THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CV     NO.3   JUNE 2000

Articles


Conspiracy Obsession in a Time of Revolution: French Elites and the Origins of the Terror, 1789-1792
BY TIMOTHY TACKETT

691

When Mexico Had the Blues: A Transatlantic Tale of Bonds, Bankers, and Nationalists, 1862-1910
BY STEVEN C. TOPIK

714

Taking Off the Cold War Lens: Visions of North-South Conflict during the Algerian War for Independence
BY MATTHEW CONNELLY

739

"Western Civ" and the Staging of History in American Higher Education
BY DANIEL A. SEGAL

770


Forum Essay


INTRODUCTION

806

Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era
BY CHARLES S. MAIER

807


Review Essay


Bringing the Peasants Back In: Agrarian Themes in the Construction and Corrosion of Statist Historiography in Rwanda
BY DAVID NEWBURY and CATHARINE NEWBURY

Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Donald R. Kelley. Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder.
By Michael Ermarth 878
Francesco Benigno. Specchi della rivoluzione: Conflitto e identità politica nell'Europa moderna.
By Charles Tilly 879
Ray Huang. Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History: Discourses, Syntheses, and Comparisons.
By Prasenjit Duara 880
Maria Todorova. Imagining the Balkans.
By John R. Lampe 881
Niall Ferguson. The Pity of War.
By R. J. Q. Adams 881
George L. Mosse. The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism.
By Zeev Sternhell 882
Daniel Gasman. Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology.
By Alexander De Grand 883
François Furet. The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century.
By Eric D. Weitz 884
Robert H. Jackson, editor. New Views of Borderlands History.
By Andrés Tijerina 885
Eli Faber. Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight.
By David Eltis 886
Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History.
By Sterling Stuckey 887
Robert R. Archibald. A Place to Remember: Using History to Build Community.
By Alison Landsberg 888
Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee, editors. Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa.
By Shula Marks 889

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Harry N. Scheiber, editor. The State and Freedom of Contract.
By Christopher Tomlins 890
Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz, editors. Institutions and the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990.
By Simon Ville 891
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino, editors. Big Business and the Wealth of Nations.
By Olivier Zunz 892
Samuel L. Baily. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914.
By John Zucchi 894
Walter Thompson, editor. Great Power Rivalries.
By John W. Langdon 894
Michael Jabara Carley. 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II.
By Jan Karl Tanenbaum 895
John Killick. The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945-1960; Geir Lundestad. "Empire" by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997.
By Irwin M. Wall 896
Paul Gordon Lauren. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen.
By Natalie Hevener Kaufman 898
Linda Grant De Pauw. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present.
By John Karl Evans 899
Nicole Ann Dombrowski, editor. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent.
By Barbara Evans Clements 900
Cindy S. Aron. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States; Orvar Löfgren. On Holiday: A History of Vacationing.
By Rob Kroes 901
Angus McLaren. Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History.
By Lesley A. Hall 902

ASIA

Evelyn S. Rawski. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions.
By Silas Wu 903
David Wakefield. Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China.
By Steven Harrell 904
Kathy Le Mons Walker. Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta.
By Roxann Prazniak 905
Wang Zheng. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories.
By Barbara Mittler 906
Harold M. Tanner. Strike Hard! Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985.
By Melissa Macauley 906
Nguyen Thi Dieu. The Mekong River and the Struggle for Indochina: Water, War, and Peace.
By Gary R. Hess 907
Robert K. Brigham. Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War.
By Qiang Zhai 908
Mrinalini Sinha. Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century.
By Douglas M. Haynes 909
Gauri Viswanathan. Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief.
By Brian Stanley 910
Koji Kawashima. Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore 1858-1936.
By Robin Jeffrey 911
Pradip Kumar Datta. Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal.
By Partha Chatterjee 912

OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Joy Damousi. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia.
By Kate Darian-Smith 912


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Janet E. Chute. The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership.
By Christopher Vecsey 913
Mary Kinnear. A Female Economy: Women's Work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970.
By Veronica Strong-Boag 914
Bruce Muirhead. Against the Odds: The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky.
By Christopher Armstrong 915
Scott Christianson. With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America.
By Adam Jay Hirsch 916
James M. Mayo. The American Country Club: Its Origins and Development.
By Allen Guttmann 916
Richard W. Cogley. John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War.
By Edward G. Gray 917
Lorena S. Walsh. From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community.
By Michael Mullin 918
Robert Olwell. Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790.
By Peter A. Coclanis 919
Rebecca Starr. A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina.
By Albert H. Tillson, Jr. 920
Andrew Stephen Walmsley. Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution.
By Charles P. Hanson 921
Mark E. Kann. A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics.
By Mark C. Carnes 922
Laura Rigal. The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic.
By Ronald Schultz 923
C. Edward Skeen. Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812.
By John K. Mahon 924
Donald F. Carmony. Indiana, 1816-1850: The Pioneer Era.
By Patrick J. Furlong 924
Kelly F. Himmel. The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859.
By F. Todd Smith 925
John M. Coward. The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90.
By Robert S. Tilton 926
Amanda Porterfield. Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries.
By Anne M. Boylan 927
Hugh Davis. Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate.
By Keith J. Hardman 928
William C. Davis. Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation.
By Joseph Allan Frank 928
Dale Baum. The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State During the Civil War Era.
By Barry A. Crouch 929
David Williams. Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
By Steven Eliott Tripp 930
Stephen P. Halbrook. Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876.
By Joyce L. Malcolm 931
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900.
By Robert Tracy McKenzie 932
Ronald E. Seavoy. The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995; A Study in Political Economy.
By Gavin Wright 933
Victoria Saker Woeste. The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945.
By David E. Hamilton 934
Rebecca Sharpless. Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940.
By Robert J. Gough 935
Gerald J. Baldasty. E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers.
By Donald L. Shaw 936
Edward Gale Agran. "Too Good a Town": William Allen White, Community, and the Emerging Rhetoric of Middle America.
By Hazel Dicken-Garcia 936
Lendol Calder. Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit.
By Stephanie Coontz 937
Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler. Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric.
By Jefferson Cowie 938
Gail Cooper. Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960.
By Martin V. Melosi 939
Steven J. Holmes. The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography.
By Patricia Jasen 940
Mark David Spence. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks.
By Kurk Dorsey 940
Glenda Riley. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West.
By Lewis L. Gould 941
Lori Landay. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture.
By Wendy Kozol 942
Joel Best. Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883.
By David T. Courtwright 943
Wanda A. Hendricks. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois.
By Merline Pitre 944
Margaret Finnegan. Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women.
By Rosalyn Terborg-Penn 944
Susan Curtis. The First Black Actors on the Great White Way.
By Ronald Wainscott 945
Robert G. Lee. Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture.
By Franklin Ng 946
Ralph Dietl. USA und Mittelamerika: Die Außenpolitik von William J. Bryan. 1913-1915.
By Manfred Jonas 947
Melvin G. Holli. The American Mayor: The Best and the Worst Big-City Leaders.
By Amy Bridges 948
Douglas Bukowski. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image.
By Maureen A. Flanagan 948
Robert B. Fairbanks. For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965.
By Clarence N. Stone 949
Richard Polenberg. The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process.
By Jerold S. Auerbach 950
Lawrence J. Nelson. King Cotton's Advocate: Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal.
By James A. Hodges 951
Gilbert J. Gall. Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO.
By William G. Ross 952
Roger Horowitz. "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!": A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90; Rick Halpern. Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54.
By Robert Asher 953
David Kennedy. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War; 1929-1945.
By Harvard Sitkoff 954
William O. Odom. After the Trenches: The Transformation of U.S. Army Doctrine, 1918-1939.
By Craig M. Cameron 955
John E. Moser. Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars.
By Susan A. Brewer 956
Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr. Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War.
By James I. Matray 957
Zachary Karabell. Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962.
By John Prados 958
Gerhard Th. Mollin. Die USA und der Kolonialismus: Amerika als Partner und Nachfolger der belgischen Macht in Afrika, 1939-1965.
By Jessica Gienow-Hecht 958
Michael L. Krenn. Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969.
By Charles P. Henry 959
Timothy N. Thurber. The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle.
By Leo P. Ribuffo 960
Willam Henry Kellar. Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston.
By Davison M. Douglas 961
Eric C. Schneider. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York.
By James Gilbert 962
Fritz Fischer. Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s.
By Julius A. Amin 963
Gregory L. Schneider. Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right.
By Mary C. Brennan 964
David Burner. Making Peace with the 60s.
By Michael Bibby 964
John G. Crowley. Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present.
By Keith Harper 965
Mark S. Massa. Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team.
By Patricia McNeal 966
Albert Isaac Slomovitz. The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History.
By Henry L. Feingold 967
Bonnie J. Morris. Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era.
By Lynn Davidman 968
Rickie Solinger, editor. Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000.
By Andrea Tone 969
Susan M. Hartmann. The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.
By Sara M. Evans 970

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Jeremy Adelman, editor. Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History.
By Lawrence A. Clayton 971
Carlos Dávila and Rory Miller, editors. Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries.
By Michael Monteón 972
Eva P. Bueno and Terry Caesar, editors. Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture.
By Allen Woll 973
Madhavi Kale. Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean.
By Mavis C. Campbell 973
Angel Smith and Emma Dávila-Cox, editors. The Crisis of 1898: Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization.
By Lester D. Langley 974
John Mason Hart, editor. Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers.
By Erasmo Gamboa 975
Grant D. Jones. The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom.
By Linda A. Newson 976
Ward Stavig. The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru.
By Mark A. Burkholder 976
Joel Outtes. O Recife: Gênese do Urbanismo 1927-1943.
By Teresa Meade 977
Rosemarijn Hoefte. In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname.
By Barbara L. Solow 978

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Cheryl Anne Cox. Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens.
By Donald Lateiner 979
Josiah Ober. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule.
By Thomas J. Figueira 980
Sandra R. Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan, editors. Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations.
By Keith Bradley 981
Martin Goodman, editor. Jews in a Graeco-Roman World.
By Louis H. Feldman 982
Tony Honoré. Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 A.D.: The Theodosian Dynasty and Its Quaestors.
By C. Wade Meade 983
Lester L. Field, Jr. Liberty, Dominion, and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398).
By T. D. Barnes 983
Ramsay MacMullen. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries.
By Michele Renee Salzman 984
Warren Treadgold. A History of the Byzantine State and Society.
By Lawrence A. Tritle 986
Walter Pohl and Helmut Reimitz, editors. Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800.
By Gary J. Johnson 987
William M. Aird. St. Cuthbert and the Normans: The Church of Durham, 1071-1153.
By Janet Burton 988
Kaspar Elm. Umbilicus Mundi: Beiträge zur Geschichte Jerusalems, der Kreuzzüge, des Kapitels vom Hlg. Grab in Jerusalem und der Ritterorden.
By James M. Powell 988
Bruno Lemesle. La société aristocratique dans le Haut-Maine (XIe-XIIe siècles).
By Theodore Evergates 989
John B. Freed. Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343.
By David D'Avray 990
John Hine Mundy. Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars.
By Thomas N. Bisson 991
Charles de Miramon. Les "donnés" au Moyen Âge: Une forme de vie religieuse laïque (v.1180-v.1500).
By Joseph H. Lynch 991
Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner. Worldly Saints: Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500.
By P. Renée Baernstein 992
Ellen E. Kittel and Thomas F. Madden, editors. Medieval and Renaissance Venice.
By Benjamin G. Kohl 993
Duccio Balestracci. The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant.
By Paul F. Grendler 994
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Francesco Santi, editors. The Regulation of Evil: Social and Cultural Attitudes to Epidemics in the Late Middle Ages.
By Paul Slack 995
Kirsten A. Seaver. The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Explorations of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500.
By James A. Graham-Campbell 996

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

John Dillenberger. Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe.
By Lee Palmer Wandel 997
Alessa Johns, editor. Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment.
By Lindsay Wilson 997
Victor Karady. Gewalterfahrung und Utopie: Juden in der europäischen Moderne.
By Omer Bartov 999
Peter Baldwin. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930.
By Andrew R. Aisenberg 1000
Susan R. Grayzel. Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War.
By Margaret H. Darrow 1001
Helmut Gruber and Pamela Graves, editors. Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women: Europe Between the Two World Wars.
By Charles Sowerwine 1002
Alison Games. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World.
By William E. Van Vugt 1003
Thomas Cogswell. Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict.
By Richard Cust 1004
Penelope Gouk. Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England.
By Margaret C. Jacob 1004
Emma Vincent Macleod. A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars Against Revolutionary France, 1792-1802.
By Marilyn Morris 1005
Peter Jupp. British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828-30.
By Hannah Barker 1006
Susan Thorne. Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England.
By Jeffrey Cox 1006
Kali Israel. Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture.
By Sandra J. Peacock 1007
R. J. Q. Adams. Bonar Law.
By Neal R. McCrillis 1008
Karen J. Musolf. From Plymouth to Parliament: A Rhetorical History of Nancy Astor's 1919 Campaign.
By Cheryl Law 1009
Paul Ward. Red Flag and Union Jack: Englishness, Patriotism and the British Left, 1881-1924.
By Jay Winter 1010
Andrezej Olechnowicz. Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars: The Becontree Estate.
By James Schmiechen 1010
Enrique Moradiellos. La perfidia de Albión: El gobierno británico y la guerra civil española.
By Rob Stradling 1011
B. J. C. McKercher. Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930-1945.
By George Egerton 1012
David Vincent. The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832-1998.
By Peter Mandler 1013
Johan Verberckmoes. Laughter, Jestbooks and Society in the Spanish Netherlands.
By Craig Harline 1014
Ruth MacKay. The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile.
By Luis R. Corteguera 1015
Tomás A. Mantecón Novellán. La muerte de Antonia Isabel Sánchez: Tiranía y escándalo en una sociedad rural del Norte español en el Antiguo Régimen.
By William J. Callahan 1015
Christopher Elwood. The Body Broken: The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth-Century France.
By Larissa Taylor 1016
Étienne Taillemite. Marins français à la découverte du monde: De Jacques Cartier à Dumont d'Urville.
By Philip P. Boucher 1017
Francis Brumont. Madirian et Saint-Mont: Histoire et devenir des vignobles.
By Leo Loubère 1018
Philippe Minard. La fortune du colbertisme: État et industrie dans la France des lumières.
By Michael Sonenscher 1019
Chantal Thomas. The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Maria-Antoinette.
By Sarah Maza 1020
Ladan Boroumand. La guerre des principes: Les assemblées révolutionnaires face aux droits de l'homme et à la souveraineté de la nation mai 1789-juillet 1794.
By Barry Shapiro 1020
Samuel F. Scott. From Yorktown to Valmy: The Transformation of the French Army in an Age of Revolution.
By Owen Connelly 1021
Carol E. Harrison. The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation.
By David Garrioch 1022
Douglas Peter Mackaman. Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France.
By Ann F. La Berge 1023
Isabelle Olivero. L'invention de la collection: De la diffusion de la littérature et des savoirs à la formation du citoyen au XIXe siècle.
By Vanessa R. Schwartz 1024
Laurence Badel. Un milieu libéral et européen: Le grand commerce français, 1925-1948.
By Robert J. Smith 1025
Venita Datta. Birth of a National Icon: The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France.
By Jeremy Jennings 1026
Herman Lebovics. Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture.
By Daniel J. Sherman 1027
Tom Scott. Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600.
By Paul M. Hohenberg 1028
H. C. Erik Midelfort. A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany.
By William J. Wright 1029
Paul S. Spalding. Seize the Book, Jail the Author: Johann Lorenz Schmidt and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
By Peter H. Wilson 1030
Ulrike von Hirschhausen. Liberalismus und Nation: Die Deutsche Zeitung 1847-1850.
By James M. Brophy 1030
Hartwin Spenkuch. Das Preußische Herrenhaus: Adel und Bürgertum in der Ersten Kammer des Landtages 1854-1918.
By Dolores L. Augustine 1031
Svenja Goltermann. Körper der Nation: Habitusformierung und die Politik des Turnens 1860-1890.
By John Breuilly 1032
Stephanie Merkenich. Grüne Front gegen Weimar: Reichs-Landbund und agrarischer Lobbyismus 1918-1933.
By J. Farquharson 1033
William L. Patch, Jr. Heinrich Brüning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic.
By Dietrich Orlow 1034
Victoria J. Barnett. Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust.
By Donald J. Dietrich 1035
Heike Bungert. Das Nationalkomitee und der Westen: Die Reaktion der Westalliierten auf das NKFD und die Freien Deutschen Bewegungen 1943-1948.
By A. J. Nicholls 1036
Elizabeth D. Heineman. What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.
By Atina Grossmann 1037
Yngve Tidman. Spräng Amalthea! Arbete, facklig kamp och strejkbryteri i nordvästeuropeiska hamnar 1870-1914.
By Byron J. Nordstrom 1038
Patrick Salmon. Scandinavia and the Great Powers of 1890-1940.
By Thomas Munch-Petersen 1039
Maura Palazzi. Donne sole: Storia dell'altra faccia dell'Italia tra antico regime e società contemporanea.
By Louise A. Tilly 1039
R. J. B. Bosworth. The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism.
By Marla Stone 1041
Richard Butterwick. Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798.
By Anita Shelton 1041
Ismo Nurmi. Slovakia-A Playground for Nationalism and National Identity: Manifestations of the National Identity of the Slovaks, 1918-1920.
By Gregory C. Ference 1042
Nancy Shields Kollmann. By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia.
By Daniel H. Kaiser 1043
David Wolff. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.
By Marc Raeff 1044
William B. Husband. "Godless Communists": Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia 1917-1932.
By Dimitry V. Pospielovsky 1045
Jeremy Smith. The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917-23.
By Ronald Grigor Suny 1046

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Josef Wiesehöfer. Ancient Persia: From 550 BC to 650 AD.
By Jamsheed K. Choksy 1047
Colin Imber. Ebu's-su'ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition.
By Bernard Weiss 1048
Vahakn N. Dadrian. Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict.
By Robert Melson 1048
Juan R. I. Cole. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East.
By Merlin Swartz 1049
Avraham Sela. The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order.
By Michael M. Laskier 1050
Mark Tessler, editor. Area Studies and Social Science: Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics.
By Crawford Young 1051
Michael Willis. The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History.
By Kenneth J. Perkins 1052

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Robert M. Baum. Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia.
By James Searing 1053
John K. Thornton. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706.
By Phyllis Martin 1054
Bruce Vandervort. Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914.
By Donna J. Maier 1055
Bill Bravman. Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950.
By John Lamphear 1056
Keith Kyle. The Politics of the Independence of Kenya.
By W. O. Maloba 1057
Terence Ranger. Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe.
By Thomas Spear 1058

Film Reviews

Anna and the King. Directed by Andy Tennant.
By Karen Manners Smith 1060
Topsy-Turvy. Directed by Mike Leigh.
By John C. Tibbetts 1061
Three Seasons. Directed by Tony Bui.
By Mark Bradley 1062
42 Up. Directed by Michael Apted.
By Alon Confino 1064


Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward, and Jeremy Aynsley, editors. Material Memories. 1066
Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet, editors. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture. 1066

COMPARATIVE / WORLD

Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, and Susan Wiseman, editors. At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period. 1066
Kate van Orden, editor. Music and the Cultures of Print. 1066
R. N. Swanson, editor. Continuity and Change in Christian Worship. 1067
Catherine Wessinger, editor. Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. 1067
Richard Lorenz, editor. Das Verdämmern der Macht: Vom Untergang großer Reiche. 1067

ASIA

David Shambaugh, editor. Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors. 1068
Stephen Kotkin and Bruce A. Elleman, editors. Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan. 1068
Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh, editors. Region and Partition: Bengal Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent. 1068

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Peter A. Coclanis and Stuart Bruchey, editors. Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience since 1800. 1068
Joseph C. Linck and Raymond J. Kupke, editors. Building the Church in America: Studies in Honor of Monsignor Robert R. Trisco on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. 1068
Michael J. Hogan, editor. The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the "American Century." 1069

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Carlos A. Aguirre and Robert Buffington, editors. Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America. 1069

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Polymnia Athanassiadi and Michael Frede, editors. Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity. 1069

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

John G. Garrard, Vera Tolz, and Ralph White, editors. European Democratization since 1800. 1069
Marilyn Cohen and Nancy J. Curtin, editors. Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. 1070
Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk, and Jill Steward, editors. The City in Central Europe: Culture and Society from 1800 to the Present. 1070
John Barber and Mark Harrison, editors. The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev. 1070

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Ralph A. Austen, editor. In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance. 1070
Documents and Bibliographies 1071
Other Books Received 1074
Communications 1083
Index 1085

Yeni Gelen Süreli Yayýnlar (2000)