Book Reviews
AbstractReview Essay“Reinterpreting Indian History”History and Beyond. By Romila Thapar. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 490. $29.95.)The AmericasOne Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church. Richard Abanes. York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002, 651. $32.00.)Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story Garrison Children. Harriet Hyman Alonso. (Amherst Boston: Massachusetts 2002. viii, 409. $24.95.)Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. Lloyd E. Ambrosius. Palgrave Macmillan, 233. $24.95.)The Death Penalty: An History. Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard xi, 385. $29.95.)A Stroll with William James. Jacques Barzun. (Chicago London: Chicago 344. $18.00.)The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives New Deal Years. Gary Dean Best. (Westport, CT: Praeger, xiii, 174. $64.95.)Comanche Society: Before Reservation. Gerald Betty. (College Station: Texas & M 239. $39.95.)Martha Washington: First Lady Liberty. Helen Bryan. John Wiley Sons, Inc., xiv, 417. $30.00.)Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace. Ira Chernus. Station, TX: xix, 162. $14.95.)Gunsmoke Over Atlantic: Naval Actions Civil War. Jack D. Coombe. Bantam Books, xv, 268. $23.95.)Working Cures: Healing, Health, Power on Southern Slave Plantations. Sharla M. Fett. (Chapel Hill North Carolina 290. $39.95.)The Moral Property Women: Birth Control Politics America. Linda Gordon. (Urbana Chicago: Illinois 446. $34.95.)Race Trial: Law Justice Edited by Annette Gordon‐Reed. (Oxford: 234. $19.95.)Redeeming Dial: Radio, Religion, Popular Culture Tona J. Hangen. x, 220. $39.95.)That Old‐Time Religion Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism Twentieth Century. G. Hart. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, ix, 246. $24.95.)Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. Herman Hattaway Beringer. (Lawrence: Press Kansas, 543. $39.95.)A Companion to Women's Nancy A. Hewitt. Blackwell Publishers, xviii, 492. $124.95.)George Uniting a Nation. Don Higginbotham. (Lanham: Rowman Littlefield xii, 173. $22.95.)FDR Fear Itself: Inaugural Address. Davis W. Houck. 166. Frontier, 1763–1846. Douglas Hurt. (Albuquerque: Mexico xvii, 300. $45.00.)Empire City: York through Centuries. Kenneth T. Jackson David S. Dunbar. Columbia xx, 982. $39.95.)Sexual Blackmail: Angus McLaren. (Cambridge 332. $35.00.)How Sex Changed: Transsexuality United States. Joanne Meyerowitz. (Cambridge, MA: 363. $29.95.)Into Our Own Hands: Health Movement States, 1969–1990. Sandra Morgen. Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers 284. $24.00.)Shays's Rebellion: Revolution's Final Battle. Leonard L. Richards. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 204. $24.95.)Medicine Slavery: Diseases Care Blacks Antebellum Virginia. Todd Savitt. $18.95.)Ratifying Republic: Antifederalists Federalists Constitutional Time. Siemers. (Stanford: Stanford 292. $55.00.)Martin Van Buren Emergence Politics. Joel H. Silbey. (Lanham, MD: 235. $35.00.)Between Lines: Banditti Revolution. Harry Ward. (Westport: 329. $49.95.)The Paraguayan Volume I. Causes Early Conflict. Thomas Whigham. (Lincoln: Nebraska 520. $75.00.)Campfires Freedom: Camp Life Black Soldiers During Keith P. Wilson. (Kent: Kent State 336. $39.00.)Whose America?: Wars Public Schools. Jonathan Zimmerman. 307. $42.95.)Asia PacificThe Arabian Seas: Ocean World Seventeenth Barendse. (Armonk, NY, London, England: Sharpe, xvi, 588. $34.95.)Emperor Aristocracy Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience Renewal. Lee Butler. MA, Asia Center, 412. $39.50.)Gender, Caste, Religious Identities: Restructuring Class Colonial Punjab. Anshu Malhotra. (Delhi: 231. $35.00.)Peking: Temples City Life, 1400–1900. Susan Naquin. (Berkeley: California xxxvi, 816. $80.00.)Ho Chi Minh: Missing Years, 1919–1941. Sophie Quinn‐Judge. 356. $39.95.)EuropeNational Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Formation Russian National Identity, 1931–1956. Brandenberger. 378. $49.95.)Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime, Deviance Scotland since 1400. Yvonne Galloway Brown Rona Ferguson. (Edinburgh: Tuckwell 212. $23.95.)Huguenot Heartland: Montauban French Calvinism during Religion. Philip Conner. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 257. $84.95.)Childhood Promised Land: Working‐Class Movements Colonies de Vacances France, 1880–1960. Laura Downs. (Durham: Duke 411. $74.95.)This Meager Nature: Landscape Identity Imperial Russia. Christopher Ely. (DeKalb, IL: Northern 278. $42.00.)A Brief Heresy. Evans. Blackwell, 2003. 195. $17.95.)Literature Irish Famine, 1845–1919. Melissa Fegan. Clarendon 281. $49.95.)Napoleon's Men: Revolution Empire. Alan Forrest. (London: Hambledon 248. Great Armies Antiquity. Gabriel. CT xxi, 430. $59.95.)Humour, History, Late Antiquity Middle Ages. Guy Halsall. Cambridge 208. $50.00.)Napoleon: Wives Women. Hibbert. Norton, 381. $27.95.)Paris: Capital World. Patrice Higonnet. Translated Arthur Goldhammer. Belknap 493. $35.00.)The Immortal Dinner: Famous Evening Genius Laughter Literary 1817. Penelope Hughes‐Hallett. $27.50.)Peter Great: Biography. Lindsey Hughes. Haven Yale 285. $29.95.)La Salle: Perilous Odyssey Canada Gulf Mexico. Donald Johnson. Cooper Square xxx, 262. $26.95.)Popular Piety Art Ages: Image Worship Idolatry England, 1350–1500. Kathleen Kamerick. Palgrave, $69.95.)Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. Lukacs. Haven: 202. $21.95.)Seeking Victory Western Front: British Army Chemical Warfare War Albert Palazzo. (Lincoln $18.95.)Hatred Print: Catholic Propaganda Protestant Luc Racaut. (Aldershot, UK: 161. $74.95.)The Dynastic under Louis XIV: Royal Service Private Interest, 1661–1701. Rowlands. xxv, 404. $70.00.)A Kindly Place? Living Sixteenth‐Century Scotland. Margaret B. Sanderson. (East Linton: 244. $26.95.)Rebellion, Community, Custom Germany. Norbert Schindler. Pamela Selwyn. 311. $75.00.)The Roman Alexander: Reading Cultural Myth. Diana Spencer. (Exeter: Exeter xxvi, 277. $79.95.)Popular Theater Society Tsarist Anthony Swift. (Berkeley Los Angeles: 346. $49.95.)Fashion Occupation. Dominique Veillon. Miriam Kochan. (Oxford Berg, 205. $22.50.)The Carolingian Economy. Adriaan Verhulst. 160. $50.00.)Defining Germany: 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians Identity. Brian Vick. 283. $49.95.)Preaching English Reformation. Wabuda. 203. $55.00.)Country Writing: Travel Writing Zealand, 1809–1900. Lydia Wevers. (Auckland: Auckland vi, $24.95.)Inventing Schlieffen Plan: German Planning, 1871–1914. Terence Zuber. 340. $72.00.)General, Comparative, HistoriographicalExtinction: Evolution End Man. Michael Boulter. 210. $26.00.)Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Shehong Chen. (Urbana: xxiii, $39.95.)Citizens Citoyens: Republicans Liberals America France. Mark Hulliung. 250. $39.95.)Fascism: Very Short Introduction. Kevin Passmore. $9.95.)Blood Guts: Medicine. Roy Porter. Norton Co., 199. $21.95.)Antisemitism: Myth Hate Present. Martin Perry Frederick Schweitzer. 309. $35.00.)When Men Lost Faith Reason: Reflections Willmott. 274. $69.95.)
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