The Historian articles from January 2000

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THE ORIGINS OF THE FREMONT EXPEDITIONS: JOHN J. ABERT AND THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST.
January 1, 2000... John C. Fremont (1813-90), one of the most colorful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century U.S. history, based his heroic reputation as an explorer of the American West on expeditions he led to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and 1843-44....

THE PIOUS AND THE PROFANE: THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF EARLY BARBADOS PLANTERS.
January 1, 2000... In October 1653, William Peade, a dying planter on the island of Barbados in the West Indies, drafted his will. He began by bequeathing his soul to God, "trusting most assuredly to be saved by the death passion and onely merritts of Jesus...

ANTICOMMUNISM, AMERICANIZATION, AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: ITALIAN AMERICANS AND THE 1948 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN ITALY.
January 1, 2000... Italian Americans were one of the largest ethnic minorities in the United States in the late 1940s. According to the 19.50 census, the United States was home to 1,427,145 Italian immigrants and 3,143,405 American-born people of Italian...

THE COLLEGE SOCIAL FRATERNITY ANTIDISCRIMINATION DEBATE, 1945-1949.
January 1, 2000... College enrollment in the United States skyrocketed at the end of World War II. This tremendous student growth resulted in part from the GI bill, which afforded servicemen of all races and economic classes new opportunities for collegiate...

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS "POLITICAL AMBITIONS" AND THE 1944 VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION: A REINTERPRETATION.(Review)
January 1, 2000... More than any other Supreme Court justice in American history, William O. Douglas involved himself deeply in the political affairs of his day. In over 36 years on the Court, Douglas served as advisor to Democratic presidents from Franklin D....

WHY PREWAR JAPANESE HISTORIANS DID NOT TELL THE TRUTH.
January 1, 2000... Modern academic historical scholarship is based on a universal assumption that historians are committed to discovering and publishing the truth. Tales from ancient China describe two brothers, historians in the state of Qi, sixth century...

BEYOND THE BAY OF PIGS: THE CUBAN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM AND THE REORIENTATION OF ANTI-CASTROISM.
January 1, 2000... "We joined to fight Fidel Castro, not to polish shoes and drill!"(1) asserted one entrant to the military component of the Cuban Volunteer Program, a U.S. government project from May 1961 to September 1963. Jointly administered by the...

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880. By John E Beeler. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. $49.50) The winner of the American Historical Association's Paul F. Birdsall Prize for 1999 is Prof. John E Beeler...

Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930. By Anthony L. Cardoza. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 264. $59.95) Anthony L. Cardoza of Loyola University of Chicago is the winner of the American...

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. By Amy Dru Stanley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.) The Organization of American Historians presented its Avery O. Craven Award...

Confucianism and Human Rights.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Confucianism and Human Rights. Edited by W. Theodore de Bary and Tu Wei-ming. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 327. $40.00.) In this final year of the century, human rights (renquan in Chinese) is a topic of...

The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. By Frederick F. Anscombe. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 270. $47.50.) The half-century preceding World War I was an important era for the Persian or...

Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia. By Sheila Carapico. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 256. $59.95.) Since 1962, Northern Yemen has witnessed revolution, civil war, border...

Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in The Conquest of Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in The Conquest of Africa. By Philip D. Curtin. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 256. $64.95.) Professor Curtin is well known for his contribution to the...

The Jewish State: A Century Later.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Jewish State: A Century Later. By Alan Dowry. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 337. $35.00.) The principal virtues of this lucid work are the extraordinary scope of the research, the thoroughly...

White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950.(Review)
January 1, 2000... White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950. Edited by Alan H. leeves and Jonathan Crush. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press,...

Crescent Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Crescent Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic. By Hugh Poulton. (New York: New York University Press, 1997. Pp. 350. $35.00.) Turkish nationalism has been studied largely just as another case of ethno-political awareness rather than...

Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. By Pamela Scully. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; and Cape Town: David Philip, 1997. Pp. xii, 210. $23.95.) ...

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963. By Robert L. Tignor. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. 419. $55.00.) In the 1960s, the Ghanaian...

Forging Mexico, 1821-1835.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Forging Mexico, 1821-1835. By Timothy E. Anna. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 330. $40.00.) The author of this book has written a provocative study of national identity in Mexico's federalist system that offers an...

Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. By Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 317. $49.95.) The authors of this study argue that, through a...

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. By Taylor Branch. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Pp. xiv, 746. $30.00.) In 1988, Taylor Branch published Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963, the Pulitzer...

What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy. By H.W. Brands. (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 335. $54.95.) Operating from the premise that a single theme, an...

Liberalism and Its Discontents.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Liberalism and Its Discontents. By Alan Brinkley. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 372. $27.c,5.) Most of the essays Alan Brinkley pulled together for this book relate squarely to his general theme of...

Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries. By Anne M. Butler. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 262. $29.95.) In this study of women prisoners, Anne Butler deepens our...

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 320. $24.95.) Barry Cushman sets out to revise the dominant but simplistic understanding of...

A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era. By Steven J. Diner. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. Pp. viii, 320. $25.00.) As the subtitle of Diner's book indicates, this is not primarily a history of the Progressive movement....

Crafting a Class: College Admissions and Financial Aid, 1955-1944.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Crafting a Class: College Admissions and Financial Aid, 1955-1994. By Elizabeth A. Duffy and Idana Goldberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 296. $29.95.) This book covers wide-ranging changes in admissions and...

The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America. By Richard J. Ellis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xiii, 426. $34.95.) Richard Ellis, a liberal political scientist, examines the failures of American...

Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America. By Paula S. Fass. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 324. $27.50.) Americans born before the 1970s can remember a safe childhood of playing outdoors unsupervised and walking to and...

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. By Neil Foley. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 326. $29.95.) The growth of Chicano history has taken the field in new directions in...

The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From the Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From the Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Edited by John D. French and Daniel James. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 320. $19.95.) This...

A History of the American People.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A History of the American People. By Paul Johnson. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. Pp. xv, 1088. $35.00.) This is an old-fashioned political history, of the United States written from a conservative, if idiosyncratic, point of...

The Soviet World of American Communism.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Soviet World of American Communism. By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 378. $35.00.) Since the opening in 1992 of the Russian archives that hold the official...

Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996. By Enrique Krauze. (New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Pp. 872. $35.00.) The author of this survey is Mexico's leading popular, non-fiction author. Enrique Krauze's books aim...

Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920-1939.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920-1939. By Warren F. Kuehl and Lynne K. Dunne. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 306. $49.00.) This study of American internationalism between...

Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940. By Asuncion Lavrin. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. x, 480. $25.00.) The appearance of this paperback edition of a work first published in...

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. By M. M. Manring. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. ix, 183. $47.50.) Slave in a Box begins with a provocative title that sets the tone for an...

Secrecy: The American Experience.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Secrecy: The American Experience. By Daniel Patrick Moynihan, with an introduction by Richard Gid Powers. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 262. $22.50.) There is little doubt that conspiracy theory plays an...

Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. By David E. Nye. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 224. $17.50.) The essays collected here offer an intriguing look at technology and the...

The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. By Louis A. Perez Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 171. $34.95.) Anniversaries afford historians opportunities to look...

The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 342. $35.00.) In the midst of a new tidal wave of scholarship about...

Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. By Bruce Tap. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xii, 319. $39.95.) Controversial in its day and argued over by Civil War historians ever since, the Joint...

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life. By Nancy Tomes. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 351. $29.95.) My father has spent most of his 84 years profoundly worried about germs; my mother...

A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere. By Jayne E. Triber. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Pp. x, 314. $29.95.) In this well-written, full-length biography, the author has gone beyond the mythological folk hero of...

The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. By Paul Vanderwood. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 409. $65.00.) As I read Paul Vanderwood's account...

Benjamin Franklin and His Gods.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Benjamin Franklin and His Gods. By Kerry S. Walters. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 213. $18.95.) This is a thoughtful study of Benjamin Franklin's religious views. Walters has meticulously combed through...

Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80. By Marli E Weiner. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 308. $19.95.) If much of the information here has been catalogued before, this work...

The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. By Elliott West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 422. $34.95.) The author of this study introduces us to the complex zone of connectivity where...

The Great Hill Stations of Asia.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Great Hill Stations of Asia. By Barbara Crossette. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 259. $28.00.) The hill station was one of the strangest legacies left by the imperial powers in Asia, particularly by the British in...

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. By Rod Edmond. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 307. $59.95.) This new book examines the literary devices and strategies employed by several of...

Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences. Edited by Shobhita Jain and Rhoda Reddock. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 1998. Pp. xvi, 186. $19.50.) Historians and other scholars have paid increasing attention in recent years to women...

The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan. By Kazuo Nimura. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Translated by Terry Boardman and Andrew Gordon. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 275. $17.95.) A prospective...

Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945. By Pauline B. Keating. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 340. $49.50.) Our understanding of the complex process that...

The Taiping Vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Taiping Vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864. By Jonathan D. Spence. (Waco, Texas: Markham Press Fund, Baylor University Press, 1998. Pp. 58. $5.95.) Since 1977, Baylor University has sponsored a series of historical lectures that...

Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan. By Peter Wetzler. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 294. $38.00.) Emperor Hirohito is a most ambiguous historical figure. Even before...

Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. By Victoria E. Bonnell. (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 363. $48.00.) This book is not simply a lavishly illustrated study of...

"Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... "Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. By Constance Brittain Bouchard. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 198. $14.95.) In this book, the author skillfully synthesizes the results of a...

Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966. By Roy Church and Quentin Outram. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 314. $69.95.) Coalmining is one of the most closely examined aspects of...

The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. By Michael Costen. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp. 229. $19.95.) This is a sound, readable introduction to the Cathar dualist heresy and to the society and politics...

Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler. By David Crew. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 287. $49.95.) This book is an ambitious study in which the author seeks to demonstrate the fruitfulness of the history of everyday...

Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934-1941.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934-1941. By Sarah Davies. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 216. $59.95.) This short volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature on life...

Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 304. $59.95.) This book is a collection of thirteen essays with a thematic introduction by the editors, who have...

Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803. By Tia DeNora. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 232. $15.95.) Tia DeNora's volume reassesses the formation of Beethoven's...

W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I, The Apprentice Mage.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I, The Apprentice Mage. By R. E Foster. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxii, 640. $35.00.) Biographies of poet-dramatists are usually reviewed in literary, not historical, journals. Yet...

The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945: Continuity or Contingency? Volume XIII, Studies in Contemporary Jewry - An Annual.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945: Continuity or Contingency? Volume XIII, Studies in Contemporary Jewry - An Annual. Edited by Jonathan Frankel. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press with The Avraham Harman Institute of...

Germans into Nazis.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Germans into Nazis. By Peter Fritsche. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 269. $25.95.) In The Meaning of Hitler, Sebastian Hafner wrote that Hitler's great accomplishment was not that by 1933 he had convinced 40 percent...

Augustan Culture: An Interpretative Introduction.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Augustan Culture: An Interpretative Introduction. By Karl Galinsky. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 476. $24.95.) The Augustan principate revolutionized Rome, and this book should revolutionize its often hitherto...

Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle. By Rhonda K. Garelick. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. 231. $32.50.) Who would ever have thought that media-cult personalities such as (the artist...

The Social History of the Hungarian Intelligentsia, 1825-1914.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Social History of the Hungarian Intelligentsia, 1825-1914. By Janos Mazsu. Translated by Mario D. Fenyo. (Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 1997. Pp. xxiv, 282. $35.00.) The nature of the Hungarian intelligentsia in the nineteenth...

The British Monarchy and the French Revolution.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The British Monarchy and the French Revolution. By Marilyn Morris. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp viii, 229. $28.50.) This is an important book that is, nevertheless, not quite the final word on its subject. That...

Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. By Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat. (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 346. $45.00.) There is something to interest everyone in this book as the author surveys a wide range of activities...

King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 409. $59.95.) W. B. Patterson is to be commended for writing a book full of surprises about a king who is often...

Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert R. Shandley, and with essays translated by Jeremiah Riemer. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. Pp. x, 295. $17.95.) On its appearance in April...

The Politics of the British Army.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Politics of the British Army. By Hew Strachan. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 311. $55.00.) Over 40 years ago, Gordon Craig's magisterial Politics of the Prussian Army appeared; now Hew Strachan offers this engrossing...

Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics 1500-1700.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics 1500-1700. By Wayne Te Brake. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 221. $45.00.) In this groundbreaking study of the relationship between popular...

Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia. By Peter Waldron. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 220. $36.00.) P. A. Stolypin, late Imperial Russia's greatest statesman, strove in the...

Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie. Edited by James L. West and Iurii A. Petrov. With the collaboration of Edith W. Clowes and Thomas C. Owen. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 189. $45.00.) This...

Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1212-1314.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1212-1314. By Alan Young. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 244. 16.99 [pounds sterling].) The history of Scotland is well known for its failures. However, while William Wallace,...

Prince Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria's Youngest Son.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Prince Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria's Youngest Son. By Charlotte Zeepvat. (Phoenix: Mill Thrupp/Gloucester, England: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1998. Pp. viii, 216. 18.99 [pounds sterling].) A biography of Queen Victoria's...

Cold War Illusions: America, Europe, and Soviet Power, 1969-1989.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Cold War Illusions: America, Europe, and Soviet Power, 1969-1989. By Dana H. Allin. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 267. $16.95.) This study maintains that American overestimation of Soviet capabilities during the 1970s and...

War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1500-2000.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1500-2000. By Jeremy Black. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 334. $39.00.) Over the past two decades there have been at least half a dozen attempts at...

Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Posada Carbo. (London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996. Pp. vii,...

British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936.(Review)
January 1, 2000... British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936. By Phillips Payson O'Brien. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 274. $59.95.) This volume deals largely with policy at the highest level: general considerations as to...