The Historian articles from June 2009

The Historian archives from June 2009

Martyrdom in Islam.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Martyrdom in Islam. By David Cook. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 206. $75.00.) The role of martyrdom in Islam has taken center stage in recent years due to the burgeoning terrorist tactic of "self-designated...

Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. By M. W. Daly. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 368. $22.99.) The appearance of the Darfur crisis in news reports around the world has acted as a...

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. By Michael B. Oren. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Pp. xxi, 737. $29.95.) Israeli scholar Michael B. Oren has a Ph.D. in history and is a fellow at the...

Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World. By Adam J. Silverstein. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 214. $95.00.) Who would want to read a book on postal systems in the premodern Islamic world? Anyone who...

A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen. By Shelagh Weir. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. xi, xv, 390. $50.00.) This author's detailed ethnography describes the political and legal life of the small...

The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. By Emerson W. Baker. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv, 233. $24.95.) Witchcraft studies often fall prey to two temptations: one is to construct an...

The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830. By Martha Tomhave Blauvelt. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. 275. $39.50.) If diarists are chroniclers of history, then The Work of the Heart is an...

Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age. By Susan K. Cahn. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 375. $29.95.) In this study, the author traces the history of Southern adolescent girls' sexuality from the...

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 1. The Public Years.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 1. The Public Years. By Charles Capper. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxi, 649. $40.00.) Although Margaret Fuller's life was very short, it overflowed with learning,...

Voices from an American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Voices from an American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760. Edited by Emily Clark. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 138. $25.00.) The editor of this book is one among...

Family Life in 20th-Century America.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Family Life in 20th-Century America. By Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong, and Kelly Warznik. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 326. $65.00.) This study uses a topical approach to cover the most salient of the broad...

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. By Robert Dallek. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2007. Pp. xii, 740. $32.50.) The author of this book, a renowned biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, has turned his attention to the...

Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. By Stanley L. Engerman. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 114. $25.00.) Historians, especially those trained in the 1970s, identify Stanley L....

Havana: Autobiography of a City.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Havana. Autobiography of a City. By Alfredo Jose Estrada. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x, 277. $24.95.) This author joins hundreds of travelers who over the years have penned their impressions of Cuba and its capital city...

James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years. By Wayne Franklin. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxiv, 708. $40.00.) This year's much anticipated publication of the first volume of Wayne Franklin's biography of James Fenimore...

No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. By Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 419. $30.00.) No Caption Needed is a snappy title. However,...

The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920. By Timothy A. Hickman. (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 190. $22.95.) The author has written an...

Frontiers: A Short History of the American West.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Frontiers: A Short History of the American West. By Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 248. $28.00.) This volume is the abridged, updated edition of the authors' now classic...

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. By Woody Holton. (New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 2007. Pp. 370. $27.00.) This book follows a neo-Beardian interpretation of the Constitution. The author presents a more subtle and...

Lincoln and the American Manifesto.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Lincoln and the American Manifesto. By Allen Jayne. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007. Pp. 392. $28.00.) Although the author wants to give the impression that this book is about Abraham Lincoln's understanding of the Declaration of...

The Black Hawk War of 1832.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Black Hawk War of 1832. By Patrick J. Jung. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 275. $29.95.) In this book, the author provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes, the confrontations, and the aftermath of...

The Jamestown Project.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 380. $29.95.) Every society has a creation myth, but the United States of America has two: the comfortable...

1812: War with America.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... 1812: War with America. By Jon Latimer. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 637. $35.00.) In many respects, the author provides an engaging and thorough version of the War of 1812 from the...

Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x, 288. $20.00.) In the 1930s, Americans listened to radio four to five hours a day. What...

George Kennan: A Study in Character.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... George Kennan: A Study in Character. By John Lukacs. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 207. $26.00.) This slim book sketches the highlights of diplomat-scholar George Kennan's remarkable life and character. The...

Maryland Voices of the Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Maryland Voices of the Civil War. Edited by Charles W. Mitchell. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 548. $35.00.) In this handsomely designed book, the author tells the story of the divisions that kept...

Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home. By Susan Hardman Moore. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 336. $35.00.) As an undergraduate nearly twenty years ago, the reviewer participated in an Introduction to...

Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John E. Murray. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40.00.) In this book, economist John E. Murray challenges historians who...

The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. By Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. 281. $19.50.) In these eleven previously published essays, the author, the Dean of American Jefferson scholars, addresses many of...

Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic. By Mark Padilla. (Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 294. $21.00.) Tourism is nowadays the principal industry in most of the...

The Populist Vision.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Populist Vision. By Charles Postel. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 397. $35.00.) Over the past ten years, a new generation of historians have reassessed the Populist movement in the United States. This...

When the World Was Young.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... When the World Was Young. By Tony Romano. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. Pp. 320. $24.95.) In a novel about an Italian-American family during a period popularly thought of as an age of innocence, the author weaves a...

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. (New York, N.Y.: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. 461. $26.95.) The author, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a journalist specializing in...

U.S. Environmentalism since 1945: A Brief History with Documents.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... U.S. Environmentalism since 1945: A Brief History with Documents. Edited by Steven Stoll. (Boston, Mass., and New York, N.Y.- Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Pp. xiv, 175. $14.95.) Environmental history became an important field for research...

Henry Kissinger and the American Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Henry Kissinger and the American Century. By Jeremi Suri. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 358. $27.95.) The author of this study provides readers with both a brief overview of Henry Kissinger's...

Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Against the President: Dissent and Decision-Making in the White House: A Historical Perspective. By Mark J. White. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. Pp. 384. $28.95.) For those intrigued by how U.S. presidents make important decisions,...

From The May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... From The May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism. By Xiaoming Chen. (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 156. $60.00.) In 1925 Guo Moruo [1892-1978], who was...

The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics. By Vincent Goossaert. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. xviii, 395. $49.95.) The Baiyun Guan (White Cloud Abbey) in Peking (modern Beijing)...

A History of the Modern Chinese Army.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A History of the Modern Chinese Army. By Xiaobing Li. (Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 413. $39.95.) The author of this book has written an excellent and highly readable broad-brush political and military...

150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port: Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade. By Roxani Eleni Margariti. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 344. $55.00.) In this book, the author gives a...

Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination System in Late Chosen Korea, 1600-1894.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination System in Late Chosen Korea, 1600-1894. By Eugene Y. Park. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 273. $39.95.) The Choson dynasty founder, Yi Song-gye (King T'aejo),...

"A Constituency Suitable for Ladies" and Other Social Histories of Indian Elections.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... "A Constituency Suitable for Ladies" and Other Social Histories of Indian Elections. By Wendy Singer. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 246. $24.00.) Separate electorates for India's Muslim minority were first...

Shadow of the Silk Road.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Shadow of the Silk Road. By Colin Thubron. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2007. Pp. 363. $25.95.) One of the most distinguished English travel writers, Colin Thubron, prepares himself very seriously for his journeys. Apart from wide...

Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. By Gregory S. Aldrette. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 338. $60.00.) Floods are a neglected topic among historians. Many early cities lay in vulnerable flood plains...

Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. By Michael Alexander. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 306. $45.00.) In this book, the author offers up a history of the Medieval Revival, focusing on the period...

Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Aethelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Aethelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615. By Virginia Blanton. (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 349. $65.00.) This book joins a diverse body of criticism that...

Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: Liberty, Patriotism and the Common Good.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: Liberty, Patriotism and the Common Good. Edited by Hans Blom, John Christian Laursen, and Luisa Simonutti. (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. x, 306. $60.00.) This collection...

The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany. By Rita Chin. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 281. $75.00.) This is a timely and eloquent exploration of what is surely the most debated issue about German...

The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays. Edited by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer, and Martin Heale. (Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 252. $80.00.) The 2007 octocentenary of the founding of Liverpool...

The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty. By Anne Crawford. (New York, N.Y.: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 200. $29.95.) It is difficult to know of whom the publishers were thinking as readers of this book; not scholars, certainly, as...

Sport in Ancient Times.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Sport in Ancient Times. By Nigel B. Crowther. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. Pp. vii, 183. $49.95.) The history of Greek athletics has become such a specialized field that the discovery of a hitherto unknown terra-cotta statuette,...

Budapest: A Cultural History.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Budapest: A Cultural History. By Bob Dent. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 237. $15.00.) In this work, the author of travel guides and a cultural history, Budapest 1956: Locations of Drama, amalgamates two strains...

Tropic of Venice.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Tropic of Venice. By Margaret Doody. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 345. $32.50.) Margaret Doody loves Venice. Her opening chapter reads like the narrative of a conversion experience. She evokes the mythical...

Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. By Anne Goldgar. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 426. $30.00.) One of the most notorious events in Dutch history is the "tulipmania" in the 1630s....

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. By Nancy Goldstone. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2007. Pp. xv, 336. $24.95.) With all the passion and pace of a novel, this is a beautiful introduction to the politics of thirteenth-century...

Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. By Samantha Kahn Herrick. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 256. $49.95.) Assessing the historical value of medieval hagiography has engaged...

The Druids.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Druids. By Ronald Hutton. (London, England: Continuum Books, 2007. Pp. xvi, 240. $29.95.) Recent books about the Druids are generally either surveys of the ancient priestly class of the Celts by notable archaeologists or discourses by...

Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History. By Hugh F. Kearney. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 309. $39.00.) This collection of reflections on nationalism in Ireland, Britain, and further afield...

National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History. By Joep Leerssen. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. Pp. 304. $32.50.) This is a fascinating and erudite account of national images. The author does not engage in...

Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067-1137).(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067-1137). By Kimberly A. LoPrete. (Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 2007. Pp. 663. $95.00.) In this impressive tome, the author utilizes a vast array of sources, many of them previously unknown to...

Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia. By Gary Marker. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 309. $42.00.) Scholarship on Russia in the eighteenth century has tended to...

The Gladiators: History's Most Deadly Sport.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Gladiators: History's Most Deadly Sport. By Fik Meijer. Translated by Liz Waters. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007. Pp. xvii, 266. $14.95.) In this English translation of a work first published in Dutch in the Netherlands in...

The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. By Philip Morgan. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 263. $29.95.) This fine monograph does much more than describe the end of Mussolini's regime....

Communists and British Society 1920-1991.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Communists and British Society 1920-1991. By Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen, and Andrew Flinn. (Chicago, Ill.: Rivers Oram Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 356. $25.95.) The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was formed in 1920 as an affiliate of the...

Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart: The Perils of Marriage.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart: The Perils of Marriage. By Anka Muhlstein. Translated by John Brownjohn. (London, England: Haus Publishing, 2007. Pp. 408. $26.95.) The author of this study is not the first biographer to bring Elizabeth I and...

Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Film.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Film. By Chloe Paver. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 174. $74.00.) Studies of the cultural meanings of the Third Reich are becoming increasingly common in...

Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence. By Patricia Lee Rubin. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 418. $60.00.) The author of this interdisciplinary study of fifteenth-century Florence is an art historian. She...

Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor; Medicine and Power in the Third Reich.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor; Medicine and Power in the Third Reich. By Ulf Schmidt. (London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2007, Pp. xvi, 462. $29.95.) Many historians are wary of biography, but this author's study of Karl Brandt ought to...

The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837. Edited by Brendan Simms and Torsten Riotte. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 337. $105.00.) This elegantly produced volume of thirteen essays stems from...

The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan Zatlin. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 377. $75.00.) As a student living in East Germany, this reviewer's idee fixe about...

Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. By Cecil D. Eby. (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 510. $39.95.) On 17 July 1936, the Spanish military revolted against the...

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900. By David Edgerton. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 270. $26.00.) In this pathbreaking book, the author presents a radical reinterpretation of...

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. By Ben Kiernan. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 724. $40.00.) The author of this book is internationally known for his extensive...

Impotence: A Cultural History.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Impotence: A Cultural History. By Angus McLaren. (Chicago, Ill.: Chicago University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 332. $30.00.) It is impossible to open an e-mail account today without encountering a tidal wave of words about potency, or lack of it....

A Natural History of Time.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A Natural History of Time. By Pascal Richet. Translated by John Venerella. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 471. $29.00.) Anyone who has paid attention to nonfiction in the last decade cannot help but have...