Book Reviews
2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 66; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1540-6563.2004.00098.x
ISSN1540-6563
Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoReview Essay“On Their Own and Against All Odds: Women Creating the Civil Rights Movement”Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter. By Winson Hudson and Constance Curry. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xi, 150. $26.95.)Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. By Catherine Fosl. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. ix, 418. $35.00.) Reviewed by Belinda Robnett University of California, IrvineAfrica and the Middle EastWho Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? By William G. Dever. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. xii, 268. $25.00.) Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Zorn Cornell UniversityThe Nation and Its “New” Women: The Palestinian Women’s Movement, 1920–1948. By Ellen Fleischmann. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 335. $29.95.) Reviewed by Ylana N. Miller Duke UniversityThe AmericasChinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–1882. By Najia Aarim‐Heriot. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 289. $39.95.) Reviewed by Krystyn R. Moon Georgia State UniversityThe First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903. By Roger I. Abrams. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 195. $26.95.) Reviewed by John P. Rossi La Salle UniversityA Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. By Lizabeth Cohen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. 567. $35.00.) Reviewed by Kathy Peiss University of PennsylvaniaThe Modern American Presidency. By Lewis L. Gould. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003, Pp. vii, 309. $24.95.) Reviewed by Charles W. Dunn Grove City CollegeBeyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Ann Hagedorn. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. Pp. xvi, 333. $25.00.) Reviewed by Stanley Harrold South Carolina State UniversityLeadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong‐ni. By Kenneth E. Hamburger. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 257. $32.95.) Reviewed by James I. Matray California State University, ChicoSubversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865. By Stanley Harrold. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 280. $24.95.) Reviewed by Stacey Robertson Bradley UniversityMortal Remains: Death in Early America. Edited, and with an introduction, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burnstein. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 253. $18.95.) Reviewed by Donna Merwick Australian National UniversityThe Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. By Frank Lambert. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $29.95.) Reviewed by H. Jefferson Powell Duke UniversityA Murder in Virginia. By Suzanne Lebsock. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. 418. $25.95.) Reviewed by Richard F. Hamm University at Albany, SUNYThe Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois. By Gerald Leonard. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 328. $45.00.) Reviewed by Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph’s UniversityMexican Highland Cultures: Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacán, Calpulalpan, and Chalchicomula in 1934–1935. By Sigvald Linné, with a foreword by Staffan Brunius and an introduction by George L. Cowgill. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 229. $34.95.) Reviewed by Philip Swanson University of AberdeenRepublic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $29.95.) Reviewed by George D. Rappaport Wagner CollegeAmerican Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700–1865. By Kathleen D. McCarthy. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 319. $35.00.) Reviewed by Benjamin H. Newcomb Texas Tech UniversityFranklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court‐Packing Crisis of 1937. By Marian C. McKenna. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 612. $60.00.) Reviewed by John E. Semonche University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAt the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid‐Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763. By Jane T. Merritt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 338. $39.95.) Reviewed by Kim M. Gruenwald Kent State UniversityIndependence Hall in American Memory. By Charlene Mires. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 350.) Reviewed by Jonathan M. Chu University of Massachusetts‐BostonRumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri “Sex Questionnaire” Scandal in the Jazz Age. By Lawrence J. Nelson. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 323. $39.95.) Reviewed by Babette Faehmel University of MassachusettsWatergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America. By Keith W. Olson. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003. Pp. 248. $35.00.) Reviewed by Robert Roberts James Madison UniversityA Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics. By H. Jefferson Powell. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. x, 251. $35.00.) Reviewed by Keith E. Whittington Princeton UniversityThe General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. By John A. Salmond. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 295. $37.50.) Reviewed by Kevin Chambers Gonzaga UniversityTwenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West. By Virginia Scharff. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 239. $19.95.) Reviewed by Kathryn M. Daynes Brigham Young UniversityA Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances. By Laura Schenone. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. xxxvi, 392. $35.00.) Reviewed by Michaela Crawford Reaves California Lutheran UniversityEmpire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. By David M. Scobey. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Pp. 340. $40.00.) Reviewed by Barbara Blumberg Pace UniversityAmerican Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 557. $39.95.) Reviewed by Robert E. Hannigan Suffolk University and Bentley CollegePeanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. By Andrew F. Smith. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 234. $29.95.) Reviewed by Richard H. Steckel Ohio State UniversityFederalism. By Robert P. Sutton. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 293. $54.95.) Reviewed by Frederick D. Drake Illinois State UniversityThe Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government. By Jon C. Teaford. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 272. $55.00.) Reviewed by Ballard Campbell Northeastern UniversitySigns of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted‐String Records. By Gary Urton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 202. $19.95.) Reviewed by Marianna Appel Kunow Southeastern Louisiana UniversityWalking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century. By Meredith Baldwin Weddle. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 348. $49.95.) Reviewed by John W. Oliver Jr. Malone CollegeLincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. By Stewart Winger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 271. $38.00.) Reviewed by James Tackach Roger Williams UniversityAsia and the PacificDwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. By Antoinette Burton. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 202. $21.95.) Reviewed by Geraldine Forbes State University of New York, OswegoChina’s Techno‐Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age. By Evan A. Feigenbaum. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 339. $55.00.) Reviewed by Thomas M. Kane University of HullA Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. By Andrew Gordon. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 384. $35.00.) Reviewed by Charlotte L. Beahan Murray State UniversityKamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. By Emiko Ohnuki‐Tierney. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 411. $20.00.) Reviewed by Ooi Keat Gin Universiti Sains MalaysiaDecisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946–1950. By Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.00.) Reviewed by Xiaobing Li University of Central OklahomaEuropeQueen Victoria. By Walter L. Arnstein. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xi, 254. $29.95.) Reviewed by Stanley Weintraub University of DelawareNelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784–1787. By Joseph F. Callo. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 230. $34.95.) Reviewed by Carolyn S. Knapp University of California, Berkeley“For Freedom Alone”: The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. By Edward J. Cowan. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2003. Pp. 162. $15.95.) Reviewed by Michael Brown University of St. AndrewsDrake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. By Wade G. Dudley. (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, Inc., 2003. Pp. 98. $19.95.) Reviewed by David M. Head John Tyler Community CollegeSplintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812–1815. By Wade G. Dudley. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 229. $32.95.) Reviewed by John D. Morris Kent State UniversityAll Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia. By Cathy A. Frierson. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Pp. x, 318. $45.00.) Reviewed by James Cracraft University of Illinois at ChicagoThe Battle of Leningrad, 1941–1944. By David M. Glantz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 660. $39.95.) Reviewed by Ivan T. Berend University of California, Los AngelesThe Spanish Republic at War, 1936–1939. By Helen Graham. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 486. $70.00.) Reviewed by Michael Seidman University of North Carolina‐WilmingtonBishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech‐Polelle. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $35.00.) Reviewed by Michael J. Phayer Marquette UniversityTrying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. By Debra Hamel. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 200. $24.95.) Reviewed by Laura McClure University of Wisconsin‐MadisonThe Origins of World War I. Edited by Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 537. $60.00.) Reviewed by Spencer C. Tucker Virginia Military InstituteThe IRA, 1926–1936. By Brian Hanley. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. Pp. 287. $35.00.) Reviewed by Martin F. Seedorf Eastern Washington UniversityThe Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890–1930. By Michael Hau. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. x, 286. $22.00.) Reviewed by Eleanor L. Turk Indiana University EastMusic in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780. By Daniel Heartz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003. Pp. xxii, 1040. $100.00.) Reviewed by William Weber California State University, Long BeachThe Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 233. $22.95.) Reviewed by Denise Z. Davidson Georgia State UniversityIcons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity. By Naomi Janowitz. (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxv, 161. $45.00.) Reviewed by R. H. Cline Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Peloponnesian War. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xxx, 511. $29.95.) Reviewed by Vincent J. Rosivach Fairfield UniversityLaw, Crime, and English Society 1660–1830. Edited by Norma Landau. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00.) Reviewed by Carolyn A. Conley University of Alabama at BirminghamThe Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance. By Radomir Luza and Christina Vella. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 295. $34.95.) Reviewed by Andrea Orzoff New Mexico State UniversityThe Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire. By Timothy S. Miller. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 340. $44.95.) Reviewed by Paul Stephenson University of Wisconsin at Madison Dumbarton OaksGod and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages. By Barbara Newman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 446. $42.50.) Reviewed by Felice Lifshitz Florida International UniversityProkofiev: From Russia to the West, 1891–1935. By David Nice. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 390. $35.00.) Reviewed by Jonathan Beecher University of California, Santa CruzWarriors and Their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships between Byzantium, the West, and the Islamic World. By David Nicolle. (Burlington: Variorum Collected Studies Series/Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiv, 324. $105.95.) Reviewed by Jonathan Riley‐Smith University of CambridgeThe Two Reformations: The Journey from the Last Days to the New World. By Heiko A. Oberman. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 235. $35.00.) Reviewed by Hans J. Hillerbrand Duke UniversityThe Regicides and the Execution of Charles I. Edited by Jason Peacey. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 294. $72.00) Reviewed by Michael B. Young Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDisruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin‐de‐Siècle France. By Mary Louise Roberts. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 353. $35.00.) Reviewed by James Smith Allen Southern Illinois University, CarbondalePopular Politics and the English Reformation. By Ethan H. Shagan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 341. $70.00.) Reviewed by John J. LaRocca Xavier UniversityHitler and the Power of Aesthetics. By Frederic Spotts. (Woodstock and New York: Overlook Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 456. $37.50.) Reviewed by Johnpeter Horst Grill Mississippi State UniversityWhen the King Took Flight. By Timothy Tackett. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 270. $24.95.) Reviewed by Michael P. Fitzsimmons Auburn University MontgomeryThe Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. By Jenny Uglow. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Pp. xx, 588. $15.00.) Reviewed by Robert Kubicek University of British ColumbiaCharlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story. By Stanley Weintraub. (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore: The Free Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 316. $27.50.) Reviewed by David C. Hitzkowitz Macalester CollegeGeneral, Comparative, HistoriographicalAristotle’s “Best Regime”: Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law. By Clifford Angell Bates Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 234. $65.00.) Reviewed by Christopher S. Morrissey Simon Fraser UniversityMedicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. By Roger French. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. v, 289. $60.00.) Reviewed by Mary Lindemann Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. By Frederic Cople Jaher. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 312. $45.00.) Reviewed by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall California State University, San MarcosDue Process of Law: A Brief History. By John V. Orth. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xi, 116. $9.95.) Reviewed by Peter Charles Hoffer University of Georgia
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