The Historian back issues from September 2007:
Cultures of suicide?: Suicide verdicts and the "community" in thirteenth-and fourteenth-century England.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... THE USE OF THE TERM "COMMUNITY" in historical studies continues to present problems for many medievalists. Myriad studies have emphasized the inadequacy of the term when describing medieval society. Microstudies of manors and villages, especially in the English context, by historians ...
German Jewish intellectuals' diaspora in Turkey: 1933-55 (1).
Sep 22, 2007; ... THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF NAZI GERMANY prompted Jewish people to seek refuge in numerous places. Among the least known was Turkey, which welcomed highly educated emigres in the hopes of transforming Turkish higher education. These hopes were realized. No other act served republican Turkey's ...
The old generation in (mid)Showa Japan: Hasegawa Nyozekan, Maruyama Masao, and postwar thought.(Country overview)
Sep 22, 2007; ... "THOUGH MORTIFYING IN THE EXTREME," Tokyo Imperial University law professor Yabe Teiji wrote in his diary on the day of Japan's surrender, "the Potsdam Declaration has been accepted, and with it, unconditional surrender. The time for endurance begins today." (1) Of course, for ...
Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror. By Mia Bloom. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 251. $24.95.) The author of this book discusses the contemporary phenomenon of suicide terror, taking the phenomenon as one that is worldwide. She examines the ...
Islamic Imperialism: A History.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Islamic Imperialism: A History. By Efraim Karsh. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $30.00.) At the core of historical Islam lies an imperial impulse that has manifested itself repeatedly. That is the central thesis of this book. The author constructs a ...
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold. By Frank T. Kryza. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. xxv, 322. $25.95.) For Alexander Gordon Laing, intrepid Scotsman and zealous participant in the early nineteenth-century "race for Timbuktu," the stakes were ...
Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. By Keith David Watenpaugh. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 325. $35.00.) This is an original study that should be of great interest both to historians ...
Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East. By David R. Woodward. (Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95.) The author of this study has written an important and readable addition to the growing collection of books on World War I ...
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. By Jonathan Alter. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Pp. xvi, 414. $29.95.) Jonathan Alter's narrative and reportorial gifts are on display in this compulsively readable account of Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...
Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts. By Michael J. Bazyler. (New York, N.Y., and London: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 410. $22.00.) In a quirk of World War II historiography, the full story of the crimes and misdeeds of the aiders, ...
Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. By Edward D. Berkowitz. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 296. $29.50.) For a decade or so after historian Peter Carroll wrote that in the 1970s "It Seemed Like Nothing Happened," most ...
"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... "Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values. By Bruce Braden. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2006. Pp. 258. $26.00.) This edited collection is a generally useful compilation of correspondence between John ...
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. By David S. Brown. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 291. $27.50.) During the 1937 filming of the unfinished I, Claudius, lead actor Charles Laughton muttered "I can't find the man" as he stalked around ...
Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Next to Godliness: Confronting Diet and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. By Daniel E. Burnstein. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 200. $38.00.) In this little book brimming with big ideas, the author seeks to draw lessons for our times by ...
Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. By Eric Burns. (New York, N.Y.: Public Affairs, 2006. Pp. ix, 467. $27.50.) This book is best described in pairs of adjectives: intriguing and irritating; exciting and frustrating; ...
The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. By Louis Chude-Sokei. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. i, 278. $22.95.) Since Eric Lott first exhaustively mined the considerable complexities of blackface minstrelsy in Love & ...
Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. By Joseph A. Conforti. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 236. $19.95.) The author of this book provides an overview of New England history in the colonial period. He has synthesized a ...
Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar. By Matthew Dennis. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 338. $18.95.) History, professors remind their students, is alive; every generation interprets the past through its own experiences, its own age. ...
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775. By Thomas A. Desjardin. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 240. $24.95.) Few American soldiers have experienced greater deprivation, misery, and despair than those on the expedition that ...
Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860. By Tom Downey. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 262. $49.95.) Historians have debated since the 1960s whether the Old South was capitalist ...
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965. By Linda Eisenmann. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 280. $45.00.) Choosing the title for a book is a very important job. Because it is so important, authors do not always have a free hand ....
Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy. By Paul D. Escott. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2006. Pp. xv, 215. $49.95.) It seems trite to observe that war changes societies and the individuals comprising them, but that fundamental fact ...
Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush. By Philip J. Funigiello. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. x, 395. $39.95.) Implacable opposition from effective interest groups, a government system with separation of powers, a fragmented ...
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Edited, with an introduction, by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 375. $45.00.) The editor of this book delivers another good collection of articles for his Military Campaigns of the ...
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. By Bruce L. Gardner. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 388. $27.95.) The twentieth century witnessed profound change in the nature of what Thomas Jefferson and others ...
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule. By Michel Gobat. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 373. $23.95.) The author of this book discusses U.S. relations with Nicaragua from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of U.S. occupation in ...
Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder. By Donald R. Hickey and Connie D. Clark. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 177. $19.95.) Alexander Hamilton, after almost a century on the sidelines, is back squarely in the limelight. There is no surer ...
Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950. Edited by Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 386. $89.95.) This edited volume focuses on how differing national and local political cultures in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, ...
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 483. $29.95.) Lately, Americanization seems expressed more by ethnicization than assimilation. As Matthew Frye Jacobson reminds us, the ...
A Time of Paradox: America aince 1890.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890. By Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. Pp. xxxiii, 539. $32.95.) Long before America achieved preeminence among the world's civilizations in the twentieth century, Benjamin ...
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. By David K. Johnson. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 277. $20.00.) The Red Scare has never lacked for attention, yet historians have overlooked or ...
The Cleveland Indians.(The Cincinnati Reds)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Cleveland Indians. By Franklin Lewis. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 286. $18.00.) The Cincinnati Reds. By Lee Allen. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 315. $18.00.) In the days before the study of ...
The Rhetorical Presidency of George H.W. Bush.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Edited by Martin J. Medhurst. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press, 2006. Pp. 207. $40.00.) There are four ways that presidents can earn a positive reputation in history: make a mark on the office and the nation ...
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 235. $19.95.) Based on the author's Nathan I. Huggins Lectures in 2004, this book focuses on African Americans' experiences in the ...
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico. By Mark Overmeyer-Velazquez. (Durham, N.C." Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 231. $22.95.) The dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz [1877-1911] in Mexico sought to modernize ...
Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 270. $19.95.) Few topics have received more scholarly attention in recent years than the Creek Indians during the late colonial and early national ...
Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race. By Jennifer Ritterhouse. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $19.95.) This is a fascinating collection of "close encounters of the first time" demonstrating when, in ...
The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000. By R. S. Rose. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 437. $28.00.) Brazilian history occurs on different levels played out in the form of a multitiered existential chessboard. Not one of the ...
Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right. By Catherine E. Rymph. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 338. $24.95.) This author's well-researched book does an excellent job of chronicling the ...
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 200. $29.95.) W. E. B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk [1903] and Gunnar Myrdall in American Dilemma [1944] identified race as the ...
Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gregory E. Smoak. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 289. $44.95.) The author of this book, in his revised dissertation, has contributed to ...
The War Complex: World War II in Our Time.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The War Complex: World War II in Our Time. By Marianna Torgovnick. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 209. $25.00.) This work is one of literary criticism rather than history, but it is worth the attention of historians nonetheless. Probing the question ...
"First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... "First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration. By Hans L. Trefousse. 'New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 199. $27.95.) Few figures in American memory either command the reverence or approach the stature of Abraham Lincoln ....
The Merchant of Power: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Merchant of Power: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis. By John F. Wasik. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x, 270. $24.95.) The final decades of the nineteenth century were probably the apogee of the peculiarly American cult of ...
Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began. By Sally Zanjani. (Reno, Nev.: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 222. $29.95.) Until now there has been no informative survey of Nevada's early decades as an American colony and territory, save for dated nineteenth-century histories ....
Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China. Edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 539. $75.00.) There were two "print revolutions" in imperial China, one in the tenth century, one in the sixteenth ....
Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930. By Gregory Clancey. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 331. $49.95.) This book demonstrates how powerfully cultural bias can influence science. Using ...
The History of Indonesia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The History of Indonesia. By Steven Drakeley. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 201. $45.00.) This is one of forty or so volumes in the publisher's series, which are advertised as being "engagingly written and succinct narrative histories" covering political, ...
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. By Dorothy Ko. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 332. $29.95.) When and where did footbinding originate, and why did it survive for a millennium? How could mothers comply ...
The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. By Lydia H. Liu. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 318. $47.50.) Britain's attack on the sovereignty of China is arguably the most conflicted of imperialist enterprises in the ...
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. By William Caferro. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 459. $35.00.) War, the preparation for war, and war's aftermath played a central role in the economic, political, religious, ...
James V: The Personal Rule 1528-1542.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... James V: The Personal Rule 1528-1542. By Jamie Cameron. Edited by Norman Macdougall. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 378. $16.95.) James V is most often remembered--if he is at all--as Mary Stuart's father, dying picturesquely of a broken heart after ...
Women, Men, & Spiritual Power: Female Saints & Their Male Collaborators.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Women, Men, & Spiritual Power: Female Saints & Their Male Collaborators. By John W. Coakley. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. ii, 354. $45.00.) In this book, the author studies narratives by men of the lives of nine late-medieval female prophets and mystics ....
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. By Jean Dangler. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 218. $27.00.) In some respects, historians should approach this book with an open eye. One is not venturing into the familiar world of historical ...
Roman Britain: A New History.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Roman Britain: A New History. By Guy de la Bedoyere. (New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Pp. 288. $39.95.) The period of Roman occupation in Britain lasted nearly four centuries. Scholars now believe that Rome's influence on Britain began long before Claudius' conquest in ...
Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. By Richard L. DiNardo. (Lawrence, Karts.: Kansas University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 282. $34.95.) Coalition warfare has always been difficult throughout history. Given the leaders of the Axis coalition in World War II, it ...
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Edited by C. A. Faraone and L. K. McClure. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. x, 360. $65.00.) In 2002 the University of Wisconsin at Madison hosted a conference on "Prostitution in the Ancient World." The ...
Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century. By David A. Gerber. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 422. $55.00.) Based on the title of this book, the reader would expect to find a ...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. By Peter Heather. (New York, N.Y." Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 572. $40.00.) Rome did not fall because of the negative impact of Christianity, as Gibbon maintained, nor, as other historians ...
Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. By Philip Mansel. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 237. $35.00.) In this engaging enquiry, the author examines how rulers have used clothing to inspire respect, promote nationalism, ...
The Lena Goldfields Massacre & the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Lena Goldfields Massacre & the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State. By Michael Melancon. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Pp. 238. $24.95.) This book has many pluses. It is well written and interesting. Very welcome are the maps. The fact that the study ...
Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. By Matthew Mulcahy. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 257. $45.00.) This is a timely book. As the impact of hurricanes challenges contemporary societies, a well-researched volume ...
The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). By Eric Nelson. (Aldershot and Rome: Ashgate and Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesu, 2005. Pp. xiv, 275. $94.95.) On 29 December 1594, two days after the attempt of the former Jesuit ...
The Once and Future Budapest.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Once and Future Budapest. By Robert Nemes. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 247. $38.00.) Buda and Pest, two largely German-speaking towns divided by the Danube River, became not only the vortex of Hungarian economic life and the population ...
The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1889-1914.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1889-1914. By Michael E. Nolan. (New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. 141. $50.00.) In 1877 Jules Verne published a popular novel, The 500 Millions of the Begum, in which French Professor Sarrasin and ...