The Historian articles from June 2005

The Historian archives from June 2005

The progressive agent of mischief: the whiskey ration and temperance in the United States Army.
June 22, 2005... IN THE 1820S AND 1830s, the United States Army suffered from a phenomenally high desertion rate of about 20 percent a year. (1) The causes of desertion were many but stemmed primarily from low pay, lack of promotions, irregularities within the...

Examining the politics of reclamation: the 1944 acreage limitation debate in Congress.
June 22, 2005... DURING DEBATE IN the U.S. House of Representatives over what would become the Flood Control Act of 1944, Representative Carl Curtis of Nebraska summarized the complicated issues and interests involved in the drafting of water resource...

Into the wilderness: Ronald Reagan, Bob Jones University, and the political education of the Christian Right.
June 22, 2005... ON FRIDAY, 8 January 1982, officials from the United States Treasury Department announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would no longer deny tax exemptions to private schools practicing racially discriminatory policies, arguing that...

An appeal for a historiographical renaissance: lost lives and the Thirty Years War.
June 22, 2005... IN THE EARLY 1920s, Germans debated the question of French colonial troops in occupied German territories and their impact upon the German population. In this discussion, the "Black Threat" provoked images of the brutalization of war and the...

Ships, sailors, and mediators: England's naval aid to Sweden 1658-1659.
June 22, 2005... DURING THE EARLY MODERN ERA, the composition and purpose of European navies underwent a dramatic change. Beginning in the sixteenth century, western European rulers began to establish overseas empires and long distance trade began to increase....

"The history of the National Guard".(Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000)(The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865-1920)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000. By Michael D. Doubler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 460. $17.95.) The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia,...

Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe. By Amy Kaler. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 247. $27.95.) With the exception of southern Africa, biomedical contraception reached Africa only after...

Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800. By Guity Nashat and Lois Beck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 253. $42.95.) Knowledge about premodern Iranian women in historical accounts has been scant and scattered....

Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. By William Howard Adams. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 345. $30.00.) Previously sidelined by the historiography of the Revolutionary Era, it is now time for Gouverneur Morris...

Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 308. $62.95.) This collection of...

The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism & Its Legacies. Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. ix, 404. $39.95.) The inside flap of this book promises a great deal. In...

The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico. By Jacques M. Chevalier and AndrOs Sanchez Bain. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 301. $65.00.) Folk medical practices as far apart as China, the...

All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution. By Christopher Collier. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003. Pp. xi, 224. $39.95.) In this work, the author seeks to...

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Capitalism, Politics and Railroads in New England. By Michael J. Connolly. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $44.95.) The author of this new book has studied the impact of the coming of the railroad in New...

Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. By Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xi, 292. $15.95.) Three distinguished legal historians have...

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd Depastino. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 325. $32.50.) Whether marching in Coxey's Army or with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, homeless men have...

Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. By Robbie Ethridge. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 369. $22.50. Two hundred years ago, the Creek confederacy stretched across a significant chunk of the...

God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. By Bruce J. Evensen. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 240. $29.95.) Readers seeking a critical biography of Dwight Lyman Moody will not be...

European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream. Edited by Peter K. Gillord and Robert D. Ilisevich. (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 258. $44.95.) An important future component of the interregional Erie...

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. By Steven Hahn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 610. $35.00.) This author has written an amazing book, one...

The Quakers in America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Quakers in America. By Thomas Hamm. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 293. $40.00.) This is an exceptional book. It is simply one of the best books ever written about American Quakerism--high praise indeed, but...

In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage. By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. Pp. 316. $25.95.) John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have been working, independently and collaboratively, in the...

Sensory Worlds in Early America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sensory Worlds in Early America. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 334. $39.95.) While most sensory experiences are filtered through the mental mechanism of perception and are interpreted...

Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 394. $45.00.) The author of this study contends...

Kate Chase & William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Kate Chase & William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage. By Peg A. Lamphier. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. x, 315. $55.00.) They were a handsome couple, and their wedding was the social event of the...

The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930. By Jean V. Matthews. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. 211. $24.95.) In this entry in the "American Ways" series, historian Jean V. Matthews continues the story of the...

Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950. By Julio Moreno. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 321, $21.95.) In Mexico, the love of U.S....

Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760-1783.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760-1783. By Vincent Morley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 366. $65.00.) In this welcome addition to the study of Irish history, the author explicates the connections...

Fleeing the Famine: North American and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Fleeing the Famine: North American and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851. By Margaret M. Mulrooney. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. ix, 154. $64.95.) This study is an interesting and, at times, provocative compilation of articles that...

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 294. $49.95.) Focusing on the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath has...

Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present. Edited by Mariano Plotkin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 287. $22.95.) In Argentina, and until the early 1990s, there were relatively...

City: Urbanism and Its End.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... City: Urbanism and Its End. By Douglas W. Rae. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 516. $30.00.) America is a country of cities. There are 288 large metropolitan areas in the country, called Metropolitan Statistical Areas...

Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Joao Jose Reis. Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 386. $59.95.) In October 1836, a crowd...

Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of The Enlightenment. By Michael Brian Schiffer. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 383. $34.95.) Benjamin Franklin has long been...

Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. By Thomas Schoonover. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $30.00.) The events surrounding the war of 1898 were a turning point for the United States and for...

Kit Carson and His Three Wives: A Family History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History. By Marc Simmons. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. x, 195. $24.95.) The author of this biographical study of Christopher "Kit" Carson tries to examine the subject's...

The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910. By Juan Mora Torres. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. 346. $23.95.) The author of this study investigates how the interplay of...

Written with Lead: America's Most Famous and Notorious Gunfights from the Revolutionary War to Today.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Written with Lead: America's Most Famous and Notorious Gunfights from the Revolutionary War to Today. By William Weir. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 354. $17.95.) This book chronicles twenty-one episodes in American history...

Turning the World Upside Down: The War for American Independence and the Problem of American Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Turning the World Upside Down: The War for American Independence and the Problem of American Empire. By Neil Longley York. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xiii, 193. $64.95.) The author of this book sets out in his short and briskly paced...

Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. By Sumit Ganguly. (Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 187. $18.50.) This book is a straightforward, well-written account of the many conflicts between India and...

Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea. By Xiaoming Zhang. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 300. $19.95.) Cold War studies have continued to be internationalized. Continuing...

14-18: Understanding the Great War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... 14-18: Understanding the Great War. By Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becket. Translated by Catherine Temerson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. 280. $14.00.) This fine book by two of France's eminent historians of World War I...

Charlemagne.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Charlemagne. By Matthias Becher. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 170. $23.00.) The author of this book is one of the leading authorities of a younger generation of historians in Germany working on Western Europe in the eighth...

Italy and the Grand Tour.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Italy and the Grand Tour. By Jeremy Black. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 255. $35.00.) The education of many British aristocrats during the Georgian period revolved around relatively long sojourns through the Italian...

English Public Opinion and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. By Duncan Andrew Campbell. (London: Royal Historical Society Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 266. $70.00.) Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis considered British intervention in the...

Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact. By John Cornwell. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xvi, 535. $29.95.) In the past decade, there has been a wealth of scholarship produced exploring the relationship between scientists and...

The Revolution of Peter the Great.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Revolution of Peter the Great. By James Cracraft. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $25.95.) Peter the Great, it appears, never ceases to inspire. The last few years alone have seen two new, full-length...

French Popular Culture: An Introduction.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... French Popular Culture: An Introduction. Edited with an introduction by Hugh Dauncey. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 220. $24.95.) This textbook offers fourteen encyclopedia-style entries treating a wide range of...

Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. By Jeroen Duindam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $80.00.) The author of this outstanding work traces in scrupulous detail the evolution of...

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Literature, 1740-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Literature, 1740-1914. By Margot C. Finn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 362. $70.00.) This study explores the impact of credit and debt in Britain in the eighteenth...

The French Revolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The French Revolution. By Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 190. $45.00.) In the increasingly crowded field of introductory materials on the French Revolution, Linda S. Frey and Marsha L....

The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923. By Peter Hart. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 350. $75.00.) This book is a groundbreaking work. Given an almost endless analysis of Irish republicanism, most of it...

Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Hitler in Vienna 1907-1913: Clues to the Future. By J. Sydney Jones. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 350. $26.47.) Although Adolf Hitler's time in Vienna has long been the stuff of mystery, this reprint of a book published in...

The Nazi Conscience.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Nazi Conscience. By Claudia Koonz. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $29.95.) This newest study of Germany's inexorable march to the ultimate mass murder of Jews will be a most influential voice in the crowded...

The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Bar & the Old Bailey 1750-1850. By Allyson N. May. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 242, $49.95.) To most people, the modern criminal defense lawyer in a common law jurisdiction is a very recognizable figure....

The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England. By Cindy McCreery. (London: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 281. $90.00.) In the last half of the eighteenth century, British society was experiencing a...

Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. By Jon D. Mikalson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 269. $45.00. This treatment of religion in the work of the first Greek historian is one of two that have...

Ancient Greek Athletics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Ancient Greek Athletics. By Stephen G. Miller. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 288. $35.00. The biggest problem in teaching ancient athletics has been the lack of an adequate survey that marshals the diffuse and...

Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage and Politics in England, 1225-1350.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage and Politics in England, 1225-1350. By Linda E. Mitchell. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 185. $49.99.) The contributions of women prior to the nineteenth century have been notoriously...

Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece. By Kathryn A. Morgan. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 324. $50.00.) It is a well-known paradox of the study of ancient Greek tyranny that, while the...

Urban Europe, 1100-1700.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Urban Europe, 1100-1700. By David Nicholas. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 239. $21.95.) This author's latest book turns from his specialty, Flemish cities in the late Middle Ages, to attempt a synthesis of medieval and...

Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920. By Jean Elisabeth Pedersen. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 271. $60.00.) With the advent of the Third Republic, a surprising cast...

Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom. By David Rollason. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 339. $85.00.) This study, by a specialist in the ecclesiastical history of northeastern England, is...

From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. By Michael Rowe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 331. $65.00.) The author of this study has written an excellent book about a crucial period of...

The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia. By W. F. Ryan. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 504. $24.95.) This detailed survey of magical and divinatory texts and popular practice focuses on the...

The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers. By Frank Sanello. (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003. Pp. vii, 304. $25.95.) The Knights Templar will always remain a popular subject. A medieval military order, the...

Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750. By Anne Jacobson Schutte. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 337. $45.00.) Between the early seventeenth...

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil. By Peter Stansky. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 295. $35.00.) Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939) and his sister Sybil (1894-1989) were among the most prominent members of the...

War in the Age of Enlightenment, 1700-1789.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... War in the Age of Enlightenment, 1700-1789. By Armstrong Starkey. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. ix, 232. $67.95. The past three decades have seen significant adjustments in views about the Enlightenment. What had once been understood as...

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. By William Taubman. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. Pp. xx, 876. $35.00. This book is a rare find, at once a meticulous study that is invaluable for specialists and a highly readable biography that was...

Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 379. $45.00.) This important and long awaited study should be read carefully by...

Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. By Raymond Van Dam. (Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 256. $45.00.) Cappadocia is a fascinating stretch of land in the heart of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Some...

Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825. Edited by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker with Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 208. $24.95.) This copiously illustrated (109 plates) and beautifully...

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. By Perez Zagorin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 371. $29.95.) This immensely readable book attempts to trace the origins of religious toleration in early...

A Brief History of the Human Race.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A Brief History of the Human Race. By Michael Cook. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. xi, 385. $26.95. World history literature embraces sweeping works such as those by Toynbee, encyclopedic textbooks, and narrowly focused works...

Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age. By Tom D. Crouch. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. vii, 725. $29.95.) The centennial of the invention of the airplane in 2003 prompted a number of individuals and presses...

After-Images of the City.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... After-Images of the City. Edited by Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 269. $47.50.) As historical studies of the city become more sophisticated, scrutiny of the representations...

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century. By Graham Robb. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. viii, 342. $26.95.) The subject of this book is homosexual love in Europe and America, "the obstacles it encountered and the...

Nation, State, and the Economy in History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Nation, State, and the Economy in History. Edited by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 450. $75.00.) With the advent of a new millennium and the continued persistence of global...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
June 22, 2005... Albany State University (Omicron Theta) 29 November 2004: Marvin Broadwater, Jr. Albion College (Zeta Xi) 23 April 2003: Jason R. Colegrove, Elizabeth R. Crabb, William B. Cronin, Rachel A. Mantinan, Jennifer L. McInerney, Julie A. Pepera,...