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Book Reviews
March 2001, Vol. 87, 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]

Abrams, The Pilgrims and Pocahontas, by Wayne Bodle

Aiken, The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War, by Jack Temple Kirby

Allaire, Pelleteries, manchons, et chapeaux de castor (Pelts, muffs, and beaver hats), by Philip Benedict

Anderson, Crucible of War, by Richard Middleton

Anderson, Joyous Greetings, by Sylvia D. Hoffert

Andrews, The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800, by Susan Juster

Andrews, Insane Sisters, by Vivien Miller

Arceneaux, No Spark of Malice, by Carl A. Brasseaux

Archibald, A Place to Remember, by David Thelen

B [Top]

Baer, Reinventing Democrats, by Alonzo L. Hamby

Bagwell, Rice Gold, by Shearer Davis Bowman

Bank, Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860, by Faye Dudden

Banner, Legal Systems in Conflict, by Gregory S. Alexander

Baxandall and Ewen, Picture Windows, by Sylvie Murray

Benton, Beauty and the Book, by Tamara Plakins Thornton

Bezner, Photography and Politics in America, by F. Jack Hurley

Billings and Blee, The Road to Poverty, by Richard B. Drake

Billingsley, Communists on Campus, by Gregg L. Michel

Bodenhorn, A History of Banking in Antebellum America, by John Majewski

Bold, The WPA Guides, by James R. Shortridge

Bolin, Bossism and Reform in a Southern City, by Roger Biles

Boyle, Foundations of World Order, by Frederick S. Calhoun

Bronstein, Land Reform and the Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862, by Bruce Laurie

Buchanan, Illusions of Equality, by Paul K. Longmore

Buckley, Air Power in the Age of Total War, by Dominick A. Pisano

Bussel, From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor, by Francis Shor

C [Top]

Capshew, Psychologists on the March, by Theodore M. Brown

Chateauvert, Marching Together, by Michelle Brattain

Cogan, Captured, by Hal M. Friedman

Corn, The Great American Thing, by Donna M. Cassidy

Costa, The Evolution of Retirement, by Daniel Scott Smith

Cowger, The National Congress of American Indians, by David E. Wilkins

Crane, American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953, by Wayne Thompson

Crocker, The Magic of the Many, by Harlow Sheidley

Crunden, Body & Soul, by Chip Rhodes

D [Top]

Din, Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves, by Edward F. Haas

Drake, King Philip's War, by Patricia E. Rubertone

Dunn, Sister Revolutions, by C. Bradley Thompson

E, F [Top]

Eggert, Making Iron on the Bald Eagle, by Paul H. Tedesco

Elizalde, ed., Las relaciones internacionales en el Pacífico (Siglos XVIII-XX) (International relations in the Pacific, eighteenth through twentieth centuries), by Edward Rice-Maximin

Engle, Don Carlos Buell, by James G. Hollandsworth Jr.

Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure, by Colette A. Hyman

Etges, Wirtschaftsnationalismus (Economic nationalism), by Gerald D. Nash

Fabian, The Unvarnished Truth, by Alan Taylor

Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba, by Jules R. Benjamin

Fox, Trials of Intimacy, by Ward M. McAfee

Frankel, Freedom's Women, by Marli F. Weiner

Fraser, Between Church and State, by R. Laurence Moore

Frey and Wood, eds., From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World, by Michael Mullin

G [Top]

Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World, by Ida Altman

Gary, The Nervous Liberals, by Jon Wiener

Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin, by W. Barksdale Maynard

Gillespie, Free Labor in an Unfree World, by Mark M. Smith

Godfried, WCFL, by Barbara Dianne Savage

Goodwin, The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914; and Coppin and High, The Politics of Purity, by Amy Bentley

Gould, The Persistence of Empire, by Colin Kidd

Greene, The Presidency of George Bush, by Glen Jeansonne

Gullett, Becoming Citizens, by Maureen A. Flanagan

H, I [Top]

Hale, Making Whiteness, by James Grossman

Hammonds, Childhood's Deadly Scourge, by Georgina Feldberg

Harris, Nothing but Christ, by Amanda Porterfield

Harrison, Lincoln of Kentucky, by Stephen Aron

Hart, The University Gets Religion, by Kathy J. Pulley

Hartmann, ed. by Ferrell, The Kansas City Investigation; and Ferrell, Truman and Pendergast, by Lyle W. Dorsett

Hazen, The Village Enlightenment in America, by Paul Jerome Croce

Hemphill, Bowing to Necessities, by Stuart M. Blumin

Herman, Joseph McCarthy, by M. J. Heale

Hine and McLeod, eds., Crossing Boundaries, by Bridget Brereton

Hodges, Root & Branch, by Julie Winch

Hoopes, Community Denied, by Jonathan M. Hansen

Hosmer, American Indians in the Marketplace, by Rebecca Kugel

Howes and Herzenberg, Their Day in the Sun, by Margaret Rossiter

Hunt, Governing Morals, by David J. Pivar

Irons, Testing the New Deal, by Robert Justin Goldstein

J, K [Top]

Jaffee, People of the Wachusett, by Carla Gardina Pestana

Jakle and Sculle, Fast Food, by Andrew Hurley

Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War, by Jill K. Gill

Jenkins, The South in Black and White, by Fred Hobson

Jones, Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom, by Matthew Pinsker

Judd, The Hatch and Brood of Time, by Charles Monaghan

Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes, by Casey N. Blake

Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy, by William J. Cooper Jr.

Katz, From Appomattox to Montmartre, by Heather Cox Richardson

Kenner, Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898, by Marvin Fletcher

Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life, by Jean Folkerts

Kupperman, Indians and English, by James D. Drake

L [Top]

Landy and Milkis, Presidential Greatness; and DeConde,Presidential Machismo, by Melvin Small

Lewis and Onuf, eds., Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson, by Sharon Block

Lock, Blutopia, by Eric Porter

Lorini, Rituals of Race, by Matthew Frye Jacobson

M, N [Top]

Mackenthun, Metaphors of Dispossession, by William O'Reilly

Mahoney, Provincial Lives, by Tamara G. Miller

Margulies, Reconciliation and Revival, by Abraham Holtzman

Marvin and Ingle, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation, by Karal Ann Marling

McClung, Landscapes of Desire, by Richard Longstreth

McEuen, Seeing America, by Elspeth Brown

Melosi, The Sanitary City, by Greg Hise

Merwick, Death of a Notary, by Peter Charles Hoffer

Milkis and Mileur, eds., Progressivism and the New Democracy, by John D. Buenker

Milkis, Political Parties and Constitutional Government, by Howard L. Reiter

Miller, The 60s Communes, by Dominick Cavallo

Mintz, Seeds of Empire; and Hauptman, Conspiracy of Interests, by Nancy Shoemaker

Monti, The American City, by John C. Schneider

Moore, Leading the Race, by Karen Ferguson

Moser, Twisting the Lion's Tail, by Gregory Kennedy

Munby, Public Enemies, Public Heroes, by Catherine Nickerson

Murphy, Congressional Theatre, by Stephen J. Whitfield

Neely Jr., Southern Rights, by David J. Bodenhamer

Nelson, King Cotton's Advocate, by Paul E. Mertz

Nugent and Ridge, eds., The American West, by John M. Findlay

Nugent, Into the West, by Richard White

O, P [Top]

Pérez Jr., On Becoming Cuban, by Juan M. del Aguila

Page, The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940, by Joel Schwartz

Patterson, The Ordeal of Integration, by Grace Hale

Pickering and Falls, Brush Men and Vigilantes, by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.

Pitre, In Struggle against Jim Crow, by Steven A. Reich

Portelli, The Battle of Valle Giulia, by Linda Shopes

Powe Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics, by Philippa Strum

Q, R [Top]

Regalado, Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, by Gregory S. Rodríguez

Resnik, Blood Saga, by Susan E. Lederer

Rice and Crawford, eds., Liberating Sojourn, by David W. Blight

Riney, The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933, by Bruce A. Rubenstein

Robbins, The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown, by Merline Pitre

Robertson, Parker Pillsbury, by Tilden G. Edelstein

Robinson, The Measure of Democracy, by Susan Herbst

Round, By Nature and by Custom Cursed, by Darren M. Staloff

Rystad, Dream and Reality, by Peter L. Hahn

S [Top]

Sasson and Williams, eds., Between Friends, by Theodore Rosenof

Saunt, A New Order of Things, by Kathryn Holland Braund

Scalia, America's Jeffersonian Experiment, by John Dinan

Scanlan, Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671, by Irmina Wawrzyczek

Schaefer, "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959, by Regina Kunzel

Scherer, Imperfect Victories, by John Rockwell Snowden

Schultz, The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma, by Michael Welsh

Sewell, Medicine in Maryland, by Gerald N. Grob

Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire, by Francis Jennings

Shepard, Deemed Unsuitable, by Ronald G. Coleman

Shipler, A Country of Strangers; and Thernstrom and Thernstrom, America in Black and White, by Clarence E. Walker

Sioui, trans. by Brierley, Huron-Wendat, by Christopher Vecsey

Smith, The Dominion of Voice, by Ron Formisano

Smith, Borderlander, by Roger L. Nichols

Smith, The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900, by Archie P. McDonald

Smith, The Gender of History, by Anne Firor Scott

Snow, A Child of Toil, by Gerald W. McFarland

Sommer, Serving Two Masters, by Steven M. Nolt

Spence, For Wood River or Bust, by Thomas J. Noel

Spillane, Cocaine; and Paul Gootenberg, ed., Cocaine, by Philip Jenkins

Spinney, City of Big Shoulders, by Gerald A. Danzer

St. George, Conversing by Signs, by Marla Miller

Stefanidis, Isle of Discord, by Bruce Kuniholm

Stephens, On Racial Frontiers, by Jared Gardner

Stradling, Smokestacks and Progressives, by Martin V. Melosi

Stricklin, A Genealogy of Dissent, by Paul Harvey

Strong, Working in the World, by Annick Cizel

Summers, Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion, by Rebecca Edwards

T [Top]

Tate, The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West, by Garna L. Christian

Taves, Fits, Trances, & Visions, by Catherine L. Albanese

Taylor III, Making Salmon, by Dianne Newell

Tchen, New York before Chinatown, by William Wei

Thomas, Lawyering for the Railroad, by Tony A. Freyer

Tomes, The Gospel of Germs, by Jacalyn Duffin

Turner, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, by Anne C. Rose

U, V, W [Top]

Ulrich, Empty Nets, by Michael J. Chiarappa

Van Allen, James Whitcomb Riley, by Ronald Weber

Waksman, Instruments of Desire, by David Sanjek

Watkins, The Hungry Years, by Jean Heffer

Wells, Facing the "King of Terrors," by James J. Farrell

Werrell, Blankets of Fire, by Thomas A. Julian

White and Findlay, eds., Power and Place in the North American West, by Robert R. Dykstra

Wiener, Gimme Some Truth, by Kenneth O'Reilly

Wirth, Smelter Smoke in North America, by Christine Meisner Rosen

Woodworth, No Band of Brothers; and Harsh, Taken at the Flood, by Lawrence Lee Hewitt

X, Y, Z [Top]

Young, Tracks to the Sea, by William R. Childs

Zöller, trans. by Rendall and Wimmer, Washington and Rome, by Jay P. Dolan

Zenderland, Measuring Minds, by Patrick J. Ryan