THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW VOL. CV NO.4 OCTOBER 2000

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CV NO.4 OCTOBER 2000

Table of Contents

Articles

Religion Makes a Difference: Clerical and Lay Cultures in the Courts of Northern Italy, 1000–1300
By Maureen C. Miller	1095


"A Laudable Pride in the Whole of Us": City Halls and Civic Materialism
By Mary P. Ryan	1131


Hallmarks of Humanism: Hygiene and Love of Homeland in Qajar Iran
By Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet	1171

Review Essays: Orientalism Twenty Years On

Introduction	1204


Saidism without Said: Orientalism and U.S. Diplomatic History
By Andrew J. Rotter	1205


Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography
By K. E. Fleming	1218


Coming Out of Exile: Dante on the Orient(alism) Express
By Kathleen Biddick	1234

Review Essay

Active/Passive, Acts/Passions: Greek and Roman Sexualities
By Ruth Mazo Karras	1250

Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Marjorie Chibnall. The Debate on the Norman Conquest.
By D. J. A. Matthew	1266

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, and Mark A. Noll, editors. Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective.
By Winton U. Solberg	1267


Georges Minois. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture.
By H. C. Erik Midelfort	1268


Torbjørn L. Knutsen. The Rise and Fall of World Orders.
By William H. McNeill	1269


James Muldoon. Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800–1800.
By Peter Hulme	1270


Joanna Bourke. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare.
By Robert Weldon Whalen	1271


Thomas W. Zeiler. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT.
By Alan S. Milward	1272

ASIA

Richard C. Foltz. Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century.
By Denis Sinor	1273


James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell. Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning 1774–1873.
By Laurel L. Cornell	1273


Leo Ou-fan Lee. Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930–1945.
By David Strand	1274


Bernard Wasserstein. Secret War in Shanghai.
By Yu Maochun	1275


See Heng Teow. Japan's Cultural Policy toward China, 1918–1931: A Comparative Perspective.
By Donald A. Jordan	1276


Janice Matsumura. More than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan.
By Tom Havens	1277


Lisa Yoneyama. Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory.
By Monica Braw	1278


Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island.
By Greg Bankoff	1279


Nonica Datta. Forming an Identity: A Social History of the Jats.
By Michael H. Fisher	1280


Samita Sen. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry.
By Karen Leonard	1281


Maria Misra. Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850–1960.
By Peter Harnetty	1281


Ian Talbot. Pakistan: A Modern History.
By Craig Baxter	1282

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Peter Ennals and Deryck W. Holdsworth. Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries.
By Peter Moogk	1283


Richard White. Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly.
By Norman R. Ball	1284


Norman N. Feltes. This Side of Heaven: Determining the Donnelly Murders, 1880.
By Scott W. See	1285


H. V. Nelles. The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary.
By Allan Smith	1285


Daniel J. Robinson. The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930–1945.
By Bruce Muirhead	1286


Martin C. Melosi. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present.
By James T. Lemon	1287


Michael D. Pearlman. Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present.
By Paul A. C. Koistinen	1288


Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary. To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism.
By Len Travers	1289


Benjamin W. Labaree et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History.
By N. A. M. Rodger	1290


Albert L. Hurtado. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California.
By Margaret D. Jacobs	1291


Michael Leroy Oberg. Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585–1685.
By Nancy Shoemaker	1291


Phillip H. Round. Nature and By Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620–1660.
By Philip F. Gura	1292


David Jaffee. People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630–1860.
By Bruce C. Daniels	1293


James D. Drake. King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675–1676.
By Richard W. Cogley	1294


Donna Merwick. Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York.
By Cathy Matson	1295


Philip D. Morgan. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry.
By Walter Johnson	1295


Woody Holton. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia.
By James Sidbury	1297


Peter Thompson. Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.
By Billy G. Smith	1298


Nancy L. Rhoden. Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy during the American Revolution.
By Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.	1299


Joseph M. Lynch. Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Original Intent.
By Lance Banning	1300


Scott Douglas Gerber, editor. Seriatim: The Supreme Court before John Marshall.
By David P. Currie	1301


Anthony F. C. Wallace. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans.
By James H. Merrell	1302


Stanley W. Hoig. The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire.
By Gary Clayton Anderson	1303


Andrew Burstein. Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image.
By Ronald J. Zboray	1303


Scott E. Casper. Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century American.
By Paul C. Gutjahr	1304


Matthew Frye Jacobson. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.
By Noel Ignatiev	1305


Wiliam E. Van Vugt. Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States.
By Dirk Hoerder	1305


Lisa Merrill. When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators.
By M. Alison Kibler	1306


Bruce A. Ronda. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms.
By Carol A. Kolmerten	1307


Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease. A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War.
By Christie Farnham	1308


Joanne Pope Melish. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860.
By Edgar J. McManus	1309


Anthony Gronowicz. Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil War.
By Daniel Feller	1310


Stephen M. Frank. Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North.
By Elliott West	1310


Amy Dru Stanley. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation.
By Larry E. Hudson, Jr.	1311


Allen C. Guelzo. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.
By Daniel Walker Howe	1312


Scott Reynolds Nelson. Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction.
By Kenneth W. Noe	1313


William Seraile. Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church.
By Gilbert A. Williams	1314


Sandy Dwayne Martin. For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood.
By William Seraile	1315


Ingrid Overacker. The African American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900–1940.
By Hans A. Baer	1315


Paul Reddin. Wild West Shows.
By Brian W. Dippie	1316


William Wyckoff. Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Lanscape, 1860–1940.
By Mark S. Foster	1317


Cary Michael Carney. Native American Higher Education in the United States.
By Margaret Connell-Szasz	1318


Scott Riney. The Rapid City Indian School, 1898–1933.
By Michael C. Coleman	1319


Howard P. Chudacoff. The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture.
By Judy Hilkey	1320


Paul Israel. Edison: A Life of Invention.
By Jeffrey L. Meikle	1321


Paul C. Gutjahr. An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777–1880.
By E. Brooks Holifield	1322


Peter J. Thuesen. In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible.
By Peter J. Wosh	1322


Diane Winston. Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army.
By R. Laurence Moore	1323


Troy Messenger. Holy Leisure: Recreation and Religion in God's Square Mile.
By Ellen Eslinger	1324


Edith L. Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant A. Wacker, editors. Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism.
By Vinson Synan	1325


Beryl Satter. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920.
By Margaret Bendroth	1326


Louise Michele Newman. White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States.
By Susan E. Marshall	1327


Elizabeth Hayes Turner. Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880–1920.
By Don H. Doyle	1328


James Boylan. Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky and William English Walling.
By Leslie Fishbein	1329


Elizabeth Rose. A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890–1960.
By Barbara Beatty	1329


Sonya Michel. Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy.
By Gwendolyn Mink	1330


Andrea Tone. The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America.
By Michael B. Katz	1331


Patricia West. Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums.
By Michael Holleran	1332


Jack Glazier. Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America.
By Ewa Morawska	1333


Mark A. Raider. The Emergence of American Zionism.
By Susan A. Glenn	1334


Linda Mizejewski. Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema.
By June Sochen	1334


Frank Ninkovich. The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900; Daniel D. Stid. The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution.
By Anders Stephanson	1335


Michael A. Butler. Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937.
By William H. Becker	1336


Jay A. Gertzman. Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920–1940.
By Kevin White	1337


Mary F. Corey. The World through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury.
By William B. Scott	1338


Lisle A. Rose. The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950.
By Kenneth Paul O'Brien	1339


Mark Hulsether. Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941–1993.
By William R. Hutcheson	1340


James T. Fisher. Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961.
By Margot A. Henriksen	1341


Robert J. McMahon. The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II.
By James S. Olson	1342


Glenn Feldman. Politics, Society and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949.
By Bruce Clayton	1343


R. Douglas Hurt, editor. The Rural South since World War II.
By John Hennen	1344


Timothy B. Tyson. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williiams and the Roots of Black Power.
By Claude A. Clegg III	1345


Komozi Woodard. A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics.
By William L. Van Deburg	1346


Jefferson Cowie. Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor.
By Lawrence B. Glickman	1347


Sarah S. Elkind. Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland.
By Abraham Hoffman	1348


Robert P. Crease. Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972.
By Daniel Lee Kleinman	1349


Thomas Raymond Wellock. Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978.
By Mark Fiege	1349

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Nancy Mitchell. The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America.
By Mark T. Gilderhus	1350


Arthur Charles Dayfoot. The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492–1962.
By David Buisseret	1351


Celia María Parcero Torre. La pérdida de la Habana y las reformas borbónicas en Cuba, 1760–1773.
By Christon I. Archer	1352


Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820–1868.
By Sarah C. Chambers	1353


Rupert Charles Lewis. Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought.
By A. B. Assensoh	1354


Guy P. C. Thomson. Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra.
By Stan Green	1355


Joseph A. Stout, Jr. Border Conflict: Villistas, Carrancistas and the Punitive Expedition, 1915–1920.
By Mark Wasserman	1356


Eric Zolov. Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture.
By Mary Kay Vaughan	1357


Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall, editors. Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes.
By Susan M. Deeds	1358


Doug Yarrington. A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830–1936.
By Miguel Tinker Salas	1359


Jeremy Adelman. Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World.
By Stanley J. Stein	1359

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Maria Wyke, editor. Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Bodies of Antiquity.
By Craig A. Williams	1360


Mark Golden. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece.
By William C. West	1362


Anthony J. Podlecki. Perikles and His Circle.
By Stewart Flory	1362


Debra Hamel. Athenian Generals: Military Authority in the Classical Period.
By Frank Russell	1363


Antony G. Keen. Dynastic Lycia: A Political History of the Lycians and Their Relations with Foreign Powers, c. 545–362 B.C.
By Stephen Ruzicka	1364


Frank L. Holt. Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria.
By Jeffrey D. Lerner	1365


Jane Tibbets Schulenburg. Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500–1100.
By Janet L. Nelson	1366


Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn. Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy.
By Thomas J. Heffernan	1367


Aryeh Graboïs. Le pèlerin occidental en Terre Sainte au Moyen Âge.
By James A. Brundage	1368


Chris Wickham. Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany: The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca.
By Thomas W. Blomquist	1368


Ariel Guiance. Los discursos sobre la muerte en la Castilla medieval (siglos VII–XV).
By Peter Linehan	1370


Paul Freedman. Images of the Medieval Peasant.
By William H. TeBrake	1371


Mitchell B. Merback. The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
By Samuel Y. Edgerton	1372

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Richard Bonney, editor. The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c. 1200–1815.
By J. F. Bosher	1372


Harry Liebersohn. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians.
By Martin S. Staum	1374


Franz X. Eder, Lesley A. Hall, and Gert Hekma, editors. Sexual Cultures in Europe.
By Vern L. Bullough	1375


S. J. Barnett. Idol Temples and Crafty Priests: The Origins of Enlightenment Anticlericalism.
By Richard A. Lebrun	1376


Lawrence E. Klein and Anthony L. La Vopa, editors. Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650–1850.
By Anne C. Vila	1377


William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer, editors. The Sciences in Enlightened Europe.
By Kathleen Wellman	1378


Mark Mazower. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century.
By Donald Sassoon	1380


Jerzy W. Borejsza. Schulen des Hasses: Faschistische Systeme in Europa.
By Roger Griffin	1380


Maria Dowling. Fisher of Men: A Life of John Fisher, 1469–1535.
By Kenneth R. Bartlett	1381


Michael Bush and David Bownes. The Defeat of the Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Postpardon Revolts of December 1536 to March 1537 and Their Effect.
By John Guy	1382


Tim Stretton. Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England.
By Norma Landau	1383


Paul E. J. Hammer. The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597.
By Barrett L. Beer	1384


Cynthia B. Herrup. A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven.
By Patricia Crawford	1384


John Walters. Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers.
By Keith Lindley	1385


F. P. Lock. Edmund Burke.
By James Conniff	1386


John Smail. Merchants, Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century.
By S. D. Chapman	1387


Marc W. Steinberg. Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England.
By John Rule	1387


Alison Winter. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.
By Bruce J. Hunt	1388


George K. Behlmer. Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850–1940.
By Rosemary O'Day	1389


James Winter. Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment.
By Patrick Brantlinger	1390


Graham Neville. Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism.
By Charles D. Cashdollar	1391


Jonathan Schneer. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis.
By Bernard Porter	1392


Catriona M. M. Macdonald and E. W. McFarland, editors. Scotland and the Great War.
By W. Hamish Fraser	1392


Gábor Bátonyi. Britain and Central Europe, 1918–1933.
By John Hiden	1393


Jill Edwards. Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945–1955.
By Denis Smyth	1394


Robert Holland. Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954–1959.
By Philip Murphy	1395


Jonathan Haslam. The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr, 1892–1982.
By Stewart Weaver	1396


Carolyn A. Conley. Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland.
By Charles Townshend	1397


Oliver P. Rafferty. The Church, the State, and the Fenian Threat, 1861–75.
By Brian Jenkins	1398


Robert Stradling. The Irish and the Spanish Civil War 1936–39.
By Joost Augusteijn	1399


Troy D. Davis. Dublin's American Policy: Irish-American Diplomatic Relations, 1945–1952.
By Dermot Keogh	1399


David Goodman. Spanish Naval Power, 1589–1665: Reconstruction and Defeat.
By Ruth MacKay	1400


Rebecca L. Spang. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture.
By Eugen Weber	1401


Warren Roberts. Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists: The Public, the Populace, and Images of the French Revolution.
By Ewa Lajer-Burcharth	1402


Vicki Caron. Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933–1942.
By Phyllis Cohen Albert	1403


Miranda Pollard. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France.
By Karen Offen	1404


Frédéric Martel. The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France since 1968.
By Carolyn Dean	1405


Peter Davies. The National Front in France: Ideology, Discourse and Power.
By Harvey G. Simmons	1406


Paul Brusse. Overleven door Ondernemen: De agrarische geschiedenis van de Over-Betuwe 1650–1850.
By J. L. Price	1406


Knut Einar Eriksen and Helge Oystein Pharo. Kald Krig og internasjonalisering 1949–1965 [Cold War and Internationalization, 1949–1965].
By Odd S. Lovoll	1407


Kustaa H. J. Vilkuna. Arkielämää patriarkaalisessa työmiesyhteisössä: Rautaruukkilaiset suurvalta-ajan Suomessa.
By Edward W. Laine	1408


Bernhard Jussen and Craig Koslofsky, editors. Kulturelle Reformation: Sinnformationen im Umbruch 1400–1600.
By Andrew Gow	1409


Keith H. Pickus. Constructing Modern Identities: Jewish University Students in Germany 1815–1914.
By Peter Pulzer	1410


Kenneth F. Ledford. From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878–1933.
By David Abraham	1411


Wolfgang G. Natter. Literature at War, 1914–1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany.
By Jay W. Baird	1412


David Thomas Murphy. The Heroic Earth: Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918–1933.
By Carole Fink