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Book Reviews
September 1999, Vol. 86, No. 2

[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]

Adeleke, UnAfrican Americans, by Claude A. Clegg

Anderson and Penningroth, Complete in All Its Parts, by Diane Hamilton

Austin and Willard, eds., Generations of Youth, by Miriam Formanek-Brunell

B [Top]

Baseler, "Asylum for Mankind"; and Noonan, The Lustre of Our Country, by Richard D. Shiels

Bell, Patriot-Improvers, vol. 1: 17431768, by Clark A. Elliott

Biermann, John F. Kennedy und der Kalte Krieg (John F. Kennedy and the Cold War), by Thomas R. Maddux

Bilharz, The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam, by Robert L. Bee

Bird, The Color of Truth, by Lloyd Gardner

Bradley, Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution, by Joanne Pope Melish

Brandon, Free in the World, by Thomas J. Davis

Brandt, Männerblicke (Men's views), by M. David Samson

Brick, Age of Contradiction, by Alexander Bloom

Brodersen, Das wechselseitige Bild der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA und der UdSSR  in den Zeitungen "Pravda," "Izvestija, " "Washington Post" und "New York Times" der Jahren 1985 und 1989 (The mutual representation of the foreign and security policies of the USA and the USSR in Pravda, Izvestiia, the Washington Post, and the New York Times  between 1985 and 1989), by Klaus Larres

Brown, Dorothea Dix, by Gerald N. Grob

Brown, The Israeli-American Connection; and Levey, Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960, by Douglas Little

Bucko, The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge, by Howard L. Harrod

Burns, Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification, by Michael Conant

C [Top]

Caplan, Mind Games, by Eli Zaretsky

Castle, Diplomatic Realism, by William 0. Walker III

Chávez, Lastside Landmark, by Rodolfo E Acuña

Chace, Acheson, by Arnold A. Offner

Clapp, Mothers of All Children, by Robyn Muncy

Clemens, The People's Lobby, by Samuel L. Webb

Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett, by Martha Hodes

Comer, Ritual Ground, by Madeline Duntley

Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism, by John D. Buenker

Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty?, by Peter B. Levy

Cooper, Air- Conditioning America, by David E. Nye

Coulter, The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s, by Thomas N. Guinsburg

Craig, Destroying the Village, by H. W. Brands

Cruz, Identity and Power; Torres and Velazquez, eds., The Puerto Rican Movement; and Guerra, Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico, by Antonio T. Díaz-Royo

D [Top]

Daynes, Making Villains, Making Heroes, by Greta de Jong

Domosh, Invented Cities; and Lehan, The City in Literature, by Carl Smith

Dublin, When the Mines Closed; and Milkman, Farewell to the Factory, by Michael O. Smith

Duis, Challenging Chicago, by Lisa M. Fine

E, F [Top]

Edgar, South Carolina, by Charles H. Lesser

Egnal, Divergent Paths, by Peter C. Mancall

Ekberg, French Roots in the Illinois Country, by Elise Marienstras

Fiske, Sleeper-Smith, and Wicken, eds., New Faces of the Fur Trade, by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Flynt, Alabama Baptists, by Randy J. Sparks

Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet; and Kennedy and Kennedy, Was Jefferson Davis Right?, by Brian Dirck

Fraser, African American Midwifery in the South, by Susan L. Smith

French, U.S. Economic History since 1945, by Albert Churella

Frey and Wood, Come Shouting to Zion, by James Campbell

G [Top]

Gale, Understanding Urban Unrest, by Rhonda Y. Williams

Gallagher, Lee and His Generals in War and Memory, by Gaines M. Foster

Gamson, Freaks Talk Back, by Charles Shively

Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14, by Christoph Scherrer

Gilmore, You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets, by Astrid M. Eckert

Giorcelli and Kroes, eds., Living with America, 1946-1996, by Richard Pells

Goodman, Shifting the Blame, by Tony A. Freyer

Gordon, Bazaars and Fair Ladies, by Kathleen Waters Sander

Greenberg, Cause for Alarm, by Richard Stott

Gustav-Wrathall, Take the Young Stranger by the Hand, by Michael S. Sherry

H, I [Top]

Hagerty, Collis' Zouaves; and Perry, Conceived in Liberty, by Michael B. Ballard

Hahnnimäki, Scandinavia and the United States, by Helge Ø. Pharo

Hamer, History in Urban Places; and Holleran, Boston's "Changeful Times," by Steven Conn

Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City, by John Howard

Hanlon, Remaking Micronesia, by Robert J. McMahon

Hanson, Necessary Virtue, by Thomas E. Buckley

Hazlett, My Generation, by Luisa Passerini

Henige, Numbers from Nowhere, by Henry F. Dobyns

Herrmann, Helen Keller, by Alice Wexler

Hersch, Democratic Artworks, by Jon Wiener

Hine and Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope, by Christie Farnham

Hodes, White Women, Black Men, by Nina Silber

Hoffman and Albert, eds., The Bill of Rights, by Scott D. Gerber

Hook, The Alabama-Coushatta Indians, by Bobby H. Johnson

Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, by Ronald Kahn

Hubbard, The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy, by Marvin L. Brown, Jr.

Hughes and Ware, Theodore O'Hara, by Johanna Nicol Shields

Israel, Edison, by Wyn Wachhorst

J, K [Top]

Jackson, Destined for Equality, by Dennis A. Deslippe

Jacobs, Getting around Brown, by V. P. Franklin

Jacoby, Laboring for Freedom, by Bruce Laurie

Jacoby, Modern Manors, by Gerald Zahavi

Jameson, All That Glitters, by Dana Frank

Jenkins, Moral Panic, by Joanne Meyerowitz

Johnson, Winfield Scott, by James M. McCaffrey

Jones-Correa, Between Two Nations, by María Cristina García

Juchler, Die Studentenbewegungen in den Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der sechziger Jahre (The student movements in the United States and West Germany during the 1960s), by Günter Bischof

Kamensky, Governing the Tongue, by David D. Hall

Karskens, The Rocks, by Patricia Cline Cohen

Katz, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, by Colin M. MacLachlan

Kihira, Nyu Diiru seiji chitsujo no keisei katei no kenkyu (A study of the emergence of the New Deal political order), by Sayuri Shimizu

Killick, The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945-1960, by William I. Hitchcock

Kleinschmidt, "Do not fraternize" ("Do not fraternize"), by Brewster Chamberlin

Koistinen, Planning War, Pursuing Peace, by Joel R. Davidson

Krammer, Undue Process, by Ron Robin

Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall, by Emily S. Rosenberg

L [Top]

La Vere, Life among the Texas Indians, by Paul H. Carlson

Landay, Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women, by Kathleen De Grave

Lankevich, American Metropolis; and Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, by Edward K. Spann

Lear, Rachel Carson, by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

Levenstein, Seductive Journey, by Jacques Portes

Lewis and D 'Orso, Walking with the Wind; and Fleming, Soon We Will Not Cry, by Kathryn L. Nasstrom

Ling, Surviving on the Gold Mountain, by Jonathan M. Chu

Litwack, Trouble in Mind, by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson

Lloyd, Left Out, by R. Alan Lawson

Lockard, Coal; and Derickson, Black Lung, by James Whiteside

M, N [Top]

Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul, by Philip Scranton

Marten, The Children's Civil War, by Robert Coles

Martin, ed., Brown v. Board of Education, by Robert A. Pratt

Martinez and Ames, eds., The Material Culture of Gender, the Gender of Material Culture; and Formanek-Brunell, ed., The Story of Rose O'Neill,by Shelley Armitage

McAfee, Religion, Race, and Reconstruction, by Daniel W. Stowell

McBride, Hopkins, and Blackshire-Belay, eds., Crosscurrents, by Lloyd Kramer

McGinty, Strong Wine, by Ralph Mann

Messer-Kruse, The Yankee International, by John H. M. Laslett

Miller, Juan Alvarado, by Douglas Monroy

Miller, The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining, by Clark C. Spence

Miller, The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, vol. 1: 1900-1960,by Carol Kolmerten

Monaghan, The Murrays of Murray Hill, by Joseph S. Tiedemann

Montgomery and Johnson, One Step from the White House, by Roger W. Lotchin

Moore, The Cheyenne, by Peter J. Powell

Morris, American Catholic, by Paula Marie Kane

Moya, Cousins and Strangers, by Dirk Hoerder

O, P [Top]

Parsons, John Quincy Adams, by Leonard L. Richards

Peterson, The Price of Redemption, by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe

Pfanz, Richard S. Ewell; Jaquette, ed., Letters of a Civil War Nurse, and Berlin, Reidy, and Rowland, eds., Freedom's Soldiers, by J. Matthew Gallman

Pitch, The Burning of Washington, by R. Arthur Bowler

Poster, Cultural History and Postmodernity; and Jenkins, ed., The Postmodern History Reader, by Prasenjit Duara

Powers, Faces along the Bar, by Roy Rosenzweig

Pruden, Conditional Partners, by Andreas Wenger

Q, R [Top]

Reynolds, Visions and Vanities, by Alexander R. Stoesen

Richards, Women, Gays, and the Constitution, by Sandra F. VanBurkleo

Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings, by Jonathan M. Hansen

Rossinow, The Politics ofAuthenticity, by Todd Gitlin

Rottenberg, ed., Middletown Jews, by Sydney Stahl Weinberg

Rozbicki, The Complete Colonial Gentleman, by Rhys Isaac

S [Top]

Schneirov, Labor and Urban Politics, by James Green

Shapiro, A New South Rebellion, by Robert H. Zieger

Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents, by Allen W. Trelease

Stein, Running Steel, Running America, by Ruth Needleman

Stephan, Im Visier des FBI (In the sight of the FBI), by Bradley F. Smith

Suárez Argüello and Terrazas Basante, eds., Politica y Negocios (Politics and business), by David M. Pletcher

Syrett, The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolutionary War, by Richard Buel Jr.

T [Top]

Triay, Fleeing Castro, by Robert E. Quirk

Turner, Islam in the African-American Experience; and Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum  America, by Yvette Alex-Assensoh and A. B. Assensoh

U, V, W [Top]

Ullman, Sex Seen, by Peter N. Stearns

Vella, Intimate Enemies, by Joan R. Gundersen

Vinyard, For Faith and Fortune, by Timothy Watch

Volkan, Itzkowitz, and Dod, Richard Nixon, by Dean J. Kotlowski

Wellock, Critical Masses, by Henry F. Bedford

Wirt, We Ain't What We Was, by Edward P. Morgan

Woolsey, Migrants West; and Howard, Sierra Crossing, by Patricia Etter

X, Y, Z [Top]

Young and Gould, Texas, Her Texas, by Dorothy D. DeMoss

Zakaria, From Wealth to Power, by John A. Thompson