The Historian articles from June 2006

The Historian archives from June 2006

Jury trials and Gerrymanders: the legal effort to maintain segregation in July of 1957.
June 22, 2006... IN THE FINAL DAYS of summer 1957, the battle for civil rights dramatically entered the consciousness of many Americans. Roughly three years earlier the U.S. Supreme Court had handed down the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and in 1957, it...

Administering medicine without a license: missionary women in Rhodesia's nursing history, 1890--1901 (1).
June 22, 2006... CONVENTIONAL HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE of education in colonial Zimbabwe holds that the Dominican Sisters (among other European missionary women) came to Rhodesia as trained nurses and teachers and set up the first clinics and schools that benefited...

Remembering Richard Somers: naval martyrdom in the Tripolitan War.
June 22, 2006... ON 2 APRIL 1949, the USS Spokane, a modern naval cruiser, anchored off the historic Mediterranean port of Tripoli. A detachment of officers and men led by Rear Admiral R. H. Cruzen and Captain W. J. Marshall disembarked and were met by the...

Imperial strategy and the Anglo--Zulu War of 1879.
June 22, 2006... ON 22 JANUARY 1879, the British army suffered its worst colonial defeat of the nineteenth century when 1,500 men armed with the most modern weapons then available were wiped out at the battle of Isandlwana by a Zulu army--an impi--of 25,000...

Food supply and economic ideology: Indian corn relief during the second year of the great Irish famine (1847).
June 22, 2006... THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE (1845-51) had devastating effects on the Irish population. The horrors of Famine mortality, evictions, and the coffin ships produced turmoil and despair. About a million people perished from hunger, disease, and...

Social History and African Environments.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Social History and African Environments. Edited by William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor. (Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. xii, 275. $49.95.) The editors of this volume present a selection of papers from a 1999 conference at St. Antony's...

Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World. By Robert R. Bianchi. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 358. $35.00.) Making use of a combination of travel accounts, personal spiritual experiences,...

Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-01.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-01. By A. Adu Boahen. (Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers and Oxford, U.K.: James Currey Publishers, 2003. Pp. vii, 182. $24.95.) There has long been a need for the definitive story of Yaa...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. By Trevor R. Getz. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 257. $26.95.) One of the strengths of this study is that it can...

The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power. By Colin Imber. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiv, 405. $27.95.) This work is a valuable contribution to the small number of general histories of the Ottoman Empire....

How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600. By Jan Vansina. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 325. $50.00.) In the heady days of the 1960s when African history was first taking...

Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. By Sean Patrick Adams. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 305. $45.00.) This volume explores the importance of coal in the...

Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 374. $29.95.) In this study the author offers a thorough examination of slavery in North America. The...

The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution. By John Buchanan. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Pp. xvi, 368. $30.00.) The battles and campaigns fought during 1776 and 1777 have been covered many...

America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... America On the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic. By Richard Buel Jr. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 302. $29.95.) In this meticulously researched analysis of partisan...

Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacan, 1927-29.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacan, 1927-29. By Matthew Butler. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 251. $74.00.) Many years ago, a good friend in Mexico spent several days in a...

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. By Stephanie M. H. Camp. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. 173. $18.95.) This is a slender volume comprised of 141 pages of...

The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650. By Roger M. Carpenter. (East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University. Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 179. $27.95.) Making historic...

The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861. By David P. Currie. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 346. $39.00.) This volume is a labor of love. The author, a professor of law at the University...

Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. By David Dixon. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 353. $34.95.) The objectives of this volume are twofold: first,...

Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth. By Stephen D. Engle. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 251. $16.95.) This author's contribution to the "Great Campaigns of the Civil War"...

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. By Steve Estes. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. x, 239. $19.95.) "The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial...

Liberty and Freedom.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 851. $50.00.) After long study, the author has come to believe that the two most important of...

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. By Douglas Flamming. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 467. $29.95.) The author of this book is interested in American regional history. In his...

Satchel Paige's America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Satchel Paige's America. By William Price Fox. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. 142. $16.95.) Pitching great Dizzy Dean once claimed that Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige had "the greatest stuff I ever saw," and...

FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy. By Mary E. Glantz. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95.) Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) has been harshly criticized in recent years...

Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. By Jon Hunner. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 288. $29.95.) Unlike many of the previous scholars and popular writers who have studied Los Alamos, New Mexico,...

Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy. By John W. Johnson. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xiii, 266. $15.95.) This reviewer still remembers the day he first learned as an...

The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. By Raymond Knapp. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 361. $35.00.) These are exciting times for Broadway musical aficionados. This book joins recent...

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. By Mary Ting Yi Lui. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 298. $29.95.) Historians by and...

The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War. By Frank J. Merli. (Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 248. $29.95.) "My... objective in this work," wrote Frank J. Merli, "is to exonerate the...

Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. By John R. Neff. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 328. $34.95.) To a callous, uncritical reader, the theme of this author's study of...

The American South in a Global World.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The American South in a Global World. Edited by James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 299. $24.95.) Years from now, historians will undoubtedly find...

California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. By Ethan Rarick. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 501. $29.95.) The title of this book implies that Edmund "Pat" Brown serves as a useful foil for exploring...

Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen".(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen". By Burton Rascoe. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 340. $15.00.) This reviewer's only previous contact with Belle Starr was the 1941 movie starring Gene Tierney, which is not...

Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. By Johanna Schoen. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 331. $19.95.) In this study, the author examines the...

Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America, Volume II, The Public Influences of African American Churches.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America, Volume II, The Public Influences of African American Churches. Edited by R. Drew Smith. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 239. $29.95.)...

Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xi, 196. $25.95.) The author of this book, a political theorist, is concerned about the...

Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring. By Spencer Tucker. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 245. $32.95.) Stephen Decatur is an iconic figure for the U.S. Navy, representing perhaps better than anyone else the...

Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. By Paul J. Vanderwood. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 332. $22.95.) Paul J. Vanderwood's wonderfully eccentric reading of the life, death, and afterlife of Juan...

Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775-1783.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775-1783. By Stanley Weintraub. (New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 375. $28.50.) In this narrative history of the American Revolution told from the British...

Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. By Charles Wilkinson. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. xvi, 527. $26.95.) The author of this study has had a long involvement in the field of Indian law, both as a staff attorney...

The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City. By Sharon E. Wood. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 321. $22.50.) In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer...

Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. By Daud Ali. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 297. $75.00.) This is an interesting book. The author has carefully used literary and visual sources like the...

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. By Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 319. $35.00.) This is a terrific book. It is an important correction to the China field's,...

Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. By Alexis Dudden. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. x, 215. $45.00.) The debate over Japan's annexation of Korea has been argued with two bipolar positions. One...

The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968. Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 408. $40.00.) Between 1964 and 1968, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration...

Indonesia: Peoples and Histories.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Indonesia: Peoples and Histories. By Jean Gelman Taylor. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 420. $20.00.) This is evidently a book designed for a high school audience, as suggested by information such as "Rice...

Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. By Janet M. Theiss. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 281. $49.95.) The High Qing period in eighteenth-century China was an age in...

Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir. By Chitralekha Zutshi. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 359. $35.00.) Carrying the reader from the nineteenth-century bazaars of Srinagar...

Charlemagne: Father of a Continent.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. By Alessandro Barbero. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 426. $29.95.) Was Charlemagne the "father of Europe," as one of his court poets proclaimed, c. 800? This epithet has...

Hitler's Admirals.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Hitler's Admirals. By G. H. Bennett and R. Bennett. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 248. $32.95.) The title of this book is misleading. The book is not about the admirals of the German navy. Rather, it contains...

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. By Sarah Bradford. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 421. $27.95.) The recent papal election generated much commentary on past popes both good and bad. Among those...

The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Books of Henry VIII and His Wives. By James P. Carley. (London: The British Library, 2004. Pp. 161. $39.95.) What can be known from a man's library? From what he chose to read, perhaps a good deal can be discerned. From books given to...

Women of Byzantium.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Women of Byzantium. By Carolyn L. Connor. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 396. $45.00.) In surveying the history of Byzantine women for the first time in a book by one author, this author has complicated her task...

The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company. By Matthew Davies and Ann Saunders. (Leeds, England: Maney, 2004. Pp. xiv, 316. $80.00.) Historians of Britain tend to find London's usages incomprehensible, while the activities of the city's...

Light for the City: Calvin's Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Light for the City: Calvin's Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty. By Lester De Koster. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. xx, 139. $20.00.) This book opens with a section labeled "Forewarning" that in...

Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years' War, 1755-1763.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years' War, 1755-1763. By Markus Eder. (Aldershot, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Pp. viii, 200. $89.95.) During the past three decades, increasing numbers of scholars have used...

Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. By Charles Coulston Gillispie. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 751. $80.00.) Beginning students are often confronted with contradictory tidbits...

Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid. By Odilo Epitaphium. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sean Gilsdorf. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 222. $24.95.)...

Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought. By A. James Gregor. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $35.00.) For almost two generations, the author of this study has been the...

Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin. By Benjamin Carter Hett. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 291. $35.00.) Death in the Tiergarten represents a major reassessment of the...

Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London. By Tim Hitchcock. (London: Hambledon and London, 2004. Pp. xvi, 343. $29.95.) The author of this study has written a social history of the kind that has, unfortunately, become unfashionable: the...

Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Edited by Sarah Iles Johnston. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 667. $49.95.) Despite its broad title, this book is basically a guide to the religions of the...

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV, c. 1024-c. 1198.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV, c. 1024-c. 1198. Part II. Edited by David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 959. $180.00.) The publication of this volume completes the...

Germany at the Fin de Siecle: Culture, Politics and Ideas.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Germany at the Fin de Siecle: Culture, Politics and Ideas. Edited by Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 330. $49.75.) The editors of this volume attempt to determine the...

The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy. By George W. McClure. (Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 373. $65.00.) This book is as informative as it is fascinating. The author scrutinizes the culture of...

Army & Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Army & Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775. By Michael N. McConnell. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 211. $49.95.) This brief volume offers readers an interesting look at the daily...

Four Cultures of the West.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Four Cultures of the West. By John W. O'Malley. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2004. Pp. 261. $24.95.) Ever since Tertullian posed the question "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?", people have struggled to elucidate answers. John W....

Athenian Democracy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Athenian Democracy. Edited by P. J. Rhodes. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 358. $19.95.) This is part of a new series designed to "introduce" presumably advanced "students to central themes in the history of the...

The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. By Francesca Rochberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 331. $70.00.) Next to writing itself, the greatest cultural legacy of the...

Demon Possession in Elizabethan England.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Demon Possession in Elizabethan England. By Kathleen R. Sands. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. Pp. 225. $44.95.) In Elizabethan England, demonic possession was a form of theater in which the possessed and those around them acted small...

Napoleon and the British.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Napoleon and the British. By Stuart Semmel. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 354. $40.00.) In this engaging book, the author argues cogently that Napoleon featured prominently in British political culture, from his...

France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980. By Timothy B. Smith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 296. $23.99.) Public debate in France about globalization often raises the specter that France...

The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV. By Anne Somerset. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 377. $27.95.) Students and scholars of the Ancient Regime in France will welcome...

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Courtly Love, and the Troubadours.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Eleanor of Aquitaine, Courtly Love, and the Troubadours. By ffiona Swabey. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004. Pp. 167. $45.00.) The shopworn logic asserted by the title Eleanor of Aquitaine, Courtly Love, and the Troubadours is fortunately...

The Politics of World Federation: United Nations, UN Reform, Atomic Control.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Politics of World Federation: United Nations, UN Reform, Atomic Control. By Joseph Preston Baratta. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xii, 298. $150.00.) It is interesting to note that the Second World War did not provoke the same...

Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754-1815.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754-1815. Edited by Julie Flavell and Stephen Conway. (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 2004. Pp. x, 284. $65.00.) This insightful collection of...

After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC. By Steven Mithen. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 622. $29.95.) This massive and clever book opens modern scholarship about the distant past to...

Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa. By Marshall Sahlins. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 334. $30.00.) The Peloponnesian War [431-404 BC] between Sparta and Athens ravaged...

Between God & Man: Six Sermons on the Priestly Office.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Between God & Man. Six Sermons on the Priestly Office. By Pope Innocent III. With an introduction by Corinne J. Vause. Translated by Frank C. Gardiner. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 2004. Pp. xxx, 131. $19.50.) ...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
June 22, 2006... Agnes Scott College (Alpha Them Psi) 5 December 2005: Mariah Bozeman, Julia Charles, Emmeline Creasy, Yolanda Curtis, Susan Dougherty, Erin Lemon, Lauran Nave, Ashley Oscarson, Elizabeth Ott, Rebecca Poole, Laura Richardson, Carmen Rodgers,...