The Historian articles from June 2007

The Historian archives from June 2007

The other white gold: salt, slaves, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and British colonialism.
June 22, 2007... IN ONE OF the more famous slave narratives--in part because it was the first published account by a woman--Bermuda-born Mary Prince reported that "my master sent me away to Turk's Island. I was not permitted to see my mother or father, or poor...

Constitutional Unionists: the party that tried to stop Lincoln and save the Union.(formation of Constitutional Union Party, Abraham Lincoln)
June 22, 2007... ON 12 FEBRUARY 1860, nine months before the November presidential election, as the fate of the nation hung by a thread, the national Constitutional Union Party announced its formation with a clarion call to the American people. After denouncing...

Genocide and ethnic cleansing? The fate of Russian "aliens and enemies" in the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION: TASK, SOURCES, AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN 1918 THIS STUDY EXAMINES the treatment of Russians and other "Russian" foreigners such as Baltic, Polish, and Ukrainian peoples during the Finnish Civil War. (1) It first provides an...

Foreign support for Venezuelan political exiles during the regime of Juan Vicente Gomez: the case of Mexico, 1923-33.
June 22, 2007... THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA is littered with examples of the direct and indirect involvement of the United States in the internal affairs of certain countries that make up the region. (1) Less well known in the historiography of the area is...

The Persian Empire.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Persian Empire. By Lindsay Allen. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $39.95.) The author is a research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University, with relevant experience in Persian antiquities at the...

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. By Andrew Burton. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 301. $26.95.) The Dar es Salaam of the reviewer's experience, a scant decade after the...

An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire, By Gwyn Campbell. (New York, N. Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 413. $90.00.) This is a much-anticipated work. For the past two...

The Rise of Islam.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Rise of Islam. By Matthew S. Gordon. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xxxv, 180. $45.00.) Add this book to the list of good introductions to the origins of Islam for upper-level high school social science or first-year college...

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. By Gilles Kepel. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 327. $23.95.) Eurocentric is not usually a compliment in the world of Middle Eastern Studies, and yet it is the moderate...

We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999. By Gary Kynoch. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 200. $22.95.) The author examines one of the major urban gangs among black South...

Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727-1892.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port," 1727-1892. By Robin Law. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 308. $49.95.) This definitive history of the "port" of Ouidah is a painstaking reconstruction not...

Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820. By Robert J. Allison. (Amherst and Boston, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95.) Ignored by academic historians for almost seventy years, Stephen Decatur...

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 344. $29.95.) The author of this book, a law professor at the University of...

The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The CIA & Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. By David M. Barrett. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. x, 542. $39.95.) The ability of scholars to record and analyze the history of the Central...

One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt and Churchill That Changed the World.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill that Changed the World. By David Bercuson and Holger Herwig. (Woodstock and New York, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2005. Pp. 320. $29.95.) On the evening of 22...

Martha Washington: An American Life.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Martha Washington: An American Life. By Patricia Brady. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2005. Pp. 276. $24.95.) This volume narrates the important life events of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, and sets them in the broader context of American...

The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe. Edited by James W. Cook. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. x, 258. $19.95.) The title of this marvelous record of the career of the nineteenth...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. By John Mack Faragher. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. Pp. xi, 562. $17.95.) This book, which is an excellent...

Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman. By Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 168. $29.95.) This book is a collection of essays, originally published elsewhere, that...

America in White, Black and Gray: A History of the Stormy 1960s.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... America in White, Black and Gray: A History of the Stormy 1960s. By Klaus Fischer. (New York, N.Y.: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. Pp. 446. $29.95.) This is a rare work that weaves scholarly, historical analysis with...

The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society. By Michael D. Gambone. (College Station, Tex,: Texas A&M Press, 2005. Pp. x, 271. $26.95.) In this work, the author sets out to answer two basic questions: what were the...

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Pp. xix, 916. $35.00.) Given the vast scholarly and popular literature that treats Abraham Lincoln and his times,...

The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850. By Peter Guardino. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 405. $23.95.) Two of the most challenging issues in late colonial and early independence history in...

Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical. By Philip F. Gura. (New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 2005. Pp. xv, 304. $15.00.) The study of Jonathan Edwards's thought has become a small industry. Yale's ongoing publication of his works has now...

The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era. By Tom Holm. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. 244. $21.95.) As the title suggests, this book is about the inconsistencies that...

Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education. By John P. Jackson Jr. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 291. $45.00.) This new book examines the relationship between...

Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Raising Consumers. Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. By Lisa Jacobson. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 299. $24.00.) A declension model dominates popular thinking about...

Captain Jack and the Dalton Gang: The Life and Times of a Railroad Detective.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Captain Jack and the Dalton Gang: The Life and Times of a Railroad Detective. By John J. Kinney. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. ix, 270. $17.95.) John J. Kinney's interest in the career of his great-grandfather,...

Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Widows and Orphans First" The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939. By S. J. Kleinberg. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 248. $35.00.) The United States poses particular challenges to historians of...

The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. By Matthew D. Lassiter. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 390. $35.00.) The author of this study examines grassroots movements in rapidly growing...

Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community. By Mark A. Lause. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. x, 240. $42.00.) In 1844 a handful of New York City radicals headed by veteran labor editor George Henry...

Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. By Nancy MacLean. (New York, N.Y.: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. Pp. xi, 454. $35.00.) The author of this book provides a well-researched examination of the economics of...

Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. By E. Jennifer Monaghan. (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. 504. $49.95.) This is a deceptively complex book about a deceptively simple subject. One of the...

The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis. By Kevin Dougherty and J. Michael Moore. (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Pp. ix, 183. $45.00.) There is a lot to be said for truth in advertising. Because the...

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America. By Francesca Morgan. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 293. $21.95.) Who and what constitute the nation? Can one be patriotic and still disagree with the...

Food in Colonial and Federal America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Food in Colonial and Federal America. By Sandra L. Oliver. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 230. $19.95.) This book is second in a series dealing with "Food in American History" by Greenwood Press. The "Series Forward"...

Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960. By Stephen Robertson. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 337. $22.50.) Like rights, wrongs have a history. Even...

Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America. By Karenna Gore Schiff. (New York, N.Y.: Miramax Books, 2005. Pp. ix, 528. $25.95.) The author of this book makes a significant contribution to the literature concerning gender and...

Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries. By Howard P. Segal. (Amherst and Boston, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 244. $34.95.) From the early 1920s to the early 1940s, Henry Ford founded nineteen...

The Life and Times of Mexico.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Life and Times of Mexico. By Earl Shorris. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2004. Pp. 780. $16.95.) This is a big book full of material on every epoch of Mexican history. The author argues that both Mexico's past and its present...

Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs. By Peter Trouras. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. xviii, 114. $12.95.) This brief biography of the final Aztec emperor, Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, is part of a series called "Military Profiles."...

A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary A. Livermore.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary A. Livermore. By Wendy Hamand Venet. (Amherst, Mass., and London: University of Massachusetts Press, 200. Pp. xi, 319. $24.95.) Mary A. Livermore is one of those prominent nineteenth-century women...

Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail. By Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh. (New Haven, Con. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 336. $35.00.) The authors of this book take maritime history in a new...

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought. By Jerry Weinberger. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xvi, 336. $34.95.) This is an absurd and egregiously ahistorical book,...

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. By Sean Wilentz. (New York, N.Y. and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 1044. $19.95.) The question of when and how the United States came to embrace a market economy and...

Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China. By On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 306. $50.00.) Historians of China have long lacked a comprehensive...

Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910. By Catherine Vance Yeh. (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. x, 430. $60.00.) The author of this study explores the culture of Shanghai as...

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 404. $45.00.) Naysayers of China's indigenous economic development doubt the...

Churchill and War.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Churchill and War. By Geoffrey Best. (London and New York, N.Y.: Palgrave/ Hambledon and London, 2005. Pp. xiii, 353. $24.95.) The relationship between war and Winston Churchill has popular interest and historical significance. Like King...

The Economics of World War I.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Economics of World War I. By Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 345. $80.00.) This book gathers together a group of well-informed country specialists to survey the role of...

World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945. Edited by Roger Chickering, Stig Forster, and BerndGreiner. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 392. $70.00.) This book results from a...

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. By Nicholas B. Dirks. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 389. $27.95.) Because, the author insightfully argues, the...

The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939. By Richard J. Evans. (New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 941. $34.95.) The reviewer had the pleasure of reviewing the highly praised first volume of the author's planned three-volume...

The Night the Old Regime Ended, August 4, 1789, and the French Revolution.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Night the Old Regime Ended, August 4, 1789, and the French Revolution. By Michael P. Fitzsimmons. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 245. $49.95.) There is no single pivotal event in the French...

Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. By Barbara Goff. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 400. $60.00.) The first word in this book's title alludes to what most scholars see as a great...

The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture. Edited by Kenneth Gouwens and Sheryl E. Reiss. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 437. $99.95.) The sack of Rome in 1527 marked a watershed. For Italians of the...

Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614. By L. P. Harvey. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 448. $40.00.) After the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula came to a close in 1492 with the capture of Granada, Christian Spain...

Together We Stand: America, Britain, and the Forging of an Alliance.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Together We Stand: America, Britain, and the Forging of an Alliance. By James Holland. (New York, N.Y.: Hyperion. Pp. lxiv, 650. $32.95.) This is an excellent "story" in the sense of a series of connected events--a chronological account of...

Franco: Soldier, Commander, Dictator.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Franco: Soldier, Commander, Dictator. By Geoffrey Jensen. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. ix, 135. $19.95.) General Francisco Franco joined the July 1936 rebellion of army officers who, early in the Spanish Civil War, installed...

Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300-1540.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300-1540. By John Langdon. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 369. $115.00.) Although there is no shortage of studies on mills during the Middle Ages, this volume should be...

Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe. By Benjamin Lieberman. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. 396. $27.50.) Despite its title, the book is about Central and Eastern Europe's ethnic cleansing. It covers ethnic...

Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France. By Keith P. Luria. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 387. $69.95.) In terms of both theory and practice, the author of...

Police Stories: Building the French State, 1815-1851.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Police Stories: Building the French State, 1815-1851. By John Merriman. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 254. $55.00.) The first half of the nineteenth century saw the development of professional urban police forces...

What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa. By David E. Murphy. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. 352. $30.00.) The circumstances surrounding the Nazi invasion of the USSR on 22 June 1941 remain some of the most debated in...

The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy. By Michelle O'Malley. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 358. $50.00.) This book is a thorough-going survey of workshop practice and...

Russian Identities: A Historical Survey.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Russian Identities: A Historical Survey. By Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 278. $49.95.) The author, a prominent figure among the first generation of Russian historians in the postwar...

Moscow.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Moscow. By Karl Schlogel. Translated by Helen Atkins. (London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Pp. 351. $27.00.) "One way of discovering the nature of a city is to see what books are produced and read there" (131). In Karl Schlogel's Moscow,...

War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World. By David Stone. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. xiv, 304. $29.95.) This work, written by a British military historian, not only covers the proceedings of...

The Outbreak of the First World War.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Outbreak of the First World War. By Hew Strachan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 299. $15.95.) For more than two decades James Joll's book, The Origins of the First World War [1984], has remained the only compact,...

Condorcet and Modernity.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Condorcet and Modernity. By David Williams. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 306. $75.00.) As it is widely believed that the European Enlightenment is fairly well-tilled ground as far as research and writing go, it...

The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism. By Richard Wolin. (Princeton, N.J." Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 375. $29.95.) This author's excellent study provides the reader...

Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. By Rebecca Zorach. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 314. $45.00.) The art of the French Renaissance has long been a neglected area of study....

Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture 1800-2000. By Giovanni Federico. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 416. $45.00.) This ambitious book, written from the perspective of an economic historian,...

Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. By Leonard B. Glick. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 370. $30.00.) The current debate over the routine nonreligious circumcision of newborn males in...

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Racing the Enemy. Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 382. $29.95.) This book is a well-researched and provocative analysis of a fascinating yet...

Migration in World History.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Migration in World History. By Patrick Manning. (New York, N.Y., and London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. vi, 193. $24.95.) This study is not the typical book on world immigration. The author goes back thousands of years and traces movements of...

Fighting the Great War: A Global History.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Fighting the Great War: A Global History. By Michael S. Neiberg. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 395. $27.95.) The author of this book has written a lucid account of the military aspects of World War I. Based...

Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire. By Edward Shorter. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 321. $39.95.) This perverse and challenging study is written in an engaging, anecdotal style drawn from a wide range of...

Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders. By Gerhard L. Weinberg. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 292. $28.00.) The eight World War li leaders covered in this volume are Adolf Hitler, Benito...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(Calendar)
June 22, 2007... Adrian College (Omicron Tau) 29 January 2007: Steven Dulaney, Todd Freitag, Jennifer Gillies, Heather Lirette, Sharon Parks, Allyssa Paul, Jennifer Ralston, Kevin Shaffer, Matt Tingley. Alma College (Lambda Psi) 16 March 2007: Katelyn Bush,...