Book Reviews
June 2006, Vol. 93 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 |

Alter, William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language, by Paul Jerome Croce

Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America, by Ben Kobashigawa

Bendroth, Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston’s Churches, 1885–1950, by D. G. Hart

Bennett, Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans, by William E. Montgomery

Bennett, Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature, by Hugh Davis

Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by Joan R. Gundersen

Bjelopera, City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920, by Francis Ryan

Blum, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898, by William Gravely

Bond, ed., French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, by Light Townsend Cummins

Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America, by Lisa A. Long

Burns, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States, by Keith Cassidy

Byerly, Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I, by Heather MacDougall

Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison, by George W. Geib

Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, by Christie Ann Farnham Pope

Canning, The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance, by Andrew C. Rieser

Cantor, Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock ’n’ Roll Deejay, by Howard A. DeWitt

Carlo, Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley, by Curtis D. Johnson

Caughfield, True Women & Westward Expansion, by Paula Mitchell Marks

Cayton and Hobbs, eds., The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic, by Susan E. Gray

Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, by Stephen B. Presser

Clark, The American Discovery of Tradition, 1865–1942, by Paul V. Murphy

Coclanis, ed., The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel, by Franklin W. Knight

Cogdell, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Conway, High-Speed Dreams: nasa and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999, by Andrew Baird

Coombs, The Rise and Fall of hmos: An American Health Care Revolution, by Joel D. Howell

Craven, Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities, by Mary W. Blanchard

Crenner, Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot, by William G. Rothstein

Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War, by Robert Dean

Currell, The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression, by Richard Ian Kimball

Currie, The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829–1861, by Gerald Leonard

Davis, Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin, by William D. Carrigan

Davis, The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, by Carl J. Richard

DeLyser, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, by Hal K. Rothman

Devlin, Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture, by K. A. Cuordileone

Dixon, Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America, by William Newbigging

Dray, Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America, by Michael Brian Schiffer

Dubber, The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government, by Steve Herbert

Dull, The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War, by Kevin J. Crisman

Ellis, To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, by Stuart McConnell

Evans, The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy, by Terry Alford

Feldman, When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes, by Alfred A. Cave

Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s, by Mary C. Brennan

Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860, by Joseph P. Reidy

Foner, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, by Bryan Thompson

Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, by Kevin J. Smant

Gardner, The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870–1965, by Caroline Brettell

Gilbert, Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s, by K. A. Cuordileone

Greene, Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, by Joyce A. Hanson

Grenier, The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814, by Matthew C. Ward

Grunden, Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science, by Richard H. Minear

Hessinger, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780–1850, by Steven Mintz

Hill, Napoleon’s Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804–1815, by Reginald C. Stuart

Horne, Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica, by Michael Keith Honey

Howard, Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919–1950, by Michael Nash

Jackson, Domesticating the West: The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class, by Adrienne Caughfield

Jaehn, Germans in the Southwest, 1850–1920, by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

Kann, Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy: Liberty and Power in the Early American Republic, by G. S. Rowe

Klapper, Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860–1920, by Deborah Dash Moore

Kochavi, Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and Their pows in Nazi Germany, by Arnold Krammer

Kohn, This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895–1903, by Graeme S. Mount

Krahulik, Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort, by Steven Maynard

Krenn, Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold War, by Donna M. Binkiewicz

Krugler, English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century, by Michal J. Rozbicki

Kucich, Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Robert Sayre Cox

LaFeber, The Deadly Bet: lbj, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election, by David M. Barrett

Lambert, The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World, by Robert J. Allison

Lee, The American Intellectual Tradition and Multiculturalism, by J. David Hoeveler

Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism, by Christina Klein

Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, by Peter Charles Hoffer

Lerner, ed., Looking Back at lbj: White House Politics in a New Light, by Julian E. Zelizer

Levy, The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves, by Philip J. Schwarz

Lewis, The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum, by Nancy J. Fuller

Liu, The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration, by Sue Fawn Chung

Lübken, Bedrohliche Nähe: Die usa und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937–1945 (Threatening proximity: The usa and the national socialist challenge in Latin America, 1937–1945), by Robert E. Herzstein

Lyons, William Dunlap and the Construction of an American Art History, by William T. Oedel

Mancke and Shammas, eds., The Creation of the British Atlantic World, by Nicholas Canny

Masuda, Amerika Eiga ni arawareta Nihon Imeiji no Henson (The transition of images of “Japan” in American films), by Kyoko Hirano

May, The Informant: The fbi, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, by Christopher Barry Strain

McManus, The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, by Frances W. Kaye

McWilliams, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America, by Paul G. E. Clemens

Monod, Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, & the Americans, 1945–1953, by Steven P. Remy

Morrison, John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic, by Maxine N. Lurie

Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, by Edward Countryman

Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation, by Joan Waugh

Nelson, The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950–1985, by Sol Cohen

Nemerov, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures, by William Paul

Norrell, The House I Live In: Race in the American Century, by Clayborne Carson

O’Brien, Henry Adams & the Southern Question, by James Turner

O’Brien, John F. Kennedy: A Biography, by Thomas J. Carty

Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, by Lisa Levenstein

Orsi, Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930, by Claire Strom

Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, by Eric Arnesen

Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, by Harry A. Reed

Philyaw, Virginia’s Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Early American Frontier, by Kevin R. Hardwick

Pickus, True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism, by Leonard Dinnerstein

Pierce, Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920–1970, by Darrel E. Bigham

Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago, by Jon C. Teaford

Porter, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, by Mitchell Lerner

Pulsipher, Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England, by Colin G. Calloway

Raibmon, Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast, by Michael E. Harkin

Ray, The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by James Jasinski

Reed, Black Chicago’s First Century: Vol. 1: 1833–1900, by Elizabeth Dale

Reid, The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty, by Eldon J. Eisenach

Reid, Viola Florence Barnes, 1885–1979: A Historian’s Biography, by Eileen Ka-May Cheng

Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by Stanley Harrold

Richter, Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, by Glenna Matthews

Rutkow, Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Rydell and Kroes, Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922, by Stefan Rinke

Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, by Garin Burbank

Sammond, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960, by Erika Doss

Sánchez-Eppler, Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, by Mark I. West

Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, by Timothy B. Spears

Sargent, The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman, by Helen M. Bannan

Schneller, Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Robert A. Pratt

Schrepfer, Nature’s Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism, by Philip G. Terrie

Scull, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine, by Ellen Dwyer

Seefeldt, Hantman, and Onuf, eds., Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, by William E. Foley

Segal, Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries, by James A. Ward

Seligman, Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side, by Joseph Heathcott

Sievens, Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England, by Gloria L. Main

Simpson, Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, by Cheryl J. Fish

Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, by Scot Brown

Sitton, Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron’s Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953, by Chris Rhomberg

Skogmar, The United States and the Nuclear Dimension of European Integration, by Klaus Larres

Slawson, The Department of Education Battle, 1918–1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order, by James W. Fraser

Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, by Jerry Watts

Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919, by Perry R. Duis

Springer, Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980, by Stewart Burns

Staloff, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding, by John Howe

Streichler, Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism, by Michael Les Benedict

Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York, by Donald H. Parkerson

Tracy, Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition, by John W. Crowley

Trefousse, “First Among Equals”: Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation during His Administration, by Thomas R. Turner

Umansky, From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews, by Yaakov Ariel

Valelly, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement, by Paul Ortiz

Vickers, with Walsh, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail, by James C. Bradford

Vlasich, Pueblo Indian Agriculture, by R. Douglas Hurt

Wasson, Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema, by Stephen Eskilson

Watson, Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream, by Dexter Arnold

Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, by F. Todd Smith

Weinberg, Labor, Loyalty, & Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I, by William James Breen

Weir, Early New England: A Covenanted Society, by Avihu Zakai

Wild, Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, by Thomas J. Jablonsky

Williams, Bolton, and Whayne, eds., A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest, by Jon Kukla

Wong, Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War, by Xiaojian Zhao

Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City, by Rebecca Edwards

Wright, Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and Consequences of Independence, by David W. Conroy

Yates, Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century, by Colin Burke

Zaretsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis, by Ellen Herman

Zboray and Zboray, Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People’s History of the Mass Market Book, by Susan S. Williams

Zipf, Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919, by Hugh D. Hindman