The Historian articles from September 2001

The Historian archives from September 2001

Interview with James H. Billington, Librarian of the Library of Congress.(Interview)
September 22, 2001... Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1929, James H. Billington received his bachelor's degree at Princeton and his doctorate at Oxford. A cultural and intellectual historian of Russia and Europe, Billington began his career teaching at Harvard...

Becoming an honorary civilized nation: remaking Japan's military image during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
September 22, 2001... The image of the Japanese military in the eyes of Western public opinion has changed dramatically since the forced opening of Japan by American Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854. At first, the West ridiculed Japan's cultural backwardness,...

Happy days and the civilian conservation corps in South Carolina, 1933-1942.
September 22, 2001... In March 1933, seeking an early solution to the economic and social distress of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent draft legislation to Congress for an emergency relief agency to accept unemployed, single young men...

A cautious balance: the question of Turkey in World War II.
September 22, 2001... In the spring of 1939, Ismet Inonu, who had succeeded Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as president of Turkey the previous November, said, "I see a new world war that is definite, inescapable and close." (1) Inonu believed that the Turks had nothing to...

The woman's department: maternalism and feminism in the Texas Medical Journal.
September 22, 2001... In 1912, a physician praised the Texas Medical Journal's newly established Woman's Department in a letter to the editor. "The department you are establishing... along this line, giving women good, wholesome knowledge without the taint of...

The "Hotels Loan Incubus" in late nineteenth-century Jamaica.
September 22, 2001... The hotel enterprise is undoubtedly in a mire, and the efforts of every patriotic Jamaican ought to be directed to the end of lifting it out of the mire and placing it on the highway of success. Jamaica Post, 23 December 1892 Among the...

Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseilles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseilles. By Daniel Lord Small. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.) The American Historical Association presented its prestigious Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for 2001...

Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.) Karen Ordahl Kupperman of New York University is the winner of this year's Prize in Atlantic History. The award is...

Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930. By Jose C. Moya. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.) Jose C. Moya's study of Spanish immigrants in Argentina's capital is the winner of no less than five...

Taking Us Out to the Ball Game: A Perspective on Current Baseball Scholarship.(More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History)(Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America's Game)(Past Time: Baseball as History)(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History. By David W. Anderson. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. xxvii, 271. $29.95.) Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the...

Imperialism: Decolonization and Africa.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Imperialism: Decolonization and Africa. Edited by Roy Bridges. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd./New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 213. $65.00.) In the early 1950s, John Hargreaves went to Sierra Leone to...

The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909. By Selim Deringil. (London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. 260. $59.50.) The reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), which this...

The Oxford History of Islam.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Oxford History of Islam. Edited by John L. Esposito. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 749. $34.97.) This volume surpasses all previous introductions to the spread, consolidation, and impact of Islam and Muslim culture on...

State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834. By Dina Rizk Khoury. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 253. $59.95.) Until the early 1980s, most scholarly writing on the Ottoman Empire tended to locus...

The War of 1812.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The War of 1812. By Henry B. Adams. Edited by Major H. A. DeWeerd, with an introduction by Colonel John R. Elting. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 1999. Pp. v, 377. $16.95.) A great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams,...

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. By Fred Anderson. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Pp. xxix, 862. $40.00.) This author has written a richly detailed account of the "French...

Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. By William Brashler. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. Pp. vii, 200. $14.95.) It says something about the publishing boom in baseball history--and perhaps the relative decline of American political...

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. By Saul Cornell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 327. $19.95.) This book is profound, persuasive, and a much-needed...

Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army. By Sarah Emma Edmonds. Edited, with an introduction, by Elizabeth Leonard. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 266. $18.00.) It is an...

The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. By Ronald Edsforth. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Pp. xii, 324. $22.95.) Few subjects have been given so much attention by historians as has the New Deal. The reader...

Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865. By Karen E. Fritz. (Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 173. $26.95.) In this study, the author employs rhetorical analysis to understand how Southerners...

How We Got Here: The 1970s, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life, For Better or Worse.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... How We Got Here: The 1970s, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse). By David Frum. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 418. $25.00.) Many have written about the 1960s, but few have tackled the 1970s. This...

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. By Charles R. Geisst. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 355. $30.00.) In this study, the author provides a readable,...

The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations since 1889.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations since 1889. By Mark T. Gilderhus. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2000. Pp. 282. $55.00.) The author of this book, a noted diplomatic historian, has written a careful synthesis of U.S.-Latin...

Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. (Kent, Ohio and London: Kent State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 496. $45.00.) The continuing parade of books highlighting...

In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Leon de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Leon de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution. By Peter V. N. Henderson. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000. Pp. xiii, 338. $55.00.) The pleasures of good biography are too often...

Lincoln Seen and Heard.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Lincoln Seen & Heard. By Harold Holzer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xi, 226. $29.95.) This is a collection often previously delivered or published lectures and articles, each with some revisions for this monograph. Six...

Philanthropic Foundations in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Philanthropic Foundations in the Twentieth Century. By Joseph Kiger. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. 232. $55.00.) The author of this study has spent decades accumulating information about American foundations, ever since 1952,...

Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma. By Vance R. Kincade Jr. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. Pp. 168. $55.00.) This study purports to examine the question of the so-called vice presidential dilemma, which asks why so few...

Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. (Kent, Ohio and London: Kent State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 386. $35.00.) "Political generals" were the bane of a professional soldier's life...

Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America. By Marc W. Kruman. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 223. $17.95.) Fortunately, Marc W. Kruman was waylaid during...

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II. By Daniel Kryder. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 301. $29.95.) Modifying Gunnar Myrdal's contention that war enhances black liberation and promotes...

Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. By Isabelle Lehuu. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 244. $17.95.) The antebellum period in the United States witnessed an explosion...

Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic. By Stuart Leibiger. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. x, 284. $35.00.) To a remarkable extent, political leaders of...

Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992. By William M. LeoGrande. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 773. $24.95.) The author of this book offers the most compelling and authoritative...

Yellowstone: The Reaction and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Yellowstone: The Reaction and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903. By Chris J. Magoc. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 266. $49.95.) There is a saying among local chambers of commerce and others in the...

Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest. By Jan Morris. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Pp. 205. $23.00.) This slender volume combines estimable travel writing with execrable history. A resident of Wales and a seasoned author of numerous...

Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption. By Stephen R. Niblo. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 1999. Pp. ix, 408. $55.00.) This book chronicles the decade of the 1940s in Mexico, when, to quote Mexican...

The Warren Court and American Politics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Warren Court and American Politics. By Lucas A. Powe Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 547. $35.00.) This book is a comprehensive history of the relationship between the Supreme Court and American politics...

Conflict in the South Cone: The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute with Chile, 1870-1902.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Conflict in the South Cone: The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute with Chile, 1870-1902. By George Rauch. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1999. Pp. viii, 229. $69.50.) Purportedly, this monograph seeks to demonstrate that...

Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson. By James H. Read. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. 201. $47.50.) This outrageously priced little book is simply one of the best books on...

The Sacred and the Secular University.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Sacred and the Secular University. By Jon H. Roberts and James Turner. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 184. $24.95.) Why did American universities, many of which developed out of religious colleges, become so...

Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Bold Dragoon: The Life of J. E. B. Stuart. By Emory M. Thomas. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 354. $15.95.) Originally published in 1986, Emory M. Thomas's biography of J. E. B. Stuart remains the authoritative work on...

The New Cambridge History of India: Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, vol. 3.5.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III.5, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. By David Arnold. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 234. $59.95.) The six chapters of this volume provide a compact...

Women and Property in China, 960-1949.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Women and Property in China, 960-1949. By Kathryn Bernhardt. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 236. $45.00.) In this study of women's property rights in China from the tenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, this author not...

Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China. Edited by Constance A. Cook and John S. Major. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 254. $59.00.) The nine contributors to this volume tackle an intriguing thesis: the...

Imperial China, 900-1800.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Imperial China, 900-1800. By F. W. Mote. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 1107. $39.95.) This is a massive volume, the product of a lifetime of massive scholarship. The title lends itself to double...

The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions. By Evelyn S. Rawski. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 481. $45.00.) Evelyn S. Rawski's newest work on China's last imperial...

Vietnam.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Vietnam. By Spencer Tucker. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pp. 244. $19.00.) As it is a general military history of Vietnam, this book would benefit from a subtitle emphasizing the twentieth century and the war with...

The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945. By Pierre Aycoberry. Translated by Janet Lloyd. (New York: The New Press, 1999. Pp. 380. $30.00.) In 1979, this author published La question nazie: Essai sur les interpretations du...

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. By Paul Cartledge. (New York: TV Books, 2000. Pp. 253. $26.00.) The story of the Greeks, and the Greek "miracle," is one that remains an abiding interest to students and general readers as we enter the...

Reflections on a Ravaged Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Reflections on a Ravaged Century. By Robert Conquest. (New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2000. Pp. xv, 298. $26.95.) After reviewing how totalitarian societies have (mis)developed and (mal)functioned in the twentieth century, this author...

Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension. By David Cressy. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 351. $35.00.) With mixed results, one of the top and most prolific...

The Isles: A History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Isles: A History. By Norman Davies. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 1,222. $45.00.) This lengthy book is a spirited, personal, revisionist, narrative history of the British Isles from prehistory to the present. Norman...

Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965. By Dennis Deletant. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 351. $55.00.) Having published two previous books on the history of communism in Romania, the...

Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940. By R. M. Douglas. (Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger Publishers, 1999. Pp. xi, 171. $55.00.) This short work is not, as it first appears, a story of British feminism and...

Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution. By William Doyle. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. x, 109. $11.95.) The intent of the Studies in European History series is to present...

Aristocratic Women in Medieval France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Edited by Theodore Evergates. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 272. $19.95.) The emergence of women's history in the past century has transformed our understanding of the...

Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919. By John Fisher. (London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. xvi, 282. $59.50.) This book is primarily a digest of Lord Curzon's thoughts and writings as well as his...

Joan of Arc: The Early Debate.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Joan of Arc: The Early Debate. By Deborah A. Fraioli. (Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2000. Pp. 235. $75.00.) In Joan of Arc: The Early Debate, Deborah Fraioli poses the question: "How did Joan of Arc's contemporaries view her?" She...

The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772. By Karin Friedrich. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 280. $64.95.) The author of this work has transformed her thesis into a monograph that focuses on...

The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. By J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvii, 635. $35.00.) This documentary history of the Soviet...

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. By Eliga H. Gould. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 262. $18.95.) At the heart of this compelling study of...

Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time. By A. James Gregor. (New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction Publishers, 1999. Pp. xiv, 204. $32.95.) In the 1960s and 1970s, political scientist A. James Gregor produced several important studies of...

Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power. By Fred Halliday. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 402. $19.95.) The end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism offer the author of this new...

The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest. By Peter Hanak. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 249. $50.00.) The author of this collection devoted much of his long and fruitful...

John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. By Deborah E. Harkness. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 252. $59.95.) Research on John Dee (1527-1608/09), the English polymath and...

Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion. By Julie Candler Hayes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 243. $64.95.) In her account of l'esprit systematique, the author of this book engages in the debate on...

Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis. By Jurgen Herbst. (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 234. $34.95.) This book is indeed a requiem for a past world, a time and place that the author...

Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans. By Eric A. Johnson. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xx, 636. $35.00.) This book investigates a question that is crucial to any attempt to comprehend the horror that was the Third...

A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville, 1712-1770.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville, 1712-1770. By Allen S. Johnson. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1997. Pp. xi, 353. $55.00.) More than any other British statesman, George Grenville set the...

From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990. By Rudy Koshar. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 352. $45.00.) Many scholars have characterized the tumultuous history of twentieth-century Germany as...

The Tragedy of Childbed Fever.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Tragedy of Childbed Fever. By Irvine Loudon. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 236. $65.00.) This book, a sequel to the author's popular work, Death in Childbirth, deals specifically with the history of puerperal fever....

A Concise History of the Crusades.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... A Concise History of the Crusades. By Thomas F. Madden. (Lanham, Md.: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999. Pp. xii, 249. $12.95.) To write a history of crusading in a single volume of fewer than 250 pages is a daunting enterprise. The very...

Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888. By John C. G. Rohl. Translated by Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 979. $74.95.) The weaknesses and faults of Germany's last emperor,...

European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918. Edited by Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 430. $64.95.) Elegant and authoritative, this...

For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh. By Frances A. Underhill. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. x, 221. $45.00.) Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, was a remarkable woman. Frances A. Underhill's new biography of the...

From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Takeover of the National People's (East Germany) Army by the Bundeswehr.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Takeover of the National People's (East Germany) Army by the Bundeswehr. By Frederick Zilian Jr. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1999. Pp. xv, 229. $57.95.) On 31 August 1994, the last Russian...

The Atlantic.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Atlantic. By Paul Butel. Translated by lain Hamilton Grant. (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii, 300. $65.00.) This study is part of a new series on the planet's major oceans and seas. One hopes the other oceans fare better...

She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea. By Joan Druett. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Pp. 304. $26.00.) There are not many seafaring hellions, heroes, or ship captains who happen to be female, and locating enough of them to...

Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today. By Scott Gordon. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 395. $59.95.) Scott Gordon, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics and of...

Empire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Empire. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 478. $35.00.) This study represents an ambitious analysis of a new concept of sovereignty represented by empire but without the...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
September 22, 2001... Alpha (University of Arkansas) A 24 April 2001: Lisa Beckenbaugh, Jim Bird, Aimee Crochet, Jessica Greene, Garrick Hildebrand, Rebecca Kastelberg, Karson Kuhlman, Kiley Lynch, Sarah Malloy, Susana...