Book Reviews

Review Essay

"The History of the National Guard"

Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636–2000. By Michael D. Doubler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 460. $17.95.)

The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865–1920. By Jerry Cooper. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 246. $19.95.)
Reviewed by Michael P. Gabriel
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Africa and the Middle East

Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe. By Amy Kaler. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 247. $27.95.)
Reviewed by Bruce Fetter
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800. By Guity Nashat and Lois Beck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 253. $42.95.)
Reviewed by Ali Akbar Mahdi
Ohio Wesleyan University

The Americas

Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. By William Howard Adams. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 345. $30.00.)
Reviewed by Kirsten E. Phimister
University of Edinburgh

Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 308. $62.95.)
Reviewed by J. Morgan Kousser
California Institute of Technology

The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism & Its Legacies. Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. ix, 404. $39.95.)
Reviewed by Peter B. Levy
York College

The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico. By Jacques M. Chevalier and Andrés Sánchez Bain. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 301. $65.00.)
Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Pilcher
The Citadel

All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution. By Christopher Collier. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003. Pp. xi, 224. $39.95.)
Reviewed by Thomas C. Mackey
University of Louisville

Capitalism, Politics and Railroads in New England. By Michael J. Connolly. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $44.95.)
Reviewed by H. Roger Grant
Clemson University

Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. By Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xi, 292. $15.95.)
Reviewed by James R. Sweeney
Old Dominion University

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd Depastino. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 325. $32.50.)
Reviewed by Brad D. Lookingbill
Columbia College of Missouri

Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. By Robbie Ethridge. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 369. $22.50.)
Reviewed by Colin G. Calloway
Dartmouth College

God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism. By Bruce J. Evensen. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 240. $29.95.)
Reviewed by Richard F. Wilson
Mercer University

European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream. Edited by Peter K. Gillord and Robert D. Ilisevich. (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 258. $44.95.)
Reviewed by H. Roger Grant
Clemson University

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. By Steven Hahn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 610. $35.00.)
Reviewed by Robert H. Gudmestad
University of Memphis

The Quakers in America. By Thomas Hamm. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 293. $40.00.)
Reviewed by Steven Jay White
Lexington Community College

In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage. By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. Pp. 316. $25.95.)
Reviewed by Mary Ann Heiss
Kent State University

Sensory Worlds in Early America. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 334. $39.95.)
Reviewed by Benjamin Lewis Price
Louisiana State University

Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 394. $45.00.)
Reviewed by Daniel Rosenberg
Adelphi University

Kate Chase & William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage. By Peg A. Lamphier. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. x, 315. $55.00.)
Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth
Texas Christian University

The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875–1930. By Jean V. Matthews. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. 211. $24.95.)
Reviewed by Virginia R. Boynton
Western Illinois University

Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. By Julio Moreno. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 321, $21.95.)
Reviewed by Alan McPherson
Howard University

Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760–1783. By Vincent Morley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 366. $65.00.)
Reviewed by Seán Farrell Moran
Oakland University

Fleeing the Famine: North American and Irisb Refugees, 1845–1851. By Margaret M. Mulrooney. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. ix, 154. $64.95.)
Reviewed by Martha I. Pallante
Youngstown State University

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 294. $49.95.)
Reviewed by Louis P. Cain
Loyola University Chicago and
Northwestern University

Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present. Edited by Mariano Plotkin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 287. $22.95.)
Reviewed by Diego Armus
Swarthmore College

City: Urbanism and Its End. By Douglas W. Rae. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 516. $30.00.)
Reviewed by Richard Fusch
Ohio Wesleyan University

Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By João José Reis. Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 386. $59.95.)
Reviewed by Hendrik Kraay
University of Calgary

Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of The Enlightenment. By Michael Brian Schiffer. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 383. $34.95.)
Reviewed by David T. Morgan
University of Montevallo

Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. By Thomas Schoonover. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xv, 180. $30.00.)
Reviewed by Jonathan Hart
University of Alberta

Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family History. By Marc Simmons. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. x, 195. $24.95.)
Reviewed by Roger L. Nichols
University of Arizona

The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848–1910. By Juan Mora Torres. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. 346. $23.95.)
Reviewed by Friedrich E. Schuler
Portland State University

Written with Lead: America's Most Famous and Notorious Gunfights from the Revolutionary War to Today. By William Weir. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 354. $17.95.)
Reviewed by Gilbert Geis
University of California, Irvine

Turning the World Upside Down: The War for American Independence and the Problem of American Empire. By Neil Longley York. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xiii, 193. $64.95.)
Reviewed by Sarah J. Purcell
Grinnell College

Asia and the Pacific

Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. By Sumit Ganguly. (Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 187. $18.50.)
Reviewed by Sanjay Joshi
Northern Arizona University

Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea. By Xiaoming Zhang. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 300. $19.95.)
Reviewed by Shu Guang Zhang
University of Maryland

Europe

14–18: Understanding the Great War. By Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker. Translated by Catherine Temerson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. 280. $14.00.)
Reviewed by John H. Morrow Jr.
University of Georgia

Charlemagne. By Matthias Becher. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 170. $23.00.)
Reviewed by Roger Collins
University of Edinburgh

Italy and the Grand Tour. By Jeremy Black. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 255. $35.00.)
Reviewed by Charles H. Ford
Norfolk State University

English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. By Duncan Andrew Campbell. (London: Royal Historical Society Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 266. $70.00.)
Reviewed by Phyllis F. Field
Ohio University

Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact. By John Cornwell. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xvi, 535. $29.95.)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Lewis
Ohio State University

The Revolution of Peter the Great. By James Cracraft. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $25.95.)
Reviewed by Gary Marker
State University of New York at Stony Brook

French Popular Culture: An Introduction. Edited with an introduction by Hugh Dauncey. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 220. $24.95.)
Reviewed by Charles Rearick
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550–1780. By Jeroen Duindam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $80.00.)
Reviewed by John C. Rule
Ohio State University

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Literature, 1740–1914. By Margot C. Finn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 362. $70.00.)
Reviewed by Susan Mitchell Sommers
Saint Vincent College

The French Revolution. By Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 190. $45.00.)
Reviewed by Anthony Crubaugh
Illinois State University

The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916–1923. By Peter Hart. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 350. $75.00.)
Reviewed by Seán Farrell Moran
Oakland University

Hitler in Vienna 1907–1913: Clues to the Future. By J. Sydney Jones. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 350. $26.47.)
Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda
Ohio University

The Nazi Conscience. By Claudia Koonz. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $29.95.)
Reviewed by Diethelm Prowe
Carleton College

The Bar & the Old Bailey 1750–1850. By Allyson N. May. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 242, $49.95.)
Reviewed by Robert A. Abrams
Delaware, Ohio

The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England. By Cindy McCreery. (London: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 281. $90.00.)
Reviewed by April Brooks
South Dakota State University

Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. By Jon D. Mikalson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 269. $45.00.)
Reviewed by Philip Kaplan
University of North Florida

Ancient Greek Athletics. By Stephen G. Miller. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 288. $35.00.)
Reviewed by Nigel M. Kennell
American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage and Politics in England, 1225–1350. By Linda E. Mitchell. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 185. $49.99.)
Reviewed by Shawndra Holderby
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece. By Kathryn A. Morgan. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 324. $50.00.)
Reviewed by Nino Luraghi
University of Toronto

Urban Europe, 1100–1700. By David Nicholas. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 239. $21.95.)
Reviewed by Paolo Squatriti
University of Michigan

Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870–1920. By Jean Elisabeth Pedersen. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 271. $60.00.)
Reviewed by Judith Surkis
Harvard University

Northumbria, 500–1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom. By David Rollason. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 339. $85.00.)
Reviewed by Susan P. Millinger
Roanoke College

From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780–1830. By Michael Rowe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 331. $65.00.)
Reviewed by Michael Broers
University of Aberdeen

The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia. By W. F. Ryan. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 504. $24.95.)
Reviewed by Jennifer B. Spock
Eastern Kentucky University

The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers. By Frank Sanello. (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003. Pp. vii, 304. $25.95.)
Reviewed by Thomas F. Madden
Saint Louis University

Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618–1750. By Anne Jacobson Schutte. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 337. $45.00.)
Reviewed by Daniel Bornstein
Texas A&M University

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil. By Peter Stansky. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 295. $35.00.)
Reviewed by David C. Itzkowitz
Macalester College

War in the Age of Enlightenment, 1700–1789. By Armstrong Starkey. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. ix, 232. $67.95.)
Reviewed by Reed Browning
Kenyon College

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. By William Taubman. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. Pp. xx, 876. $35.00.)
Reviewed by Serhy Yekelchyk
University of Victoria

Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 379. $45.00.)
Reviewed by Mary Ellen Fischer
Skidmore College

Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. By Raymond Van Dam. (Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 256. $45.00.)
Reviewed by Hagith Sivan
University of Kansas

Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825. Edited by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker with Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 208. $24.95.)
Reviewed by John T. Alexander
University of Kansas

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. By Perez Zagorin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 371. $29.95.)
Reviewed by Ben Lowe
Florida Atlantic University

General, Comparative, Historiographical

A Brief History of the Human Race. By Michael Cook. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. xi, 385. $26.95.)
Reviewed by Dorothea A. L. Martin
Appalachian State University

Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age. By Tom D. Crouch. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. vii, 725. $29.95.)
Reviewed by Janet R. Bednarek
University of Dayton

After-Images of the City. Edited by Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 269. $47.50.)
Reviewed by Conrad Kent
Ohio Wesleyan University

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century. By Graham Robb. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. viii, 342. $26.95.)
Reviewed by Louis Crompton
University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Nation, State, and the Economy in History. Edited by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 450. $75.00.)
Reviewed by Laura Graves
South Plains College