The Historian articles from June 2000

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: CHAMPION OF GENERIC RELIGION.
June 22, 2000... John Adams, one of many contemporaries who had little use for Benjamin Franklin, intended no compliment when he observed of Franklin's religious views that "the Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one...

IN THE HANDS OF THE BRITISH: THE TREATMENT OF AMERICAN POWS DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
June 22, 2000... In the 1786 treaty with Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, American diplomats Thomas Jefferson and John Adams attempted to create a precedent for the treatment of prisoners of war. Article 24 stipulated that prisoners should not be...

THE WOMEN LEFT BEHIND: TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN BELLE, 1840-1880.
June 22, 2000... The Southern belle of the pre-Civil War era is an enduring image, encompassing visions of delicacy, gentility, and hospitality within the domestic sphere of the household. Mrs. E. Little idealized such qualities in a poem published in a women's...

WRESTLING'S HOLD ON THE WESTERN WORLD BEFORE THE GREAT WAR.
June 22, 2000... In the decades prior to the First World War, the Western world confronted change that was at once profound and rapid. As historian Stanley Payne has noted, "the physical terms of life were altered with unprecedented rapidity, while the cultural...

BRITANNIA AND JOHN BULL: FROM BIRTH TO MATURITY.
June 22, 2000... National symbols evoke powerful emotions. Deeply rooted in a nation's history, such symbols as the Eiffel Tower for France, Uncle Sam for the United States, and for Britain the graceful Britannia, whose origins date back to the Roman empire,...

INTERVIEW WITH DWIGHT T. PITCAITHLEY.(historian, National Park Service)(Interview)
June 22, 2000... Dwight T. Pitcaithley was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, in 1944 to parents who had been professional actors before the war brought them to an army-air base in the Southwest. Between 1964 and 1967, he served in the United States Marine Corps in...

THE CASE FOR APPLIED HISTORY IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS: A CALL FOR ACTION TO HISTORIANS.
June 22, 2000... Historians should become more active in helping business managers apply the historical methodology and knowledge of the academic. Business managers want that help, and good reasons exist for historians to offer it. The time is also ripe for an...

Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999, $35.00.) The Award Committee of the Civil War Roundtable of New York presented its Fletcher Pratt Literary...

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, $24.95.) The Littleton-Griswold Prize, for the best book in any subject on the history of American law...

Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair. By Beverly Gordon. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. Pp. xxvii, 285. $45.00.) Over the last 25 years, historians of women have increasingly fine-tuned...

Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters. By Clare Taylor. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 158. $59.95.) Over the last 25 years, historians of women have increasingly fine-tuned their approach to the study of the...

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 311. $45.00.) Over the last 25 years, historians of women have...

Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Edited by Stanley Burstein. (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Weiner Publishers, 1998. Pp. vii, 166. $16.95.) The civilizations of Kush in the Middle Nile and Axum in Ethiopia still remain little known...

An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C.-A.D. 400.(Review)
June 22, 2000... An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B. C.-A.D. 400. By Christopher Ehret. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. xiii, 341. $45.00.) In the early 1960s, leading African historian...

The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Oazdaglis.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Oazdaglis. By Jane Hathaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 198. $49.95.) Studies of imperial and regional politics of the Ottoman Empire have tended to...

God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam.(Review)
June 22, 2000... God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam. By Peter Partner. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 364. $16.95.) This ambitious study is intended to dispel myths about conflicts between Islam,...

America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History.(Review)
June 22, 2000... America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History. By Robert H. Abzug. (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp., xv, 236. $39.95.) The title of this volume accurately summarizes the topic and type of...

Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. By Loren Baritz. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 393. $16.95.) The university library's Vietnam War...

The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities. By Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 242. $18.95.) This is a short but chronologically sweeping case study in...

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. By W. Jeffrey Bolster. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 299. $14.95.) A vibrant and engaging work of rediscovery, Black Jacks restores to the historical record...

The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. By Bruce Chadwick. (Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. xviii, 490. $29.95.) No two men pursuing the same political course could have been...

Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. By Steven Conn. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 262. $32.50.) The "revolutions" in late nineteenth-century America included transformations in the...

Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920. By Perry R. Duis. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 429. $29.95.) Amidst all the fashionable theory, it is easy to lose track of the everyday...

African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory.(Review)
June 22, 2000... African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 267. $39.95.) In this book, the author provides an anthropological...

Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson. By Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 230. $24.95.) No one can accuse the authors of this book of lacking ambition with the...

Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. By Lawrence Otis Graham. (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1999. Pp. 418. $25.00.) Recent studies of upper-class blacks have presented a more complex picture of both elites and...

Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 132. $29.95.) During the Progressive Era, as organizations consolidated to affect...

Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 305. $30.00.) Over the past two decades, historians of...

Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism. By Daniel Horowitz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Pp. 255. $29.95.) In the spring 1999 edition of Story, Erika...

Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. By Robert David Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 375. $45.00.) Ernest Gruening is best known for providing one of the two Senate votes against the Gulf of...

The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. By Grant D. Jones. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxvii, 568. $69.50.) In this volume, the author meticulously examines the rise and fall of the Itza Maya and their state, located in...

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By Friedrich Katz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 985. $29.95.) Of all the individuals who rose to prominence during the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa was by far the most...

The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924. By Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama. Translated, with an introduction, by Frederik L. Schodt. (Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 1999. Pp. 152. $12.95.) This...

Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920. By James L. Leloudis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 338. $18.95.) Perhaps one of the least explored areas of Southern...

Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. By Harry Liebersohn. (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 179. $49.95.) American Indians have long fascinated other people around the...

Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. By Paul C. Mishler. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 172. $17.50.) Students of radicalism are familiar with the...

Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927-1948.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927-1948. By Michael Monteon. (Tempe, Ariz.: Center for Latin American Studies Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 408. $39.95.) In his latest work, the author attempts to prove that...

American Heritage Great Minds of History: Interviews by Roger Mudd, Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, Richard White, Gordon Wood.(Review)
June 22, 2000... American Heritage Great Minds of History: Interviews by Roger Mudd: Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, Richard White, Gordon Wood. Edited by Roger Mudd. Introduction by Richard Snow. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999....

Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. By Lawrence R. Samuel. (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 249. $27.50.) Lawrence Samuel has seen World War II, and it was...

Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948. By Barbara Dianne Savage. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 391. $18.95.) African Americans' struggle for equality has long...

Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain. Edited by Susan Schroeder. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 200. $19.95.) The limited number of studies on rebellion and resistance in colonial Mexico...

Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen W. Sears. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Pp. xv, 287. $26.00.) This reviewer has always thought that the Army of Northern Virginia dominated the Army of...

Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815-1836.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815-1836. By Harlow W. Sheidley. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 273, $50.00.) The title of this book makes clear the...

Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 261. $59.95.) The authors of this volume tell us this study was written "to fill" a critical void:...

Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities. By Joseph G. Tregle Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 369. $37.50.) Based on his 1954 dissertation, this author's work describes the...

Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959. By Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro Garcia. Translated by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 496. $59.95.) The work...

The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy towards Student Political Activism, 1927-1949.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy towards Student Political Activism, 1927-1949. By Huang Jianli. (Bern and New York: Peter Lang AG, 1996. Pp.242. $52.95) In this engagingly written book, the author...

Kingship and Authority in South Asia.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Kingship and Authority in South Asia. Edited by J. F. Richards. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. iv, 375. $35.00.) Ideologies about legitimate authority in India have long proven the fruitful object of thoughtful analysis. Over...

Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. By Deryck Scarr. (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., and New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1998. Pp. xi, 238. $65.00.) Slavery in the Mascarene Islands became a subject of increasing...

Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power. By Hira Singh. (New Delhi and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998. Pp. 274. $44.95.) Towards the end of this book, when discussing the role of the...

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds. By Jonathan D. Spence. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Pp. xviii, 279. $27.50.) Jonathan Spence's The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds is not the first...

Nations and States in Southeast Asia.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Nations and States in Southeast Asia. By Nicholas Tarling. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 136. $59.95.) Since his retirement, Nicholas Tarling's scholarly output has, if anything, dramatically increased. It represents the...

Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. By Sandra C. Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. x, 170. $29.95.) This is an important book on the role of women on the Communist side in the...

The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew Ayton and J. L. Price. (London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1998. Pp. x, 208. $65.00.) There are...

Chaucer and the Late Medieval World.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. By Lillian Bisson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 294. $45.00.) In this survey, the author attempts to put her expertise in interdisciplinary studies to good use. Unfortunately, instead of a...

Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens. Edited by Deborah Boedeker and Kurt A. Raaflaub. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 504. $50.00.) The second colloquium of the Center for Hellenic...

Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929. By Vladimir Brovkin. (London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. 266. $27.99.) The author of this book desires to argue that "a multiparty system and a market economy" were...

In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 397. $35.00.) The American Revolutionary War has a rich historiography, but...

The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 293. $29.95.) The author of this study argues that class "takes place at least as much inside the head as outside"(xi). He...

The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance. By Edward Chaney. (London and Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xx, 404. $59.50.) Titles ever deceive. Far from being a coherent treatment of the...

Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa. By David Cherry. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 291. $82.00.) The frontiers of the Roman Empire, most famously symbolized by Hadrian's Wall, have long exerted a particular...

Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local Self-Government (the Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarist Government, and the State Council before and during World War I.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local Self-Government (the Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarist Government, and the State Council before and during World War I. Edited by Mary Schaeffer Conroy. (Niwot:...

Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris 1905-1914.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris 1905-1914. By David Cottington. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 258. $50.00.) There is much to like about this attempt to place cubism within...

Dudo of Saint Quentin: History of the Normans.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Dudo of Saint Quentin: History of the Normans. Translated into English, with introduction and notes, by Eric Christiansen. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998. Pp. xxxvii, 260. $99.00.) This work is a translation of a history of the early...

Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. By Nancy Louise Frey. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 313. $17.95.) The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela forged...

Sport and Society in Ancient Greece.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Sport and Society in Ancient Greece. By Mark Golden. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 216. $59.95.) The author of this volume has published several articles on Greek sport, has written a successful book on children...

The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Edited by Arthur Gribben. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. x, 278. $50.00.) According to the introduction, the origins of this volume of 12 essays on various aspects...

The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300-1600.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300-1600. By Louis Haas. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 319. $49.95.) This is a highly flawed book, beginning with its title, which appears...

The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius. By Debra Hershkowitz.(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 346. $80.00.) In this enormously learned first book, the author presents a series of essays on madness--in...

Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. By Patrice Higonnet. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. i, 397. $24.95.) The author of this book sees Jacobinism as an admirable but flawed and...

British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828-1830.(Review)
June 22, 2000... British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828-1830. By Peter Jupp. (London: Macmillan, 1998. Pp. xii, 483. $79.95.) An uninitiated reader, judging solely from Peter Jupp's subtitle, might dread...

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris. By Ian Kershaw. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Pp. xxx, 845. $35.00.) As students of modern history know, Adolf Hitler remains hot. Indicative of the state of Hitler studies are the recent...

The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe. By Jacques Levesque. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 267. $35.00.) Jacques Levesque, a professor of political science and specialist in Soviet foreign...

Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 542. $35.00.) Notwithstanding the eloquent title and the enthusiastic blurbs on the dust jacket, this is not a book...

Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. By Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 480. $35.00.) The authors of this study examine "women's experience of life and the world in early modern...

Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism. By Susan Morrissey. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 288. $45.00.) This ambitious and largely successful study confronts a central...

Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Beacontree Estate.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Beacontree Estate. By Andrzej Olechnowicz. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 273. $85.00.) This study of the Beacontree Estate in East London provides scholars with insights...

Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography. By Jacinta Prunty. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 366. $32.50.) Geographer Jacinta Prunty has done prodigious research in producing this work. Encyclopedic detail and...

Facing West: Oriental Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Facing West: Oriental Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Compiled by the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. (Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Publishers, 1997. Pp. 128. $30.00.) A decade after the...

Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions. By Steven L. Solnick. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 337. $49.95.) This is a gutsy book. Conventional wisdom attributes the collapse of the Soviet Union to...

National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria.(Review)
June 22, 2000... National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria. By Erika Thurner. Edited and translated by Gilya Gerda Schmidt. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 219. $34.95.) The Nazis, it is now generally agreed, targeted...

Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France. By Michel Winock. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 351. $55.00.) This volume is only the second English translation of Michel Winock's...

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. By Amanda Vickery. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 436. $40.00.) This study examines the "disconnected reflections" of "countless comfortable lives" by using the...

Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson. Edited by Gerald J. Russello. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998. Pp. xxxiii, 262. $24.95.) Christopher Dawson (1889-1970)...