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The Historian archives from March 2007
Thomas Jefferson's nationalist vision of New England and the War of 1812.
March 22, 2007... UNTIL RECENTLY, Thomas Jefferson's nineteenth-century image as a herald of freedom and Union embodying "the definitions and axioms of free society," as Abraham Lincoln put it, seemed secure. (1) By contrast, many current historians adopt an...
Montana, Anaconda, and the price of pollution.
March 22, 2007
The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969.
March 22, 2007
The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Barbary Captive: A Critical Edition.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. By Charles H. Feinstein. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 302. $75.00.)
The late Professor Charles H. Feinstein [1932-2004] capped his...
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt. By Lisa Pollard. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 287. $24.95.)
The author succinctly explains that her book is "a case...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. By Edward L. Ayers. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 2005. Pp. 222. $24.95.)
This delightful volume delivers much more than its title promises. Rather than a prolonged...
The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations against Cuba, 1959-1965.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations against Cuba 1959-1965. By Don Bohning. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $29.95.)
Despite the efforts of nine U.S. presidents, Fidel Castro is still in power. This detailed...
Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913. By Kathleen Ann Clark. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. x, 302. $19.95.)
When Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation...
Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865. Politics and Ideas. By Simon Collier. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 271. $65.00.)
This author's study of an important period of nineteenth-century history provides...
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Tiburcio Carias: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume I: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume I: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. By Carlos A. Forment. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 454. $35.00.)
This is a book with a bold thesis:...
The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Cuba: A New History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
1776.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Hollywood, the Pentagon, and Washington: The Movies and National Security from World War II to the Present Day.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Early New England: A Covenanted Society.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
More Damning Than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. By Mark A. Weitz. (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 346. $49.95.)
Riding through the piney woods of southern Georgia at the end of the Civil War,...
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Korea: The Divided Nation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Chinese in the Caribbean.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Chinese in the Caribbean. Edited by Andrew Wilson. (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 230. $24.95.)
It may be unreasonable to expect academic prose to match the flair of a fine novel, but this volume, published a few...
Francois Mitterrand.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War. Edited by Chris Ealham and Michael Richards. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii, 282. $90.00.)
Historians of the Spanish Civil War, like historians...
Retrying Galileo.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Retrying Galileo. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 485. $50.00.)
What Descartes once called "the Galileo affair" did not terminate at Galilei's death in 1642. The author of this...
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Debating England's Aristocracy in the 1790s: Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Seduction of Culture in German History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
"A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... "A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages. By Elizabeth Makowski. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 170. $44.95.)
In 1423 the English confessor...
The Creation of the British Atlantic World.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, c. 1750-1783.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
France in 1938.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... France in 1938. By Benjamin E Martin. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $39.95.)
The last year of peace was 1938. It was also a bad year for France. The Popular Front coalition, elected with such high...
Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Medieval Crusade.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Medieval Crusade. Edited by Susan J. Rudyard. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2004. Pp. ix, 177. $70.00.)
This book is a collection of articles presenting the newest interpretations and corrections to Crusading...
Stalin: A Biography.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century. By Dennis Showalter. (New York, N.Y.: Berkeley Caliber, 2005. Pp. 441. $24.95.)
This reviewer must confess to a certain trepidation when he first picked up this book. The flyleaf...
The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Moral Disarmament of France. Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940. By Mona T. Siegel. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 317. $75.00.)
Why were schoolteachers blamed for the French defeat of 1940?...
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851, 2d ed.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside. By Lynne Viola, V. P. Danilov, N. A. Ivnitskii, and Denis Kozlov. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 427. $45.00.)
The title says it...
The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Lockout: Dublin, 1913.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate. By Gareth Stedman Jones. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. 278. $29.50.)
In the 1790s, Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet and Thomas Paine each wrote treatises that marked a sea change in...
Globalization: A Short History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007
Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
March 22, 2007