The Historian articles from January 2001

The Historian archives from January 2001

IN THIS ISSUE.
January 1, 2001... In 1939 Ernest and Paul Liebmann successfully defended their right to sell ice without a license from the Oklahoma State Corporation Commission before the U.S. Supreme Court. While Justice Louis D. Brandeis generally supported independent...

"COLD, HARD FACTS": JUSTICE BRANDEIS AND THE OKLAHOMA ICE CASE.
January 1, 2001... In the summer of 1930, a new variety of bootlegger appeared on the streets of Oklahoma City. Instead of alcohol, these bootleggers trafficked in something far more innocuous, yet judicially and politically even hotter--man-made ice. Two...

HUGUENOTS AND PALATINES.
January 1, 2001... In 1959, the United States warmly welcomed Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro's communist dictatorship. Many of the Cubans were from the middle and upper classes and brought valuable skills and resources, and within a few years, they found...

TWO STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT: THE DEMISE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE.
January 1, 2001... In 1966, John Hay Whitney, the financier and former ambassador to Great Britain, finally gave up and closed the New York Herald Tribune after spending eight years and nearly 40 million dollars trying to keep one of the great American newspapers...

THE 1948 MASSACRE AT DEIR YASSIN REVISITED.
January 1, 2001... Between 9 and 11 April 1948, over 100 Arab townspeople were massacred by Jewish paramilitaries in Deir Yassin near Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine. The incident was pivotal in modern Middle East history, becoming in one Israeli...

"THE COMMONWEALTH OF PEOPLES TO WHICH WE RACIALLY BELONG"(1): THE NATIONAL PRESS AND THE MANUFACTURING OF AN ARMS RACE.
January 1, 2001... In an August 1902 issue of the North American Review, Captain Richard Pearson Hobson USN, noted of rising American naval power: "The white race, in possession of the truths of science and the forces of nature, now controls the destinies of the...

THE GLASGOW ASSOCIATION FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN, 1878 TO 1883.
January 1, 2001... At a dinner party in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1868, conversation turned to the issue of higher education for women. Mrs. Jean Campbell, the wife of a wealthy dye manufacturer, asked Glasgow University Professor John Nichol to offer a series of...

THE GHOST BATTALION: SPANIARDS IN THE WAFFEN-SS, 1944-1945.
January 1, 2001... In April 1939, after three years of fighting, Generalismo Francisco Franco and his right-wing forces finally defeated Spain's Popular Front army to win the Spanish civil war. Franco had received much support from Adolf Hitler in his revolt...

There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa.(Review)
January 1, 2001... There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa. By David Reynolds. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.) A geographer is the winner of the Benjamin R. Shambaugh Award for...

The Life and Times of Poncho Villa.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Life and Times of Poncho Villa. By Frederick Katz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.) The distinguished Latin Americanist, Frederick Katz of the University of Chicago, was awarded the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award by...

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. By Woody Holton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1999.) ...

Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean. By Madhavi Kale. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. iii, 236. $37.50.) The migration of more than two million Indian,...

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname.(Review)
January 1, 2001... In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. By Rosemarijn Hoefte. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp. xii, 276. $49.95.) The migration of more than two million Indian, Chinese,...

The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. By Dorothy Shineberg. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 311. $45.00.) The migration of more than two million Indian, Chinese, and other...

European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey.(Review)
January 1, 2001... European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey. By Kate Fleet. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 204. $59.95.) Other than the Galata Tower, which lends its name to an inner-city...

The Persian Presence in the Islamic World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Persian Presence in the Islamic World. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabbagh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 267. $64.95.) The result of a biennial conference at UCLA to award the Giorgio Levi Della...

A Concise History of South Africa.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Concise History of South Africa. By Robert Ross. (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 219. $49.95.) Over the past century (if not longer), few African countries have claimed the attention of the...

Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. By John-Manuel Andriote. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 459. $30.00.) By now there are a number of books that chronicle the history of AIDS in the...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. By Jeanie Attie. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 294. $37.50.) In this book on Northern women's unpaid labor for the Union cause, the author recounts...

Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History. Edited, with an introduction, by Michael Bellesiles. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 453. $24.95.) This is a wide-ranging collection of 20 essays on the...

A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law? American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective. By Herman Belz. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Pp. viii, 276. $58.00.) The attempt to turn the written words of a constitution into an...

Jefferson Davis's Generals.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jefferson Davis's Generals. Edited by Gabor S. Boritt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 175. $27.50.) The study of war, perhaps above all else, is a study of people. The author of this book argues that the outcome of war...

Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Gregg Cantrell. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 493. $29.95.) This ambitious biography of Stephen F. Austin is much more than a life and times account of the "Father of...

Security with Solvency: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Shaping of the American Military Establishment.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Security with Solvency: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Shaping of the American Military Establishment. By Gerald Clarfield. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 257. $59.95.) This book is well titled. It is a history of the struggle of...

Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen. Edited by David Colbert. (New York: Viking, 1998. Pp. 495. $25.95.) This is an excellent follow-up to the author's...

A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. By Gioia Diliberto. (New York: A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, 1999. Pp. 318. $26.00.) Jane Addams was perhaps the most influential American woman in the first half of the twentieth century. The...

Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. By James P. Duffy. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. Pp. vii, 276. $27.95.) With this new study, the author offers a thorough analysis of David Farragut's Civil War...

Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918. By Byron Farwell. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. Pp. i, 336. $27.95.) Most of the immense literature on the First World War has been written about the European...

Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. By Richard Wightman Fox. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 412. $30.00.) The author of this study presents the Beecher-Tilton scandal of the 1870s as a...

Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union & Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union & Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. By Howard Jones. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 236. $29.95.) The author of this book has provided a useful...

American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century.(Review)
January 1, 2001... American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Pp. xxvii, 306. $30.00.) Beginning as an American colonial historian and proceeding recently to broad-gauge studies...

Nixon's Vietnam War.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey Kimball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xvi, 495. $39.95.) The Vietnam War was the first defeat of the United States abroad, even at the zenith of its power. Richard Nixon was the president...

Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism. By Bryan F. Le Beau. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997. Pp. 252. $39.95.) Those who wish to understand Jonathan Dickinson face the sad absence of...

All the Daring of a Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies.(Review)
January 1, 2001... All the Daring of a Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. By Elizabeth D. Leonard. (New York & London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. Pp. 368. $27.95.) The author of this study has made a signal contribution to Civil War literature by...

The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. By Richard Longstreth. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. x-viii, 248. $55.00.) While historians generally ignore the study of...

Brennan and Democracy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Brennan and Democracy. By Frank I. Michelman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 148. $57.50.) This brief collection of three essays by a professor of law at Harvard and a former clerk to Justice William Brennan attempts...

The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xiv, 118. $25.00.) This book provides an excellent, succinct account of the legal issues...

If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion.(Review)
January 1, 2001... If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. By George Anthony Peffer. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 164, $17.50.) The voices of Chinese immigrant women in the late...

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton.(Review)
January 1, 2001... An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton. By Richard A. Posner. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 276. $24.95.) Surprise! Surprise! The efforts by the Republican-dominated House...

How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights.(Review)
January 1, 2001... How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Belinda Robnett. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 246. $35.00.) Gender shaped the structure of the civil rights movement, in part, because...

Technology in America: A Brief History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I. Marcus and Howard P. Segal. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999. Pp. viii, 400. $43.00.) Delving into the history of technology as a graduate student in the early 1990s, this reviewer was...

Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. By C. Edward Skeen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pp. ix, 229. $27.50.) This book is a much-needed addition to the slowly growing literature on a neglected aspect of U.S. history, the...

Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953. By E. Timothy Smith. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 176. $59.95.) The analysis in this book addresses the often-held...

Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. By Mark David Spence. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 190. $35.00.) America's "crown jewel" national parks--Yosemite, Yellowstone,...

Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840. By Charles F. Walker. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 330. $49.95.) Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin freed Peru from Spanish rule in 1824. This...

Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions. By Marilyn J. Westerkamp. (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 219. $22.99.) The history of religion in America is both an old and new study....

The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power. By Donald W. White. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 551. $42.50.) This is an ambitious book in which the author attempts not only...

The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. By Gary D. Allinson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 259. $45.00.) This work is designed to be "a convenient learning tool and reference source for readers with little or...

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. By Susan B. Hanley. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 213. $16.95.) In this book, the author takes up a question that has been debated for...

The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxi, 1,148. $130.00.) This book is enormous in size...

Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China. By Roxann Prazniak. (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. Pp. xi, 304. $24.95.) Where does the first decade of the twentieth century...

Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of the Russo-Japanese War. By Tadayoshi Sakurai. With an introduction by Roger J. Spiller. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 270. $15.00.) In May 1904, Togo Miyatake, a loyal son of the...

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry. By Samita Sen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 265. $59.95.) Focusing attention on the jute industry in colonial Bengal from the 1890s to the 1940s, the...

Threshold of Terror: The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Threshold of Terror: The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution. By Rodney Allen. (Stroud, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1999. Pp. viii, 248. $34.95.) The last hours of Louis XVI's monarchy are not exactly an unknown episode. The...

"Final Solution": Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews.(Review)
January 1, 2001... "Final Solution": Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews. By Gotz Aly. Translated by Belinda Cooper and Allison Brown. (London and New York: Arnold, 1999. Pp. viii, 305. $19.95.) This translation of Gotz Aly's original...

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Sebastian Balfour and Paul Preston. (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. viii, 274. $25.99.) The authors of this study make a convincing argument that, far from being...

The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530. By Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier. Translated by Elizabeth Fackelman. Revised and edited by Edward Peters. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp....

Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy. By Phyllis Pray Bober. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 442.) It should be stated at once that this is a work of stunning erudition. There can be...

Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. By Carolyn A. Conley. (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 1999. Pp. xii, 249.) Nineteenth-century Ireland was perceived as an uncommonly brutal society. Victorian observers,...

Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler. Edited by Frank J. Coppa. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 248. $24.95.) This comparative analysis of the much-disputed...

Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Remaking the Union: Devolution and British Politics in the 1990s. Edited by Howard Elcock and Michael Keating. (London and Portland, Oreg.: Frank Cass, 1998, Pp. 231. $45.00.) What will Tony Blair's devolution policies mean for Britain and...

Interpreting the Russian Revolution.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Interpreting the Russian Revolution. By Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. 198. $24.95.) The theoretical premise of this book is to show the role of symbols or, to use the...

Jews in a Graeco-Roman World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Jews in a Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Martin Goodman. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 293. $72.00.) "How different from other people in the Graeco-Roman world were the Jews" (3)? Sixteen short essays address Martin Goodman's...

A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550. By Edwin S. Hunt and James M. Murray. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 277. $49.95.) This succinct and beautifully written book is a worthy edition to the...

The Collective and the Individual in Russia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Collective and the Individual in Russia. By Oleg Kharkhordin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 406. $50.00.) In an ambitious monograph, Oleg Kharkhordin has tackled a huge and nebulous topic: the complex...

Medieval and Renaissance Venice.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Thomas F. Madden. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. x, 345. $45.00.) Here is a real harvest of the Middle Ages. At the Thirtieth Congress of...

Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution. By Nicholas A. Lambert. (Columbia, S. C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 410. $49.95.) This is a delightful book. The author's thesis is strikingly simple: the historical consensus on...

Five Days in London: May 1940.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Five Days in London: May 1940. By John Lukacs. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 236. $19.95.) The year 2000 has brought with it numerous selections for "Man of the Century." Frequently the electors' choice is Winston...

Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to Lenin's Mausoleum.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to Lenin's Mausoleum. By Martin Malia. (Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 514. $35.00.) This work fits with a series of diverse, recent books...

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy. By Richard K. Marshall. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 190. $42.50.) Prato is familiar to economic historians as the home...

Culture, Religion, and Demographic Behavior: Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace, 1750-1870.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Culture, Religion, and Demographic Behavior: Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace, 1750-1870. By Kevin McQuillan. (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 227. $60.00.) Since the Reformation, religious factors...

Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present. By David Nash. (Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. xi, 300. $74.95.) Does the subject of prosecutions for blasphemy in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain merit...

Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800. Edited by Michael North and David Ormrod. (Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998. Pp. xi, 250. $83.95.) This collection of essays addresses the conjuncture of art history and economic...

Ireland and Her Neighbors in the Seventh Century.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Ireland and Her Neighbors in the Seventh Century. By Michael Richter. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 256. $55.00.) Ecclesiastical affairs constitute the most significant aspect of the international contacts that Ireland had with...

Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens. By James P. Sickinger. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. x, 274. $49.95.) The author of this study tackles a crucial question: to what extent and in what...

Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies. By Roderick Stackelberg. (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x, 307. $85.00.) While general histories of Nazi Germany abound, this work seeks to do more than simply survey the...

The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher. By W. Jeffrey Tatum. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 365. $49.95.) Biographies of ancient historical figures often lurch from one episode to...

Hanoverian Britain and Empire: Essays in Memory of Philip Lawson.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Hanoverian Britain and Empire: Essays in Memory of Philip Lawson. Edited by Stephen Taylor, Richard Connors, and Clyve Jones. (Woodbridge, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 349. $75.00.) This eclectic collection of 17 stimulating...

British Generals in the War of 1812: High Command in the Canadas.(Review)
January 1, 2001... British Generals in the War of 1812: High Command in the Canadas. By Wesley B. Turner. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 260. $29.95.) This book is a thorough and thoughtful study of the five commanding...

Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization. By Frederic J. Baumgartner. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 286. $26.95.) Millennialism originally referred to a belief in the thousand-year reign of...

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 2, 1927-1934.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 2, 1927-1934. Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith. Translated by Rodney Livingstone and others. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 870....

The Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 234. $49.95.) This overview of the transatlantic slave trade provides a convenient account of the complex history and extensive...

Colonial Photography and Exhibitions: Representations of the "Native" People and the Making of European Identities.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Colonial Photography and Exhibitions: Representations of the "Native" People and the Making of European Identities. By Anne Maxwell. (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 243. $85.00.) This glossy study by a...

Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. By Margaret H. McFadden. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 270. $29.99.) In this impressively researched and important book, the...