The Historian back issues from September 2005:
James Monroe and John Adams: an unlikely "friendship".(Biography)
Sep 22, 2005; ... RECENT HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP on the political culture of the early United States has turned from analyzing ideologies and issues to examining the personalities and motivations of the first party leaders. Within a framework often termed the "republican paradigm," an incongruous mixture of ...
A romantic's Civil War: John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius".(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2005; ... IN 1996, the Civil War novel Gods and Generals was a bestseller. The book portrayed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a man full of peculiarities, from his plain uniform to his alleged penchant for habitually sucking on lemons in the midst of battle. The image of Jackson and the ...
Filling a vacuum: women's health information in Good Housekeeping's articles and advertisements, 1920-1965.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2005; ... FOR MEDICAL ADVICE and treatment, most eighteenth-century women relied on a network of folk wisdom passed through female neighbors, relatives, and local midwives. In the nineteenth century, many women supplemented these traditional sources with knowledge gleaned from lecture tours and ...
"[Not] a thin dime:" Kansas relief politics in the campaign of 1936.
Sep 22, 2005; ... AFTER FEDERAL RELIEF ADMINISTRATOR Harry Hopkins charged in 1935 that the state of Kansas had "not spent a thin dime" for its relief programs, this quote became an issue in the presidential campaign the following year. Kansas Governor Alf (Alfred Mossman) Landon's supporters claimed it was ...
Poverty and purification: the politics of Gandhi's campaign for prohibition.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2005; ... THE ROLE OF MOHANDAS GANDHI in helping to bring about Indian independence is well documented. Less well known is Gandhi's commitment to temperance as an integral part of his vision for an independent India. A lifelong teetotaler, Gandhi helped make prohibition a priority of the Indian ...
"Regional variations in slavery".(The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation)(Slavery in the American Mountain South)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 368, companion website. $80.00.) Slavery in the American Mountain South. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, ...
Saudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939-1953.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Saudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939-1953. By Shaft Aldamer. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 277. $49.50.) This study is a well-organized and clearly written revision of the author's doctoral dissertation in Arabic Studies. Shaft Aldamer has used ...
In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By Nelly Hanna. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 219. $19.95.) The middle class and the printed word have generated much interest among social, political, ...
"The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... "The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. By Kairn A. Klieman. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 253. $26.00.) Westerners commonly think of Pygmies only as placeholders on an ahistorical ...
Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919. By Robin F. Bachin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 434. $35.00.) In this thoroughly researched book that draws mainly on newspaper articles, published municipal records, and ...
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser. (New York: Free Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 251. $26.00.) The youngest son of New York's vice-admiralty court judge and proprietor of Morrisania, whose half brother became a ...
The Real Fidel Castro.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Real Fidel Castro. By Leycester Coltman. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 335. $30.00.) Fidel Castro has outlived American presidents, Soviet premiers, and his biographers. Historian Robert Quirk and journalist Tad Szulc published well-researched ...
Washington's Crossing.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Washington's Crossing. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 564. $35.00.) This book is an optimistic, upbeat history of the early days of the American Revolution that changed into a fight for independence. David Hackett Fischer tells how ...
The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression. By Robert E. Gilbert. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. viii, 288. $67.95.) The author of this study argues that Calvin Coolidge was not the lazy and lackadaisical president of conventional ...
The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 195. $29.95.) Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and policymakers have been searching for a term to define the immediate post-Cold War period and ...
Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. By Keith P. Griffler. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvi, 169. $35.00.) The author's Front Line of Freedom is the third book in as many years devoted to ...
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. By Allen C. Guelzo. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Pp. xiii, 332. $26.00.) About a decade ago, historian David Hackett Fischer published his fascinating study of one of the great moments in the American ...
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. x, 363. $34.95.) In recent years, civil rights historians have turned their attention to alternative approaches for achieving ...
Defining America through Immigration Policy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Defining America through Immigration Policy. By Bill Ong Hing. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 324. $26.95.) The author of this book offers a challenging examination of immigration history and the use of immigration policies in Americans' long quest to ...
Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Casta Painting. Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By Ilona Katzew. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 242. $60.00.) Richly illustrated with some three hundred images, including dozens of full-page color plates, this handsome volume resembles a ...
The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Edited by Shawn Lay. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 230. $20.00.) Twelve years after it first appeared in print, The Invisible Empire in the West ...
Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England. By Anne S. Lombard. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 244. $45.00.) This book is an engaging exploration of the meaning of manhood to colonial New Englanders of the "middling" class. Anne S. Lombard ...
Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 273. $24.95.) Using previously unknown population and production censuses discovered in the Sao Paulo State archives, the ...
Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. By Kevin J. McMahon. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x, 298. $20.00.) The year 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the case of Brown v. the ...
"Lest We Be Marshall'd": Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 1806-1812.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... "Lest We Be Marshall'd": Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 1806-1812. By Donald F. Melhorn, Jr. (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 291. $44.95.) Attorney Donald F. Melhorn, Jr. has published an impressive work that explores one of the most important ...
The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. By Richard S. Newman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 256. $18.95.) As the author of this study points out in the introduction, most investigations of antislavery ...
No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II. By Franklin Odo. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 328. $19.95.) The author of this study, who recently edited a wide-ranging sourcebook on Asian-American history, has narrowed his focus in the ...
Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 328. $49.00.) Winfield Scott has been the subject of several excellent biographies in recent years, each taking a different approach to this fascinating and complex ...
Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919-1923.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919-1923. By Todd J. Pfannestiel. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. v, 189. $79.95.) Before this book appeared, few historians noticed that the Red Scare of 1919-1920 continued in New York ...
Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. By David Price. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 426. $23.95.) In his book, the author, an anthropology professor, uses the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and a wide ...
Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina. By Kristin Ruggiero. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 244. $49.50.) In less than three decades, crime and disease have moved from behind the academic scenes toward the ...
Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. x, 38. $16.50.) This work explores not only the ways in which women in early America sought to "be good," but also the origins of moral values in societal and religious ...
Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City. By Patience A. Schell. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. Pp. 290. $50.00.) With the recent debates in Mexico over educational reform, this study speaks to both contemporary and historic concerns. Patience A. ...
Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. By Andrew Shankman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. vii, 298. $34.95.) Over the last quarter century, historians have written numerous studies on the ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court. Edited by Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. Pp. 271. $22.95.) Scholars continue to be fascinated with FDR's historic conflict with the Supreme Court ...
The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America. By William M. Shea. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 402. $35.00.) Published in a year when a Catholic challenged an Evangelical for the U.S. presidency, a book about the uneasy relationship between ...
The Life and Times of Mexico.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Life and Times of Mexico. By Earl Shorris. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. xviii, 743. $29.95.) Novelists, with their particular and peculiar perceptions, often provide much clarity, as well as drama, in their renditions of history. Some writers cross over from nonfiction ...
Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 352. $22.50.) The author of this study has written extensively on American politics in the late nineteenth century ....
The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778. By Stephen R. Taaffe. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 336. $35.00.) The Philadelphia campaign of 1777-1778 did not win the Revolutionary War. Nor did it lose the war. And that is the point. While General John Burgoyne ...
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. By J. Samuel Walker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 303. $27.95.) No one has written a scholarly history of the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident in the twenty-five years since the incident ....
The Beecher Sisters.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Beecher Sisters. By Barbara A. White. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 399. $35.00.) This work is the latest addition to the rapidly growing historiography of the Beechers, the nineteenth-century American family of renowned ministers and reformers. Barbara ...
Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government. By Gary V. Wood. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. vii, 249. $70.00.) The major themes of John Quincy Adams's political career, this author contends, have considerable relevance to ...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Penguin, 2004. Pp. ix, 286. $25.95.) The author of this study will not be remembered for writing the most books in his field--only the best ones. His Creation of the American Republic and The Radicalism of ...
Maritime India.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Maritime India. By Holden Furber, Sinnappah Arasaramam, and Kenneth McPherson. With an introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 1074. $65.00.) This massive omnibus includes facsimile reprints of three classic studies of maritime Asia, ...
Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xii, 164. $39.95.) The Mongol world empire of the thirteenth century is one of the most challenging areas of historical study, especially given the desirability of ...
Hinduism: Past and Present.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Hinduism: Past and Present. By Axel Michaels. Translated by Barbara Harshav. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 429. $19.95.) W. C. Smith began his lectures on Hinduism with the caveat that, in light of the tremendous diversity of that religious tradition, ...
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. By Mark Ravina. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Pp. xvi, 265. $24.95.) This new biography of Saigo Takamori [1827-1877] will do much to help Americans understand not only Saigo's historical significance but also ...
Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China. By Ralph D. Sawyer. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. Pp. x, 445. $26.00.) The annals of premodern Chinese warfare are filled with examples of the use of fire and water to damage an enemy. Incendiary techniques ...
Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism Since 1750.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism Since 1750. By Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 390. $30.00.) The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the ways in which the Catholic Church has ...
The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. By Robert Bartlett. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 168. $24.95.) Social historians have long demonstrated that the experiences of the powerless are fruitful sources of ...
Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience. By Susan Guettel Cole. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 292. $45.00.) Readers who are wary of a title that incorporates some of the trendiest words in classical scholarship will be ...
Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium. By Gilbert Dagron. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 337. $75.00.) Gilbert Dagron may be the most distinguished Byzantine historian of his generation, but little of his work is ...
The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century. By Catherine Epstein. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 322. $29.25.) This book provides a highly innovative insight into the pathology of twentieth-century German communism. It is well understood ...
The Coming of the Third Reich.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Coming of the Third Reich. By Richard J. Evans. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 622. $34.95.) As this reviewer tackled the first of the projected three volumes of Richard J. Evans's history of the Third Reich, he wondered whether we really needed another treatment ...
Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938. By Carole Fink. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 448. $80.00.) In this exhaustively researched study, the author addresses a crucial problem of ...
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus. By Owen Gingerich. (New York: Walker and Company, 2004. Pp. xii, 306. $25.00.) Early in his book, the author offers a "champagne dinner" to anybody who can identify the author of the annotations in the copy of ...
Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953. By Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 248. $35.00.) Josef Stalin hated those "who are frightened of soiling themselves" (171). Anyone who was touched by Stalin's regime was ...
Byzantium and the Crusades.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Byzantium and the Crusades. By Jonathan Harris. (London: Hambledon, 2003. Pp. xvii, 259. $29.95.) This volume is part of a series called "Crusader Worlds," intended to bring up-to-date scholarship to a wide reading public. Jonathan Harris has succeeded admirably in meeting this ...
Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War. By Jonathan Hart. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Pp. vi, 192. $59.95.) This study of Euro-American colonialism should be required reading for both statesmen and pundits. It is an ...
The Nazi Conscience.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Nazi Conscience. By Claudia Koonz. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $29.95.) While many may regard Nazism and conscience to be mutually exclusive terms, this author argues that the racist anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler and his followers was directly linked to a ...
The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831. By John P. LeDonne. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 261. $60.00.) This pithy analysis of Russia's imperial mission in its "growing years" of 1650-1831 is both maddening and magnificent. As a professional ...
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths. By Mary Lefkowitz. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 288. $30.00.) This is an important book that emphasizes the centrality of the divine in ancient Greek stories--at a time when the popular media tell ...
Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii, 282. $79.95.) In many ways, this collection bookends Julia Walker's 1998 edited collection, Dissing Elizabeth. Negative ...
Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms. By Roger B. Manning. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 272. $72.00.) Everyone knows about the Military Revolution--that fundamental change in the early modern period in the waging of war that helped build and ...
The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary 1750-1850.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 255. $39.95.) The rise of the bourgeoisie has been a historical stereotype since the nineteenth century, a basic tenet for social ...