Book Reviews
June 2003, Vol. 90, No. 1

[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 |

Abanes, One Nation under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church, by Kathryn M. Daynes

Adams and Vaudagna, eds., Transatlantic Encounters: Public Uses and Misuses of History in Europe and the United States, by Jacques Portes

Alexander, Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines, by Vivien M. L. Miller

Anderson, Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind, by Richard B. McCaslin

Baritono, La democrazia vissuta: Individualismo e pluralismo nel pensiero di Mary Parker Follett (The lived democracy: Individualism and pluralism in the thought of Mary Parker Follett), by Maureen A. Flanagan

Barringer, Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature, by Karen Merrill

Belasco and Scranton, eds., Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, by Tracy Poe

Bendroth, Growing up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches, by Betty A. DeBerg

Benowitz, Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933–1945, by Kate Weigand

Bernardi, ed., Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness, by Thomas Cripps

Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945, by Russell F. Weigley

Binnema, Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains, by Philip Roberts

Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement, by Leslie Dunlap

Blevins, Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers & Their Image, by Dwight B. Billings

Bogus, ed., The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms, by Saul Cornell

Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena, by Marc Gallicchio

Boswell, Her Act and Deed: Women’s Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837–1873, by Harriet E. Amos Doss

Bowling and Kennon, eds., The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development, by Seth Cotlar

Breen, Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692, by Bruce C. Daniels

Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, by Ruth Hutchinson Crocker

Brooks, Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, by Peter Iverson

Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860, by Thomas Summerhill

Budd, Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860–1920, by Michael Neiberg

Buker, The Penobscot Expedition: Commodore Saltonstall and the Massachusetts Conspiracy of 1779, by Philip Ranlet

Burnard, Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776, by Emory G. Evans

Butler, ed., Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies, by Larry J. Griffin

Casey, Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany, by Astrid M. Eckert

Casey, Saving International Capitalism during the Early Truman Presidency: The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, by Francis J. Gavin

Cayton and Gray, eds., The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, by Timothy R. Mahoney

Chávez, Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift, by James A. Lewis

Cimbala and Miller, eds., Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments, by Gerald J. Prokopowicz

Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914, by Mary O. Furner

Conard, Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History, by Joseph Brent

Conboy and Morrison, The cia’s Secret War in Tibet, by Steven I. Levine

Davies and Abram, Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life, by James S. Olson

Deagan and Cruxent, Columbus’s Outpost among the Taínos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493–1498, by Patricia Galloway

Deagan and Cruxent, Archaeology at La Isabela: America’s First European Town, by Patricia Galloway

Del Pero, L’Alleato scomodo: Gli usa e la dc negli anni del centrismo (1948–1955) (The inconvenient ally: The United States and the Christian Democrats in the age of centrism [1948–1955]), by Roy Palmer Domenico

Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, by Ronald H. Bayor

Downey, A Season of Renewal: The Columbian Exposition and Victorian America, by Ellen M. Litwicki

Elfenbein, The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture, and the Baltimore ymca, by Roderick N. Ryon

Elshtain, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life, by Daniel Levine

Engle, Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth, by John Cimprich

Eudell, The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South, by W. Jeffrey Bolster

Eyerman, Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity, by Mitch Kachun

Fabre, Heideking, and Dreisbach, eds., Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century, by Keith Fitzgerald

Fahey, Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian, by Leland Donald

Fairbanks and Mooney-Melvin, eds., Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America, by Peter C. Baldwin

Fisher, Lacrosse: A History of the Game, by Benjamin G. Rader

Fitzpatrick, History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880–1980, by James T. Kloppenberg

Foster, Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865–1920, by Heather Cox Richardson

Fry, Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789–1973, by Charles Hubbard

Gebhardt, Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology, by Nichole T. Rustin

Gerstle and Mollenkopf, eds., E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, by Elliott R. Barkan

Gleeson, The Irish in the South, 1815–1877, by Timothy J. Meagher

Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, by Gary Alan Fine

Gouda, with Brocades Zaalberg, American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920–1949, by Anne L. Foster

Grabbe, Vor der groen Flut: Die europäische Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 1783–1820 (Before the great flood: European migration into the United States of America, 1783–1820), by James M. Bergquist

Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War, by Susie S. Porter

Hartford, Money, Morals, and Politics: Massachusetts in the Age of the Boston Associates, by Robert F. Dalzell Jr.

Heath, The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape, by Gary Kulik

Hilmes and Loviglio, eds., Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio, by Judith Yaross Lee

Holli, The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling, by Paul R. Brace

von Holleuffer, Zwischen Fremde und Fremde: Displaced Persons in Australien, den usa, und Kanada, 1946–1952 (Between strangers and strangers: Displaced persons in Australia, the usa, and Canada, 1946–1952), by Christiane Harzig

Holloway, Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919–1941, by Vernon J. Williams Jr.

Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, by Susan Craddock

Iino, Mou hitotsu no Nichibei-Kankeishi: Funso to kyocho no naka no Nikkei Amerikajin (Another Japan-U.S. relation: Japanese Americans in conflicts and cooperation), by Eiichiro Azuma

Isserman and Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, by Allen J. Matusow

Jackson, Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation, by Jonathan Scott Holloway

Jacobson, Place and Belonging in America, by Susan Kollin

Jacobson and Smith, Cotton’s Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation, by Ronald E. Seavoy

Jones, Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965: Britain, the United States, and the Creation of Malaysia, by Kenton J. Clymer

Kass, Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786–1876, by Judith Houck

Katagiri, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States’ Rights, by Charles W. Eagles

Katz, Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality, by John Ibson

Keil, Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907–1913, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr.

Kochavi, A Conflict Perpetuated: China Policy during the Kennedy Years, by Evelyn Goh

Kolson, Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design, by David C. Hammack

Kuklick, A History of Philosophy in America, 1720–2000, by Daniel J. Wilson

Kusmer, Down & Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History, by Todd DePastino

Kyvig, ed., Unintended Consequences of Constitutional Amendment, by Neil Kinkopf

Le Beau, Currier & Ives: America Imagined, by Karal Ann R. Marling

Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, by Martha Hodes

Levine, Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York, by Royden Loewen

Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, by Lawrence Glickman

van der Linden, Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry, by Larry Schweikart

Ma, Maboroshi no Shinchitsujo to Ajia Taiheiyo: Dainijisekaitaisenki no Beichuu-Domei no Atsureki, 1941–1945 (Illusionary new orders and the Asian Pacific: The Chinese-American alliance in the war against Japan, 1941–1945), by Daqing Yang

Martschukat, Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: Von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart (History of the death penalty in North America: From the colonial period to the present), by Markus Dubber

Mattson, Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945–1970, by Howard Brick

McCullough, John Adams, by John R. Howe

McPherson, Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century, by Donald L. Parman

Meyer and Royer, eds., Selling the Indian: Commercializing & Appropriating American Indian Cultures, by Helen M. Bannan

Mitchell, Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith, by Jeff Roche

Moloney, American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era, by Rudolph J. Vecoli

Nadell and Sarna, eds., Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives, by Maxine S. Seller

Nau, At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy, by Robert J. McMahon

Neely, The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North, by William W. Freehling

Newton, Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939–1946, by Neil R. McMillen

Newton, The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida, by William D. Jenkins

Nicolet, United States Policy towards Cyprus, 1954–1974: Removing the Greek-Turkish Bone of Contention, by Bruce Kuniholm

Noll, ed., God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790–1860, by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953, by Meena Bose

Olien and Olien, Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945, by Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr.

Overland, ed., Not English Only: Redefining “American” in American Studies, by Walter D. Kamphoefner

Petersen, Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark, by Jared P. Orsi

Phillips, The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith, by James C. Turner

Pivar, Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the “American Plan,” 1900–1930, by Anita Clair Fellman

Prieto, At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America, by April F. Masten

Rael, Black Identity & Black Protest in the Antebellum North, by Sterling Stuckey

Reichstein, German Pioneers on the American Frontier: The Wagners in Texas and Illinois, by LaVern J. Rippley

Robertson, Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian, by John Fahey

Robinson, Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

Robinson, General Crook and the Western Frontier, by Gary Clayton Anderson

Rush, Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment, by Gregory J. W. Urwin

Sagalyn, Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon, by Eugenie Ladner Birch

Sakamoto, Nichibei domei no kizuna: Anpo-Joyaku to sogosei no mosaku (The Japan-U.S. alliance nexus: The security treaty and the search for mutuality), by Christopher Hughes

Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, by Thomas R. Cole

Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars, by Eric Porter

Shafer and Badger, eds., Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000, by Mark Wahlgren Summers

Shimizu, Creating People of Plenty: The United States and Japan’s Economic Alternatives, 1950–1960, by Mansel G. Blackford

Sleeper-Smith, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes, by John Mack Faragher

Smith, Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport, by Randy Roberts

Smith, ed., Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America, by Ruth M. Alexander

Stasz, Jack London’s Women, by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin

Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, by Douglas R. Egerton

Steeples, Advocate for American Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865–1910, by William B. Friedricks

Stephens, The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests, by Gerald Markowitz

Stock and Johnston, eds., The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America, by David E. Hamilton

Strum, Women in the Barracks: The vmi Case and Equal Rights, by Leisa D. Meyer

Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement, by Joseph E. Taylor

Teel, Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience, by David Chappell

Tobin, The American Religious Debate over Birth Control, 1907–1937, by Donald T. Critchlow

Tuennerman-Kaplan, Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880–1930, by Judith Ann Trolander

Uesugi, Kominken Undo he no Michi: Amerika Nanbu Noson niokeru Kokujin no Tatakai (The way to the civil rights movement: The struggle of African Americans in the American South), by Ryo Yokoyama

Vestal, The Eisenhower Court and Civil Liberties, by James C. Duram

Wada, Shien to teikoku: Amerika nanbu tabako shokuminchi no shakai to keizai (Tobacco smoke and empire: Society and economy in tobacco colonies in the American South), by Yasuhide Kawashima

Wala, Weimar und Amerika: Botschafter Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von 1927 bis 1933 (Weimar and America: Ambassador Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron and German-American relations from 1927 to 1933), by Janet M. Manson

Walker, We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism, by John K. Thornton

Ward, Ferrytale: The Career of W. H. “Ping” Ferry, by Michael Wreszin

Warner, Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present, by Thomas H. O'Connor

Weisbrot, Maximum Danger: Kennedy, the Missiles, and the Crisis of American Confidence, by Shane J. Maddock

Wells, Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World, by William McClenahan Jr.

Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies, by John H. Stinson-Fernández

Wilkins and Lomawaima, Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, by Raymond Wilson

Williams, Appalachia: A History, by Henry D. Shapiro

Wills, The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia, by Richard B. McCaslin

Wingerd, Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul, by Thomas J. Jablonsky

Wolensky, Wolensky, and Wolensky, Fighting for the Union Label: The Women’s Garment Industry and the ilgwu in Pennsylvania, by Richard A. Greenwald

Wolf, Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Lynne Curry

Woodiwiss, Organized Crime and American Power: A History, by William Howard Moore

Wright, Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750–1800, by George Rappaport

Young, Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream, by Patrick J. Maney

Zhao, Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940–1965, by Huping Ling