The Historian articles from March 2000

The Historian archives from March 2000

INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM ROGER LOUIS.(Interview)
March 22, 2000... Born in 1936, William Roger Louis was reared in Oklahoma and took his B.A. at the University of Oklahoma, M.A. at Harvard University, and D. Phil. at Oxford University. After teaching at Yale for eight years, Louis in 1970 joined the history...

A UNIQUE BILINGUAL SURRENDER TREATY FROM MUSLIM-CRUSADER SPAIN.
March 22, 2000... Cunning is better than force King James the Conqueror Good sense is better than courage Muhyi al-Din Ibn `Abd al-Zahir An army of pacts, truces, and alliances defined the relationships between Muslim and Christian powers...

SECTIONALISM, POLITICAL PARTIES, AND THE ATTEMPT TO RELOCATE THE NATIONAL CAPITAL IN 1814.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... In one of the most destructive episodes of the War of 1812, British forces attacked Washington, D.C., in August 1814, burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings. Shortly after the devastating assault, several northern...

KEEPERS OF THE JUNGLE: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA, 1855-1900.
March 22, 2000... Nearly 20 years before the first national park, Yellowstone, was established in the United States in 1872, British colonial authorities in India already had begun a program to acquire and set aside vast tracts of forest lands for environmental...

THE U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT AIDS HOLLYWOOD EXPORTS, 1921-1933.
March 22, 2000... During the 1920s, American films gained a prominent position on the world's cinema screens, in many countries dwarfing not only other imports but domestic production as well. In 1930, a survey published in the trade publication the Film Daily...

WRITERS TAKE SIDES, STALINISTS TAKE CONTROL: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE DEFENSE OF CULTURE (SPAIN 1937).
March 22, 2000... Descubri que la revolucion era hija de la critica y que la ausencia de critica habia matado a la revolucion (Octavio Paz, 1993)(1) Civil war in Spain became inevitable when an alliance of liberal, republican, and left-wing parties...

POLLUTION'S STAIN: A FALLEN WOMAN'S QUEST FOR REDEMPTION IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS.
March 22, 2000... Most historians agree that middle and upper class white women in the antebellum South ordered their lives and identities around deeply rooted gender conventions. As historian Joan Cashin points out, gender shaped destiny, expectation, and...

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 448. $40.00/$16.95.) The Organization of American Historians has awarded its biennial Ray Allen...

Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies. By Jeffrey Herf. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 539. $29.95/$17.95.) Jeffrey Herf of Ohio University is the recipient of the American Historical Association's...

China: Understanding Its Past.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... China: Understanding Its Past. By Eileen H. Tamura, Linda K. Menton, Noren W. Lush, Francis K. C. Tsui, and Warren Cohen. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii at Manoa Press and Curriculum Research and Development Group. 1997. Pp. 272. $24.00.) ...

The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Nicholas Canny. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 533. $45.00.) The publication of the Oxford History of the...

The Eighteenth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Eighteenth Century. Edited by P. J. Marshall. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 639. $45.00.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire is an editorial and historiographical achievement that...

The Nineteenth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Andrew Porter. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 774. $45.00.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire is an editorial and historiographical achievement that...

The Twentieth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Twentieth Century. Edited by Judith M. Brown and William Roger Louis. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 773. $45.00.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire is an editorial and...

Historiography.(Oxford History of the British Empire)(Review)
March 22, 2000... Historiography. Edited by Robin W. Winks. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 731. $49.95.) The publication of the Oxford History of the British Empire is an editorial and historiographical achievement that will...

The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. By Joel Beinin. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 329. $45.00.) This provocative, insightful, and...

El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900.(Review)
March 22, 2000... El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. (Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 396. $19.95.) In recent economic...

Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility & Containment, 1915-1946.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility & Containment, 1915-1946. Edited by Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace, and Wolfram Hartmann. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 330. $44.95.) "Trees never meet" is a...

Weathered By Miracles.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Weathered By Miracles. By Thomas A. Idinopulos. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. Pp. xiv, 283. $27.50.) This study is subtitled "A History of Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti." It is, however, more...

War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I. By Donald M. McKale. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. 332. $39.00.) German and British policy toward the Middle East during the...

Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. By Ehud R. Toledano. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 185. $18.00.) The author of this book acknowledges that a seemingly large part of the material...

Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984. By Ariel Armony. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 282. $26.00.) In this important monograph, Ariel Armony sheds new light on the...

The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 156. $40.00.) In his inaugural address, President George Bush declared that "the final lesson of Vietnam is...

The Iroquois in the War of 1812.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Iroquois in the War of 1812. By Carl Benn. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 272. $21.95.) Many of the newer studies of the War of 1812, such as this one, deal with neglected aspects of the war. What little attention...

Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance. By Abraham Ben-Zvi. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 219. $17.50.) The central argument of this book is that between 1952 and...

Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. By Mary Warner Blanchard. (New York and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 243. $45.00.) The author of this book calls the two decades following the Civil War "quite simply...

The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. By William G. Bowen and Derek Bok. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. 512. $24.95.) The "Dynamic Duo" of William G....

Peronism and Argentina.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Peronism and Argentina. Edited by James P. Brennan. (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1998. Pp. xiv, 224. $50.00.) Few subjects in Latin American history have attracted more attention from social scientists than the...

Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. By Thomas J. Brown. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 422, $35.00.) Since Francis Tiffany's authorized Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix appeared in 1891, Dix's story has been retold...

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 1,383. $49.95.) The 1998 centennial commemorating the inclusion of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx,...

The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches. By James Tunstead Burtchaell. (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998. Pp. xx, 868. $45.00.)...

The Roosevelt Women.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Roosevelt Women. By Betty Boyd Caroli. (New York: Basic Books, 1998. Pp. rd, 512. $30.00.) The author of this study has done yeoman work by researching and publishing The Roosevelt Women. Despite the importance of the family, oddly...

Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. rd, 391. $49.95.)...

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the Modern World.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the Modern World. By James Chace. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Pp. 512. $30.00.) Dean Acheson's career is filled with controversy, but James Chace clearly indicates that he should be...

Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. By Campbell Craig. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 216. $19.50.) In his analysis of American military strategy vis-a-vis the Communist world, Campbell Craig...

The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833. By Peter S. Field. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 272. $39.95.) In this "social history of...

Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1930.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Posada's Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890-1930. By Patrick Frank. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pp. 264. $50.00.) During his most prolific years around the turn of the century, Mexican graphic artist Jose...

Lee and His Generals in War and Memory.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. By Gary W. Gallagher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 298. $27.95.) This volume is a four-part collection of 11 previously published articles and two original essays...

Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America. By Nan Goodman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 198. $39.50.) The author of this work explores the shift in...

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. By Paul Goodman. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 303. $35.00.) Tens of thousands of Americans participated in the revivals of the...

Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. By Amy S. Greenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 233. $35.00.) Few more promising and frustrating methodological challenges confront...

The Upset that Wasn't: Harry S. Truman and the Crucial Election of 1948.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Upset that Wasn't: Harry S. Truman and the Crucial Election of 1948. By Harold I. Gullan. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. Pp. 240. $24.95.) The election of 1948 has to be the most fascinating of the twentieth century--or at least...

Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 278. $35.00.) In the last few years, Civil War historians have...

The Road to Appomattox.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Road to Appomattox. By Robert Hendrickson (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1998. Pp. ix, 241. $24.95.) This book provides an account of the major military engagements in the final thirteen months of the Civil War. Centered on the...

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954. By Michael J. Hogan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 525. $34.95.) The Cold War was more than an international conflict; its...

Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 292. $34.95.) This is a biography of an important military and political figure of the...

Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 267. $40.00.) Charles Hyde begins his work by briefly narrating the history of...

Contested Communities, Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Contested Communities, Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 19041951. By Thomas Miller Klubock. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 363. $19.95.) This study joins others that seek to describe the lives...

The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount. By Buckner F. Melton Jr. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 344. $40.00.) In 1797, United States Senator William Blount was...

The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. By John T. Noonan Jr. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 421. $35.00.) That "Congress shall make no law respecting an...

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. Pp. xii, 334. $25.00.) This book, like many contemporary history books, attempts to combine exhaustive...

Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920. By Madelon Powers. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 323. $25.00.) The best way to understand America's drinking culture, Madelon...

George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman.(Review)
March 22, 2000... George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman. By Thomas J. Rowland. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. Xi, 248. $28.00.) "McClellan can scarcely be elevated to the ranks of the great...

Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb. By Leland T. Saito. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 250. $21.95.) Shifting the focus of race studies from city to suburbia,...

The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Susan Scheckel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 197. $16.95.) In this attractively packaged little book, the author deals...

The Reconstruction Presidents.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Reconstruction Presidents. By Brooks D. Simpson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. ix, 276. $35.00.) Numerous studies continue to highlight the complex circumstances that characterized efforts to reconstruct the South in...

"Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific.(Review)
March 22, 2000... "Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. By I. C. Campbell. (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 167. $55.00.) This book concludes that the study of Pacific beachcombers...

In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. By Edward J. Drea. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 299. $45.00.) Edward Drea, a historian now affiliated with the Office of the...

Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. By Michael N. Pearson. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 202. $35.95.) Students of world history will welcome the...

Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa. By Luke S. Roberts. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 251. $59.95.) For much of the postwar period, Western research on...

War and Faith: The Religious Imagination in France, 1914-1930.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... War and Faith: The Religious Imagination in France, 1914-1930. By Annette Becker. Translated from French by Helen McPhail. (New York: Berg Publishers, 1998. Pp. xiii, 191. $55.00.) This is a provocative book on the religious interpretations...

Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. By David Alan Brown. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 240. $55.00.) David Brown, Curator of Italian Renaissance Painting at the National Gallery in Washington since 1974, and a...

Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena. By William Caferro. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 251. $39.95.) It is generally believed that Siena was not grossly overmatched during the thirteenth...

Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c.1650-c.1850.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c.1650-c.1850. Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 317. $64.95.) In Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992), Linda...

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin.(Review)
March 22, 2000... My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin. By Peter Gay. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. $22.50.) There has always been a widespread belief that Hitler's anti-Semitic theories were almost immediately put into...

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. By Peter Godman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 366. $49.50.) Although the intellectual history of Medicean Florence for the three decades...

Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West. Edited by Guy Halsall. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydel Press, 1998. Pp. 230. $72.00.) The contributors to this volume have collectively provided an important addition...

Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885. By Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998. Pp. 197. $36.00.) Wellington said his...

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. By Lindsey Hughes. (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xxx, 602. $35.00.) In a recent and inspired biography of Nicholas II (St. Martin's, 1993), Dominic Liven decisively refuted the...

Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. By Joss Marsh. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 431. $55.00.) Britain's nineteenth century is generally remembered as a time when earlier...

Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. By Martin Miller. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 237. $30.00.) This is one of those books about which reviewers like to say,...

Bordering Russia: Theory and Prospects for Europe's Baltic Rim.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Bordering Russia: Theory and Prospects for Europe's Baltic Rim. Edited by Hans Mouritzen. (Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xi, 322. $72.75.) The collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the disintegration of the Soviet Union,...

Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past. By Anton Pelinka. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. i, 256. $54.95.) Observers of Austrian politics and society have long pointed to unique institutions that gave the postwar Alpine nation the image...

Herodotus.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Herodotus. By James Romm. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 212. $15.00.) "Hermes Books" modestly intend to combine Classical erudition, style, and "graceful English without polysyllabic language or parochial...

In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948. By Wolfgang Schivelbusch. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 230. $29.95.) For those interested in European cultural history,...

Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society. By Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 290. $33.00.) In this work, as in many...

Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers De Doleances of 1789.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers De Doleances of 1789. By Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, with contributions by Timothy Tackett and Philip Dawson. Foreword by Charles Tilly. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998....

White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India. By Peter Stanley. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 314. $40.00.) British military culture in India is the prime subject of this significant work, though the serious 1859...

The Invention of the Crusades.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Invention of the Crusades. By Christopher Tyerman. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 170. $40.00.) "Invention" and "inventing" have become fashionable terms in historical scholarship over the past decade....

Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime. By Dmitri Volkogonov. Edited and translated by Harold Shukman. (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore: The Free Press, 1998. Pp. xxvii, 272. $30.00.) The late...

Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. By Robert G. L. Waite. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 511. $50.00.) In 1977, Robert G. L. Waite published his controversial psychobiography of...

The Columbia History of the 20th Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The Columbia History of the 20th Century. Edited by Richard W. Bulliet. (New York: Columbia University, 1998. Pp. xii, 651. $49.95.) This work consists of 24 essays written by Ainslie Embree, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeman, Eric...

The History of Diplomatic Immunity.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The History of Diplomatic Immunity. By Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 727. $80.00.) As a young boy growing up in Washington, D.C., this reviewer remembers his father rafting...

Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. By Daniel T. Rodgers. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 614. $35.00.) This work reframes the conventional picture of the liberal effort to use governmental authority...