The Historian articles from March 2004

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Gender construction and settler colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1894-1914.
March 22, 2004... Indeed I love my Fatherland, love the German Rhine, / I know your traditions still and drink your wine. / Yet sea and land separate me from your cool strand, / Since I found my home in African land. Even more than home I...

W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Pan-Africanism in Liberia, 1919-1924.
March 22, 2004... PAN-AFRICANISM--the perceived need to mobilize all peoples of African descent against racism and colonialism--was perhaps one of the most enduring responses to the legacy of European slavery and imperialism. Although a project centered around...

Conflicted missionaries: power and identity in French West Africa during the 1930s.
March 22, 2004... IN A 1935 SPEECH TO MEMBERS of the colonial administration in the federation of French West Africa (AOF--Afrique Occidentale francaise), Governor General Jules Brevie asserted that one of France's most important tasks was to bring about a...

Lionel Curtis, imperial citizenship, and the quest for unity.
March 22, 2004... ONE OF THE MOST PERSISTENT VOICES of empire in the early decades of the twentieth century belonged not to a sitting politician, nor to a Tory grandee, but to a man who operated outside of official circles. Lionel Curtis, if one was forced to...

Lord Lothian and the Atlantic world.
March 22, 2004... WHEN PHILIP KERR, eleventh marquess of Lothian and the British ambassador to the United States, died in December 1940, tributes to his work in Washington poured in from both Britain and the United States. Winston Churchill, for most of the...

Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. By Adeed Dawisha. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 340. $29.95.) The author of this book is an accomplished specialist on inter-Arab relations. Therefore,...

A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794. Edited by Bruce L. Mouser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 156. $27.95.) Few episodes in history evoke more emotion or demand more explanation...

The History of Turkey.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The History of Turkey. By Douglas A. Howard. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 241. $39.95.) Since the publication of History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey by Stanford J. and Ezel K. Shaw some twenty-five...

The Death Penalty: An American History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Death Penalty: An American History. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 408. $29.95.) Should the state have the power to kill criminal offenders? If so, why, and for which crimes? How should miscreants...

Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments. Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. 508. $25.00. This volume connects social with military...

Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. By John E. Clark, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 275. $34.95.) This study analyzes how the management of the railroads during the...

The Asian American Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Asian American Century. By Warren I. Cohen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 150. $22.95.) In 1968, as the Vietnam War raged, the eminent Harvard sinologist John King Fairbank told the annual meeting of the American...

Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico. By Samuel Y. Edgerton. Photographs by Jorge Perez de Lara. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 350. $60.00.) This beautifully...

Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. vii, 328. $28.00.) This study is a labor of love as much as it is a scholarly endeavor. As a well-known and widely read professor of...

American Law in the 20th Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... American Law in the 20th Century. By Lawrence M. Friedman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 722. $35.00.) In the final stretch of this epic tome, one of many celebrated legal histories by this author, Lawrence M....

A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. By Matt Garcia. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 330. $19.50.) Few places in the United States have seen such...

American Abolitionists.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... American Abolitionists. By Stanley Harrold. (New York: Longman, 2001. Pp. 170. $11.95.) The author of this study looks at American abolitionists as "contentious, dedicated, often inconsistent, and intensely interesting reformers," with a...

James G. Blaine and Latin America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James G. Blaine and Latin America. By David Healy. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. 278. $39.95.) The foreign policy of the United States changed greatly in the nineteenth century, and author David Healy...

When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998. By Katherine Hite. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 246. $24.00.) In this book, the author effectively addresses questions of political identity,...

Sam Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sam Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution. By Benjamin H. Irvin. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 176. $24.00.) This comprehensive biography not only outlines the complex and sometimes contradictory personality of Samuel...

The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. By H. Paul Jeffers. (New York: John Wiley and Son, 2002. Pp. 392. $30.00.) The title of this book derives from the fact that Mayor Fiorello La Guardia had a statue of Napoleon on his...

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 342. $22.95.) The subtitle of this book might more descriptively have been taken from the title of its...

Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands. By Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. 256. $34.95.) As advertised in the title, this book attempts to highlight the ties between...

Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. By Jennifer D. Keene. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 294. $38.00.) "The Great War generation," this author argues, "shaped the contours of the modern...

A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam. By Robert Mann. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. x, 821. $22.00.) The author of this book, who has been an aide to two U.S. senators and has written a well-regarded book on the civil rights...

South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. By James David Miller. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 200. $32.50.) A distinct feature of antebellum America was the...

A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History. By Peter Nabokov. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 246. $20.00.) The author of this study has forcefully added his voice to those dissenters who rightly observe that...

First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. By Gary B. Nash. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. 383. $34.95.) There is a bit of irony in titling this study "First City," as it has been two...

Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. By Stephan Palmie (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 399. $21.95.) The author's learning makes this book extraordinary. But it is his...

Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930. By David J. Pivar. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Pp. xxi, 283. $69.95.) This sequel to David J. Pivar's 1973 book, Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social...

The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord. By Ray Raphael. (New York: The New Press, 2002. Pp. 288. $26.95.) This book provides a straightforward analysis of a much-ignored chapter in the history of the American...

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 317. $26.00.) In this elegant and flowing account, the author, a prominent historian of...

Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. By Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 346. $19.95.) The author of this book has provided solid evidence...

"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. By Mark Robert Schneider. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 476. $35.00.) When most Americans think of the civil rights movement, they recall the stirring...

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States. By James F. Simon. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. Pp. 349. $27.50.) That two men with as much in common as Thomas Jefferson and...

Grant.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Grant. By Jean Edward Smith. (New York: Touchstone Books, 2002. Pp. 781. $20.00.) This biography of Ulysses S. Grant is one of several recent studies offering a positive reassessment of Grant's life, military career, and presidency....

Hard Men Humble: Vietnam Veterans Who Couldn't Come Home.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Hard Men Humble: Vietnam Veterans Who Couldn't Come Home. By Jonathan Stevenson. (New York and London: The Free Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 227. $25.00.) The volume is a study of American veterans of the Vietnam War who have chosen to live in...

A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939. By Richard J. Tofel. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. ix, 269. $24.95.) The author of this study justifies writing this book on an admittedly well-worn subject on the grounds that by...

Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley. By Mark A. Weitz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. v, 232. $12.95.) Though the current presidential administration continues to expand government...

Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. By Keith E. Whittington. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 303. $24.95.) The author of this book, a political scientist, asserts that the...

Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. By Michael P. Winship. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 340. $29.95.) This is the first book-length treatment in forty years of the...

In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province. By John Cleverley. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 249. $21.95.) This volume records one of the few redeeming legacies of the "Great Leap...

Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887. By Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Pp. x, 310. $21.95.) Between the introduction of constitutional government in 1840 and the...

Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. Edited and Commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph, with Mohan Singh Kanota. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 633. $59.95.) ...

The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. By Kenneth J. Ruoff. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. Pp. xiiv, 331. $45.00.) Recent English-language scholarship on the modern Japanese...

The State and the Iron Industry in Han China.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The State and the Iron Industry in Han China. By Donald B. Wagner. (Copenhagen: NIAS Publishing, 2001. Pp. 148. $45.00.) In this short study, the author returns to the theme that he first addressed at a conference held in San Francisco in...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Human Tradition in Modern Japan. Edited by Anne Walthall. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002. Pp. xx, 241. $19.95.) This book closes a circle of writing on modern Japanese history. Fifty years ago, biographies were the...

Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens. By Ryan K. Balot. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 291. $39.50.) Greed, identified as "central" to Athenian history, ideology, and political thought, as a prime...

Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. By Anthony A. Barrett. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 425. $35.00.) Can a biography of Livia, wife of Emperor Augustus, be written from the ancient sources? Can anything new...

Art of the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Art of the Middle Ages. By Janetta Rebold Benton. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Pp. 320, 250 illus. $18.95.) In the introduction to her book, the author offers a promising hypothesis: "Although in many ways harsh and insecure, medieval...

The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. By Vadim J. Birstein. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 492. $32.50.) The author of this book is a Soviet-born scientist and a historian who was a member of the...

The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789. By T. C. W. Blanning. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 479. $35.00.) The purpose of this wide-ranging, elegantly packaged book is to reexamine the...

The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History. By Brian Bond. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 128. $25.00.) This slim volume encapsulates the thoughts of a leading military historian as to how...

Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763. By Stephen Brumwell. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 349. $34.95.) In a fascinating, judiciously researched, and well-written study,...

Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life. By Suzanne Dixon. (London: Duckworth, 2001. Pp. xiv, 242. $24.95.) The author of this book presents in nine self-contained essays as many reasons why feminist theory has been and remains...

Gendering the Crusades.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Gendering the Crusades. Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50.) Were women unfit for crusade? Certainly early papal appeals for crusaders reflected this belief;...

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000. By Todd M. Endelman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 347. $22.50.) British Jewish history has been something of a Cinderella subject. As Todd M. Endelman points out, when he...

Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. By Robert Gellately. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 259. $35.00.) Recent debates on the nature of dictatorship will benefit from this study. Its chilling conclusion...

Russia and the Russians: A History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Russia and the Russians: A History. By Geoffrey Hosking. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 718, $35.00.) Geoffrey Hosking, of the University of London and doyen of Russian historians, has written a readable, comprehensive...

The History of the European Family, Family Life in Early Modern Times, vol. 1.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The History of the European Family. Volume I. Family Life in Early Modern Times. Edited, with an introduction, by David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 365. $35.00.) Family...

Women in Medieval English Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Women in Medieval English Society. By Mavis Mate. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 114. $39.95.) For years, the standard student text on English medieval women was Eileen Power's Medieval Women, which was put...

Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess, 1657-1715.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess 1657-1715. By Molly McClain. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 262. $35.00.) In this study, the author provides a useful and interesting portrait of one family's rise, within a...

Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945. By Christopher McKee. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 312. $29.95.) This author's deservedly high reputation as a navy historian rests chiefly on A Gentlemanly...

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. By Darrin M. McMahon. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 262. $35.00.) Over sixty years ago, Robert Palmer, in his...

Science in Europe, 1500-1800, a Primary Sources Reader.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Science in Europe, 1500-1800, a Primary Sources Reader. Edited by Malcolm Oster. (London and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. v, 282. $21.95.) For most of us, the Scientific Revolution evokes images of intellectual geniuses whose daring...

The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic. By Edward N. Peterson. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiii, 286. $64.00.) The sudden demise of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) left...

John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity. By Linda C. Raeder. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 402. $49.95.) Among the many startling statements in this book, perhaps none is more jarring than the...

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics. Edited by John Ramsden. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xlix, 714. $60.00.) The editor of this volume assembled a distinguished group of contributors (124, including...

Lusitania: Saga and Myth.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Lusitania: Saga and Myth. By David Ramsay. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001. Pp. xii, 308. $29.95.) The sinking of the Lusitania by U-20 in 1915 has always been overshadowed in popular memory by the Titanic, but its...

Victory at Mortain: Stopping Hitler's Panzer Counteroffensive.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Victory at Mortain: Stopping Hitler's Panzer Counteroffensive. By Mark J. Reardon. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xiv, 368. $39.95.) This book is distinguished by its exceptionally rich detail combined with its convincing...

The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775. By H. M. Scott. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 285. $65.00.) At the outset of the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763, Frederick the Great of Prussia dismissed the Russian...

Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. By Walter Stephens. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 451. $35.00.) This highly original and provocative book is a study of the theoretical literature of...

Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia. By Raymond Van Dam. (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 290. $49.95.) This book represents a departure for its author, better known for his work on...

History of the Jews in Modern Times.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... History of the Jews in Modern Times. By Lloyd P. Gartner. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. v, 468. $19.95.) In his preface, the author of this survey acknowledges that it is a bold deed for a historian to undertake a...

History of the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... History of the Twentieth Century. By Martin Gilbert. (New York: William Morrow, 2001. Pp. xvi, 783. $35.00.) Historians are an unruly lot. They refuse to agree among themselves about how to interpret the past, or even how to tell about it....

An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life. By J. Donald Hughes. (New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xv, 264. $31.95.) The author of this study is only the second historian brave enough to write...

Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality. By Richard H. Schmidt. (Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. xxii, 338. $29.00.) This book is not, nor is it designed to be, a...

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire. By Peter Stearns. (Newark: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 160. $17.95.) Despite the seeming grandiosity of the title, the author really does provide, in less than 150 pages, a...

British and German Historiography, 1750-1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... British and German Historiography, 1750-1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers. Edited by Benedikt Stuchtey and Peter Wende. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 438. $99.00.) This book, a compilation of essays...

Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching).(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching). By Peter S. Temes. (Chicago: Ivan Dee, 2001. Pp. 220. $22.95.) In this book, "school reform" means schemes that politicians and education administrators concoct to "fix the system"...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
March 22, 2004... Agnes Scott College (Alpha Theta Psi) 12 November 2003: Michelle L. Beer, Julianna R. Dow, Tracy D. Fitzpatrick-Hart, Ellen W. Harper, Elizabeth H. Lambert, Maris McEdward, Karen E. Reynolds, Kathryn L. Rosenbaum, Michelle R. Williams. ...