The Historian back issues from March 2004:
Gender construction and settler colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1894-1914.
Mar 22, 2004; ... <Pre>Indeed I love my Fatherland, love the German Rhine, / I know yourtraditions still and drink your wine. / Yet sea and land separateme from your cool strand, / Since I found my home in African land. Even more than home I found here, I found my kingdom, / In which I...
W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Pan-Africanism in Liberia, 1919-1924.
Mar 22, 2004; ... PAN-AFRICANISM--the perceived need to mobilize all peoples of African descent against racism and colonialism--was perhaps one of the most enduring responses to the legacy of European slavery and imperialism. Although a project centered around the notion of Africa, however, Pan-Africanism ...
Conflicted missionaries: power and identity in French West Africa during the 1930s.
Mar 22, 2004; ... IN A 1935 SPEECH TO MEMBERS of the colonial administration in the federation of French West Africa (AOF--Afrique Occidentale francaise), Governor General Jules Brevie asserted that one of France's most important tasks was to bring about a "cultural renaissance" among the indigenous peoples ...
Lionel Curtis, imperial citizenship, and the quest for unity.
Mar 22, 2004; ... ONE OF THE MOST PERSISTENT VOICES of empire in the early decades of the twentieth century belonged not to a sitting politician, nor to a Tory grandee, but to a man who operated outside of official circles. Lionel Curtis, if one was forced to attribute to him a career, could best be ...
Lord Lothian and the Atlantic world.
Mar 22, 2004; ... WHEN PHILIP KERR, eleventh marquess of Lothian and the British ambassador to the United States, died in December 1940, tributes to his work in Washington poured in from both Britain and the United States. Winston Churchill, for most of the 1930s his political opponent over appeasement, ...
Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. By Adeed Dawisha. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 340. $29.95.) The author of this book is an accomplished specialist on inter-Arab relations. Therefore, it is natural that his study of Arab ...
A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794. Edited by Bruce L. Mouser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 156. $27.95.) Few episodes in history evoke more emotion or demand more explanation than the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the ...
The History of Turkey.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The History of Turkey. By Douglas A. Howard. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 241. $39.95.) Since the publication of History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey by Stanford J. and Ezel K. Shaw some twenty-five years ago, and the outrage that it ...
The Death Penalty: An American History.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Death Penalty: An American History. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 408. $29.95.) Should the state have the power to kill criminal offenders? If so, why, and for which crimes? How should miscreants be put to death? Stuart Banner's ...
Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments. Edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Pp. 508. $25.00. This volume connects social with military history, rare among scholars who have no ...
Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. By John E. Clark, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 275. $34.95.) This study analyzes how the management of the railroads during the Civil War affected their operations in ...
The Asian American Century.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Asian American Century. By Warren I. Cohen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 150. $22.95.) In 1968, as the Vietnam War raged, the eminent Harvard sinologist John King Fairbank told the annual meeting of the American Historical Association that its next ...
Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico. By Samuel Y. Edgerton. Photographs by Jorge Perez de Lara. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 350. $60.00.) This beautifully illustrated volume examines how Spanish ...
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. vii, 328. $28.00.) This study is a labor of love as much as it is a scholarly endeavor. As a well-known and widely read professor of social and political ethics, Jean ...
American Law in the 20th Century.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... American Law in the 20th Century. By Lawrence M. Friedman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 722. $35.00.) In the final stretch of this epic tome, one of many celebrated legal histories by this author, Lawrence M. Friedman admits that the topic he has ...
A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. By Matt Garcia. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 330. $19.50.) Few places in the United States have seen such dramatic and rapid transformations as ...
American Abolitionists.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... American Abolitionists. By Stanley Harrold. (New York: Longman, 2001. Pp. 170. $11.95.) The author of this study looks at American abolitionists as "contentious, dedicated, often inconsistent, and intensely interesting reformers," with a strong moral commitment to ending ...
James G. Blaine and Latin America.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... James G. Blaine and Latin America. By David Healy. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. 278. $39.95.) The foreign policy of the United States changed greatly in the nineteenth century, and author David Healy examines one of the central transitory figures ...
When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998. By Katherine Hite. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 246. $24.00.) In this book, the author effectively addresses questions of political identity, leadership, and change through the lens of ...
Sam Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Sam Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution. By Benjamin H. Irvin. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 176. $24.00.) This comprehensive biography not only outlines the complex and sometimes contradictory personality of Samuel Adams, but it also weaves his character ...
The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. By H. Paul Jeffers. (New York: John Wiley and Son, 2002. Pp. 392. $30.00.) The title of this book derives from the fact that Mayor Fiorello La Guardia had a statue of Napoleon on his desk. This is a highly personalized story, ...
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 342. $22.95.) The subtitle of this book might more descriptively have been taken from the title of its first chapter: "The American Spy ...
Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands. By Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. 256. $34.95.) As advertised in the title, this book attempts to highlight the ties between medieval culture and the borderlands ...
Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. By Jennifer D. Keene. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 294. $38.00.) "The Great War generation," this author argues, "shaped the contours of the modern American military and was responsible for the ...
A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam. By Robert Mann. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. x, 821. $22.00.) The author of this book, who has been an aide to two U.S. senators and has written a well-regarded book on the civil rights movement, has here produced a ...
South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South. By James David Miller. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 200. $32.50.) A distinct feature of antebellum America was the relentless movement of its people westward. In ...
A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History. By Peter Nabokov. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 246. $20.00.) The author of this study has forcefully added his voice to those dissenters who rightly observe that historians have long failed to understand ...
First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. By Gary B. Nash. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. 383. $34.95.) There is a bit of irony in titling this study "First City," as it has been two centuries since local boosters might have made ...
Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. By Stephan Palmie (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 399. $21.95.) The author's learning makes this book extraordinary. But it is his meticulous unlearning of ethnographic and ...
Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930. By David J. Pivar. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Pp. xxi, 283. $69.95.) This sequel to David J. Pivar's 1973 book, Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868-1900, continues the story of ...
The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord. By Ray Raphael. (New York: The New Press, 2002. Pp. 288. $26.95.) This book provides a straightforward analysis of a much-ignored chapter in the history of the American Revolution: namely, the widespread and popular ...
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 317. $26.00.) In this elegant and flowing account, the author, a prominent historian of early America, challenges the ...
Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. By Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 346. $19.95.) The author of this book has provided solid evidence that a gendered perspective should prompt ...
"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. By Mark Robert Schneider. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 476. $35.00.) When most Americans think of the civil rights movement, they recall the stirring events of the 1950s and 1960s. They ...
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States. By James F. Simon. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. Pp. 349. $27.50.) That two men with as much in common as Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall could disagree so completely ...
Grant.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Grant. By Jean Edward Smith. (New York: Touchstone Books, 2002. Pp. 781. $20.00.) This biography of Ulysses S. Grant is one of several recent studies offering a positive reassessment of Grant's life, military career, and presidency. Acknowledging his subject's flaws, Smith ...
Hard Men Humble: Vietnam Veterans Who Couldn't Come Home.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Hard Men Humble: Vietnam Veterans Who Couldn't Come Home. By Jonathan Stevenson. (New York and London: The Free Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 227. $25.00.) The volume is a study of American veterans of the Vietnam War who have chosen to live in Southeast Asia. Jonathan Stevenson, a ...
A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939. By Richard J. Tofel. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. ix, 269. $24.95.) The author of this study justifies writing this book on an admittedly well-worn subject on the grounds that by winning a fourth consecutive World Series, ...
Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley. By Mark A. Weitz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. v, 232. $12.95.) Though the current presidential administration continues to expand government funding of "faith-based initiatives," ...
Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. By Keith E. Whittington. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 303. $24.95.) The author of this book, a political scientist, asserts that the Constitution is a multifaceted document, ...
Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. By Michael P. Winship. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 340. $29.95.) This is the first book-length treatment in forty years of the Free Grace Controversy, or the Antinomian ...
In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province. By John Cleverley. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 249. $21.95.) This volume records one of the few redeeming legacies of the "Great Leap Forward" in the early history of the ...
Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887. By Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Pp. x, 310. $21.95.) Between the introduction of constitutional government in 1840 and the imposition of the Bayonet Constitution in ...
Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. Edited and Commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph, with Mohan Singh Kanota. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 633. $59.95.) Amar Singh was a minor member of the ...
The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. By Kenneth J. Ruoff. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. Pp. xiiv, 331. $45.00.) Recent English-language scholarship on the modern Japanese monarchy has focused on Hirohito's ...
The State and the Iron Industry in Han China.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The State and the Iron Industry in Han China. By Donald B. Wagner. (Copenhagen: NIAS Publishing, 2001. Pp. 148. $45.00.) In this short study, the author returns to the theme that he first addressed at a conference held in San Francisco in 1980: the use of archaeological material ...
The Human Tradition in Modern Japan.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Human Tradition in Modern Japan. Edited by Anne Walthall. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002. Pp. xx, 241. $19.95.) This book closes a circle of writing on modern Japanese history. Fifty years ago, biographies were the dominant mode of American scholarship in ...
Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens. By Ryan K. Balot. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 291. $39.50.) Greed, identified as "central" to Athenian history, ideology, and political thought, as a prime motivator of political activity, and as the ...
Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. By Anthony A. Barrett. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 425. $35.00.) Can a biography of Livia, wife of Emperor Augustus, be written from the ancient sources? Can anything new and fresh be said of the period from ...
Art of the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Art of the Middle Ages. By Janetta Rebold Benton. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Pp. 320, 250 illus. $18.95.) In the introduction to her book, the author offers a promising hypothesis: "Although in many ways harsh and insecure, medieval life placed high value on the visual ...
The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. By Vadim J. Birstein. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 492. $32.50.) The author of this book is a Soviet-born scientist and a historian who was a member of the Soviet Academy of Science for over twenty ...
The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789. By T. C. W. Blanning. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 479. $35.00.) The purpose of this wide-ranging, elegantly packaged book is to reexamine the topology of the cultural landscape ...
The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History. By Brian Bond. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 128. $25.00.) This slim volume encapsulates the thoughts of a leading military historian as to how involvement in the Great War came to be ...
Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763. By Stephen Brumwell. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 349. $34.95.) In a fascinating, judiciously researched, and well-written study, Stephen Brumwell offers a nuanced reassessment ...
Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres, and Real Life. By Suzanne Dixon. (London: Duckworth, 2001. Pp. xiv, 242. $24.95.) The author of this book presents in nine self-contained essays as many reasons why feminist theory has been and remains one of the most critical and ...
Gendering the Crusades.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Gendering the Crusades. Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50.) Were women unfit for crusade? Certainly early papal appeals for crusaders reflected this belief; certainly medieval male writers thought so ...
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000. By Todd M. Endelman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 347. $22.50.) British Jewish history has been something of a Cinderella subject. As Todd M. Endelman points out, when he "began graduate work in the early 1970s, ...
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. By Robert Gellately. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 259. $35.00.) Recent debates on the nature of dictatorship will benefit from this study. Its chilling conclusion is that rather than cowering before the ...
Russia and the Russians: A History.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Russia and the Russians: A History. By Geoffrey Hosking. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 718, $35.00.) Geoffrey Hosking, of the University of London and doyen of Russian historians, has written a readable, comprehensive account of Russia from its origins to the ...
The History of the European Family, Family Life in Early Modern Times, vol. 1.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... The History of the European Family. Volume I. Family Life in Early Modern Times. Edited, with an introduction, by David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 365. $35.00.) Family history has come of age since the ...
Women in Medieval English Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Women in Medieval English Society. By Mavis Mate. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 114. $39.95.) For years, the standard student text on English medieval women was Eileen Power's Medieval Women, which was put together from her lecture notes by her ...
Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess, 1657-1715.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess 1657-1715. By Molly McClain. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 262. $35.00.) In this study, the author provides a useful and interesting portrait of one family's rise, within a single generation, to the status of ...
Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945. By Christopher McKee. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 312. $29.95.) This author's deservedly high reputation as a navy historian rests chiefly on A Gentlemanly and Honorable Profession (1991), a ...
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. By Darrin M. McMahon. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 262. $35.00.) Over sixty years ago, Robert Palmer, in his groundbreaking study, Catholics and ...
Science in Europe, 1500-1800, a Primary Sources Reader.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Science in Europe, 1500-1800, a Primary Sources Reader. Edited by Malcolm Oster. (London and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. v, 282. $21.95.) For most of us, the Scientific Revolution evokes images of intellectual geniuses whose daring curiosity about the natural world thrust ...