Hi All: I thought some of these reviews might interest some of you. They're courtesy of the H-NET lists. Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Friends, The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past week. H-Net Staff Reviewed for HABSBURG by Sarah A. Kent Gary B. Cohen. _Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918_. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1996. xxi + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographic references, index. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-55753-087-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23048910378698 Reviewed for H-Women by James S. McCallops Holly Devor. _FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xxviii + 609 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographic references, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-33631-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=651910125625 Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Sandra L. Katzman Nancy Brown Diggs. _Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Experience_. New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. vii + 204 pp. Bibliography and index. $56.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-791-43623-3; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-791-43624-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21670910287044 Reviewed for H-Scholar by Gloria C. Erlich Jane M. Ford. _Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. xiii + 202 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-1595-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21738910287112 Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Ronald J. Leprohon Ann Heinrichs. _Egypt_. Enchantment of the World: Second Series. New York: Children's Press, 1997. 144 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, and index. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-516-20470-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21762910287150 Reviewed for H-Women by Alison M. Scott Kenneth L. Holmes, ed. _Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1850_. Volume 2. Introduction by Lillian Schlissel. Reprint of 1983 edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. xi + 302 pp. Portraits, bibliographic references, and index. $13.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8032-7274-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2377910128707 Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Michael S. Heiser T.G.H. James. _A Short History of Ancient Egypt: From Predynastic to Roman Times_. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. viii + 160 pp. Maps, full-color pictures, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8018-5933-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23097910378721 Reviewed for H-CivWar by Thomas A. DeBlack Mauriel Phillips Joslyn, ed. _A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne_. Milledgeville, Georgia: Terrell House Publishing, 1997. ix + 299 pp. Notes, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-9662903-0-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26983910028861 Reviewed for H-Women by Sarah C. Hand Carolyn L. Karcher. _The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child_. New Americanist Series. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1998. xxv + 803 pp. Illustrations, chronology, notes, and index. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-1485-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2163-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4116910131568 Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Kathryn Green Philip Koslow. _Senegambia: Land of the Lion_. The Kingdoms of Africa. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996. 63 pp. Illustrations, maps, chronology, bibliography, glossary, index, grades 5-8, ages 10-14. $18.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7910-3135-7; $9.95 (paper), 0-7910-31365-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26906910028764 Reviewed for H-Law by Ron Harris Pnina Lahav. _Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century_. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvii + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-20595-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23083910378716 Reviewed for H-Pol by Jack A. Goldstone Lester D. Langley. _The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850_. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1996. xvi + 374 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-06613-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27779910117016 Reviewed for H-Urban by Marie Charvet Arnold Lewis. _An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xv + 353 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, and index. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02305-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23255910289184 Reviewed for H-Women by Elizabeth Purdy Elaine Tyler May. _Pushing the Limits: American Women, 1940-1961_. The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 9. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. x + 143 pp. Photographs, chronology, bibliography, and index. $22.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-508084-X; $9.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-512407-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2367910128698 Reviewed by William S. Cormack Jennifer Mori. _William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795_. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xi + 305 pp. Notes, primary source bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-17308-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27728910116968 Reviewed for H-Urban by Michael Derham Jose C. Moya. _Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1939_. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. xviii + 567 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-07229-4; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0-520-21526-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23108910378725 Reviewed for H-Urban by Susan Holbrook Perdue R. Bruce Stephenson. _Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995_. Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. ix + 234 pp. Tables, maps, notes, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-81-420725-1; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-81-420726-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23060910378707 Reviewed for H-Women and H-Sawh by Elizabeth Bramm Dunn Elizabeth R. Varon. _We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia_. Gender & American Culture. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. x + 234 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2390-2; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4696-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2372910128702 Reviewed for H-Women by Jane Karoline Vieth Jenel Virden. _Good-bye Piccadilly: British War Brides in America_. Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xii + 177 pp. Tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02225-4; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06526-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21993910108509 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christiane Eifert Ulrike Weckel, Claudia Opitz, Brigitte Tolkemitt und Olivia Hochstrasser, Hg. _Ordnung, Politik und Geselligkeit der Geschlechter im 18. Jahrhundert_. Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Supplementa, Bd. 6. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998. 367 S. Bibliographie und Index. DM 58.00 (Taschenbuch), ISBN 3-89244-304-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21932910108426 Reviewed for H-Women by Elizabeth Schafer A. Susan Williams. _Women & Childbirth in the Twentieth Century: A History of the National Birthday Trust Fund, 1928-93_. Phoenix Mill, Great Britain: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. xviii + 331 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7509-1209-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20705910375127 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Sebastian Conrad Ursula Wolf. _Litteris et Patriae. Das Janusgesicht der Historie_. Frankfurter Historische Abhandlungen 37. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. 518 S. Bibliographie. DM 188.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-515-06875-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21949910108451 ___________________________________________________________________ MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS Reviewed for Film&History by Ron Briley John Milius, director. _Rough Riders_. California: Turner Network Television, 1997. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=74 Reviewed for Film&History by Richard Howells James Cameron, director. _Titanic_. 20th Century Fox/Paramount Pictures, 1997. 195 minutes. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=76 ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
