THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CVI      NO.4   OCTOBER 2001

Table of Contents

Articles

The Strange Death of Margarita Marcellini: Male, Signs, and the Everyday World of Pre-modern Medicine
By Guido Ruggiero 1141
Something She Called a Fever: Michelet, Derrida, and Dust
By Carolyn Steedman 1159
Gendering Production in Wartime South Africa
By Nancy L. Clark 1181


AHR Forum: Creating National Identities in a Revolutionary Era

Introduction 1214
The Unbearable Lightness of Being French: Law, Republicanism and National Identity at the End of the Old Regime
By David A. Bell 1215
The English Problem of Identity in the American Revolution
By Dror Wahrman 1236
"Look on This Picture . . . And on This!" Nationalism, Localism, and Partisan Images of Otherness in the United States, 1787–1820
By Andrew W. Robertson 1263
To What Can Late Eighteenth-Century French, British, and American Anxieties Be Compared? Comment on Three Papers
By Benedict Anderson 1281


Review Essay

On Political Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
By Hilda Sabato 1290

Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

John W. O'Malley. Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era.
By Nicholas Terpstra 1316
Margaret J. Osler, editor. Rethinking the Scientific Revolution.
By Nicholas H. Clulee 1317
Mark Salber Phillips. Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740–1820.
By Robert Anchor 1318
Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. Rubin. Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War.
By Stephen V. Ash 1319
Emma Pérez. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History.
By Richard Griswold del Castillo 1319
Barbie Zelizer. Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye; Andrea Liss. Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust.
By Dagmar Barnouw 1320
Dipesh Chakrabarty. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
By R. Bin Wong 1322
Keith Jenkins. Why History? Ethics and Postmodernity.
By Alex Callinicos 1323

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Jane Caplan, editor. Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History.
By Sander L. Gilman 1324
Irvine Loudon. The Tragedy of Childbed Fever.
By Christopher Hamlin 1325
Charles D. Cashdollar. A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915.
By Paul T. Phillips 1325
Harold R. Winton and David R. Mets, editors. The Challenge of Change: Military Institutions and New Realities, 1918–1941.
By Tim Travers 1326
Joseph M. Henning. Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations.
By James L. Huffman 1327
Aaron Forsberg. Americans and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950–1960.
By Roger Buckley 1328
Judith S. Jeffery. Ambiguous Commitments and Uncertain Policies: The Truman Doctrine in Greece, 1947–1952.
By Gerasimos Augustinos 1329
John Subritzky. Confronting Sukarno: British, American, Australian and New Zealand Diplomacy in the Malaysian-Indonesian Confrontation, 1961–5.
By Joseph M. Siracusa 1330
J. R. McNeill. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.
By Martin V. Melosi 1331

ASIA

Josephine Chiu-Duke. To Rebuild the Empire: Lu Chih's Confucian Pragmatist Approach to the Mid-T'ang Predicament.
By Hoyt Cleveland Tillman 1332
Victoria Cass. Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming.
By Paul S. Ropp 1332
Wen-hsin Yeh. Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond.
By Harriet Evans 1333
Xiaobo Lü. Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party.
By Gregor Benton 1335
Qiang Zhai. China and the Vietnam Wars 1950–1975.
By Steven Hugh Lee 1336
Edward J. Shultz. Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea.
By Martina Deuchler 1337
R. Champakalakshmi. Trade Ideology and Urbanization: South India 300 BC to AD 1300.
By M. N. Pearson 1338
Susan Billington Harper. In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India.
By Jeffrey Cox 1339
Alan Warren. Waziristan, the Faqir of Ipi, and the Indian Army: The North West Frontier Revolt of 1936–37.
By Ian Talbot 1340
Naureen Talha. Economic Factors in the Making of Pakistan (1921–1947).
By Ian J. Kerr 1341

OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Jean E. Rosenfeld. The Island Broken in Two Halves: Land and Renewal Movements Among the Maori of New Zealand.
By Bronwyn Elsmore 1341


Canada and the United States

Alexander Keyssar. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States.
By Ann D. Gordon 1342
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh. Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics.
By John J. Coleman 1343
Nancy F. Cott. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation.
By Norma Basch 1344
Norma Basch. Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians.
By Steven Mintz 1345
Karin Wulf. Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia.
By Lisa Wilson 1346
David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly. Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement.
By Alan Gallay 1347
Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia.
By Ralph Mann 1347
Scott L. Malcomson. One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race.
By Desmond King 1348
Peter M. Doll. Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745–1795.
By Frank Lambert 1349
Matthew H. Crocker. The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston 1800–1830.
By Lex Renda 1350
Maurice G. Baxter. Henry Clay the Lawyer.
By Kimberly C. Shankman 1351
Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright, editors. Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Context.
By Bruce A. Ronda 1351
Nicholas E. Tawa. High-Minded and Low-Down: Music in the Lives of Americans 1800–1861.
By Victor Greene 1352
Eric Purchase. Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains.
By Mark Stoll 1353
Brian Roberts. American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture; Susan Lee Johnson. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush.
By Anne Hyde 1354
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin. Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.
By Tyler Anbinder 1355
Kimberley K. Smith. The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics.
By Roger Lane 1356
Leonard L. Richards. The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860.
By Wallace Hettle 1357
Craig Steven Wilder. A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn.
By David Roediger 1358
Walter Johnson. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
By Bertram Wyatt-Brown 1359
Jane Rhodes. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century.
By Frankie Hutton 1360
Laura F. Edwards. Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era.
By Nina Silber 1360
Barry Schwartz. Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory.
By Reid Mitchell 1361
Mark E. Neely, Jr. Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism.
By Michael B. Ballard 1362
John C. Willis. Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War.
By Jack E. Davis 1362
Stephen Kantrowitz. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy.
By Gail Williams O'Brien 1363
John David Smith. Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro
By William L. Van Deburg 1364
Christopher Robert Reed. "All the World is Here!" The Black Presence at White City.
By Jacqueline M. Moore 1365
Joy S. Kasson. Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History.
By Paul Reddin 1366
Brian C. Hosmer. American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920.
By Mark Spence 1367
Mary H. Blewett. Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England.
By Bruce Laurie 1368
Sarah Deutsch. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940.
By Kathleen Waters Sander 1368
Robert Kanigel. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency.
By Amy Sue Bix 1369
Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning.
By Jennifer Scanlon 1370
Donald T. Critchlow. Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation.
By Patrick J. Furlong 1371
Nancy Martha West. Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia.
By Lili Corbus Bezner 1372
Joseph E. Taylor III. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis.
By Frieda Knobloch 1373
David Vaught. Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920.
By Steven Stoll 1374
Yong Chen. Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943: A Trans-Pacific Community.
By James S. Moy 1375
Catherine Mulholland. William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles.
By Abraham Hoffman 1375
Craig Phelan. Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor.
By Julie Greene 1376
Howard Kimeldorf. Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement.
By Janet Irons 1377
Howell John Harris. Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940.
By Jack Metzgar 1377
Marc Dollinger. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America; Hadassa Kosak. Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881–1905.
By Riv-Ellen Prell 1378
Evelyn A. Kirkley. Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865–1915.
By Beryl Satter 1379
Nan Enstad. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
By Nancy Gabin 1380
Nancy C. Unger. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer.
By Gregory D. Sumner 1381
Elisabeth S. Clemens. The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925.
By Brian Balogh 1382
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks. It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States.
By Jacqueline Jones 1383
James R. Barrett. William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism.
By Bruce Nelson 1384
David A. Moss. Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy.
By Robert Bussel 1385
Patrick D. Reagan. Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1943.
By Robert H. Zieger 1386
David T. Beito. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967.
By Christopher Shannon 1387
Amy Sue Bix. Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929–1981.
By George Lipsitz 1388
Angela J. Latham. Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s.
By Linda Mizejewski 1389
Julie A. Willett. Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop.
By Peter N. Stearns 1389
Robert M. Crunden. Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism.
By Joan Shelley Rubin 1390
Erin A. Smith. Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines.
By Dana Polan 1391
Gregg Mitman. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film.
By James A. Pritchard 1392
Christine Bold. The WPA Guides: Mapping America.
By Rena Fraden 1393
Landon R. Y. Storrs. Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.
By Jennifer Scanlon 1394
Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965.
By Eric Anderson 1394
Melissa Walker. All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919–1941.
By Deborah Fink 1395
Janet Irons. Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South.
By James Duane Bolin 1396
G. C. Waldrep III. Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
By John Hennen 1397
Bruce Nelson. Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality.
By Christopher Waldrep 1398
Andrew Edmund Kersten. Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941–46.
By Glenn Feldman 1399
Daniel Kryder. Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II.
By Richard W. Thomas 1400
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910–1963.
By Daniel Kryder 1401
Marc Gallicchio. The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895–1945.
By Michael L. Krenn 1402
Mark A. Stoler. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II.
By Michael C. C. Adams 1403
Michael S. Neiberg. Making Citizen Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service.
By Michael C. C. Adams 1404
Brett Gary. The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War.
By Judy Kutulas 1405
David F. Krugler. The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945–1953.
By Matthew Lasar 1405
Lary May. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way.
By Robert Brent Toplin 1406
James J. Lorence. The Suppression of Salt of the Earth.
By Claire B. Potter 1407
Jack Metzgar. Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered.
By Alan Draper 1408
Robbie Lieberman. The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945–1963.
By Martin Halpern 1409
Max Page. The Creative Destruction of Manhattan 1900–1940.
By John D. Fairfield 1410
Joshua B. Freeman. Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II.
By Roy Rosenzweig 1411
Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened.
By Jon C. Teaford 1411
Ruth Feldstein. Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism 1930–1965.
By Lynne Curry 1412
Eugene McCarraher. Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought.
By Diane Winston 1413
Mark L. Kleinman. A World of Hope, A World of Fear: Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism.
By Mark Hulsether 1414
Jon H. Roberts and James Turner. The Sacred and the Secular University.
By Joel A. Carpenter 1415
David Stricklin. A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century.
By John Crowley 1415
Pete Daniel. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s.
By John Dittmer 1416
Michael T. Bertrand. Race, Rock, and Elvis.
By Karal Ann Marling 1417
William J. Billingsley. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina.
By Kenneth J. Heineman 1418
Charles K. Ross. Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League.
By Samuel O. Regalado 1419
Jules Tygiel. Past Time: Baseball as History.
By Warren Goldstein 1420
Padma Rangaswamy. Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis.
By H. S. Bhola 1421
David Allyn. Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution; An Unfettered History.
By Ruth M. Alexander 1421
Frances Fitzgerald. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War.
By Stephen Vaughn 1422
Lawrence N. Powell. Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana.
By Leonard Dinnerstein 1423

 

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz, editors. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas.
By Magnus Mörner 1424
Bernardo García Martínez and Alba González Jácome, editors. Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en América.
By Abel Alves 1427
Gisela von Wobeser. Vida eternal y preocupaciones terrenales: Las capellanías de misas en la Nueva Espańa 1700–1821.
By Kathryn Burns 1428
Thomas A. Abercrombie. Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People.
By Mark Thurner 1428
Julyan G. Peard. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine.
By David Sowell 1429

 

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Peter S. Wells. The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe.
By Steven Muhlberger 1430
Elizabeth Key Fowden. The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran.
By Lynda L. Coon 1431
Ulrich Meyer. Soziales Handeln im Zeichen des "Hauses": Zur Ökonomik in der Spätantike und im früheren Mittelalter.
By Stephen A. Stertz 1432
J. W. Tubbs. The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions.
By Paul Brand 1433
Denis Menjot and Manuel Sánchez Martínez, editors. La fiscalité des villes au Moyen Âge.
By Stephen Bensch 1433
Robert Chazan. God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives.
By Marc Saperstein 1434
Barbara H. Rosenwein. Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe.
By Kenneth Pennington 1435
Richard W. Kaeuper. Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.
By Bernard S. Bachrach 1436
Frances A. Underhill. For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh.
By Philippa C. Maddern 1437
Jane Whittle. The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440–1580.
By John Langdon 1438
Martyn Rady. Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary.
By Jean W. Sedlar 1439

 

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Christine Meek, editor. Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
By Merry Wiesner-Hanks 1440
Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi. Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe.
By Guido Ruggiero 1441
William J. Bouwsma. The Waning of the Renaissance 1550–1640.
By Peter Burke 1442
Philip Benedict, Guido Marnef, Henk van Nierop, and Marc Venard, editors. Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the Netherlands 1555–1585.
By Judith Pugh Meyer 1443
Paul Michael Kielstra. The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France, 1814–48.
By Lawrence C. Jennings 1445
Axel Körner, editor. 1848—A European Revolution? International Ideas and National Memories of 1848.
By Jonathan Sperber 1446
Madeleine Hurd. Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870–1914.
By Jan Palmowski 1447
Klaus J. Bade. Europa in Bewegung: Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.
By Steve Hochstadt 1448
Michael Phayer. The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965.
By Antony Polonsky 1449
István Deák, Jan T. Gross, and Tony Judt, editors. The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.
By Norman M. Naimark 1450
Retha M. Warnicke. The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Early Modern England.
By Charles Carlton 1451
Michael B. Young. King James and the History of Homosexuality.
By Alan Stewart 1451
Rosalind Mitchison. The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The Experience of Poverty, 1574–1845.
By R. A. Cage 1452
Jonathan Scott. England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context.
By Gary S. De Krey 1453
Susan E. Whyman. Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys 1660–1720.
By Susan D. Amussen 1454
Stephen Conway. The British Isles and the War of American Independence.
By Michal J. Rozbicki 1455
Randolph Trumbach. Sex and the Gender Revolution.
By Thomas Laqueur 1456
David Carlton. Churchill and the Soviet Union.
By John Ramsden 1457
Joe Maiolo. The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933–39: A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War.
By Paul M. Kennedy 1458
Dave Renton. Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s; Nigel Copsey. Anti-Fascism in Britain.
By Mike Cronin 1459
Michael Farry. The Aftermath of Revolution: Sligo 1921–23.
By Charles Townshend 1460
William Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips. Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century; Felipe Ruiz Martín and Ángel García Sanz, editors. Mesta, transhumancia y lana en la Espańa modern.
By David R. Ringrose 1461
Christine Métayer. Au tombeau des secrets: Les écrivains publics du Paris populaire; Cimetičre des Saints-Innocents XVIe–XVIIIe sičcle.
By Laura Mason 1463
Peter N. Miller. Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century.
By Erika Rummel 1464
Anne Zink. Pays ou circonscriptions: Les collectivités territoriales de la France du sud-ouest sous l'Ancien Régime.
By Ted Margadant 1465
L. M. Cullen. The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France.
By Kolleen M. Guy 1465
Lisa Jane Graham. If the King Only Knew: Seditious Speech in the Reign of Louis XV.
By Emmet Kennedy 1466
Kenneth Margerison. Pamphlets and Public Opinion: The Campaign for a Union of Orders in the Early French Revolution.
By Emmet Kennedy 1467
David Andress. Massacre at the Champ de Mars: Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution.
By Jack R. Censer 1468
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror.
By Anthony Lacy Gully 1469
Sheryl Kroen. Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815–1830.
By Patricia Mainardi 1470
Raymond Jonas. France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times.
By James F. McMillan 1470
Sarah A. Curtis. Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France.
By Phyllis Stock-Morton, 1471
Anselm Gerhard. The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century.
By Susan Vandiver Nicassio 1472
Elizabeth Ezra. The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France.
By Alice L. Conklin 1473
Samuel Huston Goodfellow. Between the Swastika and the Cross of Lorraine: Fascisms in Interwar Alsace.
By Roger Griffin 1474
Jeffrey Mehlman. Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940–1944.
By Kim Munholland 1475
Craig Harline and Eddy Put. A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders.
By Philip Benedict 1476
Craig M. Koslofsky. The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450–1700.
By Marc R. Forster 1476
Kathy Stuart. Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany.
By H. C. Erik Midelfort 1477
Steven Ozment. Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany.
By Gerald L. Soliday 1478
Ann Goldberg. Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society 1815–1849.
By Doris Kaufmann 1479
Steve Hochstadt. Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820–1989.
By Jean H. Quataert 1480
Pascal Grosse. Kolonialismus, Eugenik und Bürgerliche Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1850–1918.
By Woodruff D. Smith 1481
Greg Eghigian. Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany.
By Edward Ross Dickinson 1482
Kevin Repp. Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the Search for Alternatives, 1890–1914.
By David Gross 1483
Jeffrey Verhey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany.
By David Welch 1484
Raffael Scheck. Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914–1930.
By Benjamin Lapp 1485
Richard R. Wetzell. Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880–1945.
By Geoffrey Cocks 1486
Michael A. Meyer, editor. German-Jewish History in Modern Times.
By Donald L. Niewyk 1487
Gareth Pritchard. The Making of the GDR 1945–53: From Antifascism to Stalinism.
By John Connelly 1488
Anselm Doering-Manteuffel. Wie westlich sind die Deutschen? Amerikanisierung und Westernisierung im 20. Jahrhundert.
By Dietrich Herrmann 1489
John R. Hinde. Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity.
By Thomas Albert Howard 1489
James Hankins, editor. Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections.
By George McClure 1490
William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, editors. Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power.
By Benjamin G. Kohl 1492
Gabriella Zarri. Recinti: Donne, clausura e matrimonio nella prima etŕ moderna.
By Sharon T. Strocchia 1493
Shearer West, editor. Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
By Brendan Dooley 1494
Maneula Martini. Fedeli alla terra: Scelte economiche e attivitŕ pubbliche di una famiglia nobile Bolognese nell'Ottocento.
By Rudolph M. Bell 1495
Emilio Gentile. Fascismo e antifascismo: I pariti italiani fra le due querre.
By A. James Gregor 1496
Stanislao Pugliese. Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Anti-Fascist Exile.
By James Martin 1497
Filippo Sabetti. The Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy.
By Joseph LaPalombara 1498
Jerzy Kloczowski. A History of Polish Christianity.
By John-Paul Himka 1499
Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819.
By Janet Hartley 1499
Ian D. Thatcher. Leon Trotsky and World War One: August 1914-February 1917.
By Anna Geifman 1500
Lynn Mally. Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917–1938.
By Richard Stites 1501
Anthony Heywood. Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways.
By Teddy J. Uldricks 1502
Evan Mawdsley and Stephen White. The Soviet Elite From Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917–1991.
By Anthony D'Agostino 1503

 

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Rudolph P. Matthee. The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600–1730.
By Ina Baghdiantz McCabe 1504
Naomi Shepherd. Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917–1948.
By Roger Adelson 1504
Ioannis D. Stefanidis. Isle of Discord: Nationalism, Imperialism, and the Making of the Cyprus Problem.
By John A. Koumoulides 1505

 

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Joe Lunn. Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War.
By Andrew F. Clark 1506
Owen White. Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895–1960.
By Patricia M. E. Lorcin 1507
Lamin Sanneh. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.
By Donald R. Wright 1508

Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Johannes Burkhardt, editor. Krieg und Frieden in der historischen Gedächtniskultur: Studien zur friedenspolitischen Bedeutung historischer Argumente und Jubiläen von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. 1515
Michael Cox, editor. E. H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal. 1515
Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl, and Peter Gran, editors. History after the Three Worlds: Post-Eurocentric Historiographies. 1515

 

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Howard Temperly, editor. After Slavery: Emancipation and Its Discontents. 1515
André Burguičre and Raymond Grew, editors. The Constuction of Minorities: Cases for Comparison Across Time and Around the World. 1516
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