The Historian articles from September 2000

The Historian archives from September 2000

INTERVIEW WITH SARA MARGARET EVANS.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... Born in 1943 in South Carolina, Evans graduated from high school in Dallas, Texas, and received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Duke University and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She began teaching at the...

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY'S REACTIONS TO THE JOHN DEMJANJUK TRIALS.
September 22, 2000... In September 1993, accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk stepped off the small private plane at the tiny Medina, Ohio, airport, about 20 miles from Akron. Demjanjuk's most recent journey had taken him from Israel back to the United States,...

GRUB STREET COMMERCE: ADVERTISEMENTS AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH PRESS.
September 22, 2000... In mid-May 1689 James Welwood, Scottish-born physician and polemicist for the dual monarchs William III and Mary II, inaugurated a popular journal of opinion, Mercurius Reformatus or the New Observator. Dr. Welwood's periodical was only one...

NO IDLE PAST: USES OF HISTORY IN THE 1830 INDIAN REMOVAL DEBATES.
September 22, 2000... In April and May 1830, heated debates occurred in Congress over whether to remove the Cherokee Indians from certain sections of Georgia and resettle them further west, in what would become Oklahoma. Numerous accounts exist examining the events...

A FOOT IN EACH SPHERE: CHRISTINE FREDERICK AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY ADVERTISING.
September 22, 2000... The American advertiser has taught the American housewife to think constructively of her job.(1) Christine Frederick, 1929 As we enter the twenty-first century, Martha Stewart's web page proclaims her multi-million-dollar company,...

THE BRITISH AT WEIHAIWEI: A CASE STUDY IN THE IRRATIONALITY OF EMPIRE.
September 22, 2000... The grand spectacle of Britain's return of Hong Kong, its colony since the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997 served to dramatize to a global audience the end of imperialism in its most overt political form. Beginning...

FDR, LEWIS DOUGLAS, AND THE RAW DEAL.(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
September 22, 2000... "Despite my emotions, I could not refuse the responsibility which has been offered; for in times like these, even more so than in times of war, individuals cease to be significant. Only the common welfare is important," explained Lewis Douglas...

The Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World. By Jeremy Adelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.) The Historian's own regional sub-editor for Latin American history, Professor Jeremy...

Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. By Joseph Harsh. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.) The Museum of the Confederacy has awarded its 1999 Jefferson Davis Award to...

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.) The American Historical Association has presented the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize...

The Pity of War.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Pity of War. By Niall Ferguson. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. x1iii, 563. $30.00.) This book, which has received a good deal of public attention, is hard to assess fairly. The generous space allotted to this review could all be...

Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco. By Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 166. $49.95.) This study opens a previously hidden chapter of the social...

Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. By R. Stephen Humphreys. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 297. $29.95.) "People know a lot of things that aren't so" (174)....

Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth-Century West Central Africa.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth-Century West Central Africa. By Colleen Kriger. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heineman, 1999. Pp. xxi, 261. $59.95.) This book seeks to address a number of hotly contested issues in central African history...

Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People. By David Maxwell. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xii, 292. $59.95.) This study explores how the Hwesa people have created and recreated communities during the...

The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. By John K. Thornton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.50.) In the midst of the civil wars that racked the African...

Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People. By Thomas A. Abercrombie. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 603. $27.00.) This is a vast, appealing, and methodologically exciting book....

Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. $32.50.) With two quantitative explorations of Maryland history behind her,...

Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920. By Stephen Bell. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 292. $55.00.) The process of agricultural modernization is an important issue that is well worth careful,...

Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865. By William Blair. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 206. $32.50.) The author of this book has provided readers of Civil War...

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 377. $29.95.) The author of this study has brought together a significant amount of evidence...

Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800. Edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1998. Pp. xv, 484. $24.95.) Students of Latin...

John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War.(Review)
September 22, 2000... John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 331. $45.00.) The cartoonesque seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, designed in 1629 before settlement...

The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828. By Evan Cornog. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 224. $29.95.) Evan Cornog has offered up a finely wrought biography of DeWitt Clinton (2 March...

The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-1890.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-1890. By John M. Coward. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 244. $39.95.) While the stereotyping of Native Americans continues to be a topic of heated...

Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939. By Sandra McGee Deutsch. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 491. $60.00.) For generations, Latin American historians have been concerned to...

A Young Man's Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860-1929.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Young Man's Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860-1929. By George Emery and J. C. Herbert Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 184....

Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. By Mark Fiege. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 340. $35.00.) This is an important book about Western irrigation and the unintended...

Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 240. $34.95.) Since the mid-1970s, social and cultural historians have...

The Antietam Campaign.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Antietam Campaign. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 335. $32.50.) This nicely crafted collection of 10 essays, like the previous five volumes in this impressive series, offers...

The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. By Gustavo Gorriti. Translated, with an introduction, by Robin Kirk. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 290. $60.00.) Originally published in...

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 354. $49.95.) This study is an attempt to challenge the validity of both the California and...

A Shining Thread of Hope: A History of Black Women in America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Shining Thread of Hope: A History of Black Women in America. By Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson. (New York: Broadway Books, 1998. Pp. 355. $27.50.) This book is the first comprehensive historical text to chronicle the varied...

Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. Foreword by Fernando Coronil. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xv,...

Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America. By Peter Karsten. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 490. $55.00.) The author of this book challenges the prevailing economic-oriented...

The Oxford History of the United States. Volume IX, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Oxford History of the United States. Volume IX, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. By David M. Kennedy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 936. $39.95.) When C. Vann Woodward and...

A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic. Edited by Donald R. Kennon. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1999. Pp. xiv, 583....

Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900. By Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 345. $18.95.) In this fine monograph, the author counters historiographic trends...

"A Few Acres of Snow": The Saga of the French and Indian Wars.(Review)
September 22, 2000... "A Few Acres of Snow": The Saga of the French and Indian Wars. By Robert Leckie. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 385. $30.00.) This is an odd book. At first appearances, it offers a grand synthesis of the four...

For La Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces of Latin America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... For La Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces of Latin America. By Brian Loveman. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1999. Pp. xxvii, 331. $60.00.) This study is a significant addition to the literature on the armed forces in...

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate, 1789-1990.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate, 1789-1990. By Joseph Martin Hernon. (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. x, 251.) In 1957, Senator John E Kennedy of Massachusetts won the Pulitzer Prize in...

The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire. By Susan Niles. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. Pp. x-viii, 336. $49.95.) Anthropologist Susan A. Niles defines the purpose of this work as, "a way to...

The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900. By Frank Ninkovich. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 320. $27.50.) A sequel to Modernity and Power (1994), this book emphasizes the importance of Wilsonianism in the...

Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present. By Michael D. Pearlman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xii, 441. $45.00.) Many authors have written about an "American style" of...

Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. By Vincent C. Peloso. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 251. $17.95.) This book is a detailed historical analysis of...

The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. By Stephen G. Rabe. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 257. $17.95.) With the publication of...

George F. Kennan's Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist.(Review)
September 22, 2000... George F. Kennan's Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist. By Richard L. Russell. (Westport and London: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 178. $55.00.) The author of this book has taken on the daunting task of explicating...

The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Edited by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 258. $18.95.) When Indiana...

Private Wealth & Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Private Wealth & Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. By Judith Sealander. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 349. $39.95.)...

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation.(Review)
September 22, 2000... From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. By Amy Dru Stanley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 268. $54.95.) This book examines the ideology of contract in...

Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877. By David O. Stowell. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 181. $15.00.) In this short and thoroughly researched book, which is accessible to general and academic...

Noble Abstractions: American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Noble Abstractions: American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II. By Frank A. Warren. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 256. $40.00.) In this solid and reasonable book, the author covers the activities of left-wing...

The Japan Experience: A Short History of Japan.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Japan Experience: A Short History of Japan. By W. G. Beasley. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 299. $27.50.) The Japan Experience is a work for educated nonspecialists. The author's succinct...

A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665. By Charlotte Furth. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 355. $45.00.) A culmination of the author's 17 years of path-breaking research...

The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms. Edited by Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 451. $55.00.) Anyone concerned about contemporary China wonders about the impact of the post-Mao...

European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India.(Review)
September 22, 2000... European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. By Om Prakash. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 377. $54.95.) The goal of The New Cambridge History of India, to offer comprehensive, synthetic monographs on...

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. By Joanna Waley-Cohen. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Pp. ix, 322. $24.95.) The author of this book sets out to shatter the myth that China throughout the...

Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. Edited by Mayfair Meihui Yang. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 375. $19.95.) This collection of essays grew out of a conference in...

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. By Yitzhad Arad. (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. 437. $18.95.) Originally published in 1987, it stands to reason that this book no longer represents the...

Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945. By Earl R. Beck. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pg. xi, 252. $18.00.) In 1939, Reich Air Marshal Hermann Goring brashly declared that he would change his name to...

Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. By Daphne Berdahl. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 294. $16.95.) Daphne Berdahl's account of a small town, based on her University of...

The Kingdom of the Hittites.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Kingdom of the Hittites. By Trevor Bryce. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 464. $60.00.) From around 1800 to around 1175 B.C., the Hittite kingdom, located in what is now central Turkey, was one of the major powers of the...

Henry VIII's Conservative Scholar: Bishop John Stokesley and the Divorce, Royal Supremacy and Doctrinal Reform.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Henry VIII's Conservative Scholar: Bishop John Stokesley and the Divorce, Royal Supremacy and Doctrinal Reform. By Andrew A. Chibi. (Bern: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 204. $33.95.) There is no doubt that the oldest Protestant and Whig...

Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football. By Tony Collins. (London and Portland, Oreg: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998. Pp. xix, 273. $49.50.) The author of this book has done a great service to the field...

Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914. By Stephen E Frank. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 352. $55.00.) Sophisticated and encyclopedic, this study of crime and...

A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700-1998.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700-1998. By W. Hamish Fraser. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 291. $55.00.) The author of this book provides a succinct and clearly written narrative of the past three centuries of British...

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England. Edited by Susan Frye and Karen Robinson. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 350. $60.00.) Men's alliances in early modern...

French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War.(Review)
September 22, 2000... French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. By Jane F. Fulcher. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 291. $60.00.) The author of this book has set out to place musicology into...

Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. By Jane F. Gardner. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 305. $85.00.) With the expertise and thoroughness that has come to be expected of her, Jane Gardner presents a convincing analysis of the...

Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. By David M. Glantz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. x, 419, $39.95.) For the duration of the Cold War, Western accounts of World War II's...

The Glass Beads of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 400-700: A Preliminary Visual Classification of the More Definitive and Diagnostic Types.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Glass Beads of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 400-700: A Preliminary Visual Classification of the More Definitive and Diagnostic Types. By Margaret Guido. Edited by Martin Welch. With contributions by Justine Bayley, Julian Henderson, and Martin...

Medieval Crime and Social Control.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Medieval Crime and Social Control. Edited by Barbara H. Hanawalt and David Wallace. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 259. $49.95.) These essays on late medieval crime and social control focus on...

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Law and Empire in Late Antiquity. By Jill Harries. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 235. $59.95.) Few scholars come with more impressive credentials than those of Jill Harries to the indomitable task of unraveling the...

Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies. By Jeffrey Herf. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 527. $17.95.) The increased accessibility of former East German archival holdings during the 1990s made...

Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. By Don Herzog. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 545. $29.95.) Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century efforts to keep the lower orders in check have been the subject of a...

A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville (1712-1770).(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville (1712-1770). By Allen S. Johnson. (Lanham, N.Y. and London: University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Pp. xi, 353. $55.00.) George Grenville, prime minister of Britain from...

A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. By H. C. Erik Midelfort. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 438. $55.00.) This book's title does not do justice to its contents. Rather than a narrative history, it is a...

Women in the Holocaust.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Women in the Holocaust. Edited by Dalia Ofer and Leonore J. Weitzman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 402. $15.95.) This essay collection brings together historians, literary critics, sociologists, writers, and...

Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1306.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1306. By Fiona Watson. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1998. Pp. xxix, 255. 14.99 [pounds sterling].) The achievement of devolution for Scotland encourages historians to clarify past...

Political Theories of International Relations.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Political Theories of International Relations. By David Boucher. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 443. $24.95.) One occasionally hears the lament that the philosophy of international relations is a discipline without a...

Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962. By Zachary Karabell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. 248. $37.50.) The author of this study treats seven attempts by...

The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II. By Robert J. McMahon. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 276. $45.00.) The author of this book tells the story of "the dramatic rise and...

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxxviii, 707. $32.50.) How significant was the defeat of Burgoyne's redcoats at Saratoga in 1777? This was the...

Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Edited, with an introduction, by Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, and Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 404....