The Historian back issues from June 2001:
SINGING THE MAINE: THE POPULAR IMAGE OF CUBA IN SHEET MUSIC OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
Jun 22, 2001; ... Thirty-three years after the last battle of the Civil War, a call to arms again rang out across the United States when the battleship Maine exploded and sank under mysterious circumstances in Havana harbor. Called to Cuba in early 1898 by U.S. consul Fitzhugh Lee after Spanish troops ...
"GIGANTIC ENGINES OF PROPAGANDA": THE 1941 SENATE INVESTIGATION OF HOLLYWOOD.
Jun 22, 2001; ... Throughout most of the 1930s, Hollywood studios showed a remarkable reluctance to produce films about the political situation in Europe, especially Adolf Hitler's rise to power. As the political pendulum in the United States swung toward support of those nations opposing Hitler, however, ...
THE OVERSEAS CHINESE NETWORKS AND EARLY BAPTIST MISSIONARY MOVEMENT ACROSS THE SOUTH CHINA SEA(1).(Statistical Data Included)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The first significant cultural encounter between China and Europe began in the late sixteenth century when Portuguese merchants and Catholic missionaries arrived in the South China Sea. Throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, missionaries and their early converts took ...
THE SPIRIT OF '76: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY IN THE REDEMPTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Jun 22, 2001; ... On 4 July 1876, an African American militia unit was drilling in the village of Hamburg, South Carolina, when two white men demanded the right of way. After a hostile exchange, both sides retired. A few days after the incident, Matthew C. Buffer, formerly a Confederate major general and ...
THE LOSS OF RELIGIOUS ALLEGIANCE AMONG THE YOUTH OF THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY.
Jun 22, 2001; ... "It's coming; it's bound to come; we are going to have a terrible smash up. Wait and see, Orrin Wright said ominously in 1879.(1) It was during this year that open rebellion and dissatisfaction within the Oneida Community, a unique religious commune in upstate New York, became too blatant ...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. By Timothy R. Tyson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.) The Organization of American Historians presented its James R. Rawley Prize and its Frederick Jackson Turner Award to Timothy R. Tyson ...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.) The Organization of American Historians presented its Frederick Jackson Turner Award to Prof. Walter Johnson of New York University for his examination ...
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of a Southern Strategy, 1861-1862.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of a Southern Strategy, 1861-1862. By Joseph Harsh. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.) Prof. Joseph Harsh of George Mason University is the winner of the Peter Seaborg Prize which is presented annually for the ...
Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953. By Kees Boterbloem. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 435. $49.95.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953 provides much-needed scholarship for two ...
Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. By Jeffrey Brooks. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 319. $35.00.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953 provides much-needed scholarship for ...
Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. By J. Otto Pohl. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. vxii, 179. $59.95.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953 provides much-needed scholarship for two areas of the Soviet field: first, it is a ...
"We Women Worked So Hard": Gender, Urbanization, and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... "We Women Worked So Hard": Gender, Urbanization, and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956. By Teresa A. Barnes. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. ix, 197. $24.95.) In this book, the author explores how urban Zimbabweans, and specifically women, used ...
Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War. By Joe Lunn. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Oxford: James Curry/Cape Town: David Philip, 1999. Pp. xiv, 264. $25.00.) Focusing on personal experiences of the Senegalese people, this work addresses the ...
Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader. Edited by Ruth Roded. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1999. Pp. xv, 271. $25.00.) Women in the Middle East and Muslim world always have attracted the attention of Western scholars, politicians, and travelers. In fact, ...
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. By Lamin Sanneh. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 291. $29.95.) This study discusses the attempts to abolish the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa. Sierra Leone, ...
Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World. By Jeremy Adelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 375. $55.00.) In early nineteenth-century Argentina, merchants--both native-born and foreign--conducted business in the ...
American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. By Cesar Ayala. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 321. $19.95.) The early 1900s appear as a moment of historical convergence for the Hispanic Caribbean, when Cuba, ...
Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory. By Constance Bowman and Clara Marie Allen, with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert. (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 181. $14.95.) Originally published in 1944, this ...
Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. By Robert M. Buffington. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 229. $19.95.) This book investigates elite discourse about criminality between independence and the mid-twentieth century and will be of particular use to those ...
A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials. By Laurie Winn Carlson. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999. Pp. xiii, 197. $24.95.) The author of this book has proposed an intriguing hypothesis regarding the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in ...
Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States. By Don M. Coerver and Linda B. Hall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 289. $39.95.) From the time of their independence, the United States and the Latin American nations have experienced a ...
Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions. By Howard E. Covington Jr. and Marion A. Ellis. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 559. $34.95.) Terry Sanford was one of the most important public figures in the South during the period since the ...
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898. By Ada Ferret. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 273. $18.95.) This author's account of the Cuban struggle for independence makes important contributions to two divergent historiographies. To U.S ....
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America. By Thomas Fleming. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xiii, 446. $30.00.) The author of this book spurns the explanation that Aaron Burr murdered his long-time rival because of his humiliating defeat in the New York ...
The Presidency of George Bush.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The Presidency of George Bush. By John Robert Greene. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiii, 245. $35.00.) In another splendid volume in the University Press of Kansas's "American Presidency Series," John Robert Greene, who earlier wrote about Gerald Ford in the ...
Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870. By W. Todd Groce. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 218. $40.00.) It is pleasant to note that the current boom in Civil War scholarship has not again bypassed Appalachia, a ...
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. Pp. 516. $29.00.) With the freshness of insight often afforded scholars who cross disciplinary boundaries, the author, a student of intellectual and ...
Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. By Arthur Herman. (New York: Free Press, 1999. Pp. 320. $26.00.) Although the literature on McCarthy is substantial, the author chooses to ignore any work that does not support his premise: ...
Native Americans and the Early Republic.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Native Americans and the Early Republic. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter I. Albert. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1999. Pp. xi, 370. $49.50.) Symposia collections are ...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 283. $26.00.) The daily happenings within the domestic slave trade in the antebellum United States are the subject of this splendid book ....
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character. By Roger G. Kennedy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 476. $30.00.) This is a controversial book that is well worth the read. The author comes at his subject from outside academe, albeit with impeccable ...
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control. Edited, with an introduction, by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999. Pp. 248. $14.95.) Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball ...
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. xii, 280. $65.00.) This work is a collection of essays that assess the implications of the ...
Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age. By Herbert Mitgang. (New York: The Free Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 259. $25.00.) Prize-winning journalist Herbert Mitgang's latest work of history revisits a significant episode ...
From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. By Margaret Ellen Newell. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 329. $39.95.) New England was the source of not one, not two, but three revolutions. One was political, a revolution ...
A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West. By David Roberts. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Pp. 320. $25.00.) Traveling westward aboard a Missouri River steamboat in 1842, John C. Fremont, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army's Corps of ...
Puerto Rico Women's History: New Perspectives.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Puerto Rico Women's History: New Perspectives. Edited by Felix V. Matos Rodriguez and Linda C. Delgado. (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Pp. ix, 262. $24.95.) In this anthology, Felix Matos Rodriguez and Linda Delgado have collected 11 essays that together explore ...
American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding. By Gary Rosen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xi, 237. $29.95.) Serious scholarship has wrestled continuously with the apparent changes in James Madison's thought and actions at the time of the ...
Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn. By Charles R. Schultz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 352. $45.00.) After three decades of research and study, the author of this study has written a complete history of life aboard ships sailing to California during ...
The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870--1930. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Translated by Leland Guyer. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. Pp. ix, 358. $35.00.) Understandings of racial identity and national potential have been ...
The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. By John Ray Skates. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 276. $16.95.) President Harry Truman considered the atomic bomb a military weapon and an alternative to the invasion of Kyushu planned for I November ...
A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina. By Rebecca Starr. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 218. $45.00.) Historians have long puzzled to account for South Carolina politicians' aggressive, even ...
The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru. By Ward Stavig. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xxxiv, 348. $25.00.) The eighteenth century in the Andes has long been perceived by historians and the Andean public as an "age of ...
Morgan: American Financier.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Morgan: American Financier. By Jean Strouse. (New York: Random House, 1999. Pp. xv, 796. $34.95.) This is a truly remarkable book, a model of biography, that succeeds in presenting J. Pierpont Morgan as a flesh-and-blood human being, rather than the caricature"robber baron" of ...
Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra. By Guy E C. Thomson with David G. LaFrance. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 1999. Pp. vii, 420. $65.00.) Guy P.C. Thomson explores"the roots of ...
Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750--1990. By Robert V. Wells. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 301. $44.95.) Schenectady, New York strikes one as a place where time passes slowly and residents resist change ....
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 269. $55.00.) Based on his 1994 dissertation of the same tide, this is the author's first book. It bears the double influence ...
Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius. By Richard B. Allen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 221. $64.95.) This study is a wide-ranging social and economic history of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius from its permanent ...
One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County 1865-1937.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. By Lynda S. Bell. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 290. $49.95.) The industry is silk, and the "Two Chinas" are the disparate social entities responsible for ...
Sun Yat-sen.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Sun Yat-sen. By Marie-Claire Bergere. Translated by Janet Lloyd. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 480. $49.50.) The French edition of this book was published in Paris in 1994 and recognized immediately as the most definitive, balanced study of Sun Yat-sen ...
Vignettes from the Late Ming.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p'in Anthology. Translated, with Annotations and an Introduction, by Yang Ye. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xxxvii, 152. $19.95.) A fascinating side of the Chinese great tradition of texts and masters is the ...
Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. By Wang Zheng. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 402. $18.95.) It is difficult, in a short review, to convey the many layers on which this study operates. Women in the Chinese ...
Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome. By Richard C. Beacham. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00.) During the reign of Augustus, one Greek provincial was so overwhelmed by the magnificent buildings at Rome that he readily thought ...
Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain. By John Burnett. (London and Nre York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 254. $24.99) A masterful historiographical juggler, this author keeps eight glasses aloft while treading an intricate, causative platform. Eight "liquid ...
Death and Dying in the Middle Ages.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. Pp. xii, 515. $70.95.) For a reviewer who teaches courses on death and dying in history but who is not a medievalist, this volume is especially ...
The World of the Favourite.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The World of the Favourite. Edited by J. H. Elliott and L. W. B. Brockliss. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 320. $45.00.) This book is a collection of papers that were originally presented in 1996 to an international colloquium at Magdalen College, Oxford. The ...
Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Clive Emsley. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 288. $90.00.) If the reader is interested in state formation, the suppression of crime and criminology, and the professionalization of the ...
Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730. By Paul D. Halliday. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 393. $69.95.) One of the great merits of this book is that, considered in tandem with Catherine Patterson's Urban ...
The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation. By Carol E. Harrison. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 268. $65.00.) Association has attracted the interest of social historians of Europe primarily as the ...
Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR.(German Democratic Republic)(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR. Edited, with an introduction, by Konrad H. Jarausch. (New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. xii, 388. $65.00.) This collection of articles by leading social historians represents the results of a 1997 ...
Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. By Richard W. Kaeuper. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 338. $45.00.) Publishers have been known to put titles on books that promise more than they deliver, which is probably what happened with this book. It really ought ...
A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. By Peter Kenez. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 317. $49.95.) For reasons that go well beyond the demise of the Soviet Union, Soviet Studies as an academic discipline is out of business, and ...
The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. Edited by Andrew Martin and George Ross. (New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. xv, 416. $75.00.) The collective labor of nine authors, this compilation of essays assesses contemporary unionism in ...
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate. By Susan P. Mattern. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 259. $35.00.) The recent debate over Roman Imperial grand strategy has concentrated on frontier policy. Susan P. Mattern, however, focuses ...
Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise. By Viktor Meier. Translated by Sabrina P. Ramet. (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xvii, 279. $25.00.) The author of this book covered Yugoslavia for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine for several decades. He is, ...