The Historian articles from March 1998

The Historian archives from March 1998

Interview with Robin Higham. (historian)(Interview)
March 22, 1998... Born in London in 1925, moving to the United States in 1940, and serving in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1947, Higham received his A.B. cum laude at Harvard, his M.A. at the Claremont Graduate School, and his Ph.D. at Harvard during the...

African American and Francophone black intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance.
March 22, 1998... Between the two world wars, African Americans fresh from the South's fields and factories poured into Harlem, the south side of Chicago, and other northern ghettos in search of economic opportunity and political liberty. Within a few years, a...

The star in the east: the controversy over Christian missions to India, 1805-1813.
March 22, 1998... In 1805, the publication of a pamphlet by Claudius Buchanan, a little known Anglican clergyman in Calcutta, sparked a bitter eight-year debate over the right of Christian missionaries to operate in British India. The issue became the subject...

Richard Nixon and the origins of affirmative action.
March 22, 1998... "Incredible but true," declared Fortune magazine at the time of Richard M. Nixon's death in 1994. "It was the Nixonites who gave us employment quotas."(1) Until recently, many scholars and journalists have credited Democratic Presidents John...

The rise of publicly funded agricultural experimentation in Ohio, 1864-1882.
March 22, 1998... Publicly funded agricultural experimentation in Ohio arose from concern over declining farm production. Since joining the Union in 1803, Ohio by the mid-nineteenth century had become a major agricultural state; farmers raised hogs in the west,...

The advantage of rank and status: Thomas Price, a Loyalist parson of Revolutionary Virginia.
March 22, 1998... In 1952 George MacLaren Brydon, a historian of colonial Virginia's established Church of England, placed Thomas Price, rector of Petsworth parish, among five clergymen "who may perhaps be classified as mental casualties of the Revolution. "...

German war plans in the Pacific, 1900-1914.
March 22, 1998... Decades before the outbreak of World War I, Germany, the United States, Britain, and Japan were already on a collision course in the Pacific. In the rush to acquire colonies, Japan laid claim to Taiwan in 1894 and Korea in 1910, and Germany...

The Making of Modern Ethiopia: 1896-1974.
March 22, 1998... The Making of Modern Ethiopia: 1896-1974. By Teshale Tibebu. (Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1995. Pp. xxvii, 246. $16.95.) The study of Ethiopian history has come far since the 1960s, when it first emerged as a subject distinct from...

Ethiopia: Power and Protest, Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century.
March 22, 1998... Ethiopia: Power and Protest, Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. By Gebru Tareke. (Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 272. $19.95.) The study of Ethiopian history has come far since the 1960s, when it first emerged as a...

Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East.
March 22, 1998... Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East. Edited by David Garnham and Mark Tessler. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. xxv, 294. $15.95.) This volume was conceived and written under the impact of the...

The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy. By Burton I. Kaufman. (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. Pp. xvii, 291. $26.95.) The literature dealing with the modern Arab Middle East and the role...

From Slave Trade to "Legitimate Commerce": The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa.
March 22, 1998... From Slave Trade to "Legitimate Commerce": The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Edited by Robin Law. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 278. $59.95.) Even non-specialists will...

The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years.
March 22, 1998... The Middle East. A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. By Bernard Lewis. (New York: Scribner, 1995. Pp. xii, 433. $30.00.) Bernard Lewis is a widely read specialist in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. His books are listed...

Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville.
March 22, 1998... Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville. By Phyllis M. Martin. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 278. $59.95.) This reviewer knows of no other book that conveys more powerfully the texture of urban life in colonial...

Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-93.
March 22, 1998... Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940-93. Edited by B. A. Ogot and W. R. Ochieng. (London: James Curry, Ltd.; Nairobi: East African Education Publishers; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 270. $19.95.) If Kenya's...

How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. By Stephen Aron. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 285. $29.95.) Over the past 15 years, backcountry studies have been legion....

Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America.
March 22, 1998... Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Edited by Leslie Bethell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 411. $64.95.) This volume unites essays on ideas and culture from several volumes of The Cambridge...

Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WW II.
March 22, 1998... Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WW II. By Nat Brandt. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 277. $28.95.) In this book Nat Brandt, a former newsreporter, stresses the "advances and retreats" of black Harlemites at home...

Making Peace with the 60s.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Making Peace with the 60s. By David Burner. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 295. $29.95.) For most historians, the upheavals of the 1960s have represented some kind of turning point. Yet writing satisfactorily about that...

Masters of War.
March 22, 1998... Masters of War. By Robert Buzzanco. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 386. $30.00.) Two basic premises of this book are that President John Kennedy was hawkish on Vietnam, and that there was no significant policy...

Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador.
March 22, 1998... Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador. By Warren R. DeBoer. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 234. $29.95.) This is a most amazing book. It is both a highly...

On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X.
March 22, 1998... On the Side of My People. A Religious Life Of Malcolm X. By Louis A. DeCaro Jr. (New York and London: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. 361. $29.95.) This is probably the most definitive work to date on the controversial but celebrated...

Robert Kennedy: The Final Years.
March 22, 1998... Robert Kennedy: The Final Years. By Brian Dooley. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. 191. $35.00.) Robert Kennedy occupies a special place in the pantheon of post-World War II liberalism. He has earned that place in part by embodying...

The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. By David M. Esposito. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1996. Pp. ix, 159. $45.00.) In this modest book, David Esposito argues that Woodrow Wilson led the United States into...

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.
March 22, 1998... Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 326. $29.95.) In her new book, Mothers of Invention, Drew...

The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840.
March 22, 1998... The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840. By Daniel Feller. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 227. $13.50.) At first glance, Daniel Feller's The Jacksonian Promise appears to be a carefully crafted...

More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas.
March 22, 1998... More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 341. $39.95.) David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine have combined to...

Rioting in America.
March 22, 1998... Rioting in America. By Paul A. Gilje. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 240. $39.95.) In both his introduction and epilogue, the author of this volume argues that rioting is an important part of American...

Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920.
March 22, 1998... Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 384. $49.95.) As the title indicates, this book is a...

The Passing of Starr Faithfull.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Passing of Starr Faithfull. By Jonathan Goodman. (Kent, Ohio and London: Kent State University Press, 1996. Pp. 311. $17.00.) This is a peculiar book to describe. The author has been called a "crime historian," and has written many books...

Man of the People: The Life of Harry S. Truman.
March 22, 1998... Man of the People: The Life of Harry S. Truman. By Alonzo L. Hamby. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 760. $35.00.) Alonzo Hamby, in an effort of commitment and intelligence, has produced an important,...

The Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833. By Carol Sue Humphrey. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 182. $59.95.) Newspapers were few and far between in the United States in the 1780s but their numbers had expanded to 1200...

Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation. By Willard Carl Klunder. (Kent, OH and London: Kent State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 416. $39.00.) With scholarly thoroughness, Klunder has written an informative biography of the "father of...

Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions.
March 22, 1998... Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions. By Lloyd Kramer. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 354. $39.95.) Modern historiography is harsh in its...

Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability: An Interpretive Profile.
March 22, 1998... Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability: An Interpretive Profile. By L. B. Kuppenheimer. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. Pp. xii, 152. $55.00.) The literature of the early American republic is vastly enriched by L. B....

Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995.
March 22, 1998... Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995. By David E. Kyvig. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xx, 604. $55.00.) This impressive study will surely take its place among the major works in...

Race Relations Within Western Expansion.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Race Relations Within Western Expansion. By Alan J. Levine. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. Pp. 168. $49.95.) At the end of the twentieth century, Americans of every color seem to be obsessed with race. Yet for all our obsession, we...

George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency. By David Mervin. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 226. $35.00.) According to the author, George Bush followed the precedent of Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford and attempted to...

The New Crusades, The New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991.
March 22, 1998... The New Crusades, The New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991. By David T. Morgan. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Pp. 246. $24.95.) In only a few brief years, scholars and writers of all types...

A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.).(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.). Edited by Kenneth W. Noe. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 348. $32.95.) Reading the remembrances of a participant in a...

Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920. By Donald J. Pisani. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xii, 273. $29.95.) This volume explores the environmental and legal history of the American West...

Christmas in America: A History.
March 22, 1998... Christmas in America: A History. By Penne L. Restad. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 219. $25.00.) Many works in recent American cultural studies have focused on the question of American identity. American historians have...

Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity and Mexican Culture.
March 22, 1998... Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity and Mexican Culture. By Claudia Schaefer. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 159. $17.95.) A study of the representation of homosexuality in Mexican literature between 1964...

The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880.
March 22, 1998... The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880. Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 336. $45.00.) The concept of a "market...

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas.
March 22, 1998... A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas. By Jeannie M. Whayne. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1996. Pp. xvi, 324. $39.50.) This book is a study of economic development,...

Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China.
March 22, 1998... Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China. By Richard L. Davis. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 283. $40.00.) Conventional depictions of the thirteenth-century Mongol...

The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945.
March 22, 1998... The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xlvii, 375. $49.00.) Students of the Japanese empire owe another spirited round of applause...

Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life.
March 22, 1998... Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. By Sheldon Garon. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 313. $24.95.) Despite a misleading title, this work offers a persuasively revisionist examination of the Japanese...

Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa.
March 22, 1998... Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. By Stephanie Lawson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 228. $59.95.) In this age of deconstructing "invented" traditions that serve the...

When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433. By Louise Levathes. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 252. $13.95.) This is an excellent book for undergraduate world history or Western...

Agricultural Production and Indian History.
March 22, 1998... Agricultural Production and Indian History. Edited by David Ludden. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 382. $29.95.) The British acquired the right to collect the revenues of Bengal shortly after their victory at Plassey in...

The Japanese Kimono.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Japanese Kimono. By Hugo Munsterburg. (Hong Kong, Oxford, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 74. $17.95.) The word kimono came into use in Japan in the late nineteenth century as a means to distinguish native styles of...

Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. xxiv, 263. $32.50.) Ancient and medieval China produced at least three great explorers who are comparable to Ibn Batuta and Marco...

And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930.
March 22, 1998... And Now My Soul Is Hardened. Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930. By Alan M. Ball. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xxii, 335. $18.95.) It is probable that Alan M. Ball set out to...

Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931.
March 22, 1998... Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931. Edited by Eugenio Biagini. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 369. $64.95.) Here is the latest installment of a...

Einstein: A Life.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Einstein: A Life. By Denis Brian. (New York. John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Pp. xvi, 509. $30.00.) When another half millennium has rolled by, what icons will represent the twentieth century: the footprint on the moon, the paired spirals of the...

The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Book of Cerne. Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England. By Michelle P. Brown. (London: The British Library and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. 252. $85.00.) Michelle P. Brown, a curator of Western Manuscripts...

The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Virgin and the Bride. Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity. By Kate Cooper. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 180. $37.50.) This book explores the values of marriage and virginity during the centuries in which Rome...

Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic. By Anthony Corbeill. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 251. $35.00.) The unshakable reputation for imaginative decadence and debauchery that the elite of...

The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe, 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence.
March 22, 1998... The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. xi, 296. $79.95.) The term petit-bourgeois often carries negative...

Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987. By Richard J. Evans. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxii, 1014. $65.00.) Merging primary sources with the best of structural anthropology, the author of this...

The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War.
March 22, 1998... The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. By Ilya V. Gaiduk. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. Pp. xx, 299. $28.50.) In the immediate aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when formerly closed Soviet archives briefly threw open their...

Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning.
March 22, 1998... Arming Against Hitler. France and the Limits of Military Planning. By Eugenia C. Kiesling. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xiv, 260. $35.00.) Another possible title for this well-researched study would be "Defending the...

Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958.
March 22, 1998... Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958. By Paul W. T. Kingston. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 191. $54.95.) This book is highly recommended not only to those who are interested in...

Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State. By Paul Douglas Lockhart. (Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $48.50.) Of the four phases into which...

Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.
March 22, 1998... Communities of Violence. Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 301. $29.95.) The author's geographical and temporal focus in this highly original and...

Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Fifty Years Later. Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 272. $45.00.) As the most prominent participant in the abominable...

Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1995.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1995. Edited by Reiner Pommerin. (Oxford and Washington, D. C.: Berg, 1996. Pp. vii, 151. $15.95.) One of the most perplexing side-effects of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall is that...

The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs.
March 22, 1998... The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs. Edited by Donald J. Raleigh, compiled by A. A. Iskenderov. (Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. xvii, 414. $23.95.) The articles that constitute this volume...

Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914. By Richard Rodger. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 100. $27.95.) Although the housing question currently is not politically fashionable, it is a critical issue to which...

The War for the German Mind: Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers.
March 22, 1998... The War for the German Mind: Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers. By Arthur L. Smith Jr. (Providence, RI and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. x, 214. $39.95.) Arthur Smiths most recent book on German prisoners is a useful addition to the...

The Prussian Army, 1640-1871.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... The Prussian Army, 1640-1871. By Jonathan R. White. (New York: University Press of America, 1996. Pp. xii, 359. $38.50.) The author of this book--Jonathan White, a professor of criminal justice--begins on a rather mystifying note. Although...

The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic.
March 22, 1998... The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic. By Roger Woods. (London: Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 173. $59.95.) Roger Woods makes clear from the start that this study of the German writers who comprised the so-called Conservative...

Colbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade.
March 22, 1998... Colbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade. By Glenn J. Ames. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 245. $36.00.) This book is the first scholarly examination of the French East Indies Company...

The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective.
March 22, 1998... The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective. Edited by Victoria de Grazia with Ellen Furlough. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. x, 433. $19.95.) "Consumption, thy name is woman,"...

The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification.
March 22, 1998... The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification. By Mary N. Hampton. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Pp. x, 180. $55.00.) This study purports to explain why realism (labeled the dominant approach in...

"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide.
March 22, 1998... "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide. By Sven Lindqvist. Translated by Joan Tate. (New York: The New Press, 1996. Pp. x, 179. $20.00.) The author of this book warns...

Progress: Fact or Illusion?(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Progress: Fact or Illusion? Edited by Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 232. $42.50.) This volume, which originated at a 1991 conference at MIT, where editors Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish both...

Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. By James M. Perry. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. Pp. iii, 314. $27.95.) While leadership is a hot topic in many sectors, and generals writing about...

Tobacco in Atlantic Trade: The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675-1775.
March 22, 1998... Tobacco in Atlantic Trade. The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675-1775. By Jacob M. Price. (Norfolk, UK: Variorum, 1995. Pp. vii-x, 305. $82.50.) In the historiography of colonial North America, few subjects attract as much attention as...

World History: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present, rvsd ed.
March 22, 1998... World History: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present. By Hugh Thomas. (Revised Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. Pp. xxii, 764. $35.00.) This imaginative survey of the human past provides lively reading for the buff as...