Book Reviews
Dec. 2002, Vol. 89 No. 3

[Table of Contents]

Alphabetical by the last name of the book's first author or editor

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 |

Alexander, Jazz Age Jews, by David J. Goldberg

Anderson, Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought, by Burton W. Peretti

Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966, by William O. Walker III

Arthur, Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States, by Andrew F. Clark

Baer, Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, by Roger Cooter

Ball, Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848–1861, by Robert Carriker

Bauerlein, Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906, by Gregory Mixon

Bean, Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration, by Theodore P. Kovaleff

Bednarek, America’s Airports: Airfield Development, 1918–1947, by Marc Dierikx

Bernstein, A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America, by Thomas K. McCraw

Biolsi, "Deadliest Enemies": Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation, by Brian W. Dippie

Bledstein and Johnston, eds., The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class, by Daniel J. Walkowitz

Bleser and Gordon, eds., Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives, by Janet L. Coryell

Bloom, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream, by Paul H. Mattingly

Boyle and Bunie, Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement, by Kenneth R. Janken

Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia, by Rosemarie Zagarri

Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755–1763, by Don Higginbotham

Bude and Greiner, eds., Westbindungen: Amerika in der Bundesrepublik (West-relationships: America in the Federal Republic of Germany), by Klaus Larres

Butler, An Undergrowth of Folly: Public Order, Race Anxiety, and the 1903 Evansville, Indiana, Riot, by William Cohen

Bynum, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, by Wayne K. Durrill

Clifford, "A Truthful Impression of the Country": British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880–1949, by Madeline Y. Hsu

Cocks, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915, by Philip J. Ethington

Cohen-Solal, trans. by Hurwitz-Attias, Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867–New York 1948, by Sarah Burns

Conforti, Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century, by Tamara Plakins Thornton

Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum, by Gary Cross

Corrigan, Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century, by Amanda Porterfield

Cox, Ikenberry, and Inoguchi, eds., American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts, by David Clinton

Crawford, Ashe County’s Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South, by Robert Tracy McKenzie

Dale, The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis, by Richard F. Hamm

Daynes, More Wives than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910, by Norman H. Murdoch

Deconde, Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control, by Joel Best

Dougherty, Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation, by Jonathan M. Chu

Ellis, Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I, by Christopher Capozzola

Evans, The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization, by John Majewski

Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82, by Joyce E. Chaplin

Fogarty, Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia, by Mary J. Oates

Fogelson, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950, by William Issel

Ford, Americans All!: Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I, by Frederick C. Luebke

Frezza, Il leader, la folla, la democrazia nel discorso pubblico americano, 1880–1941 (The leader, the crowd, and democracy in American public discourse, 1880–1941), by Jose Luis Orozco

Frost, "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s, by Robert Fisher

Fujitani, White, and Yoneyama, eds., Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), by Jeffrey C. Livingston

Gemelli, ed., The "Unacceptables": American Foundations and Refugee Scholars between the Two Wars and After, by Sylvia W. McGrath

Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis, by Randall M. Miller

Geschwind, California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, & the Politics of Hazard Mitigation, by Ted Steinberg

Gillespie, The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759–1811, by Johanna Miller Lewis

Glaude, Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America, by Lamin Sanneh

Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976, by James H. Meriwether

Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America, by Nancy A. Hewitt

Gracia and De Greiff, eds., Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights, by Jose M. Alamillo

Graham, Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle, by John A. Silk

Gray, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism, by Barbara Ladd

Gray, The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison, by James O. Breeden

Grover, The Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts, by John R. McKivigan

Gustafson, Women and the Republican Party, 1854–1924, by Elizabeth R. Varon

Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940, by David W. Stowe

Halper, Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting, by Sandra Haarsager

Haynes, Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb, by Andrew Wiese

Hein, Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century, by David E. Sumner

Holt, Indian Orphanages, by Lisa E. Emmerich

Huggard and Gómez, eds., Forests under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest, by Thomas R. Cox

Igler, Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920, by Gunther Peck

Inscoe and Kenzer, eds., Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South, by Wayne K. Durrill

Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care, by Hamilton Cravens

Johansen, Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America, by Brian Roberts

Johnson, Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I, by John Carver Edwards

Kadlec, Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture, by John Pettegrew

Katerberg, Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880–1950, by J. Robert Wright

Kauffman, Patriotism and Fraternalism in the Knights of Columbus: A History of the Fourth Degree, by Robert Emmett Curran

Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, by G. Kurt Piehler

Kirk, Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library, by Char Miller

Kitch, The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media, by Susan J. Douglas

Krawczynski, William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot, by Robert Olwell

Kuhn, Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta’s Fulton Mills, by Alex Lichtenstein

Lee, Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War, by Sally E. Hadden

Leventhal and Quinault, eds., Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership, by Jamie Bronstein

Lewis, Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, by William Paul

Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, by Marita Sturken

Lipset and Marks, It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, by Nelson Lichtenstein

Madison, A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America, by Glenn Feldman

McBride, Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony, by Diane Batts Morrow

McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, by Kenneth W. Noe

McFarland, Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918, by Barbara M. Kelly

McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900–1936, by Yong Chen

McMillen, To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915, by Beth Barton Schweiger

Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, by Jerald A. Combs

Melton, Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1921, by Betty Miller Unterberger

Menand, The Metaphysical Club, by Jackson Lears

Menjívar, Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America, by David P. Lindstrom

Mercier, Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City, by David Igler

Meyerson, Nature’s Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite, by Marguerite S. Shaffer

Miller, ed., On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio, by Anthony N. Penna

Miller, Visions of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs, and Cincinnati’s Clifton, 1850–2000, by Thomas M. Spencer

Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980, by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

Moen, Race, Color, and Partial Blindness: Affirmative Action under the Law, by Raymond Wolters

Moore and Troen, eds., Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America, by Steven Rosenthal

Nelson, Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century, by Kathleen M. Joyce

Nelson, A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690–1776, by E. Brooks Holifield

Newman, White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, by Melanie Gustafson

Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, by Michael Zuckert

Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling

Okihiro, Common Ground: Reimagining American History, by Louise M. Newman

Palmer, Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians, by Neil Jumonville

Peeler, The Illuminating Mind in American Photography: Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams, by Melissa A. McEuen

Perlmann and Margo, Women’s Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920, by Kathleen C. Berkeley

Plummer, Lincoln’s Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby, by Stephen Hansen

Puskás, trans. by Ludwig, Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States, by N. F. Dreisziger

Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920, by Ted Ownby

Rasmussen, ed., The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, by Julian Carter

Rauchway, The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900–1920, by K. Walter Hickel

Reiss, The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America, by Gary Cross

Reynolds, ed. by Bronner, Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren, by Kimberly Schmidt

Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War North, 1865–1901, by Stephen Kantrowitz

Richelson, The Wizards of Langley: Inside the cia’s Directorate of Science and Technology, by Walter L. Hixson

Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by Eric Hinderaker

Robinson, By Order of the President: fdr and the Internment of Japanese Americans, by Charlotte Brooks

Rose, Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America, by Emily S. Bingham

Rubio, A History of Affirmative Action, 1619–2000, by Thomas J. Davis

Ryerson, ed., John Adams and the Founding of the Republic, by Van Beck Hall

Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape, by Michael Holleran

Satterthwaite, Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences, by Stephanie Dyer

Schäfer, American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875–1920: Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context, by Jeffrey Sklansky

Schmitz, White Robe’s Dilemma: Tribal History in American Literature, by Raymond J. DeMallie

Schulten, The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950, by Jonathan M. Smith

Scranton, ed., The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, by Kenneth Lipartito

Scully, Bargaining with the State from Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844–1942, by Michael Schaller

Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880–1940, by Anne Hyde

Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown, by Erika Lee

Shepherd, Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929, by James Duane Bolin

Shoch, Trading Blows: Party Competition and U.S. Trade Policy in a Globalizing Era, by Alfred E. Eckes

Siskind, Rum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795–1850, by Mark S. Schantz

Smith, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, by Edward Baptist

Sparks, Religion in Mississippi, by Frederick A. Bode

Spigel, Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs, by James W. Carey

Swinth, Painting Professionals: Women Artists & the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930, by Melissa Dabakis

Taiz, Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880–1930, by Lynne Marks

Taylor and Hill, eds., Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900–1950, by Karen J. Ferguson

Taylor, American Colonies, by James A. Henretta

Townsend, World War II and the American Indian, by Richard N. Ellis

Tuunainen, The Role of Presidential Advisory Systems in US Foreign Policy-Making: The Case of the National Security Council and Vietnam, 1953–1961, by David L. Snead

Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment, by Louis S. Gerteis

Watts, Mae West: An Icon in Black and White, by Leslie Fishbein

Weddle, The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle, by James Pritchard

Weir, An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment, by Joel Davidson

Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism, by Shirley Teresa Wajda

Willoughby, Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany, by Ronald J. Granieri

Wolin, Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, by Matthew Mancini

Wood, Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820, by Aaron Fogleman

Woodworth, While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers, by Carl J. Guarneri

Woodworth, ed., Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, by James A. Ramage

Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930–1990, by Barbara Ladd

York, Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory, by James E. Davis

Young, Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist, by Gillis J. Harp

Zanjani, Sarah Winnemucca, by David W. Adams

Zelinsky, The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma, by Philip Gleason