Book Reviews
Dec. 2005, Vol. 92 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, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, by Edward J. Davies II

Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism, by Frank Annunziata

Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Brian Donahue

Anderson, The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action, by Howard Ball

Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr.

Augspurger, An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America, by Donald W. Whisenhunt

Baratta, The Politics of World Federation, by Gary B. Ostrower

Best, The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, by Steven Wilf

Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire, by Herbert A. Johnson

Billings, Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia, by Elizabeth Mancke

Billingsley, Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, by Ellen Eslinger

Blair, Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1914, by Alan K. Lamm

Bogle, The Pentagon’s Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War, by Michael E. Latham

Borch, Conciliation—Compulsion—Conversion: British Attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples, 1763–1814, by Troy O. Bickham

Boyd, Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America, by Martha Saxton

Bremer, Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio, by Char Miller

Brøndal, Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914, by John E. Miller

Brooks, Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition, by Steven F. Lawson

Brown and Rivers, For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the amez Church in Florida, 1864–1905, by Dennis C. Dickerson

Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World, by Mark M. Smith

Buel, America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic, by Donald R. Hickey

Buell, From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century, by J. Brooks Flippen

Buell, Emerson, by Robert E. Burkholder

Carey, Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane, by James Emmett Ryan

Carmichael, ed., Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee, by Richard B. McCaslin

Carr, After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775–1800, by John W. Tyler

Carrigan, The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916, by Michael J. Pfeifer

Carty, A Catholic in the White House?: Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign, by Godfrey Hodgson

Cisco, Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman, by William J. Cooper Jr.

Coleman, Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies, by Thomas J. Noel

Coleman, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, by Karen R. Jones

Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, by Barbara L. Allen

Cotter, ed., Sidney Hook Reconsidered, by George Cotkin

Courtwright, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire, by Tom D. Crouch

Denson, Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900, by Walter H. Conser Jr.

Dunkelman, Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment, by Kevin Conley Ruffner

Edgerton, Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, & the Penitentiary, by Marilyn D. McShane

Ellerbrock, “Healing Democracy”—Demokratie als Heilmittel: Gesundheit, Krankheit, und Politik in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone, 1945–1949 (“Healing Democracy”—democracy as remedy: Health, illness, and politics in the American occupation zone, 1945–1949), by Andreas W. Daum

Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War, by Christopher Phillips

Feeney, Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief, by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, by Matthew D. Lassiter

Finzsch and Lehmkuhl, eds., Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, by James Schwoch

Flavell and Conway, eds., Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754–1815, by Paul David Nelson

Forsberg, Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture, by Grant Underwood

Furgurson, Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War, by William C. Harris

Gaspar and Hine, eds., Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas, by Victoria E. Bynum

Gervais, Les origines de la révolution industrielle aux états-Unis: Entre économie marchande et capitalisme industriel, 1800–1850 (The origins of the industrial revolution in the United States: Between merchant economy and industrial capitalism, 1800–1850), by Douglas McCalla

Gould, Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat, by Walter L. Buenger

Guth, Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan, by F. G. Notehelfer

Hapke, Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea, by Carmen Teresa Whalen

Harris and Sadler, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920, by Charles M. Robinson III

Hart, The Lost Soul of American Protestantism, by Louis B. Weeks

Heinrich and Batchelor, Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business, by Vincent Vinikas

Higgins, A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas, by Ellen Eslinger

Hoffer, Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud—American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin, by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Hoffman, Race, Class, and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870–1920, by Michael B. Chesson

Hornsby, British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America, by Alison Games

Hosmer and O’Neill, eds., Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Bee

Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community, by Michael J. Yavenditti

Johnson, Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890–1930, by Jane Turner Censer

Jonas, Freedom’s Sword: The naacp and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909–1969, by Merline Pitre

Justus, Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain, by Johanna Nicol Shields

Kashima, Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II, by Brian Masaru Hayashi

Kastor, The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America, by Kathleen DuVal

Keith, Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War, by G. Kurt Piehler

Keizer, Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery, by Keith E. Byerman

Kille, Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada, by Charles H. McCormick

King, Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970, by R. Fred Wacker

Kinney, The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America, by Ed Duggan

Knapp, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, by Andrea Most

Lanier, The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity, by David Steven Cohen

Leja, Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp, by Bryan J. Wolf

Levenstein, We’ll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930, by Jacques Portes

Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, by Lisbeth Haas

Ling, Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community, by Marie Rose Wong

Love, Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865–1900, by Michael J. Devine

Luconi, The Italian-American Vote in Providence, Rhode Island, 1916–1948, by Evelyn Savidge Sterne

Lupold and French, Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King, by Lawrence C. Allin

Lye, America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945, by Mari Yoshihara

Mackey, The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865, by Ethan S. Rafuse

Manis, Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century, by John Salmond

Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck, by Paul D. Casdorph

Martin, ed., Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789–1860, by A. Kristen Foster

Martin, The Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Performance in Sixties America, by Wini Breines

Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, by David Greenberg

Matthews, Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era, by David F Schmitz

Mattson, When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Postwar Liberalism, by Larry G. Gerber

McClymond, ed., Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism, by Bruce J. Evensen

McConnell, Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758–1775, by Daniel P. Barr

McDonough, Nashville: The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble, by William B. Feis

McGarvie, One Nation under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State, by Charles E. Clark

McNamara, From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture & Ritual in American Law, 1658–1860, by Elizabeth Brand Monroe

Miller, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris & the French Revolution, by Jack Fruchtman Jr.

Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, by Judith Sealander

Mohr, Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown, by Susan Craddock

Morgan, Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism, by Carrie Tirado Bramen

Moye, Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986, by Mark Newman

Muldoon, ed., The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas, by Charles L. Cohen

Nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, by Jeanne Theoharis

Nadell, Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture, by Cheryl Greenberg

Newman, Fries’s Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution, by Terry Bouton

Nolan, Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America, by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard

O’Mara, Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, by Daniel Lee Kleinman

Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity, by Judson L. Jeffries

Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by Michael J. Yavenditti

Page and Mason, eds., Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States, by Richard Striner

Parmar, Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939–1945, by Anna K. Nelson

Pasley, Robertson, and Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic, by Daniel Feller

Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661, by Francis J. Bremer

Piepmeier, Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America, by Angela M. Howard

Preble, John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap, by Philip Nash

Quinn, Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

Raimon, The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction, by Susan M. Ryan

Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa

Reyhner and Eder, American Indian Education: A History, by Brenda J. Child

Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, by David E. Nye

Robbins, Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000, by Thomas R. Cox

Robinson, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865, by Richard E. Beringer

Robinson, Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism, by Stephen Germic

Rosenberg, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think about Sex and Politics, by Rebecca Aanerud

Rubin and Rubin, Hating America: A History, by Paul Hollander

Saab, For the Millions: American Art and Culture between the Wars, by Helen Langa

Schmiesing, Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II, by Craig R. Prentiss

Schweiger and Mathews, eds., Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture, by Scott M. Stephan

Shank, A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture, by Cele C. Otnes

Shaw, City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City, by John D. Fairfield

Sibley, Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Slaughter, Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness, by John Logan Allen

Sommerville, Rape & Race in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Edward E. Baptist

Spickard and Daniel, eds., Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence, by Alex Lubin

Stabile, Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America, by Gayle R. Davis

Stowe, Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Anthony Cavender

Tentler, Catholics and Contraception: An American History, by Stephen Lassonde

Theoharis and Woodard, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America, by Martha Biondi

Thompson, The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy after the Civil War, by John C. Rodrigue

Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, by Michael Leroy Oberg

Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930, by Frank Van Nuys

Truett and Young, eds., Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, by Martha Menchaca

Tsesis, The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History, by Roberta Sue Alexander

Tutorow, The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus, by William Deverell

Van Deburg, Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life, by Gerald R. Butters Jr.

Vargas, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America, by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, by Nichole T. Rustin

Weitekamp, Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program, by Deborah G. Douglas

Wellman, The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention, by Sherry H. Penney

Whitehead, Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai‘i, and the Battle for Statehood, by Roger Bell

Wilensky, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War, by Graham A. Cosmas

Willis, All According to God’s Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945–1970, by Paul Harvey

Wood, Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War, by Sally G. McMillen

Wooten, The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: A Political History, by Edward D. Berkowitz

Ybarra, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt, by Charles H. McCormick