The Historian articles from March 2009

The Historian archives from March 2009

An elegy for Eugen Weber.
March 22, 2009... "All of which only means that I am ready for a drink and Jacqueline is late returning home. When we look at the garden, things improve markedly. When the cat claims our attention, they are better still. By dinnertime all is well again within...

An African-American worker in Stalin's Soviet Union: race and the Soviet experiment in international perspective.(Robert Nathaniel Robinson)
March 22, 2009... ROBERT NATHANIEL ROBINSON was a twenty-three-year-old toolmaker in Detroit when he decided, like many thousands of Americans and Europeans in the early 1930s, to take a job in the booming industries of the Soviet Union. A Jamaican-born...

An infant phenomenon in colonial Australia--the case of Anna Maria Quinn, 1854-1858.
March 22, 2009... THIS ARTICLE INVESTIGATES the cultural and scientific discourses that informed journalistic commentary about a young child actor as a key to understanding conceptions of the human mind in the 1850s. The publicity about Anna Maria Quinn...

Defending the Old South: the Myth of the Lost Cause and political immorality in Florida, 1865-1968.
March 22, 2009... THE STATE OF Florida has long been an enigma, harboring various contradictory values and beliefs within its borders. Today, South Florida is home to numerous retirees, "snowbirds," and Latin-American immigrants and refugees, while the northern...

Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait. By Uri Dan. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xvi, 292. $16.95.) Ariel Sharon, well known for his military and political roles over the course of Israeli history from 1948 to 2006 when he...

Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960. By Benjamin N. Lawrance. (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 288. $75.00.) This author responds to the frequent failure of past...

The Development of Trans-Jordan 1929-1939: A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Development of Trans-Jordan 1929-1939. A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. By Maan Abu Nowar. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 392. $66.00.) This is the fourth volume in the series "A History of the Hashemite...

Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform. By Leslie Butler. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 381. $24.95.) Meet four of American history's "deadest, whitest, least...

The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. By Colin G. Calloway. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 219. $15.95.) This is a very satisfying addition to the Pivotal Moments in American History...

Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America. By Beth B. Cohen. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 223. $44.95.) In this well-documented study, drawing on archival materials, case files, and oral...

People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru. By Noble David Cook with Alexandra Parma Cook. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 319. $23.95.) This study explores the colonial history of the Andean...

Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships. By Coy F. Cross II. (Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 180. $28.95.) With more than sixty thousand titles on the topic...

Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph. By Jim Cullen. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. 256. $24.95.) The author of this study has written a very readable book for people who are not familiar with presidential...

Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 330. $65.00.) The rationale for what might be called the "market place of ideas"...

Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. By Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 142. $24.95.) In a brilliant and concise work (a little over one hundred pages of text), the dean of American...

Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and their Senate Hearings.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and their Senate Hearings. By Joseph A. Fry. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Pp. xi, 198. $72.00.) A narrowly focused study can yield rich interpretive dividends. So it proves in Joseph A....

Lynching in the West: 1850-1935.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Lynching in the West: 1850-1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 299. $22.95.) In this study of lynching, the author focuses on minority groups--Native Americans, Hispanics, and Chinese--who were,...

Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History. By Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith A. Hansen. (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington, 2007. Pp. ix, 162. $14.95.) At a time when the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC)...

Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963. By Benjamin P. Greene. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 358. $65.00.) Historians of the Cold War are familiar with the mostly unsuccessful...

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 248. $65.00.) This anthology of six chapters on...

Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections. By Judith Jennings. (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. Pp. viii, 196. $99.95.) The Quaker artist Mary Knowles is perhaps...

Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West. By Michael L. Johnson. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xviii, 533. $34.95.) How the American West came to be known as "wild" is the central question...

From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. By R. Alton Lee. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. Pp. 233. $49.95.) This is the fascinating story of a largely forgotten individual, Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine. That he has been largely...

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. By Michael A. Lerner. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 351. $28.95.) When was the last time a new book was better than its publisher's claims? The dust jacket of Dry...

The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. By Michael A. McDonnell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 568. $45.00.) When an author admits that what he has uncovered in the...

Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum. By Brian C. Melton. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 292. $44.95.) Despite having risen to the command of the Army of Georgia, one of the two wings of William T....

Becoming Free in the Cotton South.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Becoming Free in the Cotton South. By Susan Eva O'Donovan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 355. $35.00.) Like many scholars who have been involved with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University...

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. By Richard Parker. (Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 820. $22.50.) In the interest of scope and accuracy, this author could easily have borrowed the...

Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace. By Mark Perry. (New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 472. $29.95.) This book is about the extended collaboration between Army Chief of Staff George...

The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917. By Jeffrey M. Pilcher. (Albuquerque, N. Mex.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. x, 245. $29.95.) This author is arguably the most...

Civility & Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1862.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Civility & Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1862. By Pilar Gonzalez Bernaldo de Quiros. (Los Angeles, Calif.: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2006. Pp. xiv, 399. $29.95.) The...

Ethnicity.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Ethnicity [Vol. 6 of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson]. Edited by Celeste Ray. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 276. $33.95.) The original, one-volume Encyclopedia of...

War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. John Resch and Walter Sargent, eds. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 318. $22.50.) While America's founders enjoy remarkable...

Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 306. $35.00.) This author's compelling portrait of Knoxville, Tennessee, during the Civil...

The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855. By William E. Unrau. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xiv, 201. $29.95.) The 1830s, a decade of forced marches following passage of President Andrew Jackson's Removal...

The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History. By Mikael S. Adolphson. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 212. $36.00.) The author pursues two issues in this book: "who the...

Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History. By Olga Dror. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. Pp. 260. $52.00.) Popular religious practice in Vietnam has received significant attention from...

The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. By Mark Edward Lewis. History of Imperial China, vol. 1, series edited by Timothy Brook. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 321. $29.95.) Han China was roughly the equivalent in...

Essays in Frontier History: India, China and the Disputed Border.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Essays in Frontier History: India, China and the Disputed Border. By Parshotam Mehra. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 206. $49.95) In 1962 India and the People's Republic of China (PRC) fought a bitter, brutal,...

Behind the Mask: The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715-1911).(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Behind the Mask: The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715-1911). By Anindita Mukhopadhyay. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 301. $39.95.) Part legal history, part intellectual and...

Empire, Identity, and India: Liberalism, Modernity and the Nation.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Empire, Identity, and India: Liberalism, Modernity and the Nation. By Peter Robb. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 231. $45.00.) It is a measure of the maturity that the study of South Asia has attained over the...

Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law. By Peter Robb. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 223. $40.00.) This is the second volume of a two-volume collection of previously published...

Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China. By Patricia M. Thornton. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. 247. $39.95.) The author of this book has selected three interesting moments...

Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330. By Dimiter Angelov. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 453. $110.00.) Quite correctly, the author of this book distinguishes imperial ideology...

The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. By Jeremy Barlow. (Oxford, England: The Bodleian Library, 2007. Pp. 88. $20.00.) Although scholars have studied specific sources or genres of music that...

The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Dictatorship of Sex" Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses. By Frances Lee Bernstein. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 246. $42.00.) The "sexual revolution" in Russia in the early twentieth century,...

An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. By J. P. Daughton. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 330. $55.00.) A little more than a century after politicians of the...

France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order. By Denise Z. Davidson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. v, 257. $49.95.) This author's meticulously researched account of urban life in Napoleonic...

Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis. By Stuart Feder. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 253. $39.95.) The author of this biography is a clinical professor of psychiatry with a Freudian bent and a flair for reconstructing...

Richard the Lionheart: King and Knight.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Richard the Lionheart" King and Knight. By Jean Flori. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. x, 450. $49.95.) The romantic figure Richard the Lionheart is one of England's most recognizable monarchs. A...

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. By Martin Gilbert. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. 314. $21.95.) Hershel Grynspan's assassination of a minor German diplomat in Paris sparked one of the plainest signals of the murderous...

What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. By Anthony Grafton. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 319. $23.99.) It goes without saying that historians are interested in knowing, remembering, and...

The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture. By D. M. Hadley. (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 298. $35.95.) In no area of Europe outside Scandinavia was the impact of the Viking Age more...

Einstein: His Life and Universe.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Einstein: His Life and Universe. By Walter Isaacson. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Pp. xxii, 675. $32.00.) Why, fifty-plus years after his death, is there another biography of Albert Einstein? There are at least two reasons:...

Ruling the Later Roman Empire.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Ruling the Later Roman Empire. By Christopher Kelly. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 341. $19.95.) The author has written an interesting and perhaps even an important book. However, its title is...

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev" Reformer, 1945-1964. Edited by Sergei Khrushchev. (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 2006. Pp. 865. $65.00.) Nikita Khrushchev's second volume of memoirs covers his rise to a major party leader from...

Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. By Donald G. Kyle. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. viii, 403. $32.95.) Gone are the days when scholars looked down on books about sports as frivolous or of marginal importance....

Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. By David Lawday. (New York, N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 386. $26.95.) The author of this biography of Talleyrand, France's leading diplomat during the revolutionary and...

North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and Identity.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and Identity. By Diana Newton. (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 2006. Pp. x, 214. $85.00.) Pleasingly, the author does more or less exactly what she promises in the title. She asks...

Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England. By Adrian Randall. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 354. $150.00.) The phrase "reading the Riot Act" continues in common parlance, generally divorced from...

Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities. By Timothy Reuter. Edited by Janet L. Nelson. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 483. $100.00.) This volume contains a collection of twenty-two papers, five previously...

To Have and To Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... To Have and To Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600. Edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte Jr. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 519. $75.00.) This collection of thirteen...

Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War. By Davide Rodogno. Translated by Adrian Belton. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 504. $99.00.) Readers of popular fiction or viewers...

Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe. By William Rosen. (New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, 2007. Pp. 367. $27.95.) As a longtime editor and publishing executive, the author of this book could have made his first book a...

Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. By Michael Sonenscher. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 415. $39.95.) This brilliant book offers a remarkably fresh...

Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg under the Nazis.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg under the Nazis. By Jill Stephenson. (New York, N.Y.: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. xvi, 512. $34.95.) How effective was the Hitler state at realizing the regimented "national community" of Nazi rhetoric?...

The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700. By Christopher Storrs. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 271. $110.00.) The years 1665-1700 have been customarily seen as the low point in the so-called "Decline of...

The Trojan War: A New History.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Trojan War: A New History. By Barry Strauss. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2007. Pp. xxii, 258. $26.00.) According to the publisher's announcement, this book is the first full military history of the Trojan War, a striking claim...

Catherine the Great.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Catherine the Great. By Michael Streeter. (London, England: Haus Publishing, 2007. Pp. 167. $15.95.) The "greats" Peter and Catherine, to the exclusion of all other Russian rulers, with the possible exception of the "terrible" Ivan, have...

Women in England in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Women in England in the Middle Ages. By Jennifer Ward. (New York, N.Y.: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. x, 283. $60.00.) Surveying medieval English women's experiences from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Reformation, this author divides her...

Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation. By Serhy Yekelchyk. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 280. $19.95.) In this one-volume history of Ukraine, the author primarily focuses on the modern era. He details the events...

History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965. By Theodor W. Adorno. (London, England: Polity Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 348. $24.95.) This is a most challenging and thought-provoking work. It was first published in German as Zur Lehre von der...

Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950. Edited by Fay Bound Alberti. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xxxiii, 196. $65.00.) This controversial book contains eight essays presented by medical historians, cultural historians,...

You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother. By Joyce Antler. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 321. $24.95.) "You never call! You never write!" With this amusing and ironic title, this book is...

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. By David Frankfurter. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 286. $19.77.) "Witchcraft" tends to be a catch-all word, embracing several...

Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. By Jonathan A. Grant. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 288. $49.50.) Some twenty years ago European historians began to integrate studies of...

The Spice Route: A History.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Spice Route: A History. By John Keay. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 288. $40.00.) A spate of fine books about spices has inexplicably been published recently, including Jack Turner's Spice, Michale...

A History of Human Beauty.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... A History of Human Beauty. By Arthur Marwick. (London, England: Hambledon, 2004. Pp. xi, 276. $24.95.) This study is the last book by the late, prolific British social historian Arthur Marwick, who seeks to understand how beauty "is...

Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy: Human Agency and the Making of Revolution in France, Russia, and Iran.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy: Human Agency and the Making of Revolution in France, Russia, and Iran. By Zhand Shakibi. (New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, 2007. Pp. 256. $74.95.) This work is a comparison of three major revolutions:...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(list of fraternity members)(List)
March 22, 2009... Adrian College (Omicron Tau) 28 October 2008: Amanda Henderson, Amanda Louise Liske, Andrew J. Salasek, Marcus Schwimmer, Matthew Stiller. Appalachian State University (Omicron Phi) 20 November 2008: Christina E. Bailey, Nathaniel...