The Historian articles from December 2006

The Historian archives from December 2006

The Great War and its historiography.
December 22, 2006... THE UNDERSTANDING OF the First World War is connected more than that of any other modern conflict with the war's historiography. Even before the armies marched, the respective combatants were compiling document collections justifying their...

What's in a name?: the development of strategies of attrition on the Western Front, 1914-1918.
December 22, 2006... ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1914, Gerhard Tappen, the operations officer of the German High Command, wrote in his diary: "More and more, it appears that we have before us field fortifications across the entire front--a completely new form of warfare." (1)...

The Battle of the Marne: myths and reality of Germany's "fateful battle" (1).
December 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION The Battle of the Marne (6-10 September 1914) has acquired an almost mythical status in Germany's history of the First World War. While by no means the most traumatic event in terms of German casualties or territorial losses...

The final logic of sacrifice? Violence in German prisoner of war labor companies in 1918.
December 22, 2006... UNTIL RECENTLY, the historiography of the First World War focused upon the intercombatant violence that occurred between opposing armed forces. Yet new work by historians has shown that the boundaries of violent practice between 1914 and 1918...

Internment camps for German civilians in Finistere, France (1914-1919).
December 22, 2006... THE INTERNMENT OF foreign civilians during World War I has long remained a taboo subject. The mere mention of it would label one as a "bad Frenchman." After some witness accounts published in the period between the two world wars and some rare...

The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. By Andrew Apter. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x, 334. $24.00.) This awkwardly titled but splendid book explores what is surely the most...

"The Ottoman State".(The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression)(Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression. By Dick Douwes. (New York, N.Y.: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Pp. viii, 244. $55.00.) Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire. By Eugene L. Rogan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge...

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World. Edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 455. $27.95.) One of the most important themes in African diaspora historiography is the...

The Persians.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Persians. By Gene R. Garthwaite. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xviii, 311. $59.95.) It is rather difficult to write a complete history of a whole people, from their origins to the present, that will be informative for the...

The Modern Middle East: A History.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Modern Middle East: A History. By James L. Gelvin. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 357. $31.00.) This is not your ordinary historical survey. The author immediately grabs the reader's attention in the introduction with a...

The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Pursuit of Pleasure. Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900. By Rudi Matthee. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 346. $39.50.) The author of this book explores the production, commerce, and...

Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse. By Mansoor Moaddel. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 424. $24.00.) The scholarship on Islam since the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s has...

The History of the American Indians.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The History of the American Indians. By James Adair. Edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 589. $65.00.) Any student who wishes to understand the frontier of Britain's...

Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. By George Reid Andrews. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 284. $19.95.) This book originated in an undergraduate course, and its pedagogical outlook surfaces in its first sentence: "New...

Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women and the Mob.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women and the Mob. By Dora Apel. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 259. $34.95.) The lynching of an African American was an attack not just on an individual, but on an...

The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America. By Richard R. Beeman. (Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 366. $39.95.) How do rulers rule? The author of this book centers his exploration...

Baseball's Greatest Season: 1924.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Baseball's Greatest Season: 1924. By Reed Browning. (Boston, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 205. $19.95.) It is difficult to substantiate the claim contained in the title of this delightful and frustrating book....

America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic. By Richard Buel, Jr. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 302. $29.95.) It is an axiom of politics that the only thing...

American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture. Edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. 297. $23.95.) During the...

Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. By David Chidester. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 294. $19.95.) This study is a work of cultural criticism rather than history, in which the author...

Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. By Michael W. Flamm. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 294. $36.50.) The 1960s! Since they ended, numerous journalists and scholars...

When Public Housing was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... When Public Housing was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago. Edited by J. S. Fuerst and D. Bradford Hunt. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 228. $20.00.) J. S. Fuerst spent ten years collecting and editing the...

One Nation under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. By Mark Douglas McGarvie. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. Pp. 256. $38.00.) Given the debate that is currently taking place in...

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822. By Alida C. Metcalf. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 280. $22.95.) Historians of Brazil, rejoice! This pathbreaking study of family strategies...

The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City. By Gregory Mixon. With an introduction by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xv, 197. $59.95.) This new book...

The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power. By Lance Morrow. (New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 2005. Pp. xxxi, 312. $26.00.) Like the 1946 Oscar-winning film, "The Best Years of Our Lives,"...

The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans. By Benton Rain Patterson. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 288. $32.95.) The author's intent in this book is to piece...

Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier. By L. Scott Philyaw. (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 176. $33.00.) In this elegant book, the author examines...

A Day Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... A Day Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. By Emily S. Rosenberg. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $18.95.) This is a brilliantly conceived, carefully organized, and persuasively argued exploration of the way...

At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War. By Melvin Small. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. Pp. xi, 241. $26.00.) In what has become a multivolume account of the movement in America against the war in Vietnam, the author...

U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua. By Mauricio Solafin. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 391. $59.95.) Among the many accounts of the 1979 collapse of the Anastasio Somoza Debayle regime in...

Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Thomas Summerhill. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 287. $38.00.) Agrarian populism in the nineteenth century is a favorite topic in U.S. history,...

The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Progressive Era and Race- Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917. By David W. Southern. (Wheeling, Ill: Harlan Davidson, 2005. Pp. vii, 239. $15.95.) This slender volume thoroughly examines its subject; it is well organized, well written, and...

The War Complex: World War II in Our Time.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The War Complex: World War II in Our Time. By Marianna Torgovnick. (Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 209. $25.00.) This book is a work of literary criticism rather than history, but it is worth the attention of...

Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. By Bruce Watson. (New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, 2005. Pp. i, 319. $24.95.) The author of this study argues that the Lawrence Strike of 1912, which has been too often...

The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac. By Jeffrey O. Wert. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Pp. xii, 559. $30.00.) There is nothing that compares with this study of President Lincoln's army. It is a beautifully written,...

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By David L. Howell. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. x, 261. $55.00.) The story of Japan's transition from a society variously labeled as "feudal,"...

A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China. By Ping-chen Hsiung. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 265. $70.00.) The author of this book takes a new approach to the study of childhood,...

Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan. By Bertil Lintner. (Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2005. Pp. xv, 290. $18.95.) As a western journalist with twenty-five-year experience in Asia, the author has...

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. By Peter C. Perdue. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 725. $35.00.) In the author's own words, this work is "long," "large," and "sprawling" (xiv-xv). It is...

Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937. By James Reardon-Anderson. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 288. $60.00.) The author of this study presents a description of "the settlement of...

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. By Bryan Ward-Perkins. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 229. $30.00.) This book examines what happened after the Roman Empire came to an end. The author summarizes two...

Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. By Niall Barr. (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 2005. Pp. xliii, 531. $35.00.) The Battle of El Alamein has attracted the recent attention of a number of military writers from the British...

Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760. By Caroline Castiglione. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 254. $19.95.) In the second half of the seventeenth century, one of the issues...

The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. By Helen Harden Chenut. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 436. $60.00.) It seldom escapes observers' notice that capitalism has taken...

Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons. By Lisa Forman Cody. (Oxford: Clarendon, 2005. Pp. xiv, 353. $100.00.) Birth and reproduction are such vital facets of human life that it is stunning we...

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. By Thomas V. Cohen. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 306. $27.50.) Hadyn White once polemically remarked that it did not matter to him if a historian had spent ten days or ten...

Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar. By Stephen Dando-Collins. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Pp. xviii, 276. $24.95.) Biographers from Suetonius and Plutarch to M. Gelzer and C....

Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia. By Isabel de Madariaga. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 484. $35.00.) Ivan IV of Russia [1533-1584], has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. His usual...

The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Heirs of Archimedes" Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Edited by Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 397. $55.00.) The Renaissance celebrated the third-century-BC...

Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Pyrrhic Victory. French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. By Robert A. Doughty. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 592. $39.95.) For the last eighty years, accounts of the First World War...

Fighting Napoleon: Guerillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Fighting Napoleon: Guerillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814. By Charles J. Esdaile. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 272. $40.00.) Few authors are as qualified as this one to undertake this study of the...

Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. By Patrick Faas. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 384. $18.00.) The author of this book is a Dutch chef and food journalist. His enthusiasm for ancient Roman...

Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. By Frank L. Holt. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 241. $24.95.) This rich book will attract anyone who cares about Afghanistan in ancient or...

Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England. By Sujata Iyengar. (Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. x, 310. $50.00.) This book joins a burgeoning field of research into conceptions...

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany, An Oral History.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany, An Oral History. By Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband. (Cambridge, Mass.: Basic Books, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 434. $27.50.) The authors of this absorbing and important book...

Hitler Youth.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Hitler Youth. By Michael H. Kater. (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 355. $27.95.) Over the past two decades, the scholarly literature on the Hitler Youth, particularly in German, has expanded enormously, ranging from...

Chivalry.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Chivalry. By Maurice Keen. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 303. $20.00.) This is a reprint, in the Nota Bene paperback series, of the author's much-praised book published in 1984. There has been much research on...

The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror. By Oleg V. Khlevniuk. Translated by Vadim A. Staklo. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 418. $39.95.) This author seeks to integrate a chronological...

England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel. By James McDermott. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 411. $40.00.) In 1988 there appeared a host of books on the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588, which...

Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390. By James M. Murray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 409. $100.00.) In this study the author sets out to explore the fourteenth-century social and economic evolution that...

The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603-1605.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603-1605. By Diana Newton. (London: Boydell Press, 2005. Pp. x, 164. $80.00.) Like the modernity of Kansas City, the rehabilitation of James I of England has...

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism. By Stanley Payne. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 400. $35.00.) The author of this book is a well-known scholar of twentieth-century Spain. This book is...

Print Culture and the Early Quakers.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Print Culture and the Early Quakers. By Kate Peters. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 273. $75.00.) The author of this study has produced a model monograph on how Quakers before 1660 used printing to forward their...

Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain. By Lucy K. Pick. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. 239. $65.00.) The author's analytical study provides remarkable insight...

Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury. (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. x, 261. $85.00.) This collection of eight essays, with an...

The Spanish Inquisition.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Spanish Inquisition. By Helen Rawlings. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xvii, 174. $29.95.) This author's latest volume bears the hallmark of her previous books; it provides a succinct, comprehensive introduction to the...

The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism. By Philippe Roger. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 516. $35.00.) At a time when impassioned anti-Americanism is a growing and worldwide phenomenon...

The Middle East under Rome.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Middle East under Rome. By Maurice Sartre. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 665. $39.95.) Studies of the Roman Near East have proliferated recently, not least because the Roman experience of what was (and is) the...

International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000. Edited by Lisa Z. Sigel. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 283. $26.95.) "Dirty" pictures or magazines did not begin or end with...

Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Caliban's Shore. The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors. By Stephen Taylor. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Pp. xvi, 297. $14.95.) Tales of shipwrecks and castaways have always captured the public's...

Before Darwin: Reconciling God & Nature.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Before Darwin: Reconciling God & Nature. By Keith Thomson. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 314. $27.00.) European intellectuals did not know it at the time, but they spent two centuries waiting for Charles Darwin to...

The Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October. By Gregory D. Young and Nate Braden. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Pp. 250. $19.99.) This is an exciting account of the 1975 mutiny aboard one of the...

By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... By Birth or Consent: Children, Law & the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. By Holly Brewer. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2005. Pp. xi, 390....

Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History. By Jacalyn Duffin. (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 299. $27.50.) This author, a practicing hematologist, holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at...

Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 278. $30.00.) This is an impressive book, displaying a depth of scholarship and understanding. The aim is to explore the...

How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets. By Andy Kessler. (New York, N.Y.: Harper Collins, 2005. Pp. ix, 262. $14.95.) Technological innovation, when nourished by capital, has often led to economic...

The Real History behind the Da Vinci Code.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code. By Sharan Newman. (New York, N.Y.: Berkley, 2005. Pp. 337. $15.00.) The name of this book is somewhat of a misnomer. There is no "real history" behind the Da Vinci Code because Dan Brown's book is...

Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. By Harold L. Platt. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 609. $49.00.) All cities are fundamentally "unnatural." The demands they...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(List)
December 22, 2006... Albright College (Kappa Beta) 7 May 2006: Samuel Aronson, Colleen Capone, Jessica Deck, Kevin Jroski, Craig Naugle, James Schwartz. Anderson University (Alpha Iota Iota) 5 April 2002: Eric Davis. 10 April 2003: Bryan M. Baker,...