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Other Books Received
The following books were recently received in the AHR office. Books listed here do not include works scheduled for review.
Methods/Theory
| Staley, David J.History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2007. Pp. xiii, 175. $55.00.Williams, Robert C.The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History. 2d ed. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 2007. Pp. xv, 200. Cloth $55.95, paper $22.95.
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Comparative/World
| Blum, Gabriella. Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 355. $49.95.Brown, Stewart J., and Timothy Tackett, editors. The Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume VII, Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1815. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 678. $180.00.Calvert, Peter, and Susan Calvert. Politics and Society in the Developing World. 3d ed. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 459. €24.99.Crosby, Alfred W.Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. 2006. Pp. xv, 192. $23.95.Cueto, Marcos. The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization. (Scientific and Technical Publications, 600.) Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization. 2007. Pp. x, 239. $29.95.Farber, David, editor. What They Think of US: International Perceptions of the United States since 9/11. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 187. $24.95.Franklin, Sarah. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 253. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.French, Francis, and Colin Burgess. Into that Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965. Foreword by Paul Haney. (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xxvii, 397. $29.95.Fridell, Gavin. Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 347. $50.00.Joes, Anthony James. Urban Guerrilla Warfare. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. 222. $35.00.Johnson, Janet Elise, and Jean C. Robinson, editors. Living Gender after Communism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 263. $45.00.Mazlish, Bruce. The New Global History. New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. vii, 131. $30.95.Murray, David. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. 213. $59.95.Neuhaus, Richard John, editor. The Second One Thousand Years: Ten People Who Defined a Millennium. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. 2001. Pp. xii, 126. $14.00.Norman, Edward. The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. 192. $29.95.Sherman, Nancy. Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind. Paperback edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 242. $15.95.Sklar, Kathryn Kish, and James Brewer Stewart, editors. Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 385. $35.00.Wolloch, Nathaniel. Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books. 2006. Pp. 280. $39.00.
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Asia
| Brocheux, Pierre. Ho Chi Minh: A Biography. Translated by Claire Duiker. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xxi, 265. $35.00.D'Etcheverry, Charo B.Love after The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 286.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 220. $39.95.Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, editor. The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals. (Stanford Nuclear Age Series.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 331. $60.00.Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, and Rana Mitter, editors. Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post–Cold War in Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 384. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.Kumar, Nita. The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education in India. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 345. $35.00.Lary, Diana. China's Republic. (New Approaches to Asian History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 225. Cloth $75.00, paper $29.99.Lewis, Mark Edward. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. (History of Imperial China.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. 321. $29.95.Lowy, Dina. The Japanese "New Woman": Images of Gender and Modernity. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 175. $24.95.Maddox, Robert James, editor. Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2007. Pp. vi, 215. $34.95.Mao Tse-tung. On Practice and Contradiction. Foreword by Slavoj Îižek. (Revolutions.) New York: Verso. 2007. Pp. 199. $14.95.Nizami, Khaliq Ahmad. The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizam-uÎd-din Auliya. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 238. $29.95.Pan, Yihong. Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace: China's Youth in the Rustication Movement. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2003. Pp. xi, 283. $79.00.Ray, Himanshu Prabha, and Edward A. Alpers editors. Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 311. $45.00.Robb, Peter. Peasants, Political Economy, and Law: Empire, Identity, and India. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 223. $45.00.
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Canada and the United States
| Akera, Atsushi. Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. (Inside Technology.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 427. $40.00.Allawi, Ali A.The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 518. $28.00.Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Paperback edition. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2006. Pp. xvi, 415. $16.00.Arndt, Richard T.The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century. Paperback edition. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books. 2005. Pp. xxi, 602. $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. $16.95.Axelrod, Alan. Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle that Shaped the Man. Philadelphia: Running Press. 2007. Pp. 270. $22.95.Axtell, James. The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xxxii, 647. $35.00.Bagley, Tennent H.Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 313. $28.00.Baker, Dean. The United States Since 1980. (The World Since 1980.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 274. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.99.Batvinis, Raymond J.The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xii, 332. $39.95.Beavan, Colin. Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War. Reprint. New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. xxviii, 401. $16.00.Benson, Lee, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett. Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform; Civil Society, Public Schools, and Democratic Citizenship. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 149. $18.95.Birchfield, James D.Clay Lancaster's Kentucky: Architectural Photographs of a Preservation Pioneer. Foreword by Roger W. Moss. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 130. $50.00.Bohning, Don. The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959–1965. Paperback edition. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc. 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $19.95.Bowles, Mark D.Science in Flux: NASA's Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1995–2005. (NASA History Series.) Washington, D.C.: National bbbbronautics and Space Administration. 2006. Pp. xxix, 335. $25.00.Brown, David S.Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xxiii, 291. $17.00.Burton, Brian K.The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide. Cartography by Christopher L. Brest. (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 168. $21.95.Cairns, Kathleen A.The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison. (Women in the West.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 295. $25.95.Campbell, James T.Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005. Preface by David Levering Lewis. (The Penguin History of American Life.) Reprint. New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 513. $17.00.Campbell, Kenneth J.A Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Hard Lessons of War. Foreword by Richard Falk. (International Studies Intensive.) Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers. 2007. Pp. xxi, 136. Cloth $62.00, paper $18.95.Carroll, Peter N., and James D. Fernandez, editors. Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War. New York: New York University Press with the Museum of the City of New York. 2007. Pp. vii, 223. $27.95.Cross, Coy F., II. Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 180. $28.95.Cullen, Jim. Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. xii, 234. $24.95.Curra, Thomas M., and Greg Matkosky. Stories from the Mines. Foreword by John W. Cosgrove. Scranton, Pa.: University of Scranton Press. 2007. Pp. 82. $25.00.Curry, Lynne. The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention. (Landmark Law Cases and American Society.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xii, 164. Cloth $29.95, paper $15.95.Dary, David. True Tales of the Prairies and Plains. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xii, 248. $24.95.Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson, Jr., editors. Virginia at War, 1862. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. 2007. Pp. x, 243. $35.00.Dedek, Peter B.Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2007. Pp. x, 169. $19.95.DePue, Mark R.Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xv, 291. $34.95.Donaldson, Gary, editor. Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation since 1945. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 2007. Pp. xiv, 346. Cloth $72.95, paper $27.95.Douglass, John Aubrey. The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 332. $24.95.Eddy, Jacalyn. Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919–1939. (Print Culture History in Modern America.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2006. Pp. x, 211. $19.95.Engerman, Stanley L.Slavery Emancipation and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 114. $25.00.Everitt, David. A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2007. Pp. xvi, 411. $27.50.Farber, Daniel A.Retained by the People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have. New York: Basic Books. 2007. Pp. xiv, 236. $26.95.Field, Ron. US Infantry in the Indian Wars 1865–91. Illustrated by Richard Hook. (Men-at-Arms, number 438.) Oxford: Osprey. 2007. Pp. 48. $15.95.Figueredo, D. H.Latino Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic. (The American Mosaic.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 154. $45.00.Flamm, Michael W.Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History.) Paperback edition. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 294. $24.50.Frye, Ellen, editor. Knowledge with Know-How: Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Foreword by Myron Tribus. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2007. Pp. xii, 193. $24.95.Gaffney, Dennis. Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United Teachers. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2007. Pp. x, 273. $25.00.Gannon, Michael. Michael Gannon's History of Florida in 40 Minutes. With CD. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2007. Pp. 73. $24.95.Haberski, Raymond J., Jr.Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. xi, 266. $45.00.Hagedorn, Ann. Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. x, 543. $27.00.Hagger, Nicholas. The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World. London: Watkins Publishing. 2007. Pp. xviii, 334. $24.95.Head, William P.Shadow and Stinger: Developing the AC-119G/K Gunships in the Vietnam War. (Texas A&M University Military History Series, number 109.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 340. $49.95.Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. Frontiers: A Short History of the American West. (The Lamar Series in Western History.) New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. vii, 248. $28.00.Hinz-Penner, Raylene. Searching for Sacred Ground: The Journey of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite. Foreword by Donald L. Fixico. (The C. Henry Smith Series, number 7.) Scottdale: Herald with Cascadia Publishing House, Telford, Pa. 2007. Pp. 203. $19.95.Kelly, James C., and Barbara Clark Smith. Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings. Assisted by Warren M. Billings, Gilles Proulx, and David J. Weber. Foreword by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., and Brent Glass. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 2007. Pp. 191. $34.95.Kersten, Andrew E.A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard. (The African American History Series.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xiii, 169. Cloth $65.00, paper $19.95.Kessler-Harris, Alice. Gendering Labor History. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. 374. Cloth $65.00, paper $25.00.Kumar, Deepa. Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike. (The History of Communication.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 237. $35.00.Kurokawa, Katsutoshi. The Labor Movement and Japanese Immigrants in Seattle. Singapore: University Education Press. 2006. Pp. 204.Levine, Lawrence W.Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. 30th anniversary edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 1977. Pp. xxxii, 522. $18.95.Lindenmeyer, Kriste. The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2005. Pp. xiii, 304. $18.95.Lukacs, John. George Kennan: A Study of Character. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 207. $26.00.Maltz, Earl M. Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. (Landmark Law Cases and American Society.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. ix, 182. Cloth $29.95, paper $15.95.Mandel, Bernard. Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States. Introduction by Brian Kelly. Reprint. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1955. Pp. lxix, 256. $25.00.Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945–2006. 3d ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2007. Pp. ix, 312. Cloth $55.00, paper $22.00.May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow, editors. Dealing with Dictators: Dilemmas of U.S. Diplomacy and Intelligence Analysis, 1945–1990. Assisted by Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson. (BCSIA Studies in International Security.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 227. $27.00.McCool, Daniel, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer L. Robinson. Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 232. Cloth $80.00, paper $24.99.Morris, Peter. Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xxi, 184. $24.95.Murchison, Kenneth M.The Snail Darter Case: TVA versus the Endangered Species Act. (Landmark Law Cases and American Society.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xii, 234. Cloth $35.00, paper $15.95.Murray, Rolland. Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. 148. $39.95.O'Brien, Michael. Placing the South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2007. Pp. xii, 275. $50.00.Pallitto, Robert M., and William G. Weaver.Presidential Secrecy and the Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. 261. Cloth $50.00, paper $25.00.Patterson, James T.Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. (The Oxford History of the United States.) Paperback edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 448. $18.95.Porterfield, Nolan. Jimmy Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler. (American Made Music.) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2007. Pp. 460. $25.00.Pryor, Elizabeth Brown. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through His Private Letters. New York: Viking. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 658. $29.95.Pursell, Carroll. The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. Second edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 398. Cloth $55.00, paper $22.95.Reid, Stuart. The Secret War for Texas. (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest, number 28.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 235. $29.95.Robinson, Warren C.Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 198. $24.95.Rosenfeld, Michael J.The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 264. $45.00.Rottman, Gordon L.Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics. Illustrated by Adam Hook. (Elite, number 154.) Oxford: Osprey. 2007. Pp. 64. $17.95.Russell, Harold S.Time to Become Barbarian: The Extraordinary Life of General Horace Capron. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2007. Pp. xi, 263. $29.00.Saito, Natsu Taylor. From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 2007. Pp. x, 497. $34.95.Savitt, Todd L.Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 453. $49.00.Schlesinger, Andrew. Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2005. Pp. xii, 304. $16.95.Shackley, Ted. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Assisted by Richard A. Finney. Paperback edition. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books. 2005. Pp. xviii, 309. $19.95.Sloan, Kim. A New World: England's First View of America. With Contributions by Joyce E. Chaplin, Christian F. Feest, and Ute Kuhlemann. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. 256. Cloth $60.00, paper $29.95.Stewart, David O.The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. xi, 349. $27.00.Talbot, David. Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. New York: Free Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 478. $28.00.Talty, Stephan. Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign. New York: Crown. 2007. Pp. 332. $24.95.Taylor, Sarah McFarland. Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xx, 363. $29.95.Wallenstein, Peter. Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xvii, 476. $29.95.Wallis, Michael. Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride. New York: W. W. Norton. 2007. Pp. xvii, 328. $25.95.Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel. The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 351. $45.00.Weber, Ronald. News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. 333. $16.95.Whiting, Henry, II. At Nature's Edge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Artist Studio. Foreword by E. Fay Jones. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 2007. Pp. x, 125. $39.95.Whitman, T. Stephen. Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society. 2007. Pp. xv, 301. $20.00.Whittington, Keith E.Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 303. $35.00.Wiley, Ken. Lucky Thirteen: D-Days in the Pacific with the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. Havertown, Pa.: Casemate. 2007. Pp. xvi, 334. $32.95.Williams, Frank J.Judging Lincoln. Foreword by Harold Holzer. Afterword by John Y. Simon. Paperback edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2002. Pp. xxiii, 202. $17.95.Wilson, Charles Reagan. Southern Missions: The Religion of the American South in Global Perspective. (Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures, number 29.) Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press. 2006. Pp. vi, 53. $13.95.Winton, Harold R.Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes. Foreword by Dennis Showalter. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xxiii, 504. $39.95.Woolley, Benjamin. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. New York: HarperCollins. 2007. Pp. xviii, 469. $27.50.
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Caribbean and Latin America
| Blouet, Olwyn M.The Contemporary Caribbean: History, Life and Culture since 1945. (Contemporary Worlds.) London: Reaktion Books. 2007. Pp. 159. $24.95.Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 230. $24.95.Frank, Ross. From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750–1820. Paperback edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 329. $24.95.Mitchell, Stephanie, and Patience A. Schell, editors. The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910–1953. (Latin American Silhouettes.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. viii, 233. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95.Smallman, Shawn. The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 290. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50.
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Europe: Ancient and Medieval
| Capel Martínez, Rosa M.Î, and José Cepeda Gómez. El siglo de las luces: Política y sociedad. (Historia de Españtna. 3.er milenio.) Madrid: Editorial Síntesis, S. A. 2006. Pp. 383.Flori, Jean. Richard the Lionheart: King and Knight. Translated by Jean Birrell. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. vi, 450. $49.95.Green, Peter. The Hellenistic Age: A History. (A Modern Library Chronicles Book, number 27.) New York: Modern Library. 2007. Pp. xxxiii, 199. $21.95.Kühr, Angela. Als Kadmos nach Boiotien kam: Polis und Ethnos im Spiegel thebanischer Gründungsmythen. (Hermes; Einzelschriften, number 98.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2006. Pp. 377. €76.00.Reuter, Timothy. Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities. Edited by Janet L. Nelson. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 483. $100.00.Taifacos, Ioannis, editor. The Origins of European Scholarship: The Cyprus Millennium International Conference. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2005. Pp. x, 206. €52.00.
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Europe: Early Modern and Modern
| Ahrens, Geert-Hinrich. Diplomacy on the Edge: Containment of Ethnic Conflict and the Minorities Working Group of the Conferences on Yugoslavia. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. xxviii, 672. $60.00.Anderson, James M.Daily Life during the French Revolution. (Daily Life Through History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 268. $49.95.Beck, Alfred M.Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941. Paperback edition. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books. 2006. Pp. xvi, 323. $22.95.Beller, Steven. A Concise History of Austria. (Cambridge Concise Histories.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 334. Cloth $75.00, paper $24.99.Brown, Ian, editor. Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: The History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 240. Cloth $60.00, paper $27.50.Butterini, Giorgio, Cecilia Nubola, and Adriana Valerio, editors. Maria Arcangela Biondini (1641–1712) e il monastero delle Serve di Maria di Arco: Una fondatrice e un archivio. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento; Quaderni, number 70.) Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2007. Pp. 338. €24.00.Collstedt, Christopher. Duellanten och rättvisan: Duellbrott och synen på manlighet i stormaktsväldets slutskede. [Justice and the Duellist: Crimes of Duelling and Perceptions of Masculinity in the Final Phases of Sweden's Period as a Great Power]. Lund: Sekel Bokförlag. 2007. Pp. 341.Delpero, Pietro. I Volpini, una famigilia di scultori tra Lombardia e Baviera (secoli XVII–XVIII). (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento; Monografie, number 44.) Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2006. Pp. 286. €20.00.Forgeng, Jeffrey. Daily Life in Stuart England. (Daily Life Through History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 261. $49.95.Fox, Soledad. Constancia de la Mora in War and Exile: International Voice for the Spanish Republic. (Sussex Studies in Spanish History.) Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 219. $55.00.Friedman, Barbara J.From the Battlefield to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942–1946. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2007. Pp. x, 154. $19.95.Goodstein, Judith R.The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860–1940. (History of Mathematics, number 31.) Providence: American Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society 2007. Pp. x, 310. $59.00.Harriss, Gerald. Shaping the Nation: England 1360–1461. (The New Oxford History of England.) Paperback edition. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 705. $35.00.Hasberg, Wolfgang, and Josef Schröder, editors. Flores considerationum amicorum. Festschrift für Carl August Lückerath zum 70. Geburtstag am 13. Dezember 2006. Gleichen: Muster-Schmidt. 2006. Pp. 400. €60.00.Herberg-Rothe, Andreas. Clausewitz's Puzzle: The Political Theory of War. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. vi, 194. $72.00.Hitchcock, Tim, and Robert Shoemaker. Tales from the Hanging Court. London: Hodder Arnold. 2006. Pp. xx, 265. $45.00.Holton, Gerald, and Gerhard Sonnert. What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. Pp. xiv, 265. $69.95.Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. xxii, 675. $32.00.King, Margaret L., and Albert Rabil, Jr., editors. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. vii, 244. $21.00.Krohn, Claus-Dieter, and Corinna R. Unger, editors. Arnold Brecht, 1884–1977: Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York. (Transatlantische Historische Studien, number 27.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2006. Pp. 228.Kurz, Marlene. Ein osmanischer Almanach für das Jahr 1239/1240 (1824/25). (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, number 276.) Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. 2007. Pp. 165.Legvold, Robert, editor. Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past. (Studies of the Harriman Institute Columbia University.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 534. $45.00.Léon Sanz, Pilar, and Dolores Barettino Coloma. Vicente Ferrer Gorraiz Beaumont y Montesa (1718–1792), un polemista navarro de la Ilustración. (Colección Temas de Historia de la Medicina, number 6.) Pamplona, Spain: Gobierno de Navarra. 2007. Pp. 299.Levine, Philippa. The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. (Recovering the Past.) New York: Longman. 2007. Pp. x, 252. $32.00.Liebman, Stuart, editor. Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Key Essays. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 253. $24.95.Little, Benerson. The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730. Paperback edition. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books. 2007. Pp. xiii, 303. $17.95.McCraw, Thomas K.Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 719. $35.00.Michael, Robert. Holy Hatred: Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. Pp. 254. $24.95.Möller, Frank. Thinking Peaceful Change: Baltic Security Policies and Security Community Building. (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 379. $39.95.Morgan, Diane. From Satan's Crown to the Holy Grail: Emeralds in Myth, Magic, and History. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. Pp. ix, 180. $39.95.Muir, Edward. The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 175. $24.95.O Riordan, Michelle. Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality. Cork: Cork University Press. 2007. Pp. xxvi, 458. €49.00.Ogilvie, Sarah A., and Scott Miller. Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2007. Pp. xx, 203. $21.95.Oliver, Bette W.From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2007. Pp. ix, 109. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.Östlund, Joachim. Lyckolandet: Maktens legitimering i officiell retorik fråan stormaktstid till demokratins genombrott. [The Land of Bliss: The Legitimisation of Power in Public Rhetoric from Sweden's Period as a Great Power to the Full Emergence of Democracy]. Lund: Sekel Bokförlag. 2007. Pp. 301.Roberts, Elizabeth. Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 521. $37.50.Rosanvallon, Pierre. The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France since the Revolution. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Harvard Historical Studies, number 154.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. vi, 354. $35.00.Schenk, Dieter. Hans Frank: Hitlers Kronjurist und Generalgouverneur. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. 2006. Pp. 485. €21.40.Schramm, Martin. Das Deutschlandbild in der britischen Presse 1912–1919. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2007. Pp. 598. €69.80.Sluglett, Peter. Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country, 1914–1932. 2d ed. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 318. Cloth $74.50, paper $24.50.Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires. (The Modern Jewish Experience.) Paperback edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 311. $24.95.Thomas, Dominic. Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. (African Expressive Cultures.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 305. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95.Toulmin, Vanessa. Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection. London: British Film Institute. 2006. Pp. x, 310. Cloth $95.00, paper $27.95.Veidlinger, Jeffrey. The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage. (Jewish Literature and Culture; Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies.) Paperback edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 356. $24.95.Winkler, Martin M., editor. Spartacus: Film and History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. x, 267. $29.95.
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Middle East and Northern Africa
| AkÎcsÎn, SÎna. Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic; The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present. Translated by Dexter H. MursaloÎlu. New York: New York University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 335. Cloth $70.00, paper $22.00.Reisman, Arnold. Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk's Vision. Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing. 2006. Pp. xxvii, 572. $28.00.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
| O'Malley, Padraig. Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa. New York: Viking. 2007. Pp. xix, 648. $32.95.
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