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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



Burke, Peter. History and Social Theory. 2d ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 224. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95.

Good, James A. A Search for Unity in Diversity: The "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" in the Philosophy of John Dewey. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. xxx, 288. Cloth $90.00, paper $29.95.

Hall, John A., and Ralph Schroeder, editors. An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 409. Cloth $80.00, paper $34.99.

Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History. Assisted by Seán Lang. 4th ed. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2006. Pp. xxi, 357. £15.99.

Trachtenberg, Marc. The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 266. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Comparative/World



Anreus, Alejandro, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg, editors. The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 362. $50.00.

Black, Jeremy. The Age of Total War, 1860–1945. (Studies in Military History and International Affairs.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. 202.

Blaha, Stephen. A Unified Quantitative Theory of Civilizations and Societies. Auburn, N.H.: Pingree-Hill Publishing. 2006. Pp. x, 271. $29.95.

Brock, Peter. Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 462. $80.00.

Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage. New York: Penguin. 2005. Pp. xi, 432. $16.00.

Feldman, Martha, and Bonnie Gordon, editors. The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xxvii, 396. $24.95.

Goodwin, Michele. Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 294. $30.00.

Hansen, Keith A. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 233. $24.95.

Hendrickson, Ryan C. Diplomacy and War at NATO: The Secretary General and Military Action after the Cold War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 172. Cloth $34.95, paper $16.95.

Humphrey, Nicholas. Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. 151. $19.95.

Koskenniemi, Martti. From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument. Reprint. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 683. Cloth $80.00, paper $36.99.

Kurtz, Michael J. America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 278. $70.00.

Leffler, Melvyn P., and David S. Painter, editors. Origins of the Cold War: An International History. (Rewriting Histories.) 2d ed. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xv, 352. $34.95.

Lüdtke, Alf, and Bernd Weisbrod, editors. No Man's Land of Violence: Extreme Wars in the 20th Century. (Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 24.) Gottingen: Wallstein. 2006. Pp. 282. €18.00.

MacKinnon, Catharine A. Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 419. $35.00.

Mithen, Steven. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 374. $25.95.

Neusner, Jacob, editor. Religious Foundations of Western Civilization: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Nashville: Abingdon Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 686. $39.00.

Petersen, Tore T. The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961–1969. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 181. $67.50.

Pizer, John. The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 190. $39.95.

Reid, Roddey. Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan. (Tracking Globalization.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 310. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.

Rothwell, Victor. War Aims in the Second World War: The War Aims of the Major Belligerents, 1939–45. (Societies at War.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $75.00, paper $25.00.

Schweller, Randall L. Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power. (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. 182. $29.95.

Sherrow, Victoria. Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 455. $79.95.

van Schendel, Willem, and Itty Abraham, editors. Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization. (Tracking Globalization.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 266. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.

Zink, Brian J. Anyone, Anything, Anytime: A History of Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia: Elsevier. 2006. Pp. xvi, 310. $49.95.

Asia



Aranha, Paolo. Il cristianesimo latino in India nel XVI secolo. Milan: FrancoAngeli. 2006. Pp. 272.

Ganguly, Sumit, editor. South Asia. (Current History Books.) New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 229. Cloth $60.00, paper $18.00.

Goyal, Shankar. Harsha: A Multidisciplinary Political Study. Jodhpur, India: Kusumanjali Book World. 2006. Pp. xxii, 383.

Gyatso, Janet, and Hanna Havnevik, editors. Women in Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 436. Cloth $62.50, paper $24.50.

Marsden, Magnus. Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 297. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.

Mines, Diane P. Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 247. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.95.

Wise, Amanda. Exile and Return Among the East Timorese. (Contemporary Ethnography.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. 238. $55.00.

Womack, Brantly. China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 281. Cloth $70.00, paper $27.99.

Canada and the United States



Abrahams, Roger D. Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul. Assited by Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson. (The City in the Twenty-First Century.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. 102. $22.50.

Agnew, Jean-Christophe, and Roy Rosenzweig, editors. A Companion to Post-1945 America. (Blackwell Companions to American History.) Paperback edition. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2002. Pp. xvii, 584. $39.95.

Althoff, William F. USS Los Angeles: The Navy's Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2004. Pp. xxiii, 289. Cloth $45.00, paper $29.95.

Aron, Stephen. American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 301. $29.95.

Arquilla, John. The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xiv, 272. $26.00.

Ball, Norman R. The Canadian Niagara Power Company Story. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press in association with FortisOntario Inc. 2005. Pp. 318. $49.95.

Baptist, Edward E., and Stephanie M. H. Camp, editors. New Studies in the History of American Slavery. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 306. Cloth $54.95, paper $22.95.

Barney, William L., editor. A Companion to Nineteenth-Century America. (Blackwell Companions to American History.) Paperback edition. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2001. Pp. ix, 414. $39.95.

Baughman, James L. The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America Since 1941. (The American Movement.) 3d ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 298. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. Paperback edition. New York: Vintage of Random House. 2005. Pp. xviii, 194. $13.95.

Bobo, Lawrence D., and Mia Tuan. Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 276. $40.00.

Borders, Gary B. A Hanging in Nacogdoches: Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870–1916. (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series.) Austin: University of Texas Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 209. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.

Brecher, Frank W. Negotiating the Louisiana Purchase: Robert Livingston's Mission to France, 1801–1804. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. 2006. Pp. v, 194. $35.00.

Breisch, Kenneth A., and Alison K. Hoagland, editors. Building Environments: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, X. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 299. $32.00.

Bridgers, Lynn. The American Religious Experience: A Concise History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. vii, 255. Cloth $65.00, paper $22.95.

Buckland, Michael. Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces. (New Directions in Information Management.) Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. 2006. Pp. xiii, 380. $49.95.

Caron, Denis R. A Century of Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a Connecticut Slave. (Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism.) Hanover, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 188. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.

Chapman, David L. Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding. (Sport and Society.) Rev. ed. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 273. Cloth $30.00, paper $21.95.

Connelly, Donald B. John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 471. $49.95.

Djata, Sundiata. Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis. Volume 1. (Sports and Entertainment.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 294. $29.95.

Dossman, Steven Nathaniel. Campaign for Corinth: Blood in Mississippi. (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series.) Abilene, Tex.: McWhiney Foundation Press. 2006. Pp. 160. $14.95.

Doubles, Malcolm C. A Century Plus: A History of Sonoco Products Company. Foreword by Charles W. Coker. Hartsville, South Carolina: Coker College Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 373. $49.99.

Doumani, Beshara, editor. Academic Freedom after September 11. New York: Zone Books. 2006. Pp. 327. $21.95.

Dudziak, Mary L., and Leti Volpp, editors. Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 421. $19.95.

Federman, Cary. The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence. (SUNY Series in American Constitutionalism.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 242. $65.00.

Francia, Peter L. The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 216. $40.00.

Freedman, Estelle B. Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays by Estelle B. Freedman. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. x, 253. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Gallagher, Gary W, editor. The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. (Military Campaigns of the Civil War.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 392. $45.00.

Garno, Diana M. Citoyennes and Icaria. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2005. Pp. ix, 280. $39.00.

Gillmor, C. Stewart. Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 642. $70.00.

Glazier, Jack. Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants Across America. Paperback edition. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 245. $24.95.

Goldensohn, Lorrie, editor. American War Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 413. $27.95.

Goodall, H. L., Jr. A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press. 2006. Pp. 399. $24.95.

Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Pantheon. 2006. Pp. 383. $26.95.

Haley, James L. Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas. New York: Free Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 636. $35.00.

Hardesty, Donald L. The Archaeology of the Donner Party. (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities.) Paperback edition. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 156. $18.95.

Hayduk, Ronald. Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States. New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. x, 250. $24.95.

Herdegen, Lance J. The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name. Paperback edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1997. Pp. 271. $19.95.

Hill, Samuel S., editor. Religion. (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, number 1.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. 2006. Pp. xviii, 248. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.

Hofsommer, Don L. Minneapolis and the Age of Railways. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 337. $39.95.

Holloway, Joseph E. Africanisms in American Culture. Second Edition. (Blacks in the Diaspora.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 436. Cloth $50.00, paper $21.95.

Holzer, Harold, and Tim Mulligan, editors. The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. New York: Fordham University Press, for the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Va. 2006. Pp. xviii, 222. Cloth $44.95, paper $24.95.

Irwin, Raymond D. Books on Early American History and Culture, 1951–1960. (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, number 53.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. xii, 298. $97.95.

Jeansonne, Glen, and David Luhrssen. A Time of Paradox: America since 1890. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. xxxiii, 539. Cloth $90.00, paper $32.95.

Johnson, David. The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War, 1874–1902. Foreword by Rick Miller. (A. C. Greene Series, number 4.) Denton: University of North Texas Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 332. $27.95.

Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. xxiii, 394. $24.95.

Kaplan, Louis. American Exposures: Photograhy and Community in the Twentieth Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 243. $25.95.

Karig, Martin Robert III. Hard Coal and Coal Cars: Hauling Anthracite on the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. Scranton: University of Scranton Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 210. $55.00.

Kaufman, Polly Welts. National Parks and the Woman's Voice. Rev. ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2006. Pp. xxxviii, 312. $22.95.

Kendrick, Stephen, and Paul Kendrick. Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America. Paperback edition. Boston, Mass.: Beacon. 2004. Pp. xxiii, 300. $18.00.

Labunski, Richard. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. (Pivotal Moments in American History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 327. $28.00.

Lee, J. J., and Marion R. Casey, editors. Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States. New York: New York University Press with Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, and in association with the Philip Lief Group, Inc. 2006. Pp. xvii, 733. $50.00.

Lee, Maureen Elgersman. Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880–1950. (Revisiting New Enland: The New Regionalism.) Hanover, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press. 2005. Pp. xxii, 177. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.00.

Light, Ken, and Melanie Light. Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories. (Series in Contemporary Photography, number 4.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 139. $34.95.

Lubet, Steven. Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp. Paperback edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 253. $16.00.

Luchetti, Cathy. Men of the West: Life on the American Frontier. Paperback edition. New York: W. W. Norton. 2004. Pp. 252. $22.50.

Makley, Michael J. The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West. (William S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History.) Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 291. $34.95.

Mancini, Matthew. Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours. (American Intellectual Culture.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. xviii, 255. Cloth $75.00, paper $28.95.

McFeatters, Ann Carey. Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 224. $21.95.

McMillan, Priscilla J. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race. New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. viii, 373. $16.00.

McMillin, Laurie Hovell. Buried Indians: Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town. (Wisconsin Land and Life.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 283. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.

McWhiney, Grady. The Civil War: A Concise Account by a Noted Southern Historian. Abilene, Tex.: McWhiney Foundation Press. 2005. Pp. 142. $12.95.

Moore, James Gregory. King of the 40th Parallel: Discovery in the American West. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford General Books with Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 387. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95.

Morin, Paula. Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2006. Pp. xxv, 376. $49.95.

Morrison, James L., Jr. From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds: The Memoirs of a Soldier-Teacher. Paperback edition. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 251. $34.00.

Negra, Diane, editor. The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. 379. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.

O'Connor, Thomas H. The Athens of America: Boston, 1825–1845. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 217. Cloth $60.00, paper $19.95.

Perez, Karni R. Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 263. $22.95.

Perlmann, Joel. Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation Progress. New York: Russell Sage Foundation with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 2005. Pp. xii, 189. $27.50.

Polk, William R. The Birth of America: From before Columbus to the Revolution. New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. xxiii, 392. $25.95.

Raphael, Marc Lee. Judaism in America. (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series.) Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 234. $25.00.

Rideout, Walter B. Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America. Volume 1. Foreword by Charles E. Modlin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 833. $60.00.

Ronda, James P. Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark. (Histories of the American Frontier.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2001. Pp. xxii, 138. Cloth $23.95, paper $18.95.

Rosenthal, Michael. Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006. Pp. 528. $35.00.

Rossum, Ralph A. Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2006. Pp. x, 298. $34.95.

Sampson, Emily. With Her Own Eyes: The Story of Julia Smith, Her Life, and Her Bible. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 209. $33.00.

Schulzinger, Robert D., editor. A Companion to American Foreign Relations. (Blackwell's Companions to American History.) Paperback edition. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2003. Pp. xiii, 562. $39.95.

Schwartz, David G. Cutting the Wire: Gaming Prohibition and the Internet. (The Gambling Studies Series.) Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $24.95.

Shafer, Byron E., and Richard Johnston. The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 220. $39.95.

Shellum, Brian G. Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point. Foreword by Vincent K. Brooks. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 175. $16.95.

Silver, Horace. Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver. Edited and afterword by Phil Pastras. Foreword by Joe Zawinul. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 264. $29.95.

Sitton, Thad. The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line. Paperback edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 253. $16.95.

Swint, Kerwin. Mudslingers: The Top 25 Negative Political Campaigns of All Time. Countdown from No. 25 to No. 1. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. xv, 254. $44.95.

Taaffe, Stephen R. Commanding the Army of the Potomac. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2006. Pp. ix, 284. $34.95.

Thiesen, William H. Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2006. Pp. x, 302. $55.00.

Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand. From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 396. $49.95.

Vickers, Daniel, editor. A Companion to Colonial America. (Blackwell Companions to American History.) Paperback edition. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2003. Pp. xiii, 562. $39.95.

Warber, Adam L. Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 2006. Pp. xii, 175. $49.95.

Ware, Alan. The Democratic Party Heads North, 1877–1962. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 281. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.99.

Whitehorne, Joseph W. A. While Washington Burned: The Battle for Fort Erie 1814. Reprint. Charleston, S.C.: Nautical and Aviation. 1992. Pp. x, 227. $32.48.

Wiecek, William M. The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953. (The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise: History of the Supreme Court of the United States, number 12.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 733. $100.00.

Wilson, Richard Guy, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, editors. Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2006. Pp. vii, 431. $49.50.

Yarema, Allan. The American Colonization Society: An Avenue to Freedom?. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2006. Pp. ix, 90. $19.95.

Caribbean and Latin America



Chance, Joseph E. José Maríia de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary. San Antonio: Trinity University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 283. $35.00.

Levy, Daniel C. To Export Progress: The Golden Age of University Assistance in the Americas. (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 407. $45.00.

Peck, Douglas T. The Yucatan: From Prehistoric Times to the Great Maya Revolt. Philadelphia, Pa.: Xlibris. 2005. Pp. 495. Cloth $31.49, paper $21.24.

Perez, Louis A. Jr. Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution. (Latin American Histories.) 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 442. $31.95.

Sacristán, Cristina, and Pablo Piccato. Actores, espacios y debates en la historia de la esfera pública en la ciudad de Mexico. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. 2005. Pp. 283.

Waters, Mary-Alice, editor. Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution. (Cuba and the Socialist Revolution in our Epoch.) New York: Pathfinder Press. 2005. Pp. 216. $20.00.

Europe: Ancient and Medieval



Cook, Barrie, and Gareth Williams, editors. Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. a.d. 500–1250: Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald. (The Northern World, number 19.) Boston: Brill. 2006. Pp. x, 791. $215.00.

Davis, R. H. C. A History of Medieval Europe. Foreword by R. I. Moore. Assisted by Joanna Huntington. 3d ed. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2006. Pp. xvii, 476.

Fouracre, Paul, editor. The New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume 1 c.500-c.700. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 979. $180.00.

Geary, Patrick J. Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 104. $19.95.

Hirschmann, Vera-Elisabeth. Horrenda Secta: Untersuchungen zum frühchristlichen Montanismus und seinen Verbindungen zur paganen Religion Phrygiens. ( Historia; Einzelschriften, number 179.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2005. Pp. 168. €37.00.

Hübner, Sabine. Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens. (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, number 15.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2005. Pp. 318.

Le Blévec, Daniel, editor. Les cartulaires méridionaux. (Actes du colloque organiséà Béziers les 20 et 21 septembre 2002 par le Centre historique de recherches et d'études médiévales sur la Méditerranée occidentale; études et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes, number 19.) Paris: école Nationale des Chartes. 2006. Pp. 270. €30.00.

Rautman, Marcus. Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire. (The Greenwood Press "Daily Life through History" Series.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxxiii, 342.

Europe: Early Modern and Modern



Art, David. The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 231. Cloth $65.00, paper $23.99.

Barnard, Toby. A Guide to Sources for the History of Material Culture in Ireland, 1500–2000. (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History, number 10.) Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2005. Pp. 128. $19.95.

Ben-Atar, Roma Nutkiewicz, and Doron S. Ben-Atar. What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2006. Pp. x, 196. $27.95.

Berger, Stefan, editor. A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe 1789–1914. (Blackwell Companions to European History.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. xxvii, 528. $149.95.

Bilaniuk, Laada. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. (Culture and Society after Socialism.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 230. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.

Blanchard, Joël. Philippe de Commynes. Paris: Fayard. 2006. Pp. 584. €28.00.

Brock, Peter, John D. Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel, editors. Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2006. Pp. x, 493. $75.00.

Bull, Martin J., and James L. Newell. Italian Politics: Adjustment under Duress. Cambridge: Polity. 2005. Pp. xiv, 262. $25.95.

Clark, William. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. 662. $45.00.

Costa, Gustavo. Thomas Burnet e la censura pontificia (Con documenti inediti). (Le corrispondenze letterarie, scientifiche ed erudite dal Rinascimento all'èta moderna; Subsidia, number 6.) Florence: Olschki. 2006. Pp. x, 113.

Cracraft, James. The Revolution of Peter the Great. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $16.95.

Davies, Owen. Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard. New York: Longman. 2005. Pp. xiii, 238. $32.95.

Domrin, Alexander N. The Limits of Russian Democratisation: Emergency Powers and States of Emergency. (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies.) New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. xiv, 188. $108.00.

Donati, Claudio, and Helmut Flachenecker, editors. Le secolarizzazioni nel Sacro Romano Impero e negli antichi Stati italiani: premesse, confronti, conseguenze/Säkularisationsprozesse im Alten Reich und in Italien: Voraussetzungen, Vergleiche, Folgen. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento/Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trent; Contributi/Beiträge, number 16.) Bologna: Il Mulino. Duncker und Humblot. 2005. Pp. 337. €24.00.

Duchein, Michel. Les Derniers Stuarts. Paris: Fayard. 2006. Pp. 527. €26.00.

Dürr, Renate. Politische Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit: Kirchenräume in Hildesheimer Stadt- und Landgemeinden 1550–1750. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Reformationsgeschichte, number 77.) Göttingen, Germany: Gütersloher Verlagshaus. 2006. Pp. 422. €49.95.

Fuchs, Rachel G. Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe. (New Approaches to European History, number 35.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 267. Cloth $65.00, paper $22.99.

Golsan, Richard J. French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 198. $55.00.

Guarnieri, Patrizia. L'ammazzabambini: Legge e scienza in un processo di fine Ottocento. Rome: Laterza. 2006. Pp. ix, 244. €15.00.

Haakonssen, Knud, editor. The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. In two volumes. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 638; viii, 641–1407. $250.00 the set.

Hale, Henry E. Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 275. $75.00.

Hesse, Hans. Konstruktionen der Unschuld: Die Entnazifizierung am Beispiel von Bremen und Bremerhaven 1945– 1953. (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Staatsarchiv der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, number 67.) Bremen: Staatsarchiv Bremen. 2005. Pp. 520. €30.00.

Hoppu, Tuomas. Historian unohtamat: Suomalaiset vapaaehtoiset Venäjän armeijassa 1. maailmansodassa 1914–1918. (Bibliotheca Historica, number 100.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2005. Pp. 361.

Jackson, Gordon. The British Whaling Trade. (Research in Maritime History, number 29.) St. John's, Nfld.: International Maritime Economic History Association. 2005. Pp. xvi, 293. $15.00.

Johnman, Lewis, and Hugh Murphy. Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. (Research in Maritime History, number 30.) St. John's, Nfld.: International Maritime Economic History Association. 2005. Pp. xi, 364. $15.00.

Jones, Clyve, Philip Salmon, and Richard W. Davis, editors. Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform in Parliament and the Constituencies, 1689–1880: Essays in Memory of John A. Phillips. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2005. Pp. xxx, 213. £16.95.

Jones, Colin. Paris: Biography of a City. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2004. Pp. xxv, 566. $18.00.

Kitchen, Martin. Europe between the Wars. 2d ed. New York: Longman. 2006. Pp. x, 456. $30.00.

Kitchen, Martin. A History of Modern Germany: 1800–2000. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. xi, 455. $39.95.

Kohler, Oliver. Zwischen christlicher Zionssehnsucht und kaiserlicher Politik: Die Entstehung von Kirche und Kloster "Dormitio Beatae Mariae Virginis" in Jerusalem. St. Ottilien, Germany: EOS-Verlag. 2005. Pp. xxi, 637.

Konitzer, Andrew. Voting for Russia's Governors: Regional Elections and Accountability under Yeltsin and Putin. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center. 2005. Pp. xv, 258. $48.00.

Krieckhaus, Jonathan. Dictating Development: How Europe Shaped the Global Periphery. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2006. Pp. x, 251. $27.95.

Krüger, Kersten. Formung der frühen Moderne: Ausgewählte Aufsätze. (Geschichte: Forschung und Wissenschaft, number 14.) Münster: Lit. 2005. Pp. 371. €29.90.

Lebovics, Herman. Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 172. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95.

Lewis, Norman. The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War. Foreword by Julian Evans. Paperback edition. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers. 2006. Pp. xii, 150. $14.95.

Lottin, Alain , and Philippe Guignet. Histoire des provinces françaises du nord de Charles Quint à la révolution francaise (1500–1789). (Histoire.) Arras: Artois Presses Université. 2006. Pp. 440. €33.00.

Macnicol, John. Age Discrimination: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 308. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.

Maggi, Stefano. Storia dei trasporti in Italia. Bologna: Il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 327. €22.00.

Mosse, George L. Die Geschichte des Rassismus in Europa. Translated by Elfriede Burau and Hans Günter Holl. (Die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.) Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Taschenbuch. 2006. Pp. 279. €12.95.

Mueller, M. Laura Lepscky. La famiglia di Daniele Manin. (Memorie della classe de scienze morali, lettere ed arti, number 110.) Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. 2005. Pp. xi, 386. €40.00.

Nicassio, Susan Vandiver. Imperial City: Rome, Romans and Napoleon, 1796–1815. Foreword by Claudio Rendina. Welwyn Garden City, UK: Ravenhall Books. 2005. Pp. 255. $34.95.

Oberman, Heiko A. Luther: Man between God and the Devil. Translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart. Paperback edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 380. $19.00.

Poe, Marshall T. The Russian Moment in World History. Paperback edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 116. Cloth $18.95, paper $12.95.

Read, Christopher. Lenin: A Revolutionary Life. (Routledge Historical Biographies.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xii, 311. $78.95.

Rietbergen, Peter. Power and Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Policies. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, number 135.) Boston: Brill. 2006. Pp. xviii, 437. $135.00.

Roberts, David D. The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth-Century Europe: Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics. New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. xii, 579. Cloth $131.00, paper $43.00.

Rosanvallon, Pierre. Democracy Past and Future. Edited by Samuel Moyn. (Columbia Studies in Political Thought/Political History.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 294. $40.00.

Rubinstein, David. The Labour Party and British Society: 1880–2005. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press. 2006. Pp. x, 228. $29.95.

Safley, Thomas Max, editor. Ad historiam humanam: Aufsätze für Hans-Christoph Rublack. Tübingen: Bibliotheca Academica. 2005. Pp. 225.

Scarpellini, Emanuela, and Stefano Cavazza, editors. Il secolo dei consumi: Dinamiche sociali nell'Europa del Novecento. (Studi Storici; Universita, number 696.) Rome, Italy: Carocci editore. 2006. Pp. 246. €17.10.

Slotten, Ross A. The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 602. $22.95.

Vanthoor, Wim. The King's Eldest Daughter: A History of the Nederlandsche Bank 1814–1998. Amsterdam: Boom. 2005. Pp. 406.

Wachtel, Andrew Baruch. Remaining Relevant after Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 233. $29.00.

Wenge, Nicola. Integration und Ausgrenzung in der städtischen Gesellschaft: Eine jüdisch-nichtjüdische Beziehungsgeschichte Kölns 1918–1933. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für europäische Geschichte Mainz: Abteilung für Universalgeschichte, number 206.) Mainz: Philipp von Zabern. 2005. Pp. x, 479.

Wiarda, Howard J. Development on the Periphery: Democratic Transitions in Southern and Eastern Europe. Assisted by Dale R. Herspring and Ester M. Skelley. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. xi, 271. Cloth $80.00, paper $34.95.

Woodward, David R. Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95.

Wortman, Richard S. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II. (Studies of the Harriman Institute.) Abridged edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 491. $39.50.

Middle East and Northern Africa



Baumel, Simeon D. Sacred Speakers: Language and Culture among the Haredim in Israel. New York: Berghahn Books. 2006. Pp. x, 232. $75.00.

Beinin, Joel, and Rebecca L. Stein, editors. The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993–2005. (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 401. Cloth $60.00, paper $21.95.

Bernards, Monique, and John Nawas, editors. Patronate and Patronage in Early and Classical Islam. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) Boston: Brill. 2005. Pp. xiv, 511. $190.

King, Karen L. The Secret Revelation of John. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 397. $25.00.

Podeh, Elie, and Asher Kaufman, editors. Arab-Jewish Relations: From Conflict to Resolution? Essays in Honour of Professor Moshe Ma oz. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 386. $69.50.

Småaberg, Maria. Ambivalent Friendship: Anglican Conflict Handling and Education for Peace in Jerusalem 1920–1948. Lund: Lund University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 453.

Vandewalle, Dirk. A History of Modern Libya. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxviii, 246. Cloth $75.00, paper $23.99.

Sub-Saharan Africa



Curto, José C., and Renée Soulodre-La France, editors. Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 338. Cloth $99.95, paper $29.95.

Moran, Mary H. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy. (The Ethnography of Political Violence.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. 190. $49.95.

Schmitt, Deborah Ann. The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. 265. $99.95.


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