Book Reviews
June 2005, Vol. 92 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 |

Adeleke, Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany, by Tony Martin

Agnew, From Charity to Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession, by Sarah Henry Lederman

Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem, by Beverly Smaby

Bachin, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919, by Daniel Bluestone

Bailey, Guardians of the Moral Order: The Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860–1910, by Lewis A. Grossman

Bak and Hölbling, eds., “Nature’s Nation” Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis, by John Herron

Ben-Atar, Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power, by Lawrence A. Peskin

Bergman, The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, by Gary L. Atkins

Berkowitz, Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security, by Mark H. Leff

Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century, by John G. Kolp

Bloom, Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America’s Salesman of the Businessman’s Utopia, by Richard Longstreth

Boelhower and Scacchi, eds., Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class, and Citizenship in New York, 1890–1929, by Ronald H. Bayor

Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America, by Michael P. Clark

Browne, Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West, by Richard W. Etulain

Bullock, Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military during World War II, by David L. Porter

Campbell, Music & the Making of a New South, by Michael T. Bertrand

Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783–1842, by Louis De Vorsey Jr.

Cassella-Blackburn, The Donkey, the Carrot, and the Club: William C. Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1948, by Donald E. Davis

Chace, 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs— The Election That Changed the Country, by Ballard Campbell

Chan, Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States, by Kenton Clymer

Classen, Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi tv, 1955–1969, by Sharon Monteith

Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by John W. Quist

Clymer, The United States and Cambodia, 1870–1969: From Curiosity to Confrontation, by Matthew Jones

Clymer, The United States and Cambodia, 1969–2000: A Troubled Relationship, by Matthew Jones

Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941, by Oliviero Bergamini

Cohen, The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940, by John B. Jentz

Collier-Thomas and Franklin, eds., Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement, by Peniel E. Joseph

Conolly-Smith, Translating America: An Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1895–1918, by Dorothee Schneider

Cook, The Commodification of Childhood: The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer, by Rob Schorman

Cowie and Heathcott, eds., Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization, by Michael Frisch

Craig, Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case, by John Ehrman

Cross, The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture, by Susan J. Matt

Crowley and White, Drunkard’s Refuge: The Lessons of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, by Sarah C. Sitton

Cunningham, There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and fbi Counterintelligence, by Richard Gid Powers

D’Agostino, Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism, by Roy Palmer Domenico

Daniel, Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861–1865, by Alan C. Aimone

de Nevers, The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, by Richard Melzer

Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, by Leigh E. Schmidt

Delmendo, The Star-Entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines, by Rodney J. Ross

Denning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds, by Rob Kroes

Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past, by Douglas Monroy

Donahue, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Dorsey, To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875–1906, by Christopher Silver

Dougherty, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee, by Wayne J. Urban

Eden, Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, by Guy Oakes

Endy, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France, by Harvey Levenstein

Epstein, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington, by Jay Grossman

Erdman, Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895–1915, by Kathryn J. Oberdeck

Ernest, Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861, by Stephen Gilroy Hall

Evans, The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch, by Jacob H. Dorn

Fleming, In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South, by Adam Fairclough

Foley, Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark, by Thomas P. Slaughter

Foster, Moral Visions and Material Ambitions: Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776–1836, by Andrew Shankman

Friedman, Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America, by Janice Williams Rutherford

Gaff, Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest, by Larry L. Nelson

Goldman, God’s Sacred Tongue: Hebrew & the American Imagination, by Frederic Cople Jaher

Gonzalez, The Bronx, by Carol P. Kaplan

González, Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880–1930, by Mauricio Tenorio

Gragg, Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627–1660, by John K. Thornton

Grieveson, Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America, by Nancy J. Rosenbloom

Gwyn, An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703–1752, by Carl E. Swanson

Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World, vol. 1: The Bowl with One Spoon, by Franke Wilmer

Halpern, Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century, by Kenneth D. Durr

Hamilton, A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School, by Amy Thompson McCandless

Harrison, Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State, by David R. Berman

Harvey and O’Brien, eds., George Washington’s South, by Dorothy Twohig

Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century, by Kevin J. Smant

Hofstra, The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley, by Marion Nelson Winship

Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979, by Jean-Christophe Agnew

Ibson, Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography, by Peter Boag

Jay, More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life since 1945, by Richard C. Crepeau

Jones, William Clark and the Shaping of the West, by Thomas P. Slaughter

Kafer, Charles Brockden Brown’s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic, by Mark L/ Kamrath

Kammen, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture, by David Bjelajac

Kaufman, The Pig War: The United States, Britain, and the Balance of Power in the Pacific Northwest, 1846–72, by Donald A. Rakestraw

Kazal, Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity, by Frederick C. Luebke

Knerr, Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951, by Barbara M. Kelly

Lanctot, Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution, by Robert F. Burk

Larson, Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, by George E. Webb

Libby, Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720–1835, by Daniel H. Usner Jr.

Lichtman and Cohen, Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era, by Athan Theoharis

Lieberman, Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest, by Robert Cohen

Lowe, Walker’s Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi, by Robert Wooster

Lyman, The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, by Barton H. Barbour

Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years, by Forrest G. Robinson

Manning, Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion, by Julia L. Foulkes

Marten, Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front, by Thomas H. O’Connor

Maynard, Architecture in the United States, 1800–1850, by E. G. Daves Rossell

McAuley, The Mind of Oliver C. Cox, by Vernon J. Williams Jr.

McCloud, Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955–1993, by John Schmalzbauer

Meyer, Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940, by Robyn L. Rosen

Miller, Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process, by George Pierre Castile

Moehring, Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890, by Linda Nash

Moore and Robinson, Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur, by Justin H. Libby

Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Morgenthaler, The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios, by Stanley C. Green

Morrison and Schultz, eds., Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, by James Michael Lindgren

Mosher, Capital’s Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855–1916, by Paul H. Tedesco

Most, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Jeffrey Shandler

Murray, Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930–1975, by Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr.

Navarro, Creating Tropical Yankees: Social Science Textbooks and U.S. Ideological Control in Puerto Rico, 1898–1908, by César J. Ayala

Nester, The Frontier War for American Independence, by Gregory T. Knouff

Newman, Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi, by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

Newman, Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947, by Christopher H. Sterling

Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys, by Thomas E. Buckley

O’Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860, by Lacy K. Ford

öfele, German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863–1867, by James S. Pula

Ostrowski, Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861, by William L. Joyce

Otnes and Pleck, Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding, by Margaret Marsh

Padget, Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1935, by Thomas E. Sheridan

Peterson, “Starving Armenians”: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1930 and After, by Keith Pomakoy

Phillips, “Bringing Them under Subjection”: California’s Tejón Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852–1864, by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Pritchard, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730, by John T. McGrath

Raskin, American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, by Manuel Luis Martinez

Rees, Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry during the Nonunion Era, by Jack Metzgar

Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland, by Robyn Ceanne Spencer

Riley, Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840–1940, by Barbara Handy-Marchello

Rosen, Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, by Wendy Kline

Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, by Louise Michele Newman

Saiu, Stati Uniti e Italia nella Grande Guerra, 1914–1918 (The United States and Italy in the Great War, 1914–1918), by Thomas Row

Sallee, The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South, by Hugh D. Hindman

Salmond, Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle, by Brian Kelly

Sandos, Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions, by Robert H. Jackson

Sato, Gunju sangyo to josei rodo: Dai niji sekai taisen ka no Nichi-Bei hikaku (Military industry and women’s work: A comparison of Japan and the United States during World War II), by Kauko Laitinen

Schrum, Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920–1945, by Susan J. Matt

Sedlmaier, Deutschlandbilder und Deutschlandpolitik: Studien zur Wilson-Administration (1913–1921) (Images of Germany and German politics: Studies of the Wilson administration [1913–1921]), by Manfred Jonas

Segal, A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States, by George Anthony Peffer

Shabazz, Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas, by Raymond Wolters

Shockley, “We, Too, Are Americans”: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–54, by Lawrence B. de Graaf

Shoemaker, A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America, by Eric Hinderaker

Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, by Paul Otto

Sklansky, The Soul’s Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920, by James T. Kloppenberg

Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey, by Douglas Hamilton

Stockel, On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches, by Catherine A. Corman

Storey, Loyalty and Loss: Alabama’s Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Robert C. Kenzer

Stossel, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, by James N. Giglio

Stueck, ed., The Korean War in World History, by James I. Matray

Summers, Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900–1930, by Davarian L. Baldwin

Summers, Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics, by Richard Franklin Bensel

Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830, by Serena Zabin

Tanenhaus, Juvenile Justice in the Making, by L. Mara Dodge

Taylor, “The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail”: The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., a Union Quartermaster, by Harold S. Wilson

Thompson, Woodrow Wilson, by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

Thorne, The World’s Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett’s Oil Fortune, by Leonard A. Carlson

Tracy and Acker, eds., Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800–2000, by Joseph F. Spillane

Turgeon, Patrimoines Métissés: Contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux (Crossed heritages: Colonial and postcolonial contexts), by Patricia Kay Galloway

Vagnoux, Les états-Unis et le Mexique: Histoire d’une relation tumultueuse (The United States and Mexico: History of a tumultuous relationship), by Max Paul Friedman

Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies, by Jeremi Suri

Vatanen, Sääty-yhteiskunnan kirjastosta kansalaisyhteiskunnan kirjastoksi: Yleisten kirjastojemme murroskausi 1890-luvulta 1920-luvulle (From a library of a class socity to a library of a citizenry: Finnish public libraries become American, 1890–1920), by Thomas A. DuBois

Verheul, ed., Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Apocalypse: Utopia and Dystopia in American Culture, by Charles J. Rooney Jr.

Walker, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, by Jack M. Holl

Ward, Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau, by Alecia P. Long

Ward, Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic, by Wendy Jean Katz

Wheeler, Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935, by Francis G. Couvares

White, The Beecher Sisters, by A. Cheree Carlson

Wirls and Wirls, The Invention of the United States Senate, by David J. Siemers

Witt, The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law, by Barbara Y. Welke

Wood, Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government, by Lynn Hudson Parsons

Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, by Nian-Sheng Huang

Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948–1968, by William J. Billingsley

Yellin, Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II, by Judy Barrett Litoff

Zelizer, On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000, by Richard L. Schott