| Other Books Received | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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

Galloway, Patricia. Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. 454. $24.95.

Hadot, Pierre. The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Translated by Michael Chase. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 399. $29.95.

Hart, Jonathan. Interpreting Cultures: Literature, Religion, and the Human Sciences. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. Pp. xi, 340. $75.00.

Lang, Karen. Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in bbbbsthetics and Art History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 295. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95.

Comparative/World

Ahlquist, Karen, editor. Chorus and Community. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. x, 323. Cloth $65.00, paper $30.00.

Bobrick, Benson. The Fated Sky: Astrology in History. Paperback edition. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2005. Pp. viii, 369. $15.00.

Bowles, Paul. Capitalism. (Short Histories of Big Ideas Series.) London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. xvii, 202. £9.99.

Bribiescas, Richard G. Men: Evolutionary and Life History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. 306. $28.95.

Carlisle, Rodney P., editor. One Day in History: December 7, 1941. Foreword by John Keegan. (The Days That Changed the World.) New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. xv, 272. $24.95.

Crompton, Louis. Homosexuality and Civilization. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 623. $19.95.

del Mar, David Peterson. Environmentalism. (Short Histories of Big Ideas Series.) London: Pearson Education Limited. 2006. Pp. xvii, 214. £9.99.

Dick, Steven J., and Roger D. Launius, editors. Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight. Washington, D.C.: National bbbbronautics and Space Administration. 2006. Pp. xi, 659. $25.00.

Ekirch, A. Roger. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. Paperback edition. New York: W. W. Norton. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 447. $16.95.

Fink, Carole, Frank Hadler, and Tomasz Schramm, editors. 1956: European and Global Perspectives. (Global History and International Studies.) Leipzig, Germany: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2006. Pp. 354. €22.00.

Glad, John. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century. Foreword by Seymour W. Itzkoff. Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage Publishers. 2006. Pp. 136.

Hannam, J. Feminism. (A Short History of a Big Idea.) London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. xvi, 188. £9.99.

Kassimeris, George, editor. The Barbarization of Warfare. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 321. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.00.

Kramer, Hilton. The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1987–2005. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xiii, 368. $27.50.

Lazar, Allan, Dan Karlan, and Jeremy Salter. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History. New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. xiii, 317. $13.95.

LeBor, Adam. "Complicity with Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 326. $25.00.

Love, Ronald S. Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery, 1415–1800. (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500–1900.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxix, 195. $45.00.

Marks, Robert B. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century. (World Social Change.) 2d ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. xiv, 221. $21.95.

Nau, Henry R. Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. 2007. Pp. xxix, 401. $46.95.

O'Sullivan, John. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. 2006. Pp. 360. $27.95.

Raphael-Hernandez, Heike, and Shannon Steen, editors. AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. Foreword by Vijay Prashad. Afterword by Gary Okihiro. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xxiii, 342. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.00.

Ruse, Michael. The Evolution-Creation Struggle. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. 327. $16.95.

Sloan, Stephen. Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context. Foreword by John C. Bersia. Afterword by J. B. Hill, and Joshua A. Smith. New York: Berg. 2006. Pp. xv, 140. Cloth $89.95, paper $29.95.

Tertitskii, K. M., and A. E. Belogurova. Taivan'skoe kommunisticheskoe dvizhenie i komintern (1924–1932 gg.): Issledovanie. Dokumenty (The Taiwanese Communist Movement and the Comintern (1924–1932): Study and Documents. Moscow: Vostok-Zapad. 2006. Pp. 622.

Tetlock, Philip E., Richard Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker, editors. Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios that Rewrite World History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2006. Pp. x, 415. $75.00.

Whittaker, David J. Terrorism: Understanding the Global Threat. Revised edition. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. vii, 236. £9.99.

Asia

Brown, Judith M. Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora. (New Approaches to Asian History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 197. Cloth $75.00, paper $26.99.

Chien, Sechin Y. S., and John Fitzgerald, editors. The Dignity of Nations: Equality, Competition, and Honor in East Asian Nationalism. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 257. $59.50.

Feifer, George. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Liberalism in 1853. New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. xx, 389. $25.95.

Gooptu, Suparna. Cornelia Sorabji: India's Pioneer Woman Lawyer. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xxv, 241. Rs 820.00.

Guha, Ramachandra. How Much Should a Person Consume? Environmentalism in India and the United States. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 262. $21.95.

Kinkley, Jeffrey C. Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 289. $55.00.

Kwon, Heonik. After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. Foreword by Drew Faust. (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 217. $19.95.

Reeve, John. Japanese Art in Detail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 144. $22.95.

Schneewind, Sarah. A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006. Pp. xxiii, 141. Cloth $32.95, paper $8.95.

Willbanks, James H. The Tet Offensive: A Concise History. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. xxvii, 264. $29.50.

Canada and the United States

Allard, Kenneth. Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. 2006. Pp. x, 156. $26.95.

Anderson, Fred. The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2005. Pp. xxv, 293. $15.00.

Anthes, Bill. Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960. (Objects/Histories: Critical Perspectives on Art, Material Culture, and Representation.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. xxx, 235. $23.95.

Archibald, Katherine. Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity. Introduction by Eric Arnesen and Alex Lichtenstein. Rev. ed. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. lxxxii, 244. $25.00.

Bezanson, Randall P. How Free Can Religion Be? Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 286. $29.95.

Billington, David P., and Donald C Jackson. Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 369. $36.95.

Boomhower, Ray E. The Soldier's Friend: A Life of Ernie Pyle. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 2006. Pp. x, 134. $17.95.

Brodsky, Robert F. On the Cutting Edge: Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer and Space Ages. New York: Gordian Knot Books. 2006. Pp. x, 216. $18.00.

Burns, Eric. The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2007. Pp. 270. $29.00.

Carlisle, Rodney P., editor. One Day in History: July 4, 1776. (The Days That Changed the World.) New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. xv, 272. $24.95.

Chadwick, Bruce. The General and Mrs. Washington: The Untold Story of a Marriage and a Revolution. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007. Pp. vi, 406. $24.95.

Chung, Hye Seung. Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 232. $22.95.

Conway, Erik M. Blind Landings: Low-Visibility in American Aviation, 1918–1958. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 218. $45.00.

Cronon, E. David. Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Foreword by John Hope Franklin. Reprint. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1955. Pp. xxiii, 278. $19.95.

Danbom, David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. (Revisiting Rural America.) 2d ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 301. Cloth $49.95, paper $20.00.

Dewing, Rolland. Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2006. Pp. x, 245. $39.95.

Duncan, Dorothy. Canadians at Table: Food, Fellowship, and Folklore. A Culinary History of Canada. Toronto: Dundurn. 2006. Pp. 248. $35.00.

Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties. In three volumes. Edited by Otis H. Stephens, Jr., John M. Scheb II, and Kara E. Stooksbury. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxx, 459; xxx, 461–898; xxx, 899–1342. $349.95 the set.

Erisman, Fred. Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight. Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 346. $29.95.

Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War. Paperback edition. New York: HarperPerennial. 2005. Pp. x, 460. $16.95.

Foster, Buck T. Sherman's Mississippi Campaign. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 215. $29.95.

Franklin, John Hope. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. Paperback edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2005. Pp. xi, 401. $15.00.

Gabaccia, Donna R., and Vicki L. Ruiz, editors. American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. x, 563. Cloth $75.00, paper $35.00.

Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina. 3d ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 215. $34.95.

Gendzier, Irene L. Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945–1958. Rev. ed. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. xliv, 470. $27.50.

Gonzales, Manuel G., and Richard Delgado. The Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race, and the Media to Win. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers. 2006. Pp. x, 221. Cloth $72.00, paper $21.95.

Grant, H. Roger. Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 223. $36.00.

Hamm, Thomas D. The Quakers in America. (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series.) Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 293. $25.00.

Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the United States: With Original Maps. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. 280. $39.95.

Holland, Antonio F. Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education. (Missouri Biography Series.) Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2006. Pp. x, 236. $34.95.

Kanfer, Stefan. Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 324. $26.95.

Keenan, Jerry. The Life of Yellowstone Kelly. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 377. $29.95.

Keller, Jean A., Lorene Sisquoc, and Clifford E. Trafzer, editors. Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences. (Indigenous Education.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 256. Cloth $45.00, paper $20.00.

Kurtz, Michael L. The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2006. Pp. xvi, 280. $29.95.

Langguth, A. J. Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2006. Pp. x, 482. $30.00.

Lawrence, Mark Atwood. Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam. (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in Global Perspective, number 1.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 358. $34.95.

Lazerow, Jama, and Yohuru Williams, editors. In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 390. $23.95.

Lerner, Barron H. When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 334. $25.00.

Levy, Buddy. American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett. Paperback edition. New York: Berkley Books. 2005. Pp. xii, 339. $15.00.

Logan, Michael F. Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson. (History of the Urban Environment.) Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2006. Pp. x, 228. $29.95.

Lovoll, Odd S. Norwegians on the Prairie: Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association. 2006. Pp. xvii, 321. $32.95.

Mazrim, Robert. The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. x, 352. Cloth $55.00, paper $20.00.

McComb, Mary C. Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929–1941. (Studies in American Popular History and Culture.) New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. viii, 207. $95.00.

Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume 4: Global America, 1915–2000. Paperback edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 467. $30.00.

Miller, Mark Edwin. Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process. Paperback edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 355. $34.95.

Most, Stephen. River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press with Oregon Historical Society Press. 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 292. $25.50.

Moy, Catherine, and Melanie Morgan. American Mourning: The Intimate Story of Two Families Joined by War—Torn by Beliefs. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House. 2006. Pp. 221. $22.95.

Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 332. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.

Newman, Katherine S. Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press with the Russell Sage Foundation. 2006. Pp. xii, 405. $35.00.

Prados, John. Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xxxv, 696. $35.00.

Ransom, Roger L. The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been. Paperback edition. New York: W. W. Norton. 2005. Pp. xv, 352. $15.95.

Rosenberg, Howard W. Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth—Captain Anson of Chicago. Arlington, Va.: Tile Books. 2006. Pp. 559. $33.00.

Schneider, Mark Robert. African Americans in the Jazz Age: A Decade of Struggle and Promise. (African American History.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. x, 165. Cloth $55.00, paper $17.95.

Seavoy, Ronald E. An Economic History of the Unites States: From 1607 to the Present. New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. ix, 357. Cloth $95.00, paper $35.00.

Semmes, Clovis E. The Regal Theater and Black Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. Pp. 294. $69.95.

Skocpol, Theda, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz. What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 291. $27.95.

The South Carolina Encyclopedia. Edited by Walter Edgar. (A Project of The Humanities Council.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 1077. $75.00.

Stephens, Lester D., and Dale R Calder. Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 220. Cloth $54.95, paper $24.95.

Strum, Philippa. American Arabs and Political Participation. Assisted by Michael W. Suleiman and Yvonne Y. Haddad. (Division of United States Studies.) Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center. 2006. Pp. 155.

Tamanaha, Brian Z. Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law. (Law in Context Series.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 254. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.

Tierney, John J., Jr. Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2006. Pp. xvii, 289. $26.95.

Van Slyck, Abigail A. A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960. (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2006. Pp. xxxvii, 296. $34.95.

Vietto, Angela. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. ix, 147. $89.95.

Wailoo, Keith, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, editors. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. (Studies in Social Medicine.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. 378. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.50.

Watterson, John Sayle. The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 402. $29.95.

Weintraub, Stanley. 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944. New York: Free Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 201. $25.00.

Werner, Emmy E. In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. xvii, 190. $49.95.

Westwick, Peter J. Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976–2004. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 392. $40.00.

Whelan, Bernadette. United States Foriegn Policy and Ireland: From Empire to Independence, 1913–29. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2006. Pp. 607. $65.00.

Wiggins, David K, editor. Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 459. $34.95.

Williams, Richard G., Jr. Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House. 2006. Pp. 223. $20.95.

Wilson, Waziyatawin Angela, editor. In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century. St. Paul, Minn.: Living Justice Press. 2006. Pp. 316. $29.95.

Wukovits, John. Eisenhower. Foreword by General Wesley K. Clark. (Great Generals.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. Pp. xii, 204. $21.95.

Young, Alfred F. Liberty Tree: Ordinary People in the American Revolution. Edited by Harvey J. Kaye. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 419. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.00.

Caribbean and Latin America

Azuela, Mariano. The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution. A Translation of Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo with Related Texts. Translated by Gustavo Pellón. Foreword by Gustavo Pellón. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006. Pp. xv, 173. Cloth $27.95, paper $7.95.

Cullather, Nick. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. Afterword by Piero Gleijeses. 2d ed. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xlv, 176. $17.95. Fernandes, Sujatha. Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 218. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95.

Heuman, Gad. The Caribbean. (Brief Histories.) London: Hodder Arnold. 2006. Pp. xiii, 224. $24.95.

Kowtko, Stacy. Nature and the Environment in Pre-Columbian American Life. (The Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 210. $49.95.

López, Alfred J. José Martífi and the Future of Cuban Nationalisms. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2006. Pp. xiv, 159. $59.95.

Vidal Luna, Francisco, and Herbert S. Klein. Brazil Since 1980. (The World Since 1980.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 267. Cloth $75.00, paper $21.99.

Europe: Ancient and Medieval

Andrault-Schmitt, Claude, editor. Saint-Martial de Limoges: Ambition politique et production culturelle (X^e-XIII^e siècles). (Actes du colloque tenu à Poitiers et Limoges, 2005.) Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges. 2006. Pp. 545. €45.00.

Barriere, Bernadètte. Limousin médiéval le temps des créations: Occupation du sol, monde laïfic, espace cistercian; Recueil d'articles. Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges. 2006. Pp. 728. €42.00.

Curta, Florin. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500–1250. (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxviii, 496. Cloth $90.00, paper $34.99.

Hockman, Tuula. Kolmen polven perilliset: Ingeborg Aakentytär (Tott) ja hänen sukunsa (n. 1460–1507) [Three Generations of the Heirs: Ingeborg Akesdotter (Tott) and Her Family (ca. 1460–1507)]. (Bibliotheca Historica, number 104.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2006. Pp. 285.

Humphrey, John W. Ancient Technology. (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 219.

Masciandaro, Nicola. The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 209. $25.00.

Masè, Federica. Patrimoines immobiliers ecclésiastiques dans la Venise médiévale (XI^e-XV^e siècle): Une lecture de la ville. (Collection de l'École française de Rome, number 358.) Rome: École française de Rome. 2006. Pp. 295.

Stein-Hölkeskamp, Elke, and Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, editors. Erinnerungsorte der Antike: Die römische Welt. München: C. H. Beck. 2006. Pp. 797. €38.00.

Sypeck, Jeff. Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of a.d. 800. New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. xx, 284. $25.95.

Vaughn, Sally N., and Jay Rubinstein, editors. Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000–1200. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, number 8.) Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 2006. Pp. xx, 360. 60.00.

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Adkins, Roy. Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 392. $16.00.

Alter, Peter. Winston Churchill (1874–1965): Leben und Überleben. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer. 2006. Pp. 326. € 19.00.

Baubérot, Jean, Paul D'Hollander, and Mireille Estivalezes, editors. Laïficité et séparation des églises et de l'état: Histoire et actualité. (Histoire.) Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges. 2006. Pp. 239. €25.00.

Berman, Sheri. The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 228. Cloth $65.00, paper $23.99.

Boswell, Laird. Le communisme rural en France: Le Limousin et la Dordogne de 1920 à 1939. Translated by Guy Clermont. (Histoire.) Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges. 2006. Pp. 313. €28.00.

Caglioti, Daniela Luigia. Vite parallele: Una minoranza protestante nell'Italia dell'Ottocento. (Ricerca.) Bologna: Il Mulino. 2006. Pp. 360. €28.00.

Caille, Frédéric. La Figure du Sauveteur: Naissance du citoyen secoureur en France (1780–1914). (Histoire.) Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2006. Pp. 315. €20.00.

Clanchy, M. T. England and Its Rulers, 1066–1307. (Blackwell Classic Histories of England.) 3d ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. Pp. 344. $34.95.

Domenico, Roy P., and Mark Y. Hanley, editors. Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. In two volumes. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xxv, 314; xiv, 666. $199.95 the set.

Epstein, Joseph. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide. (Eminent Lives.) New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Pp. 208. $21.95.

Garnett, Mark, and Philip Lynch. Exploring British Politics. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 499. £ 22.99.

Hasquin, Hervé. Louis XIV face à l'Europe du Nord: L'absolutisme vaincu par les libertés. (Les racines de l'histoire.) Brussels: Racine. 2005. Pp. 334.

Herspring, Dale R. The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin. Foreword by David M. Glantz. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2006. Pp. xiv, 242. $34.95.

Janužyte, Audrone. Historians as Nation State-Builders: The Formation of Lithuanian University 1904–1922. (Studies in European Societies and Politics.) Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press. 2005. Pp. 367.

Joll, James, and Gordon Martel. The Origins of the First World War. (Origins of Modern Wars.) 3d ed. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. x, 346.

Kelly, Laurence. Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia. Paperback edition. London: Tauris Parke. 2006. Pp. xv, 316. $19.95.

Krekola, Joni. Stalinismin lyhyt kurssi: Suomalaiset Moskovan Lenin-koulussa 1926–1938 [A Short Course of Stalinism: Finns at the International Lenin School, Moscow, 1926–1938]. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2006. Pp. 445.

Lavery, Jason. The History of Finland. (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 195.

Levitch, Mark. Pantheon de la Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press and The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri 2006. Pp. xii, 208. $49.95.

Lorandini, Cinzia. Famiglia e impresa: I Salvadori di Trento nei secoli XVII e XVIII. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, number 45.) Bologna: Il Mulino. 2006. Pp. 383. €25.00.

Mariot, Nicolas. Bains de foule: Les voyages présidentiels en province, 1888–2002. (Socio-Histoires.) Paris: Belin. 2006. Pp. 351. €24.00.

Marton, Kati. The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2006. Pp. 271. $27.00.

Mears, Natalie. Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 311. $85.00.

Mottu-Weber, Liliane, Anne-Marie Piuz, and Bernard Lescaze. Vivre à Genève autour de 1600: La vie de tous les jours. Geneva: Slatkine. 2002. Pp. 251. €27.00.

Mottu-Weber, Liliane, Anne-Marie Piuz, and Bernard Lescaze. Vivre à Genève autour de 1600: Ordre et désordres. Geneva: Slatkine. 2006. Pp. 314. €27.00.

Pelkmans, Mathijs. Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia. (Culture and Society After Socialism.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 240. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.95.

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xvii, 701. $35.00.

Service, Robert. Stalin: A Biography. Paperback edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 715. $19.95.

Smith, Andrea L. Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. (New Anthropologies of Europe.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 269. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.

Tricard, Jean, Philippe Grandcoing, and Robert Chanaud, editors. Le Limousin, pays et identités: Enquêtes d'histoire (de l'Antiquité au XXI^e siècle). (Rencontre des historiens du Limousin.) Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges. 2006. Pp. 577. €35.00.

Middle East and Northern Africa

Canby, Sheila R. Islamic Art in Detail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 144. $22.95.

Dunand, Françoise, and Roger Lichtenberg.Mummies and Death in Egypt. Foreword by Jean Yoyotte. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 234. $39.95.

Katz, Steven T, editor. The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume IV, The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period. (The Cambridge History of Judaism.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxvii, 1135. $200.00.

Kaufman, Cathy K. Cooking in Ancient Civilizations. (The Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2006. Pp. liv, 224. $45.00.

Mostyn, Trevor. Egypt's Belle Epoque: Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists. London: Tauris Parke. 2006. Pp. 202. $15.95.

Pollard, Justin, and Howard Reid. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind. New York: Viking. 2006. Pp. xix, 329. $27.95.

Ozyurek, Esra. Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. (Politics, History, and Culture.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 227. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95.

Redford, Donald B. From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt. Paperback edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 218. $22.95.

Tyldesley, Joyce. Egypt: How a Lost Civilization Was Rediscovered. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. 256. $24.95.

Sub-Saharan Africa

An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed. African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam. (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 199. $65.00.

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