Book Reviews
March 2002, Vol. 88, No. 4

[Table of Contents]

Alphabetical by the First Book Author's or First Editor'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 |

Appel, Shaping Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biological Research, 1945-1975, by Daniel Lee Kleinman

Arad, America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism, by Henry L. Feingold

Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality, by Joe William Trotter

Banner, Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860, by Margaret C. Levenstein

Barbuto, Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada; and Graves, Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler's Farm, 1813, by C. Edward Skeen

Barrows, Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper, by Mina Carson

Bartley, Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970, by Charles D. Chamberlain

Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896; and Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York, by Jeffrey S. Adler

Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, by Brian Greenberg

Bendersky, The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, by Stephen J. Whitfield

Berebitsky, Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950, by Ruth M. Alexander

Bertrand, Race, Rock, and Elvis, by Brian Ward

Black, Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom, by Martin V. Melosi

Blackett, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, by Howard Temperley

Blanke, Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest, by Donald H. Parkerson

Blewett, Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England, by Howell John Harris

Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by George C. Rable

Bowser and Spence, Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences; and Green, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux, by David Krasner

Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, by John Ferling

Brown, The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture, by Robert A. Ferguson

Brundage, ed., Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity, by Richard H. King

Burk, Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, & American Baseball since 1921, by Jules Tygiel

Burstein, America's Jubilee; and Masur, 1831: Year of Eclipse, by Robert E. Bonner

Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830-1915, by A. Gregory Schneider

Cleary, Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America, by Lisa Wilson

Cooper, Holt, and Scott, Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, by Alan L. Karras

Crispell, Testing the Limits: George Armistead Smathers and Cold War America, by James R. Sweeney

Culver and Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, by LeRoy Ashby

Curtis, Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History, by Michael P. Zuckert

D'Emilio, Turner, and Vaid, eds., Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights, by John Howard

Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia, by Michael Perman

Dailey, Gilmore, and Simon, eds., Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights, by Gaines M. Foster

Daniels and Kennedy, eds., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America; and Navas, Murdered by His Wife: A History with Documentation of the Joshua Spooner Murder and Execution of His Wife, Bathsheba, Who Was Hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July 1778, by Kirsten Fischer

Dann, Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America, by Elizabeth McKinsey

Davis, FDR, the War President, 1940-1943: A History, by John Prados

Deetz and Deetz, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony, by Emerson W. Baker

Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America, by Elisabeth Israels Perry

Drescher, Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South, by Glen Jeansonne

Dunlay, Kit Carson & the Indians, by Roger L. Nichols

Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York; and Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896, by Jeffrey S. Adler

Ellingson, The Myth of the Noble Savage, by Olive Patricia Dickason

Fabel, Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775, by Arthur H. DeRosier Jr.

Fasce, La democrazia degli affari: Comunicazione aziendale e discorso pubblico negli Stati Uniti, 1900-1940 (The democracy of business: Business communication and public discourse in the United States, 1900-1940), by Daniel Pope

Fellman, The Making of Robert E. Lee; and Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865, by Russell F. Weigley

Fiebig-von Hase and Heideking, eds., Zwei Wege in die Moderne: Aspekte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, 1900-1918 (Two paths to modernity: Aspects of German-American relations, 1900-1918), by Nancy Mitchell

Flippen, Nixon and the Environment, by Thomas R. Huffman

Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration, by Rudolph J. Vecoli

Foster, Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher, by Alan Raucher

Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, by Charles G. Steffen

Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968, by George B. Tindall

Freehling, The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, by John C. Inscoe

Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II, by François Weil

Frost, Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South, by William A. Link

Gallagher and Nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, by William Garrett Piston

Gallagher, ed., The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days, by Stephen D. Engle

Garía, Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot, by David G. Gutiérrez

Gentile, How Effective Is Strategic Bombing?: Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo, by Mark Conversino

Gerhardt, The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis, by David H. Rosenbloom

Green, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux; and Bowser and Spence, Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences, by David Krasner

Ghorra-Gobin, Les États-Unis entre local et mondial (The United States between local and global), by Charles N. Glaab

Gonzales-Berry and Maciel, eds., The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico, by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Graves, Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler's Farm, 1813; and Barbuto, Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada, by C. Edward Skeen

Gross, Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom, by Philip J. Schwarz

Haines and Steckel, eds., A Population History of North America, by Margo Anderson

Harrison, Connecting Links: The British and American Woman Suffrage Movements, 1900-1914, by Genevieve G. McBride

Hearn, Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All, by Jeffery M. Dorwart

Henderson, Ernest Vandiver: Governor of Georgia, by Julian M. Pleasants

Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations, by Frank Ninkovich

Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America, by Emily K. Abel

Holley, The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South, by Walter L. Buenger

Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943, by Renqiu Yu

Hume, Obituaries in American Culture, by Robert V. Wells

Isserman, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, by Jesus Velasco

Jacoby, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Joseph E. Taylor III

Kim, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City, by Robert C. Lieberman

Kimball, American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond, by Michael Shirley

Kinney, Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War, by Jacques Portes

Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, by Cathy Matson

La Vere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory, by Mary Jane Warde

Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000, by Moss Roberts

Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Teresita Martínez Vergne

Larson, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States, by Daniel Feller

Lieberman, The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963, by David S. Patterson

Lippy, Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century, by Mark Hulsether

Lloyd, Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris, by John White

Lockley, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860, by Charles C. Bolton

Ludington, Fahy, and Reuning, eds., A Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism in the United States, by Ellen Wiley Todd

Maga, Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials, by Michael A. Barnhart

Mann, A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam, by George C. Herring

Markus, Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time, by Rosemarie K. Bank

Marling, Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, by Alexis McCrossen

Masur, 1831: Year of Eclipse; and Burstein, America's Jubilee, by Robert E. Bonner

Massell, Amassing Power: J. B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927, by Louis P. Cain

Mayer, Zwischen Krise und Krieg: Frankreich in der Außenwirtschaftspolitik der usa zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise und Zweitem Weltkrieg und das Problem der Sicherheit vor Deutschland (Between crisis and war: France and American foreign economic policy between the Great Depression and World War II and the problem of security from Germany), by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, by Mary C. Brennan

McNally, Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion, by Sherry L. Smith

McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, by David Massell

McNeilly, The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861, by Christopher Phillips

Melnick, A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song, by Andrew R. Heinze

Mitman, Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film, by Michael Welsh

Morris, Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828, by J. C. A. Stagg

Mulholland, William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, by Harold L. Platt

Murphy, A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832, by William Newbigging

Navas, Murdered by His Wife: A History with Documentation of the Joshua Spooner Murder and Execution of His Wife, Bathsheba, Who Was Hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July 1778; and Daniels and Kennedy, eds., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America, by Kirsten Fischer

Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870, by Ann M. Little

O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, by Daniel Levine

Olsen, Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Anti-party Tradition, 1830-1860, by Daniel Dupre

Paquette and Ferleger, eds., Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, by Christopher Morris

Pauly, Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey, by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908, by William Warren Rogers Jr.

Prothero, Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America, by David C. Sloane

Redmond and Smith, From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of the SAGE Air Defense Computer, by I. B. Holley Jr.

Reschly, The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910, by Theron F. Schlabach

Robarge, A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court, by Herbert A. Johnson

Roberts, American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture, by Susan Lee Johnson

Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal, by William J. Breen

Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex, by Michael E. Latham

Roby, Les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre: Rêves et réalités (The Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and realities), by C. Stewart Doty

Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, by Susan M. Hartmann

Rosenzweig, Erziehung zur Demokratie? Amerikanische Besatzungs- und Schulreformpolitik in Deutschland und Japan (Education for democracy? American occupation and school reform politics in Germany and Japan), by Rudolf V. A. Janssens

Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964, by H. W. Brands

Ryan and Pungong, eds., The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom, by J. Garry Clifford

Sack, Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture, by Robert C. Fuller

Santoro, Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus, by Douglas Henry Daniels

Schmalz, Der Richtungsstreit in der frühen amerikanischen Wirtschaftslehre und der Einfluß der Deutschen Historischen Schule (Opposing factions in early American economic theory and the influence of the German historical school), by Silvano A. Wueschner

Sharrer, A Kind of Fate: Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920, by Roy V. Scott

Sheinin, ed., Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs, by Thomas Schoonover

Simeone, Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic, by Stanley Harrold

Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865; and Fellman, The Making of Robert E. Lee, by Russell F. Weigley

Slonim, Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy, 1947-1997, by Peter Grose

Slotten, Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960, by Christopher H. Sterling

Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation, by Dylan Penningroth

Stein, City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972, by Holly Baggett

Stroud, The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World, by Phillip Drennon Thomas

Summerhill and Williams, Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincentenary, by Robert R. Archibald

Sweeney, Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II, by Holly C. Shulman

Szasz, Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917, by J. M. Bumsted

Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II, by Daniel Kryder

Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life, by James N. Giglio

Townsend, Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America: Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland, by Susan E. Ramírez

Tucker, Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, by Charles Coate

Urban, Gender, Race, and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations, by Maxine Schwartz Seller

Venturini, "Dopo nove giorni di cielo e acqua": Storia, storie, e luoghi in mezzo secolo di emigrazione sammarinese negli Stati Uniti ("After nine days of sky and water": History, stories, and place in a half century of San Marinese emigration to the United States), by Betty Boyd Caroli

Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, by Susan L. Smith

Wala, ed., Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag (Society and diplomacy in transatlantic context: A festschrift for Reinhard R. Doerries on the occasion of his 65th birthday), by Manfred Jonas

Waldrep, Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina, by Annette C. Wright

Warren, Struggling with "Iowa's Pride": Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877, by Margaret Walsh

Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, by Murray Sperber

Weingartner, A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre, by James F. Tent

Whalen, Kennedy versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race, by Gary W. Reichard

White, The Constitution and the New Deal, by Michael E. Parrish

Wickett, Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865-1907, by Kevin Mulroy

Wilkie, Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950, by Anna Agbe-Davies

Wolf, Abraham Yates Jr.: Vergessener Gründervater der amerikanischen Republik (Abraham Yates Jr.: Forgotten founding father of the American Revolution), by Winfred E. A. Bernhard

Woods, From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America, by Gail Fenske

Zanetti and García, trans. by Knight and Todd, Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959, by Julie Greene