Book Reviews
AbstractAfrica and the Middle EastBetween Democracy Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War. Edited by Ibrahim Abdullah. (Dakar, Senegal: Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. Pp. v, 263. $29.95.) Harvard University Reviewed Michael JacksonThe Turks World History. By Carter Vaughan Findley. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford Press, 2005. ix, 300. $19.95.) Wisconsin—Madison Kemal KarpatThe Persians. Gene R. Garthwaite. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, xvii, 311. $59.95.) Columbia Richard W. BullietUnderstanding Burckhardt: Principles Contexts. Jacob Burckhardt's Political Thought. Sigurdson. (Toronto, Canada: Toronto xii, 279. $55.00.) Princeton Lionel GossmanThe Modern East: A History since First Mehran Kamrava. (Berkeley, Calif.: California xiii, 497. $24.95.) Minnesota Caesar E. FarahMaize Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New Crop, 1500–2000. James C. McCann. (Cambridge, Mass.: 289. $27.95.) Colby College L. A. Webb Jr.The AmericasThe Waco Horror. Patricia Bernstein. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M 252. $29.50.) Evergreen State J. PfeiferAfter Siege: Boston, 1775–1800. Jacqueline Barbara Carr. (Boston, Northeastern xv, 318. $40.00.) Tennessee at Martin Daniel McDonoughSir Walter: Walter Hagen Invention Professional Golf. Tom Clavin. Simon Schuster, 384. $26.00.) MossAmerica's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Cold Warren I. Cohen. (Malden, 204. $21.95.) Davidson Ralph B. LeveringA Sailor's United Sates Navy. Thomas Cutler. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute xxiv, 224. Georgia Technology Maxine TurnerEuropean Metals Native Hands: Rethinking Technological Change, 1640–1683. Kathleen Ehrhardt. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Alabama xiv, 253. Arkansas Archeological Survey Jeffrey M. MitchemBlack White Manhattan: Racial Formation Colonial York City. Thelma Wills Foote. x, 334. $27.50.) Colorado Springs Harlow SheidleyWest Emerson: Design Manifest Destiny. Kris Fresonke. 2003. 201. Arizona Karen LeongMen Middle: Searching Masculinity 1950s. Gilbert. (Chicago, Ill.: Chicago 269. $39.00.) England David KuchtaEnvironmentalism Government. P. Hammond Curran. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 131. $19.50.) Lehigh Stephen H. CutcliffeThe Whig Revival, 1809–1830. William Anthony Hay. Palgrave Macmillan, 235. $65.00.) Wisconsin Stevens Point Nancy LoPatin‐LummisThe Postmodernist Turn: American Thought Culture 1970s. Hoeveler Jr. (Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, vii, 225. Ohio SteigerwaldReinventing Melting Pot: Immigrants What it Means to Be An American. Tamar Jacoby. Basic Books, 335. $18.00.) Wisconsin, Milwaukee Rachel Buff“Don't Sleep Stevens!”: Campaign Struggle Organize South, 1963–1980. Timothy Minchin. (Gainesville, Press Florida, xvi, 239. Cleveland GoldbergFrom Welfare Workfare: Unintended Consequences Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. Jennifer Mittelstadt. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: North Carolina 267. Ripon McGowanLaboring Women: Reproduction Gender Slavery. Morgan. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Loyola Marymount Cara AnzilottiStandard Living: Measure Class America. Marina Moskowitz. (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins $45.00.) Cornell Stuart BluminWonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, Religion Fred Nadis. Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers $26.95.) Michigan Matthew WittmannAt Work Atomic City: Labor Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Russell Olwell. (Knoxville, Tenn.: 165. $29.00.) Mexico Jon HunnerWhen Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after House. O'Toole. 494. $30.00.) Louisiana D. Jr.To Die Cuba: Suicide Society. Louis Pérez 480. $39.95.) Los Angeles Adrian Lopez DenisSecond Founding: City, Reconstruction, Making Democracy. Quigley. Hill Wang, 238. $14.00.) University, San Bernardino Ward McAfeeAmerican Sexual Character: Sex, National Identity Kinsey Reports. Miriam G. Reumann. xi, 294. $49.95.) East Bay Jessica WeissMaya Science: Time, Astronomy, Cosmos. Prudence Rice. (Austin, xxii, 352. Austin LohseHome on Rails: Women, Railroad Rise Public Domesticity. Amy Richter. 272. Clemson Roger GrantMorning America: How Ronald Reagan Invented 1980s. Gil Troy. (Princeton, 417. Hunter College, City Jonathan SchoenwaldRight Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's Women Space Program. Margaret Weitekamp. 232. Yale Bettyann Holtzmann KevlesAsia PacificForgotten Armies: Fall British Asia, 1941–1945. Christopher Bayly Tim Harper. Belknap xxxiii, 555. Manitoba Ian KerrMaking Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries Defining Power. O. Hugo Benavides. 231. $50.00.) Winthrop Virginia S. WilliamsPunishment Power Japan. V. Botsman. 319. $35.00.) California, Irvine Anne WalthallGeographies Nineteenth‐Century Howell. 261. Wittenberg HuffmanBeyond Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry Sino‐Vietnamese Relationship. Liam Kelley. (Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Temple Nguyen Thi DieuCrisis Korea: Failure De‐Stalinization, 1956. Andrei Lankov. 274. $48.00.) Rikkyo Mark CaprioThe Emergence Southeast Asia: Norman Owen. xxiii, 541. $25.00.) Singapore ReidBurning Building: Schooling Japan, 1750–1890. Brian Platt. Asia Center, 325. Iowa VlastosEuropeDaily Life Roman Rome, Pompeii, Ostia. Gregory Aldrete. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood 280. Dorian BorbonusParis Despair: Art Everyday under Siege (1870–71). Hollis Clayson. 2002. xxxi, 485. Oberlin MathewsPerilous Performances: Regency Early France. Katherine Crawford. 297. Exeter Keith CameronNapoleon: Life. Steven Englund. 575. $18.95.) South Owen ConnellyThe Emperor Justinian Byzantine Empire. Allan Evans. Greenwood, 178. Mississippi CookeA Critical Rome. Gary Forsythe. 400. Ball RuebelMasculinity, Autocracy, Russian 1804–1863. Rebecca Friedman. (Basingstoke, England: 195. $90.00.) Oglethorpe Alexander MartinNational Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators Postwar Czechoslovakia. Benjamin Frommer. (Cambridge: Cambridge 387. $70.00.) Warwick Robin OkeyBorn Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters Queen Victoria. Julia Gelardi. St. 457. John PlunkettSex Fascism: Memory Morality Twentieth‐Century Germany. Dagmar Herzog. i, 361. Mary NolanThe Victorians Sport. Mike Huggins. (London: Hambledon London, Red Deer MartensRestoration Scotland, 1660–1690: Royalist Politics, Ideas. Clare Jackson. (Woodbridge, VA: Boydell 249. $85.00.) Eastern Illinois Newton KeyThe Navy Government France, 1572–1661. Alan James. Royal Historical Society, 175. Madison Philip F. RileyA Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age Enlightenment. Chris Lowney. Free 303. Haven Paulette PepinKingship Politics Late Ninth Century: Charles Fat End Carolingian MacLean. xix, 262. Harry RosenbergThe English Gentleman Merchant Work: Madras London 1660–1740. Søren Mentz. (Copenhagen, Denmark: Museum Tusculanum 304. $16.95.) Marilyn MorrisThe Creation German Army: General Walther Reinhardt Weimar Republic, 1914–1930. Mulligan. Berghahn 246. Massachusetts, Boston Paul BookbinderStrange Trial Pig, Walking Dead, Other Matters Fact from Renaissance Worlds. Darren Oldridge. Routledge, 198. CressyThe Somme. Prior Trevor Wilson. Haven, vi, Southern NeibergRoyal Spectacle: 1860 Visit Prince Wales Canada States. Radforth. 469. Parkland Marsh Wilkinson JonesWar Wild Army Soviet Partisans. Ben Shepard. Transylvania Kenneth SlepyanParliamentary County Its Town: Elections Suffolk Ipswich Eighteenth Century. Susan Mitchell Sommers. Praeger, 218. $85.95.) Manchester Frank O’GormanWhen King Took Flight. Tackett. 270. $15.95.) Suzanne DesanThe Artisan Ipswich: Craftsmanship Community England. Robert Tarule. 155. $42.00.) Youngstown Martha PallantePolitical Empiricism Economy: King's 1696 Estimates Wealth Population. Taylor. $84.95.) Earlham Peter ClineCities God. Italian Communes, 1125–1325. Augustine Thompson. (University Park: 502. Louisville Blake BeattieThe Trojan Carol Craig Conant. 209. Tel Aviv Margalit FinkelbergFinding People Greece. Thomas. (Columbia, Mo.: Missouri 154. $34.95.) School Classical Studies Athens Stefanie KennellGeneral, Comparative, HistoriographicalAges Chaos: Hutton Discovery Deep Time. Baxter. Forge, $23.95.) Oklahoma TaylorThe Born‐Einstein Letters 1916–1955: Friendship, Physics Uncertain Times. Max Born. xxxviii, Washington RigdenCompass: Story Exploration Innovation. Gurney. Norton 307. $22.95.) West LoveA Short Communism. Harvey. Dunne 422. DalyCircuits Sea: Men, Ships, Atlantic Cable. Chester Hearn. Bath Angus BuchananCommand Command Control Sixteenth Palmer. 377. Roehampton Rose
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