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VOLUME 100•NUMBER 4

October 1995


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Front Matter
 
Summing Up
By David L. Ransel 1009
The World and the United States
By Walter LaFeber 1015
World History in a Global Age
By Charles Bright 1034
Picturesque History and the Medieval in Nineteenth-Century America
By Robin Fleming 1061
The Italian Renaissance in America
By Edward Muir 1095
Forgetting and Remembering: The French Revolution Then and Now
By Lynn Hunt 1119
Russia Then and Now in the Pages of the American Historical Review and Elsewhere: A Few Centennial Notes
By Terence Emmons 1136
Gender and the Practices of Scientific History: The Seminar and Archival Research in the Nineteenth Century
By Bonnie G. Smith 1150
The Past and Present of Environmental History
By Alfred W. Crosby 1177
 

Film Reviews
[Introduction]
By Thomas Prasch 1190
 

America
Larry Gross. Geronimo: An American Legend.
Reviewed by Philip J. Deloria 1194
Michael Grant. The Native Americans.
Reviewed by David Rich Lewis 1198
Frank Pierson. Tecumseh, the Last Warrior.
Reviewed by Colin G. Calloway 1200
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Jefferson in Paris.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Egerton 1202
Edmund Coulthard. The Promised Land.
Reviewed by John Findling 1204
Larry Karaszewski. Ed Wood.
Reviewed by Gregory D. Sumner 1206
Steven John Ross. At the River I Stand.
Reviewed by Leslie Fishbein 1208
Polly Thistlethwaite. Not Just Passing Through.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg 1210
 

Asia
Christophe Tseng. To Live.
Reviewed by Zhiwei Xiao 1212
Jean-Jacques Annaud. The Lover.
Reviewed by J. Jose Cruz 1215
Riwia Brown. Once Were Warriors.
Reviewed by James O. Gump 1217
 

Europe
Alan Sharp. Roy Roy.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Ewan 1219
Leslie Megahy. The Advocate.
Reviewed by Linda E. Mitchell 1221
Semen Vinokur. The Interpretation of Dreams.
Reviewed by Katerina Clark 1223
Alan Bennett. The Madness of King George.
Reviewed by Thomas Prasch 1225
Ray Miller. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.
Reviewed by David A. Hackett 1227
Milcho Manchevski. Before the Rain.
Reviewed by Catherine Portuges 1229
 

Featured Review
Richard P. Saller. Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family.
Reviewed by Keith Bradley 1231
 

Reviews of Books
 

General
Patrick H. Hutton. History as an Art of Memory.
Reviewed by Michael S. Roth 1233
Bernard Lewis. Islam and the West.
Reviewed by Caesar E. Farah 1234
Cecilia Ruthstrom-Ruin. Beyond Europe: The Globalization of Refugee Aid.
Reviewed by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill 1234
Eric Jones. Coming Full Circle: An Economic History of the Pacific Rim.
Reviewed by Robert Y. Eng 1235
Stefan Kuhl. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism.
Reviewed by Elazar Barkan 1236
Ann Shola Orloff. The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880-1940.
Reviewed by Henry J. Pratt 1237
Catharine Anne Wilson. A New Lease on Life: Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada.
Reviewed by John Mannion 1238
 

Ancient
Alan E. Bernstein. The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds.
Reviewed by Robert G. Clouse 1239
 

Medieval
Franco Franceschi. Oltre il "Tumulto": I Lavoratori Fiorentini dell'Arte della Lana fra Tre e Quattrocento.
Reviewed by John M. Najemy 1239
 

Modern Europe
David M. Goldfrank. The Origins of the Crimean War.
Reviewed by Hugh Ragsdale 1240
Juan Aviles Farre. Pasion y Farsa: Franceses y Britanicos ante la Guerra Civil Espanola.
Reviewed by David Wingeate Pike 1241
Roger B. Manning. Hunters and Poachers: A Cultural and Social History of Unlawful Hunting in England, 1485-1640.
Reviewed by Buchanan Sharp 1242
Martha C. Skeeters. Community and Clergy: Bristol and the Reformation, c. 1530-c. 1570.
Reviewed by David Harris Sacks 1243
J. Michael Hill. Fire and Sword: Sorley Boy MacDonnell and the Rise of Clan Ian Mor, 1538-1590.
Reviewed by F. W. Harris 1244
Wallace MacCaffrey. Elizabeth I.
Reviewed by Norman Jones 1244
John E. Leary, Jr.. Francis Bacon and the Politics of Science.
Reviewed by Larry Stewart 1245
Barbara Beigun Kaplan. "Divulging of Useful Truths in Physick": The Medical Agenda of Robert Boyle.
Reviewed by John T. Harwood 1246
Ian Harris. The Mind of John Locke: A Study of Political Theory in Its Intellectual Setting.
Reviewed by Richard Ashcraft 1247
Christopher Hill. The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution.
Reviewed by Horton Davies 1248
Andrew Blaikie. Illegitimacy, Sex, and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750-1900.
Reviewed by Judith Schneid Lewis 1248
Marcia Pointon. Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England.
Reviewed by Thomas W. Laqueur 1249
Andrew Hemingway. Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Reviewed by Susan P. Casteras 1250
Audrey Linkman. The Victorians: Photographic Portraits.
Reviewed by Grace Seiberling 1251
Bernard Semmel. George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance.
Reviewed by Alexander Welsh 1252
Anne Hardy. The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900.
Reviewed by Jo Hays 1252
David Cannadine. Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain.
Reviewed by Harold Perkin 1253
Johannes Paulmann. Staat und Arbeitsmarkt in Grossbritannien: Krise, Weltkrieg, Wiederaufbau.
Reviewed by Keith Robbins 1254
John Saville. The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-46.
Reviewed by Catherine Ann Cline 1255
Stefan Muthesius. Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Reviewed by Norman Pearson 1255
John McGarry. The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland.
Reviewed by Lawrence W. McBride 1256
James B. Collins. Classes, Estates, and Order in Early Modern Brittany.
Reviewed by Daniel Hickey 1256
Raymond A. Mentzer, Jr.. Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility.
Reviewed by Robert Forster 1257
Arthur Donovan. Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration, and Revolution.
Reviewed by James E. McClellan III 1258
Geoffrey Cubitt. The Jesuit Myth: Conspiracy Theory and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France.
Reviewed by Edward T. Gargan 1258
Patricia Mainardi. The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic.
Reviewed by Rachel N. Klein 1259
Lewis Pyenson. Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940.
Reviewed by Daniel R. Headrick 1260
Julio Gil Pecharroman. Conservadores subversivos: La Derecha Autoritaria Alfonsina (1913-1936).
Reviewed by Jose M. Sanchez 1260
Sieglinde Graf. Aufklarung in der Provinz: Die sittlichokonomische Gesellschaft von Otting- Burghausen 1765-1802.
Reviewed by Hermann Rebel 1261
Wolfgang Radtke. Armut in Berlin: Die Sozialpolitischen Ansatze Christian von Rothers und der Koniglichen Seehandlung im Vormarzlichen Preussen.
Reviewed by Mary Lindemann 1262
Philip S. Gorski. The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond.
Reviewed by Raymond Dominick 1262
Robert C. Davis. The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice.
Reviewed by John K. Brackett 1263
Cecilia Miller. Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge.
Reviewed by Bruce Haddock 1264
Denis Mack Smith. Mazzini.
Reviewed by Frank J. Coppa 1264
James J. Sadkovich. The Italian Navy in World War II.
Reviewed by Claudio G. Segre 1265
James D. Faubion. Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism.
Reviewed by S. Victor Papacosma 1266
Joel Lerner. Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry.
Reviewed by Andrew Ezergailis 1266
Michael H. Bernhard. The Origins of Democratization in Poland: Workers, Intellectuals, and Oppositional Politics, 1976-1980.
Reviewed by Anita Shelton 1267
Myroslav Shkandrij. Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s.
Reviewed by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak 1268
 

Near East
Engin Deniz Akarli. The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920.
Reviewed by John P. Spagnolo 1269
Joseph Kostiner. The Making of Saudi Arabia, 1916-1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State.
Reviewed by Malcom B. Russell 1269
Chibli Mallat. The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shii International.
Reviewed by David S. Powers 1270
 

Africa
Keletso E. Atkins. The Moon Is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900.
Reviewed by Melvin E. Page 1272
Wunyabari O. Maloba. Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt.
Reviewed by Cora Ann Presley 1272
 

Asia
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time.
Reviewed by Stefan Tanaka 1273
Janet R. Goodwin. Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan.
Reviewed by Martin Collcutt 1274
Mary Elizabeth Berry. The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto.
Reviewed by Anne Walthall 1275
Lincoln Li.. Student Nationalism in China, 1924-1949.
Reviewed by George F. Botjer 1276
Merle Goldman. Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era.
Reviewed by Maurice Meisner 1276
Robert P. Weller. Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen.
Reviewed by David Ownby 1277
Gavan McCormack. Korea since 1850.
Reviewed by James B. Palais 1278
Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu.
Reviewed by Indira Viswanathan Peterson 1279
Clive Dewey. Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service.
Reviewed by Edward Ingram 1280
Partha Chatterjee. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.
Reviewed by David I. Kopf 1281
Tony Swain. A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being.
Reviewed by Peter H. Hoffenberg 1282
David Fausett. Writing the New World: Imaginary Voyages and Utopias of the Great Southern Land.
Reviewed by Mary Baine Campbell 1283
Michael Bassett. Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography.
Reviewed by Barry Gustafson 1283
E. M. Andrews. The Anzac Illusion: Anglo-Australian Relations during World War I.
Reviewed by David R. Woodward 1284
 

United States
James W. Trent, Jr.. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States.
Reviewed by Lawrence J. Friedman 1284
David Brody. In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker.
Reviewed by Ileen A. DeVault 1286
Leonard Dinnerstein. Antisemitism in America.
Reviewed by Oliver B. Pollak 1286
Howard P. Segal. Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America.
Reviewed by Harold I. Sharlin 1287
John R. Wunder. "Retained by the People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights.
Reviewed by Laurence M. Hauptman 1288
John Opie. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land.
Reviewed by William G. Robbins 1288
John E. Smith. Jonathan Edwards: Puritan, Preacher, Philosopher.
Reviewed by Paul R. Lucas 1289
John Demos. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
Reviewed by Thomas E. Burke 1290
Paul W. Wilderson. Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution: The English Connection.
Reviewed by Wallace Brown 1290
Nicholas Onuf. Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814.
Reviewed by Ira D. Gruber 1291
David Hackett Fischer. Paul Revere's Ride.
Reviewed by E. Wayne Carp 1292
James S. Leamon. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine.
Reviewed by Gordon T. Stewart 1293
Norman K. Risjord. Thomas Jefferson.
Reviewed by Lance Banning 1293
Irving H. Bartlett. John C. Calhoun: A Biography.
Reviewed by George R. Lamplugh 1294
Robert H. Abzug. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination.
Reviewed by Ronald G. Walters 1294
Christie Anne Farnham. The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South.
Reviewed by Joan N. Burstyn 1295
Mitchell Snay. Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South.
Reviewed by Charles Reagan Wilson 1296
Mark Y. Hanley. Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830-1860.
Reviewed by Robert H. Craig 1296
Grant Underwood. The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism.
Reviewed by Gary Land 1297
John J. Killoren. "Come, Blackrobe": De Smet and the Indian Tragedy.
Reviewed by Christopher Vecsey 1298
Charles C. Bolton. Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi.
Reviewed by Richard Lowe 1298
William W. Freehling. The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War.
Reviewed by Robert McColley 1299
James M. McPherson. What They Fought For, 1861-1865.
Reviewed by Michael Barton 1300
Gordon C. Rhea. The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864.
Reviewed by Edward Hagerman 1300
Howard N. Rabinowitz. Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays.
Reviewed by Bruce Tucker 1301
Richard A. Couto. Lifting the Veil: A Political History of Struggles for Emancipation.
Reviewed by Loren Schweninger 1302
Laurence F. Gross. The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955.
Reviewed by Ardis Cameron 1302
Menahem Blondheim. News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897.
Reviewed by Andre Millard 1303
Ursula Smith. Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier.
Reviewed by Peggy Pascoe 1304
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. Religion and Society in Frontier California.
Reviewed by Myron Fogde 1304
Andrew Levy. The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story.
Reviewed by Ronald J. Zboray 1305
Edward Chalfant. Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams; His Second Life, 1862-1891.
Reviewed by David R. Contosta 1306
Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography.
Reviewed by Carlos E. Cortes 1306
Gerald Berk. Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917.
Reviewed by Mark Wahlgren Summers 1307
G. Edward White. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self.
Reviewed by Michael E. Parrish 1308
Stephen W. Baskerville. Of Laws and Limitations: An Intellectual Portrait of Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
Reviewed by Mark Silverstein 1309
William G. Ross. A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937.
Reviewed by Graham Adams, Jr. 1309
Bernard A. Weisberger. The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America.
Reviewed by Patrick J. Maney 1310
Alexander von Hoffman. Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920.
Reviewed by Jon C. Teaford 1311
Perry K. Blatz. Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925.
Reviewed by David A. Corbin 1311
John M. Jordan. Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911- 1939.
Reviewed by Guy Alchon 1312
Fred Hobson. Mencken: A Life.
Reviewed by Robert M. Crunden 1313
D. G. Hart. Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America.
Reviewed by Jon H. Roberts 1314
Eileen Boris. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States.
Reviewed by Lynn Y. Weiner 1315
Brooke Kroeger. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist.
Reviewed by Maurine H. Beasley 1315
Elaine Leeder. The Gentle General: Rose Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer.
Reviewed by Joyce Shaw Peterson 1316
Karen J. Blair. The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890-1930.
Reviewed by Joan Shelley Rubin 1316
Reena Sigman Friedman. These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880-1925.
Reviewed by Selma Berrol 1317
Ruth Jacknow Markowitz. My Daughter, the Teacher: Jewish Teachers in the New York City Schools.
Reviewed by Julia Wrigley 1318
Susan Smulyan. Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934.
Reviewed by Richard B. Kielbowicz 1318
Vincent Vinikas. Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement.
Reviewed by Lois W. Banner 1319
Valerie J. Matsumoto. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919- 1982.
Reviewed by Wayne Patterson 1320
Peter Drucker. Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist's Odyssey through the "American Century."
Reviewed by Maurice Isserman 1320
Gary May. Un-American Activities: The Trials of William Remington.
Reviewed by Kenneth O'Reilly 1321
James Goodman. Stories of Scottsboro.
Reviewed by Robert P. Ingalls 1322
Roger Biles. The South and the New Deal.
Reviewed by Donald Holley 1322
James J. Lorence. Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive Farmer-Labor Alliance: Politics of the New Deal.
Reviewed by D. Jerome Tweton 1323
Sidney M. Milkis. The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System since the New Deal.
Reviewed by Richard S. Kirkendall 1324
Joel L. Alvis, Jr.. Religion and Race: Southern Presbyterians, 1946-1983.
Reviewed by Charles W. Eagles 1324
Susan J. Douglas. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.
Reviewed by Susan Smulyan 1325
John R. Thelin. Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics.
Reviewed by Michael Oriard 1325
Earl M. Maltz. Rethinking Constitutional Law: Originalism, Interventionism, and the Politics of Judicial Review.
Reviewed by Katy J. Harriger 1326
Robert H. Henry. Then to the Rock Let Me Fly: Luther Bohanon and Judicial Activism.
Reviewed by Donald A. Grinde 1327
Cornell W. Clayton. The Politics of Justice: The Attorney General and the Making of Legal Policy.
Reviewed by Kermit L. Hall 1327
Ronald Kahn. The Supreme Court and Constitutional Theory, 1953-1993.
Reviewed by Leslie F. Goldstein 1328
Donald E. Pease. Cultures of United States Imperialism.
Reviewed by Emily S. Rosenberg 1329
Richard G. Davis. Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe.
Reviewed by Alfred F. Hurley 1330
Jonathan M. Weisgall. Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll.
Reviewed by Gregg Herken 1330
Janice Gross Stein. We All Lost the Cold War.
Reviewed by Robert D. Schulzinger 1331
James William Gibson. Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America.
Reviewed by John Hellmann 1332
 

Canada
George Sheppard. Plunder, Profit, and Paroles: A Social History of the War of 1812 in Upper Canada.
Reviewed by Colin Read 1332
Allan Greer. The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada.
Reviewed by John A. Dickinson 1333
Brian P. Clarke. Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895.
Reviewed by John Zucchi 1334
George Emery. Facts of Life: The Social Construction of Vital Statistics, Ontario 1869-1952.
Reviewed by David Gagan 1334
 

Latin America
Adam Versenyi. Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Culture from Cortes to the 1980s.
Reviewed by Charles J. Fleener 1335
Charles R. Hale. Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987.
Reviewed by Lowell Gudmundson 1336
Wayne M. Clegern. Origins of Liberal Dictatorship in Central America: Guatemala, 1865-1873.
Reviewed by Hector Lindo-Fuentes 1337
Deborah Levenson-Estrada. Trade Unionists against Terror: Guatemala City 1954-1985.
Reviewed by Daniel James 1338
Hugh Thomas. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico.
Reviewed by Sarah Cline 1338
Elinor G. K. Melville. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico.
Reviewed by John C. Super 1339
R. Douglas Cope. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720.
Reviewed by John K. Chance 1340
James W. Wilkie. La Estadistica Economica en Mexico: Los Origenes.
Reviewed by Mark Wasserman 1341
Stanley F. Shadle. Andres Molina Enriquez: Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary Era.
Reviewed by Robert H. Holden 1341
Nils Jacobsen. Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930.
Reviewed by Michael F. Jimenez 1342
Collected Essays
  1344
Documents and Bibliographies
  1357
Other Books Received
  1360
Communications
  1371
Erratum: Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British and American Approaches to Financing the Modern State.
  1377
Back Matter
  1377

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