The Historian back issues from June 2004:
Hearth, home, and steering wheel: gender and modernity in France after the Great War.
Jun 22, 2004; ... THE GREAT WAR transformed dramatically the boundaries of the masculine and feminine in European society. Discursively, prewar Europe had been divided between a male-monopolized public realm and a female private sphere. As men headed off to the battlefront after 1914 in ever greater ...
Growing together: blacks and the Catholic Church in Boston.
Jun 22, 2004; ... ON 2 NOVEMBER 1788, an unusual event took place in Boston. At a run-down church originally built by French Huguenots on School Street, a Catholic mass was publicly celebrated for the first time. The mass symbolized more than just the Catholic Church's presence; it demonstrated that ...
December 7, 1941: the day no one bombed Panama.
Jun 22, 2004; ... IT IS FAIRLY well known by now that one reason the Americans were caught off guard at Pearl Harbor is that they were fixated on the probability of a Japanese attack on the Philippines. British and Dutch possessions in Southeast Asia, as well as Thailand, were also on Washington's mind ....
Legitimizing justice: the American press and the International Military Tribunal, 1945-1946.
Jun 22, 2004; ... MONTHS BEFORE the commencement of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945, Justice Robert H. Jackson declared that there would be "no censorship at the forthcoming trials of the German war criminals." (1) In response, reporters from more than twenty ...
Falsely accused: cold war liberalism reassessed.
Jun 22, 2004; ... <Pre>During the crucial years of the Great Fear the most influential ... faction of the American intelligentsia ... abandoned thecritical function that all intellectuals in all countries oughtto sustain toward government agencies and government actions ....[T]heir ...
"Drug use and responses to it in history".(Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World)(The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics)(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. By David T. Courtwright. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $16.95.) The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. By Richard Davenport-Hines. (New York and London: W. W. Norton Co., ...
The History of the Congo.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The History of the Congo. By Ch. Didier Gondola. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 215. $39.95.) This study is part of a series intended to give general readers a better understanding of various countries that are important to the United States. The series ...
The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The House & Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 348. $44.95.) As a scholar of the modern Senate and a student of congressional history, this ...
The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840. By Anne M. Boylan. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 343. $19.95.) In this fine, innovative study, the author challenges the assumption that women's organizations in the ...
Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Sherri Broder. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $39.95.) In the introduction of her well-researched book, the author of this study says ...
Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. By Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 286. $29.95.) Students of the American Revolutionary War have long recognized France's participation in the conflict. Less well ...
The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture. Edited by Christopher H. Evans and William R. Herzog II. (Louisville and Westminster: John Knox Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 274. $18.95.) As Christopher H. Evans and William R. Herzog II note in this provocative ...
The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. By Hugh E. Evans. (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvii, 202. $29.95.) The author of this study, a professor of pediatrics and of prevention medicine and community health, has written a fascinating book. In a sense, it ...
Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. By Max Evans. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 315. $23.95.) Prostitution in the American West is a topic that has received rigorous scholarly inquiry. Historians such as Anne Butler, Peggy ...
A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War. By Paul Foos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 223. $18.95.) This study is a provocative addition to the social history of the common soldier in the ...
The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940. By Michael J. Gonzales. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 307. $21.95.) Teachers of Mexican history need a readable survey of the revolutionary period's main events, actors, and themes. The Mexican Revolution is this ...
Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. By Barry Gough. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 215. $32.50.) To the growing corpus of War of 1812 military and naval studies, this author has added an interesting scholarly ...
Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African-Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African-Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Wilbert L. Jenkins. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2002. Pp. vii, 272. $65.00.) Climbing Up to Glory has the heraldry of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the ...
Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. By Clayton E. Jewett. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 310. $37.50.) This book addresses the enduring historical effort at explaining the defeat of the Southern Confederacy during the ...
Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. By Marjoleine Kars. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 286. $49.95.) On 16 May 1771, around 1,100 militiamen confronted nearly two thousand protesting backcountry ...
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. By Sarah A. Leavitt. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 250. $18.95.) For many historians, economy means something quite different today than what the word ...
The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. By Mitchell B. Lerner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xii, 320. $34.95.) This is an especially timely work, which analyzes the crisis caused by the North Korean capture on 23 January ...
America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was. By Tim Maga. (Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xi, 194. $25.00.) With so many solid studies already available on Japanese and American decision-making at the end of the Pacific war, one wonders why we need ...
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. By James M. McPherson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 203. $26.00. This book is part of the series "Pivotal Moments in American History," edited by the author and David Hackett Fischer. The theme of the series is the concept ...
"This Is America?": The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... "This Is America?": The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. By Rusty L. Monhollon. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xvi, 284. $39.95.) The author represents his book on the University of Kansas as a departure from narratives of 1960s protest that focus on elite campuses. Maurice ...
Benjamin Franklin.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Benjamin Franklin. By Edmund S. Morgan. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 340. $24.95.) Edmund S. Morgan is unquestionably one of the great historians of our time. As a graduate student in the 1960s, the reviewer became acquainted with his highly ...
Nixon.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Nixon. By Iwan Morgan. (London: Arnold, 2002. Pp. xi, 221. $16.95.) "Hero or villain? Charlatan or True Prophet? Sinner or Saint?" These are the questions introducing "Reputations," a new British series of brief biographies of eminent historical figures. What better subject ...
The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824. By Alexander Nemerov. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 260. $45.00.) During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, American artists and critics alike relegated still life paintings to the ...
First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation. By Thomas C. Parramore. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 372. $29.95.) The author of this study has written an engaging book on the early days of flight in North Carolina ....
Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935. By Donald J. Pisani. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 394. $49.95.) The author of this study masterfully demonstrates that the ...
Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. By Sarah J. Purcell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. x, 278. $35.00.) The author of this book shows that "Military memory, especially memory of the Revolutionary War, is really at ...
State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 1860-1916.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 1860-1916. By David Rock. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. $60.00.) This new study of politics and state building fills an important gap in the English-language scholarship on Argentine history. For ...
Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. By Hal Rothman. (New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 340. $27.50.) Hal Rothman, a historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has written an unusual book, which is part urban history, part ...
The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920. By Jeffrey Sklansky. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 313. $19.95.) This study traces a "seismic shift" that the author argues occurred in American social ...
Rethinking the Great Depression.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Rethinking the Great Depression. By Gene Smiley. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xii, 179. $24.95.) It is no easy task to cover a complex historical transformation such as the Great Depression in 165 pages. The author writes in a clear, engaging, and jargon-free style and does ...
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. By John Stauffer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 367. $29.95.) Because American abolitionists addressed issues of race, gender, and violence, they often serve as points of ...
Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. By Julia E. Sweig. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 254. $29.95.) Few, if any, topics of the modern history of Latin America have generated a larger cloud of mythology than the Cuban ...
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. By Conevery Bolton Valencius. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. viii, 388. $30.00.) This intriguing and intricately woven analysis of frontier, environmental, and medical history in antebellum ...
The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct, vol. 1.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Causes and Early Conflict. Volume I of The Paraguayan War. By Thomas L. Whigham. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00.) The Paraguayan or Triple Alliance War of 1865-1870 became the most prolonged international armed conflict in Latin ...
The Human Tradition in Premodern China.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Human Tradition in Premodern China. Edited by Kenneth Hammond. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002. Pp. xx, 172. $42.00.) This collection of ten essays by ten authors, a volume in the series "The Human Tradition around the World," is intended to "provide ...
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. By Donald Keene. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 922. $39.50.) In late 1867, the last of Japan's hereditary military overlords abdicated his position as shogun. Shortly thereafter, the young Meiji emperor ...
From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. By Andrei Lankov. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. 202. $60.00.) The author of this book, a former Soviet academic, has made extensive use of Soviet archives and interviews with North ...
History of Japanese Thought.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... History of Japanese Thought. By Hajime Nakamura. (London: Kegan Paul, 2002. Pp. x, 308. $110.00.) Originally published in 1967, Hajime Nakamura's study of Japanese intellectual history spans the period from 592 to 1868, with a special focus on the Tokugawa period, 1603-1867 ....
In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections. By B. R. Nanda. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 270. $35.00.) The author of this volume, one of the most influential interpreters of Mahatma Gandhi's role in the making of modern India, dates his search for the ...
Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image. By Maurizio Peleggi. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Pp. 232. $19.95.) Writing an original history about Siam's (Thailand's) modernization under King Chulalongkorn (r. 1868-1910) is ...
The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. By Jan Assman. Translated by Andrew Jenkins. (New York: Metropolitan books, 2002. Pp. xi, 513. $35.00.) With so many books on Pharaonic Egypt appearing each year it might seem difficult to say anything new or ...
The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. By Roman Brackman. (London and Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. Pp. xx, 466. $35.00.) Russian twentieth-century history is full of conspiracies and riddles: Lenin and the German gold, Anastasia, the murder of Kirov, and ...
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth. By Victor Brombert. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002. Pp. 335. $25.95.) This book is a memoir by the well-known and prolific literary critic, professor of French, and one-time Modern Language Association president, ...
Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna. By Geoffrey of Burton. Edited by Robert Bartlett. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. lxxi, 230. $72.00.) The Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna is typical of the excellent editions produced in the Oxford Medieval Texts series. Robert ...
Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History ole the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. By Arne Soby Christensen. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002. Pp. xi, 391. $49.00.) This book is a study of the mid-sixth-century text by Jordanes titled De ...
Russian Masculinities in History and Culture.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Edited by Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. ix, 235. $65.00.) This pioneering collection is the first English-language book devoted to purposeful examination of men and ...
White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919. By Jamie H. Cockfield. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. Pp. xii, 302. $69.95.) Considered by fellow members of the Romanov family as an "oddball," the Grand Duke ...
Sports and Games of the Ancients.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Sports and Games of the Ancients. By Steve Craig. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 271. $49.95.) Running the gamut from wrestling to boomerang, and abbia to senet, Sports and Games of the Ancients spans the globe to bring us an anthology of athletic and ...
Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203. By J. A. Everard. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 242. $59.95.) For almost half a century, Brittany, that peninsula at the extreme northwest of France, was part of the "Angevin Empire" created by ...
The Making of Revolutionary Paris.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Making of Revolutionary Paris. By David Garrioch. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 382. $34.95.) From the blind beggars of the Quinze-Vingts Hospital to the rioters of the Reveillon wallpaper works, the author of this book unrolls a ...
Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886. By Lawrence Goldman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 430. $70.00.) This long, highly detailed book is an exhaustive study of the Social Science Association, which ...
Diaspora: Jews Amongst Greeks and Romans.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Diaspora: Jews amongst Greeks and Romans. By Erich S. Gruen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 386. $39.95.) In Jewish history, "diaspora" (golah in Hebrew) is a loaded term. Historically, it often designates a move away from the land of Israel, a forced ...
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. By Catherine Hall. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 556. $79.00.) This is a rich and enterprising book, which explores important issues of imperialism and identity by study ...
Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. By Jill Harsin. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. ix, 417. $29.95.) This study provides a narrative of political violence against the July Monarchy and its perpetrators, several thousand radical republicans ...
A Life of Jung.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... A Life of Jung. By Ronald Hayman. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Pp. xxi, 522. $18.95.) Jung studies continue to proliferate. After many years of amateurish-seeming scholarship, we appear to have entered a new phase in which thoroughly serious and non-tendentious works are ...
The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic. By Feiwel Kupferberg. (New Brunswick and London: Transactions Publishers, 2002. Pp. 228. $39.95.) The title suggests a narrative of the life and death of the GDR, but, instead, this book examines the origins and continuity of ...
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Mary, Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters. By A. E. MacRobert. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. Pp. x, 235. $45.00.) Another book on the Casket Letters? Readers of undergraduate British history term papers may groan at the thought that the issue has been ...
Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. By Peter Marshall. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 344. $74.00.) This book considers the dead and beliefs about the dead during the Reformation in England, and it is a model of wide-ranging historical scholarship ....
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Edited by Raymond Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. v, 241. $60.00.) "What did it mean to be Protestant in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" (1)? This question ...
The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. [Volume 1 of Rome, The Greek World, and the East]. By Fergus Millar. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 383. $65.00.) This book--the first of three ...