The Historian articles from January 1999

The Historian archives from January 1999

The Historian interviews apprentice historians.(three graduate students in history)
January 1, 1999... The Historian regularly publishes interviews with celebrated senior historians who have been recognized for their contributions to the historical profession and who recount their careers. To the student contemplating a future in history,...

Thomas Jefferson and historical self-construction: the earth belongs to the living?
January 1, 1999... "The earth belongs in usufruct to the living," Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison on 6 September 1789. It was a "self-evident" principle "that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." Since "by the law of nature, one generation...

Artur Anatra: Odessan entrepreneur, 1914-1919.(Odessa, Russia)
January 1, 1999... World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and the ensuing Russian Civil War of 1918-20 between the Bolsheviks (Reds), led by V. I. Lenin, and the anti-Bolshevik forces (Whites) brought great upheavals to Russia and its people. The...

French existentialism and American popular culture, 1945-1948.
January 1, 1999... The translation in 1947 of Jean-Paul Sartre's lecture, "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1945), insured that the term existentialism would enter into the vocabulary of American thought and culture. Existentialism is notoriously difficult to...

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels looks at the Spanish Civil War.(Goebbels's diaries)
January 1, 1999... The Spanish civil war (1936-1939) has long been considered a stepping stone to World War II.(1) As Spanish Nationalists tested both fascist ideology and new military equipment and techniques, they were greatly aided militarily and through...

James Lawrence Fly, the FBI, and wiretapping.(Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 1939-1944; Director of American Civil Liberties Union; Federal Bureau of Investigation)
January 1, 1999... The use of wiretaps as an investigative tool by government and law enforcement agencies has long been a controversial issue in the United States. According to Birkenstock, wiretapping has been practiced "almost as long as there have been wires...

A perspective on history: the Soviet system reconsidered.
January 1, 1999... In discussing the Soviet Communist system and the vast changes the country has undergone over the last 80 years, most Western Sovietologists or Russians have considered only Russian, or Eurasian, circumstances. Proper evaluation of the Soviet...

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years.
January 1, 1999... The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 285. $50.00.) Professor Vojtech Mastny of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen, Germany, was awarded...

History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth.(Review)
January 1, 1999... History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. By Paul A. Cohen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. 428. $34.50.) The American Historical Association awarded the John K. Fairbank Prize to Paul A. Cohen of...

Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life.
January 1, 1999... Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life. By Judith Sealander. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. 349. $39.95.) The Ohio Academy of History has presented its...

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By Michael A. Morrison. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 396. $49.95.) What makes people willing to die for a...

The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861. By Stephen B. Oates. (New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Pp. xvi, 495. $28.00.) What makes people willing to die for a cause? That is a primary question behind our fascination with the...

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.(Review)
January 1, 1999... For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPherson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 232. $25.00.) What makes people willing to die for a cause? That is a primary question behind our fascination...

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Feminism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Feminism. By Janet Mary. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 448. $32.00.) In 12 detailed chapters, the author of...

Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times. By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. (Portsmouth and Oxford: Heinenmann and James Curry, 1996. Pp. xxiii, 189. $60.00.) What does a study of alcohol...

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. By Frederick Cooper. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 677. $89.95.) One has come to expect insightful historical analysis from...

Religious Militancy and Self-Assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Religious Militancy and Self-Assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria. By Matthew Hassan Kukah and Toyin Falola. (Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1996. Pp. xii, 298. $72.95.) Nigeria is in the grips of a political crisis that was most...

Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900. By B. Marie Perinbam. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. x, 341. $60.00.) Scholarly investigation of ethnicity has been a staple of Africanist research since the...

Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy toward Taiwan, 1950-1955. By Robert Accinelli. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 358. $39.95.) Robert Accinelli has written a thorough and...

The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism. By Stanley Aronowitz. (New York and London: Routledge, 1996. Pp. vii, 198. $16.95.) The author of this book writes with genuine concern about the death of American radicalism and what he sees as...

In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876/1930.(Review)
January 1, 1999... In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876-1930. By Jurgen Buchenau. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 287. $32.95.) Although historians have long stressed the importance of...

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of Hove the West Was Lost. Edited by Colin G. Calloway. (Boston and New York: Bedford Books, 1996. Pp. xiv, 226. $35.00.) The historical documents in this edited collection speak eloquently...

A History of Chile, 1808-1994.(Review)
January 1, 1999... A History of Chile, 1808-1994. By Simon Collier and William F. Sater. (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 427. $18.95.) The authors of this volume, both seasoned historians of Chile, have set out to provide...

Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective. By Paul W. Drake. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 253. $15.95.) Paul Drake provides one of the first comparative analyses...

On Constitutional Ground.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... On Constitutional Ground. By John Hart Ely. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 507. $24.95.) A leading constitutional scholar now toward the end of a distinguished career, the author attempts in this book to summarize his...

Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule. By Emmett M. Essin. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 245. $37.50.) During a lighthearted but nonetheless important ceremony in mid-December 1956, officers...

To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790. By Joan R. Gundersen. (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. Pp. xv, 273. $28.95.) At least since ! 980, historians such as Mary Beth Norton, Linda Kerber, and Laurel...

The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. By Paul Hendrickson. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 427. $27.50.) Paul Hendrickson, a feature writer for the Washington Post, has written a book about former...

The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 418. $35.00.) Writers and readers of frontier history have gravitated, for the most part, toward the...

Black Savannah: 1788-1864.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Black Savannah: 1788-1864. By Whittington B. Johnson. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996. Pp. 242. $30.00.) The author of this fourth book in the Black Community Series revises the prevailing thesis that antebellum black...

The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend. By Donna J. Kessler. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 258. $29.95.) Sometimes, historical figures are significant because they mirror important truths...

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. By Frieda Knobloch. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 204. $39.95.) From her book's outset, Frieda Knobloch argues for...

Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux. By Robert W. Larson. (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 336. $24.95.) This new biography of Red Cloud is the thirteenth volume in the Oklahoma Western...

A History of the Confederate Navy.(Review)
January 1, 1999... A History of the Confederate Navy. By Raymond Luraghi. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996. Pp. rd, 552. $39.95.) This impressive work is the product of almost 27 years of research and writing. Raymond Luraghi poses two critical...

"We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s.(Review)
January 1, 1999... "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Edited by Staughton Lynd. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. 343. $17.95.) This edited collection of essays includes previously published pieces, some written...

One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928.(Review)
January 1, 1999... One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928. By Matthew J. Mancini. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 283. $34.95.) As public officials in America rush to "reinvent government" from...

Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. By Doug Owram. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 392. $34.95.) Contemporary social and political pundits look regularly to the pampered baby boom generation...

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. By Nell Irvin Painter. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Co., 1996. Pp. xii, 370. $28.00.) Like the extraordinary personality of whom she writes, Nell Irvin Painter's Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol...

Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 388. $49.95.) This work tackles the most important and contentious landmark...

The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. By William H. Riker. Edited by Randall L. Calvert, John Mueller, and Rick K. Wilson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 283. $30.00.) The late William...

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862. By Carol Sheriff. (New York: Hill & Wang, 1996. Pp. xvii, 251. $21.00.) The author of this book explores how the Erie Canal changed lives at all levels of...

Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 219. $39.95.) Jonathan Edwards occupies a central place in American intellectual...

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 375. $35.00.) In recent years, those policymakers responsible for shaping the nation's...

Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 406. $55.00.) Allen Wells and Gil Joseph, the two...

The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. Pp. 132. $18.00.) The author of this study asks two interlocking questions that have troubled historians for...

State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Richard Zuczek. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 250. $29.95.) This book's nine substantive chapters tell in a straightforward, chronological order an...

Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. By Nancy Abelmann. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 306. $48.00.) Readers of book reviews in the Historian might look for reviews of history...

Empire & Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Empire & Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870. By C. A. Bayly. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 412. $64.95.) This is a politically correct monograph in that the author...

China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State. By Shaun Gerard Breslin. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 180. $69.95.) When Deng Xiaoping's program was endorsed by the Central Committee of the...

The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War. By Christopher Howe. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 471. $49.95.) Since the 1960s and 1970s, such terms as...

Re-imaging Japanese Women.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Re-imaging Japanese Women. Edited, with an introduction, by Anne E. Imamura. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 358. $18.00.) This book depicts contemporary Japanese women and the choices they face in...

A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945. By Xiaoyuan Liu. (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 343. $59.95.) In...

The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 227. $49.95.) This study takes the reader on a tour of political terrorism and urban crime...

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Edited by Tu Wei-ming. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 418. $45.00.) Almost half a...

The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917. By Bruce F. Adams. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 237. $35.00.) The author of this study sets out to revise the dismal picture of Russian prisons...

Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. By Dieter Arnold. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 316. $25.00.) This is the first work geared toward a study of the technical aspects of Egyptian stone working in over...

Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British Fascism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British Fascism. By David Baker. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1996. Pp. vii, 250. $55.00.) This book is what one might call an intellectual biography. The title is well chosen,...

Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814-1914.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814-1914. By C. J. Bartlett. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 202. $18.95.) In this study of balance-of-power politics and the statesmen who defined them, peace is defined negatively as the...

The Church for Others: Protestant Theology in Communist East Germany.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Church for Others: Protestant Theology in Communist East Germany. By Gregory Baum. (Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmanns Publishing Company, 1996. Pp. xvii, 156. $15.00.) With the collapse of state socialism in the former GDR has...

Europe under Napoleon, 1799-1815.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Europe under Napoleon, 1799-1815. By Michael Broers. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 291. $49.95.) "History is indeed an argument without end" observed the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl in his Napoleon: For and Against. In the...

Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910-47.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910-47. Edited by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and David Howell. (Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 307. $67.95.) Coal provided the energy that drove Britain's economy in the nineteenth and early...

Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. Edited, with an introduction and chapter introductions, by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 393. $35.00.) This is a...

The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. By Edward Ross Dickinson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 365. $45.00.) The great value of this work lies in its sophisticated handling of...

The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in Central Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in Central Europe. By Grzegorz Ekiert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 436. $19.95.) Grzegorz Ekiert has written a useful and insightful volume that...

Reinventing Germany: German Political Developments Since 1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Reinventing Germany: German Political Developments Since 1945. By Anthony Glees. (Oxford and Washington, D.C.: Berg, 1996. Pp. xxxiii, 306. $22.95. Anthony Glees has provided us with an extremely insightful, detailed, and readable account...

Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854-1856.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854-1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie. (Manchester, UK: Mandolin, 1997. Pp. xii, 326. $18.95.) This edition is a reissue of the author's earlier book, "I have done my duty," Florence Nightingale...

Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction, The Struggle for Modernity.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction, The Struggle for Modernity. Edited by Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 455. $68.00.) Among the most reductive commentaries on cultural...

From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870. By David R. Green. (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 298. $76.95.) London remained a colossus within the British economy throughout the nineteenth century....

The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89. Edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 339. $49.50.) The vignette this reviewer best remembers about...

Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain. By Sybil M. Jack. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 236. $49.95.) Nathaniel Bacon, the seventeenth-century recorder of Ipswich, thought that the essence of an urban community was participation...

A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000-1485.(Review)
January 1, 1999... A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000-1485. By Pamela Nightingale. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 640. $65.00.) Nightingale's book is a rare jewel, a...

Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. By Henry Phillips. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 334. $59.95.) The dust cover description of this book declares that it is an "original and far-reaching...

The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. Edited by Mark Pinson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 207. $14.95.) This second edition of a...

Alfred Marshall's "Lectures to Women": Some Economic Questions Directly Connected to the Welfare of the Laborer.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Alfred Marshall's "Lectures to Women": Some Economic Questions Directly Connected to the Welfare of the Laborer. Edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Eugenio Biagini, and Rita McWilliams Tullberg. (Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1995....

Medieval Society and the Manor Court.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Medieval Society and the Manor Court. Edited by Zvi Razi and Richard Smith. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 709. $130.00.) It is rare to come across a massive volume dedicated to one class of historical documents. Yet this 700-page...

The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. By Eric Rentschler. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 456. $25.00.) As much as Nazi art and architecture have been castigated, critics have typically demonized...

Reforming the Russian Legal System.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Reforming the Russian Legal System. By Gordon B. Smith. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 311. $21.95.) Readers seeking an overview of the Russian legal system will find much of interest in this book. The historical...

King or Covenant? Voices from Civil War.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... King or Covenant? Voices from Civil War. By David Stevenson. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 212. 14.99 [pounds sterling].) In this book, David Stevenson, perhaps the leading expert on Scotland during the British...

Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834. By Charles Tilly. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. 476. $49.95.) The latest work to emerge from the Tiny stable is ambitious indeed. It attempts nothing less than to trace...

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. By Dale K. Van Kley. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 390. $35.00.) Alexis de Tocqueville believed that the French...

The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. By Geoffrey Wawro. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 313. $59.95.) This volume, the first full monograph to appear on the subject in over 20 years,...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Edited by Paul G. Bahn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 386. $39.95.) Spectacular sites and dapper chaps litter Paul Bahn's addition to Cambridge's pleasant series of...

Fins de siecles: How Centuries End, 1400-2000.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Fins de siecles: How Centuries End, 1400-2000. Edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 248. $35.00.) The approach of the twenty-first century has begun to call forth a small...

Railways, 2 vols.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Railways. [Studies in Transport History Series]. Volume I, edited by Terri Gourvish; volume II, edited by Geoffrey Channon. (Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company and the Scholar Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 174; xxi, 187. $59.95.) ...