The Historian articles from September 2004

The Historian archives from September 2004

Introduction: "what on earth has happened to the New Western History?".(frontier literature)
September 22, 2004... IN 1989 PATRICIA Nelson Limerick produced a one-page definition (a manifesto, some called it) of the New Western History in conjunction with the influential Trails: Toward a New Western History symposium. She defined the West as a region (the...

The social fabric of the American west.(ethnic history portrayals)
September 22, 2004... SINCE THE EARLY 1990s--and the appearance of several important overviews and manifestos in western and frontier history--there has been an impressive surge of high-quality historical scholarship. When I accepted David Wrobel's assignment to...

Water and the west in historical imagination: part two--a decade later.(frontier literature)
September 22, 2004... IN 1996 WHEN I (unbeknownst to me at the time) published what turned out to be the predecessor to this essay, I did so with a wee bit of apprehension. There were signs that an antiaridity school of western historiography might be in the...

"Chop! chop!": progress in the presentation of western visual history.(frontier literature and art)
September 22, 2004... DESPITE RECENT ATTEMPTS TO discard certain labels as misleading, market-driven contrivances reaching back to an earlier, formalist phase in art historical scholarship, the usage "western art" has proven resistant to change. J. Gray Sweeney, in...

In virtual search of The Spanish Borderlands.(frontier literature)
September 22, 2004... THE "SPANISH BORDERLANDS" as a term, a place, and a discipline has had a long history filled intermittently with both praise and criticism. To an "older" scholar of the American West, there is no doubt that the Spanish Borderlands as a concept...

Meeting places, intersections, crossroads, and borders: toward a complex western cultural history.(trends of frontier literature)
September 22, 2004... IN 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner set off a century-long definitional dilemma when he declared that the frontier was "the meeting point between savagery and civilization." Since that time, historians, journalists, novelists,...

Invisible no more: the place called Los Angeles.(geographical history)
September 22, 2004... PARTLY BECAUSE OF ITS geographical setting and Mediterranean climate, partly because of its size and concentrations of wealth and poverty, Los Angeles has been undervalued and misjudged. Los Angeles history has been practically invisible to...

American Indian history as a continuing story.(portrayals)
September 22, 2004... PHOTOGRAPHER EDWARD CURTIS entitled his most enduring photographic image "The Vanishing Race." In 1904 he had photographed a group of Navajos on horseback and believed it revealed a people "already shorn of their tribal strength, and stripped...

Empire and amnesia.(history)
September 22, 2004... IN LATE APRIL 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld formally released me from the burden of unrealistic expectations I had labored under for two decades. "We don't seek empires," Secretary Rumsfeld said, responding to the particular...

The future of western women's history.(portrayals)
September 22, 2004... BEGINNING IN THE LATE 1960s and early 1970s, historians of western women have revealed that this area of research is deep, complex, and fascinating. This is not to suggest that western women were ignored previously, but much stereotyping took...

Washington Irving's West.(literature based on American West (Historical region))
September 22, 2004... FOR MOST READERS the name Washington Irving summons up images of places like Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley. Sometimes known as the "Sage of Sunnyside," Irving filled his stories with characters like Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane....

Expanding the racial frontier.
September 22, 2004... EVER SINCE FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, some western historians have had a fondness for the federal census. I am one of them. The census of 2000, like that of 1890, says something especially interesting about the American people. The observation...

From wilderness to hybrid landscapes: the cultural turn in environmental history.(American West portrayals)
September 22, 2004... THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a special relationship between western history and environmental history. The reasons are relatively clear and not very complicated. Some flow from the kind of environmental determinism basic to early versions of western...

"Reinterpreting Indian history".(History and Beyond)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... History and Beyond. By Romila Thapar. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 490. $29.95.) This work consists of four books bound in a single volume: Interpreting Early India (188 pages), Time as a Metaphor of History (thirty-three...

One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church. By Richard Abanes. (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002, Pp. 651. $32.00.) The author of this hook offers a selective history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....

Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 409. $24.95.) Until recently, the typical picture of William Lloyd Garrison has...

Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. By Lloyd E. Ambrosius. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. 233. $24.95.) Good historians are a precious commodity, especially in an age when political...

The Death Penalty: An American History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Death Penalty: An American History. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 385. $29.95.) Historians largely have neglected the history of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner, a professor...

A Stroll with William James.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Stroll with William James. By Jacques Barzun. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $18.00.) William James once defined the humanities as the study of the masterpieces of geniuses, in any field of human...

The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiii, 174. $64.95.) One could either see the contents of this book as an ambitious treatise...

Comanche Society: Before the Reservation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Comanche Society: Before the Reservation. By Gerald Betty. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 239. $39.95.) The author of this study examines Comanche society from 1706, the generally accepted date of their...

Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty. By Helen Bryan. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002. Pp. xiv, 417. $30.00.) Although she married perhaps the most important man in American history, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington is a...

Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace. By Ira Chernus. (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 162. $14.95.) In this brief volume, the author examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's discourse as it relates to nuclear...

Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War. By Jack D. Coombe. (New York: Bantam Books, 2002. xv, 268. $23.95.) This book is a popular naval history of the American Civil War in the Atlantic. Author Jack D. Coombe is a...

Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. By Sharla M. Fett. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 290. $39.95. Historians of slavery in the United States have examined...

The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. By Linda Gordon. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 446. $34.95.) Myriad brilliant books and articles on the history of contraception...

Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. Edited by Annette Gordon-Reed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 234. $19.95.) This volume proceeds from the notion that cases give us insight into the culture of particular...

Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 220. $39.95.) This book is an insightful examination of a rather neglected...

That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. By D. G. Hart. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. ix, 246. $24.95.) The contrast between "old-time" and "modern" in the title of this book captures...

Jefferson Davis, Confederate President.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xix, 543. $39.95.) The authors of this book have assembled a tremendously valuable work that captures the...

A Companion to American Women's History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Companion to American Women's History. Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. xviii, 492. $124.95.) This volume is an excellent guide to recent work on women's history. Divided into three parts--"The Colonial...

George Washington: Uniting a Nation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... George Washington: Uniting a Nation. By Don Higginbotham. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Pp. xii, 173. $22.95.) This short, thoughtful work is not a biography, but rather an extended historical meditation on the...

FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address. By Davis W. Houck. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002, Pp. xii, 166. $29.95. In the spring of 1933, America was near the nadir of the Great Depression. It is hard to...

The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 300. $45.00.) This book enhances the reputation of the series in which it appears and fills a vital gap in the history of...

Empire City: New York through the Centuries.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Empire City: New York through the Centuries. Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 982. $39.95.) This volume is an anthology to be savored, but not in one continuous banquet....

Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History. By Angus McLaren. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 332. $35.00.) In 1997, Autumn Jackson attempted to blackmail comedian Bill Cosby, asking him for $40 million for not...

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. By Joanne Meyerowitz. (Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 363. $29.95.) This first monograph on the history of transsexuality in the United States examines...

Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990. By Sandra Morgen. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 284. $24.00.) This author's history of the women's health movement in America is...

Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. By Leonard L. Richards. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. x, 204. $24.95.) Every high school and college student learns that Shays's Rebellion was an...

Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia. By Todd L. Savitt. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 332. $18.95.) This important book is an extraordinarily comprehensive study...

Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time. By David J. Siemers. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 292. $55.00.) The author of this study examines the ratification process and the...

Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. By Joel H. Silbey. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Pp. xiv, 235. $35.00.) This brief biography is part of a series intended for the general reader....

Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution. By Harry M. Ward. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xii, 329. $49.95.) The author of this book has had a long and distinguished career. His first book, written over forty years ago--on...

The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict.(The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conflict, vol. 1)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict. By Thomas L. Whigham. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00.) The Paraguayan or Triple Appliance War of 1865-1870 became the most prolonged...

Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War. By Keith P. Wilson. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 336. $39.00.) There is a rich literature concerning black soldiers in the Union Army during...

Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools. By Jonathan Zimmerman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 307. $42.95.) The furor that followed the publication of the ill-fated national history standards reminded us that...

The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. By R. J. Barendse. (Armonk, NY, and London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvi, 588. $34.95.) To paraphrase the French Annaliste Le Roy Ladurie, there are truffle...

Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and Renewal.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and Renewal. By Lee Butler. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. Pp. viii, 412. $39.50. This study of the imperial court during the Sengoku and early...

Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab. By Anshu Malhotra. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 231. $35.00.) The central theme of recent South Asian feminist historiography has been the...

Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. By Susan Naquin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxxvi, 816. $80.00.) Peking has been the capital of China more or less continuously since 1403 when the Ming dynasty, which had...

Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1919-1941.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1919-1941. By Sophie Quinn-Judge. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 356. $39.95.) Part of the endless fascination with Ho Chi Minh's career lies in the elusive nature of Ho's...

National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956. By David Brandenberger. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 378. $49.95.) Historians have long observed that...

Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime, and Deviance in Scotland since 1400.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime, and Deviance in Scotland since 1400. Edited by Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson. (Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 212. $23.95.) This volume will be a welcome addition to the shelves of gender,...

Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion. By Philip Conner. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. Pp. xiv, 257. $84.95.) Histories of the Reformation in France usually focus on what took...

Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. By Laura Lee Downs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 411. $74.95.) The author of this book has taken the important...

This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia. By Christopher Ely. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 278. $42.00.) Overtly, this elegant study takes the reader into the rather esoteric...

A Brief History of Heresy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Brief History of Heresy. By G. R. Evans. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. 195. $17.95.) In this short work, the author tackles the issue of heresy. The focus of this study, as one might expect, is Christian heresy, and in particular,...

Literature and the Irish Famine, 1845-1919.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Literature and the Irish Famine, 1845-1919. By Melissa Fegan. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. x, 281. $49.95.) The 1990s saw a flood of publications on the Irish Great Famine of 1845-49, reflecting a widespread sense that the greatest...

Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. By Alan Forrest. (London: Hambledon and London, 2002. Pp. xv, 248. $29.95.) This author's most recent contribution to the field of Revolutionary and Napoleonic military history...

The Great Armies of Antiquity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Great Armies of Antiquity. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxi, 430. $59.95.) This ambitious book traces the development of military technology, theory, and practice from the Bronze Age until the fall...

Humour, History, and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Humour, History, and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Guy Halsall. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 208. $50.00.) This collection of essays, which is unlikely to cause the reader to...

Napoleon: His Wives and Women.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Napoleon: His Wives and Women. By Christopher Hibbert. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2002. Pp. xvii, 381. $27.95.) This is a work of popular biography by a professional writer who already has numerous biographies to his name. It is...

Paris: Capital of the World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paris: Capital of the World. By Patrice Higonnet. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 493. $35.00.) In an evocative journey through modern Paris from the...

The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius & Laughter in Literary London, 1817.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius & Laughter in Literary London, 1817. By Penelope Hughes-Hallett. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xvi, 336. $27.50.) This book revolves around a single dinner given by the painter Benjamin...

Peter the Great: A Biography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter the Great: A Biography. By Lindsey Hughes. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 285. $29.95.) As the third of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's sons to reach adulthood, Peter the Great (1672-1725) was not destined...

La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. By Donald S. Johnson. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 262. $26.95.) The last several years have seen the publication of a number of new biographies of classic...

Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350-1500. By Kathleen Kamerick. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xii, 292. $69.95.) The subtitle of this volume provides the best indication of its...

Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. By John Lukacs. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 202. $21.95.) The author of the best-selling Five Days in London, May 1940 and many other excellent books on World War II leaders...

Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I. By Albert Palazzo. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 239. $18.95.) Despite shortcomings, this study should find a...

Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion. By Luc Racaut. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2002. Pp. xiv, 161. $74.95.) This book attempts to reassess the role of Catholic propaganda...

The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701. By Guy Rowlands. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxv, 404. $70.00.) Louis XIV's long reign saw nearly constant warfare; France...

A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By Margaret H. B. Sanderson. (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 244. $26.95.) When one imagines sixteenth-century Scotland, what comes to mind is likely informed by the...

Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rebellion, Community, and Custom in Early Modern Germany. By Norbert Schindler. Translated by Pamela E. Selwyn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 311. $75.00.) One can forgive the author of this study for sounding...

The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth. By Diana Spencer. (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 277. $79.95.) The figure of Alexander has intrigued writers and captivated the popular imagination since the time of his death...

Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia. By E. Anthony Swift. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 346. $49.95.) In their historical effort to incorporate "the people" into the comprehensive...

Fashion Under the Occupation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Fashion Under the Occupation. By Dominique Veillon. Translated by Miriam Kochan. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. Pp. xi, 205. $22.50.) This fine translation of the second edition of La Mode sous l'Occupation (2001, first edition in 1990)...

The Carolingian Economy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Carolingian Economy. By Adriaan Verhulst. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 160. $50.00.) Scholars have long debated whether the Carolingian period (ca. AD 750-900) marked the nadir or a new beginning for western European...

Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity. By Brian Vick. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 283. $49.95.) It seems likely that a typical member of a nationalist movement in Europe in...

Preaching during the English Reformation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Preaching during the English Reformation. By Susan Wabuda. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 203. $55.00.) This well-researched volume is a welcome contribution to the study of early modern English...

Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900. By Lydia Wevers. (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 234. $24.95.) In March 1809, readers of the Sydney Gazette learned of the capture and killing of passengers...

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871-1914.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871-1914. By Terence Zuber. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $72.00.) For most of the last half-century, historians of the First World War and its...

Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man. By Michael Boulter. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 210. $26.00.) This volume can be read as a somewhat racy introduction to the biological history of the last five hundred...

Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. By Shehong Chen. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 239. $39.95.) In recent years, scholars in Asian American history have turned their attention to the concept of...

Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. By Mark Hulliung. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 250. $39.95.) Political theorist Mark Hulliung's comparison of liberal and republican traditions...