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Vol. 111, No. 2

APRIL 2006



In This Issue xiii


Articles

Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875–1905
By Jonathan Ira Levy 307

Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832
By Marixa Lasso 336

The Disruptive Comforts of Drag: (Trans)Gender Performances among Prisoners of War in Russia, 1914–1920
By Alon Rachamimov 362

The Disenchantment of Magic: Spells, Charms, and Superstition in Early European Witchcraft Literature
By Michael D. Bailey 383

Talking Toads and Chinless Ghosts: The Politics of "Superstitious" Rumors in the People's Republic of China, 1961–1965
By S. A. Smith 405


Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Stephen Kern. A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought.
By Peter Okun 428

Jeremy D. Popkin. History, Historians, and Autobiography.
By Rudolf Dekker 429

Keith C. Sewell. Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History.
By Donald Wright 430

Frederick C. Corney. Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution.
By Michael G. Smith 430

Frederick Cooper. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History.
By Patrick Manning 431


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, and Martin Dribe, editor. Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe.
By Katherine A. Lynch 432

David J. Weber. Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment.
By Jim Norris 433

Bernard Bailyn. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours.
By Alison Games 434

Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf, editors Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World.
By H. T. Dickinson 435

Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin. Hating America: A History.
By Alan McPherson 436

David Hempton. Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.
By Christine Leigh Heyrman 437

Kevin Grant. A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926.
By Seymour Drescher 438

Patrick F. McDevitt. May the Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire, 1880–1935.
By Tony Collins 439

Ionna Laliotou. Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism Between Greece and America.
By Victor Greene 440

Paul Erker. Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und die amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.
By Stephen L. Harp 441

Anja Schüler. Frauenbewegung und soziale Reform: Jane Addams und Alice Salomon im transatlantischen Dialog, 1889–1933.
By Carole Elizabeth Adams 442

Gerard J. DeGroot. The Bomb: A Life.
By Lawrence S. Wittner 443


ASIA

Benjamin A. Elman. On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900.
By Marta E. Hanson 444

Ping-chen Hsiung. A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China.
By Paul S. Ropp 445

Peter C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.
By Christopher P. Atwood 445

Chun-Shik Kim. Deutscher Kulturimperialismus in China: Deutsches Kolonialschulwesen in Kiaotschou (China) 1898–1914.
By Ricardo K. S. Mak 446

John M. Carroll. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong.
By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 447

Donald S. Sutton. Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan.
By Jean DeBernardi 448

Sarah Thal. Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912.
By Constantine N. Vaporis 449

Daniel V. Botsman. Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan.
By Michael Lewis 450

David L. Howell. Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan.
By F. G. Notehelfer 451

Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper. Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945.
By David Omissi 452

Kyung Moon Hwang. Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea.
By Clark W. Sorensen 453

Farhat Hasan. State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c. 1572–1730.
By Stephen P. Blake 454


OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Steven Roger Fischer. Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island.
By Philippa Mein Smith 455

Inga Clendinnen. Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact.
By Fiona Paisley 456

Joy Damousi. Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia.
By Louis Rose 456


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Jean-Claude Dubé. The Chevalier de Montmagny (1601–1657): First Governor of New France.
By Peter Moogk 457

N. E. S. Griffiths. From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604–1755.
By John Mack Faragher 458

John Mack Faragher. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland.
By Geoffrey Plank 459

J. I. Little. Borderland Religion: The Emergence of an English-Canadian Identity, 1792–1852.
By Stephen A. Marini 460

Ian Radforth. Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States.
By John Plunkett 37

David Hackett Fischer. Liberty and Freedom.
By Grace Elizabeth Hale 462

Mary E. Stuckey. Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity.
By Russell L. Riley 463

Daniel Wirls and Stephen Wirls. The Invention of the United States Senate.
By Charles A. Kromkowski 464

Markus Dirk Dubber. The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government.
By Michael Willrich 465

Cal Jillson. Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion over Four Centuries.
By Gary Cross 466

Winfred B. Moore, Jr, Kyle S. Sinisi and, David H. White, Jr., editors. Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.
By Elizabeth Hayes Turner 467

Fred Nadis. Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America.
By Linda Simon 468

David S. Jones. Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600.
By Noble David Cook 469

Stuart Banner. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.
By David E. Wilkins 470

William A. Pencak, and Daniel K. Richter, editors. Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania.
By Nancy Shoemaker 471

Joshua Piker. Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America.
By Robbie Ethridge 472

Brian Donahue. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord.
By Robert A. Gross 473

Darren Staloff. Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding.
By Andrew Burstein 474

John Ferling. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800.
By Herbert Sloan 475

Andrew Burstein. Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello.
By Joshua D. Rothman 476

Richard Buel, Jr. America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic.
By Marshall Foletta 477

Lance Newman. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature.
By Robert L. Dorman 477

Patrick W. Carey. Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane.
By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. 478

Stephen G. Alter. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language.
By Brigitte Nerlich 479

Shane White and Graham White. The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech.
By Gavin James Campbell 480

David S. Reynolds. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights.
By Frederick J. Blue 481

Frederick J. Blue. No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics.
By Lorien Foote 482

C. A. Tripp. The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln.
By Jay Hatheway 483

John F. Marszalek. Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.
By Malcolm Muir, Jr. 483

Heather Andrea Williams. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.
By Wilma King 484

Kathleen Ann Clark. Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863–1913.
By S-M Grant 485

Stephanie E. Yuhl. A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston.
By Jack E. Davis 486

Carl H. Moneyhon. Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction.
By Mark M. Carroll 487

Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow.
By Rebecca Sharpless 488

Eric L. Clements. After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona.
By Malcolm Rohrbough 489

Robert B. Outland III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South.
By Daniel Clark 490

William P. Jones. The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South.
By Cindy Hahamovitch 491

Francesca Morgan. Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America.
By Rebecca Edwards 492

Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity.
By Kathleen De Grave 493

Sharon E. Wood. The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City.
By Priscilla Murolo 493

Jane Lancaster. Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a Life beyond "Cheaper By The Dozen.
By Dee Garrison 494

Mary Ting Yi Lui. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City.
By Krystyn Moon 495

Evelyn Gonzalez. The Bronx.
By Darrel E. Bigham 496

Margaret C. DePalma. Dialogue on the Frontier: Catholic and Protestant Relations, 1793–1883.
By F. Michael Perko 497

Kevin E. Schmiesing. Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II.
By Mel Piehl 497

Henry Pratt. Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895–1994.
By Heather Ann Thompson 498

Robert Harrison. Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State.
By Steven L. Piott 499

Todd J. Pfannestiel. Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919–1923.
By David McFadden 500

David Kahn. The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking.
By Louis R. Sadler 501

Lucy Maddox. Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform.
By Steven Conn 502

Charles Wilkinson. Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations.
By Brian Hosmer 503

David E. Stannard . Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawai'i.
By Helen G. Chapin 504

Neil Lanctot. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution.
By Steve Bullock 505

Christopher A. McAuley. The Mind of Oliver C. Cox.
By Charles Pete Banner-Haley 506

Jack Dougherty. More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee.
By Jeanne Theoharis 506

Michael Janeway. The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ.
By Bruce M. Stave 507

Nils Gilman. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America.
By Walter Hixson 508

Jennifer E. Brooks. Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition.
By Jeff Woods 509

Robert W. Cherny and William Issel, editors. American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture.
By Martin Halpern 510

John A. Salmond. Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle.
By Michelle Brattain 510

Lance Hill. The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.
By Nikhil Pal Singh 511

Cynthia Griggs Fleming. In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South.
By Greta de Jong 512

Alan Scot Willis. All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945–1970.
By Bill J. Leonard 513

Jerma A. Jackson. Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age.
By Thomas L. Riis 514

Nadine Hubbs. The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernities, American Music, and National Identity.
By Raymond Knapp 515

Raymond Knapp. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity.
By John W. Frick 516

Paul Buhle. From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture.
By Leonard Dinnerstein 517

Kevin Heffernan. Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968.
By Gregory D. Black 517

Bradford D. Martin. The Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Public Performance in Sixties America.
By Howard Brick 518

Penny M. Von Eschen. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War.
By E. Taylor Atkins 519

Donna M. Binkiewicz. Federalizing the Muse: United States Art Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965–1980.
By Karen J. Blair 520

Lois W. Banner. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle.
By Andrea Walton 520

Margaret A. Weitekamp. Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program.
By Robert D. Dean 521

Charles Marsh. The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today.
By Mark Newman 522

James Landers. The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam.
By Kathleen J. Turner 523

David Farber. Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam.
By Nathan J. Citino 524

William G. Robbins. Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000.
By Mark Fiege 524

Douglas Cazaux Sackman. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden.
By Don Mitchell 525

Eric Avila. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.
By Kevin M. Kruse 526

Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape.
By Walter A. Friedman 527

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries.
By Jonathan Liebenau 528

David L. Mason. From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831–1995.
By Marc Egnal 528

David Leverenz. Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940.
By Shawn Johansen 529

Gary Cross. The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Culture.
By Joseph M. Hawes 530

David Serlin. Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America.
By M. L. Tina Stevens 531

Marc Shell. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture.
By Elise Lemire 532

Joan Rothschild. The Dream of the Perfect Child.
By Steven Mintz 532

Carol Padden and Tom Humphries. Inside Deaf Culture.
By Robert M. Buchanan 533


CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Jay Kinsbruner. The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism.
By Charles F. Walker 534

Lyman L. Johnson, editor. Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America.
By Herbert Braun 535

Irving W. Levinson. Wars within Wars: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848.
By Benjamin Heber Johnson 536

Daniel Wilkinson. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala.
By Deborah Levenson 536

Thomas J. Dodd. Tiburcio Carías: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader.
By Timothy Hawkins 538

Marcelo Bucheli. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000.
By Thomas O'Brien 538

Richard J. Walter. Politics and Urban Growth in Santiago, Chile, 1891–1941.
By Patrick Barr-Melej 539


EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

B. M. Lavelle. Fame, Money, and Power: The Rise of Peisistratos and "Democratic" Tyranny at Athens.
By Sviatoslav Dmitriev 540

Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp. Das Römische Gastmahl: Eine Kulturgeschichte.
By Fritz Graf 541

Florin Curta, editor. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages.
By Charles J. Halperin 542

Robert F. Berkhofer III. Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France.
By Janet L. Nelson 543

Damien Coulon. Barcelone et le grand commerce d'Orient au Moyen Âge.
By Ana Echevarria 544

Fernando Serrano Larráyoz. Medicina y enfermedad en la corte de Carlos III.
Edward Behrend-Martínez 545

Piers D. Mitchell. Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon.
By Malcolm Barber 546

Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, editors. Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages.
By Ruth Mazo Karras 547

Elizabeth Makowski. "A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages.
By Robert E. Lerner 548

Nancy Bradley Warren. Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380–1600.
By Diane Watt 549


EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

A. S. Q. Visser. Johannes Sambucus and the Learned Image: The Use of the Emblem in Late-Renaissance Humanism.
By Alison Adams 549

Pamela H. Smith. The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution.
By Jonathan Sheehan 550

Jonathan Sheehan. The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture.
By Thomas Albert Howard 551

Peter Hanns Reill. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment.
By Jan Golinski 552

Bruce T. Moran. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution.
By Lauren Kassell 553

Mary Sponberg Pedley. The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England.
By David Buisseret 554

Eli Zaretsky. Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis.
By Eric J. Engstrom 555

Pierre Purseigle, editor. Warfare and Belligerence: Perspectives in First World War Studies.
By Ian Cawood 556

Till Geiger and Michael Kennedy, editors. Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan.
By Troy D. Davis 557

Diana Newton. The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603–1605.
By Julian Goodare 558

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Working Women in English Society, 1300–1620.
By Amy M. Froide 559

Whitney R. D. Jones. Thomas Rainborowe (c. 1610–1648): Civil War Seaman, Siegemaster, and Radical.
By Michael Mendle 559

L. A. Botelho. Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500–1700.
By Ralph Houlbrooke 560

A. P. W. Malcomson. Nathaniel Clements: Government and the Governing Elite in Ireland, 1725–75.
By Liam Chambers 561

Sheldon S. Cohen. British Supporters of the American Revolution 1775–1783: The Role of the "Middling-level" Activists.
By James E. Bradley 562

R. J. Morris. Men, Women and Property in England 1780–1870: A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Classes.
By John Broad 563

M. J. D. Roberts. Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787–1886.
By Penelope J. Corfield 564

Brenda Assael. The Circus and Victorian Society.
By Howard L. Malchow 565

Gillian M. Doherty. The Irish Ordnance Survey: History, Culture and Memory.
By Michael de Nie 566

Adam Schwartz. The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones.
By Meredith Veldman 566

Mary Elizabeth Perry. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain.
By Maureen Flynn 567

Keith P. Luria. Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France.
By Brian E. Strayer 568

Lianne McTavish. Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France.
By Nina Rattner Gelbart 569

Jennifer Ngaire Heuer. The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830.
By Margaret H. Darrow 570

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism.
By Barry Shapiro 571

Sandy Petrey. In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism.
By Gonzalo J. Sanchez 572

Carolyn J. Eichner. Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune.
By Gay L. Gullickson 573

Adam Rayski. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance.
By Vicki Caron 574

Leos Müller. Consuls, Corsairs, and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-distance Shipping, 1720–1815.
By Byron J. Nordstrom 575

Michael B. Gross. The War against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
By Raymond C. Sun 577

Joan L. Clinefelter. Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany.
By Paul Betts 578

Frank Vossler. Propaganda in die eigene Truppe: Die Truppenbetreuung in der Wehrmacht 1939–1945.
By Gerhard L. Weinberg 579

Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker.
By Hans Mommsen 579

Gerald D. Feldman and Wolfgang Seibel, editors. Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business, and the Organization of the Holocaust.
By Harold James 580

Dagmar Herzog. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany.
By Atina Grossmann 581

Thomas Allison Kirk. Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684.
By Jan Glete 583

Joshua D. Zimmerman, editor. Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922–1945.
By David I. Kertzer 584

Johanna C. Granville. The First Domino: International Decision Making During the Hungarian Crisis of 1956.
By István Deák 585

István Rév. Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism.
By Katherine Verdery 586

Alexander Victor Prusin. Nationalizing a Borderland: War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920.
By Robert Blobaum 587

Rebecca Friedman. Masculinity, Autocracy, and the Russian University, 1804–1863.
By James C. McClelland 587

Thomas C. Owen. Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age.
By Steven G. Marks 588

Barbara Walker. Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian Literary Circle: Culture and Survival in Revolutionary Times.
By Jeffrey Brooks 589

Adrienne Lynn Edgar. Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan.
By George O. Liber 590

David E. Murphy. What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa.
By Robert Conquest 591


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Francesca Rochberg. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture.
By William W. Hallo 592

Fred Astren. Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding.
By David Olster 593

Margalit Shilo. Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840–1914.
By Rachel Simon 594

Mark LeVine. Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880–1948.
By Laurie A. Brand 595

Idith Zertal. Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood.
By Derek J. Penslar 596

Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, editors. From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon.
By Philip S. Khoury 597

Ezekiel Gebissa. Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875–1991.
By Monica M. van Beusekom 598


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Elizabeth Schmidt. Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939–1958.
By Michael O. West 599

Gloria Chuku. Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900–1960.
By Ifi Amadiume 600

Megan Vaughan. Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius.
By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 601


Collected Essays

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas, editors. The Creation of the British Atlantic World. 603

David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby, editors. Maritime Empires: British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century. 603

Raúl A. Galoppe and Richard Weiner, editors. Explorations in Subjectivity, Borders, and Demarcation: A Fine Line. 603


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, editors. Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America. 603

Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and Gary H. Dunham, editors. Powwow. 604

Craig S. Pascoe, Karen Trahan Leathem, and Andy Ambrose, editors. The American South in the Twentieth Century. 604

Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur, editors. The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism. 604


CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Gad Heuman and David V. Trotman, editors. Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean. 604


EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Benoît Cursente and Mireille Mousnier, editors. Les territoires du médiéviste. 605

John F. Haldon, editor. General Issues in the Study of Medieval Logistics: Sources, Problems and Methodologies. 605

Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen and Kurt Villads Jensen, editors. Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology. 605

Therese Martin and Julie A. Harris, editors. Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams. 606

Angel Nicolaou-Konnari and Chris Schabel, editors. Cyprus: Society and Culture 1191–1374. 606


EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Kenneth Gouwens and Sheryl E. Reiss, editors. The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture. 606

Alois Schmid and Katharina Weigand, editors. Bayern mitten in Europa: Vom Frühmittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. 606

Hélène Miard-Delacroix and Rainer Hudemann, editors. Wandel und Integration Deutsch-französische Annäherungen der fünfziger Jahre/Mutations et intégration: Les rapprochements franco-allemands dans les années cinquante. 607

Pekka Hakamies, editor. Moving in the USSR: Western Anomalies and Northern Wilderness. 607


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon, editors. Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter. 607

Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, and David S. Powers, editors. Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgments. 608


Documents and Bibliographies 609

Other Books Received 611

Communications 619


Topical Table of Contents

Administration
454, 500, 562, 576

Agriculture
473, 488, 525, 598, 600

Anthropology/Archaeology
455, 521, 542

Art/Architecture
486, 518, 520, 550, 578

Biography
429, 430, 457, 475, 476, 478, 479, 481, 482, 483, 484, 497, 501, 506, 507, 514, 521, 538, 541, 558, 560, 562, 567, 571, 589

Body
531, 532, 533, 535, 569

Business/Finance
441, 517, 525, 527, 528, 529, 538, 579, 580

Career/Professions
442, 576

Childhood/Youth
445, 530, 532

Class
432, 439, 451, 453, 478, 496, 561, 563, 565, 599

Colonial/Postcolonial
431, 433, 435, 444, 446, 447, 456, 457, 458, 459, 461, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 504, 508, 534, 597, 599, 600, 601

Comparative
435, 437, 440, 441, 554

Crime/Violence
428, 450, 495, 504, 512, 574, 584

Cultural
428, 448, 462, 466, 468, 480, 493, 515, 516, 517, 519, 526, 530, 531, 532, 533, 535, 551, 555, 556, 565, 566, 568, 569, 577, 578, 582, 586, 593

Demography
432, 469, 561

Diasporas
440

Economic
432, 496, 498, 528, 529, 534, 539, 543, 544, 557, 559, 580, 583, 589, 600

Education/Students
429, 444, 446, 484, 506, 588

Elites
453, 461, 463, 475, 507, 536, 541, 562, 588

Empire
431, 433, 438, 439, 445, 447, 454, 456, 461, 591

Environment/Landscape
455, 473, 478, 490, 524, 525, 527

Ethnicity
458, 459, 517, 537, 587, 599

Exploration/Travel
554

Family
529, 533, 559, 563, 570

Film/Photography
516, 517

Folklore
480

Foreign Relations/Diplomatic
472, 477, 497, 508, 519, 524, 542, 557, 585, 587

Gay/Lesbian
483, 515

Gender
465, 492, 493, 494, 563, 569, 570, 577, 587, 594, 599

Genocide
574, 581

Health/Disease
445, 469, 532, 545, 546

Historiography
429, 430, 431

Identity
451, 460, 463, 516, 517, 566, 569, 570, 593, 597

Ideology
462, 466, 573, 585

Immigration/Migration
440, 458, 459, 471, 542

Indigenous Peoples
433, 455, 456, 459, 469, 470, 471, 472, 502, 503

Industry
432, 441, 490, 528, 539, 580

Institutions
446, 450, 460, 464, 499, 500, 520, 521, 529, 543, 548, 574, 581, 586

Intellectual
428, 430, 436, 456, 474, 476, 478, 479, 498, 502, 506, 508, 549, 551, 552, 553, 555, 567, 571, 589, 590

Journalism
523

Labor
438, 490, 491, 510, 511, 525

Language/Linguistics
479, 533, 593

Legal/Legislative
465, 470, 500, 503, 504, 548, 570, 584

Leisure/Entertainment<