The Historian articles from June 2004

The Historian archives from June 2004

Hearth, home, and steering wheel: gender and modernity in France after the Great War.
June 22, 2004... THE GREAT WAR transformed dramatically the boundaries of the masculine and feminine in European society. Discursively, prewar Europe had been divided between a male-monopolized public realm and a female private sphere. As men headed off to the...

Growing together: blacks and the Catholic Church in Boston.
June 22, 2004... ON 2 NOVEMBER 1788, an unusual event took place in Boston. At a run-down church originally built by French Huguenots on School Street, a Catholic mass was publicly celebrated for the first time. The mass symbolized more than just the Catholic...

December 7, 1941: the day no one bombed Panama.
June 22, 2004... IT IS FAIRLY well known by now that one reason the Americans were caught off guard at Pearl Harbor is that they were fixated on the probability of a Japanese attack on the Philippines. British and Dutch possessions in Southeast Asia, as well as...

Legitimizing justice: the American press and the International Military Tribunal, 1945-1946.
June 22, 2004... MONTHS BEFORE the commencement of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945, Justice Robert H. Jackson declared that there would be "no censorship at the forthcoming trials of the German war criminals." (1) In...

Falsely accused: cold war liberalism reassessed.
June 22, 2004... During the crucial years of the Great Fear the most influential ... faction of the American intelligentsia... abandoned the critical function that all intellectuals in all countries ought to sustain toward government agencies...

"Drug use and responses to it in history".(Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World)(The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. By David T. Courtwright. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $16.95.) The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. By Richard Davenport-Hines....

The History of the Congo.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The History of the Congo. By Ch. Didier Gondola. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 215. $39.95.) This study is part of a series intended to give general readers a better understanding of various countries that are...

The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The House & Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 348. $44.95.) As a scholar of the modern Senate and a...

The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840. By Anne M. Boylan. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 343. $19.95.) In this fine, innovative study, the author challenges the...

Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Sherri Broder. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $39.95.) In the introduction of her well-researched...

Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. By Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 286. $29.95.) Students of the American Revolutionary War have long recognized France's...

The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture. Edited by Christopher H. Evans and William R. Herzog II. (Louisville and Westminster: John Knox Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 274. $18.95.) As Christopher H. Evans and William R....

The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. By Hugh E. Evans. (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvii, 202. $29.95.) The author of this study, a professor of pediatrics and of prevention medicine and community health, has...

Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. By Max Evans. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 315. $23.95.) Prostitution in the American West is a topic that has received rigorous scholarly inquiry....

A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War. By Paul Foos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 223. $18.95.) This study is a provocative addition to the social...

The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940. By Michael J. Gonzales. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 307. $21.95.) Teachers of Mexican history need a readable survey of the revolutionary period's main events, actors, and...

Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. By Barry Gough. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 215. $32.50.) To the growing corpus of War of 1812 military and naval studies, this...

Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African-Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African-Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Wilbert L. Jenkins. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2002. Pp. vii, 272. $65.00.) Climbing Up to Glory has the heraldry of the...

Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. By Clayton E. Jewett. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 310. $37.50.) This book addresses the enduring historical effort at explaining the defeat...

Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. By Marjoleine Kars. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 286. $49.95.) On 16 May 1771, around 1,100 militiamen confronted nearly...

From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. By Sarah A. Leavitt. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 250. $18.95.) For many historians, economy means something...

The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. By Mitchell B. Lerner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xii, 320. $34.95.) This is an especially timely work, which analyzes the crisis caused by...

America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was. By Tim Maga. (Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xi, 194. $25.00.) With so many solid studies already available on Japanese and American decision-making at the end of the...

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. By James M. McPherson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 203. $26.00. This book is part of the series "Pivotal Moments in American History," edited by the author and David Hackett Fischer....

"This Is America?": The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... "This Is America?": The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. By Rusty L. Monhollon. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xvi, 284. $39.95.) The author represents his book on the University of Kansas as a departure from narratives of 1960s protest that...

Benjamin Franklin.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Benjamin Franklin. By Edmund S. Morgan. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 340. $24.95.) Edmund S. Morgan is unquestionably one of the great historians of our time. As a graduate student in the 1960s, the reviewer...

Nixon.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Nixon. By Iwan Morgan. (London: Arnold, 2002. Pp. xi, 221. $16.95.) "Hero or villain? Charlatan or True Prophet? Sinner or Saint?" These are the questions introducing "Reputations," a new British series of brief biographies of eminent...

The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824. By Alexander Nemerov. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 260. $45.00.) During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, American artists and critics alike...

First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation. By Thomas C. Parramore. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 372. $29.95.) The author of this study has written an engaging book on the...

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935. By Donald J. Pisani. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 394. $49.95.) The author of this study...

Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. By Sarah J. Purcell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. x, 278. $35.00.) The author of this book shows that "Military memory, especially memory...

State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 1860-1916.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 1860-1916. By David Rock. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. $60.00.) This new study of politics and state building fills an important gap in the English-language...

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. By Hal Rothman. (New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 340. $27.50.) Hal Rothman, a historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has written an unusual book,...

The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920. By Jeffrey Sklansky. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 313. $19.95.) This study traces a "seismic shift" that the...

Rethinking the Great Depression.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Rethinking the Great Depression. By Gene Smiley. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xii, 179. $24.95.) It is no easy task to cover a complex historical transformation such as the Great Depression in 165 pages. The author writes in a clear,...

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. By John Stauffer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 367. $29.95.) Because American abolitionists addressed issues of race, gender, and...

Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. By Julia E. Sweig. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 254. $29.95.) Few, if any, topics of the modern history of Latin America have generated a larger...

The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. By Conevery Bolton Valencius. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. viii, 388. $30.00.) This intriguing and intricately woven analysis of frontier,...

The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct, vol. 1.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Causes and Early Conflict. Volume I of The Paraguayan War. By Thomas L. Whigham. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00.) The Paraguayan or Triple Alliance War of 1865-1870 became the most prolonged...

The Human Tradition in Premodern China.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Human Tradition in Premodern China. Edited by Kenneth Hammond. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002. Pp. xx, 172. $42.00.) This collection of ten essays by ten authors, a volume in the series "The Human Tradition around the...

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. By Donald Keene. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 922. $39.50.) In late 1867, the last of Japan's hereditary military overlords abdicated his position as shogun. Shortly...

From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. By Andrei Lankov. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. 202. $60.00.) The author of this book, a former Soviet academic, has made extensive use of...

History of Japanese Thought.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... History of Japanese Thought. By Hajime Nakamura. (London: Kegan Paul, 2002. Pp. x, 308. $110.00.) Originally published in 1967, Hajime Nakamura's study of Japanese intellectual history spans the period from 592 to 1868, with a special...

In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections. By B. R. Nanda. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 270. $35.00.) The author of this volume, one of the most influential interpreters of Mahatma Gandhi's role in the making of...

Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image. By Maurizio Peleggi. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Pp. 232. $19.95.) Writing an original history about Siam's (Thailand's) modernization under King...

The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. By Jan Assman. Translated by Andrew Jenkins. (New York: Metropolitan books, 2002. Pp. xi, 513. $35.00.) With so many books on Pharaonic Egypt appearing each year it might...

The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. By Roman Brackman. (London and Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. Pp. xx, 466. $35.00.) Russian twentieth-century history is full of conspiracies and riddles: Lenin and the German gold,...

Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth. By Victor Brombert. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002. Pp. 335. $25.95.) This book is a memoir by the well-known and prolific literary critic, professor of French, and one-time...

Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna. By Geoffrey of Burton. Edited by Robert Bartlett. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. lxxi, 230. $72.00.) The Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna is typical of the excellent editions produced in the...

Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History ole the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. By Arne Soby Christensen. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002. Pp. xi, 391. $49.00.) This book is a study of the...

Russian Masculinities in History and Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Edited by Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. ix, 235. $65.00.) This pioneering collection is the first English-language book devoted to...

White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919. By Jamie H. Cockfield. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. Pp. xii, 302. $69.95.) Considered by fellow members of the Romanov family...

Sports and Games of the Ancients.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Sports and Games of the Ancients. By Steve Craig. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 271. $49.95.) Running the gamut from wrestling to boomerang, and abbia to senet, Sports and Games of the Ancients spans the globe to...

Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203. By J. A. Everard. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 242. $59.95.) For almost half a century, Brittany, that peninsula at the extreme northwest of France, was...

The Making of Revolutionary Paris.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Making of Revolutionary Paris. By David Garrioch. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 382. $34.95.) From the blind beggars of the Quinze-Vingts Hospital to the rioters of the Reveillon wallpaper...

Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886. By Lawrence Goldman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 430. $70.00.) This long, highly detailed book is an exhaustive study...

Diaspora: Jews Amongst Greeks and Romans.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Diaspora: Jews amongst Greeks and Romans. By Erich S. Gruen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 386. $39.95.) In Jewish history, "diaspora" (golah in Hebrew) is a loaded term. Historically, it often designates a move away...

Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. By Catherine Hall. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 556. $79.00.) This is a rich and enterprising book, which explores important issues...

Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. By Jill Harsin. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. ix, 417. $29.95.) This study provides a narrative of political violence against the July Monarchy and its perpetrators,...

A Life of Jung.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A Life of Jung. By Ronald Hayman. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Pp. xxi, 522. $18.95.) Jung studies continue to proliferate. After many years of amateurish-seeming scholarship, we appear to have entered a new phase in which thoroughly...

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic. By Feiwel Kupferberg. (New Brunswick and London: Transactions Publishers, 2002. Pp. 228. $39.95.) The title suggests a narrative of the life and death of the GDR, but, instead, this book...

Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters. By A. E. MacRobert. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. Pp. x, 235. $45.00.) Another book on the Casket Letters? Readers of undergraduate British history term papers may groan...

Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. By Peter Marshall. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 344. $74.00.) This book considers the dead and beliefs about the dead during the Reformation in England, and it is a model of...

Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Edited by Raymond Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. v, 241. $60.00.) "What did it mean to be Protestant in France during the sixteenth and...

The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. [Volume 1 of Rome, The Greek World, and the East]. By Fergus Millar. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 383. $65.00.)...

Treason and the State: Law, Politics, and Ideology in the English Civil War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Treason and the State: Law, Politics, and Ideology in the English Civil War. By D. Alan Orr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 229. $55.00.) This monograph is the latest to showcase the scholarship produced by the...

The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima. By Constantine Pleshakov. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. xx, 396. $30.00.) One cannot help but like this book, which recounts the around-the-world voyage of Russia's...

The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941. By Paul Robinson. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 257. $72.00.) It has become commonplace, even liturgical, to acknowledge solemnly that the victors write the history. The author of this...

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? By Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, with a foreward by Arthur Hertzberg. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 312. $27.50.) This work,...

Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. By Jessica Warner. (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. Pp. xviii, 267. $24.95.) From about 1720 to 1751, the ruling elite worried about the enormous quantities of cheap gin (sometimes...

Medieval European Pilgrimage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Medieval European Pilgrimage. By Diana Webb. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xvii, 201. $21.95.) Throughout the years, the author of this study has made her contribution to the study of medieval pilgrimage in the form of scholarly articles...

The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations. By Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 329. $42.50.) Several years ago, Arthur M. Schlesinger,...

Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty. By Eric M. Freedman. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 241. $18.00.) This book takes as its subject the checkered history of federal habeas corpus review. In a post 9/11...

A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War. By Azar Gat. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 890. $39.95.) This imposing and substantial volume is a new edition of the author's trilogy...

Between Law and Custom: "High" and "Low" Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora, The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Between Law and Custom: "High" and "Low" Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900. By Peter Karsten. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 560....

Europe and Globalization.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Europe and Globalization. Edited by Henryk Kierzkowski. (Houndmills and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xvii, 332. $85.00.) The fourteen contributions to this volume, preceded by Henryk Kierzkowski's brief, largely summarizing...

The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire. By Alan Krell. (London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2002. Pp. 223. $25.00.) This fascinating, but often gloomy, book is a history of barbed wire as depicted in pictures and paintings. Alan Krell...

Battle: A History of Combat and Culture From Ancient Greece to Modern America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Battle: A History of Combat and Culture From Ancient Greece to Modern America. By John A. Lynn (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. 442. $27.50.) The military soldier has rattled down through the ages as an active and influential...

Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine. By Patrick Wright. (New York and London: Viking Penguin, 2002. Pp. 499. $29.95.) This book is a unique and fascinating history of the evolution of the tank. Unlike previous histories of the...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(Calendar)
June 22, 2004... Appalachian State University (Omicron Phi) 25 February 2004: Edward Behrend-Martinez, Tristan Charles Blackwelder, Susan Ashey Boone, Eric Meade-Allen Cannon, Richard Clayton Carney, Lindsay Ryan Chadwell, Antonia Michelle Chapman, Brock...