The Historian articles from March 2003

The Historian archives from March 2003

Suez reconsidered: Anthony Eden's Orientalism and the Suez crisis.(Biography)
March 22, 2003... SIR ANTHONY EDEN (1897-1977), First Earl of Avon, Prime Minister, and foreign minister, is best remembered both for his masterful conduct of foreign policy across three decades and for his role in the debacle of Suez while Prime Minister in...

Expectations of love in troubled Mexican marriages during the late colonial and early national periods (1).
March 22, 2003... JUANA GUTIERREZ AND FERNANDO NOVAL quarreled frequently during their fourteen-year marriage. Some arguments, stated a witness in their 1786 domestic violence trial in Mexico City, stemmed from disagreements over "the economic and political...

America's admiral: George Dewey and American culture in the Gilded Age.
March 22, 2003... ON 1 May 1898, the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron, under the command of Commodore George Dewey, entered Manila Bay in the Philippines and completely destroyed the Spanish fleet there. The Americans registered no fatalities and only eight...

The United States, the French right, and American power in Europe, 1946-1958.
March 22, 2003... HAS THE UNITED STATES traditionally supported "right-wing" political forces abroad against "left-wing" revolutionary challenges? Numerous historians have answered in the affirmative, alleging that the American government during the twentieth...

Collaboration and the small community: Arthur Morgan and the Mitraniketan project in Kerala (1).
March 22, 2003... ENGINEER, EDUCATOR, and community builder Arthur Morgan casts a long shadow across the first hall of the twentieth century. As the chief engineer of numerous water control projects, especially in the Miami and Tennessee River valleys, Morgan...

Beyond Enlightenment: occultism, politics, and culture in France from the old regime to the fin-de-siecle (1).
March 22, 2003... FRANCE is often seen as the land of Enlightenment par excellence, the ancestral home of Cartesian rationalism and Voltairean skepticism. While this is no doubt true, the traditional emphasis on France's Enlightenment and Positivist heritage has...

"Britannia at Austin".(More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain. Edited, with an introduction, by Wm. Roger Louis. (Austin: University of Texas Press; London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. x, 388. $19.95.) In Texas, for more than...

A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. By Matthew Connelly. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 400. $45.00.) Despite France's capacity and willingness to employ...

A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: The Potts-Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: The Potts-Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs. By Mac Dixon-Fyle. (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 279. $65.00.) Across the colonial landscape of western...

War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East. Edited by Steven Heydemann. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 372. $24.95.) The societal and institutional repercussions of war in Europe have often been the...

Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present. By Linda Heywood. (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 305. $79.95.) This study directs its attention to the Ovimbundu, with some reference to the Mbundu and Kongo...

The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability. By Dariush Zahedi. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. 224. $60.00.) This study provides an assessment of the current and past political regimes in Iran, especially...

Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915. By Rod Andrew, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 169. $29.95.) This careful examination of the historical record of the southern...

Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century. By Richard Archer. (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2001. Pp. x, 230. $19.95.) Did New England possess a distinctive culture in the seventeenth century? The...

Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Gregg Cantrell. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 493. $15.95.) Stephen F. Austin, often called "The Father of Texas," is, with Sam Houston, one of the two most familiar...

The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis. By Edward S. Curtis. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 175. $50.00.) Between 1907 and 1930, the author, who spent thirty years investigating and...

Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. By Stephen Davis. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2001. Pp. xii, 228. $55.00.) This study is the latest offering in the publisher's American Crisis...

The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. By William C. Davis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xi, 284. $29.95.) William C. Davis, now Director of Programs at the Virginia Civil War...

Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico. By Olivier Debroise; translated and revised in collaboration with the author by Stella de Sa Rego. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 291. $60.00.) Despite the power and...

The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. By David J. Eicher. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Pp. 938. $40.00.) The author of this book presents readers with a kaleidoscope of the American Civil War in a massive...

Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I. By John S. D. Eisenhower with Joanne T. Eisenhower. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 353. $35.00.) There is no doubting the importance of the American contribution to the...

The Juvenile Court and the Progressives.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Juvenile Court and the Progressives. By Victoria Getis. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. x, 216. $34.95.) The historical reputation of the juvenile court has begun to recover from the damage done by the...

Men Against Myths: The Progressive Response.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Men Against Myths. The Progressive Response. By Fred Greenbaum. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2000. Pp. vii, 224. $67.50.) This author raises readers' expectations by modeling this study of Progressive politics on Richard Hofstadter's...

Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. By John Hagan. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 269. $27.95.) Most Americans are familiar with the Vietnam War resisters who protested the war from...

Man and Wife in America: A History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Man and Wife in America: A History. By Hendrik Hartog. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 408. $18.95.) The author of this book has mined nineteenth-century state court cases involving separations to show that...

From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980. By Gerald Horne. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 389. $24.95.) It is the argument of this book that United States...

The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, A History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, A History. Revised Edition. By Norris Hundley Jr. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 800. $24.95.) The 1992 edition of this book became a bestseller and a...

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis, vol. 1.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya. Volume I, Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis. Edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen Houston. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 292. $30.00.) There has been general and scholarly interest in the...

Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914-1920. By William G. Jordan. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. i, 241. $18.95.) This workman-like study of black newspapers during and immediately...

Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War. By Jeff Kinard. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 234. $34.95.) Sixty years after the guns of the Civil War fell silent and the...

Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City. By John Lear. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 441. $60.00.) During the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, the working people in Mexico City...

Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays. By John Lynch. (London: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii, 256. $68.00.) The author of this study is one of Britain's foremost historians of Latin America; he is the author of several general...

Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution. By John Allen Macaulay. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 222. $32.95.) This study aims to bury the old saying that nineteenth-century...

A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion. Edited by John Miller Morris. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 334. $24.95.) This volume combines previously unpublished diaries by...

Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars. By Robert V. Remini. (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. Pp. xvi, 317. $26.95.) In his latest study of the Jacksonian era, the author of this book tackles an agonizing topic. Andrew Jackson's long and varied...

"Let No Guilty Man Escape": A Judicial Biography of "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... "Let No Guilty Man Escape": A Judicial Biography of "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. By Roger H. Tuller. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 210. $27.95.) This first biography of Judge Isaac C. Parker in almost fifty years...

Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s. By Bill Werber and C. Paul Rogers, III. (Cleveland: Society of American Baseball Research, 2001. Pp. 241. $14.95.) This study is in the genre of Kirby Higbe's The High Hard...

Gettysburg: Day Three.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Gettysburg: Day Three. By Jeffrey D. Wert. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Pp. 448. $27.50.) The first question that comes to mind when one encounters a new book on the Battle of Gettysburg is why it exists at all. What is new in the...

Mao's China and the Cold War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Mao's China and the Cold War. By Jian Chen. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. x, 400. $19.95.) Over the last decade, new sources of information on key leaders and the government of the People's Republic...

Southeast Asia: A Concise History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Southeast Asia: A Concise History. By Mary Somers Heidhues. (London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000. Pp. 192. $18.95.) The geographic category of Southeast Asia seems deliberately designed to taunt the generalist. The people of this...

Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared. By Philip C. C. Huang. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 246. $19.95.) During the last decade, the most exciting research...

The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Global World of Indian Merchants 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama. By Claude Markovits. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. $64.95.) This is an important, accessible, Annales study of two groups...

India: The Seductive and Seduced "Other" of German Orientalism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... India: The Seductive and Seduced "Other" of German Orientalism. By Kamakshi P. Murti. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 149. $55.00.) This new book examines the little-explored subject of the role of German "Orientalist"...

Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000. By Richard Sims. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 395. $59.95.) In a variety of ways, this new book is reminiscent of scholarship from another era. First, in this age of...

Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg. By Irena Backus. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. xx, 182. $45.00.) Given the violent religious upheavals of the...

The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law. By J. H. Baker. (London and Rio Grande, OH: The Hambledon Press, 2000. $55.00.) Any scholarly work that addresses the historical development of the English common law is bound to affect...

The Week France Fell, June 10-16, 1940.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Week France Fell, June 10-16, 1940. By Noel Barber. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000. p. 321. $18.95.) The story of France's capitulation to Germany in the spring of 1940 is well known and frequently told. The sad rush to surrender...

The World of El Cid: Chronicle of the Spanish Reconquest.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The World of El Cid: Chronicle of the Spanish Reconquest. Translated by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. 281. $24.95.) This welcome volume contains translations of the Historia Silense...

The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought. By Peter Biller. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 476. $55.00.) The author observes that this work might have been titled Medieval Demographic Thought, and although...

"Those of My Blood": Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... "Those of My Blood": Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia. By Constance Brittain Bouchard. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 248. $55.00.) In his influential Feudal Society, Marc Bloch signalled the...

Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Alternatives to Athens" Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece. Edited by Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 393. $95.00.) The editors of this volume define the...

Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity. Edited by Thomas S. Burns and John W. Eadie. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 379. $35.95.) This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the...

Dr. Johnson's Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Dr. Johnson's Women. By Norma Clarke. (London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2000. Pp. xii, 260. $24.95.) The title of this elegant, thoughtful study may mislead one into thinking it achieves less than it does. The title suggests an...

Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II. By Stephen Coote. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 396. $27.95.) The "merry monarch," Charles II, is one of Britain's best-known kings, famous for his mistresses, his dogs and racehorses,...

Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921. By Claire A. Culleton. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 221. $45.00.) British women's experiences in World War I have received extensive coverage in recent years, and fresh...

Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910-1920: The Story of a Relationship.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910-1920. The Story of a Relationship. By Sean Dobson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 476. $45.00.) This work is a thrice-welcome addition to the historiography of modern Germany....

The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages. By Marilyn Dunn. (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Pp. viii, 280. $64.95.) The author of this book not only traces the institutional...

Everyday Life in Medieval England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Everyday Life in Medieval England. By Christopher Dyer. (London and New York: Hambledon Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 336. $18.95.) The author's valuable and fascinating work, based upon a conscientious study of primary sources, monographs, and...

Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. By Anne E. Gorsuch. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. 274. $35.00.) The historians of Russia under Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) have...

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900. By Robert F. Haggard. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. 209. $62.50.) Traditionally, historians have located the genesis of the...

Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. By Lawrence James. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 722. $35.00.) A wag once observed that nostalgia is not what it used to be, but the author of this book gives it a good run for...

The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World. Edited by Roy MacLeod. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. Pp. xii, 196. $55.00.) This collection of nine essays with introduction was produced in the...

Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821. Translated and edited by Gary Marker and Rachel May. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 170. $18.00.) Anna Labzina's memoir stands as a...

Above and Beyond: From Soviet General to Ukrainian State Builder.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Above and Beyond: From Soviet General to Ukrainian State Builder. By Kostiantyn P. Morozov. (Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2000. Pp. xiii, 295. $31.50.) The author of this book is a former Soviet Air Force...

Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-1939.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-1939. By Peter Neville. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 237. $69.95.) "Nevile Henderson's career is a paradox" (168). This is Peter Neville's conclusion on the...

Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich. By Gavriel Rosenfeld. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 433. $45.00.) Recently, German history has seen a surge of...

Historical Dictionary of Byzantium.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Historical Dictionary of Byzantium. By John H. Rosser. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Pp. xli, 479. $85.00.) This book continues a series of single-author dictionaries that began with ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, and precolonial...

Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848. By Edward Royle. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 214. $74.95.) The author of this study takes as the subject of...

Lenin: A Biography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lenin: A Biography. By Robert Service. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 561. $37.50.) In this volume, the author continues his investigation of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and, in essence, the Russian...

Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Places, Rhetoric.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Places, Rhetoric. Edited by Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 276. $74.95.) This collection of essays is the product...

Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783. By Andrew Stockley. (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 272. $75.00.) The title makes clear the direction the author...

A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16th to the 20th Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16th to the 20th Century. By Georges Vigarello. Trans. by Jean Birrell. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. Pp. i, 306. $26.95.) This study synthesizes archival research and recent secondary...

Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850. By Carol Wilton. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 311. $65.00.) During the first thirty years of the nineteenth century, Upper Canada witnessed the...

The Making of Gratian's Decretum.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Making of Gratian's Decretum. [Volume IL, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought.] By Anders Winroth. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 245. $64.95.) The author of this volume has made the most important...

Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. By Isser Woloch. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Pp. xi, 281. $29.95.) Napoleonic historiography has long been hobbled by the analytical categories of "for"...

The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession. By Peter L. Bernstein. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Pp. xvi, 421. $27.95.) This is an ambitious book. It succeeds in showing how important gold has been in the history of politics and...

The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom. By Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. x,...

A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science. By E. Ray Canterbery. (Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2001. Pp. xvii, 481. $52.00.) This book scans the history of economic thought from the times of feudalism...

Misogyny: The Male Malady.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Misogyny: The Male Malady. By David D. Gilmore. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 253. $26.50.) This is an exasperating book for historians. The author's goal, "to provide an anthropological and especially...

War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict. Edited by Geoffrey Jensen and Andrew Wiest. (New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 397. $21.00.) The editors of this book have compiled a group of...

An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research. By Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 302. $25.00.) Around universities these days there is a lot of talk about the importance...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
March 22, 2003... Agnes Scott College (Alpha Theta Psi) 12 November 2002: Rachel L. Hale, Michelle A. Los, Whitney G. Miller, Jenny L. Pickell, Melissa E. Price, Shannen D. Williams. Appalachian State University (Omicron Phi) 7 October 2002: Victoria...