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Asia



Chan, Sucheng, editor. The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings. (Asian American History and Culture.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 323. Cloth $74.50, paper $25.95.

Canada and the United States



Buckingham, J. S. A Journey Through the Slave States of North America. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press. 2006. Pp. 476. $40.00.

Carroll, Peter N., Michael Nash, and Melvin Small, editors. The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 290. Cloth $70.00, paper $23.00.

Castellanos, Henry C. New Orleans as It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life. Introduction by Judith Kelleher Schafer. Assisted by George F. Reinecke. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 368. $21.95.

Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler. Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890–1910. Edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq. (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xxxv, 120. $34.95.

Evans, George W. B. Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty-Niner. Edited by Glenn S. Dumke. Preface by Robert Glass Cleland. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library. 2006. Pp. xxix, 340. $24.95.

Gatz, Karen L., editor. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968. Volume XXIX, Part 2: Japan. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2006. Pp. xxxv, 330.

Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home. Edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich. Translated by Susan Carter Vogel. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 521. $59.95.

Gerstäcker, Friedrich. Gerstäcker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction. Edited and translated by Irene S. Di Maio. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 328. $49.95.

Hay, John. At Lincoln's Side: John Hay's Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Paperback edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2000. Pp. xxvii, 294. $22.95.

Hay, John. Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860–1864. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Paperback edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1998. Pp. xxviii, 393. $24.95.

Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon's Lincoln. (Knox College Lincoln Studies Series.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press with the Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, Galesburg, Ill. In association with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C. 2006. Pp. xxxviii, 481. $35.00.

Homer, Michael W., editor. On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834–1930. (Kingdom in the West Series, number 8.) Spokane: Arthur H. Clark. 2006. Pp. 420. $39.50.

Lee, Jean B., editor. Experiencing Mount Vernon: Eyewitness Accounts, 1784–1865. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 227. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Lief, Michael S., and H. Mitchell Caldwell. The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law. New York: Scribner. 2006. Pp. 436. $28.00.

Meigs, John Rodgers. A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859–64. Edited by Mary A. Giunta. Foreword by Carol Bleser. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 310. $60.00.

Pate, James P., editor. When This Evil War is Over: The Correspondence of the Francis Family, 1860–1865. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 321. $42.50.

Quincy, Josiah, Jr. Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior. Edited by Daniel R. Coquillette and Neil Longley York. (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, number 74.) Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 299. $40.00.

Reinhart, Joseph R., editor. August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry. (Civil War in the North.) Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 262. $35.00.

Taft, Robert A. The Papers of Robert A. Taft. Volume 4, 1949–1953. Edited By Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr. Assisted by Robin L. Bowden, et al. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 514. $65.00.

Ward, Kyle. History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years. New York: New Press. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 374. $26.95.

Warmoth, Henry Clay. War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana. Introduction by John C. Rodrigue. (Southern Classics Series.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. lv, 285. $14.95.

Wickersham, Johnnie. Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham. Edited by Kathleen Gorman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 169. $27.95.

Wood, Benjamin. Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 291. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95.

Work, John. The Journal of John Work, a Chief-trader of the Hudson's Bay Co. during His Expedition from Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest. (Northwest Historical Series.) Edited by William S. Lewis and Paul C. Phillips. Preface by Robert Carriker. (Northwest Historical Series.) Reprint. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark. 2006. Pp. 209. $45.00.

Caribbean and Latin America



Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo. Writing from the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darién, 1514–1527. Translated by G. F. Dille. Foreword by G. F. Dille. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 218. $22.50.

Meier, Johannes, and Fernando Amado Aymore. Jesuiten aus zentraleuropa in Portugiesisch- und Spanisch-Amerika: Ein bio-bibliographisches Handbuch mit einem Überblick über das au\Sereuropäische Wirken der Gesellschaft Jesu in der frühen Neuzeit.. Band 1: Brasilien (1618–1760). Münster: Aschendorff Verlag. 2005. Pp. xxxix, 356.

Europe: Ancient and Medieval



Kowaleski, Maryanne, editor. Medieval Towns: A Reader. (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, number 11.) Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview. 2006. Pp. xvii, 405. $32.95.

Stacy, N. E., editor. Charters and Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey 1089–1216. (Records of Social and Economic History, new series, number 39.) New York: Oxford University Press, for the British Academy 2006. Pp. xi, 250. $85.00.

Europe: Early Modern and Modern



Albala, Ken. Cooking in Europe, 1250–1650. (The Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series, Cooking Up History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxxviii, 153.

Aubin, Jean. Le latin et l'astrolabe: Études inédites sur le règne de D. Manuel, 1495–1521.. Assisted by Maria da Conceição Flores, Luís Filipe F. R. Thomas, and Françoise Aubin. Lisbon and Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 596.

Baynes, Norman H., editor. Speeches of Adolf Hitler: Representative Passages from the Early Speeches, 1922–1924, and Other Selections. New York: Howard Fertig. 2006. Pp. vii, 220. $15.95.

Booth, P. H. W., editor. Accounts of the Manor and Hundred of Macclesfield, Cheshire, Michaelmas 1361 to Michaelmas 1362. (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, number 138.) Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd. for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 2003. Pp. lxiv, 96.

Braun, Léopold L. S. In Lubianka's Shadow: The Memoirs of an American Priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934–1945. Edited by G. M. Hamburg. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Pp. lxxxii, 352. $35.00.

D'Arcier, Louis Faivre. Histoire et géographie d'un mythe: La circulation des manuscrits du De excidio Troiae de Darès le Phrygien (VIIIe–XVe siècles). (Mémoires et Documents de l'École des Chartes, number 82.) Paris: École Nationale des Chartes. 2006. Pp. 539. €45.00.

Hampsher-Monk, Iain, editor. The Impact of the French Revolution: Texts from Britain in the 1790s. (Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 353. Cloth $75.00, paper $32.99.

Pepys, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Pepys: 1656–1703. Selected and edited by Guy de la Bédoyère. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2006. Pp. 288. $47.95.

Raleigh, Donald J., editor. Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives. Translated by Donald J. Raleigh. (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 299. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.95.

Tiltman, H. Hessell. Peasant Europe. (The Kegan Paul Library of Archeology and History.) London and New York: Kegan Paul. 2005. Pp. x, 282. $161.50.

Trencsényi, Balázs, and Michal KopeÎek, editors. Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries. Volume I, Late Enlightenment: Emergence of the Modern "National Idea." Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 351. $39.95.

Middle East and Northern Africa



Chavalas, Mark W. The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation. (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. xx, 445. $44.95.

Miles, S. B. The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf. Volume 1.. (The Kegan Paul Arabia Library.) London and New York: Kegan Paul. 2005. Pp. 264. $331.50.


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