The Historian articles from September 2002

The Historian archives from September 2002

Out of fashion: Harriet Hemenway and the Audubon Society, 1896-1905.(Harriet Lawrence Hemenway's National Audubon Society)
September 22, 2002... IN 1896 Harriet Lawrence Hemenway, a wealthy, fashionable woman of Boston high society, launched a campaign for bird protection that would serve as the foundation for the modern National Audubon Society. With the aid of her cousin, Minna Hall,...

El Paso, a sight for sore eyes: medical and legal aspects of Syrian immigration, 1906-1907.
September 22, 2002... The Voyage to America is the Via Dolorosa of the emigrant; and the Port of Beirut, the verminous hostelries of Marseilles, the Island of Ellis in New York, are the three stations thereof. And if your hopes are not crucified at the third and...

Shattered windows, German spies, and zigzag trenches: World War I through the eyes of Richard Harding Davis.
September 22, 2002... WHEN THE GREAT WAR erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson urged Americans to maintain neutrality toward all combatant nations. However, a balancing act between neutrality and knowledge became increasingly tenuous with a flood of news reports...

Thirty-nine days and a wake-up: the impact of the indulgence and forty days service on the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218.
September 22, 2002... IN JUNE 1212, crusading forces commanded by Simon de Montfort had bogged down in a protracted siege before the castle and town of Penne d'Agenais in what is now southern France. Penne had been built under the auspices of Richard Lion-Heart in...

Nationalism, ethnic preoccupation, and the decline of German liberalism: a Silesian case study, 1898-1933.
September 22, 2002... I ON 5 MARCH 1933 political liberalism disappeared from Germany. As the election returns came in, it became clear that in little more than fourteen years, nineteen out of twenty liberal voters had defected to the Nazi Party. (1) In light...

More than nuts and bolts: technology and the German army, 1870-1945.
September 22, 2002... The relationship between technological innovation and military effectiveness in the modern Prussian/German army continues to generate more heat than light. On one side of the debate is a school of argument emphasizing material, from needle guns...

Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II. By Richard S. Wortman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. The American Historical Association presented its...

The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157. By Bernard F. Reilly. University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. The winner of the AHA's Premio del Rey Prize was Prof. Bernard E Reilly of Villanova University,...

A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History. By James A. Percoco. Port Melbourne: Heinemann, 1998. This year's James Harvey Robinson Prize was awarded to James A. Percoco of West Springfield High School (Virginia) for his...

"Lincoln: icon, talisman, touchstone".(Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory)(A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War)(On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. By Barry Schwartz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 367. $27.50.) A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. By Harry V. Jaffa. (Lanham,...

Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. By Stephen F. Cohen. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. Pp. xiv, 304. $21.95.) In this provocative book, the author argues that the misperceptions and...

A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio. By Charles C. Cole Jr. (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 200l. Pp. xii, 292. $45.00.) In 1812, Columbus became the third capital of Ohio. Like the location of...

No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Edited by Nancy F. Cott. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 646. $35.00.) In recent decades, historians of American women have explored the impact on...

Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Edited by Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 325. $17.95.) A decade ago, Gertrude...

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Edited and translated by Lawrence H. Feldman. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 269. $18.95.) Over the past two decades, independent...

Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, and the American Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, and the American Revolution. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 392. $30.00.) When referring to the time of "American Revolution," the author of...

Mutiny in the Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Mutiny in the Civil War. By Webb Garrison. (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2001. Pp. v, 310. $29.95.) Just when it appears the Civil War has nothing new to offer, an area surfaces that has existed since the war's end but has never...

Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. By Max Harris. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. x, 309. $55.00.) The multiple, complex connections between the cultures and societies of Spain...

Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery. By Keith P. Jacobi. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 383. $32.95.) In this important contribution to Maya studies, the author provides...

Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 386. $35.00.) To the challenge of leading Union armies in the Civil War, John A. McClernand, a...

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. By James W. Loewen. (New York: Touchstone Books, 1999. Pp. 467. $15.00.) Everyone who has traveled the United States has noticed the markers and monuments that dot the countryside....

Chile's Political Culture and Parties: An Anthropological Explanation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Chile's Political Culture and Parties: An Anthropological Explanation. By Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Ana Melick. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 161. $26.00.) This book argues that Chile's Radical Party and...

States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876. By Forrest McDonald. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xvii, 296. $29.95.) This author's past works have contributed greatly to our understanding of...

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. By Diane McWhorter. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. Pp. 701. $35.00.) It has been thirty-eight years since the Ku Klux Klan murdered four...

World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925. By James Moorhead. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 241. $29.95.) As I write this review, I sit a mere ten miles from the...

Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. By Bruce Nelson. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xliv, 388. $39.50.) The author has produced a landmark study of race and trade unionism in...

"Haughty Conquerors": Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... "Haughty Conquerors": Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763. By William R. Nester. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000. Pp. xiv, 296. $72.50.) The author of this book, a political scientist, has followed up his recent works...

Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. By Gunther Peck. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 293. $54.95.) In six beautifully written and deeply researched chapters, the...

On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. By Louis A. Perez Jr. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. ci, 579. $39.95.) In the last several years, historians have increasingly recognized that...

The American Presidents: Heroic Leadership From Kennedy to Clinton.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The American Presidents: Heroic Leadership From Kennedy to Clinton. By Jon Roper. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 246. $24.00.) If only John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated. According to Jon Roper, Kennedy's...

Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing. By Margarete Sandelowski. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 295. $19.95.) This fascinating monograph performs several tasks well. It...

Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man. By David F. Schmitz. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 222. $17.95.) As a young man, Henry Stimson experienced the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. As an old man, he...

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. By S. S. Schweber. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 260. $26.95.) The author of this book studied physics with J....

Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s. By Birgitte Soland. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 249. $35.00.) The author of this book tackles the issue of what it meant to young...

Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II. By Mark A. Stoler. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 380. $37.50.) An entire library has been...

Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991. By Sumit Guha. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 217. $59.95.) This is one of the very few longue duree histories of India to appear in recent years. Sumit Guha presents an...

Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China. By Victor S. Kaufman. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. 269. $34.95.) This book is primarily about Anglo-American bilateral relations in regard to both...

Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937. By Xin Zhang. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 320. $54.95.) The author of this study proposes a new approach to the...

From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages. By John Aberth. (New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xii, 304. $26.00.) In depicting the calamities of the fourteenth and fifteenth...

How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat. By Bevin Alexander. (New York: Crown Press, 2001. Pp. 352. $25.95.) The provocative thesis behind the title of this book is that Adolf Hitler could have won...

The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99. By Stuart Andrews. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 280. $65.00.) The author of this book contends that "the anti-Jacobin propaganda...

The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster. By Anthony Arthur. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 244. $14.95.) At the outset, the author indicates that he wrote this book not for specialists, but...

The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. By Robert Asprey. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. xxi, 580. $37.50.) Studies of Napoleon Bonaparte abound. During the last forty years alone there have been several significant biographies. Yet several of...

Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804. By Nigel Aston. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 435. $44.95.) In this work, the author, a distinguished historian of French religious history of the...

The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale. By Jan Bondeson. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 237. $45.00.) From 1788 to 1790, over fifty well-to-do and fashionable women alleged that the London Monster had...

The Normans.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Normans. By Marjorie Chibnall. (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Pp. xiii, 191. $26.95.) The Peoples of Europe series, to which this book is the latest addition, pursues the laudable, if difficult, goal of...

Hitler's Northern War: The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Hitler's Northern War: The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940-1945. By Adam R. A. Claasen. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 338. $39.95.) Those who think of Scandinavia as a sideshow in the story of World...

Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar Since 1698.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar Since 1698. By Anthony Cross. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 172. $54.95.) Hardly any figure in Russian history, medieval or modern,...

The Hunchback's Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Hunchback's Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922. By Alexander De Grand. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. Pp. x, 294. $69.95.) Giovanni Giolitti was rivaled...

A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. By Donald Denoon and Philippa Mein-Smith with Marivic Wyndham. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Pp. xiv, 523. $27.95.) Although remaining deeply skeptical of overarching...

The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul. By Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, and Bruce Masters. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 244. $59.95.) This is a tale of three cities, an...

The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period. Edited, with an introduction, by G. R. Evans. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Pp. xx, 383. $39.95.) The essays in this collection constitute an introductory...

Lying About History: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Lying About History: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial. By Richard J. Evans. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. 318. $27.00.) This insider's account of the lawsuit David Irving brought against Deborah Lipstadt, in which the...

Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918. By Christopher E. Forth. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. 238. $42.00.) Friedrich Nietzsche occupies an important place in French cultural life;...

Great Captains of Antiquity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Great Captains of Antiquity. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 242. $64.95.) Astute readers will expect an old-fashioned brand of history from the title of this book. They will not be...

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook. By David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson. (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Pp. xix, 440. $22.95.) The authors of this book have written the most important recent...

The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert Justin Goldstein. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. Pp. 280. $67.00.) The editor of this collection of essays has studied...

Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus. By Thomas Harrison. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 320. $74.00.) Herodotus's reputation as a serious historian has long been debated. C. A. Fornara, D. Lateiner, and J....

Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. By Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov. Documents compiled by L. Kosheleva, et al. Text preparation by Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov, and Sergei Zhuravlev. Translated by Thomas Hoisington...

A History of Polish Christianity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... A History of Polish Christianity. By Jerzy Kloczowski. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2.000. Pp. 385. $69.85.) Jerzy Kloczowski, a professor at the Catholic University of Lublin, is a prominent Polish medievalist and the doyen of...

Berlin.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Berlin. By David Clay Large. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. ix, 706. $40.00.) This big biography of Berlin combines German history with urban history, tales of international diplomacy with anecdotes from memoirs, and architectural and...

Canon Law and Cloistered Women: "Periculoso" and Its Commentators.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Canon Law and Cloistered Women: "Periculoso" and Its Commentators. By Elizabeth Makowski. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997. Pp. 149. $46.95.) This slim volume is a clear study of a single piece of papal...

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I. By John Mosier. (New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Pp. xiv, 381. $30.00.) The author of this book is a professor of English who teaches European literature and film and...

Occupation: The Ordeal of France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Occupation: The Ordeal of France. By Ian Ousby. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. 348. $18.95.) This book is a survey of the four-year occupation of France by Nazi Germany during World War II. The topic has been the focus of...

Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: The Treatment of Foreigners 1789-1799.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: The Treatment of Foreigners 1789-1799. By Michael Rapport. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. x, 382. $85.00.) Generations of students have learned that the French Revolution was a...

Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting. By J. P. Riley. (London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass Publishers, 2000. Pp. 480. $54.50.) An officer in the British army who commanded a battalion during the 1995...

The Greek Kingdom of Bactria: From Alexander to Eucratides the Great.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Greek Kingdom of Bactria: From Alexander to Eucratides the Great. By H. Sidky. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2000. Pp. xvi, 284. $47.50.) Set amidst an intriguing and striking context of East-West encounter in Asia, it is...

The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism, and the First World War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism, and the First World War. By Angela K. Smith. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 214. $74.95.) This new study traces the development of modernism in British women's...

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. By David Starkey. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi, 363. $27.50.) Public curiosity about Elizabeth I "of good memory" seems to be insatiable--witness the recent film, Elizabeth, in...

Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945-1990.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945-1990. By Raymond G. Stokes. (Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 260. $42.50.) In this book, the author makes use of official records...

The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870. By Victoria E. Thompson. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 229. $32.00.) This engaging analysis of the press, popular...

Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945. By Richard F. Wetzell. (Chapel Hill, N.C. and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. 348. $39.95.) It has long been argued that racial policy under the Nazis...

Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. By Bernd Widdig. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 277. $45.00.) In this work on "the cultural semiotics of inflation" in Germany's Weimar Republic, the author engages in...

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. By Susan Zuccotti. (New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 408. $29.95.) On the basis of her previously published and critically acclaimed works on the...

Honour and Violence.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Honour and Violence. By Anton Blok. (Cambridge: Polity Press and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Pp. xii, 358. $21.56.) The appearance of a new title by this author--a master of historical anthropology whose work includes studies...

Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century. By Richard Hough. (Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2001. Pp. 304. $29.95.) Through his study of fourteen sea battles, from Tsushima in 1905 to the Philippines in 1945, the late Richard...

After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. By Brian Stock. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. i, 132. $32.50.) Using the influential writing of Augustine, the author of this book examines the evolution in...

The Great War and the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... The Great War and the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jay Winter, Geoffrey Parker, and Mary R. Habeck. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 356. $30.00.) Unlike most collections, the present work happily marries specific...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.
September 22, 2002... Adelphi University (Zeta Delta) 23 April 2002: Timothy Jackson, Melissa Urquhart, Nicole Tropiano, Chanelle Tekaaho, Kevin Murphy, Kerri Kirschbaum, Melissa Graham, Meredith Douglass, John Fendt, Aline Etienne, Anthony Cona, Julie Chardavoyne,...