The Historian articles from September 2007

The Historian archives from September 2007

Cultures of suicide?: Suicide verdicts and the "community" in thirteenth-and fourteenth-century England.(Report)
September 22, 2007... THE USE OF THE TERM "COMMUNITY" in historical studies continues to present problems for many medievalists. Myriad studies have emphasized the inadequacy of the term when describing medieval society. Microstudies of manors and villages,...

German Jewish intellectuals' diaspora in Turkey: 1933-55 (1).
September 22, 2007... THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF NAZI GERMANY prompted Jewish people to seek refuge in numerous places. Among the least known was Turkey, which welcomed highly educated emigres in the hopes of transforming Turkish higher education. These hopes were...

The old generation in (mid)Showa Japan: Hasegawa Nyozekan, Maruyama Masao, and postwar thought.(Country overview)
September 22, 2007... "THOUGH MORTIFYING IN THE EXTREME," Tokyo Imperial University law professor Yabe Teiji wrote in his diary on the day of Japan's surrender, "the Potsdam Declaration has been accepted, and with it, unconditional surrender. The time for endurance...

Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror. By Mia Bloom. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 251. $24.95.) The author of this book discusses the contemporary phenomenon of suicide terror, taking the phenomenon as one...

Islamic Imperialism: A History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Islamic Imperialism: A History. By Efraim Karsh. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $30.00.) At the core of historical Islam lies an imperial impulse that has manifested itself repeatedly. That is the central thesis of...

The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold. By Frank T. Kryza. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. xxv, 322. $25.95.) For Alexander Gordon Laing, intrepid Scotsman and zealous participant in the early...

Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. By Keith David Watenpaugh. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 325. $35.00.) This is an original study that should be...

Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East. By David R. Woodward. (Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95.) The author of this study has written an important and readable addition to the...

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. By Jonathan Alter. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Pp. xvi, 414. $29.95.) Jonathan Alter's narrative and reportorial gifts are on display in this compulsively...

Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts. By Michael J. Bazyler. (New York, N.Y., and London: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 410. $22.00.) In a quirk of World War II historiography, the full story of the...

Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. By Edward D. Berkowitz. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 296. $29.50.) For a decade or so after historian Peter Carroll wrote that in the 1970s...

"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... "Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values. By Bruce Braden. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2006. Pp. 258. $26.00.) This edited collection is a generally useful...

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. By David S. Brown. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 291. $27.50.) During the 1937 filming of the unfinished I, Claudius, lead actor Charles Laughton muttered "I...

Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Next to Godliness: Confronting Diet and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. By Daniel E. Burnstein. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 200. $38.00.) In this little book brimming with big ideas, the author seeks to...

Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. By Eric Burns. (New York, N.Y.: Public Affairs, 2006. Pp. ix, 467. $27.50.) This book is best described in pairs of adjectives: intriguing and...

The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. By Louis Chude-Sokei. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. i, 278. $22.95.) Since Eric Lott first exhaustively mined the considerable...

Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. By Joseph A. Conforti. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 236. $19.95.) The author of this book provides an overview of New England history in the...

Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar. By Matthew Dennis. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 338. $18.95.) History, professors remind their students, is alive; every generation interprets the past...

Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775. By Thomas A. Desjardin. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 240. $24.95.) Few American soldiers have experienced greater deprivation, misery, and despair...

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860. By Tom Downey. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 262. $49.95.) Historians have debated since the...

Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965. By Linda Eisenmann. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 280. $45.00.) Choosing the title for a book is a very important job. Because it is so important,...

Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy. By Paul D. Escott. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2006. Pp. xv, 215. $49.95.) It seems trite to observe that war changes societies and the individuals...

Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush. By Philip J. Funigiello. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. x, 395. $39.95.) Implacable opposition from effective interest groups, a government system...

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Edited, with an introduction, by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 375. $45.00.) The editor of this book delivers another good collection of...

American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. By Bruce L. Gardner. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 388. $27.95.) The twentieth century witnessed profound change in the nature...

Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule. By Michel Gobat. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 373. $23.95.) The author of this book discusses U.S. relations with Nicaragua from the mid-nineteenth...

Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder. By Donald R. Hickey and Connie D. Clark. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 177. $19.95.) Alexander Hamilton, after almost a century on the sidelines, is back...

Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950. Edited by Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 386. $89.95.) This edited volume focuses on how differing national and local political...

Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 483. $29.95.) Lately, Americanization seems expressed more by ethnicization than assimilation....

A Time of Paradox: America aince 1890.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890. By Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. Pp. xxxiii, 539. $32.95.) Long before America achieved preeminence among the world's civilizations in...

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. By David K. Johnson. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 277. $20.00.) The Red Scare has never lacked for attention, yet...

The Cleveland Indians.(The Cincinnati Reds)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Cleveland Indians. By Franklin Lewis. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 286. $18.00.) The Cincinnati Reds. By Lee Allen. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 315. $18.00.) In...

The Rhetorical Presidency of George H.W. Bush.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Edited by Martin J. Medhurst. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press, 2006. Pp. 207. $40.00.) There are four ways that presidents can earn a positive reputation in history: make...

The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 235. $19.95.) Based on the author's Nathan I. Huggins Lectures in 2004, this book focuses on...

Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico. By Mark Overmeyer-Velazquez. (Durham, N.C." Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 231. $22.95.) The dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz...

Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 270. $19.95.) Few topics have received more scholarly attention in recent years than the Creek Indians during the...

Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race. By Jennifer Ritterhouse. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $19.95.) This is a fascinating collection of "close encounters of...

The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000. By R. S. Rose. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 437. $28.00.) Brazilian history occurs on different levels played out in the form of a multitiered...

Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right. By Catherine E. Rymph. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 338. $24.95.) This author's well-researched book does...

How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 200. $29.95.) W. E. B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk [1903] and Gunnar Myrdall in American...

Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gregory E. Smoak. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 289. $44.95.) The author of this book, in his...

The War Complex: World War II in Our Time.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The War Complex: World War II in Our Time. By Marianna Torgovnick. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 209. $25.00.) This work is one of literary criticism rather than history, but it is worth the attention of...

"First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... "First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration. By Hans L. Trefousse. 'New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 199. $27.95.) Few figures in American memory either command the reverence or...

The Merchant of Power: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Merchant of Power: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis. By John F. Wasik. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x, 270. $24.95.) The final decades of the nineteenth century were probably the apogee...

Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began. By Sally Zanjani. (Reno, Nev.: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 222. $29.95.) Until now there has been no informative survey of Nevada's early decades as an American colony and territory, save...

Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China. Edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 539. $75.00.) There were two "print revolutions" in imperial China, one in...

Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930. By Gregory Clancey. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 331. $49.95.) This book demonstrates how powerfully cultural...

The History of Indonesia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The History of Indonesia. By Steven Drakeley. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 201. $45.00.) This is one of forty or so volumes in the publisher's series, which are advertised as being "engagingly written and succinct...

Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. By Dorothy Ko. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 332. $29.95.) When and where did footbinding originate, and why did it survive for...

The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. By Lydia H. Liu. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 318. $47.50.) Britain's attack on the sovereignty of China is arguably the most conflicted...

John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. By William Caferro. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 459. $35.00.) War, the preparation for war, and war's aftermath played a central role...

James V: The Personal Rule 1528-1542.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... James V: The Personal Rule 1528-1542. By Jamie Cameron. Edited by Norman Macdougall. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 378. $16.95.) James V is most often remembered--if he is at all--as Mary Stuart's father, dying...

Women, Men, & Spiritual Power: Female Saints & Their Male Collaborators.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Women, Men, & Spiritual Power: Female Saints & Their Male Collaborators. By John W. Coakley. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. ii, 354. $45.00.) In this book, the author studies narratives by men of the lives of nine...

Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. By Jean Dangler. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 218. $27.00.) In some respects, historians should approach this book with an open eye. One is not venturing...

Roman Britain: A New History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Roman Britain: A New History. By Guy de la Bedoyere. (New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Pp. 288. $39.95.) The period of Roman occupation in Britain lasted nearly four centuries. Scholars now believe that Rome's influence on Britain...

Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. By Richard L. DiNardo. (Lawrence, Karts.: Kansas University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $34.95.) Coalition warfare has always been difficult throughout history. Given the leaders of...

Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Edited by C. A. Faraone and L. K. McClure. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. x, 360. $65.00.) In 2002 the University of Wisconsin at Madison hosted a conference on...

Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century. By David A. Gerber. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 422. $55.00.) Based on the title of this...

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. By Peter Heather. (New York, N.Y." Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 572. $40.00.) Rome did not fall because of the negative impact of Christianity, as Gibbon...

Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. By Philip Mansel. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 237. $35.00.) In this engaging enquiry, the author examines how rulers have used clothing...

The Lena Goldfields Massacre & the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Lena Goldfields Massacre & the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State. By Michael Melancon. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. 238. $24.95.) This book has many pluses. It is well written and interesting. Very...

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. By Matthew Mulcahy. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 257. $45.00.) This is a timely book. As the impact of hurricanes challenges...

The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615).(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). By Eric Nelson. (Aldershot and Rome: Ashgate and Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesu, 2005. Pp. xiv, 275. $94.95.) On 29 December 1594, two days...

The Once and Future Budapest.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Once and Future Budapest. By Robert Nemes. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 247. $38.00.) Buda and Pest, two largely German-speaking towns divided by the Danube River, became not only the vortex of...

The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1889-1914.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1889-1914. By Michael E. Nolan. (New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. 141. $50.00.) In 1877 Jules Verne published a popular novel, The 500 Millions of the Begum, in...

The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. By Mary Sponberg Pedley. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 345. $40.00.) Cartographic history is not a crowded...

Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870. By Liza Picard. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 368. $29.95.) This book will be of interest to a wide audience, including scholars, students, and travelers. The author pays...

Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic. By Celia E. Schultz. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 248. $39.95.) The author of this book presents its central claim forthrightly in the introduction:...

Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789. By Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2003. Pp. 464. $52.00.) Stanley J. Stein, professor emeritus of Princeton...

London 1945: Life in the Debris of War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... London 1945: Life in the Debris of War. By Maureen Waller. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004. Pp. xi, 511. $16.95.) Britain's final payment on wartime loans from Canada and the United States late last year points to the legacy of...

The Person of the Millennium: The Unique Impact of Galileo on World History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Person of the Millennium: The Unique Impact of Galileo on World History. By Manfred Weidhorn. (New York, N.Y.: iUniverse, 2005. Pp. xiii, 161. $15.95.) In astronomy, Galileo Galilei [1564-1642] made crucial observational discoveries...

Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. By Norman Anderson. (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992. Pp. 407. $49.95.) Few would quarrel with this author's contention that "the Ferris wheel, perhaps more...

A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World. By Stephen R. Bown. (New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005. Pp. xiv, 272. $23.95.) An explosion has a certain finality to it. When the dust and smoke...

The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections From History of Woman Suffrage.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections From History of Woman Suffrage. Edited and with an introduction by Marl Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 468. $22.00.) For over fifty...

Chariot: From Chariot to Tank, The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Chariot: From Chariot to Tank, The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine. By Arthur Cotterell. (Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 2005. Pp. 344. $29.95.) This book is a detailed summary of how ancient civilizations...

Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in the Age of New Media. By Stephan Vaughn. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 314. $24.99.) Over the last two decades media scholars have increasingly turned their...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. By Odd Arne Westad. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 488. $35.00.) This study is a comprehensive, well-documented, and well-written history...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(Calendar)
September 22, 2007... Abilene Christian University (Zeta Beta) 12 April 2007: Paul Arrington, Cagney Branam, Brent Cofer, Steve Eilers, Lowell A. Johnston, Courtney Ketchersid, Andy Parker, Johanna Smallwood, Luke Truxal, Garrett Turner, Daniel Williams. ...