The Historian articles from March 2001

The Historian archives from March 2001

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
March 22, 2001... The Historian thanks Tim Trumble of Arizona State University for the photograph of Peter Iverson on page viii. The Historian also thanks Ellen White for the diagram of the French Royal apartments that appears on page 512 and the map of...

INTERVIEW WITH PETER IVERSON.(Interview)
March 22, 2001... Born in 1944 in Whittier, California, Iverson received his bachelor's degree at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has broken new ground in the study of...

EDMUND BURKE, MARIE ANTOINETTE, AND THE PROCEDURE CRIMINELLE.
March 22, 2001... In the tumultuous days of 1789, a popular revolution swept through France, culminating in the storming of the Bastille and the formation of a National Assembly dominated by representatives of the Third Estate--the commoners. From this point on,...

VIETNAM, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY, AND THE PITTSBURGH NEW COURIER.
March 22, 2001... Although the African American community largely ignored the Vietnam conflict in the early 1960s, as the war continued many blacks began to oppose the growing U.S. military escalation in Southeast Asia under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson....

CARNAL CONFESSIONS OF A RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN AMID RUSSIA'S GOLDEN AGE.
March 22, 2001... A Primary theme of the recently published "Notes" of Mikhail Petrovich Zagriazhskii (1770-1836) concerns matters erotic.(1) While acknowledging a mostly uneventful life, Zagriazhskii thought to divert his offspring with tales of what he had...

THE FAMINE THAT NEVER WAS: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA, 1918-1919.
March 22, 2001... The visit of Pope John Paul II to India in November 1999 brought to international attention an issue that has disturbed Indians and other Asians almost from the beginning of the Western contact: religious conversion. In a major address, the...

THE CATHOLIC QUESTION: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND JFK's PURSUIT OF THE 1960 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.
March 22, 2001... Author James A. Michener recalled feeling quite startled when guests at publisher Bennett Cerf's early 1960 dinner party challenged John F. Kennedy's presidential candidacy on religious grounds. In an educated, professional crowd, Michener...

ANTICIPATING THE APOCALYPSE: AN ELIZABETHAN PROPHECY.
March 22, 2001... In December 1595, a short pamphlet entitled A Most Strange and Wonderfull Prophesie upon this Troublesome World was published in London by a printer named Abel Jeffes. The work, allegedly authored in 1569 by two German astrologers, Dr. John...

Taxing America: Wilber Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Taxing America: Wilber Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975. By Julian Zelizer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.) The Organization of American Historians presented its Ellis W. Hawley Prize to Julian Zelizer of the State...

Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War. By William Hammond. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.) Prof. William Hammond's study of the relationship between the U.S. military and the American news media in Vietnam is the winner...

Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn. By Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.) The Agricultural History Society presented its Theodore Saloutos Memorial...

Islamic Egypt, 690-1517.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Islamic Egypt, 690-1517. Volume I, The Cambridge History of Egypt. Edited by Carl F. Petry. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 645. $120.00.) It is a pleasure to crack the pages of The Cambridge History of Egypt, a new,...

Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. Volume II, The Cambridge History of Egypt. Edited by M. W. Daly. (Cambridge: Camhridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 463. $100.00.) It is a pleasure to crack the pages of The...

The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy. By Carolyn L. Gates. (Oxford: Center for Lebanese Studies, in association with I.B. Tauris Publishers, London and New York, 1998. Pp. xvi, 248. $59.50.) Scholars will enjoy this...

Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. By Martin A. Klein. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 354. $54.95.) This book is the culmination of a quarter century of research involving extensive archival work in France...

Property and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Property and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico. By Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 1999. Pp. xxii, 280. $55.00.) Despite an extensive literature on the Bourbon Reforms in eighteenth-century Mexico,...

Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson. Edited by H. H. Brands. (CollegeStation: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. 194. $29.95.) This study challenges the standard interpretation of Lyndon Johnson as a president far...

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution. By Margaret Chowning. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 476. $60.00.) Recent regional studies have turned the history of...

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. By Saul Cornell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. x, 307. $19.95.) This study is a highly readable account of the debate over...

Playing Indian.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Playing Indian. By Philip J. Deloria. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 249. $13.95.) What unites the Boston Tea Party, Lewis Henry Morgan, Ernest Thompson Seton, and counterculture communes? They all searched for a...

The Golden Age of the Newspaper.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Golden Age of the Newspaper. George H. Douglas. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 300. $45.00.) This study provides an interesting overview of the development of the American newspaper media during its heyday from the rise of...

Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality. Edited by Thomas J. Durant Jr. and J. David Knottnerus. (Westport and London: Praeger Publishers, 1999. Pp. 256. $59.95.) Relying heavily on sociological method to explore...

Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All. By Stephen D. Engle. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 476. $45.00.) Despite having commanded the Department and Army of the Ohio, and having occupied...

Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture. By Lewis A. Erenberg. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 320. $17.00.) This is a fine history of the big-band jazz that flourished during America's...

The Story of American Freedom.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Story of American Freedom. By Eric Foner. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1998. Pp. xxii, 422. $15.95.) Freedom, of course, is the "inalienable right" of Americans. It is the cornerstone of a nation "conceived in liberty," the...

Inequality in Early America.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Inequality in Early America. Edited, with an introduction, by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger. (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1999. Pp. xi, 329. $19.95.) That inequality pervaded early American society...

Taking off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Taking off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians. Edited an with introduction by Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. Pp. 187. $27.50.) The ten women historians whose essays...

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. By Linda Gordon. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 404. $29.95.) Linda Gordon's new monograph, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, is very different from her previous works. In her...

The Politics of Pure Science.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Politics of Pure Science. By Daniel S. Greenberg. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 302. $15.00.) The author of this study first published this book in 1967. As he explains in his 1998 after-word, the "resurrected...

Crime and Punishment in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1810.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Crime and Punishment in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1810. By Gabriel Haslip-Viera. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 193. $49.95.) Originally produced as his 1980 doctoral dissertation, Gabriel Haslip-Viera's...

Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry during the Civil War.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry during the Civil War. By Chester G. Hearn. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 319. $17.95.) Thomas Jefferson once said that the view of the confluence of the Potomac and...

Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in American History.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in American History. By Lynette Iezzoni. (New York: TV Books, 1999. Pp. 238. $24.95.) This study provides a brief overview of the horrific events that gripped the United States between the spring of 1918...

Origins of the Bill of Rights.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Origins of the Bill of Rights. By Leonard W. Levy. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 306. $30.00.) Although the author of this study concedes that, after writing numerous books on the Bill of Rights, he may be...

Progressivism and the New Democracy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Progressivism and the New Democracy. Edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 302. $16.95.) This collection of nine essays participates in the current assessment of...

Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois. By Max M. Mintz.(New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 232. $28.95.) In this book, the author has produced a highly readable narrative of the American...

Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. By David Morgan. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 417. $35.00.) Good history either advances knowledge by exploiting...

Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940. By Catherine Gilbert Murdock. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 244. $38.50.) The author of this book is primarily interested in...

The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West. By Gerald D. Nash. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 214. $17.95.) Today the author of this study is one of the most respected scholars of the...

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. vii, 212. $35.00.) Why did the Union win the American Civil War? The last...

Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. By Steven J. Ross. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 367. $16.95.) The author of this study has written the definitive work about...

Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. By Ellen Schrecker. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 573. $17.50.) This book's title comes from a 1950 dissenting opinion by Justice Robert Jackson: "Security is like liberty...

Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes. By Orin Starn. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 329. $49.95.) In the 1970s and 1980s, peasants in several regions of Peru organized village patrols to combat...

In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy. By Ronald Steel. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Pp. 244. $23.00.) Robert Kennedy had a remarkable ability to enrage people. During the 1960 presidential campaign, one of...

Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. By Anthony E C. Wallace. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 394. $29.95.) In this work for both the scholar and the general reader, this...

No Band of Brothers: Problems of the Rebel High Command.(Review)
March 22, 2001... No Band of Brothers: Problems of the Rebel High Command. By Steven E. Woodworth. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 182. $29.95.) This most recent installment in the "Shades of Blue and Gray Series" is a...

Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War. By Elizabeth Young. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 389. $18.00.) This book provides a meticulous analysis of women's writing about the...

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. By Judy Yung. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 543. $19.95.) This book is a collection of edited oral interviews along with writings that...

After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China.(Review)
March 22, 2001... After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China. By Daniel C. Lynch. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 327. $49.50.) That China's post-Mao policies of market-oriented economic reforms,...

Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949. By Suzanne Pepper. (Lanham, Md. and Oxford: Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. Pp. 508. $29.95.) Any well-conceived, well-researched, and well-written study of the revolution...

Japan's Proto-Industrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gono.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Japan's Proto-Industrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gono. By Edward E. Pratt. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. Pp. vii, 260. $39.50.) It was once common to assert that, prior to Japan's Meiji...

Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan. By Mark Ravina. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 278. $45.00.) All too often, studies in Japanese history employ assumptions of cultural particularism, the incommensurability of...

Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. By Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. x, 205. $27.50.) Elegantly combining interpretative strategies from a...

The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia. By Alexander Chubarov. (New York: Continuum, 1999. Pp. xii, 244. $27.50.) Nearly a decade after the collapse of the Soviet empire, Russians are still trying to come to terms with their...

Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55. Edited by Michael J. Cohen and Martin Kolinsky. (London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xv, 255. $57.50.) This book, edited...

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. By John Cornwell. (London and New York: Viking, 1999. Pp. ix, 430. $29.95.) This account of Pius XII's diplomatic career differs from previous indictments only by being more sophisticated in...

Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe. By John Dillenberger. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 248. $45.00.) A well-known historian of religion, the author of...

The Modernisation of Russia 1676-1825.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Modernisation of Russia 1676-1825. By Simon Dixon. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 267. $54.95.) This book belongs to a series intended to acquaint undergraduates with major topics or major periods of European...

Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War. By Robert B. Edgerton. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 288. $30.00.) Robert Edgerton is by any reckoning a very unusual scholar. He is a professor of both anthropology and psychiatry; a...

Josephine: A Life of the Empress.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Josephine: A Life of the Empress. By Carolly Erickson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 373. $27.50.) The well-known author of this book, once again, undertakes an examination of the life of a famous woman. In this instance, it is a...

The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany. By John Erickson. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 877. $22.95.) This work was originally published in England in 1983, to great scholarly acclaim. The American...

Ancient Greek Love Magic.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ancient Greek Love Magic. By Christopher A. Faraone. (Cambridge: University Press, Harvard 1999. Pp. xii, 223. $35.00.) In recent decades, interest has grown in the irrational elements in ancient Greek life and thought and in the use of...

The Battle of Kursk.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Battle of Kursk. By David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xvi, 476. $34.95.) The titanic Battle of Kursk (July-August 1943) has become shrouded in myth, partly because of the agendas of...

Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World. By Christopher P. Jones. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 193. $35.00.) This monograph, written carefully and readably by a notable scholar in the field of ancient studies, is a major...

The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought. By M. S. Kempsall. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. x, 401. $95.00.) In 12 chapters, the author of this revamped and revisionistic dissertation studies eight scholastics--Albert the...

The Constitution of the Roman Republic.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Constitution of the Roman Republic. By Andrew Lintott. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 297. $80.00.) The importance of institutional history to the proper understanding of Roman society can hardly be overstated....

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. Volume I, The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramifications; Volume II, The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. Volume I, The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramifications; Volume II, The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion. By John McManners. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998....

J. S. Mill's Encounter with India.(Review)
March 22, 2001... J. S. Mill's Encounter with India. Edited by Martin I. Moir, Douglas M. Peers, and Lynn Zastoupil. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00.) From 1823 to 1858, John Stuart Mill served the East India Company...

Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements. By William Monter (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 324. $49.95.) This ambitious volume addresses a critical issue for our...

The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688-1832.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688-1832. By Frank O'Gorman. (London and New York: Arnold, 1997. Pp. xvi, 415. $24.95.) Frank O'Gorman, distinguished for his studies of voting behavior in the eighteenth...

Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922. By Eunan O'Halpin. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 382. $42.00.) Neutrality has remained a central pillar of Irish foreign policy and self-image...

Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was. By Susan Pollock. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 259. $49.95.) Between 5000 and 2000 B.C. societies in the Near East were transformed from small-scale farming communities...

The Crusades c.1071-c.1291.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Crusades c.1071-c.1291. By Jean Richard. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 516. $64.95.) This author is one of the twentieth century's most illustrious historians of the crusades and the...

The Northern Ireland Question: Nationalism, Unionism and Partition.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Northern Ireland Question: Nationalism, Unionism and Partition. Edited by Patrick J. Roche and Brian Barton. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1999. Pp. ix, 196. $68.95.) This is the third book with the title of The Northern Ireland...

The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier. By Lisa Rosner. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 254. $29.95.) It is the fond dream of a young historian to discover in the...

The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground. By Michael T. Saler. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 242. $39.95.) This relatively slim, but packed, text explores some...

Masters Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Masters Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade. By Andrew Scull, of Charlotte MacKenzie, and Nicholas Hervey. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 363. $19.95.) The subtitle of this text reveals a great deal...

Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London. By Heather Shore. (Bury St. Edmunds: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1999. Pp. xiii, 193. $55.00.) This study of juvenile crime, as it was perceived and...

Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel. By Hugh Small. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 221. $35.00.) What was the defining experience that changed the lire of history's most famous woman, Florence Nightingale? Hugh Small...

Providence in Early Modern England.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Providence in Early Modern England. By Alexandra Walsham. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 387. $85.00.) Elegantly written, deeply learned, and exhaustively researched, this book immediately establishes this...

The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. By Richard Wires. (Westport and London: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xiii, 265. $27.95.) The genre of spy literature in the Second World War is inevitably varied and usually...

Young Heroes in World History.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Young Heroes in World History. By Robin Kadison Berson. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 261. $45.00.) Inspirational rather than historical in purpose, this book is a collection of 17 sketches about young people--people in their...

The West and the Third World: Trade, Colonialism, Dependence, and Development.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The West and the Third World: Trade, Colonialism, Dependence, and Development. By D. K. Fieldhouse. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1999. Pp. viii, 378. $29.95.) This is an impressive and useful work, providing historical perspective...

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?(Review)
March 22, 2001... Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? By Susan Moller Okin Respondents. (Princeton, with New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. 146. $13.95.) One can visualize Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? as if it were a conference with...

The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice. By Bonnie G. Smith. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 306. $17.95.) This author's latest book scrutinizes the emergence of history as an...