The Historian articles from June 2008

The Historian archives from June 2008

Carpetbaggers, reprobates, and liars: federal judges and the Utah war (1857-58).
June 22, 2008... ON 8 DECEMBER 1857, President James Buchanan sent his first State of the Union message to Congress. (1) In a pattern followed by every president from Thomas Jefferson through William Howard Taft, a clerk read the message to Congress, and...

The crisis in the Great War: W. E. B. Du Bois and his perception of African-American participation in World War I.
June 22, 2008... I. INTRODUCTION THIS STUDY EXPLORES the innate tension over African-American participation in the Great War. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, as revealed by his writing in The Crisis, held the paradoxical notion of African-Americans participating in...

Of couscous and control: The Bureau of Muslim Soldier Affairs and the Crisis of French Colonialism.
June 22, 2008... "Qu'ALLAH fasse vive la France!" --Cpt. Mouloud Iddir "O Moroccans! This same France for which you have offered your life is paying you back today by imprisoning your Sultan, replacing him with some stooge... and letting your family...

The West Bend Aluminum Company in the age of monopoly, depression, and war.
June 22, 2008... DURING THE FIRST HALF of the twentieth century, the introduction of aluminum induced a major transformation in the cookware manufacturing industry in the United States. In 1900 only five percent of cookwares were made with aluminum, yet by 1940...

Taken Hostage: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter With Radical Islam.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Taken Hostage: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter With Radical Islam. By David Farber. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 212. $39.95.) The 1970s did not constitute a halcyon time in American...

Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1936.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1936. By Abdeslam M. Maghraoui. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 192. $21.95.) This is an important and powerful book, even if the author carries his...

Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America. By Michael Beschloss. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2007. Pp. xii, 727. $28.00.) Employing the theme of courage, the author here runs the gamut of presidential...

The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 183. $40.00.) Early on the morning of 7 November 1825, Jereboam O....

The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 418. $29.95.) Historians of the U.S. South have long debated why--and whether--the region stands apart from...

Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America. By Susan Clair Imbarrato. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 254. $42.95.) In this well-written study of women's travel narratives, the author shows that traveling in...

Social Change in America From the Revolution Through the Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Social Change in America From the Revolution Through the Civil War. By Christopher Clark. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. xiii, 349. $27.50.) This author's latest effort, like all good books, yields many rewards. Students and...

Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006, Pp. x, 406. $28.95.) Historians of sexuality and biomedicine have...

The Patriotic Business of Seeking Office: James K. Polk and the Patronage.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Patriotic Business of Seeking Office: James K. Polk and the Patronage. By John Devoti. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006. Pp. xvi, 146. $25.00.) The issue raised consistently in this brief volume is whether continuity or...

Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond. By Sergio Diaz-Diquets and Jorge Perez-Lopez. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 286. $21.95.) The authors of this study add a new, exciting dimension to the growing literature...

Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism. By J. Brooks Flippen. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 278. $29.95.) In a blog commentary on the Mother Jones...

A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920. By Marie Eileen Francois. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 415. $29.95.) Mexico City's poor relied on credit to...

Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York. By Lori D. Ginzberg. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 222. $49.95.) It all began at Seneca Falls. As much as historians of women in the...

The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. By Daniel W. Hamilton. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 231. $39.00.) The decade of the Civil War played a pivotal...

Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R. Hickey. (Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. xxix, 430. $34.95.) The author of this book has devoted decades to the study of the War of 1812. In recent years...

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation. By Elizabeth Jacoway. (New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 461. $30.00.) The author began work on this book thirty years ago. Her labor has not been in vain. She...

Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic. By Mary Kelley. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. x, 294. $39.95.) This superb book persuasively and gracefully makes the...

Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America. By Stephen E. Kercher. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 553. $35.00.) This excellent book joins a growing list of studies showing that the period from the end...

The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era. By Wilma King. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 290. $39.95.) Free blacks were never truly free in the United States of America. Despite this fact,...

Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. By Louise W. Knight. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 412. $35.00.) Jane Addams, the Progressive reformer, public intellectual, suffragist, and Nobel Peace...

Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. By Bruce Kuklick. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 241. $29.95.) "Knowledge is power" goes the old saying. Not so, says the author of this book, an...

Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965. Edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt, and Mark Valeri. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 363. $24.95.) The study of...

We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. By Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry. (Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 357. $40.00.) After World War II, a plethora of films appeared that...

The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 235. $19.95.) The Revolutionary generation in America did not end slavery--that is a fact; but the...

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery. By James Oakes. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Pp. xxii, 297. $26.95.) The author of this book, a prominent historian of...

A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. By Rowena Olegario. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 274. $39.95.) Businesses finance their operations internally by reinvesting past...

Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868. By Grace Palladino. (New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 195. $15.00.) This classic study has been republished by...

American Reformers 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... American Reformers 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed. By Steven L. Piott. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. Pp. 225. $26.95.) The author of this book traces the lives of a dozen individuals who helped to define...

Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. By John Prados. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. xxxv, 696. $35.00.) In this major revision of his 1986 book the Presidents' Secret Wars, the author offers a more extensive account of...

South Carolina Scalawags.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... South Carolina Scalawags. By Hyman Rubin III. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 192. $29.95.) South Carolina's majority black population after the American Civil War made it the prototype for what came...

Sherman Invades Georgia: Planning the North Georgia Campaign Using a Modern Perspective.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Sherman Invades Georgia: Planning the North Georgia Campaign Using a Modern Perspective. By John R. Scales. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 213. $32.95.) As the subtitle of this short book indicates, this is not a...

Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy. By David Curtis Skaggs. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 301. $34.95.) Before this biography of Oliver Hazard Perry, the author of this study...

Radical Conservatism: The Right's Political Religion.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Radical Conservatism: The Right's Political Religion. By Robert Brent Toplin. (Lawrence, Kans." University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. 306. $34.95.) In the wake of the Ronald Reagan presidency and the rise to power of the Right, the...

Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 2007. Pp. xix, 378. $30.00.) The author of this volume has collected nineteen essays written over a span of four decades, organized them topically, and...

William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. By Eric H. Walther. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 477. $39.95.) William Yancey has long been a caricature in Southern history, the...

Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. By Robert C. Williams. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 413. $34.95.) The author of this laudatory work on the nineteenth-century editor, essayist, and politician,...

Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 392. $29.95.) There are some books that simply take your breath away for their daring. Patriots and...

Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. v, 625. $59.95.) As one of the...

The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou. By Steven Miles. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. Pp. 450. $49.95.) This book is in the tradition of using local sources to study scholarly...

Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China. By Martin J. Powers. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 374. $44.95.) This book is an elegant and scholarly monograph that traces the historical...

Saving The Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Saving The Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China. By Margherita Zanasi. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 320. $55.00.) In this creative work, the author explores the connection between a modern economy...

Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe 1890-1970: The Maternal Dilemma.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890-1970: The Maternal Dilemma. By Ann Taylor Allen. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. x, 354. $75.00.) The conflict between women's individuality and the self-sacrificing aspects of...

A Concise History of the Third Reich.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A Concise History of the Third Reich. By Wolfgang Benz. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 309. $35.00.) Considering the tens of thousands of books written about the Third Reich...

Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. By Mario Biagioli. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 302. $35.00.) One might be forgiven for assuming from its title that this book is about the...

Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. By Alon Confino. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 306. $24.95.) In his latest book, the author offers excellent intellectual...

The World of the Vikings.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The World of the Vikings. By Richard Hall. (New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 2007. Pp. 240. $34.95.) The systematic investigation into the material evidence of the Viking age began in the late nineteenth century, most notably with the...

The Shotgun Method: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Shotgun Method: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture. By Mogens Herman Hansen. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 140. $39.95.) The author's new book, originally presented as the Fordyce W....

King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends. By David Horspool. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 216. $19.95.) As the title suggests, the author of this book, who is editor of the Times Literary Supplement, has not...

Naval Engagements: Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy 1793-1815.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Naval Engagements: Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy 1793-1815. By Timothy Jenks. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 325. $99.00.) Scholars have long wondered how the ideological wreck of...

Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England. By Katherine C Little. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 196. $27.50.) In this book, the author looks at the Wycliffite movement in late...

The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730. By Benerson Little. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Pp. xv, 302. $17.95.) This book on Golden Age piracy is as lively as its subject matter. With...

Voting about God in Early Church Councils.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Voting About God in Early Church Councils. By Ramsay MacMullen. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 270. $30.00.) Although Christians remember the councils of the early church for their articulation of developing...

Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain. Edited by Peter Mandler. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 214. $99.00.) Edited collections are notoriously hard to sell, and the price of this volume attests to Oxford...

France in 1938.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... France in 1938. By Benjamin F. Martin. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $18.95.) This author's latest book offers a chronologically organized narrative history of 1938 in France that focuses on France's...

The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953. By Billie Melman. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 363. $19.00.) How did English men and women view their past? Indeed, what past did they view? These are...

A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II, 408-450.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II, 408-450. By Fergus Millar. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 279. $49.95.) As early as the third century, the Greek-speaking eastern half of the...

International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ's Business.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ's Business. Edited by Helen Nicholson and Jochen Burgtorf. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 218. $59.75.) ...

Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. By Cormac O Grada. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 294. $35.00.) As an academic subject, the history of Irish Jewry has often drawn interest from the...

Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia. By Scott W. Palmer. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 307. $40.00.) The author asks "What is 'Russian' about Russian aviation?" With this...

Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. By Katharine Park. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. 419. $36.95.) With this ground-breaking, beautifully written book, the author debunks two myths about the...

The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: The Origins of the Spanish Civil War. By Stanley Payne. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 420. $40.00.) A producer of thorough scholarship, the author has published...

Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century. By Maria Grazia Pernis and Laurie Schneider Adams. (New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xiii, 181. $66.95.) Less a biography and more a brief glimpse into...

The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926- 1935.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pitsudski's Poland, 1926-1935. By Eva Plach. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 262. $42.95.) As one of the so-called "Successor States" in East-Central Europe after the...

Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. By Geoffrey Roberts. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 468. $39.00.) Joseph Stalin plays an odd role in the historiography of the twentieth century. On the one...

Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality. By James A. Schultz. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 242. $39.00.) Historians' study of sexuality has been informed by critical theory since...

Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II. By Kenneth Slepyan. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xi, 409. $34.95.) The title of this study is the key to the author's intention. In Stalin's Guerrillas, the...

The Bonapartes. The History of a Dynasty.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Bonapartes. The History of a Dynasty. By William H. C. Smith. (New York, N.Y.: Hambledon, 2005. Pp. ix, 252. $29.95.) According to the author of this book, Napoleon was one of the "great men" of history, a leader whose "astonishing...

Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. By Laura J. Snyder. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. x, 386. $45.00.) This book is an examination of two views on the nature of political and social...

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: the True Story of a Forgotten Hero in Wellington's Army.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The True Story of a Forgotten Hero in Wellington's Army. By Mark Urban. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Pp. 348. $13.95.) As he prepared to take the offensive against French Imperial...

The Wehrmacht-History, Myth, Reality.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Wehrmacht-History, Myth, Reality. By Wolfram Wette. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 372. $29.95.) With this major study of the military in Nazi Germany, the author...

Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945. By David Fairbank White. (New York, N.Y.-Simon and Schuster, 2006. Pp. 350. $26.00.) The memory of allied soldiers who perished fighting in Europe during World War II has been preserved...

China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World. By John W. Garver. (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. 392. $24.95.) With this study, the author has written on a rarely discussed topic: Chinese-Iranian...

The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976. By Gerd-Rainer Horn. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 254. $65.00.) This ambitious and provocative work exemplifies the current trend...

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. By Mark Moyar. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 512. $32.00.) For many years, a small but tireless group of historians has bucked the tide of scholarly writing about...

The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. By Aviel Roshwald. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 349. $29.99.) It seems that anyone who challenges the notion that nationalism is anything but...

Phi Alpha Theta Initiates.(List)
June 22, 2008... Albion College (Zeta Xi) 8 January 2008: Michael Wiese. Alma College (Lambda Psi) 16 January 2008: Melissa Carstens, Ray Foley, Daniel Fraser, Jennifer Fry, Taylor Gibson, Elizabeth Heitsch, Kimberly Lyon, Salina Maxwell, Brian...