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Book Reviews
March 1998, Vol. 84, No. 4

[Table of Contents]

Alphabetical by Book Author's Last Name

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

A [Top]

Anderson, Changing Woman, by Susan M. Yohn

Andrew, The Other Side of the Sixties, by Robert Cohen

Axtell, The Indians' New South, by Charlotte M. Gradie

Azevedo, Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil, by Larry Gara

B [Top]

Bailey, William Edward Dodd, by Wayne J. Urban

Beauregard, Voices of Decline, by Christopher Silver

Bender, Winning the West for Christ, by James E. Fell Jr.

Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind, by Richard R. Johnson

Bond, No Easy Walk to Freedom, by Richard L. Hume

Boney, Rebel Georgia, by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.

Boritt, ed., Why the Civil War Came, by Bruce Levine

Botti, Ace in the Hole, by Barton J. Bernstein

Buccini, The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825; and Sayre, Les Sauvages Americains, by Louise K. Barnett

Burke, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women, by Rob Kroes

C [Top]

Casdorph, Prince John Magruder, by Frank E. Vandiver

Chalfant, Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek, by Steven C. Emery

Christensen and Kremer, A History of Missouri, vol. 4: 1875 to 1919, by Louis W, Potts

Clark, Radium Girls, by Gerald Markowitz

Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground, by Virginia Scharff

Curry, The Corporate City, by Gunther Barth

D [Top]

Daniel, Shiloh, by Kevin C. Ruffner

Davidson, Columbus Then and Now, by William D. Phillips Jr.

Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, by Blanche D. Coll

Davis, Power at Odds, by John H. M. Laslett

Davis, Gallman, and Gleiter, In Pursuit of Leviathan, by W. Jeffrey Bolster

DeBauche, Reel Patriotism, by Nancy J. Rosenbloom

DiFonzo, Beneath the Fault Line, by Norma Basch

Donald, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, by Robert Carriker

Dowbiggin, Keeping America Sane, by Mari Jo Buhle

Duncan, Hernando de Soto, by Paul E. Hoffman

Durey, Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic, by Eliga H. Gould

E, F [Top]

Ehrlich, Zion in the Valley, by Robert A. Rockaway

Farrell, The Spirit of the Sixties, by Dominick Cavallo

Fiorentino, ed., La storia Americana e le scienze sociali in Europa e negli Stati Uniti (American history and the social sciences in Europe and the United States), by Edward Rice-Maximin

Fisher, Dr America, by Mark Bradley

Formisano, The Great Lobster War, by Roger Horowitz

Freeman, Carved in Stone, by Barbara Blumberg

G [Top]

Goodwyn, Texas Oil, American Dreams, by Robert R. Dykstra

Gordon, ed., The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, vol. 1: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866, by Lois W Banner

Green, Southern Strategies, by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Gugin and St. Clair, Sherman Minton, by Melvin I. Urofsky

H, I [Top]

Hall, The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798, by Stephen A. Conrad

Halpern, Rebuilding the Inner City, by Robert Fisher

Hamilton and Hamilton, The Dual Agenda, by Jennifer L. Hochschild

Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, by Peter H. Wood

Hanhimäki, Containing Coexistence, by Helge Ø. Pharo

Hanhimäki, Rinnakkaiseloa patoamassa (Containing coexistence), by Pekka Kalevi Hama lainen

Harries and Harries, The Last Days of Innocence, by Joseph A. McCartin

Harris, With Charity for All, by David Herbert Donald

Hayes, Dan Daniel and the Persistence of Conservatism in Virginia, by Glen Jeansonne

Heppenheimer, Countdown, by Martin J. Collins

Herdegen, The Men Stood like Iron; and Gaff, On Many a Bloody Field, by Timothy D. Johnson

Herrmann, "Be an American!" Amefikanisierungsbewegung und Theorien zur Einwander-integration ("Be an American!" The Americanization movement and theories about the integration of immigrants), by Dorothee Schneider

Heyrman, Southern Cross, by Randy J. Sparks

Hilkey, Character Is Capital, by Angel Kwolek-Folland

Hilmes, Radio Voices, by Ruth Vasey

Hogan, The Irish Soldiers of Mexico, by Terry Rugeley

Horowitz, "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!,"  by Nancy Gabin

Howe, Making the American Self, by Barry Alan Shain

Hoxie, ed., Encyclopedia of North American Indians, by Jennifer S. H. Brown

Hsiung, Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains, by John M. Glen

Hughes, American Visions, by Katherine E. Manthorne

Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom, by Deborah Gray White

Hyman, Staging Strikes, by Ardis Cameron

Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century, by Ronald H. Carpenter

Iriye, Cultural Internationalism and World Order, by Emily S. Rosenberg

Iverson, Barry Goldwater, by David R. Berman

J, K [Top]

Johanningsmeier, Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace, by Scott E. Casper

Johnson, Black Savannah, 1788-1864, by James L. Roark

Kelly, Creating a National Home, by Judith G. Cetina

Kerber, Toward an Intellectual History of Women, by Carl N. Degler

Knobloch, The Culture of Wilderness, by Catherine McNicol Stock

Kurtz, John Gottlieb Morris, by Mark Pittenger

L [Top]

Le Beau, Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism, by John Andrew

Limbaugh, John Muir's "Stickeen" and the Lessons of Nature, by Steven J. Holmes

Lindenmeyer, "A Right to Childhood,"  by Elliott West

Longley, The Sparrow and the Hawk, by Chester Pach

Lukas, Big Trouble, by Nick Salvatore

M, N [Top]

Maldonado, Teodoro Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap, by Thomas M. Leonard

Marshall, Splintered Sisterhood, by Sylvia D. Hoffert

Marty, The One and the Many, by Randall Balmer

McKanna, Homicide, Race, and Justice in the America West, 1880-1920, by Louis S. Warren

McMaster, Dereliction of Duty; and Vandiver, Shadows of Vietnam, by Robert A. Divine

Meigs, Optimism at Armageddon, by Lawrence E. Galfand

Miles, "King of the Wildcatters,"  by David Breen

Milkman, PM, by Michael Wreszin

Miller, Democratic Temperament, by Ross Posnock

Morehouse, A Place Called Grand Canyon, by Hal Rothman

Morgan, The Vietnam Lobby, by David L. Anderson

Morrison, Slavery and the American West, by Daniel Walker Howe

Moser, The New Winter Soldiers, by Patrick Hagopian

Murphy, Semper Fi- Vietnam, by Graham A. Cosmas

Murphy, ed. Murphy, Breaking the Silence, by David Goldfield

Nordin, The New Deal's Black Congressman, by John C. Walter

O, P [Top]

Ohmann, Selling Culture; and Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings, by Matthew Schneirov

Oliveira, 0 destino (no) manifesto ([Non-]Manifest Destiny), by Richard Graham

Ostry, The Post-Cold War Trading System, by Burton I. Kaufman

Pemberton, Exit with Honor, by J. David Hoeveler

Pitt and Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z; and Klein, The History of Forgetting, by Lisbeth Haas

Prichard, The Nature of Salvation, by Leslie P. Fairfield

Puglisi, ed., Diversity and Accommodation, by Peter Wallenstein

Q, R [Top]

Quinn, Hell with the Fire Out, by Thomas W. Dunlay

Reid, The Origins of the American Civil War, by Donald S. Frazier

Reuben, The Making of the Modern University, by Richard M. Freeland

Rhea, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864, by Gary W. Gallagher

Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks, by Walter Nugent

Robertson-Lorant, Melville; Parker, Herman Melville, vol. 1: 1819-1844; and Dillingham, Melville & His Circle, by David Van Leer

Robinson, Black Movements in America, by S. D. R. Cashman

Rohrbough, Days of Gold, by David Goodman

Ryan, Civic Wars, by Olivier Zunz

S [Top]

Schiller, Theorizing Communication, by John J. Pauly

Schimmer, Populismus und Sozialwissenschaften im Amerika der Jahrbundertwende (Populism and the social sciences in America at the turn of the century), by LaVern J. Rippley

Sealander, Private Wealth & Public Life, by David C. Hammack

Shackel, Culture Change and the New Technology, by Paul W. Wilderson

Shade, Democratizing the Old Dominion, by Lacy K. Ford Jr.

Simon, In the Golden Land, by Gerald Sorin

Siracusa and Cheong, America's Australia, Australia's America, by H. W, Brands

Smith, The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901, by Helen Hornbeck Tanner

Solis, Son Thang, by Harry G. Summers Jr.

Sollors, Neither Black nor White yet Both, by Peggy Pascoe

Soyer, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, by Jonathan D. Sarna

Spevack, Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom, by Marvin L. Brown Jr.

Spillman, Nation and Commemoration, by April Schultz

Stage and Vincenti, eds., Rethinking Home Economics, by Eileen Boris

Stearns, Fat History, by Jesse F. Battan

Swift, The Making of an American Senate, by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler

T [Top]

Talbot, David E, Jackson, by Edwin R. Bingham

Terrie, Contested Terrain, by David Tatham

Thorne, The Many Hands of My Relations, by Thomas H. Johnson

Tinker Salas, In the Shadow of the Eagles, by Rodolfo F. Acuna

Trefousse, Thaddeus Stevens, by Brooks D. Simpson

Tripp, Yankee Town, Southern City, by John N. Ingham

U, V, W [Top]

Urofsky, Affirmative Action on Trial, by Alice Kessler-Harris

Urofsky, Division and Discord, by Gerald T. Dunne

Vibert, Traders' Tales, by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Von Eschen, Race against Empire, by Robert David Johnson

Wainscott, The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914-1929, by Rosemarie K. Bank

Wallach, Obedient Sons, by Richard Stott

Walters, ed., Scientific Authority & Twentieth-Century America, by Bruce Kuklick

Walvin, Questioning Slavery, by Larry A. Greene

Wentz, John Williamson Nevin, by Howard A. Barnes

Westheider, Fighting on Two Fronts, by Bob Buzzanco

White, The American Century, by Gaddis Smith

Whitman, The Price of Freedom, by Robert J. Cottrol

Williams, Energy and the Making of Modern California, by Joseph Petulla

Williams, Linking Arms Together, by James A. Clifton

Wright and Viens, eds., Entrepreneurs, by Betty Farrell

X, Y, Z [Top]