The Historian articles from December 2008

The Historian archives from December 2008

Fidelity and zeal: the earl of sandwich, naval intelligence, and the salvation of Britain, 1763-1779.
December 22, 2008... I ON 13 MARCH 1778, Viscount Stormont, the British ambassador to France, was recalled to England without taking formal leave of the French government. (1) Though war was not declared until July, Stormont's departure in response to French...

"He-men could talk to he-men in he-man language": lumberjack work culture in Maine and Minnesota, 1840-1940.
December 22, 2008... ACADEMIC HISTORIANS HAVE neglected the American lumberjack for too long. From the mid-nineteenth century to our own era, the American logging industry employed millions of workers (at least 500,000 at U.S. logging's peak in 1906), and yet...

Modernized Republicanism: the radical agenda of socialists in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1905-1917.
December 22, 2008... ON MEMORIAL DAY, 1905, less than two months after being elected Manitowoc's first socialist mayor, Henry Stolze addressed a crowd. Instead of inspiring patriotic feelings, celebrating the union, or praising Civil War veterans, Stolze warned his...

British reforms, commercial agriculture, and agrarian distress in India.
December 22, 2008... I. THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF AGRARIAN PROGRESS THE BEST LAID PLANS FOR SOCIAL and economic transformation often fail, fare badly, suffer poor implementation, take a century or more to succeed, or deceptively mask other motivations. Those...

Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate. By Mary Wren Bivins. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2007. Pp. xviii, 192. $29.95.) Originally planned as a study of the...

Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq. By Wayne H. Bowen. (Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Pp. xxiii, 202. $26.95.) This narrative is a personal account of the Iraq War from the perspective of a reserve...

Women in the Middle East: Past and Present.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Women in the Middle East: Past and Present. By Nikki R. Keddie. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 387. $24.95.) This volume contains three books: a two-hundred page history of women in the Middle East aimed at...

City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa. By Adam LeBron. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Pp. xxv, 424. $14.95.) Now sadly a shell of its former self, Jaffa, once a major commercial and cultural center,...

Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola. By Assis Malaquias. (Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007. Pp. 264. $39.95.) In this book the author provides a wide-ranging analysis of the conditions that led to violence...

Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. By Amy Dockser Marcus. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2007. Pp. 224. $24.95.) A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Amy Dockser Marcus argues that the Arab-Israeli...

Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955.("Girl Cases": Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955. By Shane Doyle. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 276. $49.95.) "Girl Cases": Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970. By...

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. By Jonathan Alter. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2006. Pp. xvi, 415. $16.00.) Scholars who are familiar with the literature on Franklin D. Roosevelt and the...

Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. By Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. viii, 390. $25.95.) New York's Rudolph Giuliani became "America's Mayor" on 11 September 2001, when,...

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. By Edward J. Blum. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 356. $18.95.) In 1867, New York artist J. L. Giles produced an...

Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate. By Elizabeth Hill Boone. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. 320. $55.00.) With the publication of the author's previous book on the pictorial histories of ancient...

Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution. By Jurgen Buchenau. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 275.) Plutarco Elias Calles is remembered in Mexico as one of the Revolution's "winners," those opportunistic...

Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. By Francis D. Cogliano. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 276. $45.00.) Popular and scholarly interest in Thomas Jefferson continues unabated, and that is a good...

West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 396. $30.00.) Contemporary historians of Reconstruction often look beyond the 1876...

Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History. By John Patrick Diggins. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Pp. xxii, 493. $27.95.) This work is a creative attempt to rescue Reagan from both liberal critics and...

Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy. By Ira Dye. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. xiii, 300. $59.95.) In the early nineteenth century, Uriah Levy achieved the highest possible rank in the U.S. Navy despite...

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 316. $44.95.) The Great Depression's impact on American society remains a topic of...

America in White, Black and Gray: The Stormy 1960s.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... America in White, Black and Gray: The Stormy 1960s. By Klaus P. Fischer. (New York, N.Y.: Continuum, 2006. Pp. xi, 452. $34.95.) This book begins with an unusual introduction in which the author informs the reader of his German birth during...

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. By David N. Gellman. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 297. $45.00.) The author of this book fills a gap in the growing literature of...

Women on the Civil War Battlefront.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Women on the Civil War Battlefront. By Richard H. Hall. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. x, 397. $34.95.) A growing literature on women in the American Civil War traces the impact of that war on women and of women on...

Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. 412. $34.95.) There are several questions that must haunt the imagination of most Lincoln scholars at one time or another. What...

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War. Edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. 179. $65.00.) This book is a collection of five...

From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939-1959.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939-1959. By Cynthia Lee Henthorn. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. 368. $26.95.) During the past decades, scholarly interest in histories of advertising and consumption...

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice. By Thomas E Jackson. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. i, 459. $39.95.) The quest for economic justice was basic...

In Defense of the Bush Doctrine.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... In Defense of the Bush Doctrine. By Robert G. Kaufman. (Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Pp. ix, 251. $35.00.) There is much in the pseudoliterary marketplace that both defends and opposes the 2003 decision of the...

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960. By Judy Kutulas. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 206. $35.00.) This study is an important contribution to the literature on...

Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. By Matthew Mason. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 352. $45.00.) Nearly thirty years ago, as a nascent historian, this reviewer absorbed every...

The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001. By Michael McHugh. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006. Pp. v, 364. $40.00.) This ambitious work examines economic, political, and social trends in the...

AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War. By Tom McNichol. (San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2006. Pp. 198. $24.95.) People rather take for granted today the existence of a reliable electricity supply. And they know that the...

John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. By Jeffry H. Morrison. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 220. $18.00.) In this brief but thoughtful study, the author asserts that John Witherspoon,...

Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution. By Mark Puls. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 273. $24.95.) This author's lively and celebratory biography of Samuel Adams will likely appeal to a popular audience. Drawing...

Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927. By Mary G. Rolinson. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 286. $22.50.) The focal point of this book...

Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 274. $42.00.) For the last several decades, most of the best work on the early American Republic has...

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. By David O. Stewart. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2007. Pp. xi, 336. $27.00.) Once upon a time, the history of the American Revolution and Constitutional Convention told by...

Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History. By Aurora Wallace. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. 214. $49.95.) For historians trained in or working out of a history department, visiting the book exhibit at the...

"Those Damn Horse Soldiers": True Tales of the Civil War Cavalry.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... "Those Damn Horse Soldiers "- True Tales of the Civil War Cavalry. By George Walsh. (New York, N.Y.: Forge Books, 2006. Pp. 477. $27.95.) This book of "tales" about the cavalry of both armies during the American Civil War is aimed at...

The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Edited by Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 721. $45.00.) This is an interesting collection of new essays, many by leading scholars in...

Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion. By Eva Sheppard Wolf. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 316. $45.00.) The author of this book...

Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Bearing Witness Against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement. By Michael P. Young. (Chicago, III.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 248. $22.00.) The author of this study, a sociologist, examines the...

A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche. By Jonathan W. Best. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. Pp. xiii, 555. $60.00.) Paekche was a small state in the southwestern corner of the Korean Peninsula that...

Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945. By Penny Edwards. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 349. $62.00.) This is a sophisticated study of Cambodia's history during most of the years that the country...

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. By Michael D. Gordin. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 209. $24.95.) This work is a thought-provoking reassessment of the decision to use the atomic...

Divided Cities: Partition and its Aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar 1947-1957.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Divided Cities: Partition and its Aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar 1947-1957. By Ian Talbot. (Karacbi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 224. $39.00.) The events leading up to and following the transfer of British power to...

Viet Nam: Borderless Histories.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Viet Nam: Borderless Histories. Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony J. S. Reid. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 386. $65.00.) As the title proclaims, this book aims to examine Vietnam without reference to...

The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest. Edited by Elizabeth N. Arkush and Mark W. Allen. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xiii, 549. $65.00.) Twenty years ago, archaeologists in the United...

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. By Robert Bartlett. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 168. $15.95.) When, in 1290, the English lord William de Briouze hanged a Welsh...

The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. By Douglas Biow. (Ithaca, N.Y." Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 244. $35.00.) In a well-conceived and engaging book, the author brings literary scholars low, down from the elevated...

Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government, and Society 1815-1833.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government, and Society 1815-1833. By Alexander Bitis. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 542. $120.00.) In recent decades, diplomatic and military...

The World of the Luttrell Psalter.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The World of the Luttrell Psalter. By Michelle P. Brown. (London, England: The British Library, 2006. Pp. 96. $19.95.) Visual evidence from the Middle Ages has long provided windows into the complexities of that historical period. In...

The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses, 1600-1714.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses, 1600-1714. By Michael Brydon. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 232. $80.00.) This book is not so much about Richard Hooker as it is about later...

The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences. Edited by Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer, and Jason Lawrence. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 215. $79.99.) Conferences and their consequent published...

Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante. By George W. Dameron. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. x, 374. $65.00.) In this rich and multilayered study, the author offers an overview of the church in...

The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. By Barry Eichengreen. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 504. $35.00.) In this work, Barry Eichengreen attempts to unravel a puzzle: why did...

The Battle for the Republique Democratique et Sociale in the Narbonnais, 1830-1875.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Battle for the Rdpublique Democratique et Sociale in the Narbonnais, 1830-1875. By Christopher E. Guthrie. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellon Press, 2006. Pp. x, 303. $119.95.) This author presents a thoroughly researched and clearly...

Gladstone and Women.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Gladstone and Women. By Anne Isba. (London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. 272. $39.95.) The interests, accomplishments, and significance of William Ewart Gladstone [1809-1898], four-time British prime minister, are so extensive...

The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire. By Harold James. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 166. $24.95.) Commerce builds prosperity and peace, this author informs...

Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I. By Gabrielle Langdon. (Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 372. $85.00.) The portraits of "Medici women" presented in this book...

June 1941: Hitler and Stalin.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... June 1941: Hitler and Stalin. By John Lukacs. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 169. $15.00.) In this short book, the author of numerous books on Hitler and World War II analyzes why Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet...

An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order. By Karen Klein Maguire. (New York, N.Y.: Public Affairs, 2006. Pp. xii, 258. $26.00.) If books are to be judged by...

The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty. By Philip Matyszak. (New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Pp. 296. $31.95.) Fascination with the Roman Empire, and especially with its early decades, shows no sign of abating. This is...

Labour in the City: The Development of the Labour Party in Manchester, 1918-31.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Labour in the City: The Development of the Labour Party in Manchester, 1918-31. By Declan McHugh. (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 222. $50.00.) This useful study analyzes how the Labour Party's attempt...

Imperial City: Rome, Romans, and Napoleon, 1796-1815.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Imperial City: Rome, Romans, and Napoleon, 1796-1815. By Susan Vandiver Nicassio. (Welwyn City, England: Ravenhall Books, 2005. Pp. 255. $34.95.) In this thorough and well-written book, the author records the curious and complex...

Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe. Vol. 1, Religion and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe. Vol. 1, Religion and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700. Edited by Heinz Schilling and Istvan Gy6rgy Toth. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 412. $575.00.) Over...

Britain's First Labour Government.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Britain's First Labour Government. By John Shepherd and Keith Laybourn. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xii, 255. $65.00.) Ramsay MacDonald formed Britain's first Labour government in January 1924. It did not have a...

The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852. By Peter W. Sinnema. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. pp. xxx, 165. $42.95.) This is a small book about a large life, or more specifically, about arguably the most famous death and...

Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg under the Nazis.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg under the Nazis. By Jill Stephenson. (London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xvi, 512. $39.95.) The author of this study relishes the scene she sets when Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi grandee from...

The Admiral's Secret Weapon: Lord Dundonald and the Origins of Chemical Warfare.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Admiral's Secret Weapon: Lord Dundonald and the Origins of Chemical Warfare. By Charles Stephenson. (Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2006. Pp. 179. $47.95.) Admiral Thomas Cochrane, the tenth Earl of Dundonald, was a larger-than-life...

The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. By Megan Hale Williams. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 315. $45.00.) Those who know Jerome principally through his letters and his infamous...

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 304. $22.95.) Readers whose shelves have filled in the last decade with books on the history of second-wave...

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. By Nayan Chanda. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 391. $27.50.) The author of this book is a journalist with long stints at the...

The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg. (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 191. $25.00.) This is a collection of papers originally prepared for a conference held...

Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion. By Christopher McGowan. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2004, Pp. xii, 379. $29.95.) The advent of the steam engine and the railroad in the eighteenth and...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. By Andrew Roberts. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2007. Pp. xiii, 691. $35.00.) An unabashed celebration of the Anglo-American "special relationship" with lip service to Australia, New...

One for the Girls!: The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women's Porn.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... One for the Girls!: The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women's Porn. By Clarissa Smith. (Bristol, England: Intellect Books, 2007. Pp. 192. $55.00.) For the past thirty years, legal scholars, feminists, historians, literary critics, and...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(List)
December 22, 2008... Benedictine University (Alpha Mu Mu) 24 September 2008: Laura A. Lazzari, Azfar Z. Uddin. Brandeis University (Alpha Epsilon Omicron) 6 May 2008: David J. Altzuler, Zachary Halpert Aronow, Jeremy Adam Bannett, Kathryn Elizabeth Bellfy,...