The Historian articles from March 2002

The Historian archives from March 2002

"Hands ... never made to wield a dagger": William Cobbett's Federalist antifeminism, 1795-1800.
March 22, 2002... In recent scholarly examinations of the Federalist period, (1789-1801), historians intent on rehabilitating Washington and Hamilton's Federalist Party have transmuted it from the advocate of strong national government, nativism, sociopolitical...

A war of words: Manuel Montufar, Alejandro Marure, and the politics of history in Guatemala.(political literature)
March 22, 2002... In 1832, Manuel Montufar y Coronado published Memorias para la historia de la Revolucion de Centro America (Memoirs concerning the history of the Central American Revolution), popularly known as the Memorias de Jalapa due to its place of...

"Safe in Old Ireland": Frederick Douglass's Tour, 1845-1846.(Biography)
March 22, 2002... In August 1845 Frederick Douglass began what proved to be a nearly two-year-long tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. Just twenty-seven years old, Douglass had escaped from slavery seven years earlier and had been speaking at abolitionist...

Becoming progressive: the California Supreme Court, 1880-1910.
March 22, 2002... The last decades of the nineteenth century in California witnessed the transformation of jurisprudence from a position of nineteenth-century formalism to one of twentieth-century activism. Starting at the state's second constitutional...

Revealing accounts: women's lives and general stores.
March 22, 2002... On Christmas Eve 1875, in a small outpost located in the heart of the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Mrs. Annie Bowers began working as a cook for James Jesse McAlester. A week later, on 31 December, she purchased from her employer's general...

Alone at West Point: the military education of Charles Young, 1884-1889.(portrayals of african american soldiers)(Biography)
March 22, 2002... In 1884, Charles Young became only the ninth African American to enter the United States Military Academy in the quarter century after the Civil War. He was one of only three who would graduate. Young's graduation in 1889 ushered in a...

From South Dakota farm to Harvard seminar: Alvin H. Hansen, America's prophet of Keynesianism.(works of economist on Keynesian economics)(Biography)
March 22, 2002... Among several transformations in the United States triggered by the economic crisis of the 1930s was a major shift in economic thinking. Before the stock market crash of 1929, the reigning paradigm among American economists limited the role of...

The papers of the "101st senator": Clarence Mitchell Jr. and civil rights.(Biography)
March 22, 2002... For many contemporary historians, Clarence Mitchell Jr. is an enigma, or, as some have said, an "obscure" civil rights "technician." Yet in the nation's capital so legendary was he as an advocate of racial equality that he was popularly called...

"Law and order" at large: the New York civilian review board referendum of 1966 and the crisis of liberalism.
March 22, 2002... In November 1966 the politics of "law and order" engulfed New York City, where street crime was rampant and race relations remained tense following the Harlem Riot of 1964. (1) At stake was a municipal referendum with national implications. The...

A. B. "Happy" Chandler, George C. Wallace, and the presidential election of 1968.(Albert Benjamin)
March 22, 2002... AS the 1968 presidential campaign entered September, third-party candidate George C. Wallace, the segregationist ex-governor of Alabama, was well positioned to play the role of spoiler. With insurmountable leads in the Deep South states and...

Friedrich Stampfer and the fall of the Weimar Republic.(German democratic history)
March 22, 2002... On Monday, 27 February 1933, as thousands of Social Democratic Party (SPD) supporters jammed the Berlin Sportspalast to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Karl Marx's death, they knew that they were doing more than simply gathering to...

India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation. By George Perkovich. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.) The American Historical Association presented its Herbert Feis Award for 2001 to George Perkovich of the W....

Providence in Early Modern England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Providence in Early Modern England. By Alexandra Walsham. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.) This superb book considers the Calvinist doctrine of providence and is the winner of the American Historical Association's Morris D....

Reading Inca History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Reading Inca History. By Catherine Julien. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000.) The Modern Language Association has presented its Katherine Singer Kovaks Prize to Catherine Julien for her study of Spanish narratives of the Inca...

"Diverse approaches to Iranian history".(Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911)(The History of Iran)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911. By Houri Berberian. (Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 226. $30.00.) The History of Iran. By Elton L. Daniel. (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2001....

"Historians of Stalinism: the new generation".(Stalinism: New Directions)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Stalinism: New Directions. Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick. (London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xviil, 377. $85.00.) Jack R. Censer, editor of the Rewriting Histories series, of which this volume is a part, introduces this collection by...

Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the "Dark Forests" of Matabeleland.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the "Dark Forests" of Matabeleland. By Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor, and Terence Ranger. (Portsraouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 292. $24.95.) The title of this book encapsulates the...

The History of South Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The History of South Africa. By Roger B. Beck. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xxx, 248. $35.00.) South Africa was colonized first by the Dutch and then by the British. Out of its 350 years of colonial conquest, racial...

Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. By Robert B. Edgerton. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. x, 196. $25.00.) This book cogently retells the saga of the rise and fall of the so-called "Amazons" of the old West...

Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia. By Paul B. Henze. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 371. $35.00.) The author of this book apparently has an abiding fascination with Ethiopia, the history of which he wants to tell...

The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society. By Mark Horton and John Middleton. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Pp. 282. $54.95.) The Swahili are one of East Africa's better-known peoples, with a distinctive material...

The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 1952-57.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 1952-57. By Tore T. Petersen. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 170. $65.00.) This is the first book by Tore T. Petersen of the Norwegian...

The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna. By Martin Sicker. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. Pp. 232. $59.95.) This book is the companion volume to the author's The Pre-Islamic Middle East. Although...

A History of the Church in Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... A History of the Church in Africa. By Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 1232. $150.00.) Twenty-six years ago, this reviewer met Bishop Bengt Sundlder (1909-95) in East Africa. Sundlder...

Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party. By Paula Alonso. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 242. $52.95.) This book is the most recent contribution to a long list of scholarly...

Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. By Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 316. $35.00.) The title of this book is an intriguing one. Few...

We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America. By Annette Atkins. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 194. $29.95.) "All happy families are like one another," literature teaches,...

Law in the Western United States.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Law in the Western United States. Edited, with introductions, by Gordon Morris Bakken. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. x-vi, 560. $49.95.) In the essay that opens this collection, the noted law professor John Phillip Reid...

The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The "Liberation" of Africans through the Emancipation of Capital.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The "Liberation" of Africans through the Emancipation of Capital. By David Baronov. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 236. $62.50.) Using Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis as a...

Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement. Edited by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. xiv, 322. $30.00.) Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon bring unique perspectives to this...

Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst. By Patricia Bellis Bixel and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 174. $60.00.) This book presents "not only an account of the [Galveston]...

Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. By David Blanke. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 282. $21.95.) Given the centrality of consumerism in contemporary American society, it is no...

The Crime Drop in America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Crime Drop in America. Edited by Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 330. $54.95.) From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, violent crime in the United States rose sharply. Then the...

The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997. By J. F. Bosher. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 331. $22.95.) France has a tradition of interfering in other nations' affairs, of showing a disregard for...

God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics. By Stephen L. Carter. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. x, 248. $26.00.) In a series of books over the past decade, the author of this book has cogently argued for the...

Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. By Yong Chen. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 392. $45.00.) San Francisco, the first Chinese urban community in the United States, is hardly a new topic in Chinese...

Gunfire around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Gunfire around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War. By Jack D. Coombe. (New York: Bantam Books, 1999. Pp. xii, 231. $23.95.) This book is much more than just an account of the final naval campaigns of the U.S. Civil...

No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Edited by Nancy F. Cott. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 768. $35.00.) When women in the United States Finally gained the opportunity to attend...

Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History. By Michael Kent Curtis. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 520. $32.95) In providing the first detailed history of...

Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia. By Jane Dailey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 278. $17.95.) This book is one of the latest works in the new history of the South that is...

Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970. By Scott H. Dewey. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Pp. 321. $39.95.) The struggle for clean air in America is an important story, and the...

Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America. By Marc Dollinger. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 296. $35.00.) This provocative book traces the trajectory of mainstream Jewish politics in the...

Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930. Edited by Holly Edwards. (Princeton" Princeton University Press and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2000. Pp. xiii, 242. $29.95.) This lavishly illustrated book...

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. By Laura F. Edwards. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. x, 271. $29.95.) This elegantly written and thoughtfully constructed work introduces...

Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918. By Byron Farwell. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1999. Pp. 336. $27.95.) This book is a lively and engaging account of the military participation of the United States in World...

Fidel Castro.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Fidel Castro. By Clive Foss. (Phoenix Mill and Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000. Pp. xi, 112. $9.95.) This new "pocket" biography of Fidel Castro delivers on its publisher's promise; it is a "highly readable" and...

Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South. By Dan R. Frost. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 207. $27.00.) Instead of the classical monoliths portrayed by their New South detractors,...

Civil War Hostages: Hostage Taking in the Civil War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Civil War Hostages: Hostage Taking in the Civil War. By Webb Garrison. (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2000. Pp. vii, 287. $29.95.) Readers unfamiliar with the multivolume series The War of the Rebellion (Washington, D.C., 1880-1901)...

"That's Not What We Meant to Do": Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... "That's Not What We Meant to Do": Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth-Century America. By Steven M. Gillon. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2000. Pp. xi, 272. $24.95.) The author of this book explores several cases of...

North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era. By Susan-Mary Grant. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. 250. $35.00.) Historians have long agreed that American nationalism was tested...

Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom. By Ariela J. Gross. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 263. $39.50.) This book is a detailed study of civil suits, based upon a large sample of...

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963. By Kincaid A. Herr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Pp. 402. $35.00.) As its title indicates, this reprinted book examines the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N), one of...

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution. By Woody Holton. (Chapel Hin: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 231. $15.95.) In his reexamination of Virginia before the American Revolution,...

Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. By Janet Irons. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 262. $16.95.) In 1934, some 170,000 of the 250,000 textile workers in the...

The Sixteen-Trillion Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Sixteen-Trillion Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present. By Bruce S. Jansson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 492. $27.50.) Since the early 1930s, the federal...

Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 276. $26.00.) The demise of the Cold War and the rise of the new world economy have brought not only a...

An American Family: The Kennans, the First Three Generations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... An American Family: The Kennans, the First Three Generations. By George F. Kennan. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. 137. $22.95.) This is a selective and patrilineal genealogy of the Kennan family based primarily on...

"The Strangest Dream": Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... "The Strangest Dream": Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963. By Robbie Lieberman. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 244. $27.96.) In the years that followed World War II, the Communist...

It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. By Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. Pp. 379. $26.95.) The postmortem examination of American socialism began in 1906, when Werner...

A Place Called Appomattox.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... A Place Called Appomattox. By William Marvel. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. x, 400. $34.95.) Historians are well acquainted with the events that occurred at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865....

Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in the Coal Mines.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in the Coal Mines. By Robert McIntosh. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000, Pp. xxviii, 293. $34.95.) This is an exceptionally well-written and important study of boy labor in...

The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America. By David J. McCreery. (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. ix, 209. $61.95.) This book provides an overview of work in Latin America from the eve of the European...

The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By George McJimsey. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xvi, 355. $34.95.) This book is not likely to appeal to the general reading public. It possesses little narrative flow, few...

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. By Jeffrey Melnick. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Pp. xiii, 165. $18.00.) This book is an engaging look at relations between blacks and Jews...

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. By Philip D. Morgan. (Williamsburg, Chapel Hill, and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 703. $55.00.) In this new book, the...

An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 357. $22.50.) Much of the recent scholarship on colonial America sets...

Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. By Arthur Paulson. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. Pp. vii, 341. $69.95.) Declining voter turnout, increased cynicism about...

The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors. By Denise E. Pilato. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000. Pp. xvii, 200. $69.95.) In the rapidly developing field of the history of gender and technology, the...

The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents. Edited by Richard Polenberg. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. 251. $35.00.) This work consists of a brief introductory history (35 pages) and a collection...

Polk's Folly: An American Family History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Polk's Folly: An American Family History. By William R. Polk. (New York: Doubleday, 2000. Pp. xxxi, 512. $29.95.) In 1680, a Scot named Robert Pollok, who had served as an officer in Oliver Cromwell's army and resided in County Donegal in...

Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic. By John Resch. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 319. $40.00.) When he began examining Revolutionary War...

The National Game: Baseball and American Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The National Game: Baseball and American Culture. By John P. Rossi. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. Pp. ix, 243. $25.00.) This series of essays on the role of baseball in American life reflects a traditional view that baseball played a unique...

The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence. By Frank J. Scaturro. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 305. $69.50.) This book is partly a history of the Supreme Court's...

Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South. By Marie Jenkins Schwartz. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 271. $35.00.) This excellent new book is a sensitive and subtle analysis of the lives...

Culture and Customs of Guatemala.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Culture and Customs of Guatemala. By Maureen E. Shea. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 151. $45.00.) The author of this book undertakes the Herculean effort of discussing Guatemala's multiethnic and multicultural...

Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic. By James Simeone. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. Pp. 289. $38.00.) Building on basic historical works on slavery in Illinois by N. Dwight Harris...

Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America. By Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster. (New York: New York University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 267. $25.95.) The authors of this book, scholars and self-professed gun women, endeavor...

"Communazis": FBI Surveillance of German Emigre Writers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... "Communazis": FBI Surveillance of German Emigre Writers. By Alexander Stephan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 362. $29.95.) Based on extensive reading of the relevant secondary literature and research into (often heavily...

John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot. By Harlow Giles Unger (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Pp. xvi, 383. $30.00.) In this highly readable and entertaining biography, Harlow Giles Unger finds John Hancock to be,...

A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War. By Mark A. Weitz. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 227. $30.00.) This book will be of interest to all who prize careful research and...

The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. By Urvashi Butalia. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. 308. $17.95.) The story of the achievement of freedom in India generally has been told in bittersweet...

Wonju: The Gettysburg of the Korean War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Wonju: The Gettysburg of the Korean War. By J. D. Coleman. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2000. Pp. x-vi, 303. $24.95.) In February 1951, United Nations forces in Korea withstood the Chinese Fourth Phase Offensive at Chip'yong-ni and Wonju...

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. By John W. Dower. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Pp. 676. $15.95.) This book is a wide-ranging, coherent view of the occupation of Japan. Although one would expect the man who...

Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia. Edited by Merle Goldman and Andrew Gordon. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 362. $45.00.) The rapid growth of English-language historical scholarship on East Asia over...