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VOLUME 100•NUMBER 5

December 1995


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Front Matter
 
"They Could Make Their Victims Dull": Genders and Genres, Fantasies and Cures in Colonial Southern Uganda
By Luise White 1379
Lingua Populi, Lingua Dei: Language, Religion, and the Origins of French Revolutionary Nationalism
By David A. Bell 1403
Men against Women on the Shop Floor in Early Soviet Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace
By Diane P. Koenker 1438
Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States
By Regina Kunzel 1465
 

Review Article
The Agony and Romance of the American Left
By Michael Kazin 1488
 

Featured Reviews
Anna Clark. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class.
Reviewed by Deborah Valenze 1513
Miranda Grieder. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth.
Reviewed by Marilyn Young 1515
 

Reviews of Books
 

General
Ralph Buultjens. Conceptualizing Global History.
Reviewed by Randall L. Pouwels 1517
Robin A. Butlin. Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time.
Reviewed by J. R. McNeill 1518
Thomas F. Mathews. The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art.
Reviewed by Annabel Wharton 1518
Ralf Konersmann. Der Schleier des Timanthes: Perspektiven der Historischen Semantik.
Reviewed by Hans Kellner 1519
Stephen Daniels. Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States.
Reviewed by Ann Bermingham 1520
Julie K. Brown. Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition.
Reviewed by Curtis M. Hinsley 1521
Jennifer Tolbert Roberts. Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought.
Reviewed by John Wickersham 1522
Ron Chernow. The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family.
Reviewed by Andrew R. Heinze 1522
Raphael Patai. The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book.
Reviewed by Marc Saperstein 1524
Ezra Mendelsohn. On Modern Jewish Politics.
Reviewed by Robert M. Seltzer 1524
Steven T. Katz. The Holocaust in Historical Context. Volume 1, The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age.
Reviewed by Gavin I. Langmuir 1525
Paul Crook. Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the "Origin of Species" to the First World War.
Reviewed by Howard L. Kaye 1526
Christopher Bassford. Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America 1815-1945.
Reviewed by James J. Schneider 1527
Vern L. Bullough. Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research.
Reviewed by Lawrence Birken 1528
Charles E. Clark. The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740.
Reviewed by Larry D. Eldridge 1529
Joyce Lee Malcolm. To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Egerton 1529
Frank Dobbin. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age.
Reviewed by Robert E. Carlson 1530
Thomas Welskopp. Arbeit und Macht im Huttenwerk: Arbeits- und Industrielle Beziehungen in der Deutschen und Amerikanischen Eisen- und Stahlindustrie von den 1860er bis zu den 1930er Jahren.
Reviewed by Joan Campbell 1531
Beth A. Simmons. Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy during the Interwar Years.
Reviewed by Kenneth Moure 1532
Raymond Richards. Closing the Door to Destitution: The Shaping of the Social Security Acts of the United States and New Zealand.
Reviewed by Francis G. Castles 1532
Charles A. Kupchan. The Vulnerability of Empire.
Reviewed by Edward M. Bennett 1533
Gregory P. Nowell. Mercantile States and the World Oil Cartel, 1900-1939.
Reviewed by Mira Wilkins 1534
Beatrice Veyrassat. International Business Networks, Emigration and Exports to Latin America in the Nineteenth Century: Swiss Trade with the Americas.
Reviewed by Leo Schelbert 1535
Robert Freeman Smith. The Caribbean World and the United States: Mixing Rum and Coca-Cola.
Reviewed by Charles D. Ameringer 1535
John H. Coatsworth. Central America and the United States: The Clients and the Colossus.
Reviewed by Thomas Schoonover 1536
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992: Uncertain Friendships.
Reviewed by June Grasso 1537
 

Ancient
John C. Barrett. Fragments from Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900-1200 BC.
Reviewed by Peter S. Wells 1538
Kevin Robb. Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece.
Reviewed by Barry B. Powell 1539
S. D. Lambert. The Phratries of Attica.
Reviewed by Phillip Harding 1539
Virginia J. Hunter. Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C.
Reviewed by Robert Garland 1540
I. G. Spence. The Cavalry of Classical Greece: A Social and Military History with Particular Reference to Athens.
Reviewed by Richard M. Berthold 1540
N. G. L. Hammond. Philip of Macedon.
Reviewed by Ernst A. Fredricksmeyer 1541
C. R. Whittaker. Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study.
Reviewed by David Harry Miller 1541
L. De Ligt. Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire: Economic and Social Aspects of Periodic Trade in a Pre-Industrial Society.
Reviewed by Sherill L. Spaar 1542
Michael P. Speidel. Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guards.
Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler 1543
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Reviewed by John R. Clarke 1544
 

Medieval
Lester K. Little. Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France.
Reviewed by Richard Kieckhefer 1545
Sandro Carocci. Baroni di Roma: Dominazioni Signorili e Lignaggi Aristocratici nel Duecento e nel Primo Trecento.
Reviewed by George Dameron 1546
Daniel E. Bornstein. The Bianchi of 1399: Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy.
Reviewed by Daniel R. Lesnick 1547
Anthony Molho. Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence.
Reviewed by Carol Lansing 1547
John Tolan. Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers.
Reviewed by Jeremy Cohen 1549
David Abulafia. A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca.
Reviewed by Mark D. Meyerson 1549
Jose Manuel Nieto Soria. Iglesia y Genesis del Estado Moderno en Castilla (1369-1480).
Reviewed by Carlos M. N. Eire 1550
Jean W. Sedlar. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500.
Reviewed by Barisa Krekic 1551
John L. Boojamra. The Church and Social Reform: The Policies of the Patriarch Athanasios of Constantinople.
Reviewed by Warren Treadgold 1551
Peter A. Clarke. The English Nobility under Edward the Confessor.
Reviewed by Robin Fleming 1552
Barbara A. Hanawalt. Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History.
Reviewed by Sue Sheridan Walker 1553
 

Modern Europe
Agnes Fine. Parrains, Marraines: La Parente Spirituelle en Europe.
Reviewed by Joseph H. Lynch 1553
Paul W. Schroeder. The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848.
Reviewed by Lawrence C. Jennings 1554
Barbara Maria Stafford. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education.
Reviewed by David Vincent 1555
Job Kozhamthadam. The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion.
Reviewed by William H. Donahue 1555
Michael Burov. Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand.
Reviewed by Katherine Russell Sopka 1556
Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Hans Krebs. Volume 2, Architect of Intermediary Metabolism 1933-1937.
Reviewed by John E. Lesch 1557
Simon Thurley. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Bisson 1559
Margaret Aston. The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait.
Reviewed by Paul Christianson 1560
Jon G. Crawford. Anglicizing the Government of Ireland: The Irish Privy Council and the Expansion of Tudor Rule, 1556-1578.
Reviewed by M. Perceval-Maxwell 1560
Norman Jones. The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s.
Reviewed by Dale Hoak 1561
B. H. G. Wormald. Francis Bacon: History, Politics, and Science, 1561-1626.
Reviewed by Barbara Shapiro 1562
David Allan. Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Englightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History.
Reviewed by Jane Rendall 1562
Bonnelyn Young Kunze. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism.
Reviewed by Richard L. Greaves 1563
Richard Grassby. The English Gentleman in Trade: The Life and Works of Sir Dudley North, 1641-1691.
Reviewed by Ronald Berger 1564
Harold J. Cook. Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Johannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London.
Reviewed by Anita Guerrini 1565
D. R. Hainsworth. Stewards, Lords and People: The Estate Steward and His World in Later Stuart England.
Reviewed by Norma Landau 1565
Jacques Carre. Lord Burlington (1694-1753): Le Connaisseur, le Mecene, l'Architecte.
Reviewed by Judith Colton 1566
R. O. Bucholz. The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture.
Reviewed by Stephen B. Baxter 1567
J. M. Neeson. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820.
Reviewed by Peter Dunkley 1567
J. M. Haas. A Management Odyssey: The Royal Dockyards, 1714-1914.
Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf 1568
Kenneth Morgan. Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century.
Reviewed by J. M. Haas 1569
Douglas D. C. Chambers. The Planters of the English Landscape Garden: Botany, Trees, and the Georgics.
Reviewed by Carl Woodring 1570
Jeremy Black. British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793.
Reviewed by Charles R. Middleton 1571
Brian Henry. Dublin Hanged: Crime, Law Enforcement and Punishment in Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin.
Reviewed by Peter Linebaugh 1572
Nancy J. Curtin. The United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin, 1791-1798.
Reviewed by W. J. Lowe 1572
Irene Collins. Jane Austen and the Clergy.
Reviewed by Patricia Stallings Kruppa 1573
Richard Yeo. Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain.
Reviewed by Jan Golinski 1574
R. J. W. Selleck. James Kay-Shuttleworth: Journey of an Outsider.
Reviewed by D. G. Paz 1574
Maurice W. Kirby. The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821-1863.
Reviewed by Rick Szostak 1575
Richard H. Trainor. Black Country Elites: The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialised Area, 1830-1900.
Reviewed by Robert Glen 1576
David Cesarani. The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841-1991.
Reviewed by Alfred Gollin 1577
Michael Mason. The Making of Victorian Sexuality.
Reviewed by Angus McLaren 1577
Stefan Petrow. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870-1914.
Reviewed by Peter Bailey 1578
Angela Woollacott. On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War.
Reviewed by Norbert C. Soldon 1579
Sean Farrell Moran. Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916.
Reviewed by Thomas E. Hachey 1579
G. R. Rubin. Private Property, Government Requisition and the Constitution, 1914-1927.
Reviewed by L. Margaret Barnett 1580
Tim Rooth. British Protectionism and the International Economy: Overseas Commercial Policy in the 1930s.
Reviewed by D. E. Moggridge 1581
Hugh Armstrong Clegg. A History of British Trade Unions since 1889. Volume 3, 1934-1951.
Reviewed by Jonathan Schneer 1581
William Abrahams. London's Burning: Life, Death, and Art in the Second World War.
Reviewed by Meredith Veldman 1582
Susan Howson. British Monetary Policy, 1945-51.
Reviewed by Gerard M. Koot 1582
Denis Crouzet. La Nuit de la Saint-Barthelemy: Un Reve Perdu de la Renaissance.
Reviewed by Barbara B. Diefendorf 1583
Laurent Bourquin. Noblesse Seconde et Pouvoir en Champagne aux XVI et XVII Siecles.
Reviewed by John Bell Henneman, Jr. 1584
Tessie P. Liu. The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914.
Reviewed by Raymond A. Jonas 1584
Bailey Stone. The Genesis of the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Interpretation.
Reviewed by Colin Lucas 1585
Dorothy Johnson. Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis.
Reviewed by Jonathan P. Ribner 1586
Russell F. Weigley. Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War.
Reviewed by Steven T. Ross 1586
Gary P. Cox. The Halt in the Mud: French Strategic Planning from Waterloo to Sedan.
Reviewed by John A. Lynn 1587
Sylvia Neely. Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal, 1814-1824: Politics and Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction.
Reviewed by Lloyd Kramer 1588
Kathleen Kete. The Beast in the Boudouir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Reviewed by Nicholas Papayanis 1588
Walter D. Gray. Interpreting American Democracy in France: The Career of Edouard Laboulaye, 1811-1883.
Reviewed by Seymour Drescher 1589
Tamar Garb. Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Reviewed by Karen Offen 1590
Ruth Butler. Rodin: The Shape of Genius.
Reviewed by Joan Ungersma Halperin 1591
Nelly Schmidt. Victor Schoelcher et L'abolition de L'esclavage.
Reviewed by Emmet Kennedy 1592
Michael A. Osborne. Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism.
Reviewed by H. W. Paul 1592
Robert Aldrich. France and the South Pacific since 1940.
Reviewed by Raymond F. Betts 1593
Mary Louise Roberts. Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917- 1927.
Reviewed by Claire G. Moses 1593
Francois Bedarida. La France des Annees Noires. Volume 1, De la Defaite a Vichy; volume 2, De L'Occupation a la Liberation.
Reviewed by Kim Munholland 1594
Sunil Khilnani. Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France.
Reviewed by David L. Schalk 1595
Vincente Montojo Montojo. El Sigo de Oro en Cartagena (1480-1640): Evolucion Economica y Social de una Ciudad Portuaria del Sureste Espanol y su Comarca.
Reviewed by David R. Ringrose 1596
Maximo Diago Hernando. Soria en la Baja Edad Media: Espacio Rural y Economia Agraria.
Reviewed by Teofilo F. Ruiz 1597
Henry Kamen. The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation.
Reviewed by Gary W. McDonogh 1598
M. Anne Pitcher. Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry, and Cotton, 1926- 1974.
Reviewed by Stanley G. Payne 1599
Angelique Janssens. Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community.
Reviewed by Elinor Accampo 1599
Patricia Penn Hilden. Women, Work, and Politics: Belgium, 1830-1914.
Reviewed by Charles Sowerwine 1600
Vesa Vares. A Conservative and the Years of Decisive Change: Lauri Ingman and His Political Activity to 1922.
Reviewed by Pekka Kalevi Hamalainen 1601
Mark Ashton. The Utility of Splendor: Ceremony, Social Life, and Architecture at the Court of Bavaria, 1600-1800.
Reviewed by Orest Ranum 1601
Bodo Nischan. Prince, People, and Confession: The Second Reformation in Brandenburg.
Reviewed by Susan C. Karant-Nunn 1602
Martin I. Klauber. Between Reformed Scholasticism and Pan-Protestantism: Jean-Alphonse Turretin (1671-1737) and Enlightened Orthodoxy at the Academy of Geneva.
Reviewed by J. Wayne Baker 1603
Jurgen Schlumbohm. Lebenslaufe, Familien, Hofe: Die Bauern und Heuerleute des Osnabruckischen Kirchspiels Belm in Proto-Industrieller Zeit, 1660-1860.
Reviewed by Thomas Robisheaux 1604
Peter K. Taylor. Indentured to Liberty: Peasant Life and the Hessian Military State, 1688-1815.
Reviewed by John Theibault 1604
Steven M. Lowenstein. The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770-1830.
Reviewed by Michael A. Meyer 1605
Francisca Loetz. Vom Kranken zum Patienten: "Medikalisierung" und Medizinische Vergesellschaftung am Beispiel Badens 1750-1850.
Reviewed by Dora B. Weiner 1606
Paul Nolte. Gemeindeburgertum und Liberalismus in Baden 1800-1850: Tradition, Radikalismus, Republik.
Reviewed by Loyd E. Lee 1607
Andreas Biefang. Politisches Burgertum in Deutschland 1857-1868: Nationale Organisationen und Eliten.
Reviewed by Helmut Walser Smith 1607
Thomas Kuhne. Dreiklassenwahlrecht und Wahlkultur in Preussen 1867-1914: Landtagswahlen Zwischen Korporativer Tradition und Politischem Massenmarkt.
Reviewed by Bret T. Fairbairn 1608
James F. Harris. The People Speak! Anti-Semitism and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria.
Reviewed by Michael Berkowitz 1609
Nicholas Stargardt. The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics, 1866-1914.
Reviewed by Roger Chickering 1610
Mikael Hard. Machines are Frozen Spirit: The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century: A Weberian Interpretation.
Reviewed by Thomas J. Misa 1610
Veli-Matti Rautio. Die Bernstein-Debatte: Die Politischideologischen Stromungen und die Parteiideologie in der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands 1898-1903.
Reviewed by Kenneth Calkins 1611
Zvi Lothane. In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry.
Reviewed by Hannah S. Decker 1612
Russel Lemmons. Goebbels and Der Angriff.
Reviewed by Robert Edwin Herzstein 1613
James R. Dow. Folklore and Fascism: The Reich Institute for German Volkskunde.
Reviewed by Roderick Stackelberg 1613
Matthias Frese. Betriebspolitik im "Dritten Reich": Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Unternehmer und Staatsburokratie in der Westdeutschen Grossindustrie 1933-1939.
Reviewed by Elaine Glovka Spencer 1614
Helge Heidemeyer. Flucht und Zuwanderung aus der SBZ/DDR 1945/1949-1961: Die Fluchtlingspolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bis zum Bau der Berliner Mauer.
Reviewed by Edward N. Peterson 1615
Anthony Oldcorn. Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy.
Reviewed by Hava Tirosh-Rothschild 1615
John Martin. Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City.
Reviewed by William Monter 1617
William E. Wallace. Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur.
Reviewed by Melissa Meriam Bullard 1618
Steven C. Hughes. Crime, Disorder and the Risorgimento: The Politics of Policing in Bologna.
Reviewed by Clara M. Lovett 1618
Michela De Giorgio. Le Italiane Dall'unita a Oggi: Modelli Culturali e Comportamenti Sociali.
Reviewed by Mary Gibson 1619
Silvia Franchini. Elites ed Educazione Femminile Nell'Italia Dell'Ottocento: L'Istituto della SS. Annunziata di Firenze.
Reviewed by Raymond Grew 1620
Douglas J. Forsyth. The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1914-1922.
Reviewed by Alan Cassels 1621
Giuseppe Galasso. Storia dell'Industria Elettrica in Italia. Volume 3, Espansione e Oligopolio, 1926-1945.
Reviewed by Andre Millard 1621
Andrzej Sulima Kaminski. Republic vs. Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia, 1686-1697.
Reviewed by Philip Longworth 1622
Hugh LeCaine Agnew. Origins of the Czech National Renascence.
Reviewed by William E. Wright 1623
Charles W. Ingrao. The Habsburg Monarchy 1618-1815.
Reviewed by Franz A. J. Szabo 1624
Franz A. J. Szabo. Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780.
Reviewed by Karl A. Roider, Jr. 1625
Lawrence Sondhaus. The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918: Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism.
Reviewed by Joachim Remak 1625
Mario D. Fenyo. The Life of a Communist Revolutionary, Bela Kun.
Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig 1626
Jonathan Chipman. Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement: Seeking the Torah of Truth.
Reviewed by Steven J. Zipperstein 1627
Nechama Tec. Defiance: The Bielski Partisans.
Reviewed by Jack Nusan Porter 1628
Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach. Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland, 1942-49.
Reviewed by Richard Blanke 1628
Jan Kubik. The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland.
Reviewed by Andrzej Korbonski 1629
Michael Khodarkovsky. Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771.
Reviewed by Azade-Ayse Rorlich 1630
Barbara Alpern Engel. Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914.
Reviewed by Daniel Field 1631
Paul R. Gregory. Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan.
Reviewed by Steven Hoch 1631
Jan Zaprudnik. Belarus: At a Crossroads in History.
Reviewed by Edward D. Wynot, Jr. 1632
 

Near East
Paul E. Walker. Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya`qub al-Sijistani.
Reviewed by Jamsheed K. Choksy 1633
Leonard M. Helfgott. Ties that Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet.
Reviewed by Thomas M. Ricks 1633
Donald Quataert. Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution.
Reviewed by Resat Kasaba 1634
Linda L. Layne. Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan.
Reviewed by Richard T. Antoun 1635
Robert B. Satloff. From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition.
Reviewed by Linda L. Layne 1636
Paula Sanders. Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo.
Reviewed by Mark R. Cohen 1636
Boaz Shoshan. Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo.
Reviewed by Jonathan P. Berkey 1637
Beth Baron. The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press.
Reviewed by Margot Badran 1637
Kate Zebiri. Mahmud Shaltut and Islamic Modernism.
Reviewed by Peter Gran 1638
Kirk J. Beattie. Egypt during the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society.
Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid 1639
 

Africa
Weston F. Cook, Jr.. The Hundred Years War for Morocco: Gunpowder and the Military Revolution in the Early Modern Muslim World.
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Perkins 1640
Douglas H. Johnson. Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Reviewed by M. W. Daly 1640
Patrick Harries. Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910.
Reviewed by William H. Worger 1641
Joshua N. Lazerson. Against the Tide: Whites in the Struggle against Apartheid.
Reviewed by Jeffrey Butler 1642
 

Asia
D. E. Mungello. The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou.
Reviewed by Don J. Wyatt 1643
Marie-Claire Bergere. Sun Yat-sen.
Reviewed by Edward Rhoads 1643
Odoric Y. K. Wou. Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan.
Reviewed by Daniel Little 1644
Eugene William Levich. The Kwangsi Way in Kuomintang China, 1931-1939.
Reviewed by Donald A. Jordan 1645
James Hayes. Tsuen Wan: Growth of a "New Town" and Its People.
Reviewed by David D. Buck 1646
Anthony Sweeting. A Phoenix Transformed: The Reconstruction of Education in Post-War Hong Kong.
Reviewed by Jessie G. Lutz 1646
E. Bruce Reynolds. Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance 1940-1945.
Reviewed by Alfred W. McCoy 1647
James Francis Warren. Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore 1870-1940.
Reviewed by Sue Gronewold 1648
Iqbal Husain. The Ruhela Chieftaincies: The Rise and Fall of Ruhela Power in India in the Eighteenth Century.
Reviewed by Michael H. Fisher 1649
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940.
Reviewed by Hemalata C. Dandekar 1649
Peggy Brock. Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival.
Reviewed by Kay Saunders 1650
Race Mathews. Australia's First Fabians: Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement.
Reviewed by Hugh Emy 1651
Peter Crockett. Evatt: A Life.
Reviewed by Joseph M. Siracusa 1652
 

United States
Suzanne Lebsock. Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism.
Reviewed by Sharon Hartman Strom 1652
Margaret Lamberts Bendroth. Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present.
Reviewed by Edith L. Blumhofer 1654
G. Edward White. Intervention and Detachment: Essays in Legal History and Jurisprudence.
Reviewed by Michal R. Belknap 1654
Mary Ann Mason. From Father's Property to Children's Rights: A History of Child Custody in the United States.
Reviewed by Joseph M. Hawes 1655
Charles R. King. Children's Health in America: A History.
Reviewed by Judy Barrett Litoff 1655
Juan Gomez-Quinones. Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940.
Reviewed by Oscar J. Martinez 1656
Frederic Cople Jaher. A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America.
Reviewed by Andrew R. Heinze 1657
Paul Salstrom. Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730-1940.
Reviewed by Frederick A. Bode 1657
Eric Lott. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class.
Reviewed by Randall M. Miller 1658
Julius H. Rubin. Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America.
Reviewed by John C. Burnham 1659
David Hollenbach. Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Philosophy.
Reviewed by Thomas E. Blantz 1660
Virginia Scott Jenkins. The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession.
Reviewed by David Schuyler 1660
Patrick M. Malone. The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America.
Reviewed by Duane A. Smith 1661
Larry R. Ford. Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs.
Reviewed by Elizabeth C. Cromley 1661
Harry C. Silcox. A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia.
Reviewed by Diane Lindstrom 1662
Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony.
Reviewed by David Eltis 1663
Francis J. Bremer. Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Faith.
Reviewed by Gerald R. McDermott 1663
Lloyd Ultan. The Bronx in the Frontier Era: From the Beginning to 1696.
Reviewed by Cynthia A. Kierner 1664
Richard P. Gildrie. The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679-1749.
Reviewed by Chadwick Hansen 1665
Matthew Dennis. Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America.
Reviewed by Calvin Luther Martin 1665
Edwin J. Perkins. American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815.
Reviewed by Peter C. Mancall 1666
Katherine M. J. McKenna. A Life of Propriety: Anne Murray Powell and Her Family, 1755-1849.
Reviewed by Carol Berkin 1667
Joseph S. Foster. In Pursuit of Equal Liberty: George Bryan and the Revolution in Pennsylvania.
Reviewed by Richard Buel, Jr. 1668
Hal T. Shelton. General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel.
Reviewed by Michael A. Bellesiles 1668
Peter J. Albert. Religion in a Revolutionary Age.
Reviewed by Charles H. Lippy 1669
John Phillip Reid. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Law.
Reviewed by Francis N. Stites 1670
Carl J. Richard. The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment.
Reviewed by Winton U. Solberg 1670
F. Thornton Miller. Juries and Judges versus the Law: Virginia's Provincial Legal Perspective, 1783-1828.
Reviewed by Robert McColley 1671
Michael G. Kenny. The Perfect Law of Liberty: Elias Smith and the Providential History of America.
Reviewed by Mark A. Noll 1672
Rhodri Windsor Liscombe. Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855.
Reviewed by John D. Fairfield 1673
Steven Watts. The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture.
Reviewed by Linda Simon 1673
Faye E. Dudden. Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870.
Reviewed by Benjamin McArthur 1674
Cameron C. Nickels. New England Humor: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.
Reviewed by Nancy A. Walker 1675
John S. Haller, Jr.. Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939.
Reviewed by Jane B. Donegan 1675
O. A. Bushnell. The Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawai'i.
Reviewed by James H. Cassedy 1676
John S. Whitehead. Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier.
Reviewed by Daniel Cornford 1676
Briton Cooper Busch. "Whaling Will Never Do for Me": The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by John H. Schroeder 1677
Janet Farrell Brodie. Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by Jane Turner Censer 1678
Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America.
Reviewed by Curtis D. Johnson 1679
Charles B. Dew. Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge.
Reviewed by John C. Willis 1679
Karen V. Hansen. A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England.
Reviewed by Sylvia D. Hoffert 1680
Joan D. Hedrick. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life.
Reviewed by Margaret Washington 1681
Jenny Franchot. Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism.
Reviewed by Patrick W. Carey 1682
Daniel J. McInerney. The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and Republican Thought.
Reviewed by Lawrence Frederick Kohl 1683
Stephen B. Oates. A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War.
Reviewed by Elizabeth D. Leonard 1684
Phillip Shaw Paludan. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Reviewed by Iver Bernstein 1685
George C. Rable. The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics.
Reviewed by Daniel W. Crofts 1685
Richard B. McCaslin. Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862.
Reviewed by Richard E. Beringer 1686
Royce Shingleton. High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt.
Reviewed by William Glenn Robertson 1687
Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein. Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Leonard 1688
Carl H. Moneyhon. The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of Ruin.
Reviewed by Lawrence N. Powell 1688
William H. Armstrong. A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith.
Reviewed by Barbara L. Bellows 1689
Russell Duncan. Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post-Civil War Georgia.
Reviewed by Michael Perman 1690
Nina Silber. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900.
Reviewed by Kathleen Diffley 1690
J. Clay Smith, Jr.. Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
Reviewed by James C. Duram 1691
Steven J. Crum. The Road on Which We Came--Po'i Pentun Tammen Kimmappeh: A History of the Western Shoshone.
Reviewed by Larry Burt 1692
William Haas Moore. Chiefs, Agents and Soldiers: Conflict on the Navajo Frontier, 1868-1882.
Reviewed by Clifford E. Trafzer 1692
Melissa L. Meyer. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920.
Reviewed by William E. Unrau 1693
Malcolm Ebright. Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico.
Reviewed by David J. Langum 1694
David H. Mould. Dividing Lines: Canals, Railroads and Urban Rivalry in Ohio's Hocking Valley, 1825-1875.
Reviewed by Michael Allen 1694
Deborah E. Burns. Shaker Cities of Peace, Love, and Union: A History of the Hancock Bishopric.
Reviewed by John L. Brooke 1695
Michael Shirley. From Congregation Town to Industrial City: Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community.
Reviewed by Lawrence H. Larsen 1696
Lawrence M. Lipin. Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87.
Reviewed by Dorothee Schneider 1696
Dorothee Schneider. Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900.
Reviewed by Carole Turbin 1697
Khaled J. Bloom. The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.
Reviewed by Todd L. Savitt 1698
John B. Miller. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet.
Reviewed by Glenda Riley 1698
Shirley A. Leckie. Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth.
Reviewed by Esther F. Lanigan 1699
Darlis A. Miller. Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman.
Reviewed by Brian W. Dippie 1700
Charles J. McClain. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by Bernard P. Wong 1701
Bill Ong Hing. Making and Remaking Asian America through Immigration Policy: 1850-1990.
Reviewed by Franklin Ng 1701
Carl T. Jackson. Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States.
Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood 1702
Martin Paulsson. The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854-1920.
Reviewed by Susan Curtis 1703
Eldon J. Eisenach. The Lost Promise of Progressivism.
Reviewed by Richard Bensel 1703
Molly Ladd-Taylor. Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930.
Reviewed by Theda Skocpol 1704
Carole R. McCann. Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945.
Reviewed by Rickie Solinger 1705
Donovan E. Smucker. The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics.
Reviewed by Jacob H. Dorn 1705
George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.
Reviewed by Mark C. Carnes 1706
David L. Chapman. Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding.
Reviewed by Clyde Griffen 1707
Peter N. Stearns. American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style.
Reviewed by Margaret Marsh 1707
Alexander W. Pisciotta. Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement.
Reviewed by Myra C. Glenn 1708
Elizabeth Lunbeck. The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America.
Reviewed by Edward Shorter 1709
Eric Cummins. The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement.
Reviewed by Theodore N. Ferdinand 1710
Camille Guerin-Gonzales. Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939.
Reviewed by Mark Reisler 1711
Edward P. Johanningsmeier. Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster.
Reviewed by Bruce Nelson 1712
Gerald Horne. Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party.
Reviewed by Cheryl Greenberg 1712
Robert E. Herzstein. Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American Century.
Reviewed by James D. Startt 1713
Charles E. Twining. George S. Long: Timber Statesman.
Reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford 1714
Shari Benstock. No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton.
Reviewed by Eugenia Kaledin 1714
Paula M. Kane. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920.
Reviewed by James Hennesey 1715
Nancy Maclean. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan.
Reviewed by I. A. Newby 1715
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.. Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge.
Reviewed by G. Edward White 1716
Mark Tushnet. The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective.
Reviewed by James C. Duram 1717
Peter N. Carroll. The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War.
Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield 1717
David H. Shpiro. From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years, 1933-1945.
Reviewed by Irving Katz 1718
Mark K. Bauman. Harry H. Epstein and the Rabbinate as Conduit for Change.
Reviewed by Marc Lee Raphael 1719
Mitchell G. Bard. Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps.
Reviewed by Sydney Stahl Weinberg 1719
Jerry E. Strahan. Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II.
Reviewed by Mark S. Foster 1720
John Kennedy Ohl. Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in WWII.
Reviewed by Leslie Anders 1721
Gerald L. Smith. A Black Educator in the Segregated South: Kentucky's Rufus B. Atwood.
Reviewed by Wayne J. Urban 1721
Gary Wray McDonogh. Black and Catholic in Savannah, Georgia.
Reviewed by David W. Southern 1722
Eric R. Burner. And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi.
Reviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers 1723
David L. Chappell. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement.
Reviewed by John M. Glen 1724
Alan Draper. Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968.
Reviewed by Michael Honey 1725
James W. Cortada. The Computer in the United States: From Laboratory to Market, 1930 to 1960.
Reviewed by Jeffrey K. Stine 1726
Kim McQuaid. Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990.
Reviewed by Robert F. Himmelberg 1726
Daniel Horowitz. Vance Packard and American Social Criticism.
Reviewed by Joanne Meyerowitz 1727
Todd Gitlin. The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam.
Reviewed by Mitchell K. Hall 1727
Robert M. Blackburn. Mercenaries and Lyndon Johnson's "More Flags": The Hiring of Korean, Filipino and Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War.
Reviewed by William J. Duiker 1728
Rod Gramer. Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church.
Reviewed by William C. Berman 1729
Curtis Peebles. Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth.
Reviewed by Richard Gid Powers 1730
William C. Berman. America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Bush.
Reviewed by Patrick Allitt 1730
 

Canada
Maurice Pinard. Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta.
Reviewed by David R. Elliott 1731
Raymond B. Blake. Canadians at Last: Canada Integrates Newfoundland as a Province.
Reviewed by Ernest Forbes 1732
 

Latin America
Magnus Morner. Region and State in Latin America's Past.
Reviewed by Charles F. Walker 1732
Emilia Viotti da Costa. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823.
Reviewed by Franklin W. Knight 1733
Robert H. Jackson. Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840.
Reviewed by W. George Lovell 1734
Oakah L. Jones, Jr.. Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period.
Reviewed by Robert W. Patch 1734
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard. Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
Reviewed by Donna J. Guy 1735
Michael George Hanchard. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988.
Reviewed by John Burdick 1736
Collected Essays
  1738
Documents and Bibliographies
  1752
Other Books Received
  1755
Communications
  1765
Back Matter
  1765

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