THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CVI      NO.1   FEBRUARY 2001

Table of Contents

Presidential Address

American Freedom in a Global Age
By Eric Foner 1

Articles

Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place
By Kate Brown 17
"Green Havoc": Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry
By Steve Marquardt 49
Popular Film and Colonial Audiences: The Movies in Northern Rhodesia
By Charles Ambler 81

Review Essays: Seeing Like a State

The State in the Field: Official Knowledge and Truant Practices
By Jane Caplan 107
Looking at the State: An American Perspective
By Morton Keller 114
Smelling Like a Market
By Fernando Coronil 119


Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY


Marion Gibson. Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches.
By Bernard Capp 130
S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina, editors. Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham.
By Nathan Sivin 131
David A. Lake. Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century.
By Frank Ninkovich 131



COMPARATIVE/WORLD


Patricia Ranft. Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition.
By David G. Hunter 132
Shigehisa Kuriyama. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine.
By Francesca Bray 133
Sander Gilman. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery.
By Londa Schiebinger 134
J. A. Mangan, editor. Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon—Aryan Fascism.
By Jay W. Baird 135
Fred Anderson. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America 1754–1766.
By Richard White 136
Stuart Andrews. The Rediscovery of America: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution.
By Barry Alan Shain 137
Alan Hunt. Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation.
By Edward Bristow 138
John Springhall. Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830–1996.
By Harry Hendrick 138
Margaret H. McFadden. Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism.
By Jane Rendall 140
Arwen P. Mohun. Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940.
By Miriam Glucksmann 141
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy.
By Ranald C. Michie 142
David Palumbo-Liu. Asian/American: Historical Crossing of a Racial Frontier.
By Eileen H. Tamura 142
Francis Anthony Boyle. Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898–1922).
By Gary B. Ostrower 143


ASIA

Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy, editors. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 b.c.
By Sarah Allan 144
Constance A. Cook and John S. Major, editors. Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China.
By Rafe de Crespigny 145
S. A. Thornton. Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300–1700).
By Paul Varley 146
Kathleen S. Uno. Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan.
By Sally A. Hastings 147
Honda Katsuichi. The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame.
By John H. Boyle 148
Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann, and Ryuichi Narita, editors. Total War and 'Modernization.'
By William M Tsutsui 149
Simon Partner. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer.
By Aaron Forsberg 150
D. Dennis Hudson. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706–1835.
By Antony Copley 151
Indrani Chatterjee. Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India.
By Judith Walsh 152
Ajay Skaria. Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India.
By John M. MacKenzie 153


OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Ian Tyrrell. Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and Its Opponents in Australia.
By John C. Burnham 154

 

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Karen Dubinsky. The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls.
By Christina Simmons 154
Kurkpatrick Dorsey. The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era.
By Craig W. Allin 155
John Wirth. Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution.
By Donald J. Pisani 156
Michael A. Bellesiles, editor. Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History.
By Eric H. Monkkonen 157
Peter N. Stearns. Battleground of Desire: The Struggle of Self-Control in Modern America.
By Sander L. Gilman 158
Ronald Hoffman. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782.
By Russell R. Menard 159
Darren Staloff. The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts.
By J. William T. Youngs 159
Sydney V. James. The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change.
By Elaine Forman Crane 160
Erik R. Seeman. Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England.
By Christopher Grasso 161
Timothy J. Shannon. Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754.
By Gregory Evans Dowd 162
Alfred F. Young. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution.
By Fred Anderson 163
C. Bradley Thompson. John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty.
By Marc W. Kruman 164
Karl-Friedrich Walling. Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Govenment.
By R. B. Bernstein 164
Dee E. Andrews. The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760–1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture.
By Christopher H. Owen 165
Saul Cornell. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828.
By Norman K. Risjord 166
Michael L. Tate. The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West.
By William H. Goetzmann 167
Henry E. Stamm IV. People of the Wind River: The Eastern Shoshones, 1825–1900.
By Melissa L. Meyer 167
Edward L. Widmer. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City.
By Edward K. Spann 169
David M. Henkin. City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York.
By Isabelle Lehuu 169
Janet Duitsman Cornelius. Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South.
By Erskine Clarke 170
Douglas M. Strong. Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy.
By John W. Quist 171
John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold, editors. Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America.
By George C. Rable 172
Brooks D. Simpson. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822–1865.
By Michael Fellman 174
William Blair. Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861–1865.
By J. Tracy Power 174
Pamela Brandwein. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth.
By Herman Belz 175
David M. Pletcher. The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865–1900.
By Emily S. Rosenberg 176
Elizabeth Sanders. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917.
By David Vaught 177
Jim Bissett. Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904–1920.
By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg 178
John Warfield Simpson. Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy.
By Robert W. Righter 178
Mark Fiege. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West.
By Victoria Saker Woeste 179
Blake Gumprecht. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth.
By Mansel G. Blackford 180
Richard Longstreth. The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914–1941.
By William Issel 181
Ruth Oldenziel. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945.
By Jo Ann E. Argersinger 182
Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939.
By Mary H. Blewett 183
Daniel J. Walkowitz. Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity.
By Mina J. Carson 184
Melissa Dabakis. Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880–1935.
By Larry Peterson 185
Nancy Tomes. The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.
By Martin S. Pernick 186
Sandra Opdycke. No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900.
By Rima D. Apple 187
Cassandra Tate. Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver."
By Tracy Campbell 188
William Howland Kenney. Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945.
By Kathy J. Ogren 188
Jeff Smith. The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music.
By James P. Kraft 189
William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff. New York Modern: The Arts and the City.
By Casey N. Blake 190
Edwin J. Perkins. Wall Streeet to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors.
By Alan R. Raucher 191
Linda Przybyszewski. The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan.
By James W. Ely, Jr. 192
Edward A. Purcell, Jr. Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America.
By Herbert Hovenkamp 193
Tracy Campbell. Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr.
By Michael E. Parrish 194
Edwin Amenta. Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy.
By Donald T. Critchlow 194
Kenneth J. Heineman. A Catholic New Deal: Religon and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh.
By Timothy Walch 195
Michael R. Grey. New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration.
By Gerald Markowitz 196
Richard W. Steele. Free Speech in the Good War.
By Holly Cowan Shulman 197
Jerry Purvis Sanson. Louisiana During World War II: Politics and Society, 1939–1945.
By Adam Fairclough 198
Gail Williams O'Brien. The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South.
By Michal R. Belknap 198
Ted Ownby. American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998.
By Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 199
Alessandra Lorini. Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy.
By Xi Wang 200
Rod Bush. We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century.
By Wilson J. Moses 201
Bill V. Mullen. Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935–46.
By J. Martin Favor 202
Kibibi Voloria C. Mack. Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges: African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community.
By Dolores E. Janiewski 203
Merline Pitre. In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900–1957.
By Jacqueline A. Rouse 204
Chana Kai Lee. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
By Robert Weisbrot 205
Charles P. Henry. Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other?
By Barbara Dianne Savage 206
Barbara Dianne Savage. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938–1948.
By Lawrence D. Hogan 207
Nancy E. Bernhard. U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947–1960.
By Donald L. Shaw 208
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.
By Athan Theoharis 209
Neil Jumonville. Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present.
By Daniel H. Borus 210
Frederick J. Simonelli. American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.
By Leonard Dinnerstein 211
Kathleen W. Jones. Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority.
By Leila Zenderland 211
James H. Capshew. Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929–1969.
By Judith M. Hughes 212
Jessica Wang. American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War.
By Jodi Dean 213
Jeffrey T. Richelson. America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security.
By T. A. Heppenheimer 214
Julian E. Zelizer. Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975; Gayle B. Montgomery and James W. Johnson. One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland.
By Gareth Davies 215
Robert Kumamoto. International Terrorism and American Foreign Relations, 1945–1976.
By Martha Crenshaw 216
H. W. Brands, editor. The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam.
By Fredrik Logevall 217
Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam.
By David L. Anderson 218
Jeffrey Kimball. Nixon's Vietnam War.
By William J. Duiker 219
Perry Bush. Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America.
By Valarie H. Ziegler 219
Dominick Cavallo. A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History.
By Jerry Lembcke 220
Maris A. Vinovskis. History and Educational Policymaking.
By David C. Hammack 221
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, editor. Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities.
By Lawrence J. Friedman 222
John Howard. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History.
By Darden Asbury Pyron 223
Susan Resnik. Blood Saga: Hemophilia, AIDS, and the Survival of a Community.
By David T. Courtwright 224


CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Thomas M. Leonard, editor. United States-Latin American Relations, 1850–1903: Establishing a Relationship.
By David M. Pletcher 225
Juan Pedro Viqueira Albán. Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico.
By John E. Kicza 226
Margaret Chowning. Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late Colony to the Revolution.
By Stuart F. Voss 227
Priscilla Connolly. El contratista de Don Porfirio: Obras públicas, deuda y desarrollo desigual.
By Allen Wells 227
Jennie Purnell. Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán.
By Heather Fowler-Salamini 228
Friedrich Katz. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa.
By Adrian A. Bantjes 229
Darío A. Euraque. Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870–1972.
By Robert MacCameron 231
Kathryn Burns. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru.
By Kenneth Mills 232
Robin L. Anderson. Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758–1911.
By David G. Sweet 233
Brian P. Owensby. Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil.
By Dain Borges 234

 

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Peter Hunt. Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians.
By Nick Fisher 235
Craig A. Williams. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity.
By Maud W. Gleason 236
Susan P. Mattern. Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate.
By Thomas S. Burns 237
Jill Harries. Law and Empire in Late Antiquity.
By Raymond Van Dam 238
Theodore Evergates, editor. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France.
By Susan Mosher Stuard 239
Berenice M. Kerr. Religious Life for Women c. 1100-c. 1350: Fontevraud in England.
By Marjorie Chibnall 239
Nicholas Wright. Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside.
By Richard W. Kaeuper 240
Anthony Goodman and James Gillespie, editors. Richard II: The Art of Kingship.
By Rees Davies 241

 

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

J. L. Heilbron. The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories.
By J. R. Christianson 242
Benigna von Krusenstjern and Hans Medick, editors. Zwischen Alltag und Katastrophe: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg aus der Nähe.
By Derek Croxton 243
John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth, editors. Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany.
By H. M. Scott 243
Manfred Hettling. Politische Bürgerlichkeit: Der Bürger zwischen Individualität und Vergesellschaftung in Deutschland und der Schweiz von 1860 bis 1918.
By James J. Sheehan 245
Clive Emsley. Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
By Benjamin F. Martin 246
Ulla Wikander. Von der Madg zur Angestellten: Macht, Geschlecht und Arbeitsteilung 1789–1950.
By Jean H. Quataert 247
Sylvie Lefèvre. Les relations économiques franco-allemandes de 1945 à 1955: De l'occupation à la coopération.
By Andrew Shennan 247
Jennifer Loach. Edward VI.
By Norman Jones 248
David Cressy. Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension.
By Richard T. Vann 249
Melinda S. Zook. Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England.
By James S. Hart, Jr. 250
Barbara J. Shapiro. A Culture of Fact: England, 1550–1720.
By Wilfrid Prest 251
Carl B. Estabrook. Urbane and Rustic England: Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660–1780.
By Peter Clark 251
Anita Guerrini. Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne.
By Barbara Beigun Kaplan 252
E. A. Smith. George IV.
By Abraham D. Kriegel 253
Nicholas Rogers. Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain.
By Paul D. Halliday 254
Heather Shore. Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London.
By Paula Bartley 255
Jeffrey A. Auerbach. The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display.
By David Vincent 256
Peter T. Marsh. Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market, 1860–1892.
By Maurice W. Kirby 256
Jane Long. Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Northumberland.
By Karen Sayer 257
Erika Diane Rappaport. Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.
By Lori Loeb 258
Julia Bush. Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power.
By Barbara Caine 259
John Burnett. Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain.
By Peter Bailey 260
Leslie Howsam. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint: Publishers, Books and Cultural History.
By Jonathan Rose 260
Standish Meacham. Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement.
By Dale H. Porter 261
Andrew Miles. Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England.
By Paul Johnson 262
Philip Williamson. Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values.
By Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert 263
Aidan Clarke. Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: The End of the Commonwealth, 1659–1660;Micheál Ó Siochrú. Confederate Ireland 1642–1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis.
By Colm Lennon 264
Eunan O'Halpin. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922.
By Arthur Mitchell 265
Renée Levine Melammed. Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile.
By James S. Amelang 266
Sebastian Balfour and Paul Preston, editors. Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century.
By Robert H. Whealey 267
Judith A. Miller. Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700–1860.
By John Markoff 268
Jeffrey S. Ravel. The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791.
By Robert M. Isherwood 269
Jane F. Fulcher. French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War.
By James H. Johnson 271
Michael Torigian. Every Factory a Fortress: The French Labor Movement in the Age of Ford and Hitler.
By Kathryn E. Amdur 272
Laird Boswell. Rural Communism in France, 1920–1939.
By Irwin M. Wall 272
Anders Florén. Vollonskt järn: Industriell utveckling i de södra Nederländerna före industrialiseringen.
By Lars G. Sandberg 273
Tyge Krogh. Oplysningstiden og det magiske: Henrettelser og korporlige straffe i 1700-tallets første halvdel.
By Thomas Munck 274
Malin Lennartsson. I säng och säte: Relationer mellan kvinnor och män i 1600-talets Småland.
By J. R. Christianson 275
Monika Janfelt. Stormakter i människokärlek: Svensk och dansk krigsbarnshjälp 1917–1924.
By Birgitte Søland 276
Karin Friedrich. The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772.
By Daniel Stone 276
Jan Palmowski. Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866–1914.
By Elaine Glovka Spencer 277
Olaf Blaschke. Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich.
By Richard S. Levy 278
Thomas Albrecht. Für eine wehrhafte Demokratie: Albert Grzesinski und die preußische Politik in der Weimarer Republik.
By Anthony Glees 279
Anthony McElligott. Contested City: Municipal Politics and the Rise of Nazism in Altona, 1917–1937.
By Lawrence D. Stokes 280
Hartmut Berghoff and Cornelia Rauh-Kühne. Fritz K.: Ein deutsches Leben im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert.
By Johnpeter Horst Grill 281
W. R. Smyser. From Yalta to Berlin: The Cold War Struggle Over Germany.
By Heike Bungert 282
Peter Heil. "Gemeinden sind wichtiger als Staaten": Idee und Wirklichkeit des kommunalen Neuanfangs in Rheinland-Pfalz 1945–1957.
By Rebecca Boehling 283
Ralph Jessen. Akademische Elite und kommunistische Diktatur: Die ostdeutsche Hochschullehrerschaft in der Ulbricht-Ära.
By Konrad H. Jarausch 284
Lois C. Dubin. The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture.
By Alexander Grab 284
Evan Burr Bukey. Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938–1945.
By David Clay Large 285
Francesco Gui. L'attesa del concilio: Vittoria Colonna e Reginald Pole nel movimento degli "spirituali."
By Elisabeth G. Gleason 286
Francesco Colzi. Il debito pubblico del Campidoglio: Finanza communale e circolazione dei titoli a Roma fra Cinque e Seicento.
By Steven Epstein 287
G. N. Ul'ianova. Blagotvoritel'nost' moskovskikh predprinimatelei: 1860–1914.
By David L. Ransel 288
Michael G. Smith. Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917–1953.
By Audrey L. Altstadt 289
Peter Konecny. Builders and Deserters: Students, State, and Community in Leningrad, 1917–1941.
By Isabel A. Tirado 290
J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939.
By Chris Ward 291
Jeffrey Brooks. Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War.
By Laura Engelstein 292
Gabriel Gorodetsky. Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invation of Russia.
By Frederick W. Kagan 292
Uwe Weiher. Flüchtlingssituation und Flüchtlingspolitik: Untersuchungen zur Eingliederung der Flüchtlinge in Bremen 1945–1961; Philipp Ther. Deutsche und Polnische Vertriebene: Gesellschaft und Vertriebenenpolitik in der SBZ/DDR und in Polen 1945–1956.
By E. N. Peterson 293


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

David Ayalon. Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study in Power Relationships.
By Byron D. Cannon 295
Rhoads Murphey. Ottoman Warfare, 1500–1700.
By Carter Vaughn Findley 295
Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh. Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1789–1923.
By M. Þükrü Hanioðlu 296
Dilek Barlas. Etatism and Diplomacy in Turkey: Economic and Foreign Policy Strategies in an Uncertain World, 1929–1939.
By Hasan Kayali 298
Idith Zertal. From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel.
By Nachman Ben-Yehuda 298
Hanna Yablonka. Survivors of the Holocaust: Israel after the War.
By David Engel 299
Joel Beinin. The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora.
By Daniel J. Schroeter 300
Michael Doran. Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question.
By Israel Gershoni 301


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Toyin Falola. Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies.
By Felix K. Ekechi 303
Raymond E. Dumett. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900.
By T. C. McCaskie 304

Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Hartmut Lehmann, editor. Historikerkontroversen. 309

 

Comparative/World

Heinz Duchhardt and Patrice Veit, editors. Krieg und Frieden im Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit: Theorie, Praxis, Bilder. 310
Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, editors. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918. 309
Arnold A. Offner and Theodore A. Wilson, editors. Victory in Europe 1945: From World War to Cold War. 310
Günter Bischof and Saki Dockrill, editors. Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955. 310
Gilbert Rozman, editor. Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization, 1949–1999. 310
Paul Kennedy and William I. Hitchcock, editors. From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. 310
Laura Hein and Mark Selden, editors. Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. 310


Asia

Pauline Yu et al., editors. Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China. 311
Richard J. Aldrich, Gary D. Rawnsley, and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, editors. The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945–65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations. 311


Canada and the United States

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, editor. Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. 311
Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel, editors. A Population History of North America. 312
Larry E. Tise, editor. Benjamin Franklin and Women. 312
Donald R. Kennon, editor. The United States Capitol: Designing and Decorating a National Icon. 312
Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole, editors. Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America. 312
Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, editors. Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. 312
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and James W. Cortada, editors. A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. 313
Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and David R. Maciel, editors. The Contested Homeland: A Chicago History of New Mexico. 313


Caribbean and Latin America

David Sheinin, editor. Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs. 313
William H. Beezley and Linda A. Curcio-Nagy, editors. Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction. 313


Europe: Ancient and Medieval

Brendan Smith, editor. Britain and Ireland 900–1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change. 313
Yitzhak Hen and Matthew Innes, editors. The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. 314
Richard W. Kaeuper, editor. Violence in Medieval Society. 314
Anne J. Duggan, editor. Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts, Origins, Transformations. 314
Kaspar Elm and Cosimo Damiano Fonseca, editors. Militia Sancti Sepulcri: Idea e istituzioni. 314
Thalia Gouma-Peterson, editor. Anna Komnene and Her Times. 315


Europe: Early Modern and Modern

David Laven and Lucy Riall, editors. Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Restoration Europe. 315
Benedikt Stuchtey and Peter Wende, editors. British and German Historiography 1750–1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers. 315
Peter Lake and Michael C. Questier, editors. Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560–1660. 315
Raymond McCluskey, editor. The Scots College Rome 1600–2000. 316
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