The Historian back issues from March 2009:
An elegy for Eugen Weber.
Mar 22, 2009; ... "All of which only means that I am ready for a drink and Jacqueline is late returning home. When we look at the garden, things improve markedly. When the cat claims our attention, they are better still. By dinnertime all is well again within the walls. Without, confusion reigns." ...
An African-American worker in Stalin's Soviet Union: race and the Soviet experiment in international perspective.(Robert Nathaniel Robinson)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ROBERT NATHANIEL ROBINSON was a twenty-three-year-old toolmaker in Detroit when he decided, like many thousands of Americans and Europeans in the early 1930s, to take a job in the booming industries of the Soviet Union. A Jamaican-born immigrant, Robinson was a reserved and unassuming man ...
An infant phenomenon in colonial Australia--the case of Anna Maria Quinn, 1854-1858.
Mar 22, 2009; ... THIS ARTICLE INVESTIGATES the cultural and scientific discourses that informed journalistic commentary about a young child actor as a key to understanding conceptions of the human mind in the 1850s. The publicity about Anna Maria Quinn (1848-1920), one of the most significant child players ...
Defending the Old South: the Myth of the Lost Cause and political immorality in Florida, 1865-1968.
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE STATE OF Florida has long been an enigma, harboring various contradictory values and beliefs within its borders. Today, South Florida is home to numerous retirees, "snowbirds," and Latin-American immigrants and refugees, while the northern region of the state, often referred to as the ...
Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait. By Uri Dan. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xvi, 292. $16.95.) Ariel Sharon, well known for his military and political roles over the course of Israeli history from 1948 to 2006 when he suffered a stroke, remains a figure who ...
Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960. By Benjamin N. Lawrance. (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 288. $75.00.) This author responds to the frequent failure of past histories of African nationalism to ...
The Development of Trans-Jordan 1929-1939: A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Development of Trans-Jordan 1929-1939. A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. By Maan Abu Nowar. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 392. $66.00.) This is the fourth volume in the series "A History of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan." A former ...
Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform. By Leslie Butler. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 381. $24.95.) Meet four of American history's "deadest, whitest, least manly men," in the coy words of their ...
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. By Colin G. Calloway. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 219. $15.95.) This is a very satisfying addition to the Pivotal Moments in American History series edited by David Hackett Fischer ...
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America. By Beth B. Cohen. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 223. $44.95.) In this well-documented study, drawing on archival materials, case files, and oral testimonies, the author probes the difficult ...
People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru. By Noble David Cook with Alexandra Parma Cook. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 319. $23.95.) This study explores the colonial history of the Andean region through the lens of early ...
Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships. By Coy F. Cross II. (Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 180. $28.95.) With more than sixty thousand titles on the topic and still counting, the American Civil ...
Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph. By Jim Cullen. (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. 256. $24.95.) The author of this study has written a very readable book for people who are not familiar with presidential history. He provides more than ...
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 330. $65.00.) The rationale for what might be called the "market place of ideas" strategy for ending slavery by peaceful ...
Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. By Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 142. $24.95.) In a brilliant and concise work (a little over one hundred pages of text), the dean of American presidential historians delivers a ...
Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and their Senate Hearings.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and their Senate Hearings. By Joseph A. Fry. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Pp. xi, 198. $72.00.) A narrowly focused study can yield rich interpretive dividends. So it proves in Joseph A. Fry's examination of a pair of Senate ...
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lynching in the West: 1850-1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 299. $22.95.) In this study of lynching, the author focuses on minority groups--Native Americans, Hispanics, and Chinese--who were, similar to African Americans, ...
Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History. By Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith A. Hansen. (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington, 2007. Pp. ix, 162. $14.95.) At a time when the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is undergoing a relentless bashing for ...
Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963. By Benjamin P. Greene. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 358. $65.00.) Historians of the Cold War are familiar with the mostly unsuccessful efforts of American presidents to halt ...
Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 248. $65.00.) This anthology of six chapters on civilian experiences in early American ...
Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The "Ingenious Quaker" and Her Connections. By Judith Jennings. (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. Pp. viii, 196. $99.95.) The Quaker artist Mary Knowles is perhaps best known to literary scholars today ...
Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West. By Michael L. Johnson. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xviii, 533. $34.95.) How the American West came to be known as "wild" is the central question the author of this book sets out to ...
From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health. By R. Alton Lee. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. Pp. 233. $49.95.) This is the fascinating story of a largely forgotten individual, Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine. That he has been largely forgotten is a shame because in his day ...
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. By Michael A. Lerner. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 351. $28.95.) When was the last time a new book was better than its publisher's claims? The dust jacket of Dry Manhattan asserts that the book is "the first ...
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. By Michael A. McDonnell. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 568. $45.00.) When an author admits that what he has uncovered in the archives was "something of a surprise to ...
Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum. By Brian C. Melton. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 292. $44.95.) Despite having risen to the command of the Army of Georgia, one of the two wings of William T. Sherman's forces that ravaged Georgia and ...
Becoming Free in the Cotton South.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Becoming Free in the Cotton South. By Susan Eva O'Donovan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 355. $35.00.) Like many scholars who have been involved with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, Susan Eva O'Donovan ...
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. By Richard Parker. (Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 820. $22.50.) In the interest of scope and accuracy, this author could easily have borrowed the title of Galbraith's 1994 memoir, A ...
Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace. By Mark Perry. (New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 472. $29.95.) This book is about the extended collaboration between Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and his lieutenant, Dwight ...
The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917. By Jeffrey M. Pilcher. (Albuquerque, N. Mex.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. x, 245. $29.95.) This author is arguably the most prominent historian of Mexican food and an ...
Civility & Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1862.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Civility & Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1862. By Pilar Gonzalez Bernaldo de Quiros. (Los Angeles, Calif.: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2006. Pp. xiv, 399. $29.95.) The author of this study regards the lingering ...
Ethnicity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ethnicity [Vol. 6 of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson]. Edited by Celeste Ray. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 276. $33.95.) The original, one-volume Encyclopedia of Southern Culture [1989] garnered much ...
War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. John Resch and Walter Sargent, eds. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 318. $22.50.) While America's founders enjoy remarkable popularity among the public, the Revolutionary ...
Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 306. $35.00.) This author's compelling portrait of Knoxville, Tennessee, during the Civil War is the very best sort of community ...
The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855. By William E. Unrau. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xiv, 201. $29.95.) The 1830s, a decade of forced marches following passage of President Andrew Jackson's Removal Act of 1830, was not an auspicious time ...
The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History. By Mikael S. Adolphson. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 212. $36.00.) The author pursues two issues in this book: "who the fighting servants of Buddha actually ...
Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History. By Olga Dror. (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. Pp. 260. $52.00.) Popular religious practice in Vietnam has received significant attention from Western scholars in recent years, resulting ...
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. By Mark Edward Lewis. History of Imperial China, vol. 1, series edited by Timothy Brook. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 321. $29.95.) Han China was roughly the equivalent in population, territory, and administrative ...
Essays in Frontier History: India, China and the Disputed Border.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Essays in Frontier History: India, China and the Disputed Border. By Parshotam Mehra. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 206. $49.95) In 1962 India and the People's Republic of China (PRC) fought a bitter, brutal, and costly war along their Himalayan ...
Behind the Mask: The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715-1911).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Behind the Mask: The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715-1911). By Anindita Mukhopadhyay. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 301. $39.95.) Part legal history, part intellectual and cultural history, this book makes an ...
Empire, Identity, and India: Liberalism, Modernity and the Nation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Empire, Identity, and India: Liberalism, Modernity and the Nation. By Peter Robb. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 231. $45.00.) It is a measure of the maturity that the study of South Asia has attained over the last half century (and perhaps, too, of ...
Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law. By Peter Robb. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 223. $40.00.) This is the second volume of a two-volume collection of previously published articles by Peter Robb, senior historian of ...
Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China. By Patricia M. Thornton. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. 247. $39.95.) The author of this book has selected three interesting moments in the history of state formation in ...
Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330. By Dimiter Angelov. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 453. $110.00.) Quite correctly, the author of this book distinguishes imperial ideology from political thought. Especially in ...
The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. By Jeremy Barlow. (Oxford, England: The Bodleian Library, 2007. Pp. 88. $20.00.) Although scholars have studied specific sources or genres of music that contain humor (e.g., sheet music, ...
The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Dictatorship of Sex" Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses. By Frances Lee Bernstein. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 246. $42.00.) The "sexual revolution" in Russia in the early twentieth century, by most accounts, reached its apogee in ...
An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. By J. P. Daughton. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 330. $55.00.) A little more than a century after politicians of the Third Republic formally separated church ...
France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order. By Denise Z. Davidson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. v, 257. $49.95.) This author's meticulously researched account of urban life in Napoleonic and Restoration France efficiently ...
Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis. By Stuart Feder. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 253. $39.95.) The author of this biography is a clinical professor of psychiatry with a Freudian bent and a flair for reconstructing the psyches of historical figures, in ...
Richard the Lionheart: King and Knight.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Richard the Lionheart" King and Knight. By Jean Flori. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. x, 450. $49.95.) The romantic figure Richard the Lionheart is one of England's most recognizable monarchs. A courageous, daring, chivalric defender ...
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. By Martin Gilbert. (New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2006. Pp. 314. $21.95.) Hershel Grynspan's assassination of a minor German diplomat in Paris sparked one of the plainest signals of the murderous intentions of Nazi anti-Semites. On the ...
What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. By Anthony Grafton. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 319. $23.99.) It goes without saying that historians are interested in knowing, remembering, and understanding the past. But only a ...
The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture. By D. M. Hadley. (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 298. $35.95.) In no area of Europe outside Scandinavia was the impact of the Viking Age more widely felt than in England. As raiders and ...
Einstein: His Life and Universe.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Einstein: His Life and Universe. By Walter Isaacson. (New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Pp. xxii, 675. $32.00.) Why, fifty-plus years after his death, is there another biography of Albert Einstein? There are at least two reasons: first, new source material recently became ...
Ruling the Later Roman Empire.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ruling the Later Roman Empire. By Christopher Kelly. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 341. $19.95.) The author has written an interesting and perhaps even an important book. However, its title is misleading, the writing is often opaque, ...
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev" Reformer, 1945-1964. Edited by Sergei Khrushchev. (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 2006. Pp. 865. $65.00.) Nikita Khrushchev's second volume of memoirs covers his rise to a major party leader from the late 1930s until the end of his tenure ...
Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. By Donald G. Kyle. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. viii, 403. $32.95.) Gone are the days when scholars looked down on books about sports as frivolous or of marginal importance. Donald G. Kyle has now presented a book that ...
Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. By David Lawday. (New York, N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 386. $26.95.) The author of this biography of Talleyrand, France's leading diplomat during the revolutionary and Napoleonic era and one of the main architects ...
North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and Identity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and Identity. By Diana Newton. (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 2006. Pp. x, 214. $85.00.) Pleasingly, the author does more or less exactly what she promises in the title. She asks whether or not regional identity in Durham ...
Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England. By Adrian Randall. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 354. $150.00.) The phrase "reading the Riot Act" continues in common parlance, generally divorced from its original context. This author's ...
Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities. By Timothy Reuter. Edited by Janet L. Nelson. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 483. $100.00.) This volume contains a collection of twenty-two papers, five previously unpublished, written by a brilliant ...
To Have and To Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... To Have and To Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600. Edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte Jr. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 519. $75.00.) This collection of thirteen essays, most of them written for this ...
Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War. By Davide Rodogno. Translated by Adrian Belton. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 504. $99.00.) Readers of popular fiction or viewers of movies may have seen depictions of ...
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe. By William Rosen. (New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, 2007. Pp. 367. $27.95.) As a longtime editor and publishing executive, the author of this book could have made his first book a model of popular history. Instead, ...
Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. By Michael Sonenscher. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 415. $39.95.) This brilliant book offers a remarkably fresh approach to how eighteenth-century ...