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The Historian archives from September 2006
Exceptionalism and globalism: travel writers and the nineteenth--century American West.
September 22, 2006... SINCE THE PUBLICATION Of Edward Said's landmark study, Orientalism (1978), cultural historians have generally viewed travel writers within the theoretical contours of the postcolonial framework that Said helped construct. (1) Travel writers...
From persecution to toleration in the West Country, 1672-1692.(Protestant non-conformists)
September 22, 2006... SCHOLARS INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZE that religious toleration for Protestant Nonconformists developed in England only in 1719, although the Whigs repealed the 1711 Occasional Conformity Act and the 1714 Schism Act enacted by the Tories. (1) The...
Charles Booth, charity control, and the London churches, 1897-1903.
September 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION
BY 1897, CHARLES BOOTH, a Liverpool shipping magnate, philanthropist, and social scientist, had spent a considerable amount of money and more than a decade of his life studying the poor of late Victorian London. His...
Rutherford B. Hayes and the politics of discord.
September 22, 2006... KEEN STUDENTS OF THE GILDED AGE recognize that the bitter partisanship surrounding the presidency of George W. Bush presents nothing new in American politics. Unfortunately, comparatively few others do. This article examines the question of the...
Burning birth certificates and atomic tupperware parties: creating the antiabortion movement in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
September 22, 2006...
Where have all the children gone, long time passing;
Where have all the children gone, long time ago.
Where have all the children gone,
Doctors killed them, everyone.
When will we ever learn;
When will we ever learn....
Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War. Edited by Ibrahim Abdullah. (Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. Pp. v, 263. $29.95.)
After a decade-long civil war, whose media...
The Turks in World History.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Turks in World History. By Carter Vaughan Findley. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 300. $19.95.)
This five-chapter book (plus introduction and conclusion) is an original and masterful synthesis of the complex...
The Persians.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Persians. By Gene R. Garthwaite. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xvii, 311. $59.95.)
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, there has been a dearth of English-language historical publications on Iran, particularly at a level of...
Understanding Burckhardt: Principles and Contexts. Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Understanding Burckhardt: Principles and Contexts. Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought. By Richard Sigurdson. (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 279. $55.00.)
Five years after John Hinde's admirable...
The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War. By Mehran Kamrava. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 497. $24.95.)
The author of this book focuses on history and issues in the Middle...
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000. By James C. McCann. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 289. $27.95.)
The author of this book began his professional career as a specialist in...
The First Waco Horror.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The First Waco Horror. By Patricia Bernstein. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 252. $29.50.)
On 15 May 1916, in Waco, Texas, a mob of between ten thousand and fifteen thousand persons beat, hanged, and...
After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775-1800.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775-1800. By Jacqueline Barbara Carr. (Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 318. $40.00.)
Through this lively new book, the author makes an important contribution on...
Sir Walter: Walter Hagen and the Invention of Professional Golf.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Sir Walter: Walter Hagen and the Invention of Professional Golf. By Tom Clavin. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Pp. 384. $26.00.)
Walter Hagen was a central figure in the evolution of the modern sport celebrity. He, along with...
America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations since the Cold War.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations since the Cold War. By Warren I. Cohen. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 204. $21.95.)
In his latest book Warren I. Cohen, a distinguished historian of American-East Asian...
A Sailor's History of the United Sates Navy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A Sailor's History of the United Sates Navy. By Thomas J. Cutler. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 224. $27.95.)
Published in cooperation with the Naval Historical Center, this book is not history for its own sake...
European Metals in Native Hands: Rethinking Technological Change, 1640-1683.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... European Metals in Native Hands: Rethinking Technological Change, 1640-1683. By Kathleen L. Ehrhardt. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 253. $29.95.)
Archaeologists study material culture to learn about past...
Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City. By Thelma Wills Foote. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 334. $27.50.)
This is not an easy book to read and does not invite a quick...
West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... West of Emerson" The Design of Manifest Destiny. By Kris Fresonke. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 201. $19.95.)
Westward explorers of what would become the United States described and memorialized the...
Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x, 269. $39.00.)
I read much of this collection of biographies while my infant daughter napped in my arms,...
Environmentalism and the Government.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Environmentalism and the Government. By Richard P. Hammond and Thomas J. Curran. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. ix, 131. $19.50.)
The authors of this book provide the classroom teacher with a very brief supplementary...
The Whig Revival, 1808-1830.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Whig Revival, 1809-1830. By William Anthony Hay. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xiii, 235. $65.00.)
This author's new and excellent book on the Whigs of the period before the Great Reform Act offers political historians...
The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s. By J. David Hoeveler Jr. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Pp. vii, 225. $27.95.)
This work represents the latest reissue by Rowman & Littlefield of works that...
Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to Be An American.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to Be An American. Edited by Tamar Jacoby. (New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 2004. Pp. 335. $18.00.)
To what extent can the so-called "New Immigrants," those coming after...
"Don't Sleep with Stevens!": The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-80.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... "Don't Sleep with Stevens!"- The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-1980. By Timothy J. Minchin. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xvi, 239. $59.95.)
This author has written a...
From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965. By Jennifer Mittelstadt. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. $19.95.)
This book is a subtly argued and convincing...
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. By Jennifer L. Morgan. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 279. $19.95.)
There are many fine studies exploring slavery in the Atlantic world during...
Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 300. $45.00.)
This book joins a growing list of studies of the cultural meanings of...
Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America. By Fred Nadis. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 318. $26.95.)
This stimulating new work delves into Americans' evolving relationship with...
At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. By Russell B. Olwell. (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 165. $29.00.)
During World War II and the Cold War, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,...
When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after The White House.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after The White House. By Patricia O'Toole. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Pp. 494. $30.00.)
Theodore Roosevelt (TR) packed several lifetimes into his first fifty years. Ultimate politician,...
To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. By Louis A. Perez Jr. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 480. $39.95.)
Throughout the twentieth century, Cuban suicide rates were consistently ranked among the highest in...
Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy. By David Quigley. (New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. ix, 238. $14.00.)
This book's title reveals both its scope and interpretation. The author...
American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports. By Miriam G. Reumann. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 294. $49.95.)
Through this careful study of responses to the Kinsey...
Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 352. $24.95.)
In this book, the author examines how calendrical cycles, and how the 256-year may in...
Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad and the Rise of Public Domesticity. By Amy G. Richter. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $19.95.)
Unlike traditional scholars of railroads in...
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. By Gil Troy. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 417. $29.95.)
The year 1980 was a very different time in America. Mortgage rates had hit 20 percent. The country...
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program. By Margaret A. Weitekamp. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 232. $45.00.)
In July 1999, Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a Space...
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945. By Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 555. $29.95.)
This is a splendid book: large in conception, sweeping in scope, and engagingly...
Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. By O. Hugo Benavides. (Austin, Tex." University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 231. $50.00.)
National histories are inventions of the state and those who control it. In this book,...
Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. By Daniel V. Botsman. (Princeton, N.J.: University of Princeton Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 319. $35.00.)
The penal system and methods of punishment employed by any government have less to do...
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By David L. Howell. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. x, 261. $55.00.)
Few tropes have been used more widely by interpreters of early modern Japan than the...
Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship. By Liam C. Kelley. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. $45.00.)
In premodern times, China and Vietnam, two neighboring countries,...
Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. By Andrei Lankov. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 274. $48.00.)
The failure of the North Korean August Group's attempt in 1956 to "construct a more...
The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History. Edited by Norman G. Owen. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 541. $25.00.)
The distinctiveness of In Search of Southeast Asia [1971], of which this work is...
Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890. By Brian Platt. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. Pp. xii, 325. $45.00.)
The author's extensive use of primary sources, brisk narrative, and...
Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. By Gregory S. Aldrete. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 280. $49.95.)
Based on the observation that the Roman Empire is better understood as a web of urban nuclei...
Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71).(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71). By Hollis Clayson. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 485. $35.00.)
The Prussian siege of Paris in 1870-1871 was one of the most extraordinary moments...
Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. By Katherine Crawford. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 297. $49.95.)
This book has a theatrical title for a period of pomp and circumstance, when...
Napoleon: A Political Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Napoleon: A Political Life. By Steven Englund. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 575. $18.95.)
This biography of Napoleon is nightmarishly inaccurate as to details, but eminently readable, despite the author's love...
The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire. By James Allan Evans. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005. Pp. xxii, 178. $45.00.)
The author's purpose in writing this book and compiling key documents was to provide to the reader a clear,...
A Critical History of Early Rome.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A Critical History of Early Rome. By Gary Forsythe. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 400. $45.00.)
Context is all. Everything that happened, happened at some time; political events require personalities....
Masculinity, Autocracy, and the Russian University, 1804-1863.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Masculinity, Autocracy, and the Russian University, 1804-1863. By Rebecca Friedman. (Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. x, 195. $90.00.)
In this stimulating volume, the author focuses on how university life helped to mold...
National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia. By Benjamin Frommer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 387. $70.00.)
The author of this work has written a very interesting book on an...
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria. By Julia P. Gelardi. (New York, N.Y." St. Martin Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 457. $29.95.)
In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria became known as the...
Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. By Dagmar Herzog. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. i, 361. $29.95.)
This study is highly original, deeply researched, and lucidly written,...
The Victorians and Sport.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Victorians and Sport. By Mike Huggins. (London: Hambledon and London, 2004. Pp. xi, 318. $29.95.)
To undertake a project as comprehensive and demanding as The Victorians and Sport may seem to some to be a quixotic "mug's game," while...
Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690: Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690: Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas. By Clare Jackson. (Woodbridge, VA: Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 249. $85.00.)
For all the recent interest in early modern political thought across the British...
The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 1572-1661.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 1572-1661. By Alan James. (London: The Royal Historical Society, 2004. Pp. ix, 175. $70.00.)
In his Political Testament, Cardinal Richelieu advised Louis XIII that to achieve greatness he...
A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment. By Chris Lowney. (New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2005. Pp. 303. $26.00.)
One is immediately drawn to this absorbing study by its rather curious title. Was not the medieval era,...
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire. By Simon MacLean. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 262. $70.00.)
For a generation, scholars have reviewed,...
The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660-1740.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660-1740. By Soren Mentz. (Copenhagen, Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. Pp. 304. $16.95.)
Much research on the British Empire of late investigates the impact...
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Creation of the Modern German Army" General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930. By William Mulligan. (New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. 246. $70.00.)
General Walther Reinhardt's important role during the period...
Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds. By Darren Oldridge. (London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x, 198. $29.95.)
This book is as much about historical...
The Somme.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Somme. By Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 352. $35.00.)
The Somme campaign from July to November 1916 will always carry a special poignancy. In many ways, the Somme has become the...
Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States. By Ian Radforth. (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 469. $39.95.)
There was more to the 1860 visit of Queen Victoria's oldest...
War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. By Ben Shepard. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 300. $29.95.)
It is now generally accepted that Nazi Germany's eastern army (Ostheer) was deeply implicated...
Parliamentary Politics of a County and Its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Parliamentary Politics of a County and Its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth Century. By Susan Mitchell Sommers. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 218. $85.95.)
This valuable contribution to the...
When the King Took Flight.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... When the King Took Flight. By Timothy Tackett. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 270. $15.95.)
In the dead of night on 20 June 1791, King Louis XVI and his family slipped out of revolutionary Paris, hoping to reach the...
The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England. By Robert Tarule. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 155. $42.00.)
In this study, the author connects the everyday experiences of New...
Political Empiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Political Empiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population. By John A. Taylor. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005. Pp. x, 195. $84.95.)
The author of this book takes a long windup for his...
Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Cities of God. The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325. By Augustine Thompson. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 502. $65.00.)
This book proceeds from the premise that "the lived experience of...
The Trojan War.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Trojan War. By Carol G. Thomas and Craig Conant. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 209. $45.00.)
The very choice of the Trojan War as one of the subjects in this Greenwood series is a statement of ambiguous meaning. On...
Finding People in Early Greece.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Finding People in Early Greece. By Carol G. Thomas. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 154. $34.95.)
Delivered in 2002 at the University of Missouri, these lectures take "the current understanding of our means to...
Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time. By Stephen Baxter. (New York, N.Y.: Forge, 2004. Pp. vi, 246. $23.95.)
The Scot James Hutton [1726-1797], author of the remarkable Theory of the Earth [1788, expanded version...
The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times. By Max Born. (New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 235. $26.95.)
Fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein is a household name. By...
Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation. By Alan Gurney. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Pp. 307. $22.95.)
"For close to a thousand years the magnetic compass needle... was the seaman's guide across the seas and...
A Short History of Communism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... A Short History of Communism. By Robert Harvey. (New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. Pp. xvi, 422. $29.95.)
It astonishes that there exists no historiographical rubric of "communism studies." There are historical fields devoted to...
Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable. By Chester G. Hearn. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xiii, 280. $39.95.)
The story of the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable has been told often. It represents one...
Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century. By Michael A. Palmer. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 377. $29.9.5.)
In this work, the author sets out his conviction that the history of...
Phi alpha theta initiates.(Directory)
September 22, 2006... Abilene Christian University (Zeta Beta) 4 April 2006: Jessica Baber, Samantha Borgeson, D'Lynn Gage, Maridith Hollis, Kyle Law, Jenny Paxton, Steven Saffel, Erin Shilcutt, Adam Smith, Micah Walsleben.
Adelphi University (Zeta Delta) 19...