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Vol. 100, No. 3

June 1995

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Front Matter

Volume 100, No. 3
By David L. Ransel	645
Grand Narrative in American Historical Writing: From Romance to Uncertainty
By Dorothy Ross	651
A Century of Writing Early American History: Then and Now Compared; Or How Henry Adams Got It Wrong
By Gordon S. Wood	678
Turnerians All: The Dream of a Helpful History in an Intelligible World
By Patricia Nelson Limerick	697
Native Americans, New Voices: American Indian History, 1895-1995
By R. David Edmunds	717
Historical Truth: An Interview with Ken Burns
By Thomas Cripps	741
To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping Diasporas
By Earl Lewis	765
History Solo: Non-Academic Historians
By Nicholas Lemann	788
History, Language, and Reading: Waiting for Crillon
By Dominick LaCapra	799
Revisioning U.S. Political History
By Mark H. Leff	829
"P 905 .A512 x 100": An Ethnographic Essay
By Greg Dening	854

Featured Reviews
Florencia E. Mallon. Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru.
Reviewed by Nils Jacobsen	865
Dagmar Barnouw. Critical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer.
Reviewed by Rudy Koshar	869

Reviews of Books
Stephen E. Ambrose. D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
Reviewed by Alan F. Wilt	872
Gerhard L. Weinberg. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.
Reviewed by Milan Hauner	873
Lynn Hunt. Telling the Truth about History.
Reviewed by Richard T. Vann	874
Peter Gay. The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud. Volume 3, The Cultivation of Hatred.
Reviewed by Lewis Perry	875
Nancy Tuana. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature.
Reviewed by Tina Stiefel	876
Peter N. Stearns. The Industrial Revolution in World History.
Reviewed by Daniel R. Headrick	876
Paul Bairoch. Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes.
Reviewed by Carl Strikwerda	877
Jordan Goodman. Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence.
Reviewed by Russell R. Menard	878
Walter A. McDougall. Let the Sea Make a Noise ...: History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur.
Reviewed by Roger Dingman	878
Sven Steinmo. Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State.
Reviewed by Daniel Levine	879
Ian S. Lustick. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza.
Reviewed by William I. Shorrock	880
Roderick A. McDonald. The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana.
Reviewed by Joseph P. Reidy	881
Stephen Velychenko. Shaping Identity in Eastern Europe and Russia: Soviet-Russian and Polish Accounts of Ukrainian History, 1914-1991.
Reviewed by George O. Liber	882
Daniel P. Moynihan. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies 1941-1991.
Reviewed by Mohammed B. Alam	882

Ancient
A. D. Lee. Information and Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity.
Reviewed by John W. Eadie	883
Ralph Whitney Mathisen. Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition.
Reviewed by Stephen L. Dyson	884
Roger S. Bagnall. Egypt in Late Antiquity.
Reviewed by J. A. S. Evans	884
Garth Fowden. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity.
Reviewed by Dean A. Miller	885

Medieval
Kenneth Pennington. The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition.
Reviewed by Francis Oakley	886
Sophia Menache. L'Humour en Chaire: Le Rire dans l'Eglise Medievale.
Reviewed by Caroline Walker Bynum	886
Armin Wolf. Konig fur einen Tag: Konrad von Teck; Gewahlt, Ermordet(?) und Vergessen.
Reviewed by David Abulafia	887
Malcolm Barber. The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple.
Reviewed by Theodore Evergates	887
James C. Russell. The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation.
Reviewed by Thomas F. X. Noble	888
Robert Brentano. A New World in a Small Place: Church and Religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378.
Reviewed by James R. Banker	889
Daniel Waley. Literacy and Its Uses: Studies on Late Medieval Italy.
Reviewed by Marcia Colish	890
Stefano Piasentini. "Alla luce della luna": I Furti a Venezia (1270-1403).
Reviewed by Dennis Romano	890
Denise Angers. Le Terrier de la Famille d'Orbec a Cideville (Haute-Normandie) XIV-XVI Siecles.
Reviewed by K. F. Drew	891

Modern Europe
Carla Hesse. Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800): Essays in Honor of Natalie Zemon Davis.
Reviewed by Donald Weinstein	892
Peter Burke. The Art of Conversation.
Reviewed by Jerrold Seigel	892
Martin Warnke. The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist.
Reviewed by David Summers	893
Jerome Blum. In the Beginning: The Advent of the Modern Age; Europe in the 1840s.
Reviewed by Theodore S. Hamerow	893
Friedhelm Boll. Arbeitskampfe und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland, England und Frankreich: Ihre Entwicklung vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert.
Reviewed by Larry Peterson	894
Jeremy Black. Convergence or Divergence? Britain and the Continent.
Reviewed by Bernard Semmel	895
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos. Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England.
Reviewed by C. John Sommerville	896
Frances E. Dolan. Dangerous Familiars: Presentations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550- 1700.
Reviewed by Jerome Friedman	896
H. Larry Ingle. First among Friends: George Fox and The Creation of Quakerism.
Reviewed by Bonnelyn Young Kunze	897
Lawrence E. Klein. Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England.
Reviewed by Marjorie Morgan	898
Marjorie Morgan. Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858.
Reviewed by Theodore Koditschek	899
James Vernon. Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815- 1867.
Reviewed by Bruce L. Kinzer	900
Robert Stevens. The Independence of the Judiciary: The View from the Lord Chancellor's Office.
Reviewed by Richard A. Cosgrove	900
Lynn Zastoupil. John Stuart Mill and India.
Reviewed by Ann Robson	901
Stephen Howe. Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918- 1964.
Reviewed by Neville Thompson	902
Barry Sheerman. Harold Laski: A Life on the Left.
Reviewed by George Egerton	902
Susan Kingsley Kent. Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain.
Reviewed by Jo Vellacott	903
L. V. Scott. Conscription and the Attlee Governments: The Politics and Policy of National Service, 1945-1951.
Reviewed by S. P. MacKenzie	904
M. Perceval-Maxwell. The Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
Reviewed by Karl S. Bottigheimer	905
Thomas P. Power. Land, Politics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary.
Reviewed by Nancy J. Curtin	906
Joanna Bourke. Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914.
Reviewed by Cliona Murphy	906
Orest Ranum. The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648-1652.
Reviewed by A. Lloyd Moote	907
David A. Bell. Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France.
Reviewed by Ellery Schalk	908
Cynthia A. Bouton. The Flour War: Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Regime French Society.
Reviewed by Thomas M. Adams	908
Patrice Gueniffey. Le Nombre et la Raison: La Revolution Francaise et les Elections.
Reviewed by Melvin Edelstein	909
Anthony Sutcliffe. Paris: An Architectural History.
Reviewed by Meredith L. Clausen	910
Michael Paul Driskel. As Befits a Legend: Building a Tomb for Napoleon, 1840-1861.
Reviewed by James A. Leith	911
Raymond A. Jonas. Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isere, 1870-1914.
Reviewed by Gay L. Gullickson	911
Cecilia Dunoyer. Marguerite Long: A Life in French Music, 1874-1966.
Reviewed by James H. Johnson	912
Joanna E. Ziegler. Sculpture of Compassion: The Pieta and the Beguines in the Southern Low Countries, c. 1300-c. 1600.
Reviewed by Stephen Murray	913
Terry Grabar. Vermeer: Faith in Painting.
Reviewed by Larry Silver	913
Jouko Heikkila. Class Policy within the Nation: The Social Democrats and the Defence of Finnish Autonomy, 1905-1917.
Reviewed by Pekka Kalevi Hamalainen	914
Andrea Hofmeister-Hunger. Pressepolitik und Staats-reform: Die Institutionalisierung Staatlicher Offentlichkeit-sarbeit bei Karl August von Hardenberg (1792-1822).
Reviewed by Frederik Ohles	915
Friedrich Jaeger. Burgerliche Modernisierungskrise und Historische Sinnbildung: Kulturgeschichte bei Droysen, Burckhardt und Max Weber.
Reviewed by Georg G. Iggers	915
Stanley Zucker. Kathinka Zitz-Halein and Female Civic Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Reviewed by Ann Taylor Allen	916
Friedrich Lenger. Werner Sombart, 1863-1941: Eine Biographie.
Reviewed by Colin Loader	917
Jurgen Michael Schulz. Kirche im Aufbruch: Das Sozialpolitische Engagement der Katholischen Presse Berlins im Wilhelminischen Deutschland.
Reviewed by Ronald J. Ross	918
Thomas J. Saunders. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany
Reviewed by Robert E. Sackett	918
Sylvelin Wissmann. Es War eben unsere Schulzeit: Das Bremer Volksschulwesen unter dem Nationalsozialismus.
Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes	919
Joanne M. Ferraro. Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650: The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State.
Reviewed by Tommaso Astarita	920
Arthur Denner. The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte.
Reviewed by Elisabeth G. Gleason	921
Perry R. Willson. The Clockwork Factory: Women and Work in Fascist Italy.
Reviewed by Louise A. Tilly	921
H. James Burgwyn. The Legend of the Mutilated Victory: Italy, the Great War, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1915-1919.
Reviewed by John Thayer	922
Piotr S. Wandycz. The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present.
Reviewed by Daniel Stone	923
Theodore H. Friedgut. Iuzovka and Revolution. Volume 2, Politics and Revolution in Russia's Donbass, 1869-1924.
Reviewed by Heather Hogan	924
Vladimir N. Brovkin. Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922.
Reviewed by William G. Rosenberg	924
Hugh D. Hudson, Jr.. Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinzation of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Weiner	925
Philip G. Roeder. Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics.
Reviewed by Don K. Rowney	926
Norman M. Naimark. The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
Reviewed by Toivo U. Raun	927

Near East
Guilain Denoeux. Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon.
Reviewed by Michael C. Hudson	928
Mordechai Bar-On. The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back, 1955-1957.
Reviewed by Peter L. Hahn	929

Asia
James Cahill. The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China.
Reviewed by Evelyn S. Rawski	929
Timothy Brook. Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late- Ming China.
Reviewed by Lynn Struve	930
Stewart Gordon. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 2, part 4, The Marathas 1600- 1818.
Reviewed by Frank F. Conlon	931
Anita Inder Singh. The Limits of British Influence: South Asia and the Anglo-American Relationship, 1947-56.
Reviewed by A. Martin Wainwright	932
Gerald Cannon Hickey. Shattered World: Adaptation and Survival among Vietnam's Highland Peoples during the Vietnam War.
Reviewed by Truong Buu Lam	933
Charles J. Farmer. In the Absence of Towns: Settlement and Country Trade in Southside Virginia, 1730-1800.
Reviewed by Sally Schwartz	933
Frank Lambert. "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770.
Reviewed by Harry S. Stout	934
Jack Fruchtman, Jr.. Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature.
Reviewed by Cathy Matson	935
Michael A. Bellesiles. Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier.
Reviewed by Max M. Mintz	935
John E. Crowley. The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution.
Reviewed by Marc Egnal	936
David B. Potts. Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England.
Reviewed by Mary Martha Thomas	937
Thomas W. Cutrer. Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition.
Reviewed by Paul Andrew Hutton	937
Mark E. Neely, Jr.. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America.
Reviewed by Brooks D. Simpson	938
J. David Greenstone. The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism.
Reviewed by Peter Knupfer	938
Reid Mitchell. The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home.
Reviewed by Richard H. Abbott	939
Robert M. Browning, Jr.. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War.
Reviewed by Gary W. Gallagher	940
Winthrop D. Jordan. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy.
Reviewed by C. Peter Ripley	940
R. B. Rosenburg. Living Monuments: Confederate Soldiers' Homes in the New South.
Reviewed by Edward L. Ayers	941
Miriam Formanek-Brunell. Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930.
Reviewed by Sylvia D. Hoffert	942
Jerry Griswold. Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books.
Reviewed by Hamlin Hill	942
C. Winston Chrislock. Charles Jonas (1840-1896): Czech National Liberal, Wisconsin Bourbon Democrat.
Reviewed by Stanley B. Winters	943
Alan Lessoff. The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902.
Reviewed by James Borchert	944
Kevin T. McGuire. The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community.
Reviewed by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr.	944
Mel Watkins. On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying--The Underground Tradition of African-American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor.
Reviewed by Thomas Cripps	945
George R. Knight. Millennial Fever and the End of the World: A Study of Millerite Adventism.
Reviewed by David L. Rowe	946
Peggy Champlin. Raphael Pumpelly: Gentleman Geologist of the Gilded Age.
Reviewed by Ronald Rainger	946
Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.. Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent.
Reviewed by Shelley Fisher Fishkin	947
David M. Wrobel. The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal.
Reviewed by Patricia Nelson Limerick	948
David Montgomery. Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Nick Salvatore	948
Kim Voss. The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Richard Oestreicher	949
Melvyn Dubofsky. The State and Labor in Modern America.
Reviewed by Daniel Nelson	950
Matthew W. Roth. Platt Brothers and Company: Small Business in American Manufacturing.
Reviewed by John N. Ingham	950
Christopher Waldrep. Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915.
Reviewed by Crandall Shifflett	951
James H. Lindgren. Preserving the Old Dominion: Historic Preservation and Virginia Traditionalism.
Reviewed by Gary Stanton	952
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945.
Reviewed by Ruth Crocker	953
Elisabeth Israels Perry. Cartooning for Suffrage.
Reviewed by Linda A. Morris	954
Genevieve G. McBride. On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage.
Reviewed by Linda G. Ford	955
Jeffrey A. Charles. Service Clubs in American Society: Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions.
Reviewed by John Tomsich	956
Richard A. Epstein. Bargaining with the State.
Reviewed by Herbert Hovenkamp	956
C. Edwin Baker. Advertising and a Democratic Press.
Reviewed by Hazel Dicken-Garcia	957
Richard H. K. Vietor. Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America.
Reviewed by Robert M. Collins	958
Robert F. Burk. Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920.
Reviewed by Steven A. Riess	958
Clay McShane. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City.
Reviewed by Virginia Scharff	959
Rick Kennedy. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz.
Reviewed by Kathy J. Ogren	959
Sandra Haarsager. Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big-City Mayor.
Reviewed by Dorothy M. Brown	960
H. Lark Hall. V. L. Parrington: Through the Avenue of Art.
Reviewed by J. David Hoeveler, Jr.	961
Joel Williamson. William Faulkner and Southern History.
Reviewed by Bruce Clayton	961
Michael Wreszin. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald.
Reviewed by Casey Blake	962
Thomas E. Blantz. George N. Shuster: On the Side of Truth.
Reviewed by Thomas H. O'Connor	963
Mario T. Garcia. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona.
Reviewed by Erasmo Gamboa	964
Samuel Walker. Hate Speech: The History of an American Controversy.
Reviewed by Paul L. Murphy	965
Donald Fisher. Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council.
Reviewed by James H. Jones	965
Marilynn S. Johnson. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II.
Reviewed by Albert S. Broussard	966
Haim Genizi. America's Fair Share: The Admission and Resettlement of Displaced Persons, 1945-1952.
Reviewed by Henry L. Feingold	966
David S. Cecelski. Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South.
Reviewed by V. P. Franklin	967
Sally Banes. Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body.
Reviewed by Serge Guilbaut	968
Daniel M. Fox. Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy.
Reviewed by Elizabeth W. Etheridge	969
Robert E. Botsch. Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association.
Reviewed by David Carlton	970
Jimmy M. Skaggs. The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion.
Reviewed by Allan Spetter	970
David F. Trask. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918.
Reviewed by Phyllis Zimmerman	971
William F. Trimble. Admiral William A. Moffett: Architect of Naval Aviation.
Reviewed by James C. Bradford	972
Joseph E. Harris. African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia, 1936-1941.
Reviewed by William R. Scott	972
John Ray Skates. The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb.
Reviewed by Stephen Pelz	973
W. David Clinton. The Two Faces of National Interest.
Reviewed by H. W. Brands	974
Thomas G. Paterson. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Reviewed by Richard H. Immerman	974
Ronald H. Spector. After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam.
Reviewed by Brian VanDeMark	975

Canada
Allan Everett Marble. Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799.
Reviewed by Eric Howard Christianson	975
Scott W. See. Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s.
Reviewed by Hereward Senior	976
Kerry Abel. Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History.
Reviewed by Donald B. Smith	977
Dianne Newell. Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries.
Reviewed by Douglas Cole	978

Latin America
Frank Fonda Taylor. To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaican Tourist Industry.
Reviewed by O. Nigel Bolland	979
Christopher Ward. Imperial Panama: Commerce and Conflict in Isthmian America, 1550-1800.
Reviewed by J. Ignacio Mendez	979
Jim Handy. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954.
Reviewed by Charles A. Hale	980
Sol Serrano. Universidad y Nacion: Chile en el Siglo XIX.
Reviewed by Ivan Jaksic	981
Collected Essays
	982
Documents and Bibliographies
	991
Other Books Received
	995
Communications
	1004
Back Matter
	1004

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