Book Reviews
September 2001, Vol. 88, 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 |

Ali, Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South Asia in the 1950s, by Steven I. Levine

Altschuler and Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century, by Philip J. Ethington

Ambrose, Nothing like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, by Walter Nugent

Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography, by Michael Vorenberg

Anderson and Moss, Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930, by V. P. Franklin

Anderson, Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines, by Richard Melzer

Angus and Mirel, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995, by Alexander Urbiel

Ansell, Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico, by Joseph A. Pratt

Barnett, Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial, by Peter W. Bardaglio

Bay, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925, by Wilson J. Moses

Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, by Roger Lane

Benner and Davis, eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: The Complete Documentary Edition (dvd), by Phillip Shaw Paludan

Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick

Berry, Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, by Jeanette Keith

Billinger, Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German pows in Florida; and Fox, America's Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II--Memory and History, by Ron Robin

Bix, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, by Gary Cross

Blaszczyk, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning, by Lawrence B. Glickman

Brown, The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains; and Pierce, The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park, by Marguerite S. Shaffer

Cahan and Rudd, Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace, by George E. Webb

Carlson, The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, by Mark G. Malvasi

Cashin, William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier, by James H. O'Donnell III

Chambers, Anderson, Eden, Glatthaar, Spector, and Piehler, eds., The Oxford Companion to American Military History, by Brian Holden Reid

Clayton, Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island, by Michael Harkin

Conkin, When All the Gods Trembled: Darwin, Scopes, and American Intellectuals, by Cynthia Russett

Davis, Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941, by Carole Srole

Davis, Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s, by Elizabeth Francis

Dewey, Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970, by Stan Luger

Diamond, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia, by Frederic Cople Jaher

Dixon, African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century, by Alfred Hunt

Dobak, Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853-1895, by Robert Wooster

Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern, by Lewis A. Erenberg

Douglass, The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan, by John R. Thelin

Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, by Colin A. M. Duncan

Edwards, Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era, by Jane Dailey

Eisner, From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order; and Reagan, Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943, by Neil A. Wynn

Feldman, Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949, by Charles C. Alexander

Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution, by Norman K. Risjord

Fernlund, ed., The Cold War American West, 1945-1989; and Hevly and Findlay, eds., The Atomic West, by Philip Brick

Filene, In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America, by Thomas R. Cole

Fine, "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968, by Timothy N. Thurber

Fischer and Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement, by John Mack Faragher

Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War, by Michael Schaller

Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America; Walling, Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government; and Gilreath, ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen, by Jeffrey L. Pasley

Ford, The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995, by Miriam Cohen

Forsberg, America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960, by Tyler Priest

Fried, The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America, by Geoffrey S. Smith

Friedman, Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945, by Leigh Ann Wheeler

Gallman, Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855, by Howard P. Chudacoff

Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era, by Andre Millard

Goldman, Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism, by Gerald Sorin

Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, by Elliott West

Green, ed., Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930, by Landon Storrs

Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, by Robert Cook

Gura and Bollman, America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century, by W. T. Lhamon Jr.

Gustafson, Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America, by Philip F. Gura

Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, by John Ibson

Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940, by Sanford M. Jacoby

Hirama, Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun--gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy--The diplomacy in concert with the military actions), by Frederick R. Dickinson

Holmes, The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography, by Ian Tyrrell

Hoxie, Hoffman, and Albert, eds., Native Americans and the Early Republic, by Alfred A. Cave

Inscoe and McKinney, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, by Richard B. McCaslin

Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920, by Mark Spence

James, ed. by Skemp and Daniels, The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change, by Thomas W. Jodziewicz

Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market, by Dylan Penningroth

Kaminski, Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific, by Judy Barrett Litoff

Kan, Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries, by Ken Coates

Keller and Turek, American Indians & National Parks, by Donald L. Fixico

Kleinman, A World of Hope, a World of Fear: Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism, by Bruce Kuklick

Kline, Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America, by Melissa Walker

Kroes, ed., Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies, by Manuel Martinez

Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II, by Bruce Nelson

Lagemann, An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research, by Sol Cohen

Layton, International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960, by Renee Romano

Levering and Levering, Citizen Action for Global Change: The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea, by Kurk Dorsey

Levine, Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries, by Peter Iverson

Little, Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916, by Mitch Kachun

Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, by Lawrence Buell

Luconi, La "Diplomazia parallela": Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel diplomacy": The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans), by Fraser Ottanelli

Ludmerer, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care, by Ronald L. Numbers

Magoc, Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903, by Paul Sutter

Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War, by Mary A. DeCredico

Maltz, The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969-1986, by Howard Ball

Mariano, Lo Storica nel suo labirinto: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tra ricerca storica, impegno civile, e politica (The historian in his labyrinth: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. between historical research, civil appointment, and politics), by Olaf Hansen

Marnham, Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera, by Silvia Nuñez-Garcia

Massey, John Laurens and the American Revolution, by Clyde R. Ferguson

McCarraher, Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought, by Robert Booth Fowler

McCrossen, Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday, by Paul Gutjahr

McEnaney, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties, by D'Ann Campbell

McGucken, Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s-1990s, by Ken Cruikshank

McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by Richard S. Kirkendall

Mehlman, Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944, by Alexander Bloom

Merish, Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Nina Baym

Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier, by Daniel K. Richter

Meyer, As Long as They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods, by John F. Bauman

Moogk, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada--a Cultural History, by Dean Louder

Morrow and Myers-Phinney, Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s, by Margaret Lynn Brown

Moten, The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession; and Brereton, Educating the U.S. Army: Arthur L. Wagner and Reform, 1875-1905, by Oliviero Bergamini

Murray and Millett, A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, by Matthew Jones

Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary, by J.-André Senécal

Ochs, A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans, by James M. Woods

Ollila, ed., Historical Perspectives on Memory, by Maria Bucur

Onuf, Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, by Emory G. Evans

Pearson, ed., Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822, by Lorri Glover

Peceny, Democracy at the Point of Bayonets, by Eric Paul Roorda

Peters, Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution, by Charles R. Epp

Phillips, Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West, by Eugene H. Berwanger

Pleck, Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals, by Ellen M. Litwicki

Prince, with Simpson, Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina, by Rebecca Sharpless

Pyron, Liberace: An American Boy, by Erika Doss

Rabasa, Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest, by Dedra S. McDonald

Resch, Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic, by Richard Buel Jr.

Rodríguez, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States, by Emilio A. Parrado

Rossini, Il mito americano nell'Italia della Grande Guerra (The American myth in World War I Italy), by Alessandro Brogi

Royster, The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times, by Peter S. Onuf

Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment, by Stephen J. Stein

Schnoor, ed., Amerikanistik in der ddr: Geschichte--Analysen--Zeitzeugenberichte (American studies in the gdr: History--analyses--eyewitness reports); and Strunz, American Studies oder Amerikanistik?: Die deutsche Amerikawissenschaft und die Hoffnung auf Erneuerung der Hochschulen und der politischen Kultur nach 1945 (American studies or Amerikanistik?: German American studies scholarship and the hope for renewal of secondary education and political culture after 1945), by Walter D. Kamphoefner

Seeman, Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England, by Elizabeth Reis

Shoemaker, American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century, by C. Matthew Snipp

Shurts, Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context, 1880s-1930s, by Sidney L. Harring

Simmons, The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, by Richard O. Clemmer

Smith, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture, by Joshua Brown

Smith, Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro, by Vernon J. Williams Jr.

Smith, The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845, by Willard Hughes Rollings

Stephens, Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895, by Margaret Humphreys

Stoevesandt, Aktivismus und Zurückhaltung im United States Supreme Court (Activism and restraint in the United States Supreme Court), by Markus Dirk Dubber

Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees, by Stephen Warren

Takeyh, The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The us, Britain, and Nasser's Egypt, 1953-57, by Magnus Persson

Tedeschini Lalli and Vaudagna, eds., Brave New Words: Strategies of Language and Communication in the United States of the 1930s, by Kenneth J. Bindas

Temin, ed., Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England, by B. Zorina Khan

Thomas, Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity, by Alexandra Harmon

Thuesen, In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible, by Timothy Weber

Tocqueville, ed. and trans. by Mansfield and Winthrop, Democracy in America, by Seymour Drescher

Tomko, Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920, by Alison M. Parker

Toplin, ed., Oliver Stone's usa: Film, History, and Controversy, by Paul Buhle

Troy, Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons, by Susan M. Hartmann

Tucker, Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s, by June Sochen

Unger, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, by Herbert F. Margulies

Vandal, Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884, by Christopher Waldrep

Vecsey, Where the Two Roads Meet, by Jack M. Schultz

Walker, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941, by Valerie Grim

Ward, Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America, by Celia M. Azevedo

Warren, Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America, by Sandra Gustafson

Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865, by Gary W. Gallagher

Wermiel, The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City, by Ross Miller

West, Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia, by Shelley Armitage

West, The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism, by Helen M. Bannan

Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions, by Joan R. Gundersen

Willoughby, Flowing through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River, by Jeffrey K. Stine

Wilson, Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas, by Raymond A. Mohl

Wolfe, Barger, and Benison, Walter B. Cannon: Science and Society, by James H. Cassedy