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VOLUME 96•NUMBER 1

February 1991


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Front Matter
 
Family
By David Herlihy 1
Of Poverty and Primacy: Demand, Liquidity, and the Flemish Economic Miracle, 1050-1200
By David Nicholas 17
Peasant Politics? Village Community and the Crown in Fifteenth-Century England
By R. B. Goheen 42
The Role of Fear: Transitions in American Emotional Standards for Children, 1850-1950
By Timothy Haggerty 63
The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change
By Tamara K. Hareven 95
 

Reviews of Books
 

General
Leonard Krieger. Time's Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New.
Reviewed by Gerald Strauss 125
Karl F. Morrison. "I Am You": The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology, and Art.
Reviewed by Michael Ermarth 126
Peter S. Donaldson. Machiavelli and Mystery of State.
Reviewed by Felix Gilbert 127
David Boucher. The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood.
Reviewed by William M. Johnston 127
Carole Fink. Marc Bloch: A Life in History.
Reviewed by Lawrence D. Walker 128
Peter Gay. Reading Freud: Explorations and Entertainments.
Reviewed by Judith M. Hughes 128
Peter Homans. The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis.
Reviewed by Judith M. Hughes 129
Cynthia Eagle Russett. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood.
Reviewed by Lois W. Banner 130
Daniel Pick. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, ca. 1848-1918.
Reviewed by William H. Schneider 131
Hiram Caton. The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commercial Republic, 1600-1835.
Reviewed by Margaret C. Jacob 131
Bruce Mazlish. A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology.
Reviewed by Harry Liebersohn 132
Robert Marc Friedman. Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology.
Reviewed by Theodore S. Feldman 133
Anna Bramwell. Ecology in the Twentieth Century: A History.
Reviewed by William McGucken 134
Zachary Gussow. Leprosy, Racism, and Public Health: Social Policy in Chronic Disease Control.
Reviewed by Daniel M. Fox 134
Ritchie Robertson. Cultures in Conflict: Encounters between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800.
Reviewed by Pauline Moffitt Watts 135
O. H. K. Spate. The Pacific since Magellan. Volume 3, Paradise Found and Lost.
Reviewed by David Hanlon 135
Jack D. Forbes. Black Africans and Native Americans: Color, Race, and Caste in the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples.
Reviewed by Christine Bolt 136
Judith P. Zinsser. A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present.
Reviewed by Catherine M. Prelinger 137
David A. Wilson. Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection.
Reviewed by Carla H. Hay 138
Gary Marks. Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
Reviewed by Leon Fink 139
Hans Otto Schotz. Der Kampf um die Mark 1923/24: Die deutsche Wahrungsstabilisierung unter dem Einfluss der Nationalen Interessen Frankreichs, Grossbritanniens und der USA.
Reviewed by William C. McNeil 139
Maurizio Vaudagna. L'estetica della Politica: Europa e America negli Anni Trenta.
Reviewed by Diane Ghirardo 140
Diane Ghirardo. Building New Communities: New Deal America and Fascist Italy.
Reviewed by Eileen Boris 141
 

Ancient
Cyril Aldred. Akhenaten: King of Egypt.
Reviewed by Donald B. Redford 142
L. Richardson, Jr.. Pompeii: An Architectural History.
Reviewed by Robert E. A. Palmer 143
Leonard Muellner. Diseases in the Ancient Greek World.
Reviewed by John M. Riddle 143
John Keegan. The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece.
Reviewed by Edmund M. Burke 144
Peter Garnsey. Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis.
Reviewed by John Bintliff 145
A. S. Worrall. Origen: The Life and Thought of the First Great Theologian.
Reviewed by R. A. Krupp 146
 

Medieval
Robin Cormack. Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and Its Icons.
Reviewed by George P. Majeska 146
Bernice M. Kaczynski. Greek in the Carolingian Age: The St. Gall Manuscripts.
Reviewed by Rosamond McKitterick 147
Kathleen Biddick. The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate.
Reviewed by Mavis Mate 147
Carole Levin. Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John.
Reviewed by Michael Mendle 148
G. L. Harriss. Cardinal Beaufort: A Study of Lancastrian Ascendancy and Decline.
Reviewed by Bennett D. Hill 149
Rosemary Horrox. Richard III: A Study of Service.
Reviewed by Franklin J. Pegues 149
Christine Weightman. Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy, 1446-1503.
Reviewed by Mary C. Erler 150
Art Cosgrove. A New History of Ireland. Volume 2, Medieval Ireland, 1169-1534.
Reviewed by Brendan Bradshaw 150
William Chester Jordan. The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians.
Reviewed by Roger S. Kohn 151
James F. Powers. A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284.
Reviewed by Robert I. Burns 152
Denis Menjot. Fiscalidad y Sociedad: Los Murcianos y el Impuesto en la Baja Edad Media.
Reviewed by J. B. Owens 152
Richard C. Trexler. Naked before the Father: The Renunciation of Francis of Assisi.
Reviewed by E. Randolph Daniel 153
David Burr. Olivi and Franciscan Poverty: The Origins of the Usus Pauper Controversy.
Reviewed by Rega Wood 153
Daniel R. Lesnick. Preaching in Medieval Florence: The Social World of Franciscan and Dominican Spirituality.
Reviewed by David S. Peterson 154
Diane Finiello Zervas. The Parte Guelfa, Brunelleschi, and Donatello.
Reviewed by James Beck 155
 

Modern Europe
Jean Delumeau. Rassurer et Proteger: Le Sentiment de Securite dans L'Occident D'autrefois.
Reviewed by Robert A. Schneider 156
Roy Porter. Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe.
Reviewed by Lauro Martines 157
Catherine Durandin. Revolution a la Francaise ou a la Russe: Polonais, Roumains et Russes au XIXe Siecle.
Reviewed by Peter N. Stearns 157
Heinrich Bartel. Frankreich und die Sowjetunion, 1938-1940: Ein Beitrag zur Franzosischen Ostpolitik Zwischen dem Munchner Abkommen und dem Ende der Dritten Republik.
Reviewed by Herbert J. Ellison 158
Georges Minois. Henri VIII.
Reviewed by Arthur J. Slavin 159
Narasingha P. Sil. William Lord Herbert of Pembroke (c. 1507-1570): Politique and Patriot.
Reviewed by Ann Weikel 159
Stanford E. Lehmberg. The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603.
Reviewed by Joel Berlatsky 160
Stephen L. Collins. From Divine Cosmos to Sovereign State: An Intellectual History of Consciousness and the Idea of Order in Renaissance England.
Reviewed by Arthur B. Ferguson 161
Joyce Gibson. Hanged for Witchcraft: Elizabeth Lowys and Her Successors.
Reviewed by Brian Easlea 161
Noel Henning Mayfield. Puritans and Regicide: Presbyterian-Independent Differences over the Trial and Execution of Charles (I) Stuart.
Reviewed by Keith L. Sprunger 162
Jonathan Scott. Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623-1677.
Reviewed by Patricia Crawford 162
Lorna Weatherill. Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760.
Reviewed by Richard Lachmann 163
Peter Borsay. The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770.
Reviewed by Donald J. Olsen 164
E. G. W. Bill. Education at Christ Church, Oxford, 1660-1800.
Reviewed by Martha M. Garland 164
D. W. Bebbington. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s.
Reviewed by Robert G. Clouse 165
Morag Shiach. Discourse on Popular Culture: Class, Gender, and History in Cultural Analysis, 1730 to the Present.
Reviewed by Catherine Gallagher 166
Roy Palmer. The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment.
Reviewed by Conrad L. Donakowski 166
Colin Shrosbree. Public Schools and Private Education: The Clarendon Commission, 1861-64, and the Public Schools Acts.
Reviewed by Sheldon Rothblatt 167
R. C. J. Cocks. Sir Henry Maine: A Study in Victorian Jurisprudence.
Reviewed by E. M. Palmegiano 168
Joan Perkin. Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England.
Reviewed by Susan Kingsley Kent 168
Nina E. Fortin. Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change.
Reviewed by Mary Evans 169
Bradford Keyes Mudge. Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays.
Reviewed by Nancy Fix Anderson 169
Christine Collette. For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League, 1906-1918.
Reviewed by Ellen F. Mappen 170
Keith Laybourn. Philip Snowden: A Biography, 1864-1937.
Reviewed by Paul Barton Johnson 171
John J. Mearsheimer. Liddell Hart and the Weight of History.
Reviewed by Robert H. Larson 171
Nicholas Fishwick. English Football and Society, 1910-1950.
Reviewed by Donald F. Bittner 172
David Stevenson. The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590-1710.
Reviewed by William M. Burgan 173
Tom Garvin. Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858-1928.
Reviewed by Virginia E. Glandon 174
Paul Claval. Geographie Historique de la France.
Reviewed by James R. Lehning 174
Jean Birrell. Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France Since the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Matthew Ramsey 175
Daniel Roche. La Culture des Apparences: Une Histoire du Vetement, XVII-XVIII Siecles.
Reviewed by Valerie Steele 176
Daniel Roche. Typographes des Lumieres suivi des Anecdotes Typographiques de Nicolas Contat (1762).
Reviewed by Frank A. Kafker 176
Warren Roberts. Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution.
Reviewed by Emmet Kennedy 177
Ralph Gibson. A Social History of French Catholicism, 1789-1914.
Reviewed by Edward T. Gargan 177
Antony Copley. Sexual Moralities in France, 1780-1980: New Ideas on the Family, Divorce, and Homosexuality; An Essay on Moral Change.
Reviewed by Edward Berenson 178
Lee Shai Weissbach. Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest.
Reviewed by Elinor Accampo 179
Michelle Perrot. L'Egalite en Marche: Le Feminisme sous la Troisieme Republique.
Reviewed by Karen Offen 180
Debora L. Silverman. Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style.
Reviewed by Charles Rearick 180
Jean-Paul Burdy. Le Soleil Noir: Un Quartier de Saint-Etienne, 1840-1940.
Reviewed by Kathryn E. Amdur 181
M. C. Cleary. Peasants, Politicians, and Producers: The Organisation of Agriculture in France Since 1918.
Reviewed by Eugen Weber 182
Claude Huan. Darlan.
Reviewed by Robert O. Paxton 182
Bernard Pudal. Prendre Parti: Pour une Sociologie Historique du PCF.
Reviewed by Irwin M. Wall 183
Julius W. Friend. Seven Years in France: Francois Mitterand and the Unintended Revolution, 1981-1988.
Reviewed by Steven Philip Kramer 184
Jean-Pierre Dedieu. L'Administration de la Foi: L'Inquisition de Tolede XVI-XVIII Siecle.
Reviewed by William Monter 184
Peter Pierson. Commander of the Armada: The Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia.
Reviewed by Charles J. Jago 185
Martin Murphy. Blanco White: Self-Banished Spaniard.
Reviewed by William J. Callahan 185
Marianne Heiberg. The Making of the Basque Nation.
Reviewed by Susan Tax Freeman 186
Gordon A. Craig. The Triumph of Liberalism: Zurich in the Golden Age, 1830-1869.
Reviewed by Theodore S. Hamerow 187
Thomas Robisheaux. Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany.
Reviewed by John G. Gagliardo 187
Lucian Holscher. Weltgericht Oder Revolution: Protestantische und Sozialistische Zukunftsvorstellungen im Deutschen Kaiserreich.
Reviewed by Harry J. Ausmus 188
Marjorie Lamberti. State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany.
Reviewed by Ellen L. Evans 189
James C. Albisetti. Schooling German Girls and Women: Secondary and Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Marjorie Lamberti 190
Michael J. Neufeld. The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution.
Reviewed by Joan Campbell 190
James Woycke. Birth Control in Germany, 1871-1933.
Reviewed by Jean H. Quataert 191
Wolfgang R. Krabbe. Die Deutsche Stadt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Eine Einfuhrung.
Reviewed by Ron Wiedenhoeft 192
Peter Grupp. Deutsche Aussenpolitik im Schatten von Versailles 1918-1920: Zur Politik des Auswartigen Amts vom Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs und der November-Revolution bis zum Inkrafttreten des Versailler Vertrags.
Reviewed by Marshall M. Lee 193
Gerhard Schulz. Deutschland am Vorabend der Grossen Krise. Volume 2, Zwischen Demokratie und Dikatur.
Reviewed by Larry Eugene Jones 193
William Harvey Maehl. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933.
Reviewed by Dan S. White 194
Gerhard Th. Mollin. Montankonzerne und "Drittes Reich": Der Gegensatz zwischen Monopolindustrie und Befehlswirtschaft in der Deutschen Rustung und Expansion 1936-1944.
Reviewed by H. A. Turner 195
William S. Grenzebach, Jr.. Germany's Informal Empire in East-Central Europe: German Economic Policy Toward Yugoslavia and Rumania, 1933-1939.
Reviewed by Martin Kitchen 195
Theo J. Schulte. The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia.
Reviewed by Edward L. Homze 196
Gerhard Rempel. Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS.
Reviewed by Peter H. Merkl 197
Gordon A. Craig. Reforging the Iron Cross: The Search for Tradition in the West German Armed Forces.
Reviewed by David Clay Large 197
Wilfried Van Der Will. Protest and Democracy in West Germany: Extra-Parliamentary Opposition and the Democratic Agenda.
Reviewed by Mark Cioc 198
Winfried Schulze. Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft Nach 1945.
Reviewed by Konrad H. Jarausch 199
James S. Grubb. Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State.
Reviewed by John Easton Law 200
Richard J. Goy. Venetian Vernacular Architecture: Traditional Housing in the Venetian Lagoon.
Reviewed by David R. Coffin 200
Bryant T. Ragan, Jr.. Histories of a Plague Year: The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence.
Reviewed by Richard C. Trexler 201
Janet Southorn. Power and Display in the Seventeenth Century: The Arts and Their Patrons in Modena and Ferrara.
Reviewed by Jeanne Chenault Porter 202
Gianvittorio Signorotto. Inquisitori e Mistici nel Seicento Italiano: L'eresia di Santa Pelagia.
Reviewed by Elisabeth G. Gleason 202
Orazio Cancila. Palermo.
Reviewed by Mary Gibson 203
Richard Drake. The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy.
Reviewed by Richard Oliver Collin 204
Eve Levin. Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700.
Reviewed by Jane Swan 204
Z. J. Kosztolnyik. From Coloman the Learned to Bela III (1095-1196): Hungarian Domestic Policies and Their Impact upon Foreign Affairs.
Reviewed by Steven Bela Vardy 205
Drago Roksandic. Military Croatia: "La Croatie Militaire"; The Frontier Community under the French Empire, 1809-13.
Reviewed by George J. Prpic 206
Gheorghe Cliveti. Romania and the Guarantor Powers, 1856-78.
Reviewed by Keith Hitchins 207
Dov B. Lungu. Romania and the Great Powers, 1933-1940.
Reviewed by Sherman D. Spector 207
Janusz Sobczak. Poland in the Propaganda and Politics of the Third Reich, 1939-45.
Reviewed by Anna M. Cienciala 208
Pashanko Dimitroff. Boris III of Bulgaria: Toiler, Citizen, King, 1894-1943.
Reviewed by Frederick B. Chary 209
Orest Subtelny. Ukraine: A History.
Reviewed by Edward D. Wynot, Jr. 209
Ian Blanchard. Russia's "Age of Silver": Precious-Metal Production and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century.
Reviewed by Albert J. Schmidt 210
James T. Flynn. The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I, 1802-1835.
Reviewed by Ben Eklof 210
T. S. Mamsik. The Peasant Movement in Siberia in the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Bruce F. Adams 211
Edith W. Clowes. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890-1914.
Reviewed by Jeffrey Brooks 212
Marshall S. Shatz. Jan Waclaw Machajski: A Radical Critic of the Russian Intelligentsia and Socialism.
Reviewed by Andrzej Walicki 213
Samuel D. Kassow. Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia.
Reviewed by Daniel R. Brower 214
Thomas S. Pearson. Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900.
Reviewed by Heide W. Whelan 214
Dominic Lieven. Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime.
Reviewed by Richard Wortman 215
V. S. Diakin. The Bourgeoisie, Nobility, and Tsarism, 1911-1914: The Decline of the "Third of June System".
Reviewed by Terence Emmons 216
V. B. Zhiromskaia. The Soviet City, 1921-1925: Problems of Social Structure.
Reviewed by James H. Bater 217
Hiroaki Kuromiya. Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932.
Reviewed by James R. Millar 217
 

Near East
Robert Mantran. Histoire de L'Empire Ottoman.
Reviewed by Robert Olson 219
Bahaeddin Yediyildiz. Institution du Vaqf au XVIII Siecle en Turquie: Etude Socio-Historique.
Reviewed by Madeline C. Zilfi 219
Sevket Pamuk. The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913: Trade, Investment, and Production.
Reviewed by Roderic H. Davidson 220
Abbas Amanat. Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850.
Reviewed by Pierre Oberling 221
Robert Brenton Betts. The Druze.
Reviewed by Philip S. Khoury 222
Hisham Sharabi. Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society.
Reviewed by Louis J. Cantori 223
 

Africa
William Roger Louis. Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980.
Reviewed by Richard L. Sklar 224
Frederick Cooper. On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa.
Reviewed by Donald C. Savage 225
Margaret Strobel. Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya.
Reviewed by Luise White 225
 

Asia
Ainslie T. Embree. Encyclopedia of Asian History.
Reviewed by Lynn Struve 226
Leo De Hartog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Endicott-West 227
Charles Hartman. Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity.
Reviewed by Ronald G. Dimberg 227
Anne D. Birdwhistell. Transition to Neo-Confucianism: Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality.
Reviewed by Conrad Schirokauer 228
Van Jay Symons. Peace, War, and Trade along the Great Wall: Nomadic-Chinese Interaction through Two Millennia.
Reviewed by Arthur Waldron 229
Xinru Liu. Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1-600.
Reviewed by Jagdish P. Sharma 229
William T. Rowe. Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895.
Reviewed by R. Keith Schoppa 230
Janice E. Stockard. Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930.
Reviewed by Ann Waltner 231
Thomas G. Rawski. Economic Growth in Prewar China.
Reviewed by Robert Y. Eng 232
David Strand. Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s.
Reviewed by David D. Buck 233
Xue Litai. China Builds the Bomb.
Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen 233
Helen F. Siu. Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution.
Reviewed by Susan Mann 234
Richard Curt Kraus. Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music.
Reviewed by Ralph Croizier 235
James C. Dobbins. Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan.
Reviewed by Neil McMullin 236
Conrad Totman. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan.
Reviewed by Susan B. Hanley 237
Hiroshi Mizuta. Enlightenment and Beyond: Political Economy Comes to Japan.
Reviewed by James R. Bartholomew 237
Andrew E. Barshay. State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis.
Reviewed by Atsuko Hirai 238
David Wallace. Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II.
Reviewed by Thomas R. H. Havens 239
Theodore C. Bestor. Neighborhood Tokyo.
Reviewed by L. L. Cornell 240
Michael Edson Robinson. Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925.
Reviewed by Donald N. Clark 241
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Selected Subaltern Studies.
Reviewed by Walter Hauser 241
Muzaffar Alam. The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-48.
Reviewed by N. K. Wagle 243
Nancy Gardner Cassels. Religion and Pilgrim Tax under the Company Raj.
Reviewed by David Kopf 243
Farzana Shaikh. Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947.
Reviewed by Gregory C. Kozlowski 244
Joan G. Roland. Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era.
Reviewed by Aron Rodrigue 245
 

United States
Howard P. Chudacoff. How Old are You? Age Consciousness in American Culture.
Reviewed by Michel R. Dahlin 246
Jurgen Herbst. And Sadly Teach: Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture.
Reviewed by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann 246
Thomas P. Hughes. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970.
Reviewed by Carroll Pursell 247
Susan D. Moeller. Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat.
Reviewed by Robert W. Rydell 247
Roy Rosenzweig. History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment.
Reviewed by Barbara J. Howe 248
Joanne Yates. Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management.
Reviewed by Albro Martin 249
John J. Rumbarger. Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the Industrializing of America, 1800-1930.
Reviewed by K. Austin Kerr 250
Peter C. Holloran. Boston's Wayward Children: Social Services for Homeless Children, 1830-1930.
Reviewed by Richard A. Meckel 251
Thomas Pinney. A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition.
Reviewed by Harvey Levenstein 251
Thomas W. Spalding. The Premier See: A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1789-1989.
Reviewed by Edward R. Kantowicz 252
Linda S. Parker. Native American Estate: The Struggle over Indian and Hawaiian Lands.
Reviewed by Francis Jennings 253
John D. W. Guice. Frontiers in Conflict: The Old Southwest, 1795-1830.
Reviewed by Andrew Cayton 253
Lilian Handlin. Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present. Volume 1, Liberty and Power, 1600-1760.
Reviewed by Paul R. Lucas 254
David Hackett Fischer. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America.
Reviewed by Darrett B. Rutman 254
Edward J. Cashin. The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier.
Reviewed by Paul H. Smith 255
Tamara Plakins Thornton. Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860.
Reviewed by Randolph Roth 256
David A. Gerber. The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60.
Reviewed by Edward K. Spann 257
Douglas R. Egerton. Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism.
Reviewed by Michael J. Birkner 257
Edwin L. Dooley, Jr.. Claudius Crozet: French Engineer in America, 1790-1864.
Reviewed by Neil L. York 258
Robert C. Vitz. The Queen and the Arts: Cultural Life in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati.
Reviewed by Sarah Burns 259
John F. Sears. Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Cindy S. Aron 259
Karen Lystra. Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by Mark C. Carnes 260
Martin Henry Blatt. Free Love and Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood.
Reviewed by Bruce C. Nelson 261
Sylvia D. Hoffert. Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860.
Reviewed by Gloria Moldow 261
John C. Inscoe. Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina.
Reviewed by Lynda Morgan 262
Allan G. Bogue. The Congressman's Civil War.
Reviewed by Hans L. Trefousse 263
Joseph T. Glatthaar. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers.
Reviewed by Peter Maslowski 263
George A. Reaves. "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh.
Reviewed by Perry D. Jamieson 264
Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Jubal Early's Raid on Washington, 1864.
Reviewed by William Glenn Robertson 264
Michael W. Fitzgerald. The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction.
Reviewed by Michael Perman 265
Arnold Cooper. Between Struggle and Hope: Four Black Educators in the South, 1894-1915.
Reviewed by William A. Link 266
Jacqueline Anne Rouse. Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer.
Reviewed by Linda Reed 266
Wayne Flynt. Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites.
Reviewed by Durwood Dunn 267
Verla R. Flores. Forgotten Frontier: A History of Wyoming Coal Mining.
Reviewed by Duane A. Smith 268
Alan Derickson. Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925.
Reviewed by Norman Gevitz 268
Robert M. Utley. Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life.
Reviewed by Robert Wooster 269
Kevin J. Mullen. Let Justice be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco.
Reviewed by Samuel Walker 269
Bruce C. Nelson. Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870-1900.
Reviewed by Alice Wexler 270
Carole Marks. Farewell-We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration.
Reviewed by David W. Southern 270
S. J. Kleinberg. The Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907.
Reviewed by Gary Gerstle 272
Steven A. Riess. City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports.
Reviewed by Rob Ruck 272
Esther Lanigan Stineman. Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick.
Reviewed by Dee Garrison 273
Dee Garrison. Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent.
Reviewed by Elliott Shore 273
Sheldon M. Novick. Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Reviewed by Michael E. Parrish 274
Donald L. Miller. Lewis Mumford: A Life.
Reviewed by Joan Shelley Rubin 275
Marc Lee Raphael. Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism.
Reviewed by Jerold S. Auerbach 276
Robert W. Snyder. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York.
Reviewed by Timothy J. Gilfoyle 276
Kathy J. Ogren. The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz.
Reviewed by Daphne Duval Harrison 277
Sue Bridwell Beckham. Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture: A Gentle Reconstruction.
Reviewed by David P. Peeler 277
James Curtis. Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered.
Reviewed by David P. Peeler 278
Frances K. Pohl. Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954.
Reviewed by Maren Stange 279
Paul Buhle. C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary.
Reviewed by Sterling Stuckey 279
Susan L. Abrams. "For the Welfare of Mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine.
Reviewed by John Ettling 280
David Sarasohn. The Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era.
Reviewed by Geoffrey Blodgett 280
Martin Shefter. Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-labor Party and the American Political Economy.
Reviewed by Lowell Dyson 281
Gerald Meyer. Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954.
Reviewed by Steve Fraser 282
Jimmie Lewis Franklin. Back to Birmingham: Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times.
Reviewed by Bess Beatty 283
Sidney Fine. Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Race Riot of 1967.
Reviewed by Joe W. Trotter 283
James MacGregor Burns. The American Experiment. Volume 3, The Crosswinds of Freedom.
Reviewed by Richard S. Kirkendall 284
William Pencak. For God and Country: The American Legion, 1919-1941.
Reviewed by Glen Jeansonne 285
Betty Miller Unterberger. The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslovakia.
Reviewed by Lloyd E. Ambrosius 286
E. I. Melamed. Russian Universities of George Kennan: The Fate of a Writer and His Books.
Reviewed by George Cheron 286
Jurg Martin Gabriel. The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941.
Reviewed by William C. Widenor 287
Barry M. Katz. Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945.
Reviewed by Harry Howe Ransom 288
Howard B. Schonberger. Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952.
Reviewed by Roger Dingman 288
Gerald K. Haines. The Americanization of Brazil: A Study of U.S. Cold War Diplomacy in the Third World, 1945-1954.
Reviewed by Michael Grow 289
T. G. Fraser. The USA and the Middle East Since World War II.
Reviewed by Mark H. Lytle 290
Richard Immerman. How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965.
Reviewed by Andrew J. Rotter 291
Mark Clodfelter. The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam.
Reviewed by J. William Gibson 291
 

Canada
Eric W. Sager. Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914.
Reviewed by Graham Hodges 292
John A. Eagle. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914.
Reviewed by Leslie E. Decker 293
 

Latin America
Marcello Carmagnani. El Regreso de los Dioses: El Proceso de Reconstitucion de la Identidad Etnica en Oaxaca, Siglos XVII y XVIII.
Reviewed by John K. Chance 294
Lolita Gutierrez Brockington. The Leverage of Labor: Managing the Cortes Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688.
Reviewed by Herman W. Konrad 294
David G. Lafrance. The Mexican Revolution in Puebla, 1908-1913: The Maderista Movement and the Failure of Liberal Reform.
Reviewed by Heather Fowler Salamini 295
Hilary MCD. Beckles. White Servitude and Black Slavery in Barbados, 1627-1715.
Reviewed by Sandra Lauderdale Graham 296
A. Meredith John. The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816: A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry.
Reviewed by William A. Green 296
Philippe I. Bourgois. Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation.
Reviewed by Michael L. Conniff 297
Erick D. Langer. Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930.
Reviewed by Brooke Larson 298
Rene De La Pedraja. Energy Politics in Colombia.
Reviewed by Winfield J. Burggraaff 298
Julio Faundez. Marxism and Democracy in Chile: From 1932 to the Fall of Allende.
Reviewed by Michael Fleet 299
Robert A. Hayes. The Armed Nation: The Brazilian Corporate Mystique.
Reviewed by Thomas E. Skidmore 299
Collected Essays
  301
Documents and Bibliographies
  313
Other Books Received
  315
Communications
  324
Back Matter
  324

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