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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
| Westbrook, Robert B. Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 246. $29.95.
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Comparative/World
| Baud, Michiel, and Rosanne Rutten, editors. Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. (International Review of Social History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. 217. $24.95.Black, Jeremy, editor. The Seventy Great Battles in History. New York: Thames and Hudson. 2005. Pp. 304. $40.00.Bobrick, Benson. The Fated Sky: Astrology in History. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2005. Pp. viii, 369. $26.00.Borgolte, Michael,editor. Stiftungen in Christentum, Judentum und Islam vor der Moderne: Auf der Suche nach ihren Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden in religiösen Grundlagen, praktischen Zwecken und historischen Transformationen. (Stiftungsgeschichten.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2005. Pp. 297.Born, Hans, Loch K. Johnson, and Ian Leigh, editors. Who's Watching the Spies? Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability. Foreword by Theodor H. Winkler and Leif Mevik. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2005. Pp. xv, 255. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00.Kistler, John M. War Elephants. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. xv, 333. $44.95.Krause, Michael D., and R. Cody Phillips, editors. Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History. 2005. Pp. xi, 505.Linhard, Tabea Alexa. Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $39.95.Neff, Stephen C. War and the Law of Nations: A General History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 443. $95.00.Overy, Richard J. The Air War, 1939–1945. (Cornerstones of Military History.) 3d ed. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2005. Pp. xiv, 267. $24.95.Parker, Bradley J., and Lars Rodseth, editors. Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 294. $50.00.Press, Daryl G. Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats. (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 218. $32.50.Reinkowski, Maurus. Die Dinge der Ordnung: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung über die osmanische Reformpolitik im 19. Jahrhundert. (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 2005. Pp. 365.Taylor, Paul D., and David N. Lewis. Fossil Invertebrates. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 208. $35.00.Uitz, Renáta. Constitutions, Courts and History: Historical Narratives in Constitutional Adjudication. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 2005. Pp. 354. $47.95.Willmott, H. P. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action. (Twentieth-Century Battles.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 398. $35.00.
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Asia
| Friend, Theodore. Indonesian Destinies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 628. $19.95.Grunden, Walter E. Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xi, 335. $39.95.Moon, Seungsook. Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea. (Politics, History, and Culture.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 254. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.Olsen, Edward A. Korea, the Divided Nation. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2005. Pp. 191. $44.95.
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Oceania and the Pacific Islands
| Rice, Geoffrey W. Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand. Assisted by Linda Bryder. 2d ed. New Zealand: Canterbury University Press. 2005. Pp. 327. NZ$39.95.
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Canada and the United States
| Allitt, Patrick. Religion in America Since 1945: A History. (Columbia Histories of Modern American Life.) Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 313. $24.00.Alterman, Eric. When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2004. Pp. ix, 447. $16.00.Arac, Jonathan. The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820–1860. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1995. Pp. 267. $15.95.Aronstein, Susan. Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia. (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. vii, 264. $65.00.Barker, Rocky. Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2005. Pp. 277. $24.95.Barnette, David C. The Official Guide to Christmas in the South Or, If You Can't Fry It, Spraypaint it Gold. New York: William Morrow. 2004. Pp. 125. $14.95.Bazyler, Michael J. Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts. Paperback edition. New York: New York University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 411. Cloth $40.00, paper $22.00.Behdad, Ali. A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 212. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95.Berlin, Ira, and Leslie M. Harris, editors. Slavery in New York. New York: New Press in cooperation with the New-York Historical Society. 2005. Pp. vi, 403. $25.00.Beyan, Amos J. African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm and the American Civilizing Efforts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. 167. $65.00.Biles, Roger. Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 341. Cloth $37.00, paper $22.00.Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. (Penguin Lives Series.) Reprint. New York: Penguin. 2000. Pp. ix, 246. $13.00.Bruns, Roger. Cesar Chavez: A Biography. (Greenwood Biographies.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 141. $29.95.Brust, James S., Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard. Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 226. $39.95.Cantor, Louis. Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'N' Roll Deejay. (Music in American Life.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2005. Pp. x, 287. $34.95.Cauthen, Charles Edward. South Carolina Goes to War, 1860–1865. Introduction by J. Tracy Power. (Southern Classics Series.) Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina. 1950. Pp. xxiv, 260. $15.95.Chafe, William H. Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 420. $29.95.Chalmers, David. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. Paperback edition. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2003. Pp. viii, 207. $17.95.Cimprich, John. Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory. (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 193. $29.95.Cobble, Dorothy Sue. The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 315. $19.95.Cutler, Jonathan. Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. (Labor in Crisis.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 236. Cloth $59.50, paper $20.95.Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson, Jr., editors. Virginia at War, 1861. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. 2005. Pp. x, 241. $35.00.Dent, David W. Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. li, 510. $99.95.Dorsey, John. Look Again in Baltimore. Photography by James DuSel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. Pp. xxvi, 188. $35.00.Dougherty, Kevin. The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis. Assisted by J. Michael Moore. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2005. Pp. ix, 183. $45.00.Dowling, Timothy C, editor. Personal Perspectives: World War II. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC Clio. 2005. Pp. xiii, 351. $85.00.Fanebust, Wayne. The Missing Corpse: Grave Robbing a Gilded Age Tycoon. Foreword by John Ellis Kordes. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2005. Pp. x, 274. $44.95.Finelli, Patrick M. Worlds Away: Following My Father's World War II Footsteps. Temple Terrace, Fla.: Paradise Press. 2004. Pp. x, 191. $24.95.Frost, Jennifer. "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s. Paperback edition. New York: New York University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 257. $21.00.Gabler, James M. An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: Dinner, Wine, and Conversation. Palm Beach, Fla.: Bacchus Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 334. $29.95.Gibson, Truman K., Jr. Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America. Assisted by Steve Huntley. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 313. $21.95.Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2005. Pp. xix, 916. $35.00.Gosse, Van. Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretive History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. x, 240. Cloth $75.00, paper $23.95.Hansen, James R. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2005. Pp. xi, 769. $30.00.Hearne, John M., and Rory T. Cornish, editors. Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American. Foreword by Roy Foster. Dublin: Irish Academic. 2005. Pp. xvii, 254. $29.50.Higgs, Robert. Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute. 2005. Pp. xv, 252. $12.95.Hiller, Herbert L. Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. x, 444. $24.95.Hodgson, Godfrey. America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon—What Happened and Why. Rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 590. $24.95.Homestead, Melissa J. American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 272. $70.00.Hosokawa, Bill. Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 2005. Pp. xviii, 270. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.Hovey, Kathryn. Anarchy and Community in the New American West: Madrid, New Mexico, 1970–2000. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 247. $34.95.Jackson, Jr., John P. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation. (Critical America.) Paperback edition. New York: New York University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 291. $22.00.Keating, Ann Durkin. Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age. (Historical Studies of Urban America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. x, 262. $25.00.Kidd, Kenneth B. Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 253. Cloth $25.95, paper $18.95.Kinney, John J. Captain Jack and the Dalton Gang: The Life and Times of a Railroad Detective. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. 270. Cloth $35.00, paper $17.95.Lacey, Laura Homan. Stay Off the Skyline: The Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa—An Oral History. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2005. Pp. xi, 243. $27.50.Levy, David W. The University of Oklahoma: A History. Volume 1: 1890–1917. Foreword by David L. Boren. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 312. $29.95.Lewis, Tom. The Hudson: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. 340. $30.00.Lieber, Robert J. The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 255. $28.00.Light, Steven Andrew, and Kathryn R. L. Rand. Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xiii, 240. $29.95.Matthews, Gary Robert. Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place. Foreword by James A. Ramage. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2005. Pp. xviii, 358. $39.95.McConnell, Virginia A. Fatal Fortune: The Death of Chicago's Millionaire Orphan. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2005. Pp. xiv, 173. $39.95.McCormick, Blaine. Ben Franklin: America's Original Entrepreneur. Franklin's Autobiography Adapted for Modern Times. Austin, Tex.: Entrepreneur Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 266. $26.95.McLaird, James D. Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 378. $29.95.McMurtry, Larry. Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846–1890. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2005. Pp. 178. $25.00.Miller, Kristie. Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman. Paperback edition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 307. $17.95.Morgan, Jack. Through American and Irish Wars: The Life and Times of General Thomas W. Sweeny, 1820–1892. (The Irish Abroad.) Dublin: Irish Academic. 2005. Pp. xii, 171. $29.50.Murphey, Murray G. C. I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist. (SUNY Series in Philosophy.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2005. Pp. x, 477. $35.00.Myers, John L. Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2005. Pp. x, 565. $65.00.Neely Jr., Mark E. The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era. (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 159.Offit, Paul A. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 238. $27.50.Oldham, Pamela, and Meredith Bean McMath. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Legacy of Lincoln. New York: Alpha Books. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 341. $16.95.Palmquist, Peter E., and Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839–1865. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 742. $150.00.Pfaff, Daniel W. No Ordinary Joe: A Life of Joseph Pulitzer III. (Missouri Biography Series.) Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 359. $34.95.Rafuse, Ethan S., editor. The American Civil War. (International Library of Essays on Military History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 645. $225.00.Rappaport, Joseph. Hands Across the Sea: Jewish Immigrants and World War I. Lanham, Md.: Hamilton Books. 2005. Pp. v, 187. $29.00.Rhodes, Lisa L. Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 310. Cloth $59.95, $24.95.Rudnick, Lois P., Judith E. Smith, and Rachel Lee Rubin, editors. American Identities: An Introductory Textbook. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. xii, 370. $34.95.Russo, Peggy A., and Paul Finkelman, editors. Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2005. Pp. xxx, 228. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.Sarasohn, David. Waiting for Lewis and Clark. (The Bicentennial and the Changing West.) Portland, Oreg.: Oregon Historical Society Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 181. $16.95.Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 386. $19.95.Solinger, Rickie. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America. New York: New York University Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 303. $27.95.Stabler, Hollis D. No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Soldier. Edited by Victoria Smith. (American Indian Lives.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 183. $24.95.Steins, Richard. Arthur Ashe: A Biography. (Greenwood Biographies.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 103. $29.95.Timmons, Todd. Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. (Daily Life Through History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 204. $49.95.Townsend, Craig D. Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. (Religion and American Culture Series.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 241. $45.00.Urofsky, Melvin I. Money and Free Speech: Campaign Finance Reform and the Courts. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xii, 323. $29.95.Vaughn, Stephen. Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 336. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.99.Vickers, Vikki J. "My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together": Thomas Paine and the American Revolution. (Studies in American Popular History and Culture.) New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. ix, 186. $70.00.Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk. Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 110. Cloth $40.00, paper $19.95.Wilensky, Robert J. Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War. (Modern Southeast Asia Series.) Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 207. $29.95.Williams, David. A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. New York: New Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 594. $29.95.Worman, Charles G. Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 522. $65.00.Yoder, Don. The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide. (Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series, number 6.) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania German Society. 2005. Pp. xviii, 366. $49.95.
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Caribbean and Latin America
| Babún, Teo A., and Victor Andrés Triay. The Cuban Revolution: Years of Promise. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. 116. $34.95.Drinot, Paulo, and Leo Garofalo, editors. Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia: Estudios de historia peruana, siglos xvi–xx. Lima, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. 2005. Pp. 379.García, María Elena. Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Education, and Multicultural Development in Peru. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 213. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.Gordillo, Gastón R. Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 204. Pp. xviii, 304. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.Hall, Anthony, editor. Global Impact, Local Action: New Environmental Policy in Latin America. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas. 2005. Pp. xxi, 321. $24.95.Knight, Franklin W., and Teresita Martínez-Vergne, editors. Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 303. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95.Stephen, Lynn. Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca. 2d ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 387. $23.95.
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Europe: Ancient and Medieval
| Adrados, Francisco Rodriguez. A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present. Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xix, 345. $134.00.Arnaldi, Girolamo. Italy and Its Invaders. Translated by Antony Shugaar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 229. $19.95.Beech, George. Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case for Saint-Florent of Saumur. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xii, 142. $65.00.Blakely, Ruth M. The Brus Family in England and Scotland 1100–1295. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 271. $90.00.Bolgiani, Franco, and Grado Giovanni Merlo, editors. Il francescanesimo dalle origini alla metà del secolo XVI: Esplorazioni e questioni aperte. (Atti del Convegno della Fondazione Michele Pellegrino, Università di Torino, 11 novembre 2004.) Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 278. €21.00.Flanagan, Marie Therese, and Judith A. Green, editors. Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xi, 234. $80.00.Folda, Jaroslav. Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291. With CD-ROM. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. lxvii, 714. $150.00.Fulton, Rachel. From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200. Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 676. $25.00.George, Michele, editor. The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 358. $125.00.Glick, Thomas F. Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages. (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World.) 2d ed. Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xxii, 402. $185.Malkin, Irad, editor. Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. vi, 149. $104.00.Musset, Lucien. The Bayeux Tapestry. Translated by Richard Rex. 2d ed. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. 272. $49.95.Rhodes, P. J. A History of the Classical Greek World 478–323 BC. (Blackwell History of the Ancient World.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. xii, 407. Cloth $62.95, paper $34.95.Wareham, Andrew. Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 185. $90.00.Zagorin, Perez. Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 190. $24.95.
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Europe: Early Modern and Modern
| Attal, Frédéric, Jean Garrigues, Thierry Kouamé, and Jean-Pierre Vittu, editors. Les universités en Europe du XIIIe siècle a nos jours: Espaces, modèles et fonctions. (Actes du colloque international d'Orléans 16 et 17 octobre 2003; Homme et société, number 31.) Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 2005. Pp. 294. €26.00.Bambach, Charles. Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks. Paperback edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xxvi, 350. $24.95.Bessonov, Evgeni. Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army. Translated by Bair Irincheev. Paperback edition. Havertown, Pa: Casemate. 2005. Pp. 254. $19.95.Burnett, D. Graham. Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, number 95;3.) Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society. 2005. Pp. viii, 152. $24.00.Collins, James B., and Karen L. Taylor, editors. Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretations. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. x, 470. Cloth $84.95, paper $34.95.Connell, William J., and Giles Constable. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi. (Essays and Studies, number 8.) Toronto, Canada: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. 2005. Pp. 125. $17.00.Cunningham, Hugh. Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500. (Studies in Modern History.) 2d ed. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2005. Pp. ix, 238.de Asúa, Miguel, and Roger French. A New World of Animals: Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xvi, 257. $99.95.Evans, Richard J. Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years. 2d ed. New York: Penguin. 2005. Pp. xxii, 701. $18.00.Evensky, Jerry. Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture. (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 331. $75.00.Fleming, N. C., and Alan O'Day. The Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800. New York: Longman. 2005. Pp. ix, 808. $32.00.Holt, Mack P. The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629. (New Approaches to European History, number 36.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 243. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.99.Jefferies, Henry A., editor. History of the Diocese of Clogher. Foreword by Joseph Duffy. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2005. Pp. 249. $65.00.Kamen, Henry. Spain, 1469–1714: A Society of Conflict. 3d ed. New York: Longman. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 326. £ 19.99.Khaziev, R. A., editor. "Bubliki dlia respubliki": istoricheskii profil' nepmanov [Bubliks for the Republic: Historical Profile of NEPmen]. Ufa: RIO BashGU. 2005. Pp. 222.Lewis, William S. Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2005. Pp. 238. $24.95.Linnanmäki, Eila. Espanjantauti Suomessa: Influenssapandemia 1918–1920. [The Spanish Influenza of 1918–1920 in Finland]. (Bibliotheca Historica, number 95.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2005. Pp. 242.Litvin, Alter , and John Keep. Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium. Paperback edition. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xiv, 248. $20.99.Litz, Gudrun, Heidrun Munzert, and Roland Liebenberg, editors. Frömmigkeit, Theologie, Frömmigkeitstheologie: Contributions to European Church History. (Festschrift für Berndt Hamm zum 60. Geburtstag, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, number 124.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 828. $322.00.Marec, Yannick, editor. Villes en crise?: Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe—fin XXe siècle). Grane: Creaphis. 2005. Pp. 756. €32.00.Mugglestone, Lynda. Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xxi, 273. $30.00.Newton, Roger G. Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 153. $13.95.Nicholl, Charles. Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind. New York: Penguin. 2005. Pp. xiv, 622. $18.00.Outram, Dorinda. The Enlightenment. (New Approaches to European History, number 31.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 165. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.99.Paavilainen, Marko. Kun pääomilla oli mieli ja kieli: Suomalaiskansallinen kielinationalismi ja uusi kauppiaskunta maakaupan vapauttamisesta 1920-luvun alkuun. [When Capital Had a Mind and a Language of Its Own: Finnish-Language Nationalism and the New Merchant Class from the Deregulation of Rural Trade to the Beginning of the 1920s]. (Bibliotheca Historica, number 96.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2005. Pp. 286.Preparata, Guido Giacomo. Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich. London: Pluto. 2005. 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[The Foundation of the Town's Sense of Community: Views of Society and Welfare Strategies in Linköping 1600–1620] (Linköpings Studies in Arts and Science, number 330.) Linköping: Linköping University. 2005. Pp. 273.Sharpe, James. Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 230. $19.95.Stites, Richard. Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 586. $60.00.Szreter, Simon. Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy. (Rochester Studies in Medical History, number 6.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 506. $90.00.Taylor, James W. The 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2005. Pp. 362. $55.00.Thompson, Andrew. The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Longman. 2005. Pp. xvii, 374. $32.00.Tilly, Charles. Trust and Rule. (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 196. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.99.Tronzo, William, editor. St. Peter's in the Vatican. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 320. $125.00.Usdin, Steven T. Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 329. $40.00.Vidino, Lorenzo. Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad. Foreword by Steven Emerson. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2006. Pp. 403. $27.00.Virilio, Paul. City of Panic. Translated by Julie Rose. (Culture Machine Series.) New York: Berg. 2005. Pp. xi, 148. $24.95.Whitehead, Christopher. The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development of the National Gallery. (Perspectives on Collecting.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. xix, 270. $94.95.Zagorin, Perez. How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 371. $19.95.
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Middle East and Northern Africa
| Curtis, John, and Nigel Tallis, editors. Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. 272. $49.95.Lesch, David W. The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 288. $30.00.Mojsov, Bojana. Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2005. Pp. xx, 150. $27.95.Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922. (New Approaches to European History.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 212. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.99.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
| Anderson, David. Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. Paperback edition. New York: W. W. Norton. 2005. Paperback edition. Pp. viii, 406. $15.95.
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