The Historian articles from June 1998

The Historian archives from June 1998

The limits of patriarchy: women's rights and "unwritten law" in the West.
June 22, 1998... In a recent article in the Journal of American History, Hendrik Hartog examines three nineteenth-century criminal cases in which a husband was accused of killing his wife's lover. The highly publicized trials took place in the eastern United...

A case of "great unstableness": a British slaveholder and Brazilian abolition.
June 22, 1998... In 1845, the British-owned St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, which operated in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais, reached an agreement with the recently liquidated Cata Branca Brazilian Company to rent 385 slaves for 14 years. The...

Imagined power: the secret life of Colonel House. (Edward M. House)
June 22, 1998... Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States, served during the tumultuous years from 1913 to 1921 that saw the buildup to the First World War, the war itself, including U.S. engagement as of April 1917, and the Treaty of...

The value of a tree: public debates of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot.
June 22, 1998... Let everyone read [Sargent's] book, travel, and see [the redwoods] for himself, and while fire and the axe still threaten destruction, make haste to come to the help of these trees, our country's pride and glory.(1) John Muir, 1903 It is...

Arturo Bocchini and the secret political police in fascist Italy.
June 22, 1998... When Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in 1922, the moderate social and political reforms of the previous half century began to be systematically dismantled, to be replaced by a totalitarian fascist regime that placed the security of the...

The U.S. bank panic of 1907 and the Mexican depression of 1908-1909.
June 22, 1998... Historians have long recognized that the U.S. bank panic of 1907 was the stimulus for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that was designed to regulate the nation's money and supply and credit by buying and selling government bonds and issuing...

An American railroad man east of the Urals, 1918-1922. (Ural Mountains, Russia)
June 22, 1998... On 11 November 1917, just four days after Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized control of the Russian capital, over 200 railroad men in St. Paul, Minnesota, said goodbye to their families and boarded a train for San Francisco. Unlike the...

Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren.
June 22, 1998... Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren. By Ed Cray. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Pp. 603. $30.00.) Under the leadership of Earl Warren, the United States Supreme Court handed down a number of decisions that profoundly influenced...

Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991.
June 22, 1998... Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991. By Mark V. Tushnet. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 246. $29.95.) Under the leadership of Earl Warren, the United States Supreme Court handed...

Medieval Isma'li History and Thought.
June 22, 1998... Medieval IsmaCili History and Thought. Edited, with an introduction, by Farhad Daftary. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 331. $59.95.) A shortage of accessible primary sources, longstanding misconceptions (some...

African Crossroads: Intersections Between History and Anthropology in Cameroon.
June 22, 1998... African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon; Cameroon Studies, Volume 2. Edited by Ian Fowler and David Zeitlyn. (Providence And Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xviii, 213. $29.95.) In fact, both of...

Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast, 1500-1970.
June 22, 1998... Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast, 1500-1970; Cameroon Studies, Volume 1. By Edwin Ardener. Edited and with an Introduction by Shirley Ardener. (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xix, 380....

The Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change.
June 22, 1998... The Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change. By Fatma Muge Gocek. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 220. $45.00.) This book attempts to deal with the central issue of the...

Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948.
June 22, 1998... Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. By Zachary Lockman. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 440. $25.00.) Despite, or perhaps because of, the longstanding association...

Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan.
June 22, 1998... Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan. By Ahmad Alawad Sikainga. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. x-vii, 276. $35.00.) Although much of the most exciting work in African history deals with labor and...

The Cuban Slave Market: 1790-1880.
June 22, 1998... The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880. By Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias Garcia, and Maria del Carmen Barcia. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 245. $59.95.) Representing the combined efforts of two teams of U.S....

Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940.
June 22, 1998... Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940. By Susan K. Besse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 285. $39.95.) This book examines the struggle to redefine gender...

Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism.
June 22, 1998... Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism. Edited by John Bodnar. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 352. $16.95.) John Bodnar provides readers with 16 segments by 15 authors that explain the support of U.S....

Virgil Earp: Western Peace Officer.
June 22, 1998... Virgil Earl): Western Peace Officer. By Donald Chaput. (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Pp. x, 255. $14.95.) This book details the life and career path of Virgil Earp, second oldest of the five "fighting Earp"...

West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica: 1870-1940
June 22, 1998... West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940. By Aviva Chomsky. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 302. $35.00.) Few institutions have loomed so large in the Central...

Eisenhower's New-Look National Security Policy: 1953-1961.
June 22, 1998... Eisenhower's New-Look National Security Policy, 1953-1961. By Saki Dockrill. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 400. $59.95.) Historians' views of Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy have changed dramatically over the past twenty...

Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution.
June 22, 1998... Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. By Ronald Dworkin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $35.00.) Although this book has many fascinating aspects, few professional historians will find much of...

Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949.
June 22, 1998... Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949. By Carolyn Woods Eisenberg. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 522. $59.95.) Cold War historiography, once the site of memorable, occasionally literal,...

Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America.
June 22, 1998... Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America. By Ruth Gay. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. Pp. 308. $27.50.) The immigration and acculturation of the Jews of eastern Europe shaped the contours of contemporary American...

American Constitutionalism: From Theory to Politics.
June 22, 1998... American Constitutionalism: From Theory to Politics. By Stephen M. Griffin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 216. $29.95.) In this book for law academics and specialists in constitutional theory, Stephen M. Griffin has...

How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914.
June 22, 1998... How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914. Edited by Stephen Haber. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 315. $55.00.) This collection gives Latin American economic history...

Betonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston.
June 22, 1998... Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston. By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 336. $37.50.) In December 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman presented...

Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader.
June 22, 1998... Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader. By Michael H. Hunt. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 447. $17.00.) Michael H. Hunt, the distinguished student of Sino-American relations, has edited an...

American Images of China: 1931-1949.
June 22, 1998... American Images of China, 1931-1949. By T. Christopher Jespersen. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 254. $39.50.) This study documents American images of China from 1931 to 1941 with primary focus on those propagated by...

Calvinists Incorporated, Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier: University of Chicago Geography Research Paper Number 240.
June 22, 1998... Calvinists Incorporated, Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier: University of Chicago Geography Research Paper Number 240. By Anne Kelly Knowles. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. PP. xiii, 330. $24.95.) An expansion of...

Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America.
June 22, 1998... Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America. By Christopher Matthews. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Pp. 345. $25.00.) The 1980s film, Amadeus, tells the story of a conflict between two great musical talents: Mozart,...

Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigation of the CIA and FBI.
June 22, 1998... Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI. By Kathryn S. Olmsted. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 255. $15.95.) To readers of Kathryn S. Olmsted's solid book,...

"Worse than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice.
June 22, 1998... "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. By David M. Oshinsky. (New York: The Free Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 306. $25.00.) For most of this century, a largely African-American inmate population labored under...

The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration.
June 22, 1998... The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration. By Robert A. Potash. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 547. $55.00.) In 1969 Robert Potash published the first of a projected...

The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality.
June 22, 1998... The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. By Julie A. Reuben. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. x. 363. $18.95.) This is a study of eight elite American...

When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations During the Suez and Falklands Crises.
June 22, 1998... When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations During the Suez and Falklands Crises. By Louise Richardson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. 278. $45.00.) The object of this book is to employ two case studies of Cold War crises to...

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.
June 22, 1998... Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. By Michael J. Sandel. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 417. $24.95.) Michael J. Sandel observes that contemporary America is rife with discontent....

Concord & Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914.
June 22, 1998... Concord & Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914. By Norman E. Saul. (Lawrence, Kansas: The University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xviii, 654. $55.00.) Norman Saul has provided a valuable service by illuminating the relationship...

Chancellorsville.
June 22, 1998... Chancellorsville. By Stephen W. Sears. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Pp. x, 593. $35.00.) This wonderful study of Robert E. Lee's greatest victory supersedes all previous accounts, with the possible exception of John Bigelow's...

For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860.
June 22, 1998... For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860. By Gunja SenGupta. (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 219. $35.00.) In this fresh look at territorial...

Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era.
June 22, 1998... Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. By Patricia Sullivan. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 335. $39.95.) This is a thoughtful and important book. Given the number of works...

History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past.
June 22, 1998... History By Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. By Robert Brent Toplin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 267. $14.95.) Toplin's book challenges historians to see their field and the profession in new and...

Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1998... Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads. By Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 350. $45.00.) Occasionally a book has a title that succinctly describes its...

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964.
June 22, 1998... For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Silo Paulo, 1920-1964. By Barbara Weinstein. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 435. $59.95.) One aspect of...

The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation.
June 22, 1998... The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation. By John G. West, Jr. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xi, 307. $35.00.) In this former doctoral dissertation, political scientist John G. West...

Women of Mongolia.
June 22, 1998... Women of Mongolia. By Martha Avery. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. Pp. 187. $19.95.) In Women of Mongolia, Martha Avery fulfills her promise to allow "Mongolian women [to] tell their stories" (9). With ninety-seven handsome...

Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1998... Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century. By James Belich. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. Pp. 497. $34.00.) "New Zealand...(pause)...That must be a very...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of China.
June 22, 1998... The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. By Patricia Buckley Ebrey. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 352. $39.95.) This is a fine book, if rather an expensive one, but it is not easy to make out for whom it is intended....

Hiroshima in History and Memory.
June 22, 1998... Hiroshima in History and Memory. Edited by Michael J. Hogan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 238. $54.95.) Few events have made a greater impact on professional historians, especially diplomatic historians, than the...

Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing.
June 22, 1998... Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing. By Philip C. C. Huang. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 271. $45.00.) Through this book on the representation and practice of civil justice during the last...

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: You Jyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty.
June 22, 1998... Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty. By James B. Palais. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 1279. $65.00.) Reform is a catch word that every society visits and revisits....

Japanese Banking: A History, 1859-1959.
June 22, 1998... Japanese Banking: A History, 1859-1959. By Norio Tamaki. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 289. $54.95.) This book offers a useful overview of Japan's banking institutions as they evolved from the...

Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism.
June 22, 1998... Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism. By Wen-hsin Yeh. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. x, 403. $50.00.) In the standard Maoist version of the history of the...

Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship.
June 22, 1998... Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship. By Jonathan Aves. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996. Pp. x, 220. $59.50.) This compact, competently researched study explores the relationship between...

Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1998... Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By David Barry. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 213. $49.95.) The author of this study weaves socio-political history with biography and quantitative data...

Britain and France, 1900-1940: Entente and Estrangement.
June 22, 1998... Britain and France 1900-1940: Entente and Estrangement. By P.M.H. Bell. (London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. viii, 275. $56.95.) These two books were written by Philip Bell, a senior historian who describes himself in the preface as "a...

Britain and France, 1940-1994: The Long Separation.
June 22, 1998... Britain and France 1940-1994: The Long Separation. By P.M.H. Bell. (London and New York: Longman, 1997. Pp. viii, 320. $17.95.) These two books were written by Philip Bell, a senior historian who describes himself in the preface as "a...

The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714.
June 22, 1998... The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714. By Michael J. Braddick. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 244. $69.95.) The early modern period was a time of great growth in...

The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History.
June 22, 1998... The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History. By Travis L. Crosby. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 287. $35.00.) Crosby has two stated objectives. The first is "to see Gladstone as his...

Historical Dictionary of Stuart England: 1603-1689.
June 22, 1998... Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Edited by Ronald H. Fritze, William B. Robison, and Walter Sutton. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 611. $95.00.) "A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." So Samuel Johnson...

The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England.
June 22, 1998... The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England. By Richard Grassby. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxix, 615. $74.95.) At the turn of this century, two men, a sociologist of unquestioned genius and a historian of...

The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century.
June 22, 1998... The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. By William Chester Jordan. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 317. $29.95.) Everyone has heard of the Black Death that devastated Europe beginning in...

Cathedrals Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600-1700.
June 22, 1998... Cathedrals Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600-1700. By Stanford E. Lehmberg. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. xxx, 270. $55.00.) As the second book of this kind by Stanford Lehmberg, who...

Thomas Crammer: A Life.
June 22, 1998... Thomas Cranmer: A Life. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 692. $35.00.) This is a mighty volume; obviously lengthy, it is well researched and thought provoking, and it tackles a difficult...

The Politics of Russian Industrialization in Tsarist Russia: The Association of Southern Coal and Steel Producers, 1874-1914.
June 22, 1998... The Politics of Russian Industrialization in Tsarist Russia: The Association of Southern Coal and Steel Producers, 1874-1914. By Susan P. McCaffray. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 298. $35.00.) The development...

The Frankish World: 750-900.
June 22, 1998... The Frankish World, 750-900. By Janet L. Nelson. (London and Rio Grande, OH: Hambledon Press, 1996. Pp. xxxi, 256. $60.00.) This is the second volume of Janet Nelson's essays to be reprinted and published by Hambledon Press. The first...

Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy, 1500-1850.
June 22, 1998... Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy, 1500-1850. By Mark Overton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 258. $54.95.) The author of this book has published extensively and is one of...

Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece.
June 22, 1998... Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece. By William Armstrong Percy III. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. x, 260. $24.95.) The general thesis of this well-argued and highly informative book is that the practice...

Old Believers in Modern Russia.
June 22, 1998... Old Believers in Modern Russia. By Roy Robson. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 188. $30.00.) In his Fragments from My Diary, Maksim Gorky recounted a conversation with a wealthy Old Believer from his hometown...

Old Age in Late Medieval England.
June 22, 1998... Old Age in Late Medieval England. By Joel T. Rosenthal. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 260. $39.95.) Joel Rosenthal, who has written extensively about the secular and clerical elites of fourteenth-century and...

Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man.
June 22, 1998... Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. By Joan Wallach Scott. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 229. $27.95.) The broad goal of this book is to take an epistemological step beyond the...

Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle France.
June 22, 1998... Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle France. By Ann-Louise Shapiro. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 265. $45.00.) Ann-Louise Shapiro uses crimes perpetrated by women, investigated and tried by men, and...

Feminism and the Third Republic: Women's Political and Civil Rights in France, 1918-1945.
June 22, 1998... Feminism and the Third Republic: Women's Political and Civil Rights in France, 1918-1945. By Paul Smith. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 301. $72.00.) Studies of "first-wave" feminism in the Western world have until recently...

John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty.
June 22, 1998... John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty. By Peter D. G. Thomas. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 280. $45.00.) The author (now that even Ian Christie has more or less abandoned ship) is the last of the orthodox Namierites. To Peter D. G....

Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship.
June 22, 1998... Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship. By John Watts. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 399. $59.95.) John Watts reevaluates the politics and government of Henry VI [1422-1461] by examining the scheme of values,...

Sappho's Immortal Daughters.
June 22, 1998... Sappho's Immortal Daughters. By Margaret Williamson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 196. $24.95.) This is an intriguing book. Demonstrating a thorough understanding of the scholarly debate, Margaret Williamson steps...

Two Lands on One Soil: Ulster Politics Before Home Rule.
June 22, 1998... Two Lands on One Soil: Ulster Politics before Home Rule. By Frank Wright. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 595. $45.00.) During the period from about 1843 to 1886, there were a number of intriguing developments that seemed to...

The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'accuse' and Other Writings.
June 22, 1998... The Dreyfus Affair: `J'accuse' and Other Writings. By Emile Zola. Edited, with an introduction, by Main Pages. Translated by Eleanor Levieux. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 208. $32.50.) Emile Zola's involvement...

Straws in the Wind, Medieval Urban Environmental Law: The Case of Northern Italy.
June 22, 1998... Straws in the Wind: Medieval Urban Environmental Law: The Case of Northern Italy. By Ronald E. Zupko and Robert A. Laures. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 152. $15.00.) The phrase "Straws in the Wind" in the title of this slim...

CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication.
June 22, 1998... CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication. By M. Christine Boyer. (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. Pp. 245. $35.00.) As the machine was a metaphor for the modern age and a powerful influence on...

The Reconstruction of the International Economy, 1945-1960, vol. 5, The Growth of the World Economy.
June 22, 1998... The Reconstruction of the International Economy, 1945-1960. Volume V in The Growth of the World Economy. Edited by Barry Eichengreen. (Cheltenham, UK and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996. Pp. xvi, 646. $207.95.) This bulky and...

A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values.
June 22, 1998... A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values. By John Gillis. (New York: Basic Books, 1996. Pp. xix, 310. $28.00.) My grandmother used to worry about with which husband a widow who remarried would be reunited...

Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth.
June 22, 1998... Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth. By Robert A. Paul. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. 268. $32.50.) Freud's cultural books, especially Totem and Taboo [1913] and Moses and Monotheism [1934], have generally...