The Historian articles from September 1998

The Historian archives from September 1998

INTERVIEW WITH ASUNCION LAVRIN.(professor of history, Arizona State University)(Interview)
September 22, 1998... Born in Havana, Cuba, Asuncion Lavrin came to the United States in 1956. She received her master's degree from Radcliffe College and her doctorate from Harvard University. She has written and edited over 70 articles and books, both in English...

THE ORGANIZATION MAN GOES TO COLLEGE: AT&T's EXPERIMENT IN HUMANISTIC EDUCATION, 1953-1960.
September 22, 1998... In September 1953, a small group of promising young middle managers received a job reassignment from their AT&T corporate headquarters. Their relocation was not to another AT&T division but to the University of Pennsylvania, where they were to...

GERMAN COUNTERINSURGENCY POLICY IN INDEPENDENT CROATIA, 1941-1944.
September 22, 1998... With the recent wars in Bosnia and Croatia, the word "Balkan" has become a byword for ethnic extremism. Many who conflate the Balkans and ethnic extremism maintain that conflicts in the region emanate from age-old hatreds existing from time...

THE BUREAU OF HUMAN RIGHTS DURING THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION.
September 22, 1998... When James Earl Carter was elected president in 1976, he made it clear that one of his main initiatives would be a strong defense of human rights throughout the world. To this end, he initially enhanced the power and prestige of the Bureau of...

CHURCHILL AND THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPE.
September 22, 1998... Winston Churchill's call in 1945 for a "United States of Europe," a federation of European states to promote harmonious relations between nations, economic cooperation, and a sense of European identity, has caused him to be regarded as the...

HISTORIAN LOUIS M. HACKER'S "COINCIDENTAL CONVERSION" TO THE TRUTH.
September 22, 1998... The name Louis Morton Hacker (1899-1987) is rarely mentioned in discussions of major American historians. Yet this was not always the case. Indeed, Charles A. Beard, Hacker's mentor at Columbia University, believed Hacker's first monograph...

INSULAR VISIONS: CARTOGRAPHIC IMAGERY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
September 22, 1998... This year, 1998, marks the centennial of the Spanish-American War or, as Secretary of State John Hay called it, "that splendid little war." The war's events have long since evaporated from popular memory, leaving only a few images such as Teddy...

"REMEMBER THE MAINE, BOYS, AND THE PRICE OF THIS SUIT".(clothing and nationalism in the Spanish-American War of 1898)
September 22, 1998... Have we worked out our democracy in regard to clothes farther than in regard to anything else? Jane Addams, "The Subtle Problems of Charity"(1) What did dress have to do with democracy? In the late 1890s, Americans often confronted the...

Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii.(J.I. Staley Prize awarded to Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch)(Review)
September 22, 1998... Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. By Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 224, 202. $24.95 each.) Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch have been awarded the J....

Historical Ethnography.
September 22, 1998... Volume 1, Historical Ethnography. By Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 224, 202. $24.95 each.) Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch have been awarded the J. I. Staley Prize for 1998....

The Archaeology of History.
September 22, 1998... Volume 2, The Archaeology of History. By Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 224, 202. $24.95 each.) Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch have been awarded the J. I. Staley Prize for...

Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States.(Brund Brand Tolerance Prize awarded to Mark Nathan Cohen)(Review)
September 22, 1998... Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States. By Mark Nathan Cohen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. 325. $27.50.) Mark Nathan Cohen, Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New...

Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914.(Herbert Baxter Adams Prize awarded to Pieter M. Judson)
September 22, 1998... Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914. By Pieter M. Judson (University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 304. $49.50) Pieter M. Judson of Swarthmore College has...

State Power and Politics in South Africa, 1912-51.(Review)
September 22, 1998... State Power and Politics in South Africa, 1912-51. By Paul B. Rich. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 248. $59.95.) In the 1970s and 1980s, the Marxist paradigm increasingly pushed...

Apartheid's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Apartheid's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State. By Chris Alden. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 333. $69.95.) In the 1970s and 1980s, the Marxist...

Muslim Politics.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Muslim Politics. By Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 235. $39.50.) "Political Islam" has been the subject of many books in the past two decades. For the most part, these essays have...

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. By Mahmood Mamdani. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 337. $19.95.) Asserting that the structure of power in contemporary Africa was shaped...

Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society. Edited by Charles Melville. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996. Pp. xi, 426. $19.95.) This collection of articles is the result of the second round table on Safavid...

Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa. By Adell Patton, Jr. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Pp. 343. $49.95.) Medical professionalism, emerging only a few decades earlier in Europe and the Americas than...

The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period, 638-1099.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period, 638-1099. Edited by Joshua Prawer and Haggai Ben-Shammai. (Jerusalem and New York: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and New York University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 443. $75.00.) This volume constitutes...

From Slavery to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930.(Review)
September 22, 1998... From Slavery to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930. By Ibrahim K. Sundiata. (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 250. $47.50.) Africa's islands have long been of...

Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership. By Philip Abbott. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Pp. x, 281. $20.00.) Roughly stated, this book presents a theory of "belatedness" drawn from the literary critic, Harold...

After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal. By Kristi Andersen. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. 191. $13.95.) "Two men are talking about suffrage, and one worries about what...

First Generations: Women in Colonial America.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... First Generations: Women in Colonial America. By Carol Berkin. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. Pp. xiv, 234. $23.00.) This book is a useful and coherent survey of the scholarship concerning women in colonial and Revolutionary America. Its...

The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History. Ed. by Gabor S. Boritt and Norman O. Forness. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Pp. xxviii, 451. $16.95.) In 1984, historians celebrated the 175th anniversary of...

"The Sex Side of Life": Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education.(Review)
September 22, 1998... "The Sex Side of Life": Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education. By Constance M. Chen. (New York: The New Press, 1996. Pp. xxv, 374. $25.00.) Mary Ware Dennett, suffragist and birth control advocate,...

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City. By David T. Courtwright. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 357. $29.95.) In Violent Land, the author takes a long view...

National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, 1820-1847.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, 1820-1847. By Torcuato Di Tella. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 383. $55.00.) Historical studies of early national Mexico narrate the lives of generals and...

Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857. By Peter F. Guardino. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 319. $55.00.) This book is the most solidly researched monograph that this...

Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism. By Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, with an Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1996. Pp. xvii, 317. $15.00.) There is a renewed interest in Charles...

A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf By Kevin J. Hayes. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 216. $35.00.) The author of this interesting work has employed exhaustive research to prove a simple point: that women in colonial...

LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. By George C. Herring. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. 244. $19.95.) From a senior scholar on the Vietnam War, comes a new picture of President Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the war....

New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson.(Review)
September 22, 1998... New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson. By Jeffrey D. Hockett. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. Pp. x, 322. $26.95.) Between 1937 and 1945, Franklin Roosevelt...

Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968. By Michael H. Hunt. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. Pp. ix, 146. $18.00.) In Michael Hunt's graceful meditation and essay on the Vietnam War, the principal...

Beating Plowshares Into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Beating Plowshares Into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xi, 376. $39.95.) This work is but the first in a projected five volumes,...

The Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850. By Lester D. Langley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 374. $35.00.) The author, a prominent scholar of inter-American relations, has analyzed the revolutionary age in the...

From People's War to People's Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... From People's War to People's Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam. By Timothy J. Lomperis. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 440. $55.00.) Political scientist and...

Moral Opposition to Authoritarian Rule in Chile, 1973-90.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Moral Opposition to Authoritarian Rule in Chile, 1973-90. By Pamela Lowden. (In association with St. Anthony's College, Oxford). (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 216. $59.96.) Scholars have long debated the Catholic Church's...

Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. By William Lee Miller. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 577. $35.00.) The Gag Rule controversy makes for great narrative history. Samuel Flagg Bemis's account of...

Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People By Wayne D. Moore. (Princeton and Chichester, West Sussex: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 289. $39.50.) The first, and perhaps best, chapter of this book focuses on the case of...

Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation. By Deborah L. Norden. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. 242. $17.50.) "Argentina is the daughter of the sword, at the service of a great political...

The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800. By Conor Cruise O'Brien. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 367. $29.95.) O'Brien hates Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson not only keeps slaves but...

Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. 423. $39.95.) The author of this study believes that a certain parochial focus...

Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Banking, Politics and Social Structure.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Banking, Politics and Social Structure. By George David Rappaport. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 276. $37.50.) The author of this study asserts that...

From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film. By David Robinson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 213. $29.50.) The history of silent films has undergone an academic renaissance in the past decade. David...

Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad. By Randolph Paul Runyon. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. 224. $29.95.) The experiences of Delia Webster, as told by Randolph Runyon, shed interesting light on the workings of...

Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal. By David L. Stebenne. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 539. $45.00.) In this work, David L. Stebenne has written a thoughtful, even-handed, and meticulously researched assessment of...

Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. By Brenda E. Stevenson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 327. $35.00.) The author of this book has engaged in an impressive and daunting task in this...

Germans & Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Germans & Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic. By Walter Struve. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp xvi, 261. $18.95.) The author of this study sheds light on nineteenth-century German...

Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven. By James Tracy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 196. $10.95.) While a number of books have examined the history of radical pacifism within the...

Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Edited by Daniel H. Bays. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 483. $55.00.) This collection of twenty essays is a result of the seven- year (1985-1992)...

Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at the Empire's End.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at the Empire's End. By D. R. Howland. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 341. $22.95.) Using primarily nineteenth-century Chinese and Japanese sources, D. R....

Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200. By Xinru Liu. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 235. $22.95.) This volume enlarges upon the theme of the interaction between...

Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge. By H. Lyman Miller. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 370. $18.95.) The book under review explores the linkage between science and...

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine. By John K. Nelson. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 286. $17.50.) This work is occasionally charming as well as undeniably deeply disturbing. While this story is...

Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China 1919-1937.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China 1919-1937. By Jun Xing. (Bethlehem and London: Lehigh University Press and Associated University Presses, 1996. Pp. 238. $39.50.) In the history of...

Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945. Edited by Gunter Berghaus. (Providence, RI; Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. vi, 315. $24.50.) In a stimulating essay on...

The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802. By T. C. W. Blanning. (London and New York: Arnold, 1996. Pp. xvii, 286. $19.95.) This reviewer is pleased that the topic in question was researched and analyzed by someone as qualified as T. C. W....

Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775. By H. V. Bowen. (New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1996. Pp xiii, 257. $59.95.) H. V. Bowen has attempted a "work of synthesis" on the eighteenth-century...

Emperor and Exile: Wilhelm II, 1900-1941, vol 2.
September 22, 1998... Emperor and Exile: Wilhelm II, 1900-1941. Volume II. By Lamar Cecil. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 503. $39.95.) The past few years have witnessed a welcome resurgence of interest in the life,...

Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I. By Susan Doran. (London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xii, 279. $29.95.) In this study of Elizabeth's courtships, Susan Doran denies that from the beginning of her reign the queen...

Fascism: A History.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Fascism: A History. By Roger Eatwell. (New York: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 392. $34.95.) This book is an excellent comprehensive survey of both interwar and postwar fascisms in Italy, Germany, France, and Great Britain....

The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts. By Edward Grant. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 247. $17.95.) This masterful study affirms the...

Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 294. $59.95.) This conference volume presents fifteen essays on a historical theme of...

The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995. By Brian Harrison. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 618. $19.95.) As Brian Harrison observes, not many decades ago the British political system was the pride of the British and...

Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century. By Bridget Hill. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 278. $65.00.) Domestic service was second only to agriculture as a source of employment in eighteenth-century England. For women, it...

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775. By Steven Laurence Kaplan. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 580. $49.95.) "Peaceful uprising" is how Steven Laurence Kaplan terms the daily mobilization of...

Anne of Austria.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Anne of Austria. By Ruth Kleinman. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 350. $23.50.) What the general reader knows about Queen Anne of Austria, the wife of Louis XIII of France, has undoubtedly been gleaned from...

Fascism: Past, Present and Future.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Fascism: Past, Present and Future. By Walter Laqueur. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 263. $25.00.) The author of this study has been one of the most respected scholars of fascism for more than a generation. As a polymath,...

John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553. By David Loades. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 333. $80.00.) Since Henry VIII's son, Edward VI, did not live to maturity, his short reign was dominated by his regents, Protector...

Antwerp in the Age of the Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Antwerp in the Age of the Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 By Guido Marnef. Translated by J. C. Grayson. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 304. $48.50.) The...

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 285. $30.00.) This book is a long-delayed sequel to the much-acclaimed Russia's Road to the Cold War:...

British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars Through the Crimea.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars Through the Crimea. By Scott Hughes Myerly. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 293. $35.00.) In this fascinating study the author takes a behind-the-scenes look at the...

The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory. By Josiah Ober. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 212. $29.95.) This book has eleven chapters. The first, "Introduction: Athenian...

Athenian Religion: A History.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Athenian Religion: A History. By Robert Parker. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xxix, 370. $52.00.) In contrast to the archaeological, ritual, and literary studies of Greek and Athenian religion, the author of this book places Athenian...

A History of Fascism, 1914-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. By Stanley G. Payne. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 613. $39.95.) Following the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, demonstrators in various European cities displayed placards...

Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668. By Steven C. A. Pincus. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 506. $69.95.) One of the central concerns of the English in the...

King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England. By Colin Platt. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 262. $55.00.) This book places the Black Death in its late medieval context. The...

Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925-1941.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925-1941. By Roger R. Reese. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp xii, 267. $35.00.) This study of the pre-war Red Army mines the rich vein of material on social...

A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain.(Review)
September 22, 1998... A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain. By W.D. Rubinstein. (New York: Sr. Martin's Press, Inc., 1996. Pp. viii, 539. $49.95.) The first of a projected two-volume series on English-speaking Jews in modern...

The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War.
September 22, 1998... The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War. By Frederic J. Schwartz. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 262. $50.00.) For some time now, postmodernists have generated a vigorous cottage...

Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement. By M. L. R. Smith. (London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 265. $39.95.) This book is not a traditional political or military history of the Irish...

On About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World.(Review)
September 22, 1998... On About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World. By Peter Stansky. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. 289. $27.95.) Looking back from the vantage point of 1924, Virginia Woolf commented that "on or...

Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. Edited by Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 293. $16.95.) Margaret Creighton and...