The Historian articles from December 2002

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John Jay, the concept of deference, and the transforamtion of early American political culture.(Biography)
December 22, 2002... ON 1 JULY 1795, John Jay took the oath of office in New York City as governor of the state. Recently returned from a diplomatic mission to Great Britain, Jay had just resigned as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court to assume his...

The (White) search for (Black) order: the Phelps-Stokes Fund's first twenty years, 1911-1931.(Anson Phelps Stokes, Thomas Jesse Jones)
December 22, 2002... FOUNDED IN 1911 to improve the living conditions of African Americans and Africans through better housing and education, the Phelps-Stokes Fund was a characteristically Progressive era mission, addressing people's situations rather than their...

From the pursuit of converts to the relief of refugees: the Maryknoll Sisters in twentieth-century Hong Kong.(Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic)
December 22, 2002... IN 1921 the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic (formally known as the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic) arrived in Hong Kong, then a British colony. Originally intending to use the colony only as a staging post to China, the Sisters soon...

The strange career of Frank Murphy: conservatives, state-level politics, and the end of the new deal.(Biography)
December 22, 2002... "I ASSERT MY FIRM BELIEF in the leadership of President Roosevelt and his valiant efforts to bring social security to our people." With those words in 1936, Frank Murphy declared his support of the New Deal and launched his campaign to become...

A question of race: Pope Pius XII and the "colored troops" in Italy.
December 22, 2002... THE CONTROVERSIAL ROLE PLAYED by the Vatican during the Holocaust of the Second World War has been the subject of much polemical writing. In recent years as the canonization process for the wartime pontiff, Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), has...

Imagining Lyndon Johnson.
December 22, 2002... HISTORIANS have often observed that to capture the real past is impossible, that the best one can hope for is to construct a partial view based on one's perception of available evidence. From this perception the historian forms an image of what...

Our Days Dwindle: Memories of My Childhood Days in Asante.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Our Days Dwindle: Memories of My Childhood Days in Asante. By T. E. Kyei. Edited, with an introduction, by Jean Allman. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 239. $24.95.) Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African...

War and Slavery in Sudan.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... War and Slavery in Sudan. By Jok Madut Jok. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 211. $55.00.) By now, everyone who follows international news is aware of the long civil war between northern and southern Sudan....

Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora. By James Walvin. (London and New York: Cassell, 2000. Pp. xi, 180. $19.95.) This book is the latest in a series of recent studies reassessing the place of Atlantic slavery in the...

Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. By Ida Altman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 254. $45.00.) In this interesting book, the author examines the experiences of...

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. By Edward J. Balleisen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 322. $49.94.) Most historians know the 1841 Bankruptcy Act as either an...

Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891. By Roderick J. Barman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 548. $70.00.) This biography of Dom Pedro II intertwines a political narrative of the Brazilian...

Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692. By Louise B. Breen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 292. $45.00.) To historians in the third quarter of the twentieth...

Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921. By Robert E Burk. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 372. $19.95.) This volume completes the history of labor-management...

Union Blue: The History of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Union Blue: The History of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. By Robert Girard Cartoon and Dana B. Shoaf. (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2001. Pp. xiii, 415. $30.00.) "The war... has assumed such huge...

The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture. By Howard Chudacoff. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 341. $35.00.) This book is a useful and well-written monograph on an important and little-studied area of...

Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867. By Patricia C. Click. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 302. $18.95.) "Work hard, save your money, and pray," northern evangelical...

Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Drawing the Line" How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America. By Edwin Danson. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. Pp. viii, 232. $24.95.) Parallels of latitude have figured prominently in United States history,...

Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign. By Thomas A. Desjardin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 239. $13.95.) The Battle of Gettysburg has fascinated Civil War historians for...

From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. By Nancy Foner. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 334. $29.95.) Certain politicians, pundits, and op-ed writers decry the differences between today's...

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968. By Kari Frederickson. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. x, 311. $49.95.) The author of this study makes a valuable contribution to our...

The Collapse of the Confederacy.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Collapse of the Confederacy. Edited by Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 201. $47.50.) Of the many questions historians pose about the Civil War, some of the most...

The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847-1883.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847-1883. Kurt Hackemer. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Pp. x, 181. $45.00.) The military-industrial complex has been a popular subject of analysis ever since...

An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 168. $28.95.) This slender book, a riveting history of the deadly New Orleans...

Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists. By Gerald Horne. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 240. $22.95.) "Class struggle," a concept typically dismissed in the United...

Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925. By Katrina Irving. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. 147. $29.95.) Where is the meeting point between history and literature? In what ways can a study of...

U.S. Allies in a Changing World.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... U.S. Allies in a Changing World. Edited by Barry Rubin and Thomas Keaney. (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiii, 294. $52.50.) This aptly titled volume, the result of a 1998 conference at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...

Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century. By David Lake. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. 332. $19.95.) New perspectives on historical processes arise when scholars reframe old questions. Political...

The New Disability History: American Perspectives.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The New Disability History: American Perspectives. Edited by Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. i, 416. $23.95.) Scholars writing "the new disability history" make several important breaks...

Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory. By Neil Longley York. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 179. $18.00.) This imaginative work gallops into one of the most dramatic incidents of the Civil War, a...

For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States. By Alfred K. Mann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 272. $21.56.) Given the centrality of science in contemporary American life, the...

The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Market.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Market. By Martin Mayer. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 337. $27.50.) Since the 1980s, when the huge federal deficit effectively removed...

Prelude to Tragedy: Vietnam 1960-1965.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Prelude to Tragedy: Vietnam 1960-1965. Edited by Harvey Neese and John O'Donnell. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 309. $32.95.) This is the fourth book in recent years to focus on U.S. involvement in Vietnam from...

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic. By Jeffrey L. Pasley. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xviii, 517. $37.50.) The role that newspapers played in the creation of political...

Gettysburg: The First Day.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Gettysburg: The First Day. By Harry W. Pfanz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 472. $34.95.) The author of this study continues to show the vibrancy of Civil War military history, especially that which offers...

All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862. By Gerald J. Prokopowicz. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 265. $34.95.) The Army of the Ohio has had few fans. Formed predominantly from...

A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court. By David Robarge. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 364. $65.00.) Working from the premise that a book focusing on John Marshall's...

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880. By John C. Rodrigue. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 224. $49.95.) In his introduction, the author of...

The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream. By Kirkpatrick Sale. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. 232. $24.00.) Robert Fulton has long been recognized as one of the key inventors of the steamboat in the United States....

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America, Part 1, vol. 3.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Volume III, South America, Part 1. Edited by Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 1054. $99.95.) Students of indigenous...

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000. By Joel Schwartz. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 353. $39.95.) The author likens this book to a play in three acts:...

Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960. By Hugh R. Slotten. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 308. $45.00.) At a time when the electronic media industry is...

Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey. By Robert Knox Sneden. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr. and Nelson D. Lankford. (New York: The Free Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 329. $37.50.) Amazingly, amidst the plethora of books on the American Civil War,...

The Amazon Bubble: World Rubber Monopoly.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Amazon Bubble: World Rubber Monopoly. By Charles E. Stokes Jr. (Fort McKavett, TX: Charles E. Stokes Jr., 2000. Pp. xxiii, 358. $37.00.) Twenty pages into this highly detailed narrative, this reviewer found himself lost in the Amazon...

Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II. By Michael S. Sweeney. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 274. $18.95.) The author of this new book has...

Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics. By John M. Taylor. (Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 1999. Pp. xv, 268. $22.95.) The author, in the preface to this book, notes that, despite the vast literature on Lee, "his personality...

Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. Edited by Stevan Harrell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 321. $22.00.) To paraphrase only slightly Forrest Gump's famous words, "edited volumes are like a box of...

Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State. By Norman Kutcher. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 210. $64.95.) Almost all cultures, past and present, except for a few odd, late modern...

Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult. By Melissa Schrift. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 214. $20.00.) Communist China produced Mao badges for purposes such as...

Japanese Prisoners of War.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Japanese Prisoners of War. Edited, with an introduction, by Philip Towle. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. 195. $29.95.) This collection includes the editor's introduction and eleven essays. The contributors are Japanese and...

China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations. By Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 559. $49.95.) Relations between China and the United States during the past sixty years...

Macbeth: Man and Myth.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Macbeth: Man and Myth. By Nick Aitchison. (Stroud and New York: Sutton Publishing, 2000. pp. 232. $19.95.) The very premise of this book points to the key challenges that confront and excite the historian: how to convey, in Ranke's famous...

The Development of the Radical Right in France, from Boulanger to Le Pen.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Development of the Radical Right in France, from Boulanger to Le Pen. Edited by Edward J. Arnold. (Houndmills, UK: Macmillan, 2000. pp. 288. $59.95.) This book is a collection of essays based on the proceedings at a conference held in...

Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996. By Avner Ben-Amos. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. xi, 425. $95.00.) For some time, historians have turned to the manipulation of memory and public commemoration to...

British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800. By Jeremy Black. (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. pp. xii, 244. $70.00.) The author of this book has spent over two decades of an unusually productive scholarly life examining...

Switzerland and the Crisis of Dormant Assets and Nazi Gold.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Switzerland and the Crisis of Dormant Assets and Nazi Gold. By Philippe Braillard. (London: Kegan Paul, 2000. pp. 173. $76.50.) The crisis that erupted in 1995 over the role of Switzerland in World War II revolved around several separate,...

Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor. By Kathleen Burk. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. pp. xiv, 491. $35.00.) This is a splendid biography of A. J. P. Taylor, the prolific and iconoclastic historian of...

Gendering European History, 1780-1920.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Gendering European History, 1780-1920. By Barbara Caine and Glenda Sluga. (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2000. pp. 203. $26.95.) In this study, the authors synthesize much of the most recent work on gender in the long...

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made. By Norman F. Cantor. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. pp. 245. $25.00.) Seven and a half centuries after the event, the Black Death still beggars the imagination. In three...

The Catholics of Ulster: A History.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Catholics of Ulster: A History. By Marianne Elliott. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. pp. xliii, 642. $35.00.) The last thirty years have seen a real renaissance in Ulster historiography. Revisiting subjects long contested by...

The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese. By Katherine L. French. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. pp. viii, 316. $59.95.) In this book, the author seeks to demonstrate the growth of...

Food and Society in Classical Antiquity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Food and Society in Classical Antiquity. By Peter Garnsey. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. pp. xiv, 175. $19.95.) This book builds on the author's substantial earlier work on Greco-Roman systems of food production,...

Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity. Edited by Tomas Hagg and Philip Rousseau. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 288. $50.00.) With one exception, the eleven essays in this volume...

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Yitzhak Hen and Matthew Innes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 283. $64.95.) The British excel at writing a delightful kind of article, one that uses small...

An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. By Peter R. Hoffenberg. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 418. $50.00.) This interesting...

Ireland and the Great War.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Ireland and the Great War. By Kevin Jeffrey. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 208. $27.95.) In this short and stimulating book, the author provides a commentary upon the state of historical scholarship concerning Ireland's...

The History of Iceland.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The History of Iceland. By Gunnar Karlsson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 418. $19.95.) For a long time, there existed a need for a single-volume history of Iceland written in English. That need now has been...

Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits. By Michael H. Kater. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 399. $35.00.) This book provides informative and illuminating essays on eight leading composers who worked in...

Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943. By MacGregor Knox. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 207. $24.95.) This concise analytical study will be of much value to readers...

Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet. By Thomas F. Mayer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 468. $79.95.) In December 1549, Reginald Pole fell one vote short of being elected pope. Pole had influential opponents, but Thomas...

German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945. By Peter Paret. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 271. $69.65.) Students of German history know the author of this book as a specialist in the diverse fields of military and...

The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State. By Antonio Costa Pinto. (Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 2000. Pp. xv, 271. $34.50.) A vast academic literature exists on the various forms of fascist and authoritarian...

Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973. By M. E. Sarotte. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 295. $55.00.) Germany held center stage during the Cold War from...

Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922. By Katrin Schultheiss. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 248. $52.50.) In this study, the author traces efforts to transform nursing...

Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.".(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." By James A. Secord. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 624. $35.00.) The author of...

Museums in the German Art World, from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Museums in the German Art World, from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism. By James J. Sheehan. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 258. $35.00.) Recently, museum curators, cultural critics, and art...

Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. By Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 351. $49.95.) More than thirty years ago, the...

Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia. By Christine D. Worobec. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 288. $35.00.) The author of this study has written a sober history of a mystical subject,...

Assassination.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Assassination. By Miles Hudson. (Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 2000. Pp. xvi, 256. $29.95.) This popular history asks an obvious, yet intriguing, question: beyond the simple fact of the victim's death, does assassination achieve what...

A School for Diplomats: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... A School for Diplomats: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919. By Clifford R. Lovin. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. Pp. vii, 173. $36.50.) The author of this small but excellent book employs a line from Christian Herter, a...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(Calendar)
December 22, 2002... Alvernia College (Alpha Eta Rho) 5 May 2002: Matthew L. Heaney, Jim Keller, Patrick List, Kyle Moser, Keith Scharlach. American University (Epsilon Psi) 3 July 2002: Sara Reef, John McCarthy, George Melissinos, Lauren Morley-Nagy,...