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VOLUME 94•NUMBER 5

December 1989


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Front Matter
 
Domestic Melodrama as Political Ideology: The Case of the Comte de Sanois
By Sarah Maza 1249
The French Revolution, Peasants, and Capitalism
By Peter McPhee 1265
Revolutionary France, Cradle of Free Enterprise
By Jean-Pierre Hirsch 1281
Racial Equality, Slavery, and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly
By David Geggus 1290
Commencing the Third Century of Debate
By Jack R. Censer 1309
 

Notes and Comments
One Good Turn Deserves Another: Moving beyond the Linguistic; A Response to David Harlan
By Joyce Appleby 1326
 

Reviews of Books
 

General
Robert Purks Maccubin. 'Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment
Reviewed by Cissie Fairchilds 1333
Tania Croft-Murray. The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore
Reviewed by Caroline Walker Bynum 1334
Edward Peters. Inquisition
Reviewed by Jeffrey Burton Russell 1334
Alex Callinicos. Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory
Reviewed by Marc Poster 1335
B. A. Haddock. Vico's Political Thought
Reviewed by Michael Mooney 1336
M. E. Moss. Benedetto Croce Reconsidered: Truth and Error in Theories of Art, Literature, and History
Reviewed by Zoltan Tarr 1337
David Woodward. Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays
Reviewed by Anne Godlewska 1337
Gerald Holton. The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
Reviewed by Martin J. Klein 1338
J. V. Field. Kelper's Geometrical Cosmology
Reviewed by Stillman Drake 1339
Arthur Fine. The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory
Reviewed by Erwin N. Hiebert 1339
Spencer R. Weart. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images
Reviewed by Michael S. Sherry 1340
David Burnett King. The Crisis of Our Time: Reflections on the Course of Western Civilization, Past, Present, and Future
Reviewed by W. Warren Wagar 1341
Geoffrey Parker. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
Reviewed by Peter Paret 1342
Hugh Tinker. Men Who Overturned Empires: Fighters, Dreamers, and Schemers
Reviewed by John Spencer 1343
Ina Friedman. Zionism and History: The Rise of a New Jewish Consciousness
Reviewed by Robert M. Seltzer 1343
Fatma Muge Gocek. East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Stanford J. Shaw 1344
Vicente L. Rafael. Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule
Reviewed by Bruce L. Fenner 1345
Udo Ratenhof. Die Chinapolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1871 bis 1945: Wirtschaft--Rustung--Militar
Reviewed by Hsi-Huey Liang 1346
Oscar J. Martinez. Troublesone Border
Reviewed by Robert Wooster 1346
Norbert Macdonald. Distant Neighbors: A Comparative History of Seattle and Vancouver
Reviewed by Lawrence H. Larsen 1347
Raymond A. Esthus. Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russian and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905
Reviewed by John Albert White 1348
Benjamin D. Rhodes. The Anglo-American Winter War with Russia, 1918-1919: A Diplomatic and Military Tragicomedy
Reviewed by Peter Kenez 1349
 

Ancient
Anthony M. Snodgrass. An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Further Scope of a Discipline
Reviewed by Tjeerd H. Van Andel 1349
Robert Garland. The Piraeus from the Fifth to the First Century B. C.
Reviewed by Lionel Casson 1350
Claude Nicolet. L'inventaire du monde: Geographie et politique aux orignes des l'Empire romain
Reviewed by Richard J. A. Talbert 1351
Frank Kolb. Diocletian und die Erste Tetrarchie: Improvisation oder Experiment in der Organisation monarchischer Herrschaft?
Reviewed by Richard J. A. Talbert 1352
Martin Goodman. The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome A.D. 66-70
Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman 1352
Kenneth W. Harl. Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275
Reviewed by Henry C. Boren 1353
H. D. Rankin. Celts and the Classical World
Reviewed by Peter S. Wells 1354
 

Medieval
Arthur Goldhammer. A History of Private Life
Reviewed by John W. Baldwin 1354
Waltraut Bleiber. Das Frankreich der Merowinger
Reviewed by Thomas F. X. Noble 1356
J. M. Hussey. The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire
Reviewed by George P. Majeska 1356
Anna D. Kartsonis. Anastasis: The Making of an Image
Reviewed by Donald M. Nicol 1357
Lawrence Nees. The Gundohinus Gospels
Reviewed by Bernhard W. Scholz 1358
Christiane Schuchard. Die Deutschen an der papstlichen Kurie im spaten Mittelalter (1378-1447)
Reviewed by Duane J. Osheim 1359
David Nicholas. The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the Age of the Arteveldes, 1302-1390
Reviewed by James D. Tracy 1359
Juliet R. V. Barker. The Tournament in England, 1100-1400
Reviewed by James W. Alexander 1360
Chris Given-Wilson. The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community
Reviewed by Michael J. Bennett 1361
John Taylor. English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century
Reviewed by Nancy F. Partner 1361
 

Modern Europe
Alister Mcgrath. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
Reviewed by Hans J. Hillerbrand 1362
Margaret C. Jacob. The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revoltuion
Reviewed by Lynn S. Joy 1363
James C. Riley. The Eighteenth-Century Campaign to Avoid Disease
Reviewed by Nina R. Galbart 1364
Robert Gildea. Barricades and Borders: Europe, 1800-1914
Reviewed by Peter Stearns 1364
Lloyd Bonfield. The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Culture; Essays Presented to Peter Laslet on his Seventieth Birthday
Reviewed by Michael R. Haines 1365
J. R. Smith. The Speckled Monster: Smallpox in England, 1670-1970, with Particular Reference to Essex
Reviewed by Guenter B. Risse 1366
Mordechai Feingold. The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities, and Society in England 1560-1640
Reviewed by William A. Wallace 1367
L. M. Hill. Bench and Bureaucracy: The Public Career of Sir Julius Caesar, 1580-1636
Reviewed by Charles Carlton 1368
Peter Lake. Anglicans and Puritans? Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker
Reviewed by Marvin A. Breslow 1368
Hugh Trevor-Roper. Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans: Seventeenth Century Essays
Reviewed by Michael G. Finlayson 1369
Kevin Sharpe. Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I
Reviewed by R. Malcolm Smuts 1370
James Anderson Winn. John Dryden and his World
Reviewed by William Roosen 1371
Craig W. Horle. The Quakers and the English Legal System, 1660-1688
Reviewed by Nancy L. Matthews 1372
John Bender. Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England
Reviewed by Anne Digby 1372
Julian Hoppit. Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800
Reviewed by J. V. Beckett 1373
William Stafford. Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830
Reviewed by Gerald Newman 1374
J. B. Conacher. Britain and the Crimea, 1855-56: Problems of War and Peace
Reviewed by Charles R. Middleton 1375
James E. Bradley. Popular Politics and the American Revolution in England; Petitions, the Crown, and Public Opinion
Reviewed by Eugene Charlton Black 1375
T. A. Jenkins. Gladstone, Whiggery, and the Liberal Party, 1874-1886
Reviewed by Bruce L. Kinzer 1377
W. C. Lubenow. Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: The British House of Commons in 1886
Reviewed by Angus Hawkins 1377
Judith Moore. A Zeal for Responsibility: The Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1868-1883
Reviewed by Vern L. Bullough 1378
James A. Secord. Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
Reviewed by Philip F. Rehbock 1379
William P. Kennedy. Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline
Reviewed by C. Knick Harley 1380
Barry Supple. The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 4, 1913-1946: The Political Economy of Decline
Reviewed by Robert J. Waller 1380
Hugh B. Peebles. Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval Orders and the Prosperity of the Clyde Shipbuilding Industry, 1889-1939
Reviewed by Paul Robertson 1381
Patricia Hollis. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914
Reviewed by Janet Roebuck 1382
Billie Melman. Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs
Reviewed by Martha Vicinus 1383
Brian Harrison. Prudent Revolutionaries: Portraits of British Feminists between the Wars
Reviewed by Susan Groag Bell 1383
Mark Shipway. Anti-Parliamentary Communism: the Movement for Workers' Councils in Britain, 1917-45
Reviewed by Norbert C. Soldon 1384
Stuart Sillars. Art and Survival in First World War Britain
Reviewed by Cecil D. Eby 1385
Stuart Wallace. War and the Image of Germany: British Academics, 1914-1918
Reviewed by Charles E. Mcclelland 1386
Brian Holden Reid. J. F. C. Fuller: Military Thinker
Reviewed by Robin Higham 1386
Harold R. Winton. To Change an Army: General Sir John Burnett-Stuart and British Armored Doctrine, 1927-1938
Reviewed by Tim Travers 1387
F. H. Hinsley. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations
Reviewed by Alan F. Wilt 1388
Marion Berghahn. Continental Britons: German Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
Reviewed by Todd M. Endelman 1389
Ambrose Macaulay. Patrick Dorrian: Bishop of Down and Connor, 1865-85
Reviewed by David W. Miller 1390
Catherine B. Shannon. Arthur J. Balfour and Ireland, 1874-1922
Reviewed by John D. Fair 1390
Louis Perouas. Leonard, Marie, Jean et les autres: Les prenoms en Limousin depuis un millenaire
Reviewed by Cissie Fairchilds 1391
Natalie Zemon Davis. Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France
Reviewed by Nancy L. Roelker 1392
Hilton L. Root. Peasants and King in Burgundy: Agrarian Foundations of French Absolutism
Reviewed by Thomas F. Sheppard 1393
Martha M. Houles. Portrait of the King
Reviewed by Erica Harth 1394
James B. Collins. Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Direct Taxation in Early Seventeenth-Century France
Reviewed by J. Michael Hayden 1395
Paul J. Morman. Noel Aubert de Verse: A Study in the Concept of Toleration
Reviewed by Richard M. Golden 1396
Lydia G. Cochrane. The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France
Reviewed by Jack R. Censer 1396
L. W. B. Brockliss. French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History
Reviewed by Alice Stroup 1397
Thomas Brennan. Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Reviewed by Kathryn Norberg 1398
Michael Sonenscher. The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France
Reviewed by Gay L. Gullickson 1399
Robert M. Schwartz. Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century
Reviewed by Robert Foster 1400
George C. Comninel. Rethinking the French Revolution: Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge
Reviewed by Lynn Hunt 1400
Michael L. Kennedy. The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution: The Middle Years
Reviewed by D. M. G. Sutherland 1401
Martha W. Beck. French Notables: Reflections of Industrialization and Regionalism
Reviewed by Barnett Singer 1402
Roger Price. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France
Reviewed by Donald Reid 1402
Albert Boime. Hollow Icons: The Politics of Sculpture in Nineteenth-Century France
Reviewed by William B. Cohen 1403
Thomas J. Adriance. The Last Gaiter Button: A Study of the Mobilization and Concentration of the French Army in the War of 1870
Reviewed by Douglas Porch 1404
Francoise Thebaud. Quand nos grand-meres donnaient la vie: La Maternite en France dans l'entredeux-guerres
Reviewed by Rachel G. Fuchs 1405
Ian Patterson. The Workers' Movement
Reviewed by Nathanael Greene 1405
Karen Powers and Manuel Sanudo. The Economic Modernization of Spain, 1830-1930
Reviewed by David Ringrose 1406
Angeles Leon Egido. La concepcion de la politica exterior Espanola durante la II Republica (1931-1936)
Reviewed by J. Lee Shneidman 1407
Antonio Novoa. Le temps des professeurs: Analyse socio-historique de la profession enseignante au Portuga(XVIII^e-XX^e siecle)
Reviewed by Carl A. Hanson 1408
Svetlana Alpers. Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
Reviewed by Larry Siver 1409
Dag Lindstrom. Crime and Social Control in Medieval and Early Modern Swedish Towns
Reviewed by Jenny Jochens 1410
Mauno Jokipii. Jatkosodan synty: Tutkimuksia Saksan ja Suomen sotilaalisesta yhteistyosta 1940-1941
Reviewed by Pekka Kalevi Hamalainen 1411
Leo Goldberger. The Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage under Stress
Reviewed by George M. Kren 1411
Hans J. Hillerbrand. Radical Tendencies in the Reformation: Divergent Perspectives
Reviewed by R. Emmet Mclaughlin 1412
Katarina Sieh-Burens. Oligarchie, Konfession und Politik im 16. Jahrhunderts: Zur sozialen Verflechtung der Augsburger Burgermeister und Stadtpfleger 1518-1618
Reviewed by R. Po-Chia Hsia 1413
Deborah Hertz. Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
Reviewed by Peter Paret 1414
Karl-Joseph Hummel. Munchen in der Revolution von 1848-49
Reviewed by Stanley Zucker 1415
Lewis H. Gann. Germans in the Tropics: Essays in German Colonial History
Reviewed by Wolfe W. Schmokel 1416
Martin H. Geyer. Die Reichsknappschaft: Versicherungsreformen und Sozialpolitik im Bergbau 1900-1945
Reviewed by Elaine Glovka Spencer 1416
Alfred Kelly. The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization
Reviewed by Mary J. Maynes 1417
Michael Ruck. Bollwerk gegen Hitler? Arbeiterschaft, Arbeiterbewegung und di Anfange des Nationalsozialismus
Reviewed by Dans S. White 1418
Shelley Baranowski. The Confessing Church, Conservative Elites, and the Nazi State
Reviewed by David J. Diephouse 1418
Peter Hoffmann. German Resistance to Hitler
Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg 1419
David Taylor. Hitler's Defeat in Austria, 1933-1934. Europe's First Containment of Nazi Expansionism
Reviewed by R. John Rath 1420
Elke Frohlich. Die Tagebucher von Joseph Goebbels: Samtliche Fragmente
Reviewed by Jay W. Baird 1421
Peter Longerich. Propagandisten im Krieg: Die Presseabteilung des Auswartigen Amtes unter Ribbentrop
Reviewed by John L. Heineman 1422
Udo Wengst. Beamtentum zwischen Reform und Tradition: Beamtengesetzgebung in der Grundungsphase der Bundersrepublik Deutschland 1948-1953
Reviewed by James M. Diehl 1423
Karsten Schroder. Die FDP in der britischen besataungszone 1946-1948: Ein Beitrage zur Organisationsstruktur der Liberalen im Nachkriegsdeutschland
Reviewed by Barbara R. Marshall 1424
Wayne A. Rebhorn. Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli's Confidence Men
Reviewed by Mark Hulliung 1425
Mark Phillips. The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence
Reviewed by Melissa Meriam Bullard 1426
Dennis Romano. Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State
Reviewed by Samuel Cohn, Jr. 1427
John Day. Uomini e terre nella Sardegna coloniale XII-XVII secolo
Reviewed by Marvin B. Becker 1427
Luciano Allegra. La citta verticale: Usurai, mercanti e tessitori nella Chieri del cinquecento
Reviewed by Samuel Cohn, Jr. 1428
Lydia G. Cochrane. Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist
Reviewed by William Monter 1429
Marina Roggero. Il sapere e la virtu: Statoo, universita e professioni nel Piemonte tra settecento ed ottocento
Reviewed by Samuel Cohn, Jr. 1430
Pier Giorgio Zunino. L'ideologia del fascismo: Miti, credenze e valori nella stabilizzazione del regime
Reviewed by C. G. Segre 1430
Andras Siklos. Revolution in Hungary and the Dissolution of the Multinational State, 1918
Reviewed by Peter Pastor 1431
Andrzej Garlicki. Od Brzescia do maja
Reviewed by Robert Blobaum 1432
David S. Mason. Public Opinion and Political Change in Poland, 1980-1982
Reviewed by Zvi Gitelman 1433
Domna Dontas. Greece and Turkey: The Regime of the Straits, Lemnos, and Samothrace
Reviewed by Paul C. Helmreich 1434
Iu. A. Limonov. Vladimiro-Suzdal'skaia Rus': Ocherki sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii
Reviewed by David B. Miller 1434
Azade-Ayse Rorlich. The Volga Tatars: A Profile in National Resilience
Reviewed by Firuz Kazemzadeh 1435
N. F. Demidova. Sluzhilaia biurokratiia v Rossii XVII v. i ee rol' v formirovanii absoliutizma
Reviewed by Brian Davies 1436
Heinz-Dietrich Lowe. Die Lage der Bauern in Russland 1880-1905: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Veranderungen in der landlichen Gesellschaft des Zarenreiches
Reviewed by G. Yaney 1437
G. I. Shchetinina. Studenchestvo i revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii posledniaia chetvert' XIX v
Reviewed by Daniel R. Brower 1438
Tim McDaniel. Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia
Reviewed by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 1438
L. E. Shepelev. Tsarizm i burzhuaziia v 1904-1914 gg.: Problemy torgov-promyshlennoi politiki
Reviewed by Thomas C. Owen 1439
Henry Reichman. Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905
Reviewed by Walter Sablinsky 1440
Zenovia A. Sochor. Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy
Reviewed by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal 1441
Vladimir N. Brovkin. The Mensheviks after October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship
Reviewed by Ziva Galili 1443
Allan K. Wildman. The End of the Russian Imperial Army
Reviewed by Norman E. Saul 1444
Lynne Viola. The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization
Reviewed by Diane P. Koenker 1445
Daniel Thorniley. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Rural Communist Party, 1927-39
Reviewed by Lynne Viola 1446
Regine Robin. Le realisme socialiste: Une Esthetique impossible
Reviewed by Vera S. Dunham 1447
 

Africa
A. Adu Boahen. African Perspectives on Colonialism
Reviewed by Katherine Harris 1448
Francois Renault. Tippo Tip: Un potentat arabe en Afrique centrale au XIX^e siecle
Reviewed by David Newbury 1448
Tekeste Negash. Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941: Policies, Praxis, and Impact
Reviewed by Alan Cassels 1450
 

Asia
Stephen F. Teiser. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China
Reviewed by Romeyn Taylor 1450
Lloyd E. Eastman. Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949
Reviewed by R. Keith Schoppa 1451
Ch'oe So-ja. Tongsoo munhwa kyoryusa yon'gu: Myong Ch'ong shidae sohak suyong
Reviewed by Donald Baker 1452
R. Kent Guy. The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-Lung Era
Reviewed by Lynn Struve 1453
Evelyn S. Rawski. Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by John E. Wills, Jr. 1454
Knud Lundbaek. T. S. Bayer (1694-1738): Pioneer Sinologist
Reviewed by Jonathan D. Spence 1454
Betty Peh-T'I Wei. Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China
Reviewed by Emily Honig 1455
Norman Miners. Hong Kong under Imperial Rule, 1912-1941
Reviewed by James E. Sheridan 1456
Chang Jui-Te. P'ing-Han t'ieh-lu ui Hua-pei te ching-chi fa-chan
Reviewed by Ralph W. Huenemann 1457
H. D. Harootunian. Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
  1457
Theodore Friend. The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
Reviewed by Thomas R. H. Havens 1459
B. B. Misra. Government and Bureaucracy in India, 1947-1976
Reviewed by John R. McLane 1460
Mary Taylor Huber. The Bishop's Progress : A Historical Ethnography of Catholic Missionary Experience on the Sepik Frontier
Reviewed by Kathleen L. Lodwick 1460
 

United States
Nancy F. Cott. The Grounding of Modern Feminism
Reviewed by Susan Porter Benson 1461
Jeanne Boydston. The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
Reviewed by Anne M. Boylan 1462
R. Douglas Hurt. Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present
Reviewed by Henry C. Dethloff 1463
R. David Edmunds. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership
Reviewed by Donald J. Berthrong 1464
Robert Wooster. The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903
Reviewed by Paul Andrew Hutton 1465
Robert V. Remini. The Legacy of Andrew Jacskon: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal, and Slavery
Reviewed by Edward Pessen 1465
Robert A. Trennert, Jr.. The Phoenix Indian School: Forces Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1935
Reviewed by Donald L. Parman 1466
Herbert Shapiro. White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery
Reviewed by John Haley 1467
Margaret Washington Creel. "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs
Reviewed by Charles Joyner 1468
William D. Piersen. Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Reviewed by Julie Winch 1469
Gary B. Nash. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840
Reviewed by Eric Foner 1470
George Selement. Keepers of the Vineyard: The Puritan Ministry and Collective Culture in Colonial New England
Reviewed by Charles L. Cohen 1471
Michael G. Hall. The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1639-1723
Reviewed by Michael McGiffert 1472
Sally Schwartz. "A Mixed Multitude": The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsyvania
Reviewed by Cedric B. Cowing 1472
Paul A. Gilje. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
Reviewed by Michael Feldberg 1473
Robert E. Cray, Jr.. Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830
Reviewed by Paul A. Gilje 1474
Robin F. A. Fabel. The Economy of British West Florida, 1763-1783
Reviewed by Ian K. Steele 1474
Elizabeth Barrett Gould. From Fort to Port: An Architectural History of Mobile, Alabama, 1711-1918
Reviewed by Donald W. Curl 1475
Stuart Galishoff. Newark: The Nation's Unhealthiest City, 1830-1895
Reviewed by James H. Cassedy 1476
David F. Labaree. The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadephia, 1838-1939
Reviewed by Ronald D. Cohen 1477
Karen Halttunen. Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870
Reviewed by David s. Reynolds 1477
Tess Hoffmann. North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold
Reviewed by William H. Pease 1478
Laurence Senelick. The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877
Reviewed by Lewis O. Saum 1479
Thomas E. Schott. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography
Reviewed by F. N. Boney 1479
Stephen V. Ash. Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper South
Reviewed by Harold D. Woodman 1480
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Reviewed by Jacqueline Jones 1481
Daniel Rosenberg. New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892-1923
Reviewed by Bruce Nelson 1482
John M. Glen. Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962
Reviewed by Steven F. Lawson 1483
Rodman W. Paul. The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1859-1900
Reviewed by Robert V. Hine 1484
Nathan W. Pearson, Jr.. Goin' to Kansas City
Reviewed by Ronald M. Radano 1485
Ira G. Clark. Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Management and Use
Reviewed by Clifton B. Kroeber 1486
Joseph E. Stevens. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
Reviewed by Gerald D. Nash 1486
Robert E. Ficken. The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington
Reviewed by Keith C. Petersen 1487
Michael L. Smith. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915
Reviewed by Stephen Fox 1488
Peter J. Kuznick. Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Reviewed by Clayton R. Koppes 1489
Charles E. Rosenberg. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
Reviewed by Virginia G. Drachman 1489
Michael P. McCarthy. Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Reviewed by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz 1490
Burton W. Folsom, Jr.. Entrepreneurs vs. The State: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America, 1840-1920
Reviewed by Stuart D. Brandes 1491
Anita Rapone. The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920
Reviewed by Louis Galambos 1492
Allen Guttmann. A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports
Reviewed by Richard D. Mandell 1492
Robert Bogdan. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
Reviewed by Robert W. Rydell 1493
Beth L. Bailey. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
Reviewed by Estelle B. Freedman 1494
Mark Friedberger. Farm Families and Change in Twentieth-Century America
Reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt 1495
North Callahan. Carl Sandburg: His Life and Works
Reviewed by Mark E. Neely, Jr. 1496
Fred Howard. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers
Reviewed by Tom D. Crouch 1496
David H. Burton. The Learned Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
Reviewed by Judith Icke Anderson 1497
H. M. Gitelman. Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations
Reviewed by Gerald Zahavi 1497
Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression
Reviewed by Linda J. Lear 1498
Christopher H. Johnson. Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950
Reviewed by Kenneth Waltzer 1499
Gilbert J. Gall. The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interest, 1943-1979
Reviewed by James A. Gross 1500
Philip McGuire. He, Too, Spoke for Democracy: Judge Hastie, World War II, and the Black Soldier
Reviewed by Alan M. Osur 1501
Mary Martha Thomas. Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War
Reviewed by Linda Vance 1501
Lewis A. Coser. Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impace and Their Experiences
Reviewed by William B. Scott 1502
Naomi W. Cohen. The Year after the Riots: American Responses to the Palestine Crisis of 1929-30
Reviewed by Saul S. Friedman 1503
Marc S. Gallicchio. The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire
Reviewed by Sandra C. Taylor 1504
Arnold Xiangze Jiang. The United States and China
Reviewed by Charles E. Neu 1504
Lloyd C. Gardner. Approaching Vietnam: From World War II Through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954
Reviewed by Robert J. McMahon 1505
Andrew J. Rotter. The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia
Reviewed by R. B. Smith 1506
Martin Beglinger. "Containment" im Wandel: Die amerikanische Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik im Ubergang von Truman zur Eisenhower
Reviewed by Earl F. Ziemke 1507
Stephen G. Rabe. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism
Reviewed by Michael Grow 1508
Guenter Lewy. Peace and Revolution: The Moral Crisis of American Pacifism
Reviewed by Lawrence S. Wittner 1509
Robert Wuthnow. The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II
Reviewed by Robert Moats Miller 1510
Dennis Smith. The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism
Reviewed by Robert Booth Fowler 1511
James D. Savage. Balanced Budgets and American Politics
Reviewed by Elmus Wicker 1511
Peter Temin. The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics
Reviewed by Thomas K. McCraw 1512
 

Canada
Graham S. Lowe. Women in the Administrative Revolution: The Feminization of Clerical Work
Reviewed by David Frank 1513
 

Latin America
Inga Clendinnen. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
Reviewed by Steve J. Stern 1515
Ross Hassig. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control
Reviewed by Burr Cartwright Brundage 1516
Brian L. Moore. Race, Power, and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana after Slavery, 1838-1891
Reviewed by Edward M. Dew 1517
Elizabeth McLean Petras. Jamaican Labor Migration: White Capital and Black Labor, 1850-1930
Reviewed by B. W. Higman 1517
Victor Bulmer-Thomas. The Political Economy of Central America since 1920
Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. 1518
Collected Essays
  1520
Documents and Bibliographies
  1531
Other Books Received
  1534
Communications
  1542

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