THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CV     NO.5   DECEMBER    2000

Table of Contents

Articles

Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept
By Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak 1489
The Demographic Cost of Sugar: Debates on Slave Societies and Natural Increase in the Americas
By Michael Tadman 1534
The Threads of Class at La Virgen: Misrepresentation and Identity at a Mexican Textile Mill, 1918–1935
By Christopher R. Boyer 1576



AHR Forum: Gender and Manhood in Chinese History


Introduction 1599
The Male Bond in Chinese History and Culture
By Susan Mann 1600
The Fifth Relationship: Dangerous Friendships in the Confucian Context
By Norman Kutcher 1615
Fraternity and Fratricide in Late Imperial China
By Adrian Davis 1630
"Righteous Fraternities" and Honorable Men: Sworn Brotherhoods in Wartime Chongqing
By Lee McIsaac 1641
Kinship, Male Bonds, and Masculinity in Comparative Perspective
By Robert A. Nye 1656



Review Essays: Historicizing the City of Angels


Introduction 1667
The Postmodern City from an Early Modern Perspective
By Robert A. Schneider 1668
At Home in the Heteropolis: Understanding Postmodern L.A.
By Michael E. Engh, S.J. 1676
Is L.A. a Model or a Mess?
By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 1683
Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge (Exclusive e-AHR multimedia article)
By Philip J. Ethington



Reviews of Books




METHODS/THEORY


Niall Ferguson, editor. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals; Robert Cowley, editor. What If? The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been.
By Walter A. McDougall 1692
Edward E. McCullough. How the First World War Began: The Triple Entente and the Coming of the Great War of 1914–1918.
By L. L. Farrar, Jr. 1693
Daniel J. Sherman. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France.
By Matt Matsuda 1694
Dennis Dworkin. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies; Edwin A. Roberts. The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture.
By Chris Waters 1695
Jonathan Crary. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture.
By Jerrold Seigel 1697
Nancy R. Hunt. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo.
By Ch. Didier Gondola 1698



COMPARATIVE/WORLD


Paul Johnson and Pat Thane, editors. Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity.
By Carole Haber 1699
J. N. Hays. The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History.
By Andrew Wear 1700
Adrian Hastings, editor. A World History of Christianity.
By Eve Levin 1701
Wolfgang Reinhard. Geschichte der Staatsgewalt: Eine vergleichende Verfassungsgeschichte Europas von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.
By Keith Tribe 1702
Hannes Siegrist and avid Sugerman, editors. Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich (18.-20. Jahrhundert).
By John Breuilly 1703
Olivier Bernier. The World in 1800.
By Jeremy Black 1704
Sylviane A. Diouf. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas.
By Richard Brent Turner 1704
Jamie L. Bronstein. Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800–1862.
By Christopher Clark 1704
Victor Silverman. Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939–1949.
By Ronald L. Filippelli 1705
George Robb and Nancy Erber, editors. Disorder in the Courts: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century.
By Angus McLaren 1706



ASIA


Kai-wing Chow, On-cho Ng, and John B. Henderson, editors. Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics.
By Richard J. Smith 1707
F. W. Mote. Imperial China: 900–1800.
By Harriet T. Zurndorfer 1708
Linda A. Walton. Academies and Society in Southern Sung China.
By Charles Holcombe 1710
Francesca Bray. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China.
By Suzanne Cahill 1710
Charlotte Furth. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960–1665.
By Delia Davin 1711
Roxann Prazniak. Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels against Modernity in Late Imperial China.
By John Schrecker 1713
Li Li. Mission in Suzhou: Sophie Lanneau and Wei Ling Girl's Academy, 1907–1950.
By David Bundy 1713
Joseph W. Esherick, editor. Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900–1950.
By Sřren Clausen 1714
Hanchao Lu. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century.
By David D. Buck 1716
Isenbike Togan. Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations: The Kerait Khanate and Chinggis Khan.
By Thomas Barfield 1716
Resil B. Mojares. The War against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu; 1899–1906.
By Brian McAllister Linn 1717
David Ludden. The New Cambridge History of India.
By David Hardiman 1718
Chitta Panda. The Decline of the Bengal Zamindars: Midnapore 1870–1920.
By Robert Eric Frykenberg 1719
Gyan Prakash. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India.
By Roy MacLeod 1720



OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS


Drew Hutton and Libby Connors. A History of the Australian Environment Movement.
By Thomas R. Dunlap 1721
Glenn Wahlert. The Other Enemy? Australian Soldiers and the Military Police.
By Joy Damousi 1722



CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES


Christina Burr. Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century Toronto.
By Sharon Anne Cook 1723
Michiel Horn. Academic Freedom in Canada: A History.
By Michael Gauvreau 1724
Caren Irr. The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s.
By Barbara Foley 1725
Gillian Creese. Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944–1994.
By Christina Burr 1726
Mona Gleason. Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada.
By Neil Sutherland 1727
Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger, editors. Inequality in Early America.
By Gloria L. Main 1727
Jeffery A. Smith. War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power.
By David T. Z. Mindich 1729
John E. Worth. The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida.
By Robert L. Gold 1730
Jane Kamensky. Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England.
By Marilyn J. Westerkamp 1730
Graham Russell Hodges. Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613–1863.
By Joanne Pope Melish 1731
Thomas N. Ingersoll. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819.
By Carl A. Brasseaux 1732
Claudio Saunt. A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816.
By Michael D. Green 1733
Max M. Mintz. Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois; Laurence M. Hauptman. Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State.
By Peter C. Mancall 1733
John B. Frantz and William Pencak, editors. Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland.
By Elizabeth A. Perkins 1735
James H. Read. Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson.
By Stuart Leibiger 1736
Stuart Leibiger. Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic.
By Ralph Ketchum 1737
Gary Rosen. American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding.
By C. Bradley Thompson 1738
Gilman M. Ostrander. Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1776–1865.
By Philip Gould 1739
Philip F. Gura and James F. Bollman. America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century.
By Karen Linn 1740
Wayne M. O'Leary. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830–1890.
By Joseph Goldenburg 1740
John W. Quist. Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.
By Louis S. Gerteis 1741
Thomas Brown. Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer.
By Jeanie Attie 1742
Bret E. Carroll. Spiritualism in Antebellum America.
By Ruth Alden Doan 1743
Michael F. Holt. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War.
By Lawrence Frederick Kohl 1744
Paul Goodman. Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality.
By Shirley J. Yee 1745
Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure, editors. The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South.
By Lacy K. Ford, Jr. 1745
Howard Jones. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War.
By Eugene H. Berwanger 1746
Daniel E. Sutherland, editor. Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front.
By Richard B. McCaslin 1747
Sergei Kan. Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries.
By Gregory L. Freeze 1748
Robert W. Larson. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux.
By Raymond J. DeMallie 1749
David O. Stowell. Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877.
By Charles N. Glaab 1750
Andrew Gyory. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
By George Anthony Peffer 1751
Gene Clanton. Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s.
By Sheldon Hackney 1752
P. C. Kemeny. Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868–1928.
By Louise L. Stevenson 1752
Jon Thares Davidann. A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan, 1890–1930.
By Eileen P. Scully 1753
Evelynn Maxine Hammonds. Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diptheria in New York City, 1880–1930.
By Elizabeth W. Etheridge 1754
Judith Sealander. Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal.
By Michael S. Mayer 1755
Brooks Blevins. Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama.
By David J. Murrah 1756
Mary S. Hoffschwelle. Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community: Reformers, Schools, and Homes in Tennessee, 1900–1930.
By William Bruce Wheeler 1756
Craig Miner. Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920–1950.
By Hal S. Barron 1957
Mark I. Gelfand. Trustee for a City: Ralph Lowell of Boston.
By Lawrence W. Kennedy 1758
Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker. Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth-Century Urbanism.
By Arnold R. Hirsch 1759
Robert Bussel. From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class.
By Craig Phelan 1759
David Palmer. Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945.
By Daniel Nelson 1760
Albert S. Brousard. African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853–1963.
By Janette Thomas Greenwood 1761
Mark Solomon. The Cry was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917–1936.
By Allison Blakely 1762
William J. Maxwell. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars.
By Brian Lloyd 1763
Robert David Johnson. Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition.
By David W. Levy 1764
Allison B. Gilmore. You Can't Fight Tanks With Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific.
By Laura A. Belmonte 1764
John A. Mills. Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology.
By Laurence D. Smith 1765
Eric Paul Roorda. The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945.
By Michael Grow 1766
Shlomo Slonim. Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy, 1947–1997; Kenneth W. Stein. Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace.
By Peter L. Hahn 1767
Karen S. Miller. The Voice of Business: Hill&Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations.
By Cassandra Tate 1768
David L. Snead. The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War.
By T. Michael Ruddy 1769
Arthur J. Sabin. In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday.
By M. J. Heale 1770
Glenn T. Eskew. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle.
By Davison M. Douglas 1771
John Hellmann. The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK.
By Herbert S. Parmet, 1772
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950–1970.
By Rickie Solinger 1773
William M. Hammond. Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War.
By Melvin Small 1773
Joan Lisa Bromberg. NASA and the Space Industry.
By Dominick A. Pisano 1774
Janet Abbate. Inventing the Internet.
By James W. Cortada 1775
Lawrence J. Friedman. Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson.
By Kathleen W. Jones 1776
Olivier Zunz. Why the American Century?
By Brett Gary 1777
Eric Alterman. Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy.
By J. Garry Clifford 1778



CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA


Louis A. Pérez, Jr. On Becoming Cuban: Identity: Nationality, and Culture.
By Jorge Duany 1778
Peter V. N. Henderson. In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco León de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution.
By John W. Sherman 1779
Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago. An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914.
By Jennie Purnell 1780
Pamela S. Murray. Dreams of Development: Colombia's National School of Mines and Its Engineers, 1887–1970.
By Herbert Braun 1781
Charles F. Walker. Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840.
By Vincent Peloso 1782
Jeffrey Lesser. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil.
By Teresa Meade 1783



EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL


Steven Johnstone. Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens; Matthew R. Christ. The Litigious Athenian.
By W. Jeffrey Tatum 1784
Andrew Lintott. The Constitution of the Roman Republic.
By Eric Orlin 1786
Emma Cownie. Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066–1135.
By Emily Zack Tabuteau 1787
Dyan Elliott. Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages.
By Judith C. Brown 1788



EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN


Paul Kléber Monod. The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589–1715.
By Teofilo F. Ruiz 1789
Brad Gregory. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe.
By Charles H. Parker 1790
Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750.
By Matthew Ramsey 1791
Brendan Dooley. The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture.
By Barbara Shapiro 1792
Margaret C. Jacob. Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West.
By Roger Hahn 1793
David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, editors. Geography and Enlightenment; Anne Marie Claire Godlewska. Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt.
By Josef W. Konvitz 1794
Hans Erich Bödecker, Peter Hans Reill, Jürgen Schlumbohm, editor. Wissenschaft als Kulturelle Praxis, 1750–1900.
By Lisa Rosner 1795
J. Christopher Warner. Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press.
By Alexandra Halasz 1796
Julian Goodare. State and Society in Early Modern Scotland.
By Bruce P. Lenman 1797
Frederick Dreyer. The Genesis of Methodism.
By Bruce Hindmarsh 1798
Nancy D. LoPatin. Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832.
By Ian Newbould 1799
Arthur Burns. The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England, c. 1800–1870.
By Dale A. Johnson 1800
K. D. Reynolds. Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain.
By Erika Rappaport 1801
Shompa Lahiri. Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity 1880–1930.
By Antoinette Burton 1801
Anne Digby. The Evolution of British General Practice 1850–1948.
By Christopher Hamlin 1802
Michael T. Saler. The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground.
By Linda Dowling 1803
Neil Riddell. Labour in Crisis: The Second Labour Government, 1929–31.
By Jerry H. Brookshire 1804
Amy Zahl Gottlieb. Men of Vision: Anglo-Jewry's Aid to Victims of the Nazi Regime, 1933–1945.
By Eugene C. Black 1805
Arieh J. Kochavi. Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied War Crimes Policy and the Question of Punishment.
By Bradley F. Smith 1806
Joseph A. Soares. The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University.
By D. L. Le Mahieu 1806
Colm Lennon. Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523–1586: An Irish Prisoner of Conscience of the Tudor Era.
By S. J. Connolly 1807
Mike Cronin. Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity since 1884.
By Patrick Maume 1808
Patrick Maume. The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life 1891–1918.
By Peter Hart 1809
Mary E. Giles, editor. Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World.
By Lu Ann Homza 1809
Paul C. Allen. Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598–1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy.
By Ruth MacKay 1811
Gilbert Larguier. Le drap et le grain en Languedoc: Narbonne et Narbonnais 1300–1789.
By Christopher H. Johnson 1812
William Monter. Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements.
By R. Po-chia Hsia 1813
Jonathan L. Pearl. The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France 1560–1620.
By Robin B. Barnes 1814
Joël Cornette. La mélancolie du pouvoir: Omer Talon et le procčs la raison d'état.
By Richard Bonney 1814
Christine Adams. A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France.
By Carol E. Harrison 1815
Peter McPhee. Revolution and Environment in Southern France 1780–1830: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Courbičres.
By James R. Lehning 1816
Michael J. Sydenham. Leonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary 1754–1807.
By David P. Jordan 1817
Owen Bradley. A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph de Maistre.
By John I. Brooks III 1818
Alan R. H. Baker. Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815–1914.
By Robert M. Schwartz 1819
Helen McPhail. The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914–1918.
By Samuel Huston Goodfellow 1820
Michael Jansen. De industriële ontwikkeling in Nederland 1800–1850.
By Stephen B. Baxter 1820
Magnus Perlestam. Den rotfaste bonden: Myt eller verklighet? Brukarsansvar i Ramkvilla socken 1620–1820; Gören Hoppe and John Langton. Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Östergötland in the Nineteenth Century.
By Lee Sather 1821
Wolfgang Burgdorf. Reichskonstitution und Nation: Verfassungsreformprojekte für das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation im politischen Schrifttum von 1648 bis 1806.
By David M. Luebke 1823
Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop, editors. The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy.
By Lora Wildenthal 1824
Michael A. Meyer, editor. German-Jewish History in Modern Times.
By William W. Hagen 1825
Christine von Oertzen. Teilzeitarbeit und die Lust am Zuverdienen.
By Donna Harsch 1826
Louis Rose. The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science.
By Hannah S. Decker 1827
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan. Venise triomphante: Les horizons d'un mythe.
By John Martin 1828
Jonathan Davies. Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance.
By John M. Najemy 1829
Gregory Hanlon. The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts, 1560–1800.
By Geoffrey Symcox 1830
Peter D. Stachura. Poland in the Twentieth Century.
By Padraic Kenney 1831
John S. Koliopoulos. Plundered Loyalties: World War II and Civil War in Greek West Macedonia.
By Andrew Rossos 1832
Melissa K. Bokovoy. Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in the Yugoslav Countryside, 1941–1953.
By Susan L. Woodward 1833
W. F. Ryan. The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia.
By Valerie Kivelson 1834
Laura Engelstein. Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale.
By Sander L. Gilman 1835
Jonathan W. Daly. Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866–1905.
By Reginald E. Zelnik 1835
Jamie H. Cockfield. With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.
By John M. Thompson 1836
Peter Gatrell. A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I.
By Theodore R. Weeks 1837
Amy Knight. Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery.
By Sarah Davies 1838
Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times; Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
By Roberta T. Manning 1839



MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA


Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan, editors. Agriculture in Egypt: From Pharaonic to Modern Times.
By Robert L. Tignor 1840
Carl F. Petry, editor. The Cambridge History of Egypt.
By Mahmood Ibrahim 1841
Alexandre Popovic. The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century.
By Michael G. Morony 1842
Kate Fleet. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman Empire: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey.
By Karl K. Barbir 1843



SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA


Stephen Belcher. Epic Traditions of Africa.
By Jan Jansen 1843
Bernth Lindfors, editor. Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business.
By Mary Jo Arnoldi 1844
Dickson A. Mungazi. The Last British Liberals in Africa: Michael Blundell and Garfield Todd.
By Gregory H. Maddox 1845
Hugh Macmillan and Frank Shapiro. Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia.
By Surendra Bhana 1846
Robert Ross. Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1850: A Tragedy of Manners.
By Ivan Evans 1847
Bill Nasson. The South African War 1899–1902.
By Kenneth W. Grundy 1848



Film Reviews


The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: The Hottentot Venus.
Directed by Zola Maseko.
By Sander L. Gilman 1849
The Chair.
Directed by Nicholas O'Dwyer.
By Gregory Sumner 1849



Collected Essays




METHOD/THEORY


Anne Ollila, editor. Historical Perspectives on Memory. 1851
Robin Higham, editor. The Writing of Official Military History. 1851



COMPARATIVE/WORLD


Mogens Herman Hansen, editor. A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures: An Investigation Conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre. 1851
Peter Coss, editor. The Moral World of the Law. 1852
James A. Delle, Stephen A. Mrozowski, and Robert Paynter, editors. Lines that Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender. 1852
Sally McMurry and Annmarie Adams, editors. People, Power, Places. 1852
Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson, editors. The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950. 1852
Bruce B. Campbell and Arthur D. Brenner, editors. Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability. 1852



ASIA


David Shambaugh, editor. The Modern Chinese State. 1853



CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA


Joseph Pérez, editor. Espańa y América en una perspectiva humanista: Homenaje a Marccel Bataillon. 1853
Consuelo Naranjo Orovio and Carlos Serrano, editors. Imágenes e imaginarios nacionales en el Ultramar espańol. 1853



EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL


T. R. Slater, editor. Towns in Decline, AD 100–1600. 1853
Katherine J. Lewis, Noël James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips, editors. Young Medieval Women. 1854
Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal, editors. Women, Marriage, and Family in MedievalChristendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan,C.S.B. 1854
S. D. Church, editor. King John: New Interpretations.