Hello All:
These reviews have been x-posted from H-ASEH; apologies for
duplications.
All the best,
Stefanie
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:09:44 -0500
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Subject: H-Net Reviews posted to the web, June 12-19
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Subject: Reviews posted to the web, June 12-19
Friends,
The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past
week. Please note that the multimedia reviews are alphabetized by
title.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for H-Pol by Dick Simpson
Douglas Bukowski. _Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics
of Image_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 273 pp.
Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $49.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-252-02365-X; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06668-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29682898095264
Reviewed for H-AfrLitCine by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
Virginia Castleman. _Mommi Watta, Spirit of the River_.
Illustrated by Theodocia Swecker. Ottawa, Kan.: Flatland Tales
Publishing, 1995. 24 pp. Illustrations. $14.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-9638421-5-3; $5.95 (paper), ISBN 0-9638421-6-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29616898095220
Reviewed for H-Law by Shalom Doron
I. Bernard Cohen. _Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in
the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and
Madison_. Corrected edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995,
1997. 368 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and
index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-393-03501-8; $15.95 (paper), ISBN
0-393-31510-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29373898094919
Reviewed for H-Pol by Dale Herspring
David H. Dunn. _The Politics of Threat: Minuteman Vulnerability
in American National Security Policy_. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1997. xii + 289 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-17611-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13264898270260
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Kenneth Nivison
Richard Francis. _Transcendental Utopias: Individual and
Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden_. Ithaca and
London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiii + 256 pp. Tables,
notes, and index. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-3093-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24705898181269
Reviewed for H-Russia by Jaclyn Stanke
Ilya V. Gaiduk. _The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War_.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. xx + 299 pp. Notes, bibliography,
and index. $28.50 (cloth), ISBN 1-56663-103-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29392898094936
Reviewed for H-Survey by Nancy Beck Young
Dewey W. Grantham. _Recent America: The United States Since
1945_. 2nd Edition. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1987,
1998. v + 502 pp. Tables, maps, photographs, bibliography, and
index. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 0-88295-941-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29378898094926
Reviewed for H-Russia by Alexander M. Martin
Maria Kohler-Baur. _Die Geistlichen Akademien in Russland im 19.
Jahrhundert_. Veroffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Instituts
Munchen. Reihe: Geschichte 64. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,
1997. 159 pp. Bibliographic references. DM 78.00 (paper), ISBN
3-447-03930-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5376898107697
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Alfred Jan
Robert Lesser. _Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the
Great American Pulp Magazines_. New York: Gramercy Books, 1997.
viii + 182 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and
index. $19.99 (cloth), ISBN 0-517-20058-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13230898270243
Reviewed for H-France by Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Neil MacMaster. _Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in
France, 1900-62_. London and New York: MacMillan Press Ltd/St.
Martins Press, 1997. vii + 307 pp. Maps, tables, figures,
bibliography and index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-16501-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24722898181276
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Samuel D. Albert
Akos Moravanszky. _Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and
Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918_.
Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1998. xv + 508 pp.
Illustrations, notes, and index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-262-13334-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24727898181281
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Lewis L. Gould
Ivan Musicant. _Empire By Default: The Spanish-American War and
the Dawn of the American Century_. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
ix + 740 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, and index.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8050-3500-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13248898270249
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Thomas N. Baker
Michael Newbury. _Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America_.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. viii + 251 pp.
Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-8047-2858-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24717898181272
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Laura Prieto
Sherry B. Ortner. _Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of
Culture_. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. x + 262 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8070-4632-9; $14.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8070-4633-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13243898270246
Reviewed for AfrLitCine by David Mesher
Ato Quayson. _Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing:
Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos
Tutuola, Wole Soyinka, and Ben Okri_. Oxford and Bloomington:
James Currey and Indiana University Press, 1997. x + 180 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-852-55544-X (James Currey) and ISBN 0-253-33343-1 (Indiana);
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-852-55544-X (James Currey) and ISBN
0-253-21148-4 (Indiana).
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13308898270336
Reviewed for H-SAE by Tony Galt
Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. _Festival of the Poor:
Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily,
1860-1980_. Hegemony and Experience. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 1996. x + 322 pp. Bibliographical references and
index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8165-1544-1; $19.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8165-1519-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24732898181283
Reviewed for H-Urban by Anthony M. Orum
Roger D. Simon. _The City-Building Process: Housing and
Services in New Milwaukee Neighborhoods, 1880-1910_.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 86.
Revised Edition. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,
1996. x + 163 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index,
and photographs. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8716-9685-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29428898191603
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MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS
Reviewed for H-Canada by Roger Neufeld
Kingston Penitentiary Museum. David St. Onge, Curator.
Correctional Service of Canada, Government of Canada
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=54
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Paul H. Thomas
Ali Mazrui. _The Nature of a Continent_. Producer:
WETA-Washington, DC and the British Broadcasting Corporation,
1986. Available from The Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Project.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=56
Reviewed for H-Survey by Lauren Ann Kattner
Steve Hoge, Field Editor. Tindall/Shi, America: A Narrative
History Web Site.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ushist.htm. New York:
W. W. Norton, 1997. Free to faculty and students using
Tindall/Shi.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=53
Reviewed for H-Business by Nelson Lichtenstein
"Who's in Charge?": Workers and Managers in the United States.
An Exhibit at the National Museum of American History Washington,
D.C. February 10, 1996 - April 7, 1996
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=55
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