The Historian articles from March 2008

The Historian archives from March 2008

Manliness and the "morality of field sports": E. A. Freeman and Anthony Trollope, 1869-71.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION: MANLINESS AND ANIMALS THIS ARTICLE AIMS to make a twofold contribution. First, it adds to the now-flourishing field of the history of masculinity in modern Britain, asking some new questions of the category of manliness and...

Austria-Hungary and The Brusilov offensive Of 1916.
March 22, 2008... THE OPENING BATTLES of the First World War in the summer of 1914 produced disparate results for Austria-Hungary and her ally, Germany. Habsburg forces suffered serious military defeat at the two battles of Lemberg, while the Germans emerged...

"They are our human secret weapons": the military intelligence service and the role of Japanese-Americans in the pacific war and in the occupation of Japan (1).(Report)
March 22, 2008... UNDER A SHROUD OF SECRECY and with the backing of the U.S. War Department, the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) trained and graduated nearly 6,000 linguists--of whom the majority were Japanese-Americans. They ultimately played a decisive...

The Oxford Martyrs and the English Protestant movement, 1553-58.(Report)
March 22, 2008... THE ASCENDANCY OF MARY TUDOR to the English throne in 1553, following the death of her half-brother Edward VI placed the island nation in a precarious religious and political situation. After enduring the break with Rome under Henry VIII as...

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005. By James T. Campbell. (New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi, 513. $29.95.) The author of this study has written a fascinating book that examines two centuries of...

The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. By Getzel M. Cohen. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 477. $85.00.) Anyone who has puzzled through Hellenistic site names in ancient...

Morocco under King Hassan.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Morocco under King Hassan. By Stephen O. Hughes. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 385. $34.50.) British journalist Stephen O. Hughes first arrived in Morocco in 1952 and spent the better part of five decades there. In this...

Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision. By Arnold Reisman. (Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2006. Pp. 511. $28.00.) This massive book (sixteen chapters and 145 illustrations) is the most comprehensive...

Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. By Ernest S. Tucker. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xv, 150. $65.00.) Having risen to power through his military victories, Nadir Quli Khan first deposed...

The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. By Fred Anderson. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2005. Pp. xxv, 293. $25.95.) This book on the French and Indian War provides as good a read as anything Charles Dickens...

'Injuns!': Native Americans in the Movies.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... 'Injuns!': Native Americans in the Movies. By Edward Buscombe. (London, England: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 243. $16.00.) Despite the title, the author of this book analyzes far more than Native American portrayals in film. Instead, he...

John Tyler: The Accidental President.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... John Tyler: The Accidental President. By Edward P. Crapol. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 332. $37.50.) A new book about John Tyler cannot quite be cause for excitement, but this volume is certainly a...

Born in the Country: A History of Rural America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. By David B. Danbom. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 2006 edition. Pp. xviii, 302. $20.00.) In this new edition, a leading historian of rural America traces the...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. By David Brion Davis. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 331. $30.00.) This book confirms the author's status as a preeminent scholar of slavery in the...

Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War. By Christopher S. DeRosa. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 328. $49.95.) When historians consider how the U.S. Army trains soldiers...

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 383. $45.00.) The author of this book is to be congratulated for writing one of the most original works about...

Reconstructing the Commercial Republic.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Reconstructing the Commercial Republic. By Stephen L. Elkin (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 413. $35.00.) The author of this study, a political scientist, offers theory grounded in American history. Stephen L....

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South. By Tammy Evans. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xi, 173. $34.95.) The author of this book has produced an interesting book about the rhetoric...

Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance. By Ric Gillespie. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 276. $28.95.) Certain figures from the so-called Golden Age of Aviation have maintained a remarkable...

Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration. By Karen L. Ishizuka. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 217. $24.95.) In November 1994, "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese...

Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo. By T. K. Kionka. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 229. $39.95.) In 1861, Cairo, Illinois, was a small town of two thousand people, but its strategic location at...

Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty. By Jerry W. Knudson. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 221. $34.95.) Late in his life, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "When I read the newspapers and see what a mass...

The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. By Michael L. Kurtz. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. vii, 280. $29.95.) In his "Selected Bibliography," the author lists over one hundred books, an equal...

American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations. Edited by Eric D. Lemont. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 343. $21.95.) The collection of nine essays and many first-hand reports...

The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism. By Timothy Marr. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 309. $24.99.) This author's thoroughly researched and documented book is indispensable reading for anyone seriously...

Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations. By Craig Nelson. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2006. Pp. xv, 396. $27.95.) Thomas Paine is periodically rediscovered as the "forgotten Founder." Arriving in America with...

Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. By Kenneth Osgood. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 367. $45.00.) The author of this study has produced a beautifully written and...

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King. By William E Pepper. (New York, N.Y.: Verso, 2003. Pp. ix, 334. $25.00.) The author frames this book against the backdrop of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. That decade was the...

Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. By Thomas E. Schneider. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 224. $39.95.) This book is not altogether what it seems. It is...

Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States. By Sharon Smith. (Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, 2006. Pp. ix, 377. $16.00.) This book begins with the premise that the history of working-class radicalism and...

New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. By J. Mark Souther. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. 344. $34.95.) The author of this study has written an impressive first book in...

Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988. By Steve J. Stern. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxi, 538. $27.95.) Through his past work on colonialism in the Andes, his brilliant critique of...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady. By Gil Troy. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. xiv, 263. $24.95.) Early in Bill Clinton's first presidential term, the reviewer was on a flight to Washington, D.C., when...

Blue & Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Blue & Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat. By Spencer C. Tucker. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 426. $34.95.) There was more to the Civil War than the great battles on land, such as Antietam and Gettysburg, which...

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. By Mark R. Wilson. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $45.00.) Although many Civil War histories chronicle battles or campaigns,...

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 240. $25.00.) Theirs are not household names: Tench Coxe, Albert Gallatin, Thomas...

ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. By Robert K. Brigham. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 178. $29.95.) In 1975 one in six able-bodied South Vietnamese males between the ages of sixteen and sixty...

Nebru: A Political Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Nebru: A Political Life. By Judith M. Brown (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 407. $35.00.) Jawaharlal Nehru [1889-1964] was one of the foremost leaders of the Indian nationalist movement and the first Prime Minister...

State or Merchant?: Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China. By Helen Dunstan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 523. $54.95.) One of the signal achievements of Chinese society in the seventeenth and...

The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands. By Leo K. Shin. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 246. $80.00.) In marked contrast to the works of earlier generations of China...

Churchill: The Unexpected Hero.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Churchill: The Unexpected Hero. By Paul Addison. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 308. $25.00.) The author of this book has written one of the best short biographies and historiographies of Winston Churchill to appear in...

Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945. Edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. x, 260. $16.95.) The destruction of the ancient and beautiful German city of Dresden by Allied bombers on 13-14...

The Revolution of 1905: A Short History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Revolution of 1905: A Short History. By Abraham Ascher. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 239. $20.95.) This is not only the best one-volume history of the Russian Revolution of 1905, but a model of writing...

Ages in Chaos. James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Ages in Chaos. James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time. By Stephen Baxter. (New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006. Pp. 256, $13.95.) James Hutton [1726-1797] was a significant yet largely unheralded participant in the Scottish...

Strange, Inhuman Deaths: Murder in Tudor England.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Strange, Inhuman Deaths: Murder in Tudor England. By John Bellamy. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. Pp. vi, 209. $49.95.) In the author's newest foray into Tudor legal culture, we are introduced to the place murder held in society through...

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Warsaw Uprising of 1944. By Wlodzimierz Borodziej. Translated by Barbara Harshav. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. 183. $45.00.) A few years ago, when Poland celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the 1944...

Pompeii: The Living City.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Pompeii: The Living City. By Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. (New York, N.Y.: St Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 354. $27.95.) In claiming reanimation of the Vesuvius-buried city, this book's title does not deceive. The authors pay...

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. By Christopher Clark. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2006. Pp. vi, 776. $35.00.) In the beginning, there was no Prussia, and in the end the state was dissolved. The events...

Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425. By Samuel K. Cohn Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 375. $49.95.) The author of this book is a social historian of wide-ranging...

A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe. By Michael Creswell. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 238. $49.95.) The author of this study argues that France played a major, if...

Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius. By R. Malcolm Errington. (Chapel Hill, N.C." University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 336. $45.00.) Since Edward Gibbon's day, the overarching question about ancient Rome has been...

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer. By Elisabeth de Feydeau. Translated by Jane Lizop. (New York, N.Y.: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Pp. xxi, 140. $26.95.) This author contributes to an excellent body of work on...

The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France, 1792-1794.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France, 1792-1794. By Graeme Fife. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. 417. $30.00.) Although the author does not provide a specific thesis statement in introducing his book, it is...

Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War. By Robin Addle Greeley. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 261. $60.00.) The meaning of surrealist art is ambivalent, art historian Robin Addle Greeley contends, even when placed...

In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Anti-Semitism, 1890-1944.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Anti-Semitism, 1890-1944. By Paul A. Hanebrink. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 255. $39.95.) The book under review is a pedantic scholarly work that tries to...

Diplomacy and War at NATO: The Secretary General and Military Action After the Cold War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Diplomacy and War at NATO: The Secretary General and Military Action After the Cold War. Ryan C. Hendrickson. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 172. $16.95.) As perhaps the most successful military alliance in...

The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. By Jennifer Ngaire Heuer. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 256. $34.95.) Weighing in on the ongoing discussion of family matters...

Why Was Charles I Executed?(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Why Was Charles I Executed? By Clive Holmes. London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. x, 244. $34.95.) Judging from the title of this book and the graphic cover illustration of blood spurting from the decapitated torso of the king,...

Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam. By T. C. E Hopkins. (New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006. Pp. 208. $21.95.) This book, written under a pseudonym by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, who is mostly known for her science-fiction...

Contesting the Crusades.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Contesting the Crusades. By Norman Housley. (Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xiii, 198. $72.95.) In the last generation, the study of the crusades has become the most popular topic in the field of the history of medieval...

After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995. By Konrad H. Jarausch. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 379. $35.00.) If including Hitler in the title sells more copies of this excellent book all the better, but...

Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. By David Lederer. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 361. $90.00.) This lucid study of the cultural history of spiritual psyche in...

The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation. By Louis Montrose. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 341. $25.00.) This is a richly detailed and thoughtfully constructed book. The title has a...

69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors. By Gwyn Morgan. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 322. $30.00.) The eighteen months between June AD 68 and December 69 are the subject of this book. This period brought disorder...

Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London. By Lydia Murdoch. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 252. $44.95.) In 1898, the Reverend John Howard of the East London...

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. By Brian W. Ogilvie. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 385. $45.00.) The author of this book has written a beautifully crafted monograph on...

The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Roberta J. M. Olson, Patricia L. Reilly, and Rupert Shepherd. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. vii, 147. $59.95.) When a student of history studies...

A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France. By Jennifer Pitts. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 400. $24.95.) The author of this book explores a crucial evolution in European political...

Lenin: A Revolutionary Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lenin: A Revolutionary Life. By Christopher Read. (New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 311. $19.95.) One, of course, wonders why another book on Lenin should be published, adding to the literally thousands already published in all the...

The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 341. $55.00.) The role Abbe Gregoire played during the French...

Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834. By S. D. Smith. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 380. $99.00.) The author of this study infuses...

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches. Edited by Jay M. Smith. (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 337. $65.00.) A renewed emphasis on social history rescues...

Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180. By Robert M. Stein. (Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. Pp. 294. $30.00.) This new book ought to be an important exception to the rule that the...

Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects. By Manfredo Tafuri. Forward by K. Michael Hays. Translated and with a Preface by Daniel Sherer. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxi, 408. $50.00.) By the time...

The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation. By Richard Vinen. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 496. $35.00.) This reviewer was reminded of the work of the late British historian of the French Revolution, Richard Cobb,...

Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by T. P. Wiseman. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 451. $39.95.) In 1954, Maurice Platnauer charged seventeen distinguished British classicists with...

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. By John H. Elliott. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 506. $35.00.) Two great empires were built in the Americas: one Spanish, one British. The...

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. By Niall Ferguson. (New York, N.Y.: Penguin, 2006. Pp. lxxi, 808. $35.00.) In this lengthy book the author tries to cover the way in which the world changed from...

Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in a Historical Perspective.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in a Historical Perspective. By Istvan Hont. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 539. $49.95.) The purpose of this book is to identify the "genesis,...

Phi Alpha Theta Initiates.(List)
March 22, 2008... Agnes Scott College (Alpha Theta Psi) 3 December 2007: Hannah L. Alley, Minda L. Anderson, Tara E. Brinkman, Rachel A. Bunker, Erica R. Camp, Alice E. Ferron, Sarah L. Jones, Nazish A. Mithaiwala, Elizabeth E. Mullaney, Leah A. Richier. ...