The Historian back issues from March 2006:
The emperor's new clothes: American views of Hirohito after World War II.
Mar 22, 2006; ... ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1945, Georgia Senator Richard Russell delivered an address on U.S. policy toward Emperor Hirohito under the newly begun occupation of Japan. Russell called the emperor the "head and heart" of Japanese expansionism, blasted the Truman White House for its reluctance to ...
The First Crusade in late medieval exempla.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... ON 15 JULY 1099, a Christian army entered Jerusalem, thereby ending the four-year odyssey of the First Crusade and beginning a two-hundred-year period of Latin rule in the Levant. Shortly thereafter, the success of the crusaders at reclaiming the Holy City entered into the historical ...
The pardoner's promises: preaching and policing indulgences in the fourteenth-century English church.
Mar 22, 2006; ... INDULGENCES (COMMONLY KNOWN in England as pardons) have long since been infamous as the occasion for Martin Luther's revolt from the Roman Catholic Church in 1517. (1) Preachers of indulgence (in England called pardoners) incurred as much notoriety as the indulgences themselves. Indeed, ...
"A sink of all filthiness": gender, family, and identity in the British Atlantic, 1688-1763.
Mar 22, 2006; ... IN THE EARLY months of 1732, Colonel Christian Lilly received a remarkable letter on behalf of the Widow Owen of Berwick asking him to investigate the recent death of one "Doctor Owen" in Jamaica. Doctor Owen, a surgeon, had departed for the island with his regiment many years past, and ...
Organizing youth for partisan politics in Britain, 1918--c.1932.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... COMPARED TO OTHER European countries, and indeed to Britain after the Second World War, the political youth culture of the 1920s and early 1930s Britain has received remarkably little scholarly attention. (1) Yet, strenuous attempts were made to politically indoctrinate youth in the ...
Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic. Edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. $45.00.) The ten chapters of this book, a sequel to the editors' Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, reflect several ...
Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. By Natana J. Delong-Bas. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 370. $35.00.) To most Westerners, the Wahhabi form of Islam practiced in and exported from Saudi Arabia is thought to incorporate strict textual ...
Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750-1920.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750-1920. By Mien F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii, 370. $29.95.) The Chikunda were slaves who served as soldiers ...
Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890-1940.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890-1940. By Eddy Tshidiso Maloka. (Darkar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. Pp. 257. $47.95.) This book is a revised version of the ...
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. By Eric Avila. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 308. $39.95.) The author of this book skillfully weaves together a number of literary strands that give a ...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. By Edward L. Ayers. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xxi, 471. $15.95.) Much of the Civil War was fought in the valley between the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. This book is a study ...
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. By Michael B. Ballard. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 490. $39.95.) The author of this study is also the biographer of the Confederate commander, General John Pemberton. In this book, he ...
Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks and the Western Steamboat World. By Thomas C. Buchanan. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 256. $32.50.) This book is a concerted effort to break new ground in the discussion on slavery by ...
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, & Debs--The Election That Changed the Country.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--The Election That Changed the Country. By James Chace. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Pp. x, 323. $25.95.) The author, a distinguished foreign-policy historian who unexpectedly passed away a few months after the publication of this ...
Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s-1880s.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s-1880s. By Miroslava Chavez-Garcia. (Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 240. $39.95.) Single mothers, desperate widows, and independent, frustrated, abandoned, and abused wives, sought redress in ...
British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783: The Role of the "Middling Level" Activists.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783: The Role of the "Middling Level" Activists. By Sheldon S. Cohen. (Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 181. $75.00.) Under an act of Parliament in 1777, American seamen captured from armed ships during the ...
Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. By Michael Comiskey. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. vii, 287. $40.00.) The topic the author of this book addresses could hardly be timelier. President George W. Bush is certain to fill vacancies on ...
Politics and Reform in Spain and Vicerega/Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan de Palafox, 1600-1659.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Politics and Reform in Spain and Vicerega/Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan de Palafox, 1600-1659. By Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 366. $85.00.) In March 1639, Juan de Palafox was appointed visitor-general to New Spain in response to ...
The Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Civil Rights Movement. By Bruce J. Dierenfleld. (New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. Pp. xi, 190. $22.99.) In this book, the author attempts to give his readers a short but concise history of the modern civil-rights movement in the southern United States. To some degree, he has ...
The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy. By C. Wyatt Evans. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xv, 269. $24.95.) This compelling narrative opens with the death by his own hand of a drifter, David George, in January 1903 in Enid, Oklahoma, ...
Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amanda Frisken. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 225. $37.50.) The author of this study acknowledges that Victoria Claflin ...
Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Alice L. George. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 238. $29.95.) This study of public American responses to one of the signal crises of the Cold War era dangles the ...
The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763. By Steven C. Hahn. (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 338. $59.95.) This book examines the Creek Indians' foreign relations from the establishment of Charleston and Coweta in 1670 to the 1763 Treaty of ...
Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea. By Laura Hapke. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. v, 202. $22.95.) I have nicknamed my son's college apartment, the site of a former candy factory, "the sweatshop." Laura Hapke would understand. According to ...
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century. By Paul E. Hoffman. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 353. $22.95.) By definition, voyages of discovery--past or present--entail a search for ...
Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. By Eric T. L. Love. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 245. $19.95.) This work is a reinterpretation of how race influenced United States imperialism from 1865 to 1900. Previous studies ...
Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising. By Staughton Lynd. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 244. $16.95.) On Easter Sunday, 11 April 1993, at three in the afternoon, a group of prisoners in L-block of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility ...
Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930. By Jan MacKell. (Albuquerque, N. Mex.. University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 310. $24.95.) Colorado's gold-rush prostitutes had few champions, many detractors, and even more descriptors. They were ...
Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck. By John F. Marszalek. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 314. $24.95.) In this volume, the author gives us the first full-length biography of one of the best-known failures of the Civil ...
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. By Joseph M. Marshall III. (New York: Viking Press, 2004. Pp. xxv, 310. $24.95.) The author's avowed intention in his new book is the presentation of "a Lakota viewpoint about Crazy Horse" (xx). From his perspective this account is ...
Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority. By Robert Mason. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 289. $39.95.) In 1964, when conservatives in the Republican Party nominated Senator Barry Gold-water as their standard-bearer, the Arizonan knew ...
Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney. By Marty D. Matthews. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 186. $29.95.) This brief, clearly written political biography of Charles Pinckney [1757-1824] casts a valuable perspective on the ...
Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808. By Kenneth Maxwell. (New York: Roudedge, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 289. $26.95.) When Cambridge University Press first published Conflicts and Conspiracies in 1973, eminent scholars praised it unanimously: C. R. Boxer exulted ...
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression. By Colleen McDannell. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 319. $45.00.) Roy Stryker of the New Deal's Farm Security Administration sent photographers throughout the United States during the Great Depression ....
Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Destiny after Reconstruction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Destiny After Reconstruction. By Michele Mitchell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 388. $22.50.) This study makes vital contributions to the historiography of American sexuality ...
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. By James A. Morone. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 575. $18.00.) From time to time, historians take on a quest for a grand narrative that will explain American history. This study takes us back ...
The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers after the Expedition.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition. By Larry E. Morris. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 284. $30.00.) Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagawea, and York are familiar names to anyone with an ...
Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. By David Paul Nord. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 212. $35.00.) The title of this carefully researched and well-written little volume is to the point. The story offered here ...
Ohio's First Peoples.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Ohio's First Peoples. By James H. O'Donnell III. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. 176. $17.95.) Nodding to inclusiveness in conjunction with Ohio's 2003 bicentennial, the author produced Ohio's First Peoples. In this slim volume, James H. O'Donnell III takes his ...
Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South. By Robert F. Pace. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 152. $34.95.) This is an important book. One of the difficulties in writing Southern history has been a paucity of secondary works that offer ...
Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alison Piepmeier. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 278. $19.95.) Using a poststructuralist approach, the author of this study examines the public presentation ...
European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. By William Reynolds. Edited by Peter K. Gifford and Robert D. Ilisevich. (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 258. $44.95.) The 1850s were an ...
The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901. By Heather Cox Richardson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 312. $39.95.) Republican devotion to a "flee-labor ideology" has enjoyed substantial commentary ...
Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes. By Sergio Serulnikov. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 287. $23.95.) The great Andean insurrection of 1780-1781 was a landmark event in colonial Latin American ...
The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education. By Theodore Sizer. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 131. $23.00.) The author opens and closes his book with recollections of his 1946 tenth-grade Latin class. However, Theodore Sizer does not ...
Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Margaret M. Storey. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 296. $49.95.) In this revision of her dissertation, the author makes an important contribution to the increasing ...
Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Steven M. Stowe. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. x, 373. $45.00.) As one reads this book, one becomes thankful it is the twenty-first century. There ...
Can't Find My Way: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Can't Find My Way: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. By Martin Torgoff. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. Pp. vii, 545. $27.95.) Academic historians have had limited success writing about illegal drug use in the United States. Only a few, such as John Burnham and ...
Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Shades of Hiawatha: Shaping Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xxv, 370. $30.00.) As a point of historical fact, Hiawatha was a cofounder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Most Americans today know him as a ...
Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow. By Thomas Adam Upchurch. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 302. $40.00.) Historians have traditionally viewed the Compromise of 1877 as the watershed for the United States ...
The Antebellum Period.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Antebellum Period. By James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 401. $49.95.) This textbook on antebellum popular culture is divided into two sections. Part one consists of a chapter on everyday life and another on youth. Part ...
The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History. By Giselle Byrnes. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 222. $35.00.) New Zealand governments since 1975 have been trying to find ways of providing recompense for the loss of the Maori's most valuable resource--their ...
Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. By Kai-wing Chow. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 397. $49.50.) In a work that combines an unprecedented quantity of data on Chinese publishing of the Ming [1368-1644] and Qing [1644-1911] periods ...
The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand. Edited by Robin Lane Fox. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 288. $45.00.) "The Sea! The Sea!"--that, as many a schoolboy used to know, is a refrain first widely broadcast in Xenophon's Anabasis (The Journey Up ...
The Indian Ocean in World History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Indian Ocean in World History. By Milo Kearney. (New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 188. $17.95.) Seas and oceans have, in the last few decades, attracted significant attention as focal points for historical analysis. Relationships between land and sea, prevailing winds and ...
New Times in Modern Japan.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... New Times in Modern Japan. By Stefan Tanaka. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 225. $29.95.) In December 1872, Japan's new Meiji government announced the abolition of the old lunar calendar in favor of the Gregorian solar calendar and mandated the use of ...
Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia. By Evgenii V. Anisimov. Translated by Kathleen Carol. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. Pp. 368. $44.95.) When Mikhail Gorbachev introduced his policy of glasnost in the late 1980s, the lifting of censorship resulted in a ...
Brahms and the German Spirit.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Brahms and the German Spirit. By Daniel Beller-McKenna. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 243. $49.95.) For sixty years since the end of World War II, the music of nineteenth-century German composer Johannes Brahms has not been associated with ...
From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. By Barbara B. Diefendorf. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 340. $55.00.) This author's latest book makes a significant contribution both to the historiography of the Catholic Reformation ...
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. By Robert T. Foley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 301. $70.00.) This study places the strategy of Erich von Falkenhayn in the context of military ...
Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250. By David Foote. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 254. $25.00.) The process by which European cities began to emerge, ever so slowly, ...
Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. By Alan Forrest. (London: Arnold, 2004. Pp. viii, 259. $19.95.) "Tensions between Paris and the provinces ... have played an important role in French history," writes the author of this study at the opening of his book, which is a ...
Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. By Michael Freeman. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 310. $45.00.) With the attention that scholars have given to Victorian classicism and medievalism, it is easy to overlook the fact that the ...
Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich. By Stephen G. Fritz. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvii, 382. $35.00.) The author of this book addresses the "nuanced and differentiated ... hold-out effect" among German soldiers in the ...
First Nights at the Opera.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... First Nights at the Opera. By Thomas Forrest Kelly. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 441. $35.00.) In his earlier book, First Nights: Five Musical Premieres, this author reconstructed the first performances of five canonical works of western art music ...