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Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 11:09:04 -0500
From: H-ASEH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reviews posted to the web, June 19-26
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Friends:
The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past
week.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for EJANZH by Robert W. Cherny
Frank Bongiorno. _The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the
Radical Tradition, 1875-1914_. Melbourne: Melbourne University
Press, 1996. xii + 268 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography,
and index. A$24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-52284-738-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12979898608743
Reviewed for H-Teachpol by Eric Shibuya
C. A. Bowers. _The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental
Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public
Schools_. SUNY Series in Environmental Public Policy; David W.
Orr and Harlan Wilson, Editors. Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1997. x + 277 pp. Bibliography and index. $54.50
(cloth), ISBN 0-7914-3463-X; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7914-3464-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22088898628471
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Patrick G. Williams
LaWanda Cox. _Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction: Collected
Writings of LaWanda Cox_. Donald G. Nieman, ed. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1997. xviii + 425 pp. Tables and
notes. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-1901-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25489898787416
Reviewed for EJANZH by Ian Campbell
Donald Denoon, Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero, and
Malama Meleisea, eds. _The Cambridge History of the Pacific
Islanders_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv +
518 pp. Maps, figures, glossary, bibliography, and index. A$79.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-5214-4195-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13032898608895
Reviewed for H-Pol by William R. Childs
Steven J. Diner. _A Very Different Age: Americans of the
Progressive Era_. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xii + 320 pp.
Notes and bibliographical essay. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8090-2553-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25323898787126
Reviewed for H-USA by Stephen G. Craft
Rosemary Foot. _The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with
China Since 1949_. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. viii + 291
pp. Bibliographic references and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-19-827878-0; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-829292-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32564898800041
Reviewed for H-Pol by James R. Sweeney
Michael B. Friedland. _Lift Up Your Voice Like A Trumpet: White
Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973_.
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press,
1998. x + 326 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2338-4; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4646-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12330898867802
Reviewed for H-Pol by John David Skrentny
John Higham, ed. _Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White
Relations Since World War II_. Published in Association with The
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. vii + 223 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $28.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-271-01709-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23579898782901
Reviewed for H-Japan by Ronald Loftus
Helen M. Hopper. _A New Woman of Japan: A Political Biography
of Kato Shidzue_. Transitions: Asian and Asian America.
Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. xviii + 304 pp.
Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.00 (paper),
ISBN 0-8133-3422-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14051898717182
Reviewed for H-Japan by Andrew DeWit
Purnendra Jain and Takashi Inoguchi, eds. _Japanese Politics
Today: Beyond Karaoke Democracy?_. New York and Melbourne: St.
Martin's Press, 1997. 248 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-17394-6;
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-312-17398-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11519898866004
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Pongracz Sennyey
Zsigmond Jako. _Tarsadalom, Egyhaz, Muvelodes: Tanulmanyok Erdely
tortenelmehez_. Edited by Istvan Zombori (METEM-Konyvek, 18).
Budapest: Magyar Egyhaztorteneti Enciklopedia Munkakozosseg,
1997. 479 pp. Index. HUF 950 (paper), ISBN 963-8472-24-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23602898782945
Reviewed for H-Urban by David Potash
Ruth Limmer. _Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East Side_. New
York: New York University Press, 1997. xi + 214 pp.
Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $12.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-8147-5130-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22203898628594
Reviewed for H-Teachpol by Debora Halbert
Jean V. Matthews. _Women's Struggle for Equality: The First
Phase, 1828-1876_. American Ways Series. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee,
1997. x + 212 pp. Bibliography and index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN
1-56663-145-9; $12.95 (paper), ISBN 1-56663-146-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22196898628585
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Stefan Gorissen
Hans Medick. _Weben und Ueberleben in Laichingen 1650-1900_.
(Veroeffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts fuer Geschichte
126). Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997. 708 S. 2 Aufl.
DM 125,00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-525-35443-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12763898608158
Reviewed for EJANZH by Jeffrey Grey
Bobbie Oliver. _Peacemongers: Conscientious Objectors to
Military Service in Australia, 1911-1945_. Fremantle: Fremantle
Arts Centre Press, 1997. 191 pp. Bibliography. $19.95 (paper),
ISBN 1-836-814-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12986898608779
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Charles Kolb
Maria Emilia Paz. _Strategy, Security, and Spies: Mexico and
the U.S. as Allies in World War II_. University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xii + 264 pp.
Figures, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-271-01665-5; $19.95 (paper), 0-271-01666-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2332898548452
Reviewed for H-USA by Mike Smitka
Leonard J. Schoppa. _Bargaining with Japan: What American
Pressure Can and Cannot Do_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1997. xviii + 406 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-231-10590-8;
$19.50 (paper), ISBN 0-231-10591-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28815896467870
Reviewed for EH.Net by B. Zorina Khan
Philip Scranton. _Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and
American Industrialization, 1865-1925_. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997. xiv + 415 pp. Illustrations,
bibliographical references, and index. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-691-02973-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25333898787129
Reviewed for H-Russia by Bruce F. Adams
Melissa Kirschke Stockdale. _Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a
Liberal Russia, 1880-1918_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1996. xix + 379 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $47.50
(cloth), ISBN 0-8014-3248-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2325898548446
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Elizabeth Abele
Janis P. Stout. _Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's
Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather, to Tyler,
Morrison, and Didion_. Tuscaloosa: University of Alababama
Press, 1998. 304 pp. Bibliographical references and index.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8173-0908-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22210898628598
Reviewed for H-NEXA by Charles C. Kolb
R. E. Taylor and Martin J. Aitken, eds. _Chronometric Dating in
Archaeology_. Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science,
vol. 2. New York: Plenum Press, 1997. xix + 395 pp. Figures,
tables, bibliographies, and index. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-306-45715-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6306898705074
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Jan-Holger Kirsch
Wolfgang Ullrich. _Uta von Naumburg. Eine deutsche Ikone_.
(Kleine Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Bd. 59. Berlin:
Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 1998. 144 S. 44 Abb. DM 29,00
(Kartoniert), ISBN 3-8031-5159-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23529898782750
Reviewed for H-LIS by Andrew B. Wertheimer
Theodore F. Welch. _Libraries and Librarianship in Japan_.
Guides to Asian Librarianship. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press,
1997. xv + 215 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $75.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-313-29668-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14056898717185
Reviewed for H-CivWar by James Marten
Emily E. Werner. _Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from
the Civil War_. New York: Westview Press, 1998. xi + 175.
Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-8133-2822-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14046898717179
Reviewed for H-Teachpol by Mark C. Miller
Bradford P. Wilson and Ken Masugi, eds. _The Supreme Court and
American Constitutionalism_. Ashbrook Series on Constitutional
Politics. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. viii +
298 pp. Index. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8658-2; $23.95
(paper), ISBN 0-8476-8659-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6335898705122
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Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
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