The Historian articles from March 2006

The Historian archives from March 2006

The emperor's new clothes: American views of Hirohito after World War II.
March 22, 2006... ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1945, Georgia Senator Richard Russell delivered an address on U.S. policy toward Emperor Hirohito under the newly begun occupation of Japan. Russell called the emperor the "head and heart" of Japanese expansionism, blasted the...

The First Crusade in late medieval exempla.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... ON 15 JULY 1099, a Christian army entered Jerusalem, thereby ending the four-year odyssey of the First Crusade and beginning a two-hundred-year period of Latin rule in the Levant. Shortly thereafter, the success of the crusaders at reclaiming...

The pardoner's promises: preaching and policing indulgences in the fourteenth-century English church.
March 22, 2006... INDULGENCES (COMMONLY KNOWN in England as pardons) have long since been infamous as the occasion for Martin Luther's revolt from the Roman Catholic Church in 1517. (1) Preachers of indulgence (in England called pardoners) incurred as much...

"A sink of all filthiness": gender, family, and identity in the British Atlantic, 1688-1763.
March 22, 2006... IN THE EARLY months of 1732, Colonel Christian Lilly received a remarkable letter on behalf of the Widow Owen of Berwick asking him to investigate the recent death of one "Doctor Owen" in Jamaica. Doctor Owen, a surgeon, had departed for the...

Organizing youth for partisan politics in Britain, 1918--c.1932.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... COMPARED TO OTHER European countries, and indeed to Britain after the Second World War, the political youth culture of the 1920s and early 1930s Britain has received remarkably little scholarly attention. (1) Yet, strenuous attempts were made...

Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic. Edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. $45.00.) The ten chapters of this book, a sequel to the editors' Women in Iran from...

Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. By Natana J. Delong-Bas. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 370. $35.00.) To most Westerners, the Wahhabi form of Islam practiced in and exported from Saudi Arabia is...

Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750-1920.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750-1920. By Mien F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii, 370. $29.95.) The...

Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890-1940. By Eddy Tshidiso Maloka. (Darkar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. Pp. 257. $47.95.) This...

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. By Eric Avila. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 308. $39.95.) The author of this book skillfully weaves together a...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. By Edward L. Ayers. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xxi, 471. $15.95.) Much of the Civil War was fought in the valley between the Allegheny and...

Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. By Michael B. Ballard. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 490. $39.95.) The author of this study is also the biographer of the Confederate commander,...

Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks and the Western Steamboat World. By Thomas C. Buchanan. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 256. $32.50.) This book is a concerted effort to break new...

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, & Debs--The Election That Changed the Country.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--The Election That Changed the Country. By James Chace. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Pp. x, 323. $25.95.) The author, a distinguished foreign-policy historian who unexpectedly passed away a...

Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s-1880s.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s-1880s. By Miroslava Chavez-Garcia. (Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 240. $39.95.) Single mothers, desperate widows, and independent, frustrated,...

British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783: The Role of the "Middling Level" Activists.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783: The Role of the "Middling Level" Activists. By Sheldon S. Cohen. (Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 181. $75.00.) Under an act of Parliament in 1777, American seamen...

Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. By Michael Comiskey. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. vii, 287. $40.00.) The topic the author of this book addresses could hardly be timelier. President George...

Politics and Reform in Spain and Vicerega/Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan de Palafox, 1600-1659.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Politics and Reform in Spain and Vicerega/Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan de Palafox, 1600-1659. By Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 366. $85.00.) In March 1639, Juan de Palafox was appointed...

The Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Civil Rights Movement. By Bruce J. Dierenfleld. (New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. Pp. xi, 190. $22.99.) In this book, the author attempts to give his readers a short but concise history of the modern civil-rights movement in the...

The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy. By C. Wyatt Evans. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xv, 269. $24.95.) This compelling narrative opens with the death by his own hand of a drifter, David...

Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amanda Frisken. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 225. $37.50.) The author of this study...

Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Alice L. George. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 238. $29.95.) This study of public American responses to one of the signal...

The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763. By Steven C. Hahn. (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 338. $59.95.) This book examines the Creek Indians' foreign relations from the establishment of Charleston and...

Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea. By Laura Hapke. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. v, 202. $22.95.) I have nicknamed my son's college apartment, the site of a former candy factory, "the sweatshop." Laura...

A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century. By Paul E. Hoffman. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 353. $22.95.) By definition, voyages of discovery--past...

Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. By Eric T. L. Love. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 245. $19.95.) This work is a reinterpretation of how race influenced United States...

Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising. By Staughton Lynd. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 244. $16.95.) On Easter Sunday, 11 April 1993, at three in the afternoon, a group of prisoners in L-block of the...

Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930. By Jan MacKell. (Albuquerque, N. Mex.. University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 310. $24.95.) Colorado's gold-rush prostitutes had few champions, many...

Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck. By John F. Marszalek. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 314. $24.95.) In this volume, the author gives us the first full-length biography of one of...

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. By Joseph M. Marshall III. (New York: Viking Press, 2004. Pp. xxv, 310. $24.95.) The author's avowed intention in his new book is the presentation of "a Lakota viewpoint about Crazy Horse" (xx)....

Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority. By Robert Mason. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 289. $39.95.) In 1964, when conservatives in the Republican Party nominated Senator Barry Gold-water as...

Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney. By Marty D. Matthews. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 186. $29.95.) This brief, clearly written political biography of Charles Pinckney...

Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808. By Kenneth Maxwell. (New York: Roudedge, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 289. $26.95.) When Cambridge University Press first published Conflicts and Conspiracies in 1973, eminent scholars...

Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression. By Colleen McDannell. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 319. $45.00.) Roy Stryker of the New Deal's Farm Security Administration sent photographers throughout the...

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Destiny after Reconstruction.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Destiny After Reconstruction. By Michele Mitchell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 388. $22.50.) This study makes vital contributions to the...

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. By James A. Morone. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 575. $18.00.) From time to time, historians take on a quest for a grand narrative that will explain...

The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers after the Expedition.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition. By Larry E. Morris. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 284. $30.00.) Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagawea, and York are...

Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. By David Paul Nord. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 212. $35.00.) The title of this carefully researched and well-written little volume is...

Ohio's First Peoples.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ohio's First Peoples. By James H. O'Donnell III. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. 176. $17.95.) Nodding to inclusiveness in conjunction with Ohio's 2003 bicentennial, the author produced Ohio's First Peoples. In this slim...

Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South. By Robert F. Pace. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 152. $34.95.) This is an important book. One of the difficulties in writing Southern history has been a...

Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alison Piepmeier. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 278. $19.95.) Using a poststructuralist approach, the author of this...

European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. By William Reynolds. Edited by Peter K. Gifford and Robert D. Ilisevich. (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 258....

The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901. By Heather Cox Richardson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 312. $39.95.) Republican devotion to a "flee-labor...

Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes. By Sergio Serulnikov. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 287. $23.95.) The great Andean insurrection of 1780-1781 was a...

The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education. By Theodore Sizer. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 131. $23.00.) The author opens and closes his book with recollections of his 1946 tenth-grade Latin class....

Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Margaret M. Storey. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 296. $49.95.) In this revision of her dissertation, the author makes an...

Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Steven M. Stowe. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. x, 373. $45.00.) As one reads this book, one becomes...

Can't Find My Way: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Can't Find My Way: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. By Martin Torgoff. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. Pp. vii, 545. $27.95.) Academic historians have had limited success writing about illegal drug use in the United States....

Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Shades of Hiawatha: Shaping Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xxv, 370. $30.00.) As a point of historical fact, Hiawatha was a cofounder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)...

Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow. By Thomas Adam Upchurch. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 302. $40.00.) Historians have traditionally viewed the Compromise of 1877 as...

The Antebellum Period.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Antebellum Period. By James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 401. $49.95.) This textbook on antebellum popular culture is divided into two sections. Part one consists of a chapter on...

The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History. By Giselle Byrnes. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 222. $35.00.) New Zealand governments since 1975 have been trying to find ways of providing recompense for the loss of the...

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. By Kai-wing Chow. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 397. $49.50.) In a work that combines an unprecedented quantity of data on Chinese publishing of the Ming...

The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand. Edited by Robin Lane Fox. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 288. $45.00.) "The Sea! The Sea!"--that, as many a schoolboy used to know, is a refrain first widely broadcast...

The Indian Ocean in World History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Indian Ocean in World History. By Milo Kearney. (New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 188. $17.95.) Seas and oceans have, in the last few decades, attracted significant attention as focal points for historical analysis. Relationships between...

New Times in Modern Japan.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... New Times in Modern Japan. By Stefan Tanaka. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 225. $29.95.) In December 1872, Japan's new Meiji government announced the abolition of the old lunar calendar in favor of the Gregorian...

Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia. By Evgenii V. Anisimov. Translated by Kathleen Carol. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. Pp. 368. $44.95.) When Mikhail Gorbachev introduced his policy of glasnost in the late 1980s,...

Brahms and the German Spirit.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Brahms and the German Spirit. By Daniel Beller-McKenna. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 243. $49.95.) For sixty years since the end of World War II, the music of nineteenth-century German composer Johannes Brahms...

From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. By Barbara B. Diefendorf. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 340. $55.00.) This author's latest book makes a significant contribution both to the...

German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. By Robert T. Foley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 301. $70.00.) This study places the strategy of Erich von...

Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250. By David Foote. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 254. $25.00.) The process by which European...

Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. By Alan Forrest. (London: Arnold, 2004. Pp. viii, 259. $19.95.) "Tensions between Paris and the provinces... have played an important role in French history," writes the author of this study...

Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. By Michael Freeman. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 310. $45.00.) With the attention that scholars have given to Victorian classicism and medievalism, it is...

Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich. By Stephen G. Fritz. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvii, 382. $35.00.) The author of this book addresses the "nuanced and differentiated......

First Nights at the Opera.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... First Nights at the Opera. By Thomas Forrest Kelly. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 441. $35.00.) In his earlier book, First Nights: Five Musical Premieres, this author reconstructed the first performances of five...

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to War.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to War. By Ian Kershaw. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 464. $29.95.) Why would a British aristocrat wish to promote friendship with the Hitler regime? This...

An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. By Milton Klein. (New Orleans, La.: University Press of the South, 2004. Pp. xv, 160. $12.95.) Why would a historian of colonial America take an interest in an early modern British...

Fleeting Rome: In Search of la Dolce Vita.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Fleeting Rome: In Search of la Dolce Vita. By Carlo Levi. (Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Pp. xxxvii, 280. $24.95.) Gigliola De Donato, Luisa Montevecchi, and Giulio Ferroni have rescued some of the most insightful and...

Ancient Greek Religion.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Ancient Greek Religion. By Jon D. Mikalson. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xiii, 225. $64.95.) This book is a first introduction to Greek religion in the Classical period (c. 500-323 BCE), with an additional chapter on the...

Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650. By Leslie Page Moch. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 273. $24.95.) In contrast to the United States, where there is a rich corpus of mainly empirical...

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. By Richard Overy. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Pp. xl, 849. $35.00.) Reflecting both the availability of new Soviet sources and extensive publications on Nazi Germany, a conference in...

Carl Peters and German Imperialism, 1856-1918. A Political Biography.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Carl Peters and German Imperialism 1856-1918. A Political Biography. By Arne Perras. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 286. $35.00.) Carl Peters was the most famous of the founders of the German colonial empire. His career...

Children of the Promise: The Confraternity of the Purification and the Socialization of Youths in Florence, 1427-1785.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Children of the Promise: The Confraternity of the Purification and the Socialization of Youths in Florence, 1427-1785. By Lorenzo Polizzotto. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 381. $120.00.) Confraternities played a vital...

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece and Western Civilization.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece and Western Civilization. By Barry Strauss. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. Pp. xxi, 294. $25.00.) Although the title would appear to limit the contents to the battle, the...

Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. By Peter Fritzsche. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 268. $27.95.) Over the course of the last decade, this author has written a number of important...

The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation. By John M. Hobson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 376. $75.00.) In this book, the author seeks to challenge the traditional view that Western civilization developed free of...

The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 334. $60.00.) The idea of a land that once bridged the continents of Africa and...

Hating America: A History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Hating America: A History. By Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 307. $29.95.) According to the authors, the main themes of contemporary anti-Americanism are as old as the country itself....

Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map. By Kirsten Seaver. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 480. $24.95.) The historical record is studded with numerous records that have profoundly changed the ways...

Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. By Bruce G. Trigger. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 757. $50.00.) As the title indicates, this is an article in the grand style, and at 757 pages, it is on a...

Phi alpha theta initiates.
March 22, 2006... Agnes Scott College (Alpha Theta Psi) 5 December 2005: Mariah Bozeman, Julia Charles, Emmeline Creasy, Yolanda Curtis, Susan Dougherty, Tracie Harris, Erin Lemon, Lauran Nave, Ashley Oscarson, Elizabeth Ott, Rebecca Poole, Laura Richardson,...