McLaughlin, Kevin. Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. (Critical Authors and Issues.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. 181. $49.95.Meltzer, Mitchell. Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 192. $39.95.Min, Pyong Gap, editor. Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States. In three volumes. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. lxix, 276; lxix, 277–544; lxix, 545–795. $249.95 the set.Mobley, Joe A. "War Governor of the South": North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy. Foreword by John David Smith. (New Perspectives on the History of the South.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. xiv, 264. $39.95.Monroe, Dan, and Bruce Tap. Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. (Shapers of the Great American Debates.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 405. $75.00.Morgan, Kenneth, editor. Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 456. Cloth $69.96, paper $29.95.O'Toole, Fintan. White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2005. Pp. x, 402. $26.00.Packard, Jerrold M. The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family. New York: St. Martin's. 2005. Pp. 290. $26.95.Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805–2005: 200 Years of Excellence. Essays by Mark Hain, Michael J. Lewis, Stephen May, et al. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 2005. Pp. 312. Cloth $80.00, paper $60.00.Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green. The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast. (The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture.) Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 325. $22.95.Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life. New York: Free Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 722. $35.00.Read, David. New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. x, 177. $37.50.Richards, David A. J. The Case for Gay Rights: From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xiii, 247. $29.95.Roy, Patricia E., and John Herd Thompson. British Columbia: Land of Promises. (The Illustrated History of Canada.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. 216. $29.95.Schlossman, Steven L. Transforming Juvenile Justice: Reform Ideals and Institutional Realities, 1825–1920. Rev. ed. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 315. $22.50.Shand-Tucci, Douglass. Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect's Four Quests. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 600. $49.95.Streichler, Stuart. Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism. (Constitutionalism and Democracy.) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 271. $37.50.Taranto, James, and Leonard Leo, editors. Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House. New York: Free Press. 2004. Pp. vii, 300. $15.00.Thompson, Roger. Cambridge Cameos: Stories of Life in Seventeenth-Century New England. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society. 2005. Pp. xix, 355. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church. Essay by Kevin J. Avery. Introduction by John Wilmerding. Ithaca: Cornell University Press with the Olana Partnership, Hudson, N.Y., and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany, N. Y. 2005. Pp. 71. $24.95.True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West from True West Magazine. New York: Clarkson Potter. 2005. Pp. 189. $19.95.Ward, Andrew. River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. New York: Viking. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 531. $29.95.Weddle, Kevin J. Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont. (A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History.) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 269. $34.95.Weitzel, Bernece B. Index to Trumansburg Newspapers 1827–1940. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing. 2005. Pp. 371. $23.00.Work, Clemens P. Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. x, 318. $34.95.Wright, Jonathan A. Shapers of the Great Debate on the Freedom of Religion: A Biographical Dictionary. (Shapers of the Great American Debates, number 7.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 266. $75.00.Yarbrough, Tinsley E. David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 311. $29.95.Young, Elizabeth. On Colfax Avenue: A Victorian Childhood. Assisted by Cade Nethercott. (Colorado History.) Denver: Colorado Historical Society. 2004. Pp. 128. $14.95.
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Caribbean and Latin America
| Oostindie, Gert. Paradise Overseas: The Dutch Caribbean, Colonialism and Its Transatlantic Legacies. Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean. 2005. Pp. xi, 204. £35.00.Steigman, Jonathan D. La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 125. $19.95.
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Europe: Ancient and Medieval
| Barber, Malcolm. The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050–1320. 2d ed. New York: Routledge. 2004. Pp. xv, 540. $32.95.Barber, Richard. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 463. $16.95.Bejczy, István P., and Richard G. Newhauser, editors. Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, number 130.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. vi, 393. $189.00.Blair, John. The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 604. $55.00.Britnell, Richard. Britain and Ireland 1050–1530: Economy and Society. (Economic and Social History of Britain.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 562. $35.00.Budin, Stephanie Lynn. The Origin of Aphrodite. Bethesda: CDL Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 338. $45.00.Champlin, Edward. Nero. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. 346. $17.95.Crouch, David. The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France 900–1300. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2005. Pp. xiii, 361.Dyer, Christopher. An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages. (Ford Lectures.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 293. $55.00.Ferraro, Alessandra Mita. Matteo Palmieri: Una biografia intellettuale. Foreword by Cesare Vasoli. (Storia delle idee e delle istituzioni politiche Medioevo ed Età moderna; Sezione Studi, number 8.) Genoa: NAME. 2005. Pp. xx, 552. €34.00.Fontana, Allesandro, Jean-Louis Fournel, Xavier Tabet, et al., editors. Langues et écritures de la république et de la guerre: Études sur Machiavel. (Storia delle idee e delle istituzioni politiche Medioevo ed Età moderna; Sezione Studi, number 7.) Genoa: NAME. 2004. Pp. 505. 32.00.Forte, Angelo, Richard Oram, and Frederik Pedersen. Viking Empires. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 447. $40.00.Giakalis, Ambrosios. Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council. Foreword by Henry Chadwick. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, number 122.) Rev. ed. Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xv, 161. $142.00.Goldberg, P. J. P. Medieval England: A Social History 1250–1550. London: Arnold. 2004. Pp. 310.Harrison, David. The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society 400–1800. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 249. $90.00.Hayes-Healy, Stephanie, editor. Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams; Volume 1. Foreword by James J. O'Donnell. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 287. $65.00.Hayes-Healy, Stephanie, editor. Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams; Volume 2. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xvi, 293. $65.00.Hicks, Michael. Edward IV. (Reputations.) London: Arnold. 2004. Pp. xiii, 273.Hinton, David A. Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins: Possessions and People in Medieval Britain. (Medieval History and Archaeology.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 439. $55.00.Kantzios, Ippokratis. The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters. (Mnemosyne Supplementa, number 265.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. viii, 208. $160.00.Kleiner, Diana E. E. Cleopatra and Rome. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 340. $29.95.Lätsch, Frauke. Insularität und Gesellschaft in der Antike: Untersuchungen zur Auswirkung der Insellage auf die Gesellschaftsentwicklung. (Geographica Historica, number 19.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2005. Pp. 298. €48.00.Liddy, Christian D., and Richard H. Britnell, editors. North-East England in the Later Middle Ages. (Regions and Regionalism in History, number 3.) Woodbrige, UK and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 250. $90.00.Lillie, Amanda. Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century: An Architectural and Social History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 353. $90.00.Mallette, Karla. The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100–1250: A Literary History. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. 214. $45.00.Marec, Yannick. Bienfaisance communale et protection sociale à Rouen (1796–1927): Expériences locales et liaisons nationales. In two volumes. Foreword by Maurice Agulhon. Paris: La Documentation Française. 2002. Pp. 662; 669–1362. €68.00.McClendon, Charles B. The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600–900. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. 264. $65.00.Morris, Marc. The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 261. $80.00.Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, editor. A New History of Ireland: I, Prehistoric and Early Ireland. (A New History of Ireland, number 1.) New York: Oxford University Press for the Royal Irish Academy. 2005. Pp. lxxxii, 1219. $250.00.Owen-Crocker, Gale R., editor. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry. (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, number 3.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer. 2005. Pp. ix, 202. $90.00.Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with The National Gallery of Art, Washington. 2005. Pp. ix, 371. $65.00.Pegg, Mark Gregory. The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245–1246. Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 238. $19.95.Prestwich, Michael. Plantagenet England 1225–1360. (The New Oxford History of England.) New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 638. $45.00.Rogers, Guy MacLean. Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness. Paperback edition. New York: Random House. 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 420. $15.95.Strayer, Joseph R. On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State. Forewords by Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan. Rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 114. $14.95.Waldman, John. Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: The Evolution of European Staff Weapons between 1200 and 1650. (History of Warfare, number 31.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xxvi, 223. $179.00.
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Europe: Early Modern and Modern
| Adonis, Andrew, and Keith Thomas, editors. Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 353. $35.00.Alcalá, Ángel, editor. Miguel Servet: Obras Completas III, Escritos Científicos. (Larumbe: Historia y Pensamiento, number 36.) Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. 2005. Pp. cxiv, 532. €21.00.Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 426. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.Anderson, Judith H. Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England. New York: Fordham University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 324. $55.00.Beevor, Antony. The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2004. Pp. xvi, 300. $15.00.Birn, Raymond. Crisis, Absolutism, Revolution: Europe and the World 1648–1789. 3d ed. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview. 2005. Pp. xii, 594. $28.95.Booth, Christopher. John Haygarth, FRS (1740–1827): A Physician of the Enlightenment. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, number 254.) Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society. 2005. Pp. xv, 169. $60.00.Brand, Paul, Kevin Costello, and W. N. Osborough, editors. Adventures of the Law: Proceedings of the Sixteenth British Legal History Conference, Dublin, 2003. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society. 2005. Pp. xviii, 331. $55.00.Brett, Edward M. The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War in Spain, 1835–1838: A Forgotten Army. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 240. $55.00.Brown, Meg Lota, and Kari Boyd McBride. Women's Roles in the Renaissance. (Women's Roles through History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 335. $59.95.Busse, Stefan. Psychologie in der DDR: Die Verteidigung der Wissenschaft und die Formung der Subjekte. (Psychologie, Forschung, Aktuell, number 17.) Weinheim: Beltz. 2004. Pp. ix, 371.Davies, Norman. Rising '44: 'The Battle for Warsaw'. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 752. $18.00.De Brye, Bernard. Consciences épiscolpales en exil 1789–1814: À travers la correspondence de Mgr de La Fare, évêque de Nancy (Histoire.) Paris: Cerf. 2004. Pp. 517. €59.00.Einonen, Piia. Poliittiset areenat ja toimintatavat: Tukholman porvaristo vallan käyttäjänä ja vallankäytön kohteena n. 1592–1644. [Political Arenas and Modes of Action: The Burghers of Stockholm as Subjects and Objects in Exercise of Power, ca. 1592–1644]. (Bibliotheca Historica, number 94.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2005. Pp. 316. €29.00.Garloff, Katja. Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers. (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.) Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 252. $49.95.Gordon, Jan, and Cora J. Gordon. Two Vagabonds in Languedoc. (Kegan Paul Travellers Series.) Reprint. London and New York: Kegan Paul. 2005. Pp. x, 242. $161.50.Gottfried, Paul Edward. The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 154. $34.95.Grumley, John. Agnes Heller: A Moralist in the Vortex of History. London: Pluto. 2005. Pp. xi, 327. $24.95.Hansig, Ron T. Hitler's Escape. Twickenham, UK: Athena Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 135. $9.95.Harrison, Hope M. Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953–1961. (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.) Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 345. $27.95.Higonnet, Patrice. Paris: Capital of the World. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2002. Pp. 493. $19.95.Hopkins, Clare. Trinity: 450 Years of an Oxford College Community. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 500. $135.00.Horn, Jeff. Qui parle pour la nation? Les élections et les élus de la Champagne méridionale, 1765–1830. Translated by Maïca Sanconie. Paris: Sociétés des études robespierristes. 2004. Pp. 271. €32.00.Hösle, Vittorio, and Illies, Christian, editors. Darwinism and Philosophy. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 392. Cloth $70.00, paper $35.00.Hrushevsky, Mykhailo. History of Ukraine-Rus'. Volume 9, Book One, The Cossack Age, 1650–1653. Translated by Bohdan Strumínski. Edited by Serhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn. Assisted by Uliana M. Pasicznyk. (The Hrushevsky Translation Project.) Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 2005. Pp. lxxx, 761. $119.95.Hsia, R. Po-chia. The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770. (New Approaches to European History, number 24.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 268. Cloth $70.00, paper $25.99.Hults, Linda C. The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 345. $49.95.Hylton, Raymond. Ireland's Huguenots and Their Refuge, 1662–1745: An Unlikely Haven. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 226. $69.50.Ives, Eric. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: "The Most Happy." Paperback edition. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2004. Pp. xvii, 458. $19.95.Jacobs, Fredrika H. The Living Image in Renaissance Art. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 267. $80.00.Jenkins, Brian, editor. France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right. New York: Berghahn Books. 2005. Pp. 232. $60.00.Kaplan, Marion A., editor. Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618–1945. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 529. $45.00.Kavanagh, Thomas M. Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. (Critical Authors and Issues.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 251. $45.00.Kekewich, Margaret L., and Susan Rose. Britain, France and the Empire, 1350–1500. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 308. $23.95.Lefebvre, Georges. The Coming of the French Revolution. Translated by R. R. Palmer. Foreword by Timothy Tackett. Rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xxxix, 235. $19.95.Little, Benerson. The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2005. Pp. xiii, 303. $27.50.MacCaughan, Patricia. La justice à Manosque au XIIIe siècle: Évolution et représentation. Paris, France: Honore Champion Editeur. 2005. Pp. 355. €37.00.Malgeri, Alfredo. L'occupazione di Milano e la liberazione. Reprint. Milan: Comune di Milano. 2005. Pp. 134.Mansel, Philip. Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 237. $35.00.Martin, Benjamin F. France in 1938. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 252. $39.95.May, Gita. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. 237. $30.00.Melville, Andrei, and Tatiana Shakleina, editors. Russian Foreign Policy in Transition: Concepts and Realities. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 496. $54.95.Nilsson, Gõran B. The Founder: Andre Oscar Wallenberg (1816–1886) Swedish Banker, Politician and Journalist. Translated by Michael F. Metcalf. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiskell International. 2005. Pp. 445. SEK 375.00.O'Brien, John B. Studies in Irish, British and Australian Relations, 1916–1963: Trade, Diplomacy and Politics. Edited by Anne E. O'Brien. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2005. Pp. 164. $55.00.Olick, Jeffrey K. In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943–1949. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 380. $29.00.Painter, Borden W., Jr. Mussolini's Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City. (Italian and Italian American Studies.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xix, 200. $29.95.Palmer, R. R. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution. Foreword by Isser Woloch. (Princeton Classic Editions.) Reprint. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 415. $24.95.Pocock, J. G. A. The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 344. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.Porch, Douglas. The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II. Paperback edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. Pp. xiv, 769. $18.00.Price, Roger. A Concise History of France. (Cambridge Concise Histories.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 491. Cloth $70.00, paper $25.99.Proceedings of the British Academy 124: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows III. New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2004. Pp. iv, 396. $85.00.Rawlings, Helen. The Spanish Inquisition. ((Historical Association Studies.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. xv, 174. $29.95.Rosenstone, Robert A. The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family. (Jewish History, Life, and Culture.) Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 197. $15.95.Rotelli, Ettore. Forme di governo delle democrazie nascenti 1689–1799. (Collezione di Testi e di Studi; Storiografia.) Bologna: Il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 635. €40.00.Scales, Len, and Oliver Zimmer, editors. Power and the Nation in European History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 389. Cloth $75.00, paper $32.99.Schneid, Frederick C. Napoleon's Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition. (Studies in Military History and International Affairs.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2005. Pp. xii, 192. $44.95.Scott, H. M. The Birth of a Great Power System 1740–1815. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2005. Pp. xiv, 433.Shafer, David A. The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism. (European History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xi, 226. Cloth $85.00, paper $28.95.Siegel, Jonah. Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 285. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.Soergel, Philip M, editor. Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, third series, number 2.) New York: AMS Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 285.Souza, Evergton Sales. Jansénisme et réforme de l'église dans l'empire portugais, 1640 à 1790. (Publications du Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian.) Lisbon and Paris: FundaçÎo Calouste Gulbenkian. 2004. Pp. 503.Speerstra, Hylke. Cruel Paradise: Life Stories of Dutch Emigrants. Translated by Henry J. Baron. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. 2005. Abridged edition. Pp. xv, 224. $15.00.Sperber, Jonathan, editor. Germany 1800–1870. (Short Oxford History of Germany.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 301. $24.95.Sperber, Jonathan. The European Revolutions, 1848–1851. (New Approaches to European History, number 29.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 313. Cloth $70.00, paper $25.99.Stover, Eric. The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague. (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 230. $59.95.Thompson, Helen. Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 278. $59.95.Wackwitz, Stephan. An Invisible Country. Foreword by Wendy Lasser. Translated by Stephen Lehmann. Philadelphia: Paul Dry. 2005. Pp. xiii, 254. $24.95.Wedgwood, C. V. The Thirty Years War. Foreword by Anthony Grafton. (New York Review Books Classics.) Reprint. New York: New York Review Books. 2005. Pp. xi, 520. $18.95.Woolfson, Jonathan, editor. Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography. (Palgrave Advances.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. ix, 317. Cloth $80.00, paper $22.95.Zelnik, Reginald E. Perils of Pankratova: Some Stories from the Annals of Soviet Historiography. (Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 137. $12.95.Zipes, Jack. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xvii, 171. $19.95.
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Middle East and Northern Africa
| Izzi Dien, Mawil. Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 178. $40.00.Murray, Williamson, and Robert H. Scales, Jr. The Iraq War: A Military History. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 312. $16.95.Ruedy, John. Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation. 2d ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 325. $21.95.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
| Laband, John. The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880–1881. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2005. Pp. xii, 264. $29.95.
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