Hello All:
These are x-posted, but I thought they might be of interest to some
of you.
Stefanie
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Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Alexandra O'Brien
Denise Allard. _The Egyptians_. Pictures of the Past Series.
Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens, 1997. 32 pp. Illustrations, map,
bibliographical references, and index. $18.60 (cloth), ISBN
0-8368-1714-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30996903455026
Reviewed for H-German by Doris L. Bergen
Goetz Aly. _Endloesung: Voelkerverschiebung und der Mord an den
europaeischen Juden_. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1995.
446 pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN 3-10-000411-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26330903532087
Reviewed for H-Pol by Cynthia Harrison
Lee Ann Banaszak. _Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity,
Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage_. Princeton Studies
in American Politics. Princeton: Princeton, 1996. xv + 291 pp.
Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-691-02640-8; $22.25 (paper), ISBN 0-691-02639-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28328904247165
Reviewed for H-SAWH by Janey Dudney
Carol Bleser, ed. _Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a
Planter's Daughter in the Old South_. Southern Voices from the
Past Series. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press,
1996. xxxiv + 403 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and
index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-1727-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14398904211037
Reviewed for H-German by Guillaume de Syon
Denis Brian. _Einstein: A Life_. New York: John Wiley and Sons,
1996. xiv + 509 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references
and index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-471-11459-6; $19.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-471-19362-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13406904050893
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Bertil Haggman
Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova. _The Russians and the Anglo
Boer War_. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1998. 287 pp. Notes.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-798-13804-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6685903132786
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Peter I. Hidas
Klara Doka. _Egyhazi birtokok Magyarorszagon a 18-19. szazadban_.
METEM Konyvek, 19. Budapest: Magyar Egyhaztorteneti Enciklopedia
Munkakozosseg, 1997. 488 pp. Illustrations and index. 850 HUF
(paper), ISBN-963-8472-26-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13378904050857
Reviewed for EH.Net by Leonard Carlson
Marc Egnal. _Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have
Shaped North American Growth_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996. xvi + 300 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-509866-8;
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-51090-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2356903643393
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Achim Landwehr
Richard Faber und Esther Gajek, Hrsg. _Politische Weihnacht in
Antike und Moderne. Zur ideologischen Durchdringung des Fests der
Feste_. Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann, 1997. 306 S.
Bibliographie. DM 58,00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-8260-1351-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30914903454877
Reviewed for H-Russia by Dave Pretty
Orlando Figes. _A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian
Revolution_. Originally published in the UK, 1996. New York:
Viking, 1997. xxiv + 923 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes,
bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-670-85916-8;
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-14-024364-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28393904247225
Reviewed for H-Mexico by Pierre Ragon
Maria de los Angeles Frizzi. _El sol y la cruz: Los pueblos
indios de Oaxaca colonial_. Coleccion de historia de los pueblos
indgenas de Mexico. Mexico: Instituto Nacional Indigenista,
1996. 291 pp. Illustrations and bibliographical references. ISBN
9-68-496-259-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14531904212016
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Phillip Heldrich
Ted Gioia. _The History of Jazz_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1997. 471 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $30.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-19-509081-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10193901566900
Reviewed for H-LatAm by John Frederick Schwaller
Michel Graulich. _Myths of Ancient Mexico_. Transl. by Bernard
R. Ortiz de Montellano and Thelma Ortiz de Montellano. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xiii + 370. Maps, chart,
tables, bibliographical references, and index. $32.95, ISBN
0-8061-2910-7.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8465903368783
Reviewed for H-Law by R. B. Bernstein
Mark David Hall. _The Political and Legal Philosophy of James
Wilson, 1742-1798_. Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1997. x + 228 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50
(cloth), ISBN 0-8262-1103-8.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13344904050793
Reviewed for H-Review by John Barnhill
Dona Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton. _Dual Agenda: Race and
Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations_. Power,
Conflict, and Democracy Series. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1997. xiii + 225 pp. Bibliographical references and
index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-231-10364-6.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13440904050958
Reviewed for H-German by William Crossgrove
Ernst Ralf Hintz. _Learning and Persuasion in the German Middle
Ages_. Garland Studies in Medieval Literature, Vol. 15. New
York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997. xii + 206 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8153-2182-1.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=31069904082375
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Angela Schwarz
Hartmut Kaelble, Juergen Kocka und Hannes Siegrist, Hrsg.
_Europaeische Konsumgeschichte. Zur Gesellschafts- und
Kulturgeschichte des Konsums (18. bis 20. Jahrhundert)_.
Frankfurt/M. & New York: Campus Verlag, 1997. 815 pp.
Bibliographical references. DM 148,00 (Gebunden), ISBN
3-593-35754-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13275904050683
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Jonathan Lurie
Paul Kens. _Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the
Gold Rush to the Gilded Age_. Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 1997. viii + 376 pp. Illustrations, notes,
bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-0817-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26302903532038
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by William M. Hagan
Kris Lackey. _RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative_.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xiv + 164 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN #
0-8032-2924-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8075903556332
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Ed Hatton
Gary Laderman. _The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes toward
Death, 1799-1883_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xi
+ 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-300-06432-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9399903478681
Reviewed for H-German by Jonathan Sheehan
George McCarthy. _Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the
Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas_. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1997. xxvii + 379 pp. Bibliographic references and
index. $72.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8528-4; $31.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8476-8529-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=1551904169622
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Helga Zoettlein
Elisabeth Mantl. _Heirat als Privileg. Obrigkeitliche
Heiratsbeschraenkungen in Tirol und Vorarlberg 1820-1920_.
Sozial-und wirtschaftshistorische Studien, Bd. 23. Muenchen: R.
Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. 266 S. DM 79,00 (Gebunden), ISBN
3-486-56315-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14542904212071
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir
Rudolf Muhs, Johannes Paulmann, Willibald Steinmetz, Hrsg.
_Aneignung und Abwehr. Interkultureller Transfer zwischen
Deutschland und Grossbritannien im 19. Jahrhundert_.
(Arbeitskreis Deutsche England-Forschung, Veroeffentlichung 32).
Bodenheim: Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998. 320 S.
Bibliographie. DM 78,00 (Taschenbuch), ISBN 3-8257-0094-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13356904050811
Reviewed for H-Pol by John Bodnar
Arthur G. Neal. _National Trauma and Collective Memory: Major
Events in the American Century_. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe,
1998. xi + 224 pp. Bibliography and index. $58.95 (cloth),
ISBN 0-7656-0286-5; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0287-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=31087904082382
Reviewed for H-German by Ronald J. Granieri
Anthony James Nicholls. _The Bonn Republic: West German
Democracy 1945-1990_. The Postwar World Series. London and New
York: Longman, 1997. 341 pp. Bibliographical references and
index. $56.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-582-49231-9; $18.75 (paper), ISBN
0-582-49230-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9404903478685
Reviewed for H-Review by Dennis R. Hidalgo
Willie F. Page. _The Dutch Triangle: The Netherlands and the
Atlantic Slave Trade, 1621-1664_. Studies in African American
History and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. xxxv
+ 262 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $66.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-8153-2881-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13053903566367
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by James C. Foley
Eric Robert Papenfuse. _The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe
Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery_. Transactions Society
Series, 87, pt. 1. Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1997. x + 160 pp. Appendices and index. $18.00
(paper), ISBN 0-87169-871-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15786904055933
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Aminah Grefer
Jorge F. Perez-Lopez, ed. _Cuban Studies_. vol. 27. Pittsburgh
and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. viii + 351 pp.
Bibliographic references. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4046-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8509903368866
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Laura Croghan Kamoie
Christopher Phillips. _Freedom's Port: The African American
Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860_. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1997. iii + 350 pp. Tables, maps,
illustrations, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-252-02315-3; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06618-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2373903643405
Reviewed for EH.Net by Jac Heckelman
Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. _Congress: A
Political-Economic History of Roll-Call Voting_. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 297 pp. Illustrations,
bibliographical references, and index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-19-505577-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13426904050923
Reviewed for H-Law by Joanne Freeman
Richard N. Rosenfeld. _American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican
Returns. The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and
the Heroic Newspaper that Tried to Report It_. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1997. xi + 988 pp. Foreward, maps,
illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth),
ISBN 0-312-15052-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13322904050757
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Andrew August
Sheila Rowbotham. _A Century of Women: The History of Women in
Britain and the United States_. New York: Viking Books, 1997.
xiv + 752 pp. Bibliographic references and index. $34.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-670-87420-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32404904169146
Reviewed for H-Business by Margaret Levenstein
William G. Roy. _Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large
Industrial Corporation in America_. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1997. xv + 338 pp. Figures, tables, notes,
bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-69-104353-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2368903643401
Reviewed for H-German by L. M. Stallbaumer
Emilie Schindler. _Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir_.
With Erika Rosenberg; trans. Dolores M. Koch. New York and
London: W.W. Norton, 1996. xii + 162 pp. Illustrations and
maps. $22.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-393-04123-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28259904247035
Reviewed for H-Women by Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Teresa Scott Soufas, ed. _Women's Acts: Plays by Women
Dramatists of Spain's Golden Age_. Lexington: The University
Press of Kentucky, 1997. xvi + 326 pp. Bibliography. $45.00
(cloth) ISBN 0-8131-1977-4; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8131-0889-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32384904169118
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Alexandra O'Brien
Scott Steadman. _The Egyptian News_. With James Putnam.
Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 1997. 32 pp.
Illustrations, maps, and index. $15.99 (paper), ISBN
1-56402-873-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30870903454825
Reviewed for H-Pol by David Steigerwald
Daniel D. Stid. _The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and
the Constitution_. American Political Thought. Lawrence:
University of Kansas Press, 1998. xi + 231 pp. Notes and index.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-0884-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2363903643397
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Samuel Collins
James L. Watson, ed. _Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East
Asia_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xvi + 256 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-804-73205-1; $16.95 (paper), 0-804-73207-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9287903478462
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by James D. Watkinson
T. Stephen Whitman. _The Price of Freedom: Slavery and
Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland_. Lexington:
University of Kentucky Press, 1997. 238 pp. Illustrations,
maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. $35.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-8131-2004-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2379903643409
Reviewed for H-Texas by Lois E. Myers
Lee Winniford. _Following Old Fencelines: Tales From Rural
Texas_. Nr. 2, C.A. Brannen Series, Foreword by Carl Lindahl.
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. viii + 280
pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-89096-802-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8572903368995
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Ulf Zimmermann
Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. _The Commanding Heights:
The Battle Between Government and the Marketplaces That Is
Remaking the Modern World_. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 457
pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index.
$26.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-684-82975-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8156903556446
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