Book Reviews
Dec. 2004, Vol. 91 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 |

Adams, Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life, by Willard Sterne Randall

Allerfeldt, Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1924, by Elliott R. Barkan

Appleton and Boswell, eds., Searching for Their Places: Women in the South across Four Centuries, by Nancy Bercaw

Banner, Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle, by Julia Liss

Becker and McClenahan, The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934–2000, by Frederick C. Adams

Bezís-Selfa, Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution, by Robert Gordon

Bivins, The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics, by David Stricklin

Black and Black, The Rise of Southern Republicans, by Mary C. Brennan

Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, by Patrick J. Maney

Bonds, Bipartisan Strategy: Selling the Marshall Plan, by Michael Wala

Boylan, Pulitzer’s School: Columbia University’s School of Journalism, 1903–2003, by Barbara Cloud

Brantlinger, Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930, by Bruce Dain

Brecher, Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance, by William Stinchcombe

Breisach, On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath, by Bryan D. Palmer

Brogi, A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944–1958, by Edward Rice-Maximin

Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures, by Timothy B. Powell

Brown, Carnoy, Currie, Duster, Oppenheimer, Shultz, and Wellman, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, by John D. Skrentny

Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?, by Paul C. Rosier

Brownlee and Graham, eds., The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies, by Mark J. Rozell

Brumberg, Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Boy Murderer, by Jeffrey S. Adler

Buggeln, Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut’s Churches, 1790–1840, by Catherine A. Brekus

Buhle and Wagner, Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002, by Sam B. Girgus

Butts, Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty, by Stephen D. Engle

Byrne, O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs, by Pamela Grundy

Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front, by Joseph T. Glatthaar

Cavender, Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia, by Sandra Lee Barney

Chubarian, ed., Russkoe otkrytie Ameriki: Sbornik statei, posviashchennyi 70-letiiu akademika Nikolaia Nikolaevicha Bolkhovitinova (The Russian discovery of America: Collected articles, devoted to the seventieth birthday of the academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov), by David S. Foglesong

Clements, After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns, by Douglas E. Kupel

Collier, All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution, by Carol Sue Humphrey

Cox, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism, by Bret E. Carroll

Cox, Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, by David W. Blight

Cudahy, A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York’s Underground Railways, by Clifton Hood

Cusick, The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida, by Andrew McMichael

Daum, Gardner, and Mausbach, eds., America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives, by Thomas Alan Schwartz

Davis, Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic, by Jean A. Stuntz

de la Cova, Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales, by Sherry Johnson

Dehne, Deutsche Einwanderer im ländlichen Süd-Indiana (usa): Eine historisch-geographische Analyse (German immigration in rural southern Indiana [usa]: A historical-geographical analysis), by Steven D. Reschly

DePastino, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, by Alan Bloom

Des Jardins, Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945, by Eileen Ka-May Cheng

Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, by Allen C. Guelzo

Dudziak, ed., September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?, by Melani McAlister

Eder, Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan, by Sally A. Hastings

Evensen, God’s Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism, by Gary Scott Smith

Fairchild, Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force, by Georgina Feldberg

Fannin, Labor’s Promised Land: Radical Visions of Gender, Race, and Religion in the South, by Michelle Brattain

Fiedler, The Enemy among Us: pows in Missouri during World War II, by Ron Robin

Fitzmaurice, Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500–1625, by Robert M. Bliss

Freeman, At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961–1965, by W. J. Rorabaugh

Gerhardt, Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography, by Howard Brick

Gilpin and Gasman, Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow, by John S. Wright

Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States, by David Montgomery

Golay, The Tide of Empire: America’s March to the Pacific, by Joseph A. Stout Jr.

Gonzalez and Fernandez, A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations, and Migration, by Arnoldo De León

Goodheart, Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry, by Ellen Dwyer

Green, This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740–1940, by Carole Haber

Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image, by Allen J. Matusow

Gudmestad, A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade, by David L. Lightner

Haefeli and Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, by Daniel R. Mandell

Hahn, A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, by Thomas C. Holt

Hallock, From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826, by Lawrence Buell

Hamm, The Quakers in America, by H. Larry Ingle

Hamm, Murder, Honor, and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression, by Peter Wallenstein

Hansen, The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920, by Andrew Feffer

Harp, Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism, by William R. Hutchison

Hatheway, The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia, by Vicki L. Eaklor

Haynes and Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage, by Joseph M. Siracusa

Hepp, The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876–1926, by Daniel Horowitz

Higgens-Evenson, The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929, by Jason Scott Smith

Hirsch, Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers’ Project, by Christine Bold

Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America, by Simon P. Newman

Horowitz, America’s Political Class under Fire: The Twentieth Century’s Great Culture War, by Eric Alterman

Huston, Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War, by James W. Ely Jr.

Ivanov, Stalin i soiuzniki, 1941–1945 ss. (Stalin and Allies, 1941–1945), by Steven I. Levine

Jensen, Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy, by Seth Rockman

Judd and Beach, Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation, by Joseph E. Taylor III

Kachun, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915, by Elizabeth Regosin

Kelly, Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908–21, by Glenn Feldman

Kimball, Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940, by Gordon Shepherd

Kirk, Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers, and Labour Movements in Britain, the usa, and Australia from the 1880s to 1914, by John H. M. Laslett

Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State, by David T. Beito

Klose, Dogmen demokratischen Geschichtsdenkens: Monumentalische Nationalgeschichtsschreibung in den usa (Dogmas of democratic historical thought: The writing of monumental national history in the usa), by David E. Barclay

Kyriakoudes, The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890–1930, by David Goldfield

Labbé and Lurie, The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment, by Bryan H. Wildenthal

Langley, The Americas in the Modern Age, by Thomas M. Leonard

Langston, Where Land & Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed, by Thomas R. Cox

Leverenz, Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940, by K. A. Cuordileone

Levy, Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, by Martha Biondi

Limbaugh and Fuller, Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County, by Brian Roberts

Lindsay-Poland, Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama, by Julie Greene

Lingelbach, Klio macht Karriere: Die Institutionalisierung der Geschichtswissenschaft in Frankreich und den usa in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (Clio makes careers: The institutionalization of the study of history in France and the usa in the second half of the 19th century), by Geoff Eley

Loveland and Wheeler, From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History, by D. G. Hart

Lovell, Legislative Deferrals: Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy, by William E. Forbath

Lubin, Shooting Kennedy: jfk and the Culture of Images, by Barbie Zelizer

Matthewson, A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations during the Early Republic, by Alfred N. Hunt

McCarthy, American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700–1865, by Lawrence J. Friedman

McDaniel, Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts: Shyness, Power, and Intimacy in the United States, 1950–1995, by David R. Shumway

McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920, by William A. Link

McKanna, The Trial of “Indian Joe”: Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West, by Jeffrey S. Adler

Meyer, The Roots of American Industrialization, by Thomas J. Misa

Mitchell, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, by Robert O. Self

Moore and Vaudagna, eds., The American Century in Europe, by Klaus Larres

Morgan, Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America, by Ellen Schrecker

Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush, by David A. Wolff

Mulrooney, Black Powder, White Lace: The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, by David T. Brundage

Pagán, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A, by Ian F. Haney López

Parent, Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660–1740, by Philip D. Morgan

Parsons, Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Jack S. Blocker Jr.

Patel, “Soldaten der Arbeit”: Arbeitsdienste in Deutschland und den usa, 1933–1945 (“Soldiers of work”: Work programs in Germany and the usa, 1933–1945), by W. M. Dick

Payne and Green, eds., Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850–1950, by Joyce A. Hanson

Peterson, The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917, by Eric Sandweiss

Pfannestiel, Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York’s Crusade against Radicalism, 1919–1923, by Francesca Morgan

Phillips and Gartner, Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell, by Vivien Miller

Redding, Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina’s Road to Disfranchisement, by Jeffrey J. Crow

Richmond, Cultural Exchange & the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain, by Keith L. Nelson

Rieser, The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, by Robert D. Johnston

Robinson, Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South, by Renee Romano

Rosen, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917–1940, by Kathleen A. Tobin

Rosenof, Realignment: The Theory That Changed the Way We Think about American Politics, by Allan J. Lichtman

Ross, Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era, by Elizabeth Dale

Rothstein, Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution, by Joel D. Howell

Rotman and Savulis, eds., Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape, by Mark Tebeau

Rowe, Bulwark of the Republic: The American Militia in Antebellum West, by George W. Geib

Rugh, Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, by Thomas S. Wermuth

Saletan, Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War, by Leslie J. Reagan

Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, by David W. Stowe

Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South, by James L. Roark

Schafer, Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846–1862, by M. Gretchen Long

Schiffer, Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment, by James Delbourgo

Schoonover, Uncle Sam’s War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization, by Joseph A. Fry

Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America’s Young in the Twentieth Century, by David I. Macleod

Seasholes, Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston, by Clay McShane

Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, by Albert S. Broussard

Shumway, Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis, by Jessica Weiss

Sioli, ed., Metropoli e natura sulle frontiere americane: Dalle non-città indiane alla città di Thoreau, dalle metropoli industriali alla città ecologica (Metropolis and nature on the American frontier: From Indian non-cities to Thoreau’s city, from industrial metropolises to the ecological city), by Karl Appuhn

Smith, ed., New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post–Civil Rights America, by James Findlay

Snyder, Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia, by Holly Brewer

Sogrin, Politicheskaia istoriia SShA, XVII–XX vv. (The political history of the usa, 17th to 20th centuries), by J. Dane Hartgrove

Spann, Democracy’s Children: The Young Rebels of the 1960s and the Power of Ideals, by Dominick Cavallo

Speroff, Carlos Montezuma, M.D., A Yavapai American Hero: The Life and Times of an American Indian, 1866–1923, by Timothy Braatz

Stormer, Articulating Life’s Memory: U.S. Medical Rhetoric about Abortion in the Nineteenth Century, by Keith Cassidy

Strom, Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West, by H. Roger Grant

Szymanski, Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes, by Ian Tyrrell

Tangires, Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, by Keith D. Revell

Tatalovich and Engeman, The Presidency and Political Science: Two Hundred Years of Constitutional Debate, by Charles A. Kromkowski

Taylor and Moore, eds., African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000, by Gayle Gullett

Tichi, Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900–2000, by Robert Miraldi

Trumpbour, Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950, by Ulf Jonas Bjork

Vaillant, Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873–1935, by Joel Dinerstein

Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, by Judith Ann Giesberg

Vourkoutiotis, Prisoners of War and the German High Command: The British and American Experience, by Ron Robin

Walker, Dunn, and Dunn, eds., Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective, by Betty Brandon

Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, by Eric Rauchway

Wiencek, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, by Don Higginbotham

Wright, The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780–1850, by John Majewski

Wrone, The Zapruder Film: Reframing jfk’s Assassination, by Barbie Zelizer

York, Turning the World Upside Down: The War of American Independence and the Problem of Empire, by Robert J. Allison