Hi All:
I thought some of these might be of interest to ECOFEMers.
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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past
week.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for H-ASEH by Charles C. Kolb
Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna, eds.
_Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments:
Legacies and Lessons_. Jane Coppock and Joseph A. Miller,
bulletin series editors. Bulletin Series, Number 103, 1998. New
Haven: Yale University, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale
Center for International and Area Studies, and the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998. 498 pp.
Illustrations, color plates, tables, and references. $35.00
(paper, post paid), ISSN 0361-4425.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25111926967845
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Monika Preuss
Avraham Barkai. _Hoffnung und Untergang. Studien zur
deutsch-juedischen Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts_.
Hamburger Beitraege zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte, 36. Hamburg:
Christians, 1998. 290 S. Index. DM 42.00 (Gebunden), ISBN
3-7672-1316-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17142927024661
Reviewed for H-Rural and H-Canada by Prof. Beatrice Craig
Gerard Bouchard. _Quelques Arpents d'Amerique: Population,
Economie, Famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971_. Quebec: Boreal,
1996. 626 pp. Bibliographical references and index. ISBN
2-890-52715-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10227927301044
Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Alexandra O'Brien
Roscoe Cooper and Carolyn Croll. _The Great Pyramid: An
Interactive Book_. Santa Fe: BridgeWater Books, 1997. 10 pp.
Illustrations, inserts, grades 3-6 (ages 8-12). $18.95 (cloth),
ISBN 0-8167-4390-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25095926967838
Reviewed for H-Urban by Wendell Pritchett
David Delaney. _Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948_. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1998. x + 229 pp. Notes,
bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-292-71596-X;
$17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-292-71597-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27082927145943
Reviewed for H-Rural by Robert Irwin
Susan E. Gray. _The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan
Frontier_. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina
Press, 1996. xii + 227 pp. Bibliographical references and
index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2301-5; $18.95 (paper), ISBN
0-8078-4610-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27105927041752
Reviewed for H-Canada by Jan Henry Morgan
Donald Guay. _La Conquete du Sport: Le sport et la societe
quebecoise au XIXe siecle_. L'histoire au present 6. Montreal
and Paris: Lanctot Editeur, 1997. 244 pp. Tables,
illustrations, and extensive chapter notes. No price available
(cloth), ISBN 2-89485-033-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14132927306631
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Gabriele Metzler
Barbara Haubner. _Nervenkitzel und Freizeitvergnuegen.
Automobilismus in Deutschland 1886-1914_. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 1998. 225 S. 7 Abb. DM 29.80 (Taschenbuch), ISBN
3-525-01372-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17166927024708
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Angela Schwarz
Ulrich Herbert, Karin Orth, und Christoph Dieckmann, Hrg. _Die
nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Entwicklung und
Struktur_. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998. 192 S. 2 Bde. DM
84.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-89244-289-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17258927024951
Reviewed for H-Law by William P. LaPiana
N. E. H. Hull. _Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn: Searching for
an American Jurisprudence_. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1997. xii + 354 pages. Illustrations, notes, and index.
$34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-36043-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27042927145926
Reviewed for H-ASEH by J. Brooks Flippen
Harvey M. Jacobs, ed. _Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over
Property Rights_. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
xvii + 268. Maps, notes, reference lists, and index. $50.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-299-15990-6; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-299-15994-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27070927145937
Reviewed for H-Russia by Julian Birch
Robert J. Kaiser. _The Geography of Nationalism in Russia
and the USSR_. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.
471 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $75.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-691-03254-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=1071927282153
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Alexander Cammann
Ulrich Maehlert. _Kleine Geschichte der DDR_. Becksche Reihe,
1275. Muenchen: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1998. 208 S. 29 Abb. DM 19.80
(Taschenbuch), ISBN 3-406-42075-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=733927281209
Reviewed for H-Russia by Bryan F. Ganaway
Eric Naiman. _Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Soviet
Ideology_. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. x +
307 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $42.50 (cloth), ISBN
0-691-02626-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27064927145934
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Joern Sieglerschmidt
Wolfgang Neugebauer und Ralf Proeve, Hrg. _Agrarische Verfassung
und politische Struktur. Studien zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte
Preussens 1700-1918. Hartmut Harnisch zum 65. Geburtstag_.
Innovationen, Bibliothek zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, 7.
Berlin: Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 1998. 429 S. Bibliographie.
DM 78.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-87061-755-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=720927281169
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Edward S. Shapiro
Jack Salzman and Cornel West, eds. _Struggles in the Promised
Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United
States_. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. viii + 438
pp. Notes on contributors, selected readings, and index. $35.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-19-508828-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14127927306629
Reviewed for H-Labor by Robert W. Cherny
Ellen Schrecker. _Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America_.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1998. xviii + 573 pp. Notes,
bibliography, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-316-77470-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29874846540489
Reviewed for H-Urban by Pierre-Yves Saunier
Nancy Stieber. _Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam:
Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998. viii + 386 pp.
Bibliographical references and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-226-77417-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25086926967831
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Tobias K. Vogel
Stefan Troebst. _Conflict in Kosovo: Failure of Prevention? An
Analytical Documentation, 1989-1998_. ECMI Working Papers #1.
Also available in full text as a 404 kb PDF file at
<http://www.ecmi.de/publications/working_papers_reports.htm>
Flensburg (Germany): European Centre for Minority Issues, 1998.
xii + 107 pp. 2 maps. No price available (paper), ISBN
3-88242-301-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25103926967841
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Robert T. Soppelsa
Susan Mullin Vogel. _Baule: African Art, Western Eyes_. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 312 pp.
Illustrations, glossary, exhibition checklist, bibliography, and
index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-07317-8; $35.00 (paper), ISBN
0-89467-078-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14122927306626
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MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Regula Schmid
Wolfgang Beckermann. _Das Grabmal Kaiser Heinrichs III. in
Goslar_. Beitraege zur Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur des
Mittelalters, 3. Goettingen: Duehrkohp und Radicke, 1998. 114
S. 88 Abb. 1 CD-ROM. DM 39.00, ISBN 3-89744-038-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=125
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christian Ritzi
Arbeitsgemeinschaft ausseruniversitaerer Forschungseinrichtungen
in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hrsg. _Historische
Bibliographie / Kumulation der Berichtsjahre 1990-1997_.
Muenchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH, 1998. 1 CD-ROM. DM 128.00,
ISBN 3-486-64701-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=126
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