The Historian articles from March 2005

The Historian archives from March 2005

The emancipation proclamation and British public opinion.(abolition of slavery)
March 22, 2005... The protectionists say they do not seek to put down slavery. The slaveholders say they want free trade. Need you wonder at the confusion in John Bull's poor head? He gives up! Leaves it to the Government. (1) John Bright UNTIL THE...

Daughters of Mars: army officers' wives and military culture on the American frontier.
March 22, 2005... ELIZABETH CUSTER, wife of the famous general, wrote in her memoirs about a cultured, upper-class woman many years an army wife, who heard that a friend had married a military officer, and "for love." "Good heavens!" the woman replied, surprised...

(Re)constructing the medieval recluse: performative acts of virginity and the writings of Julian of Norwich.
March 22, 2005... As long as woman is for birth and children, she is different from man as body is from soul. But, if a woman wishes to serve Christ more than the world, then she will cease to be a woman and will be called a man. St. Jerome, Commentary on...

Pilar Primo de Rivera and the axis temptation.
March 22, 2005... DURING WORLD WAR II, Pilar Primo de Rivera, leader of the Seccion Femenina (Women's Section) of the Falangist party, led Spanish efforts to forge a closer political relationship with Nazi Germany. As the only woman holding a position of real...

Emancipation or liberation?: women's associations and the Italian movement.
March 22, 2005... ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP on Italian feminism and its relationship to its European and American counterparts has blossomed in the past decades. (1) The unique case of Italy, with its often tumultuous twentieth-century history, provides an...

"Charles V".(The Reign of Charles V)(Emperor Charles V: Impresario of War. Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Reign of Charles V. By William Maltby. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. x, 154. $29.95.) Emperor Charles V: Impresario of War. Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics. By James D. Tracy....

The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment, 1770-1950.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950. By William Beinart. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 425. $99.00.) The wool industry, along with wine and wheat, provided the...

T. E. Lawrence.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... T. E. Lawrence. By Malcolm Brown. (New York: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. 160. $21.95.) This concisely written and wonderfully illustrated biography will appeal to those already familiar with "Lawrence of Arabia" as well as to...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. By Edward L. Ayers. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xxi, 471. $27.95.) In her study of the American Revolution in Charles County, Maryland, Jean B. Lee wrote that...

The Dollar Decade: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Dollar Decade: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. xix, 157. $64.95.) The 1920s has been the subject of possibly more varying interpretations than any other decade in...

A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. By Carl P. Borick. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 332. $29.95.) Four gateway ports dominated their separate hinterlands on the eve of the American...

Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance. By Frank W. Brecher. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. xiv, 327. $74.95.) Historians have begun to write a new international history of the American Revolution....

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser. (New York: Free Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 251. $26.00.) The youngest son of New York's vice-admiralty court judge and proprietor of...

The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol. By Eric Burns. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 336. $29.00.) This book puzzles, disappoints, and delights. One puzzle is that Eric Burns chose a small academic press...

Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire. By Tom Chaffin. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. Pp. xxii, 559. $18.00.) The author's sympathetic biography of John Charles Fremont offers readers an insightful opening into...

Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast. By Guy Chet. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 207. $18.85.) In this new study, the author argues that New England's...

Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape. Edited by Steven Conn and Max Page. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. 407. $59.95.) Portraying the broad landscape of...

Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788-1853). By Brian F. Connaughton. Translated by Mark Alan Healey. (Boulder and Calgary: University Press of Colorado and the University of...

Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945. By Julie Des Jardins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. x, 380. $19.95.) This author provides a thoroughly...

Slavery in the American Mountain South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Slavery in the American Mountain South. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 352. $80.00.) This book joins a growing list of important works on slavery as an institution and a political force in...

The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash. Edited by Richard W. Etulain and Ferenc M. Szasz. (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 208. $29.95.) This is a most fitting tribute to one of the...

A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 558. $30.00.) Questions about the establishment of the American Union are the focal point of this...

Katharine Dexter McCormick: Pioneer for Women's Rights.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Katharine Dexter McCormick: Pioneer for Women's Rights. By Armond Fields. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xii, 336. $49.95. Katharine Dexter McCormick, an heiress in her own right and the wife of the mentally ill son of Cyrus McCormick,...

Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America. By Eva Marie Garroutte. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 223. $19.95.) The sudden explosion of tribal-owned casinos has intensified a...

The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia. By Jay Hatheway. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Pp. 232. $45.00.) The author of this book tries to uncover the roots of homophobia in contemporary U.S. society. He argues that...

Revolution in Mexico's Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Revolution in Mexico's Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913-1920. By David G. LaFrance. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. xxv, 305. $65.00.) The author of this book concludes that the Mexican Revolution...

Martin Luther King, Jr.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Martin Luther King, Jr. By Peter J. Ling. (New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxi, 356. $15.95.) Every historian with students in real classrooms knows that biography remains the door through which average readers enter the historical mansion....

Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary. By Michael E. Lomax. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 178. $19.95.) Black baseball players in post-Civil War America faced a segregated...

Jonathan Edwards: A Life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Jonathan Edwards: A Life. By George M. Marsden. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 615. $35.00.) This book surpasses all earlier biographies of Jonathan Edwards. It is simply superb in its monumental scope, in its research...

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. By James A. Morone. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 575. $35.00.) This author's The Democratic Wish, published more than a decade ago, ranks at the top of this...

Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. By W. Dale Nelson (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2003. Pp. x, 174. $24.95.) The hodgepodge of languages spoken in aboriginal America is...

In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles. By Sean Michael O'Brien. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xv, 254. $49.95.) An independent author of two books on the Civil War, the author of this volume...

Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Elaine Frantz Parsons. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 241. $42.95.) Based on a careful reading of the drunkard...

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. x, 301. $49.95, $19.95.) This study provides an important...

Alexander Hamilton: A Life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Alexander Hamilton: A Life. By Willard Sterne Randall. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Pp. xiii, 476. $32.50.) Having published a biography of Thomas Jefferson in 1993, the author of this book confronted the question of who was...

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862. By Judith Kelleher Schafer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 204. $49.95.) For more than three decades, historians have...

Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 318. $17.95.) By exploring the cultural history of hearing, this complex, but well written and...

Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. By Rob Schorman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. 212. $35.00.) The author of this study asserts that one can tell much about a person by the...

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth Century America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth Century America. By Helen Tangires. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 265. $45.00.) In the 1970s and 1980s, cities throughout the United States converted old wholesale...

Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity. By Susan Zaeske. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 253. $49.95.) There is a danger in taking on a topic like women's...

Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition. By Judith Snodgrass. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 351. $21.50.) A political historian once compared the work...

Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service. By Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 650. $75.00.) Dai Li [1897-1946], the spymaster in the Chinese Nationalist government, is the focus of...

Canada's Founding Debates.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Canada's Founding Debates. Edited by Janet Ajzenstat, Paul Romney, Ian Gentles, and William D. Gairdner. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. x, 502. $35.00.) Canada in the 1860s was in ferment. It was impacted by events to its...

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. By Bengt Ankarloo, Stuart Clark, and William Monter. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 193. $22.50.) This is the fourth volume of the Witchcraft...

The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. By David Bell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 304. $18.95.) This prize-winning study leads readers through a multifaceted analysis of the genesis of...

The Origins of the English Gentry.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Origins of the English Gentry. By Peter Coss. (Cambridge: Past and Present Publications/Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 332. $60.00.) In this important new book, the author republishes three articles on the English gentry in...

To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution. By Jon Cowans. (New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 249. $90.00.) What Keith Baker began, Jon Cowans has sought to finish. In an influential...

Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History. By Owen Davies. (New York: Hambledon and London, 2003. Pp. 237. $29.95.) The main narrative of modern European history is that of science, industry, nationalism, and world empire, but beneath...

Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution. By Antoine de Baecque. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 233. $19.95.) Antoine de Baecque's Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French...

Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition. By Richard Drake. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 273. $45.00.) Richard Drake is the author of several well regarded works on Italy's post-1945 history of...

Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. By Patrick Faas. Translated from Dutch by Shaun Whiteside. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 371. $29.95.) Using food to gain insights into social history has become...

Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe. Edited by Michelle Facos and Sharon L. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 297. $75.00.) For over a generation, art historians have increasingly asked...

Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852. By James P. Flint, O.S.B. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 301. $39.95.) This is an admirable book about a...

Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration. By Norbert Frei. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 479. $35.00.) The creation of a constitutional, democratic, and prosperous Federal Republic...

The Complete Roman Army.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Complete Roman Army. By Adrian Goldsworthy. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. Pp. 224. $39.95.) In a sense, the high quality of Adrian Goldsworthy's previous works on the Roman army operates to his disadvantage. It tends to raise his...

Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life, in Interwar Paris. By Jeffrey H. Jackson. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 266. $21.95.) This fascinating new study of jazz in interwar Paris is a microhistory with "macro"...

Crime, Punishment and Reform in Europe.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Crime, Punishment and Reform in Europe. Edited, with an introduction, by Louis A. Knafla. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. xvi, 257. $74.95.) Criminal Justice History is a well established journal that has published a number of...

Russian Hide-and-Seek: The Tsarist Secret Police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Russian Hide-and-Seek: The Tsarist Secret Police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914. By Iain Lauchlan. (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2002. Pp. 405. $29.95.) The author of this study has produced a solidly researched monograph on the...

Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. By Joseph O'Callaghan. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 322. $39.95.) On the one hand, a masterful synthesis of work done in both crusade and reconquest history and,...

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia. By Richard Pipes. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 153. $22.95.) A member of the Russian revolutionary-terrorist organization "The Will of the People," Sergei Degaev,...

Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography. By Serhii Plokhy. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 102. $18.95.) The centerpiece of Serhii Plokhy's elegant, short book is the Icon of the Pokrova in the Church of that name in...

The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatine and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatine and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War. By Brennan C. Pursell. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 320, $55.00.) The author of this book sympathetically depicts the elector Palatine who, more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain. By Joad Raymond. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 403. $70.00.) Few historians would deny that the political influence of the press increased spectacularly in...

The Forgotten Commissioner: Sir William Mildmay and the Anglo-French Commission of 1750-1755.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Forgotten Commissioner: Sir William Mildmay and the Anglo-French Commission of 1750-1755. By Enid Robbie. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 307. $59.95.) When the War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748,...

Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945. By Sonya O. Rose. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 328. $45.00.) The goal of this latest thematic contribution to the now quite extensive...

British Strategy and Politics During the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... British Strategy and Politics During the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up. By Nick Smart. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. 267. $67.95.) The German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 provoked Britain and France to...

Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky. By Michael Stanislawski. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 282. $19.95.) Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Vladimir...

Voices of Revolution, 1917.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Voices of Revolution, 1917. Edited by Mark D. Steinberg. Translated by Mariana Schwartz. Documents compiled by Zinaida Peregudova and Liubov Tiutiunnik. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 404. $40.00.) The volume is a collection...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. By Barbara Taylor. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 331. $23.00.) As the conclusion of this new book points out, Mary Wollstonecraft is still very much a living...

Lafayette.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Lafayette. By Harlow Giles Unger. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 451. $17.95.) Harlow Giles Unger states that he wishes to restore Lafayette to his "rightful place in American history." He structures his work in two sections,...

Travel in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Travel in the Middle Ages. By Jean Verdon. Translated by George Holoch. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Pp. 348. $25.00.) The author of this volume has written several books dealing with broad topics in medieval...

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England. By Garthine Walker. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 310. $60.00.) The name of the author of this book is already well known to those scholars interested in...

The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia. By Paul L. Williams. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. Pp. 264. $27.00.) The papacy has been examined continually over the centuries. Some studies have been scholarly, others...

The Effect of Science on the Second World War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Effect of Science on the Second World War. By Guy Hartcup. (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xv, 214. $26.95.) Although an ocean of ink has been expended on nearly every conceivable aspect of the...

Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. By Suzanne Miers. (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 505. $35.95.) Recent media coverage of Mauritania and the Sudan has highlighted the resilience of...

Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality. By Joanne E. Passet. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. 318. $45.00.) Joining a growing number of scholars examining nineteenth-century sexuality and feminism, the author of...

The Atlantic Slave Trade.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Johannes Postma. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 177. $44.95.) The Atlantic slave trade constituted the longest and largest coerced intercontinental migration in human experience. Johannes...

The Erotic History of Advertising.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Erotic History of Advertising. By Tom Reichert. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. Pp. 403. $24.00.) In this book, the author aims to produce a study that "fully documents the use of sex in advertising over a substantial period of...

Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations, A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies and Their Quest for a Peaceful World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations; A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies and Their Quest for a Peaceful World. By Stephen C. Schlesinger. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 374. $27.50.)...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
March 22, 2005... Agnes Scott College (Alpha Theta Psi) 5 November 2004: Alexandra Capell, Andrea M. Comiskey, Rachel E. Darr, Meghan Fleming, Amanda N. Harris, Shannon L. Jones, Aleksandrina Z. Penkova, Jessica W. Taylor, Casey T. Yannella. Albright...