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The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past
week.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for H-Africa by Martin Klein
Emmanuel Akyeampong. _Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A
Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times_.
Portsmouth, N.H.: James Currey, 1996. xxiii + 189 pp. Map,
photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-435-08994-3; $23.00 (paper), ISBN 0-435-08996-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22927917631501
Reviewed for H-France by Samuel Goodfellow
Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett, eds. _The Right in France,
1789-1997_. Tauris Academic Studies. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1998. xiv + 306 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $59.50
(cloth), ISBN 1-86064-197-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32499917304081
Reviewed for EH.Net by Thomas Weiss
Linda Barrington, ed. _The Other Side of the Frontier:
Economic Explorations into Native American History_. American
and European economic history. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press,
1998. xiii + 301 pp. Bibliographical references and index.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-813-33395-4; $25.00 (paper), ISBN
0-813-33396-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28667917381514
Reviewed for H-Pol by Mark Bradley
Keith Beattie. _The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the
Vietnam War_. New York: New York University Press, 1998. ix +
230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8147-1326-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19605917285964
Reviewed for H-Urban by Alecia P. Long
Christopher Benfey. _Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the
Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable_. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. xii + 294 pp. 37 illustrations
including frontispiece. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-679-43562-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28738917381601
Reviewed for H-Africa by David Gordon
Ngwabi Bhebhe and Terence Ranger, eds. _Society in Zimbabwe's
Liberation War_. University of Zimbabwe, International
Conference on Zimbabwe, 1991. Oxford: James Curry, 1996. vi +
250 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $37.98 (cloth), ISBN
0-85255-660-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24276917455522
Reviewed for H-Women by Katherine M. B. Osburn
Kathleen M. Blee, ed. _No Middle Ground: Women and Radical
Protest_. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998.
viii + 340 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $55.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-8147-1279-7; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8147-1280-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13259917349042
Reviewed for H-AfrLitCine by Carine M. Mardorossian
Keith Booker. _The African Novel in English: An Introduction_.
Studies in African Literature. New York: Heinemann, 1998. xi +
227 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.00 (paper), ISBN
0-325-00030-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13286917349071
Reviewed for H-German by Julia Sneeringer
Ute Daniel. _The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in
the First World War_. Trans. Margaret Ries, Legacy of the Great
War Series. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1997. xii +
343 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $47.50 (cloth),
ISBN 0-85496-892-X; $18.50 (paper), ISBN 1-85973-147-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22774917631347
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Alexandra O'Brien
A. Rosalie David. _Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt_. New
York: Facts-on-File, 1998. xvi + 382 pp. 334 b/w
illustrations, 6 maps, chronological table, museum collections
list, bibliography and index, grades 9-12, ages 14-18. $45.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-816-03312-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26488917637716
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Antje Stannek
Martin Dinges, Hg. _Hausvaeter, Priester, Kastraten. Zur
Konstruktion von Maennlichkeit in Spaetmittelalter und Frueher
Neuzeit_. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. 297 S.
Bibliographie. DM 42,00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-525-01369-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19697917286043
Reviewed for H-Oralhist by Stephen Fox
Aaron Elson. _A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations with
Veterans of World War II_. Maywood, New Jersey: Chi Chi Press,
1998. 239 pp. Illustrations, acknowledgments, and appendices.
$17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-9640611-2-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13249917349003
Reviewed for H-Urban by Georgina Hickey
Elizabeth York Enstam. _Women and the Creation of Urban Life:
Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920_. Centennial Series of the Association
of Former Students, Texas A & M University, No. 72. College
Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. xx + 284 pp.
Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-89096-799-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32482917304072
Reviewed for H-Urban by Joan-Anton Sanchez de Juan
Pedro Fraile. _La otra ciudad del Rey: ciencia de policia y
organizacion urbana en Espana_. Madrid: Celeste Ediciones, 1997.
152 pp. Bibliography, annex and illustrations. 3.000 pesetas,
ISBN 84-8211-092-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19728917286066
Reviewed for H-Africa by George L. Simpson, Jr
Pascal James Imperato. _Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial
Competition around an East African Lake_. Boulder, Col.:
Westview Press, 1998. Xvi + 332 pp. Maps, photos, notes,
bibliography, and index. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8133-2791-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24300917455550
Reviewed for H-Urban by Peter C. Baldwin
Paul Kruty. _Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens_. Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. lii + 262 pp.
Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $44.95 (cloth),
ISBN 0-252-02366-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19765917286096
Reviewed for H-Business by Jonathan Silva
Pamela Walker Laird. _Advertising Progress: American Business
and the Rise of Consumer Marketing_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1998. xiv + 479 pp. Notes, bibliographic
essay, and index. $35.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-5841-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26478917637711
Reviewed for H-Africa by Nancy Jacobs
Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns, eds. _The Lie of the Land:
Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment_.
Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996. xvi + 240 pp. Biblilography
and index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-435-07407-5; $24.00 (paper),
ISBN 0-855255-409-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23105917631661
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Gary L. Harmon
Joseph McBride. _Steven Spielberg_. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1997. 528 pp. Filmography, videography,
bibliographical references and index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-684-81167-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26472917637706
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Douglas Bailie
Stephen J. McGovern. _The Politics of Downtown Development:
Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, DC_.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xiv + 342 pp.
Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $44.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8131-2052-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23062917631611
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Alexandra O'Brien
Hazel Mary Martell. _The Great Pyramid_. Great Buildings
Series. Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1998.
48 pp. 51 illustrations including maps and diagrams, glossary,
further information and index. Grades 4-6, ages 9-12. $25.69
(cloth), ISBN 0-8172-4918-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23043917631593
Reviewed for H-Urban by Sarah Deutsch
Nina Mjagkij and Margaret Spratt, eds. _Men and Women Adrift:
The YMCA and the YWCA in the City_. New York: New York
University Press, 1997. xviii + 311 pp. Bibliographical
references and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-814-75541-0; $19.50
(paper), ISBN 0-814-75542-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32492917304078
Reviewed for H-Urban by Robert Wojtowicz
Lewis Mumford. _The Culture of Cities_. New York:
Harcourt-Brace and Company, 1970. xii + 586 pp. Prefatory note,
contents, illustrated and captioned plates, glossary,
bibliography, acknowledgments, and index. $24.00 (paper), ISBN
0-156-23301-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28887917381746
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Gwen Kay
Kathy Lee Peiss. _Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty
Culture_. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998. xii + 334 pp.
Bibliographic references and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-8050-5550-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32504917304084
Reviewed for H-German by Frank Buscher
C.F. Rueter and D.W. de Mildt. _Die westdeutschen Strafverfahren
wegen nationalsozialistischer Toetungsverbrechen 1945-1997. Eine
systematische Verfahrensbeschreibung mit Karten und Registern_.
Amsterdam and Maarssen: APA Holland University Press, 1998. xv +
323 pp. Bibliographical references and index. ISBN
90-6042-056-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22864917631411
Reviewed for H-Urban by Lutz Musner
Joachim Schlor. _Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London,
1840-1930_. Translated by Pierre Gottfried Imhof and Dafydd Rees
Roberts. Topographics Series, edited by Joseph Leo Koerner and
Stephen Bann. London: Reaktion Books, 1998. x + 304 pp. 69
illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.00 (paper),
ISBN 1-86189-015-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32487917304076
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Matthias Middell
Fred E. Schrader. _L'Allemagne avant l'Etat-Nation. Le corps
germanique 1648-1806_. Perspective germanique, Hrsg. von
Jacques Le Rider. Paris: Presses universitaires de France,
1998. 167 S. Bibliographie. FF 118, ISBN 2-13-049516-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24236917455478
Reviewed for HABSBURG by James William Miller
Gernot Stimmer. _Eliten in Oesterreich 1848-1970_. Studien zu
Politik und Verwaltung, 57/I-II. Vienna, Cologne and Graz:
Boehlau Verlag, 1997. 1140 pp. Two volumes, tables, notes,
illustrations, bibliography, and index. DM 240 (cloth), ISBN
3-205-98587-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28699917381555
Review for H-Africa by Okete Shiroya
David Throup and Charles Hornsby. _Multi-Party Politics In
Kenya: The Kenyatta & Moi States & the Triumph of the System in
the 1992 Election_. East African Educational Publishers.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. x + 660 pp. Appendices
and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8214-1206-X; $19.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-8214-1207-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20971917287606
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christine Tauber
Richard van Duelmen. _Die Entdeckung des Individuums 1500-1800_.
Frankfurt A.M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997. 176 S.
Bibliographie und Index. DM 18.90 (Taschenbuch), ISBN:
3-596-60122-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20625917287277
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Susan P. McCaffray
James L. West and Iurii A. Petrov, eds. _Merchant Moscow:
Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie_. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1998. ix + 189 pp. Maps,
photographs, notes, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-691-01249-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24260917455503
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.Net by Jason Manning
Don Woodard. _Black Diamonds! Black Gold!: The Saga of Texas
Pacific Coal and Oil Company_. Lubbock: Texas Tech University
Press, 1998. xii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography,
and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-89672-379-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32476917304068
Reviewed for H-German by Kenneth Holston
Susanne Zantop. _Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and
Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870_. Post-Contemporary
Interventions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. ix
+ 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8223-1960-8; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-1968-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24318917455568
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