The Historian articles from January 2004

The Historian archives from January 2004

Turn your radio on: Brailey Odham's 1952 "talkathon" campaign for Florida governor.
January 1, 2004... POLITICAL CANDIDATES at the end of the twentieth century began looking for ways to circumvent both conventional media coverage and paid advertising to "get out" their message to voters. The 1992 presidential campaign was a signal moment: Bill...

Guns, butter, Leon Keyserling, the AFL-CIO, and the fate of full--employment economics.(Walter Philliop Reuther and George Meany's Conference on Economic Progress)
January 1, 2004... ON 15 JANUARY 1954, an intriguing proposal landed on the desks of both CIO President Walter Reuther and AFL President George Meany. Its author was Leon Keyserling, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and a longtime friend of...

Southern integration: the Sui-Tang (581-907) reach south.
January 1, 2004... SOUTH CHINA HAD BEEN independent for roughly four centuries when it was conquered by the Sui dynasty (581-618) in 589. (1) Much of the south, moreover, had scarcely been Chinese in any meaningful sense at all prior to the initial (Qin) imperial...

"Reported to be distracted": the suicide of Puritan entrepreneur Peter Cole.
January 1, 2004... ON THE FOURTH OF DECEMBER IN 1665, prominent London bookseller and printer Peter Cole hanged himself from the rafters of his warehouse in Leadenhall Street. Richard Smyth noted in his famous Obituary that Cole was "reported to be distracted,"...

The rise of the grands ensembles: government, business, and housing in postwar France.
January 1, 2004... AS FOREIGN VISITORS APPROACH the outskirts of large French cities, they first gain sight of the grands ensembles, massive suburban apartment complexes built in the 1950s and 1960s. Scholars have long argued that the grands ensembles were the...

"On their own and against all odds: women creating the civil rights movement".(Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter)(Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter. By Winson Hudson and Constance Curry. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xi, 150. $26.95.) Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War...

Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? By William G. Dever. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. xii, 268. $25.00.) In this work, the author traces the origins of the ancient Israelites. The first four...

The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948. By Ellen Fleischmann. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 335. $29.95.) This study, documenting the development of a Palestinian...

Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-1882. By Najia Aarim-Heriot. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 289. $39.95.) In reexamining the conditions that led to the...

The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903. By Roger I. Abrams. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 195. $26.95.) In recent years, the serious writing about baseball's role in America's past has produced...

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. By Lizabeth Cohen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. 567. $35.00.) Few words bring home more powerfully the argument of this new book than President George W....

The Modern American Presidency.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Modern American Presidency. By Lewis L. Gould. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003, Pp. vii, 309. $24.95.) Lewis L. Gould's work stands out like a giant redwood in the vast forest of presidential literature. Measured both...

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Ann Hagedorn. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. Pp. xvi, 333. $25.00.) Histories of pre-Civil War underground railroad networks that aided slaves escaping...

Leadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Leadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni. By Kenneth E. Hamburger. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 257. $32.95.) General Douglas MacArthur proposed evacuation of...

Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865. By Stanley Harrold. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 280. $24.95.) This intriguing book on the antislavery community in Washington, D.C.,...

Mortal Remains: Death in Early America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mortal Remains: Death in Early America. Edited, and with an introduction, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burnstein. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 253. $18.95.) "How is the culturally learned fear of finality...

The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $29.95.) The role that eighteenth-century Americans thought religion should play in public life is a...

A Murder in Virginia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Murder in Virginia. By Suzanne Lebsock. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. 418. $25.95.) In June 1895, Lucy Jane Pollard was murdered in Lunenburg County, Virginia, while her farmer husband, Edward S. Pollard, was working in a...

The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois. By Gerald Leonard. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 328. $45.00.) Well over a...

Mexican Highland Cultures: Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Calpulalpan, and Chalchicomula in 1934-1935.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mexican Highland Cultures: Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Calpulalpan, and Chalchicomula in 1934-1935. By Sigvald Linne, with a foreword by Staffan Brunius and an introduction by George L. Cowgill. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama...

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Republic of Debtors. Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $29.95.) Given the impressive performance of the eighteenth-century American economy, it is...

American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865. By Kathleen D. McCarthy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 319. $35.00.) Thomas Jefferson formulated the "American Creed" in the...

Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937. By Marian C. McKenna. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 612. $60.00.) Revisionist scholarship of the past quarter century has generally...

At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. By Jane T. Merritt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 338. $39.95.) In this study, the author persuasively argues that the violence...

Independence Hall in American Memory.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Independence Hall in American Memory. By Charlene Mires. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 350.) The author of this volume has written a book that shows us why history matters. As one of a number of books that...

Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age. By Lawrence J. Nelson. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 323. $39.95.) In the 1920s, scandals over the...

Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America. By Keith W. Olson. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003. Pp. 248. $35.00.) More than thirty years after the 17 June 1972, break-in at the Democratic Party's National Committee...

A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics. By H. Jefferson Powell. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. x, 251. $35.00.) This is an unusual book. It is a welcome combination of American...

The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. By John A. Salmond. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 295. $37.50.) In his book, the author narrates the story of the 1934 textile strike that spread...

Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West. By Virginia Scharff. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 239. $19.95.) "From the indigenous women who encountered European adventurers, to the housewives and...

A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances. By Laura Schenone. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. xxxvi, 392. $35.00.) In this intriguing and accessible...

Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. By David M. Scobey. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Pp. 340. $40.00.) The author of this study has written a graceful, tightly argued monograph that will...

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 557. $39.95.) This study focuses on the life of Isaiah Bowman, a prominent...

Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. By Andrew F. Smith. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 234. $29.95.) Numerous food crops first grown in the Western Hemisphere helped to revolutionize global...

Federalism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Federalism. By Robert P. Sutton. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 293. $54.95.) This book is an appropriate source for undergraduates and advanced high school students who want to know more about federalism. The word...

The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government. By Jon C. Teaford. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 272. $55.00.) In a reprise to his revisionist The Unheralded Triumph, in which he rebutted the...

Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. By Gary Urton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 202. $19.95.) Outsiders have long been fascinated by the sets of knotted strings, called quipu or...

Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. By Meredith Baldwin Weddle. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 348. $49.95.) This is not simply another book on Quaker pacifism. Meredith...

Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 271. $38.00.) This book is one of a handful of recent studies of Abraham Lincoln focusing on the great...

Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. By Antoinette Burton. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 202. $21.95.) This study examines the memories of three Indian women...

China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age. By Evan A. Feigenbaum. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 339. $55.00.) Scholars are often reluctant to view...

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. By Andrew Gordon. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 384. $35.00.) This volume represents an examination of the last four hundred years of Japanese history by...

Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 411. $20.00. One of the most, or perhaps even the...

Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. By Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.00.) In this book, the author has made a breakthrough by bringing a new interpretation as to why...

Queen Victoria.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Queen Victoria. By Walter L. Arnstein. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xi, 254. $29.95.) For readers seeking a compact life of Queen Victoria, this biography is just the thing. However, the life is largely a series of Arnstein's...

Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787. By Joseph F. Callo. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 230. $34.95.) How do people become heroes? In this book, Joseph F. Callo endeavors to answer that question by...

"For Freedom Alone": The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... "For Freedom Alone": The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. By Edward J. Cowan. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2003. Pp. 162. $15.95.) The "Declaration of Arbroath" is probably the best-known piece of writing from medieval Scotland....

Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. By Wade G. Dudley. (Washington, DC: Brassey's, Inc., 2003. Pp. 98. $19.95.) This brief survey of Drake's career, while breaking no new ground, admirably summarizes the themes suggested by the title:...

Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 229. $32.95.) The author of this study challenges the longstanding, and widely followed,...

All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia. By Cathy A. Frierson. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Pp. x, 318. $45.00.) More, perhaps, than anywhere else in the modern world, fire has...

The Battle of Leningrad, 1941-1944.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Battle of Leningrad, 1941-1944. By David M. Glantz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 660. $39.95.) Anyone who visits St. Petersburg and sees the numerous mass graves of the two million people who died there is...

The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939. By Helen Graham. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 486. $70.00.) This work is essentially a traditional political and diplomatic history of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish...

Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $35.00.) Publishers do a disservice to the reading public when they push authors to write books that...

Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. By Debra Hamel. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 200. $24.95.) Around 340 BC, Apollodorus, the son of a wealthy Athenian...

The Origins of World War I.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Origins of World War I. Edited by Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 537. $60.00.) The editors of this volume have had distinguished careers and are noted for their...

The IRA, 1926-1936.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The IRA, 1926-1936. By Brian Hanley. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. Pp. 287. $35.00.) The history of the IRA has been examined during the past quarter century in a number of important books, most of which devote only a chapter to the...

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. By Michael Hau. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. x, 286. $22.00.) Today's readers--inundated by promotions for bodybuilding equipment, beauty...

Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780. By Daniel Heartz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003. Pp. xxii, 1040. $100.00.) This study offers a vividly recounted tour of music and its social and political contexts...

The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 233. $22.95.) In denying women civic and political equality, did the French Revolution also make it more...

Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity. By Naomi Janowitz. (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxv, 161. $45.00.) This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of late antique religion and...

The Peloponnesian War.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Peloponnesian War. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xxx, 511. $29.95.) Donald Kagan, author of a well-respected scholarly history of the Peloponnesian War in four volumes, has now written a highly readable one-volume...

Law, Crime, and English Society 1660-1830.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Law, Crime, and English Society 1660-1830. Edited by Norma Landau. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00.) This is a collection of essays in honor of J.M. Beattie. Fittingly, given Beattie's monumental work on...

The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance. By Radomir Luza and Christina Vella. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 295. $34.95.) Devotees of World War II and Czechoslovak history will be grateful that...

The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire. By Timothy S. Miller. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 340. $44.95.) Introducing his comprehensive study of child welfare in the...

God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages. By Barbara Newman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 446. $42.50.) Recent decades have witnessed a revolution in our appreciation of the...

Prokofiev: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Prokofiev: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935. By David Nice. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 390. $35.00. The three great Russian composers of the twentieth century adopted very different stances with regard to their...

Warriors and Their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships between Byzantium, the West, and the Islamic World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Warriors and Their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships between Byzantium, the West, and the Islamic World. By David Nicolle. (Burlington: Variorum Collected Studies Series/Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiv, 324. $105.95.) The...

The Two Reformations: The Journey from the Last Days to the New World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Two Reformations: The Journey from the Last Days to the New World. By Heiko A. Oberman. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 235. $35.00.) When Heiko A. Oberman died in April 2001, he had reached the biblical age of...

The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I. Edited by Jason Peacey. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 294. $72.00) It would be easy to assume that historians have already disinterred everything worth knowing about the trial...

Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France. By Mary Louise Roberts. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 353. $35.00.) Fin de siecle Europe has taken a linguistic turn since Carl Schorske's Fin de...

Popular Politics and the English Reformation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Popular Politics and the English Reformation. By Ethan H. Shagan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 341. $70.00.) The author of the book has taken a different and intriguing approach to the English Reformation. He...

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics. By Frederic Spotts. Woodstock and New York: Overlook Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 456. $37.50.) Almost all biographies of Adolf Hitler have noted his artistic obsessions, particularly with opera, painting, and...

When the King Took Flight.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... When the King Took Flight. By Timothy Tackett. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 270. $24.95.) The Bourbons reigned in France for approximately two hundred years from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, but...

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. By Jenny Uglow. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Pp. xx, 588. $15.00.) This work addresses one of the preconditions emphasized by historians as accounting for Great...

Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story. By Stanley Weintraub. (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore: The Free Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 316. $27.50.) Stanley Weintraub, the author of a number of works of popular history...

Aristotle's "Best Regime": Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Aristotle's "Best Regime": Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law. By Clifford Angell Bates Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 234. $65.00.) "Regime change" is a buzzword from the Bush White House,...

Medicine before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. By Roger French. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. v, 289. $60.00.) The list of the late Roger French's contributions to late...

The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. By Frederic Cople Jaher. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 312. $45.00.) The author of this study compares a...

Due Process of Law: A Brief History.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Due Process of Law: A Brief History. By John V. Orth. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xi, 116. $9.95.) In this succinct and elegantly reasoned study of due process of law, the author explores one of the most complex and...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... Auburn University-Montgomery (Chi Psi) 1 May 2004: Patrick Kountz, Rebecca Schofield, Brandon Walker, John P. Woo. Augusta State University (Alpha Eta Xi) 22 April 2004: William Benjamin Barrs, Charles Edward Cawley Jr., Lyndsey A....