The Historian articles from June 2001

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SINGING THE MAINE: THE POPULAR IMAGE OF CUBA IN SHEET MUSIC OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
June 22, 2001... Thirty-three years after the last battle of the Civil War, a call to arms again rang out across the United States when the battleship Maine exploded and sank under mysterious circumstances in Havana harbor. Called to Cuba in early 1898 by U.S....

"GIGANTIC ENGINES OF PROPAGANDA": THE 1941 SENATE INVESTIGATION OF HOLLYWOOD.
June 22, 2001... Throughout most of the 1930s, Hollywood studios showed a remarkable reluctance to produce films about the political situation in Europe, especially Adolf Hitler's rise to power. As the political pendulum in the United States swung toward...

THE OVERSEAS CHINESE NETWORKS AND EARLY BAPTIST MISSIONARY MOVEMENT ACROSS THE SOUTH CHINA SEA(1).(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... The first significant cultural encounter between China and Europe began in the late sixteenth century when Portuguese merchants and Catholic missionaries arrived in the South China Sea. Throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,...

THE SPIRIT OF '76: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY IN THE REDEMPTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
June 22, 2001... On 4 July 1876, an African American militia unit was drilling in the village of Hamburg, South Carolina, when two white men demanded the right of way. After a hostile exchange, both sides retired. A few days after the incident, Matthew C....

THE LOSS OF RELIGIOUS ALLEGIANCE AMONG THE YOUTH OF THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY.
June 22, 2001... "It's coming; it's bound to come; we are going to have a terrible smash up. Wait and see, Orrin Wright said ominously in 1879.(1) It was during this year that open rebellion and dissatisfaction within the Oneida Community, a unique religious...

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. By Timothy R. Tyson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.) The Organization of American Historians presented its James R. Rawley Prize and its Frederick...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.) The Organization of American Historians presented its Frederick Jackson Turner Award to Prof. Walter Johnson of...

Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of a Southern Strategy, 1861-1862.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of a Southern Strategy, 1861-1862. By Joseph Harsh. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.) Prof. Joseph Harsh of George Mason University is the winner of the Peter Seaborg...

Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953. By Kees Boterbloem. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 435. $49.95.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953...

Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. By Jeffrey Brooks. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 319. $35.00.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province,...

Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. By J. Otto Pohl. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. vxii, 179. $59.95.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953 provides much-needed scholarship for two areas of...

"We Women Worked So Hard": Gender, Urbanization, and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956.(Review)
June 22, 2001... "We Women Worked So Hard": Gender, Urbanization, and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956. By Teresa A. Barnes. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. ix, 197. $24.95.) In this book, the author explores how urban...

Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War. By Joe Lunn. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Oxford: James Curry/Cape Town: David Philip, 1999. Pp. xiv, 264. $25.00.) Focusing on personal experiences of the...

Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader. Edited by Ruth Roded. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1999. Pp. xv, 271. $25.00.) Women in the Middle East and Muslim world always have attracted the attention of Western...

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. By Lamin Sanneh. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 291. $29.95.) This study discusses the attempts to abolish the transatlantic slave...

Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World. By Jeremy Adelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 375. $55.00.) In early nineteenth-century Argentina, merchants--both native-born...

American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934.(Review)
June 22, 2001... American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. By Cesar Ayala. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 321. $19.95.) The early 1900s appear as a moment of historical convergence...

Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory. By Constance Bowman and Clara Marie Allen, with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert. (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 181. $14.95.) Originally...

Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. By Robert M. Buffington. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 229. $19.95.) This book investigates elite discourse about criminality between independence and the mid-twentieth century...

A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials.(Review)
June 22, 2001... A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials. By Laurie Winn Carlson. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999. Pp. xiii, 197. $24.95.) The author of this book has proposed an intriguing hypothesis regarding the...

Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States. By Don M. Coerver and Linda B. Hall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 289. $39.95.) From the time of their independence, the United States and the Latin...

Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions. By Howard E. Covington Jr. and Marion A. Ellis. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 559. $34.95.) Terry Sanford was one of the most important public figures in...

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898. By Ada Ferret. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 273. $18.95.) This author's account of the Cuban struggle for independence makes important contributions to...

Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America. By Thomas Fleming. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xiii, 446. $30.00.) The author of this book spurns the explanation that Aaron Burr murdered his long-time rival because of...

The Presidency of George Bush.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Presidency of George Bush. By John Robert Greene. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiii, 245. $35.00.) In another splendid volume in the University Press of Kansas's "American Presidency Series," John Robert Greene, who...

Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870. By W. Todd Groce. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 218. $40.00.) It is pleasant to note that the current boom in Civil War scholarship...

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. Pp. 516. $29.00.) With the freshness of insight often afforded scholars who cross disciplinary boundaries, the...

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. By Arthur Herman. (New York: Free Press, 1999. Pp. 320. $26.00.) Although the literature on McCarthy is substantial, the author chooses to ignore any work...

Native Americans and the Early Republic.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Native Americans and the Early Republic. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter I. Albert. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1999. Pp. xi, 370. $49.50.)...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 283. $26.00.) The daily happenings within the domestic slave trade in the antebellum United States...

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character. By Roger G. Kennedy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 476. $30.00.) This is a controversial book that is well worth the read. The author comes at his subject from outside...

The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control. Edited, with an introduction, by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999. Pp. 248. $14.95.)...

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. xii, 280. $65.00.) This work is a collection of essays...

Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age. By Herbert Mitgang. (New York: The Free Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 259. $25.00.) Prize-winning journalist Herbert Mitgang's latest work of...

From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England.(Review)
June 22, 2001... From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. By Margaret Ellen Newell. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 329. $39.95.) New England was the source of not one, not two, but three...

A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West.(Review)
June 22, 2001... A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West. By David Roberts. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Pp. 320. $25.00.) Traveling westward aboard a Missouri River steamboat in 1842, John C. Fremont, a...

Puerto Rico Women's History: New Perspectives.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Puerto Rico Women's History: New Perspectives. Edited by Felix V. Matos Rodriguez and Linda C. Delgado. (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Pp. ix, 262. $24.95.) In this anthology, Felix Matos Rodriguez and Linda Delgado have...

American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding.(Review)
June 22, 2001... American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding. By Gary Rosen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xi, 237. $29.95.) Serious scholarship has wrestled continuously with the apparent changes in James Madison's...

Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn. By Charles R. Schultz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 352. $45.00.) After three decades of research and study, the author of this study has written a complete history of life...

The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870--1930. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Translated by Leland Guyer. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. Pp. ix, 358. $35.00.) Understandings of racial identity...

The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. By John Ray Skates. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 276. $16.95.) President Harry Truman considered the atomic bomb a military weapon and an alternative to the...

A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina.(Review)
June 22, 2001... A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina. By Rebecca Starr. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 218. $45.00.) Historians have long puzzled to account for South...

The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru. By Ward Stavig. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xxxiv, 348. $25.00.) The eighteenth century in the Andes has long been perceived by historians...

Morgan: American Financier.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Morgan: American Financier. By Jean Strouse. (New York: Random House, 1999. Pp. xv, 796. $34.95.) This is a truly remarkable book, a model of biography, that succeeds in presenting J. Pierpont Morgan as a flesh-and-blood human being,...

Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra. By Guy E C. Thomson with David G. LaFrance. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 1999. Pp. vii, 420. $65.00.) ...

Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750--1990. By Robert V. Wells. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 301. $44.95.) Schenectady, New York strikes one as a place where time passes...

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 269. $55.00.) Based on his 1994 dissertation of the same tide, this is the author's...

Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius. By Richard B. Allen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 221. $64.95.) This study is a wide-ranging social and economic history of the Indian Ocean island...

One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County 1865-1937.(Review)
June 22, 2001... One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. By Lynda S. Bell. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 290. $49.95.) The industry is silk, and the "Two Chinas" are the...

Sun Yat-sen.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Sun Yat-sen. By Marie-Claire Bergere. Translated by Janet Lloyd. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 480. $49.50.) The French edition of this book was published in Paris in 1994 and recognized immediately as the most...

Vignettes from the Late Ming.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p'in Anthology. Translated, with Annotations and an Introduction, by Yang Ye. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xxxvii, 152. $19.95.) A fascinating side of the Chinese...

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. By Wang Zheng. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 402. $18.95.) It is difficult, in a short review, to convey the many layers on which...

Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome. By Richard C. Beacham. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00.) During the reign of Augustus, one Greek provincial was so overwhelmed by the magnificent...

Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain. By John Burnett. (London and Nre York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 254. $24.99) A masterful historiographical juggler, this author keeps eight glasses aloft while treading an...

Death and Dying in the Middle Ages.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. Pp. xii, 515. $70.95.) For a reviewer who teaches courses on death and dying in history but who is not a...

The World of the Favourite.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The World of the Favourite. Edited by J. H. Elliott and L. W. B. Brockliss. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 320. $45.00.) This book is a collection of papers that were originally presented in 1996 to an international...

Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Clive Emsley. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 288. $90.00.) If the reader is interested in state formation, the suppression of crime and criminology,...

Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730. By Paul D. Halliday. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 393. $69.95.) One of the great merits of this book is that, considered in tandem...

The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation. By Carol E. Harrison. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 268. $65.00.) Association has attracted the interest of social...

Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR.(German Democratic Republic)(Review)
June 22, 2001... Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR. Edited, with an introduction, by Konrad H. Jarausch. (New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. xii, 388. $65.00.) This collection of articles by leading social historians...

Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. By Richard W. Kaeuper. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 338. $45.00.) Publishers have been known to put titles on books that promise more than they deliver, which is probably what...

A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End.(Review)
June 22, 2001... A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. By Peter Kenez. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 317. $49.95.) For reasons that go well beyond the demise of the Soviet Union, Soviet Studies as an academic...

The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. Edited by Andrew Martin and George Ross. (New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. xv, 416. $75.00.) The collective labor of nine authors, this compilation of essays...

Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate. By Susan P. Mattern. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 259. $35.00.) The recent debate over Roman Imperial grand strategy has concentrated on frontier...

Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise. By Viktor Meier. Translated by Sabrina P. Ramet. (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xvii, 279. $25.00.) The author of this book covered Yugoslavia for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and the...

The Jacobean Union: A Reconsideration of British Civil Policies under the Stuarts.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Jacobean Union: A Reconsideration of British Civil Policies under the Stuarts. By Andrew D. Nicholls. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. 224. $55.00.) This book focuses on the attempts of the first Stuart kings to foster unity and...

The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland. By Daithi O Hogain. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. 259. $45.00.) This clearly written book makes impressive use of source materials, providing a comprehensive guide...

Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World. By Peter Padfield. (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 340. $35.00.) Peter Padfield's seventeenth book about naval and...

Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation. By Judith Pallot. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 254. $75.00.) The Stolypin land reform is generally viewed as a progressive...

The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550: A Military History.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550: A Military History. By Gervase Phillips. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 291. $75.00.) Like modern clashes of the two nations on the football and rugby fields, the history of conflict between...

The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. Second Edition. By Donald E. Queller and Thomas F. Madden. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 357. $19.95.) The event is well known and its mythology generally...

Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature. By Irina Reyfman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 364. $49.50.) Dueling did not take hold in Russia in the late seventeenth century, its...

Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 291. $75.00.) Mob behavior has received much attention from historians and sociologists for the past 30 years. The author of this...

The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany. By Ulinka Rublack. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. 292. $70.00.) The common thread running throughout this work is that "quarrels allow us to glimpse the relationships which brought...

The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition. By Stefan Weinfurter. Translated by Barbara Bowlus, with a foreword by Charles Bowlus. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 233. $49.95.) When...

To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.(Review)
June 22, 2001... To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. By David Wolff. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 255. $49.50.) In this revised dissertation, David Wolff explores the dual history of the...

Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe. By Nancy Wood. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 1999. Pp. viii, 204. $19.50.) The connection between history and memory has become a subject of great recent scholarly interest, a...

An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare.(Review)
June 22, 2001... An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare. By Joanna Bourke. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 509. $30.00.) This author's previous books have dealt with class and gender issues. In this work,...

The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism. By Robert Alun Jones. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 324. $37.50.) Sixty years ago Talcott Parsons argued that the writings of Vilfredo Pareto, Max Weber,...

Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling. By Granville Allen Mawer. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 393. $29.95.) Having brought us works concerning dipper ships and British convict shipwrecks of the 1830s, this...

Theories of World Governance: A Study in the History of Ideas.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Theories of World Governance: A Study in the History of Ideas. By Cornelius E Murphy Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 196. $24.95.) The problem of constructing and maintaining a stable order among governing...

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica.(Review)
June 22, 2001... War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica. Edited by Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 484. $80.00.) The current...

Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis. By Joseph Schwartz. (New York: Viking, 1999. Pp. 339. $28.95.) This thoughtful, new book traces the revolutionary development of Freud's thought and the vicissitudes of psychoanalysis up to...

PHI ALPHA THETA INSTATES.
June 22, 2001... Alpha (University of Arkansas) [Alpha] 25 April 2000: Marian E. Hendrickson, Steven Quoss, Kimberly Roll, Leslie G. Stearns. Alpha Alpha Alpha (Biola University) [Alpha Alpha Alpha] 16...