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The Historian archives from September 1999
INTERVIEW WITH CAROL GLUCK.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Born in New Jersey in 1941 and raised in Chicago, Gluck received her B.A. degree in philosophy at Wellesley College, her M.A. in East Asian Studies, and her Ph.D. in Japanese History at Columbia University. Since 1988, she has been the George...
JEFFERSONIAN IDEOLOGY AND THE SECOND PARTY SYSTEM.(Review)
September 22, 1999... From the demise in 1815 of Federalism, the political faction favoring a strong central government, to the rise of the slavery question in the 1850s, American political history was characterized by bitter partisan warfare on the part of the...
OVERT AND COVERT FUNCTIONS OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE XINHUA NEWS AGENCY, 1947-1984.
September 22, 1999... Hong Kong had been a British colony since 1842, but it received worldwide attention with its reversion to the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1 July 1997. With this reversion, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region with certain...
EMPRESS FREDERICK: THE LAST HOPE FOR A LIBERAL GERMANY?
September 22, 1999... Historians have long regarded Victoria (1840-1901), the British-born princess who took the name Empress Frederick after the death of her husband, Emperor Frederick III of Germany (1831-88), as a tragic figure. Her parents, Queen Victoria of...
THE LEGEND OF LOUIS BEAN: POLITICAL PROPHECY AND THE 1948 ELECTION.
September 22, 1999... Louis Bean's life spanned nearly a century, and his public career encompassed the entire New Deal/Fair Deal era. A pioneer in the field of political analysis and forecasting, Bean became a legend in his own time in November 1948 as the sole...
UNCONVENTIONAL ALLIES: COLONEL WILLIS EVERETT AND SS-OBERSTURMBANNFUEHRER JOACHIM PEIPER.
September 22, 1999... The shooting of American prisoners of war on 17 December 1944 by German SS troops became one of the most notorious atrocities of World War II. Under the command of SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (Lieutenant Colonel) Joachim Peiper, German soldiers...
WEDDINGS ON CONTESTED GROUNDS: SLAVE MARRIAGE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH.(Review)
September 22, 1999... On 26 December 1849, Thomas Chaplin went deer hunting with some friends, a trip that afforded him "a very pleasant time." More importantly, it afforded Chaplin a pretext for absenting Tombee, his 376-acre cotton plantation on St. Helena Island,...
Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
The winner of the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for 1999 is David...
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. By Louise Young. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.)
The 1999 John K. Fairbank Prize was awarded by the American Historical Association to Louise Young...
Nixon's Vietnam War.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey P. Kimball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998).
The Ohio Academy of History presented its outstanding publication prize for 1999 to Professor Jeffrey P. Kimball of Miami University. Kimball's...
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 497. $29.95.)
Through his scholarship and leadership, Ira Berlin has recast the way we conceive of the...
Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War. Edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 192. $49.95.)
Through his scholarship and...
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Boubacar Barry. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 358. $59.95.)
Based essentially on published sources, this book presents a history of the westernmost region of West Africa...
Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery. By Palmira Brummett. (New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. 285. $21.95.)
This book aims to change our perception of Ottoman history in the first decades...
Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa. By Ivan Evans. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 403. $55.00.)
Evans's book, unlike many recent studies of twentieth-century...
All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.(Review)
September 22, 1999... All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By Khaled Fahmy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 334. $59.95.)
Although the army has long been recognized as the centerpiece of Mehmed Ali's...
Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954. By Mary Ann Heiss. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 328. $19.50.)
The American sponsored coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed...
Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. Edited by James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 357. $18.50.)
The superbly researched and written contributions to Rethinking Nationalism...
Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire. By Osumaka Likaka. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 189. $47.95.)
Much of the writing about Africa's colonial period concerns diplomatic maneuvers in Europe or activities of...
The African Diaspora.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The African Diaspora. Edited by Alusine Jalloh and Stephen E. Maizlish. (Arlington: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 152. $24.95.)
The study of global diasporas is a growing academic field. Once considered the preserve of Jewish...
Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. By Ann O'Hear. (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. x, 338. $65.00.)
In this volume, the author critically examines patterns of resistance and...
The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era. By Albert Boime. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 363. $59.95.)
"I was astonished to learn," writes Albert Boime, "that the...
Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979. Edited by Jonathan C. Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 328.)
Since the early 1980s the North American historiography of Latin American workers has...
The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925. By Elisabeth S. Clemens. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 459. $19.95.)
The Populist and...
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth Century America.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth Century America. By Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 292. $37.50.)
Seldom do scholars find themselves...
Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924. By Roger Daniels. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997. Pp. xii, 179. $22.50.)
Roger Daniels has provided readers with a variety of important studies of immigration that reflect a depth...
The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Challenge of the American Past.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past. Edited by John Patrick Diggins. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. v, 309. $35.00.)
In The Liberal Persuasion, John P. Diggins attempts...
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. By Dinesh D'Souza. (New York: The Free Press, 1997. Pp. x, 292. $25.00.)
As the tenth anniversary of the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency is at hand, there is bound to be...
The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan. By Don E. Dumond. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 571. $57.50.)
This volume promises to supercede older histories of the Caste War of Yucatan and...
Confederate Military History on CD-ROM.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Confederate Military History on CD-ROM. Edited by Clement A. Evans. (Carmel, Ind.: Guild Press of Indiana, Inc., 1998. $39.95.)
Students of the Civil War are familiar with this multi-volume set, edited by Clement A. Evans of Georgia and...
Rethinking American Indian History.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rethinking American Indian History. Edited by Donald Fixico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Pp. x, 139. $16.95.)
This collection of essays on American Indian history features several prominent practitioners in this...
Wall Street: A History.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Wall Street: A History. By Charles R. Geisst. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 404. $30.00.)
The author of this study faced a daunting challenge--to write a one-volume history of the evolution of Wall Street from the 1790s to...
Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science. By James Gilbert. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 407. $28.95.)
This is a delightful book. It is full of wonderful stories, all historically accurate and, at...
Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. By Frederic W. Gleach. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 241. $55.00.)
The seventeenth-century indigenous leader, Powhatan, and his daughter, Pocahontas,...
Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South. By Kenneth S. Greenberg. (Princeton:...
Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. By Eric Hinderaker. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 299. $49.95.)
This comparative study of colonialism in the Ohio Valley examines the...
Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961. By Walter L. Hixson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 283, $45.00.)
Well-researched and lucid, Walter Hixson's new book is a welcome addition to a new kind of...
Plain Folk of the South Revisited.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Plain Folk of the South Revisited. Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 288. $55.00.)
When Frank L. Owsley, a historian at Vanderbilt University, delivered the Fleming...
Desertion During the Civil War.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Desertion During the Civil War. By Ella Lonn. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. v, 251. $12.00.)
A "primer" is a textbook that gives the first principles on any subject. Ella Lonn's Desertion in the Civil War is such a...
Public versus Private Power during the Truman Administration: A Study of Fair Deal Liberalism.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Public versus Private Power during the Truman Administration: A Study of Fair Deal Liberalism. By Phyllis Komarek de Luna. (New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xi, 253. $49.95.)
This study of the Truman administration's policy toward public...
Black Leadership.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Black Leadership. By Manning Marable. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 238. $27.95.)
Professor Marable's objective in bringing together these essays, most of which have been previously published, is to analyze the...
Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921. By Charles H. McCormick. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $37.50.)
America's national security state, with its emphasis...
American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest.(Review)
September 22, 1999... American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest. By Gregory H. Nobles. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. Pp. ix, 250. $13.00.)
In 1890, the Superintendent of the Census observed that the absence of remaining unsettled areas...
William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910.(Review)
September 22, 1999... William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910. By Ben Procter. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 263. $30.00.)
This book is the first of a promised two-part biography providing the fullest account of William Randolph...
Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire. By Lex Renda. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Pp. x, 258. $32.50.)
Since the 1960s, the "new political" historians have employed a plethora of...
How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights.(Review)
September 22, 1999... How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Belinda Robnett. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 256. $35.00.)
Belinda Robnett has given us a very useful and thought-provoking...
Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 376. $27.50.)
This imaginative, comparative study of New...
Indian Women of Early Mexico.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Indian Women of Early Mexico. Edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp. x, 486. $29.95.)
This volume is an excellent collection of essays on Indian women, which traces...
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade. By Jeff Shesol. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Pp. ix, 591. $32.50.)
Mutual Contempt reconstructs in copious detail the bitter feud between...
A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813.(Review)
September 22, 1999... A Signal Victory, The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813. By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T. Altoff. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $34.95.)
Ten years ago, at a conference designed to commemorate the 175th Anniversary of...
Early Daoist Scriptures.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Early Daoist Scriptures. By Stephen R. Bokenkamp. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 502. $50.00.)
This work is composed of the first-ever translations into English of several formative texts of the Daoist religious...
Gandhi: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Gandhi: A Life. By Yogesh Chadha. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. Pp. ix, 546. $30.00.)
This latest addition to the already long list of biographies on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi seeks to give readers a more balanced, "demythified"...
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947. By Ian Copland. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 302. $59.95.)
British India was not made of a single political fabric, but a patchwork of directly ruled...
Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. By Ranajit Guha. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 245. $18.95.)
This book brings together modified versions of three valuable essays published elsewhere...
The Japanese City.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Japanese City. Edited by P. P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997, Pp. ix, 250, $31.95.)
This book is a 10-chapter collection of essays about the problems faced by the contemporary Japanese city....
Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning, 1774-1873.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning, 1774-1873. By James Lee and Cameron Campbell, with contributions by Chris J. Myers and Yizhuang Ding. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp....
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. By Sow-Theng Leong. (Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 234. $45.00.)
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History grows out of years of research by the...
Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Margaret Aston and Colin Richmond. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 280. $65.00.)
These essays from a Cambridge conference held on the sexcentenary of the Lollard...
Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. By Robin Briggs. (New York: Viking Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 457. $32.50.)
Robin Briggs begins his study on early modern European witchcraft by addressing a...
Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century. By Youssef Cassis. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 277. $68.00.)
Youssef Cassis has undertaken a comparative study of the economic, social, and political...
Bolshevik Women.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Bolshevik Women. By Barbara Clements. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 338. $64.95.)
Subordination of women in the Russian Empire, together with its legacy of patriarchy and misogyny, continued into the Soviet era. This was...
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. By David Cressy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 641. $39.95.)
This superb book has been well over a decade in the making and has...
The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World. By Doyne Dawson. (Boulder, Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 203. $35.00.)
This book is a challenging, sophisticated "meditation" on the...
Women of the Twelfth Century: Volume I, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Women of the Twelfth Century. Volume I, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others. By Georges Duby. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 104. $45.00.)
Georges Duby (1919-1996), the eminent French scholar of...
Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation. By David Dutton. (London: Arnold, 1997. Pp. xiv, 576. $19.95.)
Throughout his political career, Anthony Eden showed great concern for his public image and historical reputation. His youthful good looks...
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815. By David Gates. (London, New York, Sydney, Auckland: Arnold, 1997. Pp. xx, 304. $59.95.)
Clausewitzian analysis has become de rigeur for modern strategic studies, but oddly enough, it is less often explicitly...
Holocaust Journey.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Holocaust Journey. By Martin Gilbert. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 406. $27.95.)
Holocaust Journey is the diary-like experiences of Martin Gilbert and his M.A. students on a 14-day trip to Holocaust-related sites in...
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers. By Anthony Grafton. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 237. $29.95.)
What a good read! In this book Anthony Grafton answers well and eloquently the...
On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler.(Review)
September 22, 1999... On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler. By Theodore S. Hamerow. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 442. $29.95.)
At first glance, one might wonder whether another...
The Romanians, 1774-1866.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Romanians, 1774-1866. By Keith Hitchins. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 337. $49.95.)
This admirable book is the very best kind of general history. Keith Hitchins is Romania's premier historian in the English-speaking world,...
The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580. By Caroline Litzenberger. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 218. $54.95.)
The author of this study has produced one of the best books on the English...
The Hitler of History.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Hitler of History. By John Lukacs. (New York: Knopf, 1997. Pp. xiv, 279. $26.00.)
Adolf Hitler has undoubtedly been the subject of more books than any other twentieth-century figure. John Lukacs, in this important work, has done both...
James IV.(Review)
September 22, 1999... James IV. By Norman MacDougall. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 339. IV. 16.99 [pounds sterling].)
The author of this study provides students of the late medieval period with an exceedingly well-researched, engagingly...
Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach. By S. P. MacKenzie. (London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. ix, 243. $75.00.)
This volume is informative and interesting, but ultimately unsatisfying. S. P. MacKenzie sets out to...
History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape.(Review)
September 22, 1999... History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape. By Emilio Sereni. Translated by R. Burr Litchfield. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xliv, 389. $16.95.)
The Italian Marxist historian, Emilio Sereni, died in 1971, aged 64....
Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948. By A. J. Sherman. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Pp. 264. $27.50.)
The author of this fine book was born in Palestine before World War II, but has lived most of his life in the...
Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. By David W. Tandy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 296. $45.00.)
David Tandy addresses the economic transformation of Greece, in the...
King George II and Queen Caroline.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... King George II and Queen Caroline. By John Van Der Kiste. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997. Pp. ix, 230. $31.95.)
It should come as no surprise when the promises so often and so predictably made on a book jacket fall somewhat short of...
Medieval Women in Their Communities.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Medieval Women in Their Communities. Edited by Diane Watt. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 250. $19.95.)
This slight, but solid, volume of essays was born as a set of conference papers in 1995. The essays are linked by...
Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620-1643.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620-1643. By Tom Webster. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 350. $64.95.)
The spirituality of early modern England's hot Protestants is a familiar...
The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria. By Richard Williams. (Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. Pp. 276. $68.95.)
The standard conception of Victoria's reign shows a linear...
The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order. By Robert Latham. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 281. $18.50.)
The author defines the "liberal moment" as that period roughly...
A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States. By Sheila Rowbotham. (London and New York: Viking, 1997. Pp. xiv, 753. $34.95.)
In A Century of Women, historian and feminist Sheila Rowbotham has produced a...
Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. By Leila J. Rupp. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 325. $19.95.)
It is tempting to assume that international intellectual communication began with the...