The Historian back issues from March 2007:
Thomas Jefferson's nationalist vision of New England and the War of 1812.
Mar 22, 2007; ... UNTIL RECENTLY, Thomas Jefferson's nineteenth-century image as a herald of freedom and Union embodying "the definitions and axioms of free society," as Abraham Lincoln put it, seemed secure. (1) By contrast, many current historians adopt an image of Jefferson as an ethnocentric Virginian ...
Montana, Anaconda, and the price of pollution.
Mar 22, 2007;
The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969.
Mar 22, 2007;
"Colony and metropole: the new imperial history".(A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Barbary Captive: A Critical Edition.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. By Charles H. Feinstein. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 302. $75.00.) The late Professor Charles H. Feinstein [1932-2004] capped his long and distinguished career as an ...
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt. By Lisa Pollard. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 287. $24.95.) The author succinctly explains that her book is "a case study of what happens to the tropes of ...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. By Edward L. Ayers. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 2005. Pp. 222. $24.95.) This delightful volume delivers much more than its title promises. Rather than a prolonged discussion of the causes of the Civil ...
The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations against Cuba, 1959-1965.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations against Cuba 1959-1965. By Don Bohning. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. xii, 307. $29.95.) Despite the efforts of nine U.S. presidents, Fidel Castro is still in power. This detailed volume focuses on the extravagant and ...
Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913. By Kathleen Ann Clark. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. x, 302. $19.95.) When Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect on 1 January 1863, it set ...
Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865. Politics and Ideas. By Simon Collier. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 271. $65.00.) This author's study of an important period of nineteenth-century history provides insightful, at times provoking, answers to ...
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Tiburcio Carias: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume I: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume I: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. By Carlos A. Forment. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 454. $35.00.) This is a book with a bold thesis: democracy flourished in Latin America during ...
The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Cuba: A New History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
1776.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Hollywood, the Pentagon, and Washington: The Movies and National Security from World War II to the Present Day.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Early New England: A Covenanted Society.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
More Damning Than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. By Mark A. Weitz. (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 346. $49.95.) Riding through the piney woods of southern Georgia at the end of the Civil War, Union Brigadier General Benjamin Grierson ...
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Korea: The Divided Nation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Chinese in the Caribbean.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Chinese in the Caribbean. Edited by Andrew Wilson. (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 230. $24.95.) It may be unreasonable to expect academic prose to match the flair of a fine novel, but this volume, published a few months after the appearance of Cristina ...
Francois Mitterrand.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War. Edited by Chris Ealham and Michael Richards. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii, 282. $90.00.) Historians of the Spanish Civil War, like historians of modern Spain more generally, have ...
Retrying Galileo.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Retrying Galileo. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 485. $50.00.) What Descartes once called "the Galileo affair" did not terminate at Galilei's death in 1642. The author of this book chronicles a second, but equally ...
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Debating England's Aristocracy in the 1790s: Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Seduction of Culture in German History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
"A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... "A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages. By Elizabeth Makowski. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 170. $44.95.) In 1423 the English confessor general of the Bridgettines, Thomas ...
The Creation of the British Atlantic World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, c. 1750-1783.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
France in 1938.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... France in 1938. By Benjamin E Martin. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $39.95.) The last year of peace was 1938. It was also a bad year for France. The Popular Front coalition, elected with such high hopes in 1936, was fizzling out in ...
Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;
The Medieval Crusade.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Medieval Crusade. Edited by Susan J. Rudyard. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2004. Pp. ix, 177. $70.00.) This book is a collection of articles presenting the newest interpretations and corrections to Crusading historiography. Knowledge of the Crusades is ...
Stalin: A Biography.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007;