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Book Reviews
March 2003, Vol. 89, No. 4

[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 |

A [Top]

Adams, Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, by Robert W. Rydell

Alexander, Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era, by Robert F. Burk

Anbinder, Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum, by Howard P. Chudacoff

B [Top]

Bae, Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men’s Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871–1929, by Xiaolan Bao

Baptist, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War, by Christopher Waldrep

Barbas, Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity, by George Potamianos

Barnes, Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis, by William Thomas Allison

Beattie, Obligation and Opportunity: Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870–1930, by Laurie Mercier

Bigott, From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869–1929, by Margaret Garb

Bindas, Swing, That Modern Sound, by David G. Borgo

Black, ed., Modern American Queer History, by Jane Gerhard

Bloom, Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre, by Roger A. Hall

Bouvier, ed., Whose America? The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation, by Molly M. Wood

Boyer Lewis, Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790–1860, by Catherine Allgor

Braunstein and Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s, by Jon Wiener

Bucki, Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915–36, by Gerald Zahavi

Burton, Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles, by Stephen D. Engle

C [Top]

Cashin and Eskew, eds., Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia, by James M. Russell

Castronovo, Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Molly McGarry

Clark, Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat, by William G. Thomas

Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America, by Robert L. Brandfon

D [Top]

Daniels, Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester “Pres” Young, by Kathy Ogren

Davidson, America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, by Ritchie Ovendale

Davis, Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater, by Manisha Sinha

Davis, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, by Brian R. Dirck

Davis, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America, by Paul D. Escott

Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II, by Lyde Cullen Sizer

Druks, The Uncertain Alliance: The U.S. and Israel from Kennedy to the Peace Process, by Antonio Donno

Duncan, Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence, by Rodney Carlisle

Durden, Electrifying the Piedmont Carolinas: The Duke Power Company, 1904–1997, by William J. Hausman

E [Top]

Eick, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954–72, by Adam Fairclough

Ely, Railroads and American Law, by John E. Semonche

Eskridge and Noll, eds., More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History, by Douglas Carl Abrams

Ethridge and Hudson, eds., The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540–1760, by Nancy Shoemaker

F [Top]

Fabre and Feith, eds., Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance, by Cary D. Wintz

Farrell-Beck and Gau, Uplift: The Bra in America, by Gayle V. Fischer

Finzsch and Wellenreuther, eds., Visions of the Future in Germany and America, by Michael D. Clark

Fiorentino, Le tribú devono sparire: La politica di assimilazione degli indiani negli Stati Uniti d’America (The tribes must disappear: The politics of assimilation of the Indians in the United States of America), by Louise K. Barnett

Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina, by C. Dallett Hemphill

Foletta, Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture, by Jonathan A. Glickstein

Fredirickson, Racism: A Short History, by Jonathan Zimmerman

G [Top]

Gabaccia and Ottanelli, eds., Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States, by Vincent DiGirolamo

Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717, by Claudio Saunt

Gambone, Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961–1972, by Darlene Rivas

Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970, by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Gibian, Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation, by James Perrin Warren

Gilmore, The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood, by Mark Bauerlein

Goebel, A Government by the People: Direct Democracy in America, 1890–1940, by Jeffrey Ostler

Goff, Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel, by Randall Balmer

Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, by Jim Cullen

Greenbaum, Men against Myths: The Progressive Response, by LeRoy Ashby

Greene, Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance, by I. A. Newby

Gregg, Inside Out, Outside In: Essays in Comparative History, by Ian Tyrrell

Griffin, The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764, by Warren R. Hofstra

H [Top]

Hall, Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties, by George Lipsitz

Hamm, Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948–1974, by Scott Christianson

Harris, Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation, by Sarah Judson

Hayes, South Carolina and the New Deal, by Paul E. Mertz

Healy, James G. Blaine and Latin America, by Joyce S. Goldberg

Hewitt, Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, by Priscilla Murolo

Higginbotham, Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration, by Robert A. Pratt

Hoffman, Florida’s Frontiers, by John T. McGrath

Howard, Publishing the Family, by Glenn Hendler

Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture, by Dominick Cavallo

J [Top]

Jackson, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua

Janzen, The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia, by Robert S. Fogarty

Jeffreys-Jones, Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, by Katherine A. S. Sibley

Jurca, White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel, by Allan Hepburn

K [Top]

Kars, Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina, by T. H. Breen

Kent, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era, by Peter W. Williams

Kline, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom, by Gregory Michael Dorr

Knack, Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775–1995, by Robert L. Bee

Knepper, Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal, by Christopher Silver

Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, by Stuart Leibiger

Knupfer, Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America’s First Juvenile Court, by Michael Willrich

Kochavi, Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, & Jewish Refugees, 1945–1948, by Peter L. Hahn

Kollin, Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier, by Andrew Kirk

Kotlowski, Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy, by Harvard Sitkoff

Kreneck, Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905–1965, by Mario T. García

L [Top]

Lamb and Tarling, From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, by Russell D. Buhite

Leepson, Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built, by Carl Lounsbury

Lenner, The Federal Principle in American Politics, 1790–1833, by M. N. S. Sellers

Lepore, A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States, by Lawrence Buell

Lindman and Tarter, eds., A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, by Marilyn J. Westerkamp

Livingston, Swallowed by Globalism: John M. Vorys and American Foreign Policy, by David M. Esposito

Livingston, Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History, by Andrew Feffer

Loeb, Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers’ Subdivisions in the 1920s, by Richard Harris

Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy, by David Stebenne

Lowe, Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf, by Stephen Hardy

M [Top]

Mandell, The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930, by Linda Gordon

Marlett, Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920–1960, by Michael F. Funchion

Martin, The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640–1800, by Charles E. Clark

May, Golden State, Golden Youth: The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955–1966, by Dana Polan

McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945–2000, by Nathan Godfried

McFarland, Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Security, by Travis Beal Jacobs

McGrath, Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890–1960, by Peter J. Kuznick

Mendoza, Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana & Chicano History, by Gregory S. Rodriguez

Meriwether, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935–1961, by Renee Romano

Moitt, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848, by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Motsch, Lafitau et l’émergence du discours ethnographique (Lafitau and the emergence of ethnographic discourse), by Harry Liebersohn

Mulcahy, A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, by James Whiteside

Mulder, A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South, by James O. Farmer

Muller, Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II, by Greg Robinson

N [Top]

Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory, by Richard Stott

Nealon, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, by Christopher Castiglia

Newman, Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945–1995, by David Stricklin

Newman, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic, by Daniel Feller

Norris, After “the Year Eighty”: The Demise of Franciscan Power in Spanish New Mexico, by Sylvia L. Hilton

O [Top]

O’Brien, Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace, by Deborah Stone

O’Connell, Edward Sorin, by Gerald McKevitt

Obadele-Starks, Black Unionism in the Industrial South, by Walter Howard

P [Top]

Porter, To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker, by James B. LaGrand

Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, by Harry A. Reed

Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto, by Raymond A. Mohl

R [Top]

Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, by Mary A. DeCredico

Ramold, Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy, by Donald R. Shaffer

Rangaswamy, Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis, by Johanna Lessinger

Raphael, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord, by Colin Nicolson

Rivas, Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela, by Eric Paul Roorda

Rokicky, James Monroe: Oberlin’s Christian Statesman & Reformer, 1821–1898, by Hugh Davis

Rothman, lbj’s Texas White House: "Our Heart’s Home," by Melvin Small

Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance, by Howard Bodenhorn

Rubertone, Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians, by Michael Leroy Oberg

Ryden, Landscape with Figures: Nature & Culture in New England, by Philip G. Terrie

S [Top]

Sassi, A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy, by Joseph Conforti

Schain, ed., The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After, by Federico Romero

Schloesser, The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic, by Jane E. Dabel

Scott-Smith, The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the cia, and Post-War American Hegemony, by Michael J. Hogan

Scribner, Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929–1979, by David Goldfield

Silver-Isenstadt, Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols, by Nancy J. Tomes

Sioli, Le città della rivoluzione: Alle origini delle metropolis americane (The cities of the Revolution: To the origins of the American metropolises), by David Thomas Konig

Sivulka, Stronger than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940, by Ian Gordon

Skeel, Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, by Charles Zelden

Sterngass, First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, & Coney Island, by Cindy S. Aron

Suchoples, Finland and the United States, 1917–1919: Early Years of Mutual Relations, by T. Michael Ruddy

T [Top]

Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630–1680, by Len Travers

Thompson, Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, by Nick Salvatore

Tuck, Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940–1980, by Clayborne Carson

Tucker, Worthington Chauncey Ford: Scholar and Adventurer, by Robert Cummings

U [Top]

Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, by Jan Lewis

W [Top]

Walton, Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey, by Eugene P. Moehring

Wang, Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890–1970, by S. F. Chung

Weaver-Zercher, The Amish in the American Imagination, by Theron F. Schlabach

Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920, by Herbert Hovenkamp

Whiteside, Colorado: A Sports History, by Michael A. Amundson

Wiethoff, The Insolent Slave, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.

Williams, Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, by Ruth Howes

Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, by James M. Banner Jr.

Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641, by Stephen J. Stein

Wrobel and Long, eds., Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, by Steven Hoelscher

Z [Top]

Zhang, Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963, by David M. Lampton