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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
| Badiou, Alain. The Century. Translated by Alberto Toscano. Reprint. Cambridge: Polity. 2007. Pp. xiii, 233. Cloth $64.95, paper $22.95.Boltanski, Luc, and Éve Chiapello. The New Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Gregory Elliott. Paperback edition. New York: Verso. 2007. Pp. xlvii, 601. $39.95.Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. New York: New Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 288. $25.95.Creager, Angela N. H., Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, editors. Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. (Science and Cultural Theory.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. 287. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.Ekeland, Ivar. The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. 207. $14.00.Gallois, William. Time, Religion and History. (History: Concepts, Theories and Practice.) London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. ix, 293. $34.00.Morillo, Stephen, and Michael F. Pavkovic. What Is Military History? Cambridge: Polity. 2006. Pp. vi, 150. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.Moscovici, Serge, and Ivana Markova. The Making of Modern Social Psychology: The Hidden Story of How an International Social Science Was Created. Reprint. Cambridge: Polity. 2007. Pp. xvii, 296. Cloth $64.95, paper $24.95.Poddar, Prem, and David Johnson, editors. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. xxvii, 574. Cloth $100.00, paper $32.50.Raddeker, Hélène Bowen. Sceptical History: Feminist and Postmodern Approaches in Practice. New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. 241. $29.95.Saitta, Dean J. The Archaeology of Collective Action. Foreword by Michael S. Nassaney. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2007. Pp. xx, 140. $24.95.Settis, Salvatore. The Future of the "Classical." Translated by Allan Cameron. Cambridge: Polity. 2006. Pp. vi, 136. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.Smelser, Neil J.The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions. (Science Essentials.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. vi, 285. $29.95.Waterson, Roxana, editor. Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience. (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, number 113.) Singapore: NUS Press and Athens: Ohio University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 317. $28.95.
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Comparative/World
| Akenson, Donald Harman. Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 349. $29.95.Beran, Michael Knox. Forge of Empires, 1861–1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made. New York: Free Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 477. $30.00.Bertrand, Romain, Jean-Louis Briquet, and Peter Pels, editors. The Hidden History of the Secret Ballot. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. vii, 256. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.Dutton, Paul V.Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France. (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work.) Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 253. $29.95.Elleman, Bruce A., and S. C. M. Paine, editors. Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History.) New York: Routledge. 2008. Pp. xviii, 247. $140.00.Grayling, A. C.Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World. New York: Walker. 2007. Pp. 336. $26.95.Holmes, Richard, and Martin Marix Evans, editors. Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History. Paperback edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 429. $18.95.Jackson, Mark. Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady. Paperback edition. London: Reaktion Books. 2007. Pp. 288. Cloth $39.95, paper $25.00.Kalof, Linda. Looking at Animals in Human History. London: Reaktion Books. 2007. Pp. ix, 222. $45.00.Kaplan, Lawrence S.Nato 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance. Assisted by Morris Honick. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xi, 273. Cloth $80.00, paper $28.95.Kroker, Kenton. The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 533. $49.95.Landes, David S.Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses. New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. xx, 380. Cloth $25.95, paper $16.00.Laszlo, Pierre. Citrus: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. x, 252. $25.00.Miller, Donald E., and Tetsunao Yamamori. Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement. With DVD. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. x, 261. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.Petroski, Henry. The Toothpick: Technology and Culture. (A Borzoi Book.) New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. Pp. xii, 443. $27.95.Sahadeo, Jeff, and Russell Zanca, editors. Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 401. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.Schofield, John, and Wayne Cocroft, editors. A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War. (One World Archaeology Series, number 50.) Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press. 2007. Pp. 333. $79.00.Schwartz, David G.Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling. Paperback edition. New York: Gotham Books. 2007. Pp. xix, 570. Cloth $30.00, paper $18.00.Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945—The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. x, 405. $27.00.Smith, Benjamin. Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 243. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.95.Strebe, Amy Goodpaster. Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II. Foreword by Trish Beckman. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International. 2007. Pp. xvi, 109. $39.95.Syse, Henrik, and Gregory M. Reichberg, editors. Ethics, Nationalism, and Just War: Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. 2007. Pp. x, 405. $39.95.Tomz, Michael. Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xxi, 299. $22.95.van Onselen, Charles. The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal. New York: Walker. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 646. $34.95.Votolato, Gregory. Transport Design: A Travel History. London: Reaktion Books. 2007. Pp. 239. $35.00.Wang, Dong. Managing God's Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounters and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888–1952. (AsiaWorld.) Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2007. Pp. xiii, 211. Cloth $85.00, paper $34.95.Weinberg, Gerhard L.Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders. Paperback edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 292. $19.99.
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Asia
| Bala, Poonam. Medicine and Medical Policies in India: Social and Historical Perspectives. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2007. Pp. xii, 139. $55.00.Benjamin, Craig G. R.The Yuezhi: Origin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria. (Silk Road Studies, number 14.) Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 2007. Pp. xvii, 245.Goldman, Merle. From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China. Paperback edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 286. $19.95.Hadley, Gregory. Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew. Foreword by Philip Seaton. Sheffield, U.K.: Paulownia Press. 2007. Pp. x, 160. Cloth £24.95, paper £17.95.Halberstam, David. Ho. 3d ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xi, 118. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.95.Kaltman, Blaine. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China. (Ohio University Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies Series, number 7.) Athens: Ohio University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 150. $24.00.Kerr, Ian J., editor. 27 Down: New Departures in Indian Railway Studies. (New Perspectives in South Asian History, number 16. With CD-ROM.) Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2007. Pp. lxxii, 375. Rs. 1185.00.Li, Xiaobing. A History of the Modern Chinese Army. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. xvi, 413. $39.95.Meisner, Maurice. Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual Portrait. Cambridge: Polity. 2007. Pp. x, 222. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.Miller, John H.Modern East Asia: An Introductory History. (An East Gate Book.) Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 2008. Pp. xxvii, 235. Cloth $72.95, paper $25.95.Nishida, Satoshi. Der Weideraufbau der japanischen Wirtschaft nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die amerkanische Japanpolitik und die ökonomischen Nachkriegsreformen in Japan 1942–1952. (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, number 193.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 474. €78.00.Pepper, Suzanne. Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2008. Pp. x, 448. Cloth $85.00, paper $39.95.Pratt, Keith. Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea. Paperback edition. London: Reaktion Books. 2007. Pp. 320. Cloth $34.95, paper $27.00.Samuels, Richard J.Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs.) Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 277. $29.95.Singh, Jaswant. In Service of Emergent India: A Call to Honor. Foreword by Strobe Talbott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xxi, 359. $29.95.Wood, James B.Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable? Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. x, 141. Cloth $69.00, paper $24.95.
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Canada and the United States
| Abu-Lughod, Janet L.Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 344. $35.00.Alkebulan, Paul. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 176. $28.95.Allen, Brooke. Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xvi, 235. $14.95.Andrejevic, Mark. iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era. (CultureAmerica.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. ix, 325. $29.95.Atkins, Annette. Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 319. $27.95.Aucoin, Brent J.A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900–1910. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 169. $34.95.Bailey, Jeremy D.Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 280. $80.00.Ball, Howard. Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle over Presidential Power in the War on Terror. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. viii, 275. $34.95.Bellavia, David. House to House: An Epic Memoir of War. Assisted by John R. Brunning. New York: Free Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 321. $26.00.Bindas, Kenneth J.Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South. Gainesvillle: University Press of Florida. 2007. Pp. 184. $59.95.Blanke, David. Hell on Wheels: The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900–1940. (CultureAmerica.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. x, 266. $34.95.Blackford, Mansel G.Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 267. $48.00.Bleser, Carol K., and Lesley J. Gordon, editors. Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. Paperback edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xxv, 292. $19.95.Borg, Kevin L.Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. (Studies in Industry and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 249. $50.00.Bowler, Peter J.Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design. (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. 256. $24.95.Brady, David W., and Mathew D. McCubbins, editors. Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress. Volume Two. (Social Science History.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 505. Cloth $90.00, paper $34.95.Brown, David, and Clive Webb. Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2007. Pp. vi, 392. Cloth £60.00, paper £18.99.Burman, Stephen. The State of the American Empire: How the USA Shapes the World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. 132. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.Burns, Richard Dean, and Siracusa, Joseph M.Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era. (Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Historical Eras.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. 2007. Pp. xxix, 396. $90.00.Butler, Anne M., and Michael J. LansingThe American West: A Concise History. (Problems in American History.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2008. Pp. xiv, 242. $32.95.Butler, Anthea D.Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 206. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95.Campbell, James. The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea—The Forgotten War of the South Pacific. New York: Crown. 2007. Pp. xv, 378. $25.95.Carter, Ron. Unlikely Heroes: Ordinary Men and Women Whose Courage Won the Revolution. Salt Lake City, Utah: Shadow Mountain. 2007. Pp. viii, 254. $21.95.Caruso, Patrick F.Nightmare on Iwo Jima: A Marine in Combat. Foreword by David G. Rathgeber. Paperback edition. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 168. $19.95.Casella, Eleanor Conlin. The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement. Foreword by Michael S. Nassaney. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2007. Pp. xx, 174. $24.95.Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. Paperback edition. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. 667. $15.00.Clark, Christopher. Social Change in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xiii, 349. $18.95.Clifford, Deborah Pickman, and Nicholas R. Clifford. "The Troubled Roar of the Waters": Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927–1931. (Revisting New England: The New Regionalism.) Durham: University of New Hampshire Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 229. $29.95.Collins, Christopher. Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiii, 263. $29.95.Cordery, Stacy A.Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. New York: Viking. 2007. Pp. xiv, 590. $32.95.Daemmrich, Arthur, and Joanna Radin, editors. Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation. 2007. Pp. xvii, 163. $12.00.Dammann, Gordon E., and Alfred Jay Bollet. Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History. New York: Demos. 2008. Pp. viii, 192. $34.95.Danisch, Robert. Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric. (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 190. $39.95.D'Antonio, Michael. A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957—The Space Race Begins. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. 306. $26.00.Davidson, James West. "They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race. (New Narratives in American History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 242. $21.95.Davies, Gareth. See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xii, 387. $39.95.Deans, Bob. The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xv, 319. $24.95.Delaney, Michelle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Käsebier. New York: Smithsonian Books. 2007. Pp. xi, 160. $34.95.DeRosier, Arthur H., Jr.William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. x, 269. $55.00.Dewey, Donald. The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons. New York: New York University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 251. $34.95.Diggins, John Patrick. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 305. $29.00.Donaldson, Gary A.The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. ix, 199. Cloth $70.00, paper $22.95.Dougherty, Kevin. Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2007. Pp. xi, 207. $50.00.Ellis, Joseph J.American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. Pp. xi, 283. $26.95.Emerson, Jason. The Madness of Mary Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 255. $29.95.Estes, Steve. Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 280. $29.95.Fenton, William N.Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers. Edited and introduction by Jack Campisi and William A. Starna. (The Iroquoians and Their World.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 204. $55.00.Finley, Laura L.Juvenile Justice. (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 159. $49.95.Fleming, Thomas. The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival after Yorktown. New York: Smithsonian Books. 2007. Pp. x, 352. $27.95.Foster, Thomas A., editor. Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Afterword by John D'Emilio. New York: New York University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 405. Cloth $75.00, paper $25.00.Foxman, Abraham H.The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. 256. $24.95.Freyer, Tony A.Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation. (Landmark Law Cases and American Society.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xi, 276. Cloth $35.00, paper $17.95.Gardella, Peter. American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World. (CultureAmerica.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. x, 285. $29.95.Gibbs, Joseph. Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs. (Studies in Maritime History.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 211. $29.95.Glatthaar, Joseph T., and James Kirby Martin. Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution. Paperback edition. New York: Hill and Wang. 2006. Pp. 434. $19.95.Gray, Ralph D.Meredith Nicholson: A Writing Life. (Indiana Biography Series.) Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 2007. Pp. 281. $19.95.Griffis, Don W.Eagle Days: A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 174. $29.95.Hattam, Victoria. In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 273. Cloth $47.50, paper $19.00.Hendley, Nate. Bonnie and Clyde: A Biography. (Greenwood Biographies.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood press. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 128. $35.00.Henkin, David M.The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 221. $20.00.Hersh, Burton. Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers. 2007. Pp. x, 612. $28.95.Hill, John E.Democracy, Equality, and Justice: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Political Economy. Rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2007. Pp. xvii, 267. Cloth $95.00, paper $29.95.Hodgdon, Timothy. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83. Electronic book. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. 270. $49.50.Holland, Jesse J.Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot. 2007. Pp. xv, 192. $14.95.Hoock, Holger, editor. History, Commemoration, and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805–2005. (British Academy Occasional Paper, number 8.) New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2007. Pp. x, 130. $26.95.Howell, William G., and Jon C. Pevehouse. While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xxvi, 333. Cloth $65.00, paper $27.95.Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance. Foreword by Arnold Rampersad. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xxxiii, 343. $19.95.Hulsether, Mark. Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States. (Columbia Series in Religion and Politics.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. 249. Cloth $74.50, paper $24.50.Hunley, J. D.The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926–1991. (Centennial of Flight Series, number 17.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 383. $65.00.Hunter, Jerry. Sons of Arthur, Children of Lincoln: Welsh Writing from the American Civil War. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 498. £19.99.Hurst, Jack. Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War. New York: Basic Books. 2007. Pp. xix, 442. $27.95.Johnson, Timothy D.A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. x, 365. $39.95.Joiner, Gary D.Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. (American Crisis Series.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xiii, 199. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.Josephson, Paul R.Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 258. $22.00.Kalinak, Kathryn. How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. x, 256. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.Keels, Thomas H.Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2007. Pp. 309. $40.00.Keller, Morton. America's Three Regimes: A New Political History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. 336. $27.95.Kilpatrick, Judith. There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2007. Pp. x, 221. $29.95.Kinnard, Douglas. The War Managers: 30th Anniversary Edition. Reprint. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. 1979. Pp. ix, 216. $19.95.Kirk, John A.Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 213. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.Klein, Maury. The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. (Cambridge Essential Histories.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 224. Cloth $70.00, paper $22.99.Klein, Stacey Jean. Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 137. $34.95.Kugel, Rebecca, and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, editors. Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xxxvi, 467. Cloth $60.00, paper $29.95.Landsberg, Brian K.Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xi, 264. $34.95.Larson, Agnes M.The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History. Foreword by Bradley J. Gills. (The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series.) Reprint. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 432. $17.95.Larson, Edward J.A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign. New York: Free Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 335. $27.00.Latimer, Jon. 1812: War with America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 637. $35.00.Levine, Elana. Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. (Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 320. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.Levy, Jacques E.Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. Foreword by Fred Ross, Jr. Afterword by Jacqueline M. Levy. Rev. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2007. Pp. xxxi, 556. $19.95.Lorence, James J.A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 308. $39.95.Lorenz-Meyer, Martin. Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 384. $49.95.Magee, Judith. The Art and Science of William Bartram. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press in association with the Natural History Museum, London. 2007. Pp. xi, 264. $45.00.McCloud, Sean. Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. x, 224. $22.50.McGarrah, Jim. A Temporary Sort of Peace: A Memoir of Vietnam. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. 2007. Pp. 251. $19.95.McGowan, John. American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time. (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 269. $29.95.McWilliams, Tennant S.New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 546. $39.95.Mead, Walter Russell. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. Pp. x, 449. $27.95.Meyer, Carrie A.Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age through the Great Depression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2007. Pp. x, 251. $17.95.Miller, Donald L.Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany. Paperback edition. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. 671. $20.00.Miller, Edward S.Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 323. $32.00.Miroff, Bruce. The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xi, 355. $29.95.Monday, Jane Clements, and Frances Brannen Vick. Petra's Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy. (Perspectives on South Texas.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 430. $35.00.Moore, R. Jonathan. Suing for America's Soul: John Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts. (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion.) Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. 2007. Pp. x, 214. $18.00.Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2007. Pp. xvi, 878. $20.00.Nemanic, Mary Lou. One Day for Democracy: Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range Immigrants. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 252. $39.95.The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume Seven: Foodways. Edited by John T. Edge. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press with the center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. 2007. Pp. xx, 310. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.Newton, Jim. Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. 614. $17.95.Niedermeier, Lynn E.Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. ix, 284. $45.00.Noll, Mark A., and Luke E. Harlow, editors. Religion and American Politics from the Colonial Period to the Present. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 502. $25.00.O'Connor, Alice. Social Science for What? Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up. (A Russell Sage Centennial Volume.) New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2007. Pp. xiii, 178. $22.50.O'Neill, Johnathan. Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History. (Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought.) Paperback edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 281. $35.00.Pacepa, Ion Mihai. Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2007. Pp. xxiv, 349. $28.95.Pangle, Lorraine Smith. The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin. (The Political Philosophy of the American Founders.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 277. Cloth $45.00, paper $20.95.Priest, Tyler. The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. (Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History, number 19.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 317. $39.95.Radojkovic, Jon. Barn Building: The Golden Age of Barn Construction. Erin, Ont.: Boston Mills Press. 2007. Pp. 192. $35.00.Rhea, Gordon C.In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness through Cold Harbor. Photographs by Chris E. Heisey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 134. $39.95.Rielly, Edward J.Sitting Bull: A Biography. (Greenwood Biographies.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 157. $35.00.Robinson, Ira. Rabbis and Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896–1930. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 166. $34.95.Rochester, Stuart I., and Frederick Kiley. Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973. Paperback edition. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 706. Cloth $45.00, paper $34.95.Rothman, Hal K.Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West. Edited by Lincoln Bramwell. Foreword by William deBuys. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 262. $24.95.Rottman, Gordon L.Mobile Strike Forces in Vietnam 1966–70. (Battle Orders, number 30.) Oxford: Osprey. 2007. Pp. 96. $23.95.Rountree, Helen C., Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford. John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607–1609. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 402. $29.95.Samuel, Lawrence R.The End of the Innocence: The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiii, 243. $29.95.Schechter, Harold. The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century. New York: Ballantine Books. 2007. Pp. xv, 494. $27.95.Self, Robert T.Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Pp. x, 208. $29.95.Semonche, John E.Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey through American Media. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. viii, 301. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95.Simmons, Virginia McConnell. Drifting West: The Calamities of James White and Charles Baker. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 2007. Pp. xxviii, 210. $29.95.Smith, Adam I. P.The American Civil War. (American History in Depth.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. xxii, 275. $24.95.Smith, Carl. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. (Chicago Visions and Revisions.) Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xvii, 183. $12.00.Smith, Mark A.The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. 267. $29.95.Stanley-Blackwell, Laurie. Tokens of Grace: Cape Breton's Open-Air Communion Tradition. Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press. 2006. Pp. 160. $19.95.Steers, Edward, Jr.Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President. Foreword by Harold Holzer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2007. Pp. xvii, 264. $24.95.Strahan, Randall. Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House. (Interpreting American Politics.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 238. Cloth $49.95, paper $24.95.Stuart, Peter C.Planting the American Flag: Twelve Men Who Expanded the United States Overseas. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company. 2007. Pp. vii, 254. $39.95.Theoharis, Athan. The Quest for Absolute Security: The Failed Relations Among U.S. Intelligence Agencies. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2007. Pp. viii, 309. $27.50.Tierney, Dominic. FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle That Divided America. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. 223. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95.Toczek, David M.The Battle of Ap Bac Vietnam: They Did Everything but Learn from It. Foreword by W. B. Rosson. Paperback edition. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. 2007. Pp. xxvii, 185. $19.95.Volo, James M., and Dorothy Denneen Volo. Family Life in 19th-Century America. (Family Life through History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 415. $65.00.Ward, Geoffrey C.The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. Introduction by Ken Burns. Assisted by David McMahon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. Pp. xxv, 451. $50.00.Westheider, James E.The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms. (The African American History Series.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2008. Pp. xxi, 177. Cloth $60.00, paper $19.95.Westwood, Jean Miles. Madame Chair: The Political Autobiography of an Unintentional Pioneer. Edited by Linda Sillitoe. Foreword by Floyd A. O'Neil. Logan: Utah State University Press. 2007. Pp. vii, 230. $34.95.White, Mark J.Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2007. Pp. x, 370. $28.95.Williams, Lynn Barstis. Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920s–1940s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2007. Pp. x, 211. $39.95.Wilson, Daniel J.Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 300. $17.00.Witham, Larry. A City upon a Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American History. New York: HarperOne. 2007. pp. xviii, 318. $24.95.Wylie, Paul R.The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 404. $29.95.Xu, Guangqiu. Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949–1979. (Series on International, Political, and Economic History.) Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 409. $59.95.Yenne, Bill. Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War II. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. 2007. Pp. xii, 302. $25.95.Yount, David. How the Quakers Invented America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xix, 159. $19.95.Zieger, Robert H.For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2007. Pp. x, 276. $37.50.
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Caribbean and Latin America
| Colburn, Forrest D., and Arturo Cruz S.. Varieties of Liberalism in Central America: Nation-States as Works in Progress. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 115. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95.Dunkerley, James. Bolivia: Revolution and the Power of History in the Present. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas. 2007. Pp. xv, 311. Cloth $60.00, paper $30.00.Grayson, George W.Mexican Messiah: Andrés Manuel López Obrador. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 339. $35.00.Jones, Charles A.American Civilization. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas. 2007. Pp. 105. $20.00.Klein, Herbert S., and Ben Vinson III. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 286. $21.95.Moya Pons, Frank. History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener. 2007. Pp. xiii, 402. Cloth $88.95, paper $28.95.Negrón-Muntaner, Frances, editor. None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era. (New Directions in Latino American Cultures.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. xi, 283. Cloth $79.95, paper $26.95.Saeger, James Schofield. Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay: Honor and Egocentrism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. Pp. xi, 239. Cloth $80.00, paper $34.95.
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Europe: Ancient and Medieval
| Alcock, Susan E., and Robin Osborne, editors. Classical Archaeology. (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, number 10.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. xiii, 447. Cloth $89.95, paper $39.95.Bringmann, Klaus. A History of the Roman Republic. Translated by W. J. Smyth. Cambridge: Polity. 2007. Pp. x, 358. Cloth $69.95, paper $28.95.Cracco, Giorgio, et al., editors. Europa in costruzione: La forza dell identità, la ricerca di unità (secoli IX–XIII). (Annali dell'Istituto italo-germanico in Trento; Quaderni, number 69.) Bologna: Il Mulino. 2006. Pp. 484. €32.00.Dilcher, Gerhard, and Diego Quaglioni, editors. Gli inizi del diritto pubblico: L'età di Federico Barbarossa; legislazione e scienza del diritto/Di Anfänge des öffentlichen Rechts: Gesetzgebung im Zeitalter Friedrich Barbarossas und das Gelehrte Recht. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico Trento, Contribut; Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient, Beiträge, number 19.) Bologna: Il Mulino and Berlin: Duncker und Humbolt. 2006. Pp. 353. €26.00.Erdkamp, Paul, editor. A Companion to the Roman Army. (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. xxvi, 574. $174.95.Hahn, Johannes, and Meinolf Vielberg, editors. Formen und Funktionen von Leitbildern. (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, number 17.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 321.Lee, A. D.War in Late Antiquity: A Social History. (Ancient World at War.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. xxv, 282. $34.95.Mitchell, Linda E.Family Life in the Middle Ages. (Family Life through History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 240. $65.00.Powell, Barry B.Homer. (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World.) 2d ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. xv, 240. Cloth $79.95, paper $29.95.Skinner, Marilyn B., editor. A Companion to Catullus. (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. xxvi, 590. $149.95.Southern, Pat. The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 383. $24.95.Wilson, Emily. The Death of Socrates. (Profiles in History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. 247. $19.95.Woolf, Greg. Et Tu, Brute? A Short History of Political Murder. (Profiles in History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. xx, 199. $19.95.
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Europe: Early Modern and Modern
| Alston, Charlotte. Russia's Greatest Enemy? Harold Williams and the Russian Revolutions. New York: Tauris Academic Studies. 2007. Pp. 278. $74.95.August, Andrew. The British Working Class, 1832–1940. (Studies in Modern History.) London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. ix, 286. $32.00.Bell, Dean Phillip. Jews in the Early Modern World. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2008. Pp. xv, 301. Cloth $79.00, paper $29.95.Bideleux, Robert, and Ian Jeffries. A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. 2d ed. New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. xliv, 669. $41.95.Blom, Hans, John Christian Laursen, and Luisa Simonutti, editors. Monarchisms in the Age of Englightenment: Liberty, Patriotism, and the Common Good. (UCLA Center/Clark Series, number 6.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 2007. Pp. x, 306. $60.00.Blough, Neal. Christ in Our Midst: Incarnation, Church and Discipleship in the Theology of Pilgram Marpeck. (Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies, number 8.) Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press. 2007. Pp. 275. $30.00.Brunnbauer, Ulf, Andreas Helmedach, and Stefan Troebst, editors. Schnittstellen: Gesellschaft, Nation, Konflikt und Erinnerung in Südosteuropa; Festschrift für Holm Sundhaussen zum 65. Geburtstag. (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, number 133.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 2007. Pp. 639. €69.80.Burbank, Jane, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev, editors. Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700–1930. (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 538. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95.Clayton, Anthony. The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the Present. Paperback edition. London: Pearson Education Limited. 2006. Pp. xiv, 335. $18.95.Cohen, Jeremy. Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 313. $29.95.Delaney, Enda, and Donald M. MacRaild, editors. Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750. New York: Routledge. 2007. Pp. xxii, 305. $70.00.Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Translated by George K. Zucker. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 235. $16.00.Dietl, Ralph. Emanzipation und Kontrolle: Europa in der westlichen Sicherheitspolitik 1948–1963; Eine Innenansicht des westlichen Bündnisses. Band 2, Europa 1958–1963: Ordnungsfaktor oder Akteur? (Historische Mitteilungen, number 67.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 430. €76.00.Dolven, Jeff. Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. 281. $29.00.Fanning, Bryan, editor. Immigration and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland. New York: Manchester University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 262. Cloth $74.95, paper $22.50.Franks, Michael. The Basingstoke Admiral: A Life of Sir James Lancaster (c. 1554–1618). Foreword by Andrew Lambert. Salisbury, U.K.: Hobnob Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 232. £14.95.Gristwood, Sarah. Elizabeth and Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics. New York: Viking. 2007. Pp. 407. $27.95.Halfond, Irwin. Maurice Paléologue: The Diplomat, the Writer, the Man, and the Third French Republic. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2007. Pp. xiii, 189. $29.95.Hietala, Marjatta, editor. Tutkijat ja sota: Suomalaisten tutkijoiden kontakteja ja kohtaloita toisen maailmansodan aikana [Scholars and War: The Contacts and Fate of Finnish Scholars in World War II]. (Historiallinen Arkisto, number 121.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2006. Pp. 484.Ilardi, Vincent. Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, number 259.) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 2007. Pp. xv, 378. $85.00.Jeal, Tim. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 570. $38.00.Joyce, Simon. The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 211. Cloth $49.95, paper $22.95.Kalashnikov, Mikhail, and Elena Joly. The Gun That Changed the World. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge: Polity. 2006. Pp. xxv, 175. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.Kaufmann, Eric P.The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xv, 373. $55.00.Keegan, John. Winston Churchill. Paperback edition. New York: Penguin. 2002. Pp. vii, 196. $13.00.Kendall, Stuart. Georges Bataille. (Critical Lives.) London: Reaktion Books. 2007. Pp. 233. $16.95.Kiesewetter, Hubert. Die Industrialisierung Sachsens: Ein regional-vergleichendes Erklärungsmodell. (Regionale Industrialisierung, number 5.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 630. €80.00.Lang, Markus. Karl Loewenstein: Transatlantischer Denker der Politik. (Transatlantische Historische Studien, number 28.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 353. €46.00.Lower, Wendy. Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine. Paperback edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2005. Pp. xviii, 307. $21.95.Maner, Hans-Christian, and Norbert Spannenberger, editors. Konfessionelle Identität und Nationsbildung: Die griechisch-katholischen Kirchen in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum: Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e.v. an der Universität Leipzig, number 25.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 237. €36.00.McCaffrey, Carmel. In Search of Ireland's Heroes: The Story of the Irish from the English Invasion to the Present Day. Paperback edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xii, 290. $16.95.McCloskey, Deirdre N.The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 616. $22.50.Nagorski, Andrew. The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2007. Pp. xiii, 366. $27.00.Newman, Steve. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. 294. $65.00.North, David. Leon Trotsky and the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification: A Review of Two Biographies of Trotsky by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher. Oak Park, Mich.: Mehring Books. 2007. Pp. 96. $10.00.Pettitt, Clare. Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire. (Profiles in History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2007. Pp. 244. $22.95.Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel. Tolstoy's Quest for God. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction. 2007. Pp. vii, 199. $34.95.Ruiz, Teofilo F.Spain's Centuries of Crisis, 1300–1474. (A History of Spain.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. x, 236. $89.95.Sabean, David Warren, Simon Teuscher, and Jon Mathieu, editors. Kinship in Europe: Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300–1900). New York: Berghahn Books. 2007. Pp. xiii, 336. $90.00.Schabas, Margaret. The Natural Origins of Economics. Paperback edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 231. $22.00.Schmidt-Schweizer, Andreas. Politische Geschichte Ungarns von 1985 bis 2002: Von der liberalisierten Einparteienherrschaft zur Demokratie in der Konsolidierungsphase. (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, number 132.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 2007. Pp. 484. €44.80.Sch¨rle, Eckart. Die Verhöflichung des Lachens: Lachgeschichte im 18. Jahrhundert. (Kulturen des Komischen, number 4.) Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag. 2007. Pp. 418. €48.00.Scirocco, Alfonso. Garibaldi: Citizen of the World. Translated by Allan Cameron. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 442. $35.00.Simms, Brendan, and Torsten Riotte, editors. The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 337. $99.00.Sunderland, David. Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914–74. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press. 2007. Pp. 296. $85.00.Tusell, Javier. Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy, 1939 to the Present. Translated by Rosemary Clark. (A History of Spain.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2007. Pp. vii, 494. $89.95.Vettenniemi, Erkki. Pohjolan Helleenit: Suomalaisten olympiaurheilujen synty [The Northern Hellas: Origins of Finnish Olympic Sports]. (Historiallisia Tutkimuksia, numer 233.) Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 2007. Pp. 466.Vogt, Annette. Vom Hintereingang zum Hauptportal? Lise Meitner und ihre Kolleginnen an der Berliner Universität und in der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. (Pallas Athene: Beiträge zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, number 17.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 550. €84.00.Walter, Rolf, editor. Innovationsgeschichte: Erträge der 21. Arbeitstagung der Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 30. März bis 2. April 2005 in Regensburg. (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, number 188.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2007. Pp. 362. €75.00.Wasserstein, Bernard. Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xxiii, 901. $45.00.Wien, Markus. Markt und Modernisierung: Deutsch-bulgarische Wirtschaftsbeziehungen 1918–1944 in ihren konzeptionellen Grundlagen. (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, number 128.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 2007. Pp. 356. €49.80.Wistrich, Robert S.Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe. (Studies in Antisemitism.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SISCA), Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2007. Pp. xiv, 404. $55.00.
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Middle East and Northern Africa
| Aksan, Virginia H.Ottoman Wars 1700–1870: An Empire Besieged. (Modern Wars in Perspective.) London: Pearson Education Limited. 2007. Pp. xx, 599. £25.99.Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore. Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC—AD 800. Assisted by Evie Atharidis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 421. $75.00.Goldstone, Patricia. Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2007. Pp. 344. $26.00.Marcinkowski, Marcin. Die Entwicklung des Osmanischen Reiches zwischen 1839 und 1908: Reformbestrebungen und Modernisierungsversuche im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 279.) Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. 2007. Pp. 103. €32.00.Parsi, Trita. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xviii, 361. $28.00.Pollard, Justin, and Howard Reid. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World. New York: Penguin. 2006. Pp. xvii, 329. $16.00.Thornhill, Michael T.Road to Suez: The Battle of the Canal Zone. London: Sutton Publishing. 2006. Pp. x, 270. $34.95.Ufford, Letitia W.The Pasha: How Mehemet Ali Defied the West, 1839–1841. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company. 2007. Pp. x, 261. $45.00.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
| Iliffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent. (African Studies Series.) 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 365. Cloth $75.00, paper $24.99.
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