Dear All:
Here are the x-posted reviews from H-ASEH--some look quite applicable
to ECOFEM. Advance apologies for any duplications.
Cheers
Stefanie
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:53:00 -0500
From: H-ASEH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reviews posted to the web, June 28-July 10
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Reply-to: "American Society for Environmental History (H-NET List)"
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Friends,
The following reviews have been added to the H-Net database during
the past two weeks.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for H-Texas by Leslie Gene Hunter
Armando C. Alonzo. _Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in
South Texas, 1734-1900_. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1998. xii + 357 pp. Maps, bibliographical references, and
index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-826-31866-5; $22.50 (paper), ISBN
0-826-31897-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3517899820712
Reviewed for H-Women by Karen Duder
Bernadette J. Brooten. _Love Between Women: Early Christian
Responses to Female Homoeroticism_. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1996. xxii + 412 pp. Illustrations,
biliographical references, and indexes. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-226-07591-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16286899996846
Reviewed for H-Minerva by Katherine Burger Johnson
LaVonne Telshaw Camp. _Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse's
Memoir_. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997. viii + 176 pp.
Illustrations and index. $23.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7864-0322-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16268899996836
Reviewed for H-France by James A. Winders
Paul M. Cohen. _Freedom's Moment: An Essay on the French Idea
of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault_. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1997. x + 229 pp. Notes, works
cited, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-11285-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16259899996833
Reviewed for H-Urban by Lynne Bruehlman
Geoffrey Crossick, ed. _The Artisan and the European Town,
1500-1900_. Historical Urban Studies. Hants, England and
Brookfield, Vt.: Scolar Press and Ashgate Publishing, 1997.
xiii + 263 pp. Tables, maps, notes, and index. $76.95 (cloth),
ISBN 1-859-28232-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19938899221218
Reviewed for H-Nilas by Boria Sax
Barbara Ehrenreich. _Blood Rites: Origins and History of the
Passions of War_. New York: Henry Holt and Company Inc, 1997.
x + 292 pp. Bibliographic references and index. $25.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-8050-5077-9; $14.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8050-5787-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10932899839134
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by James M. McCaffrey
John S. D. Eisenhower. _Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of
General Winfield Scott_. New York and London: The Free Press,
1997. xiv + 464 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes,
bibliography, and index. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-684-84451-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5221899405071
Reviewed for EH.Net by Pamela Nickless
Wendy Gamber. _The Female Economy: The Millinery and
Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930_. Urbana and Chicago: University
of Illinois Press, 1997. xiii + 300 pp. Appendix, bibliographic
references, notes, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-252-02298-X; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06601-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10424899837901
Reviewed for H-Texas by Nancy Beck Young
Sylvia Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger, eds. _Texas Women
Writers: A Tradition of Their Own_. Tarleton State University
Southwestern Studies in the Humanities, no. 8. College Station:
Texas A & M University Press, 1997. xvi + 461 pp. Notes,
bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-89096-752-0;
$17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-89096-765-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8134899831399
Reviewed for H-Women by Lauri Umansky
Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake, eds. _Third Wave Agenda:
Being Feminist, Doing Feminism_. Minneapolis and London:
University of Minnesota Press, 1997. x + 268 pp. Notes and
index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8166-3004-6; $17.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8166-3005-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16281899996843
Reviewed for H-Albion by David M. Fahey
Patrick Joyce. _Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in
Nineteenth-Century England_. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. xii + 242 pp. Illustrations,
appendices, index. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-44334-2; $19.95
(paper), ISBN 0-521-44802-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13706899990189
Reviewed for H-Urban by Barbara Beatty
Michael B. Katz. _Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the
"Underclass," and Urban Schools as History_. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995. xi + 179 pp. Notes and index.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-02994-6; $12.95 (paper), ISBN
0-691-01605-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3688899927988
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Paul E. Michelson
Lajos Lukacs. _Chapters on the Hungarian Political Emigration,
1849-1867_. Trans. by Daniel Szekely and Zsazsa Noszkay
(Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: Studia Historica Nr. 196).
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1995. 188 pp. Notes, name index.
$29.00 (cloth), ISBN 963-05-6838-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16275899996838
Reviewed for EJANZH by Caroline Daley
Helen Martin and Sam Edwards. _New Zealand Film, 1912-1996_.
Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. vi + 215 pp.
Illustrations, bibliography, index. $NZ49.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-19-558336-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=31141899386897
Reviewed for H-Women by Jennifer Davis McDaid
Jean V. Matthews. _Women's Struggle for Equality: The First
Phase, 1828-1876_. American Ways Series. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee,
1997. x + 212 pp. Note on sources, appendix, and index. $24.95
(cloth), ISBN 1-56663-145-9; $12.95 (paper), ISBN 1-56663-146-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11299900095533
Reviewed for H-Urban by Robert J. Juster
Bruce W. McClendon and Anthony James Catanese. _Planners On
Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What
Works, What Doesn't, and Why_. Jossey-Bass Public Administration
Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. xxii +
320 pp. References and index. $30.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-7879-0285-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11304900095536
Reviewed for H-Minerva by Francine D'Amico
William H. McMichael. _The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of
the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal_. Foreword by Charles C.
Moskos. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction Publishers,
1997. xvi + 377 pp. List of interviews, notes, and index.
$32.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-56000-293-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=219899242205
Reviewed for H-Urban by Alexander von Hoffman
Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker. _Changing Plans for America's
Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth-Century
Urbanism_. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xxi +
227 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, and index. $32.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-8142-0762-6; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8142-0763-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9306900090789
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Manelisi Genge
Tim Nuttall, John Wright, Jeanne Hoffman, Nkosi Sishi, and Sam
Khandlela. _From Apartheid to Democracy: South Africa,
1948-1994_. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, 1998. 134 pp.
Photographs, drawings, maps, student exercises, source extracts,
bibliographies, and glossary. R37,45 (paper), ISBN
0-7960-1203-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23504899227040
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Richard Bruce Winders
Wallace Ohrt. _Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the
Mexican War_. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and
Southwest, no. 17. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,
1997. xi + 190 pp. Illustration, bibliographic references, and
index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-89096-778-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28034899908321
Reviewed for EJANZH by Philippa Martyr
Deborah Oxley. _Convict Maids: the Forced Migration of Women to
Australia_. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
1996. xi + 339 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical
references, and index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-44131-5;
$22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-44677-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=31147899386905
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Frank Towers
William E. Parrish. _Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative_.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xv + 318 pp.
Bibliography and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8262-1156-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3488899820672
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Craig L. Symonds
Donald C. Pfanz. _Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life_. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xix + 655 pp.
Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2389-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9301900090786
Reviewed for H-Pol by Robbie Lieberman
Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton. _The Rosenberg File_. 2nd ed.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xxx + 616
pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index.
$18.00 (paper), ISBN 0-300-07205-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20732899127655
Reviewed for EH.Net by Herb Emery
James C. Riley. _Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British
Workingmen During the Mortality Decline_. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997. xvii + 342 pp. Illustrations,
bibliographical references, and index. $58.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8018-5411-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17775899999635
Reviewed for H-Review by Arthur L. Morin
Sheldon Rothblatt. _The Modern University and Its Discontents:
The Fate of Newman's Legacies in Britain and America_. New York
and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 460 pp.
Footnotes and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-45331-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9289900090778
Reviewed for H-France by Christopher E. Forth
Ann-Louise Shapiro. _Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in
Fin-de-Siecle Paris_. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1996. vi + 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and
index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-1663-3; $16.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8047-2693-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22267899750546
Reviewed for H-Minerva by Andrea Peto
Jane Slaughter. _Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943-45_.
Women and Modern Revolution Series. Denver, Colo.: Arden Press,
1997. 171 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and
index. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-912869-13-5; $22.50 (paper), ISBN
0-912869-14-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3545899820741
Reviewed for HABSBURG by T. Mills Kelly
Peter F. Sugar. _Nationality and Society in Habsburg and Ottoman
Europe_. Studies in East-Central Europe 1500-1900; Collected
Studies Series, no. 566. Aldershot, Great Britain and
Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1997. x + 286 pp. Index. $84.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-86078-629-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22273899750550
Reviewed for H-Pol by Steven W. Hook
Ian Q.R. Thomas. _The Promise of Alliance: NATO and the
Political Imagination_. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield,
1997. xii + 189 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $67.50
(cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8580-2; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8476-8581-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28024899908317
Reviewed for H-Women by James Seymour
Lauri Umansky. _Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the
Legacies of the Sixties_. New York: New York University Press,
1996. x + 262 pp. Bibliography and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8147-8562-X; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8147-8561-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17763899999617
Reviewed for H-CivWar by James L. Huston
(1)James Walvin. _Questioning Slavery_. London: Routledge, 1997.
xi + 202 pp. Notes and index. $67.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-415-15356-5; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 04-415-15357-3.
(2)Lawrence R. Tenzer. _The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New
Look at the Slavery Issue_. Manahawkin, N.J: Scholars'
Publishing House, 1997. xxvi + 273 pp. Illustrations, appendix,
notes, bibliography, and index. $16.95 (paper), ISBN
0-9628348-0-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18614899323513
Reviewed for H-Pol by Robert James Maddox
Mark J. White. _Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro
and the 1962 Crisis_. American Ways Series. Chicago: Ivan R.
Dee, 1997. x + 170 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.50 (cloth),
ISBN 1-56663-155-6; $12.95 (paper), 1-56663-156-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3510899820708
Reviewed for H-ASEH by Jay Brigham
James C. Williams. _Energy and the Making of Modern California_.
Series on Technology and the Environment. Akron: University of
Akron Press, 1997. xviii + 465 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts,
bibliographic references, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN
1-884836-15-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 1-884836-16-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22617900011147
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by David Coles
Richard Bruce Winders. _Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military
Experience in the Mexican War_. Texas A & M University Military
History Series, No. 51. College Station: Texas A & M University
Press, 1997. xvi + 284 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-89096-754-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5226899405075
Reviewed for H-Urban by Lawrence Kennedy
Conrad Edick Wright and Katheryn P. Viens, eds. _Entrepreneurs:
The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850_. Massachusetts
Historical Society Studies in American History and Culture, No.
4. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society distributed by
Northeastern University Press, 1997. xiv + 450 pp.
Bibliographic references and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-934909-70-9; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-934909-71-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11294900095529
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Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
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