THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CVI      NO.2   APRIL 2001

Table of Contents

Articles

Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles
By A. Roger Ekirch 343
Mother Ada Wright and the International Campaign to Free the Scottsboro Boys
By James A. Miller, Susan D. Pennybacker, and Eve Rosenhaft 387
"A New World for Women"? Abortion Law Reform in Britain during the 1930s
By Stephen Brooke 431
Was the Third Reich Movie-Made? Interdisciplinarity and the Reframing of "Ideology"
By Scott Spector 460
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass
By Nancy J. Jacobs 485

Review Essay

The Fates of Human Societies: A Review of Recent Macrohistories
By Gale Stokes 508


Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Shepard Krech III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History.
By Andrew C. Isenberg 526
Richard A. Muller. The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition.
By Larissa Taylor 526
Niccolò Guicciardini. Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736.
By Margaret C. Jacob 527
Lisbet Koerner. Linnaeus: Nature and Nation.
By Martin S. Staum 528
Ernst Wolfgang Becker. Zeit der Revolution!—Revolution der Zeit? Zeiterfahrungen in Deutschland in der Ära der Revolutionen 1789–1848/49.
By Karl Wegert 529
Bouda Etemad. La Possession du monde: Poids et mesures de la colonisation (XVIIIe-XXe siècles).
By Bernard Waites 530
Ruth Leys. Trauma: A Genealogy.
By Geoffrey Cocks 531
Gerald N. Izenberg. Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky through World War I.
By Chandak Sengoopta 532
Nicholas Reeves. The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality?
By David Culbert 532
Marco Mariano. Lo storico nel suo labirinto: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tra ricerca storica, impegno civile e politica.
By Luigi Rossi 533
Peter Novick. The Holocaust in American Life.
By Marc Lee Raphael 534
Edmund Morris. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.
By Michael Rogin 535
Ewa Domanska. Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism.
By Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth 536


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein, editors. War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica.
By John K. Evans 537
Martin van Creveld. The Rise and Decline of the State.
By Charles Tilly 539
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe. The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530–1750).
By James D. Tracy 539
Mira Wilkins and Harm Schröter, editors. The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy 1830–1996.
By Christopher Armstrong 540
Elisabeth W. Sommer. Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727–1801.
By Samuel S. Hill 541
Yukiko Koshiro. Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan.
By Rikki Kersten 542
Ursula Lehmkuhl. Pax Anglo-Americana: Machtstrukturelle Grundlagen anglo-amerikanischer Asien- und Fernostpolitik in den 1950er Jahren.
By Georg Schild 543
Rachel P. Maines. The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction.
By Susan E. Cayleff 544


ASIA

John W. Chaffee. Branches of Heaven: A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China.
By Linda Walton 546
Matthew H. Sommer. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China.
By Neil J. Diamant 546
Norman Kutcher. Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State.
By Jerry Dennerline 548
Susan Mann. Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century.
By R. W. L. Guisso 548
Gregor Benton. New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938–1941.
By Diana Lary 549
Jin Qiu. The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution.
By Tony Saich 550
Mark Ravina. Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan.
By Constantine N. Vaporis 551
Adeeb Khalid. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia.
By Shirin Akiner 552
Jane Drakard. A Kingdom of Words: Language and Power in Sumatra.
By Rita Smith Kipp 552
Alfred W. McCoy. Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy.
By Michael Paul Onorato 553
Peter Jackson. The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History.
By Gavin R. G. Hambly 554
Susan Bayly. The New Cambridge History of India.
By Frank F. Conlon 555

 

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Nancy Christie. Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada.
By Cynthia Comacchio 556
Edelgard Mahant and Graeme S. Mount. Invisible and Inaudible in Washington: American Policies toward Canada.
By Joel J. Sokolsky 557
Dana Frank. Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism.
By Michael Goldfield 558
Charles K. Hyde. Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s.
By James A. Mulholland 559
Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America.
By John T. Juricek 560
Jane Landers. Black Society in Spanish Florida.
By David J. Weber 561
Jeffrey Robert Young. Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837.
By Anthony Gene Carey 562
Charles E. Clark. The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town.
By Robert Blair St. George 563
Edward J. Cashin. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier.
By E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. 564
John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture 1776–1882.
By Robert G. Lee 564
Robert Kelley Schneiders. Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri.
By Philip V. Scarpino 565
Stephanie S. Pincetl. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development.
By William G. Robbins 566
Catherine E. Kelly. In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century.
By Mary H. Blewett 567
Joseph P. Ferrie. Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840–1860.
By Kenneth J. Winkle 568
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America.
By Quinton Hosford Dixie 569
Christopher Waldrep. Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817–80.
By David M. Oshinsky 569
Lester D. Stephens. Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815–1895.
By Steven M. Stowe 570
James Turner. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton.
By Frederic Cople Jaher 571
D. G. Hart. The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education.
By Conrad Cherry 572
James H. Moorhead. World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880–1925.
By Paul S. Boyer 573
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Michael M. Sokal, and Bruce V. Lewenstein. The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
By Nancy Smith Midgette 574
Jacqueline M. Moore. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880–1920.
By Charles W. Eagles 575
Irma Watkins-Owens. Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900–1930.
By Kenneth L. Kusmer 575
Lillian Serece Williams. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900–1940.
By Wendell E. Pritchett 576
Jared N. Day. Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Urban Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943.
By James J. Connolly 577
Edward J. Escobar. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900–1945.
By Zaragosa Vargas 578
Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870–1940.
By Madelon Powers 579
Lorine Swainston Goodwin. The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879–1914.
By Janet Golden 580
Linda Gordon. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
By Paula S. Fass 581
Regina Morantz-Sanchez. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn.
By Virginia G. Drachman 582
Kathleen Kennedy. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I; Susan Zeiger. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919.
By Nancy K. Bristow 583
M. Alison Kibler. Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville.
By Kathryn J. Oberdeck 585
Kathryn J. Oberdeck. The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884–1914.
By Mark Pittenger 586
John M. Carroll. Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football.
By Murray Sperber 586
Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930.
By William O. Walker III 587
Walter F. Pratt, Jr. The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910–1921.
By Edward A. Purcell, Jr. 588
David Alistair Yalof. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees.
By Cornell W. Clayton 589
Ruth G. O'Brien. Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935.
By William G. Ross 590
Suzanne Mettler. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy.
By Elizabeth Faue 591
June Hopkins. Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer.
By Martha H. Swain 592
Michael E. Birdwell. Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism.
By Gregory D. Black 593
Shawn Francis Peters. Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution.
By Merlin Owen Newton 594
Gerald D. Nash. The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West.
By Joseph E. Taylor III 595
Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay, editors. The Atomic West.
By Hal K. Rothman 595
Arthur Herman. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator.
By Ellen Schrecker 597
John Fousek. To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War; Christian G. Appy, editor. Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966.
By Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht 598
Philip Jenkins. The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945–1960.
By John Earl Haynes 599
Kenneth R. Philp. Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933–1953; Thomas W. Cowger. The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years.
By John R. Wunder 600
Mark R. Scherer. Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945–1995.
By Donald L. Fixico 602
Kai Bird. The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy; Brothers in Arms.
By Robert D. Schulzinger 603
Kathleen Christison. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy.
By Steven Z. Freiberger 604
Nick Cullather. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954.
By Richard H. Immerman 605
Rebecca E. Klatch. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s.
By Gregory L. Schneider 606
Andrew E. Hunt. The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
By Melvin Small 606
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War.
By Harvard Sitkoff 607
Keith Beattie. The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.
By David Burner 608
Beth Bailey. Sex in the Heartland.
By Jay A. Gertzman 609
John R. Chávez. Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968–1993.
By David G. Gutiérrez 610
Jaap Kooijman. . . . And the Pursuit of National Health: The Incremental Strategy Toward National Health Insurance in the United States of America.
By Georgina Feldberg 611

 

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington, editors. The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History.
By Robert J. Stewart 611
René De La Pedraja. Latin American Merchant Shipping in the Age of Global Competition.
By Jeremy Baskes 612
Ada Ferrer. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898.
By Philip A. Howard 613
Dorothy Tanck de Estrada. Pueblos de indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750–1821.
By Sonya Lipsett-Rivera 614
Carlos Marichal and Mario Cerutti, compilers. Historia de las grandes empresas en México, 1850–1930.
By Steven Topik 615
Natividad Gutiérrez. Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State.
By David G. LaFrance 616
Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel, editors. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers.
By Donald F. Stevens 617
Kay B. Warren. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala.
By David McCreery 618
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear. Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960.
By James P. Brennan 619
Mirta Zaida Lobato, editor. Política, médicos y enfermedades: Lecturas de historia de la salud in la Argentina.
By Mark D. Szuchman 620

 

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Leslie Kurke. Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece.
By Sue Blundell 622
Nicholas F. Jones. The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy.
By Frank L. Vatai 622
V. G. Kiernan. Horace: Poetics and Politics.
By Robert Gurval 624
David Frankfurter. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance.
By Jonathan P. Berkey 624
Georges Arabatzis. Éthique du bonheur et orthodoxie à Byzance (IVe-XIIe siècles).
By Timothy E. Gregory 625
Isabel Moreira. Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul.
By Yitzhak Hen 626
Paul Saenger. Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading.
By Michael Richter 627
Mary Dockray-Miller. Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England.
By Clarissa Atkinson 628
H. E. J. Cowdrey. Pope Gregory VII: 1073–1085.
By Bernard Hamilton 628
Debra J. Birch. Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages: Continuity and Change.
By Margaret Harvey 629
Constance A. H. Berman. The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe.
By John A. Nichols 630
William J. Courtenay. Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait.
By J. M. M. H. Thijssen 631
Bridget Ann Henisch. The Medieval Calendar Year.
By Ronald Hutton 632

 

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Allan Ellenius, editor. Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation.
By Richard A. Jackson 632
Bernd Roeck. Kunstpatronage in der Frühen Neuzeit: Studien zu Kunstmarkt, Künstlern und ihren Auftraggebern in Italien und im Heiligen Römischen Reich (15.-17. Jahrhundert).
By Jeffrey Chipps Smith 633
Pieter Lagrou. The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945–1965.
By Arthur Marwick 634
Rolf Torstendahl, editor. State Policy and Gender System in the Two German States and Sweden, 1945–1989; Teresa Kulawik. Wohlfahrtsstaat und Mutterschaft: Schweden und Deutschland 1870–1912.
By Madeleine Hurd 635
N. J. G. Pounds. A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria.
By Horton Davies 637
A. N. McLaren. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558–1585.
By Retha M. Warnicke 637
Alexandra Walsham. Providence in Early Modern England.
By Ian Green 638
David Zaret. Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England.
By Adrian Johns 639
Joseph M. Levine. Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England.
By Lawrence Manley 640
Rachel Weil. Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680–1714.
By Melinda S. Zook 641
Jeremy Gregory. Restoration, Reformation and Reform, 1660–1828: Archbishops of Canterbury and Their Diocese.
By Peter Marshall 642
Hannah Barker. Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England.
By Paul Monod 643
Mark W. Weatherall. Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine at Cambridge 1800–1940.
By Helge Kragh 644
Dale A. Johnson. The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825–1925.
By Susan Thorne 645
John Martin. The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931.
By Eric Jones 646
Martin Kolinsky. Britain's War in the Middle East: Strategy and Diplomacy, 1936–42.
By Robert Holland 647
Ruán O'Donnell. The Rebellion in Wicklow, 1798.
By Marianne Elliott 648
Patrick M. Geoghegan. The Irish Act of Union: A Study in High Politics 1798–1801.
By Jim Smyth 648
Sean Farrell. Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784–1886.
By Donald Harman Akenson 649
Bernadette Whelan. Ireland and the Marshall Plan, 1947–57.
By John D. Fair 649
Jordi Maluquer de Motes. España en la crisis de 1898: De la gran depresión a la modernización económica del siglo XX.
By William J. Callahan 650
Stanley G. Payne. Fascism in Spain 1923–1977.
By Paul Preston 651
Ann W. Ramsey. Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540–1630.
By Keith P. Luria 652
Anne Bonzon. L'esprit de clocher: Prêtres et paroisses dans le diocèse de Beauvais (1535–1650).
By William Monter 653
A. Annette Finley-Croswhite. Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589–1610.
By Charlotte C. Wells 654
Caroline Hannaway and Ann La Berge, editors. Constructing Paris Medicine.
By Harvey Mitchell 655
Robin Walz. Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris.
By Miriam R. Levin 657
Marjorie A. Beale. The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900–1940.
By Matt Matsuda 658
Bud Burkhard. French Marxism between the Wars: Henri Lefebvre and the "Philosophies."
By Wayne Thorpe 659
Sarah Farmer. Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane; Caroline Wiedmer. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France; Nancy Wood. Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe.
By Omer Bartov 660
Francisca de Haan. Gender and the Politics of Office Work, the Netherlands, 1860–1940.
By Carole Elizabeth Adams 662
Aldo Stella. Il "Bauernführer": Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare.
By Elisabeth G. Gleason 663
Wolfgang Behringer. Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night.
By Trevor Johnson 664
Vera Lind. Selbstmord in der Frühen Neuzeit: Diskurs, Lebenswelt und kultureller Wandel am Beispiel der Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein.
By Craig Koslofsky 665
Stefan Brakensiek. Fürstendiener-Staatsbeamte-Bürger: Amtsführung und Lebenswelt der Ortsbeamten in niederhessischen Kleinstädten (1750–1830).
By Charles Ingrao 666
Hermann Butzer. Diäten und Freifahrt im Deutschen Reichstag: Der Weg zum Entschädigungsgesetz von 1906 und die Nachwirkung dieser Regelung bis in die Zeit des Grundgesetzes.
By Beverly Heckart 667
Young-Sun Hong. Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919–1933.
By Paul Weindling 667
Anson Rabinbach. In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment.
By John McCole 668
Rainer Behring. Demokratische Außenpolitik für Deutschland: Die außenpolitischen Vorstellungen deutscher Sozialdemokraten im Exil 1933–1945.
By Stefan Berger 669
Gavriel Rosenfeld. Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich.
By Jeffry M. Diefendorf 670
Barbara Fait. Demokratische Erneuerung unter dem Sternenbanner: Amerikanische Kontrolle und Verfassunggebung in Bayern 1946.
By Hermann J. Rupieper 671
Alan L. Nothnagle. Building the East German Myth: Historical Mythology and Youth Propaganda in the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1989.
By Catherine Epstein 672
Günter Bischof. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945–55: The Leverage of the Weak.
By William E. Wright 673
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348–1434.
By R. Burr Litchfield 673
Craig Kallendorf. Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance.
By Margaret L. King 674
Frank A. James III. Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer.
By Euan Cameron 675
Tommaso Astarita. Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy.
By Thomas V. Cohen 676
Dianella Gagliani. Brigate nere: Mussolini e la militarizzazione del Partito fascista repubblicano.
By Alexander De Grand 677
Hans Fredrik Dahl. Quisling: A Study in Treachery.
By Oddvar K. Hoidal 678
Marja Kokko. Sisaret, toverit: Naisten järjestäytyminen, ryhmätietoisuus ja kansälaistuminen Jyväskylässä 1800-luvun lopulta 1930-luvulle.
By Niilo Kauppi 679
Mikael Korhonen. Finlands ryska fordringar: Ekonomisk uppgörelse med Ryssland efter 1917; Privata ersättningsfrågr I ett jämförande internationalellt sammanhang.
By A. F. Upton 680
Mark Bassin. Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865.
By Daniel Brower 681
Yanni Kotsonis. Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861–1914.
By Scott J. Seregny 682
David Wartenweiler. Civil Society and Academic Debate in Russia 1905–1914.
By Samuel D. Kassow 683
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.
By J. Arch Getty 684
Andres Kasekamp. The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia.
By Roger Griffin 685
Martin Dean. Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941–44.
By Andrew Ezergailis 686
David M. Glantz and Jonathan H. House. The Battle of Kursk.
By M. K. Dziewanowski 687

 

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Pnina Lahav. Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century.
By Mordechai Kremnitzer 688


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, editors. Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives.
By Richard Rathbone 689
David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone, editors. Africa's Urban Past.
By Phyllis M. Martin 690
Colleen E. Kriger. Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth-Century West Central Africa.
By Candice L. Goucher 691
Richard B. Allen. Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius.
By Philip M. Allen 691
Benedict Carton. Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa.
By Elizabeth Schmidt 692


Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Lorraine Daston, editor. Biographies of Scientific Objects. 700
Susan A. Crane, editor. Museums and Memory. 700
Marcia Landy, editor. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. 700
Iain Hampsher-Monk, Karin Tilmans, and Frank Van Vree, editors. History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives. 700


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky, editor. The Breakout: The Origins of Civilization. 701
Ian Nish and Yoichi Kibata, editors. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations. 701
Marc Lee Raphael, editor. The Margins of Jewish History. 701
Richard Handler, editor. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology. 701
Pier Angelo Toninelli, editor. The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World. 701
Maggie Andrews and Mary M. Talbot, editors. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture. 702


ASIA

Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan, editors. Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India. 702


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Craig E. Colten, editor. Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change. 702
David Buisseret and Steven G. Reinhardt, editors. Creolization in the Americas. 702
John C. Inscoe, editor. Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation. 702
Janet L. Coryell et al, editors. Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be. 703
Joel H. Silbey, editor. Russian-American Dialogue on the History of U.S. Political Parties. 703
David F. Schmitz and T. Christopher Jespersen, editors. Architects of the American Century: Individuals and Institutions in Twentieth-Century U.S. Foreign Policymaking. 703