This is x-posted from H-ASEH. Apologies for any duplications. Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Friends, The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past two weeks. H-Net Staff Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Rita Rippetoe Anthony Aveni. _Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age_. New York, N.Y.: Times Books, 1996. xvii + 406 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8129-2415-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18039912705921 Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes Gunter Bischof and Robert L. Dupont, eds. _The Pacific War Revisited_. Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xiii + 220 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-8071-2156-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=702911854065 Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Chris Foran Peter Biskind. _Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock'n'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood_. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 506 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-684-80996-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18050912705927 Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Kathryn Z. Weed In Koli Bofane. _The Lion is No Longer King_. Toronto and New York: Annick Press, 1997. 26 pp. Illustrations, Grades K-3, Ages 4-8. $16.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-55037-418-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14972912701052 Reviewed for Film&History by Victor Or Mick Broderick, ed. _Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film_. New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996. x + 255 pp. Illustrations and bibliographical references. $93.50 (cloth), ISBN 071030529-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13305912090831 Reviewed for H-Teachpol by Ray Wrabley James Eisenstein, Mark Kessler, Bruce A. Williams and Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer. _The Play of Power: An Introduction to American Government_. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 639 pp. Tables, appendices, glossary, references, index. $49.32 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-13662-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19205912707823 Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Robert E. Weir A.G. Evans. _Fanatic Heart: A Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890_. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1997. 258 pp. Notes and select bibliography. AUD $49.94 (cloth), ISBN 1-875560-82-3; AUD $34.95 (paper), 1-876268-04-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18507912551690 Reviewed for Film&History by Laurent Ditmann Paul Fussell, ed. _Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic_. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. 310 pp. Index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-316-29717-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17906912705685 Reviewed for H-Minerva by Barton C. Hacker (1)Deborah Gera. _Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus_. Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava, supplement 162. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1997. xi + 252 pp. Notes, bibliography, index locorum [classical sources], and general index. Nlg 151.00 US $95.50 (cloth), ISBN 90-04-10665-0. (2)Joyce Tyldesley. _Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh_. New York: Viking Books, 1996. Printed in paperback by Penguin Books ($14.95, ISBN 0-14-024464-6). xvii + 270 pp. Plates, figures, maps, chronologies, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-670-85976-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18655912551830 Reviewed for H-France by Laura Mason Dominique Godineau. _The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution_. Trans. Katherine Streip. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998. xxii + 415 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-520-06-7193. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18061912705934 Reviewed for HABSBURG by Natasha Margulis Vesna Goldsworthy. _Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination_. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. xiv + 254 pp. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-07312-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18424912551573 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by PD Dr. Bernhard Stier David Gugerli. _Redestroeme. Zur Elektrifizierung der Schweiz 1880 - 1914_. Zuerich: Chronos Verlag, 1996. 350 S. mit 28 Abb., Graphiken und Tabellen. DM 68.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-905311-91-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=473912446765 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Armin Flender Valeria Heuberger, Arnold Suppan und Elisabeth Vyslonzil. _Das Bild vom Anderen. Identitaeten, Mentalitaeten, Mythen und Stereotypen in multiethnischen europaeischen Regionen_. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998. 261 S. Bibliographie. 79.00 DM (Gebunden), ISBN 3-631-32533-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30134850102220 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Prof. Dr. Ludolf Herbst Ian Kershaw. _Hitler 1889-1936_. Aus d. Englischen v. Juergen P. Krause u. Joerg W. Rademacher. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1998. 972 S. 60 Abb. DM 88.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-421-05131-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16120912102537 Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Mei-Mei Sanford Cristina Kessler. _Konte Chameleon, Fine, Fine, Fine!: A West African Folktale_. Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, 1997. 32 pp. Illustrations, grades K-3, ages 5-8. $15.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-563-97181-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=522912446834 Reviewed for H-Russia by Tamara Machmut-Jhashi David King. _The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia_. Preface by Stephen F. Cohen. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997. 192 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8050-5294-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=647912446997 Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Jon Thares Davidann Walter LaFeber. _The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History_. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. xxii + 508 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-393-03950-1; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-393-31837-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6017908908049 Reviewed for Film&History by Elizabeth Abele Marcia Landy. _Cinematic Uses of the Past_. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ix + 301 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-81662-824-6; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-81662-825-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13665912092331 Reviewed for H-ASEH by Paul S. Sutter Linda Lear. _Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature_. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. xviii + 634 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8050-3428-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16175912102774 Reviewed for Film&History by Jeffrey Torres Betty Lee. _Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. x + 318 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8131-2036-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13653912092223 Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Susan J. Hubert David Lehman. _The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets_. New York: Doubleday, 1998. 433 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-385-47542-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16299912703360 Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Richard Greenwald Daniel Letwin. _The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii + 289 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2377-5; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4678-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20528912710540 Reviewed for H-Ohio by Nicole Etcheson Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. _New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: The Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio_. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. 360 pp. $39.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-87338-586-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18073912705943 Reviewed for H-Holocaust by Milton Goldin (1)J. Noakes and G. Pridham, ed. _Nazism 1919-1945: The Rise to Power: A Documentary Reader_. Nazism Series, Volume 1; Exeter Studies in History No. 6. Revised edition. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998. 220 pp. Bibliography and index. $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-85989-598-X. (2)J. Noakes and G. Pridham, ed. _Nazism 1919-1945: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader_. Nazism Series, Volume 2; Exeter Studies in History No. 8. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995. 412 pp. Bibliography. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 0-85989-461-4. (3)J. Noakes and G. Pridham, ed. _Nazism 1919-1945: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader_. Nazism Series, Volume 3; Exeter Studies in History No. 13. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995. 640 pp. Bibliography. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-85989-474-6. (4)J. Noakes, ed. _Nazism 1919-1945: The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary Reader_. Nazism Series, Volume 4. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998. 450 pp. Bibliography. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-85989-311-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30807911850377 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Jens Hacke (1)Thomas Noll. _Vom Glueck des Gelehrten. Versuch ueber Jacob Burckhardt_. Goettingen: Wallstein, 1997. 581 S. Bibliographie und Index. DM 78.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-89244-264-9. (2)Juergen Grosse. _Typus und Geschichte. Eine Jacob-Burckhardt-Interpretation_. Koeln: Boehlau, 1997. 646 S. Bibliographie. DM 128.00 (Kartoniert), ISBN 3-412-03597-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17834912705578 Reviewed for Film&History by Michael S. Shull Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, ed. _The Oxford History of World Cinema_. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxii + 824 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-811257-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=654912192018 Reviewed for H-Russia by Thomas R. Maddux Pavel Palazchenko. _My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter_. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. x + 394 pp. Key people in the book and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-271-01603-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14845912700886 Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Sandra Baringer Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds. _Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xiv + 226 pp. Notes, two bibliographies, and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8131-2044-6; $15.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8131-0952-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18495912551683 Reviewed for H-Law by Joan R. Gundersen Deborah Rosen. _Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York_. Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University Press, 1997. xvi + 332 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8142-0736-7; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8142-0737-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17138912794531 Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Sandra L. Katzman Mark Sandler ed. _The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation_. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Seattle, Wa. and London: University of Washington Press, 1998. 112 pp. 62 illus., 30 in color, bibliography and index. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-295-97646-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16683912704115 Reviewed for H-Teachpol by Michelle D. Deardorff Antonin Scalia. _A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law_. The University Center for Human Values Series. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiii + 159 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-02630-0; $12.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-00400-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17149912794534 Reviewed for H-Pol by Barry Alan Shain Valeri L. Scatamburlo. _Soldiers of Misfortune: The New Right's Culture War and the Politics of Political Correctness_. Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, eds. Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. xv + 269 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8204-3012-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20504912710502 Reviewed for H-Urban by John D. Buenker Richard Schneirov. _Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-1897_. The Working Class In American History Series. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. viii + 390 pp. Acknowledgments, notes, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02374-9; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06676-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17127912794521 Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Ulf Zimmermann James C. Scott. _Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed_. The Yale ISPS Series. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. xiv + 445 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-07016-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16612912703939 Reviewed for H-France by Richard Lebrun Martin S. Staum. _Minerva's Message: Stabilizing the French Revolution_. Montreal and Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. xii + 342 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, and index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7735-1442-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17156912794536 Reviewed for Film&History by Robert Fyne Michael J. Strada and Harold R. Troper. _Friend or Foe? Russians in American Film and Foreign Policy, 1933-1991_. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. 255 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $59.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8108-3245-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=677912192134 Reviewed for Film&History by Robert Fyne Lawrence Suid. _Sailing on the Silver Screen: Hollywood and the U.S. Navy_. Annapolis, M.D.: Naval Institute Press, 1996. xiv + 307 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-5575-0787-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=569912191752 Reviewed for Film&History by David Wilt Carlo Testa, ed. _Poet of Civic Courage: The Films of Francesco Rosi_. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, No. 59. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 202 pp. Plates, illustrations, bibliographical references and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-313-30278-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13327912090885 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Rita Gudermann Doris Tillmann. _Frueh aufstehen, arbeiten und sparen. Landfrauenleben in Schleswig-Holstein am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts_. Heide: Boyens, 1997. 144 S. Zahlr. schw.-w. Abb. DM 36.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-8042-0798-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16576912703880 Reviewed for H-Minerva by Ginger R. Davis Karen G. Turner and Thanh Hao Phan. _Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam_. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. xvi + 224 pp. Bibliography and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-471-14689-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18056912705930 Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Ronald Schultz David Waldstreicher. _In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ix + 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2384-8; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4691-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15099912701227 Reviewed for H-AmRel by Philip Jenkins Robert Wuthnow. _After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s_. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ix + 277 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-21396-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18092912705972 Reviewed for H-France by Jeffrey S. Ravel Abby E. Zanger. _Scenes From the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xv + 244 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 US (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-2977-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18417912551565 _______________________________________________________________________ MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Juergen Beine Ernst Braeunche, Manfred Koch und Alexander Mohr, u.a. _Fuer Freiheit und Demokratie. Badische Parlamentsgeschichte 1818-1933_. Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe: informedia GmbH, 1997. 1 CD-ROM. 39.00 DM, ISBN 3-9805956-0-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=82 Reviewed for H-Urban by Ann Tothill Keith Tankard. _Labyrinth of East London Lore_. At http://www.rhodes.ac.za./el/history/ http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=80 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Tilo Koehn _Quellensammlung zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte_. Fontes medii aevi Verlag: Bogon, 1998. Mueller. Pentzel. Verlag und Digitalisierung GbR.; 1. Aufl., 1 CD-ROM. DM 78.00, ISBN 3-9806427-0-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=81 ************************************ 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 ************************************
