The Historian articles from September 2008

The Historian archives from September 2008

Henry Le Waleys: London merchant and royal servant.(Biography)
September 22, 2008... PRIOR TO THE mid-thirteenth century, English rulers largely drew upon clerics, shire knights, and magnates to fill administrative and judicial assignments. This manpower pool was finite at the time when governmental administration expanded...

Controlling the butchers in late medieval English towns.(Report)
September 22, 2008... CONTRARY TO POPULAR belief, medieval municipal populations and governments took pains to improve their urban environments. Their efforts frequently focused on controlling the impact of butchers. In an era without refrigeration, the "meat" was...

Retaliatory raids as an accelerating factor leading to the six-day war.(Report)
September 22, 2008... IN THE THREE years preceding the Six-Day War of 1967, Israeli retaliatory raids against its Arab neighbors grew. Not only did the intensity of the raids increase, so did their severity. Retaliatory raids played a core role in Israel's strategy...

Ethnohistory: from inception to postmodernism and beyond.(Report)
September 22, 2008... IN 1954, ERMINIE WHEELER-VOEGELIN had no idea that the concept of ethno-history was to be so debated and, over time, so influential. That year, Wheeler-Voegelin, an anthropologist who trained under Alfred Kroeber, edited the first newsletter of...

"Fashion and Fabric: New Histories of Clothes Marketing in Modern Britain.".('Fashion for the People: A History of Clothing at Marks & Spencer' and 'The National Fabric: Fashion, Britishness, Globalization')(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Fashion for the People: A History of Clothing at Marks & Spencer. By Rachel Worth. (New York, N.Y.: Berg, 2007. Pp. xii, 155. $89.95.) The National Fabric: fashion, Britishness, Globalization. By Alison Goodrum. (New York, N.Y.: Berg,...

Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics. By Beth Baron. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 287. $24.95.) The disappearance of harem slavery in late Ottoman Egypt led the country's Turkish-speaking...

Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian--Muslim Conflict. By Alan G. Jamieson. (London, England: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. 256. $29.95.) There is an intrinsic contradiction built into this accessible and very readable book. The...

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya: 1900-1950.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya: 1900-1950. By Tabitha Kanogo. (London, England: James Curry; Nairobi, Kenya: EAEP; and Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 268. $24.95.) The author of this volume has written a most...

Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer. By Louise Barnett. (Lincoln, Neb.: Bison Books, 2006. Pp. xi, 540. $17.95.) This volume is a reprint of the original 1996 edition. The only modification is...

The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence. By Raymond J. Batvinis. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. ix, 332. $39.95.) After receiving his BA and MA in history, Raymond J. Batvinis joined the FBI, serving twenty-two of a...

Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone. By Alice Wondrak Biel. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. 186. $15.95.) In the popular imagination, Yellowstone National Park and...

Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States. Edited by Thomas J. Brown. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 246. $30.00.) In this new book on Reconstruction historiography, eight historians...

Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right. By Andrew E. Busch. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. x, 220. $35.00.) Conservative domination of American life may or may not be ending,...

State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America. By James Colgrove. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 332. $39.95.) Like many other topics in the history of health and illness,...

Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior. Edited by Daniel R. Coquillette and Neil Longly York. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 299. $40.00.) Students of the...

American Taxation, American Slavery.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... American Taxation, American Slavery. By Robin L. Einhorn. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 352. $35.00.) The reviewer will not pretend that this book is an easy read. Robin L. Einhorn has mastered the technicalities of...

Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings. By Joseph A. Fry. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Pp. xi, 198. $24.95.) A narrowly focused study can yield rich interpretive dividends. So it proves in this...

Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence. By Richard Halpern. (Chicago, Il1.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 201. $29.00.) In this provocative book, the author turns the sentimental, nostalgic Norman Rockwell into a knowing...

"I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. By Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xi, 206. $55.00.) This study is an exploration of the roots of Thomas Jefferson's...

The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. By Christopher E. Hendricks. (Knoxville, Tenn.: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 186. $36.00.) In Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote that Virginia had no...

The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush. By Dale R. Herspring. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xiii, 490. $45.00.) This impressive study explodes the simplistic assumption...

Post-Emancipation Race Relations in The Bahamas.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Post-Emancipation Race Relations in The Bahamas. By Whittington B. Johnson. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xii, 190. $59.95.) The author of this book sheds light on a critical, if ignored, transition in the...

The Songs that Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Songs that Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945. By John Bush Jones. (Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 338. $29.95.) In this volume, the author has written an exhaustive catalog of...

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence. By A. J. Langguth. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Pp. x, 482. $30.00.) Hundreds of books have been written about the War of 1812. Many have been informative but...

In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement. Edited by Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 390. $84.95.) How was the Black Panther Party organized? What...

The "Double Indemnity" Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and New York's Crime of the Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The "Double Indemnity" Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and New York's Crime of the Century. By Landis MacKellar. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2006. Pp. 411. $24.95.) Murder holds a fascination for popular writers and...

Andrew Carnegie.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Andrew Carnegie. By David Nasaw. (New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, 2006. Pp. 878. $35.00.) This accomplished historian and biographer has produced yet another fine piece of history and biography with this very scholarly and eminently...

The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era. By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 159. $29.95.) In this brief work, the author reinvigorates the debate over the...

Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. By Jim Newton. (New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, 2006. Pp. 624. $32.50.) In 1961, billboards funded by the conservative John Birch Society famously demanded the impeachment of Chief...

Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. By Justin Nordstrom. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 296. $30.00.) Progressive Era anti-Catholicism, the author...

Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy. By Steven J. Ramold. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 253. $32.00.) Much scholarship has been directed at the experience of African Americans...

In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law. By Joseph A. Ranney. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. Pp. x, 199. $49.95.) In the years following the Civil War, the South struggled with what we now...

Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Book)
September 22, 2008... Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Karen Sanchez-Eppler. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 260. $35.00.) In this book, the author provides a graceful and nuanced reading of...

Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush. By Richard T. Stillson. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 274. $55.00.) This detailed study of how gold rushers got information, assessed...

Significant Gestures: A History of American Sign Language.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Significant Gestures: A History of American Sign Language. By John Tabak. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. viii, 225. $44.95.) In the general historiography of U.S. deaf history, it is not common to see a monograph focusing...

If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Eric Robert Taylor. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 266. $45.00.) The author of this book refutes the persistent myth...

Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. By Jeff Taylor. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. 392. $44.95.) Why have the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party...

In this Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... In this Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860. By Edward Watts. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 275. $19.95.) This book is by an English professor who studies...

Judging Lincoln.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Judging Lincoln. By Frank J. Williams, with a Foreword by Harold Holzer and an Epilogue by John Y. Simon. (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 232. $17.95.) The author of this work wears several...

Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. By John Wills. (Reno, Nev.: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 244. $34.95.) The author of this book offers the first case study of opposition to the Pacific Gas and Electric...

The America That Reagan Built.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The America That Reagan Built. By J. David Woodard. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. xii, 282. $19.95.) This remarkable book is aptly titled. Author J. David Woodard argues that, beginning with the election of 1980, Ronald...

Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. By Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 399. $99.00.) This encyclopedic book is actually not a study of travelogues...

Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. By Cynthia J. Brokaw. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 673. $44.95.) Given its location "in the most isolated and impoverished...

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. By Benjamin A. Elman. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 308. $35.00.) Ever since Joseph Needham published his magnum opus in 1954, his name has become virtually synonymous...

War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005. By Franziska Seraphim. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 409. $49.95.) This is an excellent book that will be welcomed by scholars of recent Japanese history. The...

The Vikings.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Vikings. By Martin Arnold. (London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Pp. x, 244. $29.95.) The author of this book presents a concise and readable overview of an era of perennial interest: the Viking Age [c. 793 to 1070]. Martin...

Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich. By Keith Bird. (Annapolis, Md.: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2006. Pp. 282. $34.95.) It is odd that we have lacked a biography of Erich Raeder until now. As Germany's naval chief from 1928 to 1943,...

The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich. By Robert Citino. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 428. $34.95.) The reviewer was intrigued by the title of this book. As a historian of...

Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation. By Herbert J. Ellison. (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 313. $30.00.) As the book's title indicates, the author deals primarily with the role that Boris...

Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867. By R. J. W. Evans. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 337. $99.00.) Among contemporary Habsburgologists, the author of this book stands in a...

Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century. By Sean L. Field. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 288. $35.00.) Although this biography of Louis IX's younger sister...

Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. By Sheila Fitzpatrick. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 332. $24.95.) In this work, the author brings together nearly two decades of...

The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture. By Harriet I. Flower. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 400. $59.95.) For the Romans, "memory (memoria) was highly symbolic, not...

Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire. By Walter Goffart. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 372. $69.95.) The author of this book is no stranger to controversy. His Barbarians and...

The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue. By Matthew L. Jones. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 384. $27.50.) The history of mathematics used to be...

Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home. Edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich. Translated by Susan Carter Vogel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 521. $59.95.) This...

Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. Edited by Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. 310. $29.95.) The essays in this volume, which originated in a 1994...

The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments. By Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 309. $75.00.) This book is superb. The author explains how the siege of...

Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War against Napoleon.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War against Napoleon. By Kevin D. McCranie. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xv, 256. $59.95.) Born George Keith Elphinstone in 1746, the youngest surviving son of a debt-ridden...

Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together. By Josiah Ober. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 273. $29.95.) The 2,500th anniversary of Athenian democracy (or more accurately that of...

Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By Diana Robin. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi, 365. $45.00.) In this rich and important book, the author explores...

Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power. By Virginia Rounding. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xxv, 566. $29.95.) The literature about Catherine the Great and her age is exceptionally rich. On the empress herself historians...

The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914. By Brent Shannon. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 252. $49.95.) In his review of the 1846 Paris Salon, Charles Baudelaire pondered the state...

The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty. By J. H. Shennan. (London, England: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. x, 222. $34.95.) In this concise and elegantly written book, the author achieves the considerable feat of providing an informative...

Warhorse: Cavalry in Ancient Warfare.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Warhorse: Cavalry in Ancient Warfare. By Philip Sidnell. (London, England: Hambledon-Continuum, 2006. Pp. xi, 363. $34.95.) Modern writers overlook the significance of cavalry in the ancient world, viewing the modern horse soldier as a...

Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic. By Cindy Skach. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 151. $29.95.) The author of this study brings a welcome...

Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism. By Moshe Sluhovsky. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 374. $45.00.) This book is an impressive work of historical scholarship...

Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Maruska Svasek. (New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2006. Pp. vi, 234. $75.00.) Amid the steady stream of recently published studies on the consequences of the...

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age. By Robin Waterfield. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 248. $27.95.) Xenophon is back. After decades of neglect, the Athenian aristocrat and...

The Senses in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Senses in Late Medieval England. By Christopher Michael Woolgar. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 372. $40.00.) The author of this study asserts that sensory perception is cultural as well as physiological, and...

Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson, and T. Waldron. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 347. $99.00.) Many years ago, as a teaching assistant in medieval history, a part...

Arming the Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Arming the Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age. Edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 368. $35.00.) This set of essays, based on a conference held at the...

The Marketplace of Christianity.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Marketplace of Christianity. Edited by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hebert, and Robert D. Tollison. (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006. Pp. x, 355. $29.95.) This is an ambitious book, but also a...

Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. By Madeleine Ferrieres. Translated by Jody Gladding. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 399. $32.50.) Food fears and phobias have always been a part of the human...

The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science. By Daniel M. Gross. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. x, 194. $35.00.) The author of this book attempts to combat scientific,...

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. By Colin Kidd. (Cambridge, England: The University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 309. $27.99.) In this thoughtful inquiry, the author succeeds in his objective of...

A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike. By Colin Mason. (Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2006. Pp. x, 306. $24.95.) Unless people act now, the world is careening toward a "2030 spike," which the author defines as "the combined...

Remembering War: The Great War and Historical Memory in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Remembering War: The Great War and Historical Memory in the Twentieth Century. By Jay Winter. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 329. $35.00.) As Jay Winter has written and edited multiple works on the First World...

Phi Alpha Theta initiates.(List)
September 22, 2008... Adelphi University (Zeta Delta) 16 April 2008: Lorraine E. Alexis, Steven Benner, Daniel S. Burke, Sarah A. Carbone, Dominick A. Carillo, Michael T. Cataldo, Jennifer F. Cohen, Colin R. Cotter, Colleen Day, Jenna Hess, Heather Lyn Kaupke,...