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VOLUME 97•NUMBER 1

February 1992


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Front Matter
 
The Historian and the Public Realm
By William E. Leuchtenburg 1
Social Insurance and Public Assistance: The Influence of Gender in Welfare Thought in the United States, 1890-1935
By Linda Gordon 19
Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism: The Dreyfus Affair in Rural France
By Nancy Fitch 55
Anarchism, Political Participation, and Illiteracy in Barcelona Between 1934 and 1936
By Mercedes Vilanova 96
 

Review Article
David E. Stannard. Before the Horror: The Population of Hawai'i on the Eve of Western Contact.
Reviewed by Patricia Nelson Limerick 121
Rebecca E. Klatch. Women of the New Right.
Reviewed by Michael Kazin 136
 

Reviews of Books
 

General
Kirkpatrick Sale. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy.
Reviewed by Woodrow Borah 156
Ian Hacking. The Taming of Chance.
Reviewed by Bruce Kuklick 157
Herbert Mehrtens. Moderne--Sprache--Mathematik: Eine Geschichte des Streits um die Grundlagen der Disziplin und des Subjekts formaler Systeme.
Reviewed by Theodore M. Porter 157
Marcel C. LaFollette. Making Science Our Own: Public Images of Science, 1910-1955.
Reviewed by John M. Staudenmaier 158
Barbara Harshav. Jewish Memories.
Reviewed by Vicki Caron 159
Nechama Tec. In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen.
Reviewed by Deborah E. Lipstadt 160
Aviel Roshwald. Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East During the Second World War.
Reviewed by William I. Shorrock 161
Randall Bennett Woods. A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946.
Reviewed by Michael J. Hogan 161
Ritchie Ovendale. Britain, the United States, and the End of the Palestine Mandate, 1942-1948.
Reviewed by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod 162
James Barros. Trygve Lie and the Cold War: The UN Secretary-General Pursues Peace, 1946-1953.
Reviewed by Robert James Maddox 163
Bruce Cumings. The Origins of the Korean War. Volume 2, The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950.
Reviewed by Bonnie B. C. Oh 164
William Lazonick. Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor.
Reviewed by Charles K. Hyde 166
 

Ancient
Ian Hodder. The Domestication of Europe: Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies.
Reviewed by Bruce Kraig 166
P. W. L. Walker. Holy City, Holy Places? Christian Attitudes to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Fourth Century.
Reviewed by Michael Maas 167
Abdulwahid Dhanun Taha. The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain.
Reviewed by David J. Wasserstein 168
Richard Sorabji. Matter, Space, and Motion: Theories in Antiquity and Their Seqel.
Reviewed by R. J. Hankinson 168
Arthur Goldhammer. Greek Virginity.
Reviewed by Ann Ellis Hanson 169
Raphael Sealey. Women and Law in Classical Greece.
Reviewed by Cynthia Patterson 170
Michael Stahl. Aristokraten und Tyrannen im Archaischen Athen: Untersuchungen zur Uberlieferung, zur Sozialstruktur und zur Entstehung des Staates.
Reviewed by Kurt A. Raaflaub 171
Donald Engels. Roman Corinth: An Alternative Model for the Classical City.
Reviewed by John Karl Evans 172
Thomas N. Mitchell. Cicero, the Senior Statesman.
Reviewed by Erich S. Gruen 173
Robin Macpherson. Rome in Involution: Cassiodorus' Variae in Their Literary and Historical Setting.
Reviewed by Walter Goffart 174
 

Medieval
Leopold Genicot. Rural Communities in the Medieval West.
Reviewed by Anne Reiber Dewindt 174
Thomas Head. Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200.
Reviewed by Thomas F. X. Noble 175
Penny J. Cole. The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270.
Reviewed by James A. Brundage 176
George W. Dameron. Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320.
Reviewed by Thomas Renna 177
Rosemary Morris. The Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed by Vern L. Bullough 177
Carolyn Poling Schriber. The Dilemma of Arnulf of Lisieux: New Ideas versus Old Ideals.
Reviewed by Emily Zack Tabuteau 178
Patrick Sims-Williams. Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800.
Reviewed by Richard W. Pfaff 178
Gervase Rosser. Medieval Westminster, 1200-1540.
Reviewed by Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran 179
W. M. Ormrod. The Reign of Edward III: Crown and Political Society in England, 1327-1377.
Reviewed by Michael Altschul 180
Norman Doe. Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law.
Reviewed by Bryce Lyon 180
Iu. G. Aleksee. The Liberation of Rus' from the Yoke of the Golden Horde.
Reviewed by Uli Schamiloglu 181
 

Modern Europe
Robert Bireley. The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe.
Reviewed by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. 182
Johannes Menne Postma. The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815.
Reviewed by Robert S. DuPlessis 183
Constance Jordan. Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models.
Reviewed by Merry E. Wiesner 183
Gary Cross. A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940.
Reviewed by Judith F. Stone 184
Michael Seidman. Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts.
Reviewed by Nathanael Greene 185
Peter Baldwin. The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975.
Reviewed by Allan Mitchell 185
Anne Orde. British Policy and European Reconstruction After the First World War.
Reviewed by Sally Marks 186
Clifford Foust. Russia and Italy Against Hitler: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapproachement of the 1930s.
Reviewed by Timothy E. O'Connor 187
Alan F. Wilt. War from the Top: German and British Military Decision Making During World War II.
Reviewed by Martin Kitchen 187
Anne Deighton. The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany, and the Origins of the Cold War.
Reviewed by Peter Weiler 188
Terence R. Murphy. Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England.
Reviewed by Howard I. Kushner 189
Leo F. Solt. Church and State in Early Modern England, 1509-1640.
Reviewed by P. Christianson 190
Lawrence Stone. Road to Divorce: England, 1530-1987.
Reviewed by Susan Staves 190
Ann Kussmaul. A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538-1840.
Reviewed by Joel Mokyr 191
Conrad Russell. The Causes of the English Civil War.
Reviewed by Derek Hirst 192
George Hilton Jones. Convergent Forces: Immediate Causes of the Revolution of 1688 in England.
Reviewed by Lois G. Schwoerer 193
Peter Earle. The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society, and Family Life in London, 1660-1730.
Reviewed by John Money 194
Paul Kleber Monod. Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788.
Reviewed by Reed S. Browning 195
Bridget Hill. Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England.
Reviewed by Judith Schneid Lewis 195
James E. Bradley. Religion, Revolution, and English Radicalism: Nonconformity in Eighteenth-Century Politics and Society.
Reviewed by Henry Horwitz 196
Ellis Archer Wasson. Whig Renaissance: Lord Althrop and the Whig Party, 1782-1845.
Reviewed by Ian Newbould 197
R. S. Fitton. The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune.
Reviewed by Jennifer Tann 198
Adrian Randall. Before the Luddites: Custom, Community, and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809.
Reviewed by Gregory Claeys 199
Robert A. Stafford. Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism.
Reviewed by Joe D. Burchfield 199
C. Peter Williams. The Ideal of the Self-Governing Church: A Study in Victorian Missionary Strategy.
Reviewed by Jeffrey Cox 200
Ronald Hyam. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience.
Reviewed by Nancy Fix Anderson 201
Philippa Levine. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment.
Reviewed by Martha Vicinus 201
Ian Newbould. Whiggery and Reform, 1830-41: The Politics of Government.
Reviewed by Travis L. Crosby 202
David W. Gutzke. Protecting and Pub: Brewers and Publicans Against Temperance.
Reviewed by H. L. Malchow 203
Rob Sindall. Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Media Panic or Real Danger?
Reviewed by Carolyn A. Conley 203
W. J. Forsythe. Penal Discipline, Reformatory Projects and the English Prison Commission 1895-1939.
Reviewed by Martin J. Wiener 204
Christopher Hamlin. A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Reviewed by John Harley Warner 204
David Cannadine. The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy.
Reviewed by Harold Perkin 205
Frans Coetzee. For Party or Country: Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian England.
Reviewed by John D. Fair 206
Alfred Gollin. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government, 1909-14.
Reviewed by Lorna S. Jaffe 207
Stephen R. Ward. James Ramsay MacDonald: Low Born Among the High Brows.
Reviewed by Trevor Burridge 207
Chris Wrigley. Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: The Post-War Coalition, 1918-1922.
Reviewed by David R. Woodward 208
W. R. Garside. British Unemployment, 1919-1939: A Study in Public Policy.
Reviewed by Gerard M. Koot 208
Jonathan Schneer. George Lansbury.
Reviewed by John F. Naylor 209
Chris Wrigley. Arthur Henderson
Reviewed by Catherine Ann Cline 210
John Charmley. Chamberlain and the Lost Peace.
Reviewed by F. M. Leventhal 210
Marianne Elliott. Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence.
Reviewed by Stanley H. Palmer 211
Brendan O'Cathaoir. John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander.
Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson 212
Jean-Michel Mehl. Les Jeux au Royaume de France du XIII au Debut du XVI Siecle
Reviewed by Samuel Kinser 212
Henry Heller. Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France.
Reviewed by James R. Farr 213
Pierre Goubert. Mazarin.
Reviewed by William Beik 214
Alice Stroup. A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences.
Reviewed by James E. McClellan III 215
E. J. Hobsbawm. Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution.
Reviewed by David P. Jordan 215
Suzanne Desan. Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France.
Reviewed by R. Emmet Kennedy, Jr. 216
W. D. Edmonds. Jacobinism and the Revolt of Lyon, 1789-1793.
Reviewed by Paul R. Hanson 217
Judith Wishnia. The Proletarianizing of the Fonctionnaires: Civil Service Workers and the Labor Movement Under the Third Republic.
Reviewed by Kathryn E. Amdur 218
Joseph R. Berrigan. Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography
Reviewed by John Hellman 218
Tyler Stovall. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt.
Reviewed by Lenard R. Berlanstein 219
Francois-Georges Dreyfus. Histoire de Vichy.
Reviewed by Robert O. Paxton 219
Richard L. Kagan. Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain.
Reviewed by Jodi Bilinkoff 220
Antonio M. Hespanha. Visperas del Leviatan: Instituciones y Poder Politicio, Portugal, Siglo XVII
Reviewed by Carl A. Hanson 221
James D. Tracy. Holland Under Habsburg Rule, 1506-1566: The Formation of a Body Politic.
Reviewed by Craig Harline 222
Robin Bruce Barnes. Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation
Reviewed by James M. Kittelson 222
Kristin Eldyss Sorenson Zapalac. "In His Image and Likeness": Political Inconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500-1600.
Reviewed by Larry Silver 223
Rolf Gehrmann. Lebenserwartungen in Deutschland vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert.
Reviewed by Steve Hochstadt 224
Norbert Finzsch. Obrigkeit und Unterschichten: Zur Geschichte der Rheinischen Unterschichten Gegen Ende des 18. und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Reviewed by William W. Hagen 225
Daniel Moran. Toward the Century of Words: Johann Cotta and the Politics of the Public of the Public Realm in Germany, 1795-1832.
Reviewed by Mack Walker 226
James Q. Whitman. The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change.
Reviewed by Hanns Gross 226
Christopher Hauser. Anfange Burgerlicher Organisation: Philhellenismus und Fruhliberalismus in Sudwestdeutschland.
Reviewed by Loyd E. Lee 227
Jurgen Kocka. Arbeitsverhaltnisse und Arbeiterexistenzen: Grundlagen der Klassenbildung im 19. Jahrhundert.
Reviewed by Mary Nolan 228
Otto Pflanze. Bismarck and the Development of Germany. Volume 1, The Period of Unification, 1815-1871; volume 2, The Period of Consolidation 1871-1880; volume 3, The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898.
Reviewed by David Blackbourn 229
Thomas Nipperdey. Deutsche Geschichte 1866-1918; Volume 1, Arbeitswelt und Burgergeist.
Reviewed by Roger Chickering 230
Annette Drees. Die Arzte auf dem Weg zu Prestige und Wohlstand: Sozialgeschichte der Wurttembergischen Arzte im 19. Jahrhundert.
Reviewed by Charles E. McCellan 231
Ernst Nolte. Nietzsche und der Nietzscheannismus.
Reviewed by Peter Bergmann 233
Maria Makela. The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich.
Reviewed by Beth Irwin Lewis 233
Richard J. Evans. Proletarians and Politics: Socialism, Protest, and the Working Class in Germany before the First World War.
Reviewed by Dan S. White 234
Eberhard Demm. Ein Liberaler in Kaiserreich und Republik: Der Politische Weg Alfred Webers bis 1920.
Reviewed by Rennif W. Brantz 235
Karen Hagemann. Frauenalltag und Mannerpolitik: Alltagsleben und Gesellschaftliches Handeln von Arbeiterfrauen in der Weimarer Republik.
Reviewed by Robert G. Moeller 235
Bernard P. Bellon. Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers, 1903-1945.
Reviewed by Elaine Glovka Spencer 236
Ingeborg Fleischhauer. Der Pakt: Hitler, Stalin und die Initiative der Deutschen Diplomatie 1938-1939.
Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg 237
Horst Boog. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Volume 6, Der globale Krieg: Die Ausweitung zum Weltkrieg und der Wechsel der Initative 1941-1943.
Reviewed by Earl F. Ziemke 238
Jay W. Baird. To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon.
Reviewed by Peter Fritzsche 239
Josef Muller. Die Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei: Entstehung und Politik unter dem Primat Nationaler Wiedervereinigung 1950-1957.
Reviewed by Mark Cioc 239
Beatrix W. Bouvier. Zwischen Godesberg und Grosser Koalition: Der Weg der SPD in die Regierungsverantwortung; Aussen-, Sicherheits- und Deutschlandpolitische Umorientierung und Gesellschaftliche Offnung der SPD 1960-1966.
Reviewed by Gerard Braunthal 240
Robert F. Goeckel. The Lutheran Church and the East German State: Political Conflict and Change Under Ulbricht and Honecker.
Reviewed by Richard V. Pierard 241
Michael Phayer. Protestant and Catholic Women in Nazi Germany.
Reviewed by Renate Bridenthal 241
Lee Palmer Wandel. Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich.
Reviewed by Robert M. Kingdon 242
Michael Gehler. Studenten und Politik: Der Kampf um die Vorherrschaft an der Universitat Innsbruck 1918-1938.
Reviewed by Robert Wegs 243
Hanns Gross. Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the Ancien Regime.
Reviewed by Clarke Garrett 244
Lydia G. Cochrane. Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy.
Reviewed by Richard C. Trexler 244
Liliana Ferrari. Una Storia dell'Azione Cattolica: Gli Ordinamenti Statutari da Pio XI a Pio XII.
Reviewed by Peter C. Kent 245
M. V. Dmitriev. Orthodoxy and the Reformation: Reformation Movements in the Eastern Slavic Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century.
Reviewed by Alexander Sydorenko 246
D. Prodan. The Problem of Serfdom in Transylvania, 1700-1848.
Reviewed by Keith Hitchins 247
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.. Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War.
Reviewed by Norman Rich 247
Katarzyna Kretkowska. The Kulturkampf in Prussian Poland.
Reviewed by Margaret Lavinia Anderson 249
Barbara Jancar-Webster. Women and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945.
Reviewed by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak 250
Lindsey Hughes. Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704.
Reviewed by Robert O. Crummey 250
Isabel De Madariaga. Catherine the Great: A Short History.
Reviewed by George E. Munro 251
S. V. Mironenko. Pages from the Secret History of the Autocracy: A Political History of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Marc Raeff 252
David Christian. "Living Water": Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation.
Reviewed by Steven Hoch 253
Christine D. Worobec. Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period.
Reviewed by Beatrice Farnsworth 254
Daniel R. Brower. The Russian City between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900.
Reviewed by Patricia Herlihy 254
I. Michael Aronson. Troubled Waters: The Origins of the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia.
Reviewed by Stephen M. Berk 255
Robert B. McKean. St. Petersburg between the Revolutions: Workers and Revolutionaries, June 1907-February 1917.
Reviewed by Reginald E. Zelnik 256
 

Near East
Mahmood Ibrahim. Merchant Capital and Islam.
Reviewed by Ira M. Lapidus 257
Rifa'at El-Sa'id. The Communist Movement in Egypt, 1920-1988.
Reviewed by Joel Beinin 257
 

Africa
Jane I. Guyer. Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History.
Reviewed by Robert H. Bates 258
Anders Bjorkelo. Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821-1885.
Reviewed by Ahmad Alawad Sikainga 258
Mohammed Hassen. The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570-1860.
Reviewed by Harold G. Marcus 259
William J. Samarin. The Black Man's Burden: African Colonial Labor on the Congo and Ubangi Rivers, 1880-1900.
Reviewed by Susan Herlin Broadhead 260
Janet G. Vaillant. Black, French, and African: A Life of Leopold Sedar Senghor.
Reviewed by G. Wesley Johnson 260
Elias C. Mandala. Work and Control in a Peasant Economy: A History of the Lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960.
Reviewed by John McCracken 261
R. L. Watson. The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa.
Reviewed by Suzanne Miers 262
Colin Newbury. The Diamond Ring: Business, Politics, and Precious Stones in South Africa, 1867-1947.
Reviewed by Richard Rathbone 262
H. Phillips. "Black October": The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa.
Reviewed by K. David Patterson 263
 

Asia
John E. Schrecker. The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective.
Reviewed by Arif Dirlik 264
Carney T. Fisher. The Chosen One: Succession and Adoption in the Court of Ming Shizong.
Reviewed by John B. Henderson 265
Benjamin A. Elman. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China.
Reviewed by John Dardess 265
Carl A. Trocki. Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910.
Reviewed by Craig A. Lockard 266
Richard Mann. Philosophy and Politics in China: The Controversy over Dialectical Materialism in the 1930s.
Reviewed by Donald M. Lowe 267
Linda Benson. The Ili Rebellion: The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang, 1944-1949.
Reviewed by Arthur Waldron 268
Harish Kapur. Distant Neighbours: China and Europe.
Reviewed by Steven A. Leibo 268
E. Patricia Tsurumi. Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan.
Reviewed by Atsuko Hirai 269
Andrew Gordon. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan.
Reviewed by George M. Wilson 270
Leonard A. Gordon. Brothers against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose.
Reviewed by David Kopf 270
Bharati Ray. Hyderabad and British Paramountcy, 1858-1883.
Reviewed by Edward Ingram 271
Gauri Viswanathan. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India.
Reviewed by Robert Eric Frykenberg 272
Donald Harman Akenson. Half the World from Home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860- 1950.
Reviewed by Henry S. Albinski 273
 

United States
David Charles Sloane. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History.
Reviewed by Blanche Linden-Ward 274
Robert M. Bliss. Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century.
Reviewed by Franklin B. Wickwire 275
David S. Shields. Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690- 1750.
Reviewed by John L. Brooke 276
Larry Gragg. A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720.
Reviewed by Paul Boyer 276
Merton L. Dillon. Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and Their Allies, 1619-1865.
Reviewed by William H. Pease 277
Norrence T. Jones, Jr.. Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina.
Reviewed by Daniel C. Littlefield 278
Peter Charles Hoffer. The Law's Conscience: Equitable Constitutionalism in America.
Reviewed by Matthew B. Seltzer 279
David P. Currie. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986.
Reviewed by Kermit L. Hall 279
Jacob Rader Marcus. United States Jewry, 1776-1985.
Reviewed by Naomi W. Cohen 280
Jerold S. Auerbach. Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey from Torah to Constitution.
Reviewed by Leonard Dinnerstein 280
Theron F. Schlabach. Peace, Faith, Nation: Mennonites and Amish in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by C. Leonard Allen 281
Virginia Lieson Brereton. Training God's Army: The American Bible School, 1880-1940.
Reviewed by James R. Goff, Jr. 282
L. Ray Gunn. The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800-1860.
Reviewed by Harry N. Scheiber 282
Michael Allen. Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse.
Reviewed by John Mack Faragher 283
Harry P. Owens. Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
Reviewed by Albro Martin Emeritus 284
Hans L. Trefousse. Andrew Johnson: A Biography.
Reviewed by Ted Tunnell 285
Michael R. Hyman. The Anti-Redeemers: Hill-Country Political Dissenters in the Lower South from Redemption to Populism.
Reviewed by Michael W. Fitzgerald 285
Carol Reardon. Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920.
Reviewed by I. B. Holley, Jr. 286
Harold M. Hyman. Oleander Odyssey: The Kempners of Galveston, Texas, 1854-1980s.
Reviewed by Marilyn McAdams Sibley 287
Theodore J. Karamanski. Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan.
Reviewed by Thomas R. Cox 287
Robert Doherty. Disputed Waters: Native Americans and the Great Lakes Fishery.
Reviewed by John F. Reiger 288
James Earl Sherow. Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950.
Reviewed by Robin W. Doughty 289
Michael R. Haines. Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by Katherine A. Lynch 289
Mark I. West. Children, Culture, and Controversy.
Reviewed by Dominick Cavallo 290
Edith Nye MacMullen. In the Cause of True Education: Henry Barnard and Nineteenth-Century School Reform.
Reviewed by Geraldine Joncich Clifford 290
Marjorie Murphy. Blackboard Unions: The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980.
Reviewed by Ileen A. DeVault 291
Ann Fabian. Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by John M. Findlay 292
James D. Norris. Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920.
Reviewed by Daniel Pope 293
Olivier Zunz. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920.
Reviewed by Susan Strasser 293
Gregory W. Bush. Lord of Attention: Gerald Stanley Lee and the Crowd Metaphor in Industrializing America.
Reviewed by Joan Shelley Rubin 294
Robert E. Kohler. Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900-1945.
Reviewed by Lois N. Magner 295
Robert Ernst. Weakness is a Crime: The Life of Bernarr Macfadden.
Reviewed by James Harvey Young 295
Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century.
Reviewed by Frances B. Cogan 296
Sherilyn Cox Bennion. Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth-Century West.
Reviewed by Susan Armitage 297
Robyn Muncy. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935.
Reviewed by Ruth Hutchinson Crocker 297
Robert C. Bannister. Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Feminist.
Reviewed by Alice Wexler 298
Dorothy Ross. The Origins of American Social Science.
Reviewed by Margaret M. Caffrey 299
James Whiteside. Regulating Danger: The Struggle for Mine Safety in the Rocky Mountain Coal Industry.
Reviewed by Alan Derickson 299
William Warren Rogers. Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy.
Reviewed by Stephen Brier 300
Joe William Trotter, Jr.. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32.
Reviewed by Martin Halpern 301
Willard B. Gatewood. Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920.
Reviewed by Stephanie J. Shaw 301
Raymond M. Hyser. No Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker.
Reviewed by Kenneth W. Goings 302
Paul Avrich. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background.
Reviewed by James R. Barret 303
Richard W. Judd. Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism.
Reviewed by Fraser Ottanelli 304
Robin D. G. Kelley. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression.
Reviewed by Eric Arnesen 304
Fraser M. Ottanelli. The Communist Party of the United States: From the Depression to World War II.
Reviewed by Robin D. G. Kelley 305
Casey Nelson Blake. Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford.
Reviewed by William B. Scott 306
Neil Jumonville. Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America.
Reviewed by Elen Nore 307
Frank Donner. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America.
Reviewed by Howard Zinn 307
Jon C. Teaford. The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985.
Reviewed by Mark I. Gelfand 308
Frank Freidel. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny.
Reviewed by Lewis L. Gould 309
Betty Houchin Winfield. FDR and the News Media.
Reviewed by Robert Hilderbrand 309
Walter L. Creese. TVA's Public Planning: The Vision, the Reality.
Reviewed by William Bruce Wheeler 310
Howard S. Hoffman. Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II.
Reviewed by Barbara J. Howe 311
Holly Cowan Shulman. The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941-1945.
Reviewed by Ralph B. Levering 311
Joel H. Rosenthal. Righteous Realists: Political Realism, Responsible Power, and American Culture in the Nuclear Age.
Reviewed by Robert Booth Fowler 312
Howard Jones. Dawning of the Cold War: The United States' Quest for Order.
Reviewed by John Lewis Gaddis 312
Richard W. Hull. American Enterprise in South Africa: Historical Dimensions of Engagement and Disengagement.
Reviewed by William Minter 313
Irving Bernstein. Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier.
Reviewed by David Farber 314
Paul R. Henggeler. In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique.
Reviewed by David J. Garrow 315
Laura Kalman. Abe Fortas: A Biography.
Reviewed by Olive A. Taylor 315
Joseph N. Tatarewicz. Space Technology and Planetary Astronomy.
Reviewed by Donald E. Osterbrock 316
Walter G. Vincenti. What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History.
Reviewed by Alex Roland 317
 

Canada
Angus McLaren. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945.
Reviewed by James W. Reed 318
Shelagh D. Grant. Sovereignty or Security? Government Policy in the Canadian North, 1936-1950.
Reviewed by John English 318
 

Latin America
Elizabeth J. Reitz. The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
Reviewed by Michael Craton 319
Dale W. Tomich. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830- 1848.
Reviewed by Franklin W. Knight 320
Ann M. Wightman. Indigenous Migration and Social Change: The Forasteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720.
Reviewed by Kevin Gosner 321
June E. Hahner. Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940.
Reviewed by Asuncion Lavrin 321
Collected Essays
  323
Other Books Received
  332
Documents and Bibliographies
  340
Communications
  343
Back Matter
  343

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