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The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past week.
Multimedia reviews appear in a second list below the book reviews.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for H-Pol by Michael Flamm
William C. Berman. _America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton
(second edition)_. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1998. xii + 192 pp. Bibliographical essay and
index. $38.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-801-85871-2; $14.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8018-5872-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3636917986317
Reviewed for H-Women by Linda Alkana
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=13939918244769
Reviewed for H-Review by Joyce A. Hanson
Melinda Chateauvert. _Marching Together: Women of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters_. Women in American History.
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv + 267 pp.
Appendix, notes, and index. $46.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02340-4;
$17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06636-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18048918250289
Reviewed for H-German by John Eidson
Alon Confino. _The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wuerttemberg,
Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918_. Chapel Hill
and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii +
280. Bibliographical references and index. $55.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-8078-2359-7; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4665-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20384917881357
Reviewed for H-Japan by Andre Sorensen
Gideon S. Golany, Keisuke Hanaki, and Osamu Koide, eds.
_Japanese Urban Environment_. New York: Pergamon, 1998. xlvii
+ 367 pp. Author index, subject index, and bibliography. $80.50
(cloth), ISBN 0-0804-3359-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4877918145218
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Steve Sharra
Jen Green. _A Family From South Africa_. Families Around the
World Series. Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Company,
1998. 32 pp. Maps, pronunciation guide, glossary, and index,
grades 1-4, ages 6-9. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8172-4902-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27510917973608
Reviewed for H-AmRel by Alan Davidson
Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter. _A Modern Heretic and a
Traditional Community: Mordechai Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American
Judaism_. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x + 220
pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-231-10626-2; $17.50 (paper), ISBN 0-231-10627-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22606917884663
Reviewed for H-Women by W. Thomas White
Sandra Haarsager. _Organized Womanhood: Cultural Politics in
the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1920_. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1997. xiii + 427 pp. Bibliographical references
and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8061-2974-3; $19.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-8061-3001-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14354918245146
Reviewed for H-AmRel by Jonathan D. Sassi
Charles P. Hanson. _Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of
Religious Liberty in New England_. Charlottesville and London:
University Press of Virginia, 1998. x + 277 pp. Bibliographical
references and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8139-1794-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14282918245095
Reviewed by HABSBURG by Howard Louthan
Hans-Bernd Harder and Hans Rothe, eds. _Spaeter Humanismus in
der Krone Boehmens 1570-1620_. Studien zum Humanismus in den
boehmischen Laendern, Teil IV, Schriften zur Kultur der Slaven
(Neue Folge der Maisk-Schriften, Band 3). Dresden: Dresden
University Press, 1998. 100 p. Bibliography. DM 88.00 (paper),
ISBN 3-931828-59-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6906918148510
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Dr. Philipp Sarasin
Wolfgang Hardtwig, Hg. _Wege zur Kulturgeschichte_. Geschichte
und Gesellschaft, 23. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997.
162 S. 23. Jg. DM 30.00 (Einzelheft), ISSN 0340-613-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20672917881816
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Stephanie Marra
Christoph Jahr. _Gewoehnliche Soldaten. Desertion und Deserteure
im deutschen und britischen Heer 1914-1918_. Kritische Studien
zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 123. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 1998. 419 S. Bibliographie und Index. DM 78.00
(Gebunden), ISBN 3-525-35786-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6959918148600
Reviewed for H-Pol by Catherine McNicol Stock
Valerie Jenness and Kendal Broad. _Hate Crimes: New Social
Movements and the Politics of Violence_. Social Problems and
Social Issues. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997. xi + 215 pp.
Bibliographic references and index. $41.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-202-30601-1; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-202-30602-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27575917973684
Reviewed for H-Skand by Dr. Monika Janfelt
Birgitta Jordansson and Tinne Vammen, eds. _Charitable Women:
Philantropic Welfare 1780-1930: A Nordic and Interdisciplinary
Anthology_. Odense University Studies in History and Social
Sciences vol. 213. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998. 286
pp. Illustrations. 250.00 DKK (cloth), ISBN 87-7838-339-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14944918077711
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Matthias Pohlig
Gerhard Knodt. _Leitbilder des Glaubens. Die Geschichte des
Heiligengedenkens in der evangelischen Kirche_. Stuttgart:
Calwer Verlag, 1998. 349 S. Bibliographie und Index. DM 98.00
(Gebunden), ISBN 3-7668-3585-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4816918145139
Reviewed for H-Pol by John McMillian
Brian K. Landsberg. _Enforcing Civil Rights: Race
Discrimination and the Department of Justice_. Studies in
Government and Public Policy. Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 1997. 276 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-0826-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3615917986291
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Angela Schwarz
Michael Lesy. _Dreamland - Amerikas Aufbruch ins 20.
Jahrhundert_. Photographien von William Henry Jackson fuer die
Detroit Publishing Company. Muenchen: Schirmer, 1998. 238 pp.
Photographen. DM 98.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-88814-266-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20416917881392
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Peter Midgley
Raouf Mama. _Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin_.
North Haven, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1998. xvii + 138.
Introduction and illustrations. Grades 5+, ages 10+. $19.50
(cloth), ISBN 0-208-2469-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3670917986346
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.Net by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
Roland Marchand. _Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of
Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business_.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 461 pp.
Illustrations, notes and index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-520-08719-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6285918147787
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Dirk van Laak
Thomas Mergel und Thomas Welskopp Hg. _Geschichte zwischen
Kultur und Gesellschaft_. Beitraege zur Theoriedebatte, Beck'sche
Reihe 1211. Muenchen: C.H. Beck-Verlag, 1997. 368 S.
Bibliographie. DM 24.00 (Taschenbuch), ISBN 3-406-42011-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4630918144800
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by William G. Shade
Jerome Mushkat and Joseph G. Rayback. _Martin Van Buren: Law
Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology_. DeKalb, Ill.:
Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. x + 272 pp. Notes,
bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-87580-229-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3791917986479
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Sandy Moats
Paul C. Nagel. _John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private
Life_. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. x + 432 pp.
Bibliography and index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-679-40444-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27563917973659
Reviewed for EH.Net by Donald Frey
Patricia O'Toole. _Money & Morals in America: A History_. New
York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1998. xxi + 409.
Bibliographical references and index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-517-58693-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4165917904854
Reviewed for H-Women by Cynthia Harrison
Leila J. Rupp. _Worlds of Women: The Making of an International
Women's Movement_. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
xiii + 325 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01676-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN
0-691-01675-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4132917904805
Reviewed for H-ASEH by David Neufeld
Francis Spufford. _I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English
Imagination_. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 372 pp.
Illustrations. $26.98 (paper), ISBN 0-312-17442-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4903918145263
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Martin Kohlrausch
Eberhard Straub. _Drei letzte Kaiser. Der Untergang der grossen
europaeischen Dynastien_. Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1998. 417 S.
Bibliographie. DM 59.90 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-88680-565-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6866918148473
Reviewed for H-SAE by Karen Armstrong
Charles Tilly. _Roads from Past to Future_. Legacies of Social
Thought Series. Foreword by Charles Lemert, Review Essay by
Arthur L. Stinchcombe. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield,
1997. ix + 430 pp. Bibliographical references and index.
$62.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8409-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8476-8410-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4127917904803
Reviewed for H-Review by Richard Bloom
Martin Wain. _Freud's Answer: The Social Origins of Our
Psychoanalytic Century_. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. xv + 366
pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN
1-56663-216-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32463917898342
Reviewed for H-Law by Doron Ben-Atar
Edward C. Walterscheid. _To Promote the Progress of Useful Arts:
American Patent Law and Administration, 1798-1836_. Littleton,
Col.: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1998. xii + 516 pp. Appendixes
and index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8377-1354-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32463917898342
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MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bjoern Hoffmann
_Encyclopaedia Britannica 99 Multimedia Edition_. Chicago:
Verlag Encyclopaedia Britannica. 3 CD-ROMs, 9200 Illustr. DM
349.00, ISBN 0-85229-261-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=89
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Werner Heil
Rita Hummel. _Reise durch die deutsche Geschichte. 0 - 1914. Von
den Anfaengen unserer Zeitrechnung bis zum ersten Weltkrieg_.
Hg. vom Verlag von Rheinbaben und Busch GmbH, Muenchen 1997. DM
98.00, ISBN 3-929510-44-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=88
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