The Historian articles from March 1999

The Historian archives from March 1999

INTEVIEW WITH MICHAEL J. HOGAN.
March 22, 1999... Born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1943, Hogan received his bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa, and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa. Since 1986, he has been a professor of history at Ohio State...

HOOVER AND THE INDIANS: THE CASE FOR CONTINUITY IN FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY, 1900-1933.(Herbert Hoover)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... "The most dangerous animal in the United States" Herbert Hoover once observed, "is the man with an emotion and a desire to pass a new law." To Hoover, the formulation of government policy required careful examination of the facts and the calm,...

WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC WARFARE: THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, AND PORTUGUESE WOLFRAM.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... The World War II alliance forged by Britain and the United States was one of the closest working relationships of the twentieth century, reflecting common interests and special ties of history and culture. This "special relationship" was...

GOVERNOR JAMES MONROE AND SOUTHAMPTON SLAVE RESISTANCE OF 1799.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... James Monroe's governorship of Virginia (1799-1802) is best known for the violent suppression of "Gabriel's slave conspiracy" in 1800, in which freedom-seeking slaves from Henrico and neighboring counties plotted to burn the capital, Richmond,...

"PADRE ET PASTOR VOSTRO": GIROLAMO SERIPANDO AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EPISCOPATE IN SALERNO.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... In 1545, in response to the crisis provoked by the recent Protestant Reformation, nearly 200 Roman Catholic church leaders gathered in Italy under Pope Paul III for what became known as the Council of Trent. The council lasted 18 years, with...

OPPOSITION TO INTERNMENT: DEFENDING JAPANESE AMERICAN RIGHTS DURING WORLD WAR II.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... In 1943, Rev. Emery Andrews, a Baptist minister and former missionary to Japan, predicted about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II that "future historians will record this evacuation--this violation of citizenship...

DUPES AND DEMAGOGUES: CAROLINE KROUT'S NARRATIVE OF CIVIL WAR DISLOYALTY.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... During the Civil War Hoosier Republicans believed that disloyalty to the Union was widespread among the Democrats of Indiana. The local scuffles between partisans, the formation of secret armed groups, and Democratic resistance to the draft...

Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By William B. Taylor. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 984. $75.00) The American Historical Association presented its Albert J. Beveridge...

Democratization of Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Democratization of Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861. By William G. Shade. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Pp. 480. $45.00.) Two historians share the Avery O. Craven Award for 1998. They are...

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 303. $45.00.) Two historians share the Avery O. Craven Award for 1998. They are William...

The Ancient Near East C. 3,000-330 B.C.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Ancient Near East, c. 3,000-330 B.C. 2 vols. By Amelie Kuhrt. (New York: Routlege, 1995. Pp. 840. $49.95.) Amelie Kuhrt of University College, London is the winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize for 1998. The Breasted Prize is...

Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State. By Nadim N. Rouhana. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 300. $30.00.) Palestinians in Israel and in the diaspora (outside historic Palestine) have received much less...

Palestine and the Palestinians.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Palestine and the Palestinians. By Samih K. Farsoun with Christina E. Zacharia. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 375. $34.00.) Palestinians in Israel and in the diaspora (outside historic Palestine) have received much less...

Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896. By Abbas Amanat. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 536. $45.00.) The author of this book is an established authority...

African Women: A Modern History.(Review)
March 22, 1999... African Women: A Modern History. By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. Translated by Beth Gillian Raps. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 308. $24.95.) This survey is a recent entry in the small field of textbooks about African women....

The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids. By Heinz Halm. Translated by Michael Bonner. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. Pp. 452. $167.75.) In 1959 Samuel Stern lamented: In the original program of this meeting, I was to talk on the...

Life in the Ancient Near East: 3100-332 B.C.E.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Life in the Ancient Near East: 3100-332 B.C.E. By Daniel C. Snell. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 270. $30.00.) Recent historical surveys of the ancient Middle East provide satisfactory politico-cultural synopses of...

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru. By Thomas Spear. (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; Oxford: James Currey, 1997. Pp. x, 262....

South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance.(Review)
March 22, 1999... South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance. Edited by Les Switzer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 400. $80.00.) This collection of eleven essays is a valuable addition to the literature on...

Ancient Civilizations of the New World.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Ancient Civilizations of the New World. By Richard E. W. Adams. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 158. $14.95.) This welcome publication offers a succinct survey of the great civilizations of Andean and Mesoamerica. Not that long...

The Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624-1996.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624-1996. By Selma Berrol. (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1997. Pp. 200. $49.95.) Historians are in need of a brief history of New York City. The past two decades have seen literally hundreds of...

Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. By Benson Bobrick. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Pp. xv, 553. $30.00.) The author of this study has not only written a well-researched and thoughtful account of the...

The New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution. By Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, and Kathleen M. Sullivan. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. Pp. xii, 179. $13.95.) As any moviegoer knows, sequels are often frustrating....

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 330. $49.95.) In the American South between 1890 and 1930, lynching--the collective,...

Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. By Leslie Midkiff DeBauche. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 244. $15.95.) America had been in World War I for eight months when film mogul Adolph Zukor wrote that, "In...

The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Edited by Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. x, 346. $17.95.) The American home front in World War II is...

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region & State in Honduras, 1870-1972.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region & State in Honduras, 1870-1972. By Dario A. Euraque. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. 242. $39.95.) Honduras stands out as the least studied country in Central America,...

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Pp. xx, 288. $29.95.) In this study, Annette Gordon-Reed examines primary documents and historical...

Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans 1769-1803.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803. By Kimberly S. Hanger. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 248. $16.95.) In this well-researched work, which draws on manuscript collections...

With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union. By William C. Harris. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. x, 354. $37.95.) William C. Harris, author of Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi (1967),...

Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector. By James W. Hilty. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 642. $34.95.) This study is the first scholarly biography of RFK since Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Robert Kennedy and His Times...

The End of the American Avant Garde.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The End of the American Avant Garde. By Stuart D. Hobbs. (New York and London: New York University Press, 1997. Pp. 304. $45.00.) Alienation, innovation, and futurism, according to Stuart Hobbs, were characteristics that comprised the...

FDR and the Creation of the U.N.(Review)
March 22, 1999... FDR and the Creation of the U.N. By Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 287. $30.00.) The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War have moved the United Nations...

From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee in the West That Was.(Review)
March 22, 1999... From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee in the West That Was. By Charles W. Allen. Edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 286. $40.00.) Wallace Stegner once observed that the...

Giants in the Cornfield: The 27th Indiana Infantry.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Giants in the Cornfield: The 27th Indiana Infantry. By Wilbur D. Jones Jr. (Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1997. Pp. xix, 519. $50.00.) His inspiration arising from the words of a roadside historical marker that...

Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. By Jay Kinsbruner. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 176. $15.95.) The central argument of this book seems simple...

Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996. By Enrique Krauze. (New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Pp. 872. $35.00.) The author of this survey is Mexico's leading popular, non-fiction author. Enrique Krauze's books aim...

Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920. By Clare V. McKanna Ir. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 206. $40.00.) Literature on violence in the U.S. West published in the last decade or so tends to...

Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750. By Kenneth Mills. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 337. $55.00.) In this analysis of the religious conversion of the Andean peoples...

Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State. By Charles Noble. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 271. $45.00.) As a scholar against whom Charles Noble is explicitly arguing, it is...

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870. By Katherine Ott. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 242. $27.95.) Katherine Ott provides insight into the changing meaning of tuberculosis,...

Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers. By Amos Perlmutter. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 194. $29.95.) This slender book is surprisingly...

Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850. By Cynthia Radding. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 404. $19.95.) In recent years, a younger generation of...

Black Movements in America.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Black Movements in America. By Cedric J. Robinson. (New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 179. $16.95.) "Is this America? Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?" Fannie Lou Hamer's question still rivets attention, for it is at once radical and...

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William C. Roy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 338. $35.00.) The author of this study, a sociologist, attempts to explain the...

Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery. By Stuart B. Schwartz. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 174. 14.95.) In these essays, Stuart Schwartz focuses on human agency and social...

A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History. Edited by John David Smith and Thomas H. Appleton Jr. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 203. $57.95.) A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and...

Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America. By Gerald Sorin. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 294. $14.95.) In this survey of Jewish-American history, the author provides a clear and readable...

From the Outside In: World War II and the American State.(Review)
March 22, 1999... From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 354. $45.00.) Bartholomew H. Sparrow is a political scientist, not a historian. The difference...

Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic. By Len Travers. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. Pp. x, 278. $29.92.) This book is as much a history of Independence Day as it is...

Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars. By Frank E. Vandiver. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 339. $29.95.) In this book, the author cultivates the challenging ground between scholarly and popular history....

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. By J. Samuel Walker. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 142. $34.95.) This book is the academic equivalent of the...

Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. By Vernon J. Williams Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. ix, 152. $34.95.) Historian Vernon J. Williams Jr. has written a little book about a big subject the...

A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens.(Review)
March 22, 1999... A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens. By Donald Yacovone. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp. 350. $26.95.) "What was it like to be an African American soldier during the Civil Wart" So asks the dust...

Voices From Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Voices From Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire. By Marina Carter. (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1996. Pp. x-v, 251. $95.00.) The publication since 1993 of several monographs on Indian...

Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. By Bruce Cumings. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997. Pp. 527. $35.00.) Korea is probably the one country in East Asia, perhaps in the world, for which the greatest gap exists between the...

Multicultural Japan, Palaeolithic to Postmodern.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Multicultural Japan, Palaeolithic to Postmodern. Edited by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 296. $54.95.) Drawing upon archaeology, history, and...

The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents. By Peter Duus. (Boston and New York: Bedford Books, 1997. Pp. xii, 226. $35.00.) International relations are initially episodes of discovery, as Peter Duus reminds us in...

Women in Modern India.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Women in Modern India. Volume IV.2 of The New Cambridge History of India. By Geraldine Forbes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 289. $49.95.) When the original Cambridge History of India was first published...

Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror. By Ata-Malik Juvaini. Translated by J. A. Boyle. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. lxvii, 763. $40.00.) Together with The Secret History of the Mongols, Ala-ad-Din...

Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan. By J. Victor Koschmann. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 293. $19.95.) The end of World War II and the overturn of Japan's militarist system precipitated a highly...

Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France. Edited by Christine Adams, Jack R. Censer, and Lisa Jane Graham. (University Park: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 214. $16.95.) In the introduction to this collection...

Government, Religion and Society in Northern England 1000-1700.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Government, Religion and Society in Northern England 1000-1700. Edited by John C. Appleby and Paul Dalton. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1997. Pp. xiii, 224. $72.00.) The 15 essays in this book cast grave doubts on R. B....

The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century. By Jeremy Black. (Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. Pp. xix, 355. $22.95.) The provenance of this gorgeously illustrated paperback can be traced...

Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. By Bernadette J. Brooten. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 412. $34.95.) The subtitle to this book does not do justice to the breadth of...

The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789-1799.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Revolution in Provincial France, Aquitaine 1789-1799. By Alan Forrest. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. x, 377. $85.00.) In Conscripts and Deserters, Alan Forrest offered insight into the popular feeling against...

Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth-Century England: Life, Work and Schooling.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth-Century England: Life, Work and Schooling. By Meg Gomersall. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 187. $55.00.) Meg Gomersall has written a persuasive book that discusses the educational...

Raymond Poincare.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Raymond Poincare. By J. E V. Keiger. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 413. $64.95.) Making significant use of new archival material, the author has produced the first scholarly biography of Raymond Poincare in English....

Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorship in Comparison.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorship in Comparison. Edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 369. $54.95.) As is largely the case here, so-called comparative studies often wind up as...

Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century. By Valerie A. Kivelson. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 372. $55.00.) In the past decade or so, studies of the Muscovite...

The First Punic War.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The First Punic War. By J. F. Lazenby. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 205. $45.00.) The author of this study deals with the historiographic issues surrounding the First Punic War in the best possible fashion for a...

Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715. By John A. Lynn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 651. $64.95.) John Lynn is well known for his studies in French military history, and he has here brought his ideas...

Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871. By Shulamit S. Magnus. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 336. $49.50.) The long process by which Jews gained civil equality in Germany is usually portrayed in...

The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306-1328.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306-1328. By Colm McNamee. (Phantassie, East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 288. 14.99 [pounds sterling].) The military success of the Scots in the early fourteenth century...

Germany, 1870-1945: Politics, State Formation, and War.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Germany, 1870-1945: Politics, State Formation, and War. By Peter Pulzer. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 175. $65.00.) In this brief survey, the author argues that the central problem of German history from...

The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814-1848.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814-1848. By William M. Reddy. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 258. $40.00.) This book explores a specific historical...

Growing Old in the Middle Ages: "Winter Clothes us in Shadow and Pain".(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Growing Old in the Middle Ages: "Winter Clothes us in Shadow and Pain". By Shulamith Shahar. Trans. By Yael Lotan. (London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. ix, 293. $69.95.) In this volume, Shulamith Shahar contributes to a variety of...

Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Adapting to Capitalism: Working Women in the English Economy, 1700-1850. By Pamela Sharpe. (New York: St. Martin's Press Inc., 1996. Pp. x, 226. $59.95.) During the long eighteenth century, working women in Essex struggled mightily to...

Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920. By Jonathan D. Smele. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 759. $69.95.) This is the fullest account to date of the rise and fall of the White...

The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages from the Eighth Century to 1340, 2d ed.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages from the Eighth Century to 1340. By J. F. Verbruggen. Second edition, translated by Summer Williard and Mrs. R. W. Southern. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1997. Pp. x, 388....

Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. By Eric D. Weitz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 445. $65.00.) Eric Weitz has authored the most comprehensive, analytic, and useful...

Passchendaele and the Royal Navy.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Passchendaele and the Royal Navy. By Andrew Wiest. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xxv, 193. $55.00.) Andrew Wiest presents a very in-depth examination of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres, and addresses an intriguing "what if"...

Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Posada Carbhe History of Elections in Europe and Latin America iPress in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996. Pp....

The Western Medical Tradition: 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Western Medical Tradition: 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800. By Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, and Andrew Wear. (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 556. $34.95.) Non-academic readers are...