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Book Reviews
December 2000, Vol. 87, No. 3

[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]

Adams and Gould, eds., Inside the Natchez Trace Collection, by Leah Rawls Atkins

Adams and van Minnen, eds., Religious and Secular Reform in America; Strong, Perfectionist Politics; and McManus, Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861, by Daniel J. McInerney

Alonzo, Tejano Legacy, by Mario T. García

Anderson, The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830, by Martha McCollough

Armstead,"Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August," and Williams, Strangers in theLand of Paradise, by Andrew Wiese

Asher, Beyond the Reservation, by George Pierre Castile

B [Top]

Baily, Immigrantsin the Lands of Promise, by Rudolph J. Vecoli

Baker, Sentiment & Celebrity, by Scott E. Casper

Ball, Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide, by Robert Edwin Herzstein

Bates, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, by David H. Stratton

Behnen, Die usa und Italien, 1921-1933 (The United States and Italy, 1921-1933), by Steven P. Remy

Bellesiles, ed., Lethal Imagination, by Richard Maxwell Brown

Bergeron, Ash, and Keith, Tennesseans and Their History, by Lewright B. Sikes

Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America, by Stanley Shapiro

Bliss, William Osler, by John S. Haller Jr.

Boemeke, Chickering, and Förster, eds., Anticipating Total War, by Joyce S. Goldberg

Bose, Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy, and Ivanov, Duayt Eyzenkhauer (Dwight Eisenhower), by Peter Konecny

Boylan, Revolutionary Lives, by Rosalyn Baxandall

Brady, United States Foreign Policy towards Cambodia, 1977-92, by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Brands, eds, The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson, by Lloyd Gardner

Brands, Masters of Enterprise, by A. Slaven

Brandwein, Reconstructing Reconstruction, by Howard Ball

Brigham, Guerrilla Diplomacy, by Ronald H. Spector

Bringhurst, Fawn McKay Brodie, by Susan Albertine

Brown and Davis, eds.,It Is Union and Liberty, by John H. M. Laslett

Burgett, Sentimental Bodies, by Rosemarie Zagarri

Burstein, Sentimental Democracy, by Ruth H. Bloch

Bush, We Are Not What We Seem, by Ibrahim Sundiata

C [Top]

Campos and Garcia, eds., El Conservadurismo en Estados Unidos y Canadá (Conservatism in the United States and Canada), and Campos and Garcia, eds., Estados Unidos y Canadá (The United States and Canada), by Graeme S. Mount

Capeci, The Lynching of Cleo Wright, by Howard Smead

Carney, Native American Higher Education in the United States, by Robert A. Trennert

Carter, ed., Surveying the Record, by G. Malcolm Lewis

Cayton and Teute, eds., Contact Points and Carmony, Indiana, 1816-1850, by Gregory T. Knouff

Chapman and Hendler, eds., Sentimental Men, by Debby Applegate

Child, Boarding School Seasons, by Michael C. Coleman

Cohen, Rostenkowski, by Dean J. Kotlowski

Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt. Vol. 2, by Kristie Miller

Cornell, The Other Founders, by R. B. Bernstein

Crenson, Building the Invisible Orphanage, by Elizabeth Rose

D [Top]

Daunton and Halpern, eds., Empire and Other and Oberg, Dominion and Civility, by Eric Hinderaker

Denton, Rocky Mountain Radical, by David Brundage

Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood, by Robert E. Snyder

Dyer, Secret Yankees, by Harriet E. Amos Doss

E, F [Top]

English, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain, by Howard Markel

Engs, Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited, by Wilbert H. Ahern

Etulain, Telling Western Stories, by Fred Erisman

Fair, Muscletown USA, by Ted Ownby

Fairbanks, For the City as a Whole, by Christina Sheehan Gold

Fermandois, Abismo y Cimiento (Abyss and foundation), by Steven S. Volk

Foster and Cowan, eds., In Search of New England's Native Past, by Harald E. L. Prins

Franklin and Schweninger,Runaway Slaves, by Douglas R. Egerton

Freeman, A Room at a Time, by Elisabeth Israels Perry

Fried, FDR and His Enemies, by Robert S. McElvaine

Friedman, Identity's Architect, by Rodney D. Olsen

G [Top]

Gamm, Urban Exodus, by Suellen Hoy

Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds, by Leigh Ann Wheeler

González, Refusing the Favor, by Margaret D. Jacobs

Gutjahr, An American Bible, by Rosalind Remer

H, I [Top]

Haag, Consent, by Beth Bailey

Hamburger, Two Rooms, by William Deverell

Hartigan, Racial Situations, by John J. Bukowczyk

Haynes and Klehr, Venona, by Scott Lucas

Heineman, A Catholic New Deal, by Dorothy M. Brown

Heiss, Empire and Nationhood, by George Philip

Holton, Forced Founders, by Gregory H. Nobles

Horowitz and Mohun, eds., His and Hers, by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Howard, Changing History, by Virginia Meacham Gould

Howard, Men like That, by Michael Sherry

Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers, by Anne M. Butler

J, K [Top]

Johnson and Hillman, Soissons 1918, by David R. Woodward

Johnson, Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers, by Arnold Krammer

Jones, Taming the Troublesome Child, by Ray Hiner

Kammen, Robert Gwathmey, by Barbara Melosh

Klatch, A Generation Divided, by Kenneth J. Heineman

Klinker with Smith, The Unsteady March, by Harvard Sitkoff

L [Top]

Lehman, Bolivia and the United States, by James F. Siekmeier

Leibiger, Founding Friendship, by Robert Allen Rutland

Lindemann, Willa Cather, by David Van Leer

Loewen, Lies across America, by Edward Linenthal

Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me, by Jonathan Zimmerman

Longstreth, The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941, by Dolores Hayden

Lundestad,"Empire" by Integration, by Thomas Schwartz

Lynch, Negotiating the Constitution, by Charles A. Lofgren

M, N [Top]

Mack, Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges, by Joan Marie Johnson

Madsen, American Exceptionalism, by Seymour Martin Lipset

Maki, Kitano, and Berthold, Achieving the Impossible Dream, by John N. Tsuchida

Manring, Slave in a Box, by Chip Rhodes

Martin, For God and Race, by William E. Montgomery

McGowen, Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke, by Ralph A. Wooster

Mellow, Walker Evans, by Michael Kammen

Merriner, Mr. Chairman, by Robert R. Tomes

Mitchell, The Danger of Dreams, by Serge Ricard

Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman, and McGregor, From Midwives to Medicine, by Leslie J. Reagan

Nakano, Firipin dokuritsu mondai-shi (A history of the Philippine independence question) and Ocampo, The Centennial Countdown, by Sayuri Shimizu

Nash, The Federal Landscape; Flores, Horizontal Yellow; and Farmer, Glen Canyon Dammed, by C. Elizabeth Raymond

Nelson, A Man of Distinction among Them, by Bradley J. Birzer

Nickerson, The Web of Iniquity, by Mary Anne Schofield

Norling, The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon, by Grant K. Goodman

Novick, The Holocaust in American Life, and Flanzbaum, ed., The Americanization of the Holocaust, by Severin Hochberg

O, P [Top]

Obenzinger, American Palestine, by Peter W. Williams

O'Brien, The Color of the Law, by Peter Wallenstein

Orleck, The Soviet Jewish Americans, by Jenna Weissman Joselit

O'Rourke and Williamson, Globalization and History, by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

Ostrander, Republic of Letters, by Peter S. Field

Pearlman, Warmaking and American Democracy, by Russell F. Weigley

Pease and Pease, A Family of Women, by Anya Jabour

Peffer, If They Don't Bring Their Women Here, by Mao-xin Liang

Pestana and Salinger, eds., Inequality in Early America, by Paul A. Gilje

Pincetl, Transforming California, by Donald J. Pisani

Popkin, Statutes in Court, by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price, Flight Maps, by Ted Steinberg

Przybyszewski, The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan, by Mary Frances Berry

Q, R [Top]

Quezada, 1968 (1968), by Eric S. Zolov

Quezada, Border Boss, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa

Record, The Wrong War; Schwab, Defending the Free World; Logevall Choosing War; and Kimball, Nixon's Vietnam War, by Jacques Portes

Rhea, Race Pride and the American Identity, by Kenneth W. Goings

Rigal, The American Manufactory, by David A. Zonderman

Rochester and Kiley, Honor Bound, by Ronald E. Marcello

Rosales, ¡Pobre Raza! Violence, Justice, and Mobilization among México Lindo Immigrants, 1900-1936, by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Rupp, A Desired Past, by John Howard

S [Top]

Sabin, In Calmer Times, by Michal R. Belknap

Sandler, The Korean War, by Robert C. Doyle

Sanjek, The Future of Us All, by Dominic A. Pacyga

Sax, Playing Darts with a Rembrandt, by James M. Lindgren

Schatzberg, Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal, by William F. Trimble

Scott and Rutkoff, New York Modern, by Serge Guilbaut

Scott, From Yorktown to Valmy, by Lee Kennett

Sensbach, A Separate Canaan, by Aaron S. Fogleman

Sherman, No Place for a Woman, by Melanie Gustafson

Silverman, Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939-49, by Bryan D. Palmer

Simpson, Visions of Paradise; Herron and Kirk, eds., Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History; and Riley, Women and Nature, by Char Miller

Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early America, by Susan E. Klepp

Sochen, From Mae to Madonna; Kibler, Rank Ladies; and Mizejewski, Ziegfeld Girl, by Marybeth Hamilton

Spenser, The Impossible Triangle, by Stefan Rinke

Starr, A School for Politics, by Robert Olwell

Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877, by Walter Licht

Strasser, McGovern, and Judt, eds., Getting and Spending, by Jacqueline K. Dirks

T [Top]

Taylor, William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin, by Ignas K. Skrupskelis

Tolbert, Constructing Townscapes, by Steven Hoelscher

Tushnet, Making Constitutional Law, by Leland Ware

Tyson, Radio Free Dixie, by Mary E. King

U, V, W [Top]

Van Vugt, Britain to America, by John M. Bumsted

Verea and Hierro, eds., Las mujeres en América del Norte al fin del milenio (Women in North America at the end of the millennium), by Jane Slaughter

W [Top]

Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians, by Colin G. Calloway

Walmsley, Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution, by R. C. Simmons

Whelchel, From Pearl Harbor to Saigon, by Donald H. Estes

Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture, by Andrew R. Heinze

Wokeck, Trade in Strangers, by David E. Narrett

Wyman, The Wisconsin Frontier, by Jerry Apps

X, Y, Z [Top]

Young, Domesticating Slavery, by Steven Stowe