The Historian back issues from June 2006:
Jury trials and Gerrymanders: the legal effort to maintain segregation in July of 1957.
Jun 22, 2006; ... IN THE FINAL DAYS of summer 1957, the battle for civil rights dramatically entered the consciousness of many Americans. Roughly three years earlier the U.S. Supreme Court had handed down the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and in 1957, it would be implemented in Little Rock, Arkansas ....
Administering medicine without a license: missionary women in Rhodesia's nursing history, 1890--1901 (1).
Jun 22, 2006; ... CONVENTIONAL HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE of education in colonial Zimbabwe holds that the Dominican Sisters (among other European missionary women) came to Rhodesia as trained nurses and teachers and set up the first clinics and schools that benefited the Africans in the colony. This study takes ...
Remembering Richard Somers: naval martyrdom in the Tripolitan War.
Jun 22, 2006; ... ON 2 APRIL 1949, the USS Spokane, a modern naval cruiser, anchored off the historic Mediterranean port of Tripoli. A detachment of officers and men led by Rear Admiral R. H. Cruzen and Captain W. J. Marshall disembarked and were met by the American consul Orray Taft, Jr., and other ...
Imperial strategy and the Anglo--Zulu War of 1879.
Jun 22, 2006; ... ON 22 JANUARY 1879, the British army suffered its worst colonial defeat of the nineteenth century when 1,500 men armed with the most modern weapons then available were wiped out at the battle of Isandlwana by a Zulu army--an impi--of 25,000 warriors armed only with spears. That an army of ...
Food supply and economic ideology: Indian corn relief during the second year of the great Irish famine (1847).
Jun 22, 2006; ... THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE (1845-51) had devastating effects on the Irish population. The horrors of Famine mortality, evictions, and the coffin ships produced turmoil and despair. About a million people perished from hunger, disease, and inadequate policies. Another million fled to distant ...
Social History and African Environments.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Social History and African Environments. Edited by William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor. (Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. xii, 275. $49.95.) The editors of this volume present a selection of papers from a 1999 conference at St. Antony's College, Oxford, intended to represent the ...
Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World. By Robert R. Bianchi. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 358. $35.00.) Making use of a combination of travel accounts, personal spiritual experiences, descriptions of the mechanics and meaning of ...
Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-01.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-01. By A. Adu Boahen. (Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers and Oxford, U.K.: James Currey Publishers, 2003. Pp. vii, 182. $24.95.) There has long been a need for the definitive story of Yaa Asantewaa, the famed Queen Mother of ...
Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. By Trevor R. Getz. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 257. $26.95.) One of the strengths of this study is that it can be appreciated from several different ...
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power. By Colin Imber. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiv, 405. $27.95.) This work is a valuable contribution to the small number of general histories of the Ottoman Empire. The author provides a political history ...
How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600. By Jan Vansina. (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 325. $50.00.) In the heady days of the 1960s when African history was first taking shape, the theme of Bantu migration ...
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. By Sean Patrick Adams. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 305. $45.00.) This volume explores the importance of coal in the political economies of Virginia and ...
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 374. $29.95.) In this study the author offers a thorough examination of slavery in North America. The book builds on previously published works, ...
The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution. By John Buchanan. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Pp. xvi, 368. $30.00.) The battles and campaigns fought during 1776 and 1777 have been covered many times over the past two centuries, but ...
America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... America On the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic. By Richard Buel Jr. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 302. $29.95.) In this meticulously researched analysis of partisan warfare during the War of 1812 era, ...
Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacan, 1927-29.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacan, 1927-29. By Matthew Butler. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 251. $74.00.) Many years ago, a good friend in Mexico spent several days in a church archive. A request for certain ...
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. By Stephanie M. H. Camp. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. 173. $18.95.) This is a slender volume comprised of 141 pages of text that are organized into five ...
The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650. By Roger M. Carpenter. (East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University. Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 179. $27.95.) Making historic Native American lifeways and worldviews ...
The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861. By David P. Currie. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 346. $39.00.) This volume is a labor of love. The author, a professor of law at the University of Chicago, painstakingly explores a ...
Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. By David Dixon. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 353. $34.95.) The objectives of this volume are twofold: first, to offer a modern version of the ...
Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth. By Stephen D. Engle. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 251. $16.95.) This author's contribution to the "Great Campaigns of the Civil War" series offers a nice introduction to the ...
I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. By Steve Estes. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. x, 239. $19.95.) "The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality," the author reminds his readers, "but ...
Liberty and Freedom.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 851. $50.00.) After long study, the author has come to believe that the two most important of America's founding ideas were "Liberty" ...
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. By Douglas Flamming. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 467. $29.95.) The author of this book is interested in American regional history. In his latest book, he has reviewed a host of ...
Satchel Paige's America.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Satchel Paige's America. By William Price Fox. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. 142. $16.95.) Pitching great Dizzy Dean once claimed that Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige had "the greatest stuff I ever saw," and New York Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio was ...
FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy. By Mary E. Glantz. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95.) Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) has been harshly criticized in recent years by writers who have alleged that his ...
Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. By Jon Hunner. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 288. $29.95.) Unlike many of the previous scholars and popular writers who have studied Los Alamos, New Mexico, the author of this book ambitiously ...
Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy. By John W. Johnson. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xiii, 266. $15.95.) This reviewer still remembers the day he first learned as an undergraduate student of the 1965 Griswold ...
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. By Raymond Knapp. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 361. $35.00.) These are exciting times for Broadway musical aficionados. This book joins recent works by Scott Miller, Andrea Most, and ...
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. By Mary Ting Yi Lui. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 298. $29.95.) Historians by and large enjoy a good mystery, and this one ...
The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War. By Frank J. Merli. (Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 248. $29.95.) "My ... objective in this work," wrote Frank J. Merli, "is to exonerate the ministry of Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell ...
Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. By John R. Neff. (Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 328. $34.95.) To a callous, uncritical reader, the theme of this author's study of the commemoration of Civil War dead may ...
The American South in a Global World.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The American South in a Global World. Edited by James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 299. $24.95.) Years from now, historians will undoubtedly find many suggestive clues from this volume ...
California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. By Ethan Rarick. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 501. $29.95.) The title of this book implies that Edmund "Pat" Brown serves as a useful foil for exploring the contours of that golden-hued period ...
Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen".(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen". By Burton Rascoe. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 340. $15.00.) This reviewer's only previous contact with Belle Starr was the 1941 movie starring Gene Tierney, which is not available on video or DVD, so those ...
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. By Johanna Schoen. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 331. $19.95.) In this study, the author examines the history of women's reproductive health in ...
Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America, Volume II, The Public Influences of African American Churches.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America, Volume II, The Public Influences of African American Churches. Edited by R. Drew Smith. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 239. $29.95.) Studying the history of the black ...
Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. xi, 196. $25.95.) The author of this book, a political theorist, is concerned about the current debate regarding the state of ...
Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring. By Spencer Tucker. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 245. $32.95.) Stephen Decatur is an iconic figure for the U.S. Navy, representing perhaps better than anyone else the navy's emergence as a viable military ...
Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. By Paul J. Vanderwood. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 332. $22.95.) Paul J. Vanderwood's wonderfully eccentric reading of the life, death, and afterlife of Juan Soldado--a Mexican soldier turned folk saint who ...
Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775-1783.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775-1783. By Stanley Weintraub. (New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 375. $28.50.) In this narrative history of the American Revolution told from the British perspective, the author offers readers a unique ...
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. By Charles Wilkinson. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. xvi, 527. $26.95.) The author of this study has had a long involvement in the field of Indian law, both as a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund ...
The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City. By Sharon E. Wood. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 321. $22.50.) In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer should let readers of The Historian know ...
Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. By Daud Ali. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 297. $75.00.) This is an interesting book. The author has carefully used literary and visual sources like the Arthashastra, the Kama Sutra, the ...
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. By Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 319. $35.00.) This is a terrific book. It is an important correction to the China field's, and almost everyone else's, ...
Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. By Alexis Dudden. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. x, 215. $45.00.) The debate over Japan's annexation of Korea has been argued with two bipolar positions. One view, ushered in by the late Hilary Conroy ...
The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968. Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 408. $40.00.) Between 1964 and 1968, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration transformed a still-limited U.S. commitment to ...
Indonesia: Peoples and Histories.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Indonesia: Peoples and Histories. By Jean Gelman Taylor. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 420. $20.00.) This is evidently a book designed for a high school audience, as suggested by information such as "Rice requires exposure to the sun to ripen"; "Four ...
Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. By Janet M. Theiss. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 281. $49.95.) The High Qing period in eighteenth-century China was an age in which the imperial state, ruled by the ...
Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir. By Chitralekha Zutshi. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 359. $35.00.) Carrying the reader from the nineteenth-century bazaars of Srinagar to the elite political wrangling that ...
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. By Alessandro Barbero. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 426. $29.95.) Was Charlemagne the "father of Europe," as one of his court poets proclaimed, c. 800? This epithet has played a significant role in modern ...
Hitler's Admirals.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Hitler's Admirals. By G. H. Bennett and R. Bennett. (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 248. $32.95.) The title of this book is misleading. The book is not about the admirals of the German navy. Rather, it contains extracts from articles written at the ...
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. By Sarah Bradford. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 421. $27.95.) The recent papal election generated much commentary on past popes both good and bad. Among those considered for the dubious distinction of worst ...
The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The Books of Henry VIII and His Wives. By James P. Carley. (London: The British Library, 2004. Pp. 161. $39.95.) What can be known from a man's library? From what he chose to read, perhaps a good deal can be discerned. From books given to or collected from him, there may be ...
Women of Byzantium.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Women of Byzantium. By Carolyn L. Connor. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 396. $45.00.) In surveying the history of Byzantine women for the first time in a book by one author, this author has complicated her task by trying to combine scholarly standards ...
The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company. By Matthew Davies and Ann Saunders. (Leeds, England: Maney, 2004. Pp. xiv, 316. $80.00.) Historians of Britain tend to find London's usages incomprehensible, while the activities of the city's guilds are often opaque to historians ...
Light for the City: Calvin's Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Light for the City: Calvin's Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty. By Lester De Koster. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. xx, 139. $20.00.) This book opens with a section labeled "Forewarning" that in itself is a clue to the purpose of the ...
Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years' War, 1755-1763.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years' War, 1755-1763. By Markus Eder. (Aldershot, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Pp. viii, 200. $89.95.) During the past three decades, increasing numbers of scholars have used qualitative and quantitative analyses of court ...
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. By Charles Coulston Gillispie. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 751. $80.00.) Beginning students are often confronted with contradictory tidbits of information about the French ...
Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid. By Odilo Epitaphium. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sean Gilsdorf. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 222. $24.95.) Hagiography is particularly complex ...
Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought. By A. James Gregor. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $35.00.) For almost two generations, the author of this study has been the standard-bearer in the English-speaking world of the ...
Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin. By Benjamin Carter Hett. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 291. $35.00.) Death in the Tiergarten represents a major reassessment of the nature, character, and practice of ...
Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London. By Tim Hitchcock. (London: Hambledon and London, 2004. Pp. xvi, 343. $29.95.) The author of this study has written a social history of the kind that has, unfortunately, become unfashionable: the best kind of social history, thick ...
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Edited by Sarah Iles Johnston. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 667. $49.95.) Despite its broad title, this book is basically a guide to the religions of the Mediterranean. It explores the development and ...
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV, c. 1024-c. 1198.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV, c. 1024-c. 1198. Part II. Edited by David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 959. $180.00.) The publication of this volume completes the largest single component of The New ...