The Historian back issues from June 2005:
The progressive agent of mischief: the whiskey ration and temperance in the United States Army.
Jun 22, 2005; ... IN THE 1820S AND 1830s, the United States Army suffered from a phenomenally high desertion rate of about 20 percent a year. (1) The causes of desertion were many but stemmed primarily from low pay, lack of promotions, irregularities within the military justice system, and the prevalence of ...
Examining the politics of reclamation: the 1944 acreage limitation debate in Congress.
Jun 22, 2005; ... DURING DEBATE IN the U.S. House of Representatives over what would become the Flood Control Act of 1944, Representative Carl Curtis of Nebraska summarized the complicated issues and interests involved in the drafting of water resource legislation: <Pre>Flood control plans and ...
Into the wilderness: Ronald Reagan, Bob Jones University, and the political education of the Christian Right.
Jun 22, 2005; ... ON FRIDAY, 8 January 1982, officials from the United States Treasury Department announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would no longer deny tax exemptions to private schools practicing racially discriminatory policies, arguing that Congress had not given the IRS this specific ...
An appeal for a historiographical renaissance: lost lives and the Thirty Years War.
Jun 22, 2005; ... IN THE EARLY 1920s, Germans debated the question of French colonial troops in occupied German territories and their impact upon the German population. In this discussion, the "Black Threat" provoked images of the brutalization of war and the threat of a "return to the era of the Thirty ...
Ships, sailors, and mediators: England's naval aid to Sweden 1658-1659.
Jun 22, 2005; ... DURING THE EARLY MODERN ERA, the composition and purpose of European navies underwent a dramatic change. Beginning in the sixteenth century, western European rulers began to establish overseas empires and long distance trade began to increase. These trends led many monarchs to encourage ...
"The history of the National Guard".(Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000)(The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865-1920)(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000. By Michael D. Doubler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 460. $17.95.) The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865-1920. By Jerry Cooper. (Lincoln and ...
Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe. By Amy Kaler. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 247. $27.95.) With the exception of southern Africa, biomedical contraception reached Africa only after independence. Amy Kaler's treatment of ...
Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800. By Guity Nashat and Lois Beck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 253. $42.95.) Knowledge about premodern Iranian women in historical accounts has been scant and scattered. Much of what can be known about women ...
Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. By William Howard Adams. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 345. $30.00.) Previously sidelined by the historiography of the Revolutionary Era, it is now time for Gouverneur Morris to step into the spotlight. In recent ...
Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 308. $62.95.) This collection of eight previously published essays, three ...
The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism & Its Legacies. Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. ix, 404. $39.95.) The inside flap of this book promises a great deal. In addition to describing the collection as ...
The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico. By Jacques M. Chevalier and AndrOs Sanchez Bain. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 301. $65.00.) Folk medical practices as far apart as China, the Mediterranean, and Latin America share a ...
All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution. By Christopher Collier. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003. Pp. xi, 224. $39.95.) In this work, the author seeks to explain the behavior of Connecticut's ...
Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Capitalism, Politics and Railroads in New England. By Michael J. Connolly. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $44.95.) The author of this new book has studied the impact of the coming of the railroad in New Hampshire and Essex County, Massachusetts, ...
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. By Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xi, 292. $15.95.) Three distinguished legal historians have published a notable study of Brown v ....
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd Depastino. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 325. $32.50.) Whether marching in Coxey's Army or with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, homeless men have influenced America. In this revisionist ...
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. By Robbie Ethridge. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 369. $22.50. Two hundred years ago, the Creek confederacy stretched across a significant chunk of the American South, encompassing parts of ...
God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. By Bruce J. Evensen. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 240. $29.95.) Readers seeking a critical biography of Dwight Lyman Moody will not be satisfied with this new work. Readers interested ...
European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream. Edited by Peter K. Gillord and Robert D. Ilisevich. (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 258. $44.95.) An important future component of the interregional Erie Railroad System was the Atlantic & Great ...
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. By Steven Hahn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 610. $35.00.) This author has written an amazing book, one well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize ....
The Quakers in America.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Quakers in America. By Thomas Hamm. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 293. $40.00.) This is an exceptional book. It is simply one of the best books ever written about American Quakerism--high praise indeed, but deserved. A novice primer on Quakers, it ...
In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage. By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. Pp. 316. $25.95.) John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have been working, independently and collaboratively, in the historiographical minefield of U.S. ...
Sensory Worlds in Early America.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Sensory Worlds in Early America. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 334. $39.95.) While most sensory experiences are filtered through the mental mechanism of perception and are interpreted and understood through the lens of ...
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 394. $45.00.) The author of this study contends that the Civil War was the explosion of ...
Kate Chase & William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Kate Chase & William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage. By Peg A. Lamphier. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. x, 315. $55.00.) They were a handsome couple, and their wedding was the social event of the season that November in the national ...
The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930. By Jean V. Matthews. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. 211. $24.95.) In this entry in the "American Ways" series, historian Jean V. Matthews continues the story of the first women's rights movement that she ...
Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950. By Julio Moreno. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 321, $21.95.) In Mexico, the love of U.S. goods has long been about as pervasive ...
Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760-1783.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760-1783. By Vincent Morley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 366. $65.00.) In this welcome addition to the study of Irish history, the author explicates the connections between Irish politics and the American ...
Fleeing the Famine: North American and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Fleeing the Famine: North American and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851. By Margaret M. Mulrooney. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. ix, 154. $64.95.) This study is an interesting and, at times, provocative compilation of articles that reexamines the questions raised by ...
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 294. $49.95.) Focusing on the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath has drawn attention from what went before it ....
Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present. Edited by Mariano Plotkin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 287. $22.95.) In Argentina, and until the early 1990s, there were relatively few works on the history of ...
City: Urbanism and Its End.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... City: Urbanism and Its End. By Douglas W. Rae. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 516. $30.00.) America is a country of cities. There are 288 large metropolitan areas in the country, called Metropolitan Statistical Areas by the U.S. Census Bureau. Almost 80 ...
Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Joao Jose Reis. Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 386. $59.95.) In October 1836, a crowd destroyed the newly constructed cemetery ...
Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of The Enlightenment. By Michael Brian Schiffer. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 383. $34.95.) Benjamin Franklin has long been recognized as one of the most remarkable men of ...
Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. By Thomas Schoonover. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $30.00.) The events surrounding the war of 1898 were a turning point for the United States and for the world. This country, which took ...
Kit Carson and His Three Wives: A Family History.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History. By Marc Simmons. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. x, 195. $24.95.) The author of this biographical study of Christopher "Kit" Carson tries to examine the subject's family and domestic life, something not ...
The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910. By Juan Mora Torres. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. 346. $23.95.) The author of this study investigates how the interplay of economics, politics, and social development ...
Written with Lead: America's Most Famous and Notorious Gunfights from the Revolutionary War to Today.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Written with Lead: America's Most Famous and Notorious Gunfights from the Revolutionary War to Today. By William Weir. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 354. $17.95.) This book chronicles twenty-one episodes in American history that are notable for one or, more ...
Turning the World Upside Down: The War for American Independence and the Problem of American Empire.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Turning the World Upside Down: The War for American Independence and the Problem of American Empire. By Neil Longley York. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xiii, 193. $64.95.) The author of this book sets out in his short and briskly paced volume to examine how the American ...
Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. By Sumit Ganguly. (Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 187. $18.50.) This book is a straightforward, well-written account of the many conflicts between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947 ....
Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea. By Xiaoming Zhang. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 300. $19.95.) Cold War studies have continued to be internationalized. Continuing the trend of gaining insight into "the ...
14-18: Understanding the Great War.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... 14-18: Understanding the Great War. By Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becket. Translated by Catherine Temerson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. 280. $14.00.) This fine book by two of France's eminent historians of World War I undertakes an important task: to understand ...
Charlemagne.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Charlemagne. By Matthias Becher. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 170. $23.00.) The author of this book is one of the leading authorities of a younger generation of historians in Germany working on Western Europe in the eighth to tenth centuries and has made several ...
Italy and the Grand Tour.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Italy and the Grand Tour. By Jeremy Black. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 255. $35.00.) The education of many British aristocrats during the Georgian period revolved around relatively long sojourns through the Italian states. Jeremy Black's latest work ...
English Public Opinion and the American Civil War.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. By Duncan Andrew Campbell. (London: Royal Historical Society Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 266. $70.00.) Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis considered British intervention in the American Civil War to be a distinct ...
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact. By John Cornwell. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xvi, 535. $29.95.) In the past decade, there has been a wealth of scholarship produced exploring the relationship between scientists and the government in Nazi Germany ....
The Revolution of Peter the Great.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Revolution of Peter the Great. By James Cracraft. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $25.95.) Peter the Great, it appears, never ceases to inspire. The last few years alone have seen two new, full-length studies of his reign and three abbreviated ...
French Popular Culture: An Introduction.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... French Popular Culture: An Introduction. Edited with an introduction by Hugh Dauncey. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 220. $24.95.) This textbook offers fourteen encyclopedia-style entries treating a wide range of cultural topics with a focus on the period ...
Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. By Jeroen Duindam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $80.00.) The author of this outstanding work traces in scrupulous detail the evolution of the royal household in France and Austria ...
The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Literature, 1740-1914.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Literature, 1740-1914. By Margot C. Finn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 362. $70.00.) This study explores the impact of credit and debt in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Margot C ....
The French Revolution.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The French Revolution. By Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 190. $45.00.) In the increasingly crowded field of introductory materials on the French Revolution, Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey hope to find a niche with this ...
The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923. By Peter Hart. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 350. $75.00.) This book is a groundbreaking work. Given an almost endless analysis of Irish republicanism, most of it marred by presentist concerns, this is ...
Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Hitler in Vienna 1907-1913: Clues to the Future. By J. Sydney Jones. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 350. $26.47.) Although Adolf Hitler's time in Vienna has long been the stuff of mystery, this reprint of a book published in 1982 does little to present new clues ...
The Nazi Conscience.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Nazi Conscience. By Claudia Koonz. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $29.95.) This newest study of Germany's inexorable march to the ultimate mass murder of Jews will be a most influential voice in the crowded field of the history of Nazi Germany and ...
The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Bar & the Old Bailey 1750-1850. By Allyson N. May. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 242, $49.95.) To most people, the modern criminal defense lawyer in a common law jurisdiction is a very recognizable figure. A zealous advocate who does battle with ...
The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England. By Cindy McCreery. (London: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 281. $90.00.) In the last half of the eighteenth century, British society was experiencing a significant change because of the impact of ...
Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. By Jon D. Mikalson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 269. $45.00. This treatment of religion in the work of the first Greek historian is one of two that have appeared recently (cf. Thomas Harrison, ...
Ancient Greek Athletics.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Ancient Greek Athletics. By Stephen G. Miller. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 288. $35.00. The biggest problem in teaching ancient athletics has been the lack of an adequate survey that marshals the diffuse and difficult archaeological and written evidence, ...
Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage and Politics in England, 1225-1350.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage and Politics in England, 1225-1350. By Linda E. Mitchell. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 185. $49.99.) The contributions of women prior to the nineteenth century have been notoriously difficult to uncover in the historical ...
Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece. By Kathryn A. Morgan. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 324. $50.00.) It is a well-known paradox of the study of ancient Greek tyranny that, while the phenomenon itself seems to have had its ...
Urban Europe, 1100-1700.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Urban Europe, 1100-1700. By David Nicholas. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 239. $21.95.) This author's latest book turns from his specialty, Flemish cities in the late Middle Ages, to attempt a synthesis of medieval and early modern urban development across ...
Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920. By Jean Elisabeth Pedersen. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 271. $60.00.) With the advent of the Third Republic, a surprising cast of characters came onto the scene of ...
Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom. By David Rollason. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 339. $85.00.) This study, by a specialist in the ecclesiastical history of northeastern England, is intended for a nonspecialist audience ....
From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. By Michael Rowe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 331. $65.00.) The author of this study has written an excellent book about a crucial period of European history in one of the most ...
The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia. By W. F. Ryan. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 504. $24.95.) This detailed survey of magical and divinatory texts and popular practice focuses on the territory of Imperial Russia from ancient ...