The Historian articles from September 2005

The Historian archives from September 2005

James Monroe and John Adams: an unlikely "friendship".(Biography)
September 22, 2005... RECENT HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP on the political culture of the early United States has turned from analyzing ideologies and issues to examining the personalities and motivations of the first party leaders. Within a framework often termed the...

A romantic's Civil War: John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius".(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... IN 1996, the Civil War novel Gods and Generals was a bestseller. The book portrayed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a man full of peculiarities, from his plain uniform to his alleged penchant for habitually sucking on lemons in the...

Filling a vacuum: women's health information in Good Housekeeping's articles and advertisements, 1920-1965.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2005... FOR MEDICAL ADVICE and treatment, most eighteenth-century women relied on a network of folk wisdom passed through female neighbors, relatives, and local midwives. In the nineteenth century, many women supplemented these traditional sources with...

"[Not] a thin dime:" Kansas relief politics in the campaign of 1936.
September 22, 2005... AFTER FEDERAL RELIEF ADMINISTRATOR Harry Hopkins charged in 1935 that the state of Kansas had "not spent a thin dime" for its relief programs, this quote became an issue in the presidential campaign the following year. Kansas Governor Alf...

Poverty and purification: the politics of Gandhi's campaign for prohibition.(Essay)
September 22, 2005... THE ROLE OF MOHANDAS GANDHI in helping to bring about Indian independence is well documented. Less well known is Gandhi's commitment to temperance as an integral part of his vision for an independent India. A lifelong teetotaler, Gandhi helped...

"Regional variations in slavery".(The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation)(Slavery in the American Mountain South)(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 368, companion website. $80.00.) Slavery in the American Mountain South. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge:...

Saudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939-1953.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Saudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939-1953. By Shaft Aldamer. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 277. $49.50.) This study is a well-organized and clearly written revision of the author's doctoral dissertation in...

In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By Nelly Hanna. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 219. $19.95.) The middle class and the printed word have generated...

"The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... "The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. By Kairn A. Klieman. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 253. $26.00.) Westerners commonly think of Pygmies only as...

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919. By Robin F. Bachin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 434. $35.00.) In this thoroughly researched book that draws mainly on newspaper...

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser. (New York: Free Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 251. $26.00.) The youngest son of New York's vice-admiralty court judge and proprietor of...

The Real Fidel Castro.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Real Fidel Castro. By Leycester Coltman. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 335. $30.00.) Fidel Castro has outlived American presidents, Soviet premiers, and his biographers. Historian Robert Quirk and journalist Tad...

Washington's Crossing.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Washington's Crossing. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 564. $35.00.) This book is an optimistic, upbeat history of the early days of the American Revolution that changed into a fight for independence....

The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression. By Robert E. Gilbert. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. viii, 288. $67.95.) The author of this study argues that Calvin Coolidge was not the lazy and...

The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 195. $29.95.) Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and policymakers have been searching for a term to...

Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. By Keith P. Griffler. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvi, 169. $35.00.) The author's Front Line of Freedom is the...

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. By Allen C. Guelzo. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Pp. xiii, 332. $26.00.) About a decade ago, historian David Hackett Fischer published his fascinating study of one...

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. x, 363. $34.95.) In recent years, civil rights historians have turned their attention to...

Defining America through Immigration Policy.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Defining America through Immigration Policy. By Bill Ong Hing. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 324. $26.95.) The author of this book offers a challenging examination of immigration history and the use of immigration...

Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Casta Painting. Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By Ilona Katzew. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 242. $60.00.) Richly illustrated with some three hundred images, including dozens of full-page color...

The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Edited by Shawn Lay. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 230. $20.00.) Twelve years after it first appeared in print,...

Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England. By Anne S. Lombard. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 244. $45.00.) This book is an engaging exploration of the meaning of manhood to colonial New Englanders of...

Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 273. $24.95.) Using previously unknown population and production censuses discovered in...

Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. By Kevin J. McMahon. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x, 298. $20.00.) The year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's...

"Lest We Be Marshall'd": Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 1806-1812.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... "Lest We Be Marshall'd": Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 1806-1812. By Donald F. Melhorn, Jr. (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 291. $44.95.) Attorney Donald F. Melhorn, Jr. has published an impressive work that...

The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. By Richard S. Newman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 256. $18.95.) As the author of this study points out in the introduction,...

No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II. By Franklin Odo. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 328. $19.95.) The author of this study, who recently edited a wide-ranging sourcebook on Asian-American...

Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 328. $49.00.) Winfield Scott has been the subject of several excellent biographies in recent years, each taking a different...

Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919-1923.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919-1923. By Todd J. Pfannestiel. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. v, 189. $79.95.) Before this book appeared, few historians noticed that the Red...

Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. By David Price. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 426. $23.95.) In his book, the author, an anthropology professor, uses the...

Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina. By Kristin Ruggiero. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 244. $49.50.) In less than three decades, crime and disease have moved from...

Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. x, 38. $16.50.) This work explores not only the ways in which women in early America sought to "be good," but also the origins of moral...

Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City. By Patience A. Schell. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. Pp. 290. $50.00.) With the recent debates in Mexico over educational reform, this study speaks to both contemporary...

Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. By Andrew Shankman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. vii, 298. $34.95.) Over the last quarter century, historians...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court. Edited by Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. Pp. 271. $22.95.) Scholars continue to be fascinated with FDR's...

The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America. By William M. Shea. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 402. $35.00.) Published in a year when a Catholic challenged an Evangelical for the U.S. presidency, a...

The Life and Times of Mexico.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Life and Times of Mexico. By Earl Shorris. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. xviii, 743. $29.95.) Novelists, with their particular and peculiar perceptions, often provide much clarity, as well as drama, in their renditions of history....

Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 352. $22.50.) The author of this study has written extensively on American...

The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778. By Stephen R. Taaffe. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 336. $35.00.) The Philadelphia campaign of 1777-1778 did not win the Revolutionary War. Nor did it lose the war. And that is...

Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. By J. Samuel Walker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 303. $27.95.) No one has written a scholarly history of the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident in...

The Beecher Sisters.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Beecher Sisters. By Barbara A. White. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 399. $35.00.) This work is the latest addition to the rapidly growing historiography of the Beechers, the nineteenth-century American family of...

Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government. By Gary V. Wood. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. vii, 249. $70.00.) The major themes of John Quincy Adams's political career, this author contends,...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Penguin, 2004. Pp. ix, 286. $25.95.) The author of this study will not be remembered for writing the most books in his field--only the best ones. His Creation of the...

Maritime India.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Maritime India. By Holden Furber, Sinnappah Arasaramam, and Kenneth McPherson. With an introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 1074. $65.00.) This massive omnibus includes facsimile reprints of...

Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xii, 164. $39.95.) The Mongol world empire of the thirteenth century is one of the most challenging areas of historical study,...

Hinduism: Past and Present.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Hinduism: Past and Present. By Axel Michaels. Translated by Barbara Harshav. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 429. $19.95.) W. C. Smith began his lectures on Hinduism with the caveat that, in light of the tremendous...

The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. By Mark Ravina. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Pp. xvi, 265. $24.95.) This new biography of Saigo Takamori [1827-1877] will do much to help Americans understand not only...

Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China. By Ralph D. Sawyer. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. Pp. x, 445. $26.00.) The annals of premodern Chinese warfare are filled with examples of the use of fire and water to...

Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism Since 1750.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism Since 1750. By Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 390. $30.00.) The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the ways in...

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. By Robert Bartlett. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 168. $24.95.) Social historians have long demonstrated that the experiences of the...

Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience. By Susan Guettel Cole. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 292. $45.00.) Readers who are wary of a title that incorporates some of the trendiest...

Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium. By Gilbert Dagron. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 337. $75.00.) Gilbert Dagron may be the most distinguished Byzantine historian of...

The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century. By Catherine Epstein. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 322. $29.25.) This book provides a highly innovative insight into the pathology of twentieth-century...

The Coming of the Third Reich.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Coming of the Third Reich. By Richard J. Evans. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 622. $34.95.) As this reviewer tackled the first of the projected three volumes of Richard J. Evans's history of the Third Reich, he wondered...

Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938. By Carole Fink. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 448. $80.00.) In this exhaustively researched study, the author...

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus. By Owen Gingerich. (New York: Walker and Company, 2004. Pp. xii, 306. $25.00.) Early in his book, the author offers a "champagne dinner" to anybody who can identify the...

Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953. By Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 248. $35.00.) Josef Stalin hated those "who are frightened of soiling themselves" (171). Anyone...

Byzantium and the Crusades.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Byzantium and the Crusades. By Jonathan Harris. (London: Hambledon, 2003. Pp. xvii, 259. $29.95.) This volume is part of a series called "Crusader Worlds," intended to bring up-to-date scholarship to a wide reading public. Jonathan Harris...

Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War. By Jonathan Hart. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Pp. vi, 192. $59.95.) This study of Euro-American colonialism should be required reading...

The Nazi Conscience.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Nazi Conscience. By Claudia Koonz. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $29.95.) While many may regard Nazism and conscience to be mutually exclusive terms, this author argues that the racist anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler and...

The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831. By John P. LeDonne. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 261. $60.00.) This pithy analysis of Russia's imperial mission in its "growing years" of 1650-1831 is both maddening...

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths. By Mary Lefkowitz. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 288. $30.00.) This is an important book that emphasizes the centrality of the divine in ancient Greek...

Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii, 282. $79.95.) In many ways, this collection bookends Julia Walker's 1998 edited...

Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms. By Roger B. Manning. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 272. $72.00.) Everyone knows about the Military Revolution--that fundamental change in the early modern period in the...

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary 1750-1850.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 255. $39.95.) The rise of the bourgeoisie has been a historical stereotype since the...

The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany. Edited by Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 299. $60.00.) The editors of this book have assembled twelve articles,...

The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. Edited by Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 268. $65.00.) Ever since Michelet, as Owen Connelly...

The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. By Alex Owen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 355. $30.00.) Nineteenth-century England was an exciting and innovative place. This industrial...

The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle. By Anthony Read. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. 984. $34.95.) Written by the well-known British journalist and producer Anthony Read, The Devil's Disciples portrays Adolf Hitler's inner...

Solovki: The Story of Russia Told through Its Most Remarkable Islands.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Solovki: The Story of Russia Told through Its Most Remarkable Islands. By Roy R. Robson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 296. $30.00.) Among the most remote in the world, the Solovki Islands "nestle in a southern bay of...

Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790. By Julian Swann. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 460. $85.00.) After rehearsing the necessary but hoary debate about absolutism, the...

The Victorians.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Victorians. By A. N. Wilson. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xii, 724. $17.50.) This highly imaginative survey of nineteenth-century Britons and their empire has crossed the Atlantic at a bargain price bearing high critical praise...

Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. By Davis Baird. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 273. $65.00.) The author of this book, a philosopher, seeks to present a "materialist conception of...

The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War. By David Caute. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 788. $39.95.) The Dancer Defects is a fine, panoramic history of the cultural Cold War. The...

Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressive Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressive Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. By Kieran Egan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 204. $16.00.) This is an insightful, provocative, and highly...

The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. By Robert William Fogel. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 191. $23.99. In recent years, historians and economists have become...

War and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... War and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present. By Michael S. Neiberg. (New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 199. $27.95.) This new volume is a concise narrative survey of European wars in the twentieth century. As a textbook in a course on war...

The Global Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... The Global Eighteenth Century. Edited by Felicity A. Nussbaum. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 385. $55.00.) The editor of this volume of twenty-one essays describes the project as a contribution to "critical...

What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe. Edited by Stanley Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 292. $19.95.) The editors have made an exemplary...

Phi alpha theta initiates.
September 22, 2005... Abilene Christian University (Zeta Beta) 19 April 2005: Bethany Allen, Taylor Black, Michelle Finley, Christy Gower, Megan May, Kellen Morrow, Anthony Spear, Calli Turner, April Ward, Paige Weed. Adelphi University (Zeta Delta) 19 April...