Book Reviews
March 2007, Vol. 93 No. 4

[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 |

Abel, Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910–1914, by Lisa Gitelman

Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission, by Wesley T. Wooley

Aldrich, Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965, by James L. Hunt

Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era, by David J. Goldberg

Allen, Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857, by Howard Schweber

Ambrose and Martin, eds., The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Elusive Founding Father, by Andrew Shankman

Anderson, Benson, and Flanagan, eds., Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans, by David R. M. Beck

Anderson, Conjure in African American Society, by Ina Fandrich

Asato, Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack of Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919–1927, by Franklin Ng

Auerbach, Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land, by Carter Jones Meyer

Barnes, Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s, by Andrew F. Clark

Barr, Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America, by Thomas S. Abler

Bartholomew-Feis, The oss and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan, by Mark Philip Bradley

Baum, The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity, by Colin Fisher

Behrends, von Klimó, and Poutrus, eds., Antiamerikanismus im 20. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Ost- und Westeuropa (Anti-Americanism in the twentieth century: Studies on eastern and western Europe), by Andreas W. Daum

Bernardi, La riforma agraria in Italia e gli Stati Uniti: Guerra fredda, Piano Marshall, e interventi per il Mezzogiorno negli anni del centrismo degasperiano (Agrarian reform in Italy and the United States: The Cold War, the Marshall Plan, and actions for southern Italy in the years of De Gasperi centrism), by Roy Palmer Domenico

Blake, How New York Became American, 1890–1924, by Clifton Hood

Boswell and McArthur, eds., Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, by Beverly G. Bond

Bremer and Botelho, eds., The World of John Winthrop: Essays on England and New England, 1588–1649, by Thomas W. Jodziewicz

Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, by Dee E. Andrews

Bryant, The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality, by Kenneth O’Reilly

Burnstein, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City, by James Connolly

Buszek, Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, by Leigh Ann Wheeler

Chaplin, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius, by Ralph Frasca

Clement, Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945, by Brian Donovan

Coble, Cleaning Up: The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York, by Diane C. Vecchio

Connelly, John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship, by Joseph G. Dawson III

Conser, A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina, by Paul Harvey

Crapol, John Tyler: The Accidental President, by John M. Belohlavek

Crooks, Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars, by Edward F. Haas

Currie, The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829–1861, by Peter B. Knupfer

Dal Lago, Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815–1861, by Susanna Delfino

Davies, Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender, by Rosemarie Zagarri

De Genova, ed., Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States, by Michael Omi

Dean, An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate, by Marc Weidenmier

Downey, Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860, by A. Glenn Crothers

Drowne, Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933, by Kirk Curnutt

Einhorn, American Taxation, American Slavery, by Stanley L. Engerman

Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830, by Richard R. Johnson

Escott, Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy, by Gordon McKinney

España-Maram, Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles’s Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s–1950s, by Barbara M. Posadas

Finger, Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, by Rebecca J. Tannenbaum

Fitzgerald, Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York’s Welfare System, 1830–1920, by Sioban Nelson

Foster, We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community, by Mark Edwin Miller

Fox-Genovese and Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, by John Patrick Daly

Franch, Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes, by Maury Klein

Frisken, Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America, by John C. Spurlock

Frost, Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850–1877, by Benjamin Reiss

Funigiello, Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from fdr to George W. Bush, by Thomas R. Oliver

Furstenberg, In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation, by John Howe

Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, by Kent Masterson Brown

Gardner, Early Detection: Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States, by Barbara Clow

Gems, The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism, by Richard C. Crepeau

Gerber, The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939, by Janet Irons

Gillespie and Hall, eds., Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America, by Daniel Bernardi

Godden and Crawford, eds., Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939, by Elna C. Green

Greenberg, Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr.

Greenwald, The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York, by John F. McClymer

Greiner, Müller, and Walter, eds., Heiße Kriege im Kalten Krieg (Hot wars in the Cold War), by David S. Painter

Hall, Women on the Civil War Battlefront, by Shirley Anne Leckie

Henriques, Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington, by Todd Estes

Henthorn, From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959, by Gary S. Cross

Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House, by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

Hogue, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction, by John M. Sacher

Hollinger, ed., The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II, by Marcia G. Synnott

Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism, by Kenneth R. Janken

Hostetter, Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics, by Francis Njubi Nesbitt

Hünemörder, The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Kevin M. Gannon

Hunt, David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary, by Edward P. Morgan

Jensen, Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850–1925, by Linda Pickle

Johnston, ed., Seeing High & Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture, by Nell Irvin Painter

Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights–Black Power Era, by Simon Hall

Kenslea, The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic, by C. Dallett Hemphill

Khan, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920, by Peter Temin

Kirschke, Gouverneur Morris: Author, Statesman, and Man of the World, by Andrew S. Trees

Klimasmith, At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850–1930, by Carrie Tirado Bramen

Knudson, Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty, by Jeffery A. Smith

Kropp, California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place, by Matthew Bokovoy

Krugler, This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War, by Shane J. Maddock

Kruse and Sugrue, eds., The New Suburban History, by Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Labunski, James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights, by Kevin R. C. Gutzman

LaFantasie, Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates, by Jeffery S. Prushankin

Lau, Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865, by Charles J. Holden

Leidenberger, Chicago’s Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars, by Susan Eleanor Hirsch

Levinson and Sparrow, eds., The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898, by Patrick G. Williams

Lichtenstein, ed., American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, by Kenneth Fones-Wolf

Lim, A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930–1960, by Lili M. Kim

Lookingbill, War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners, by Wilbert H. Ahern

Louter, Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington’s National Parks, by David A. Clary

Mack and Lesesne, eds., Francis Lieber and the Culture of the Mind, by Dan R. Frost

Mackowski, Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight, by Tom D. Crouch

MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace, by Anthony S. Chen

Matson, ed., The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions, by Kenneth Morgan

McAndrews, The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools, 1965–2001, by Adam R. Nelson

McCarthy and Stauffer, eds., Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism, by Stanley Harrold

McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965–2005, by Adam R. Nelson

McKnight, Contested Borderlands: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia, by Kent Masterson Brown

McMillan, Ernest W. McFarland: Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Governor, and Chief Justice of the State of Arizona, by Ronald L. Feinman

Meeker, Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s–1970s, by Karen Christel Krahulik

Megginson, African American Life in South Carolina’s Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, by Edmund L. Drago

Menard, Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados, by Trevor Burnard

Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City, by Cathy Matson

Molina, Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939, by Alan M. Kraut

Montgomery, The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890–1930, by Jennifer Trost

Moos, Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging, by Brian W. Dippie

Mulcahy, Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783, by Bradford J. Wood

Nation, At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810–1870, by Susan Sessions Rugh

Nordstrom, Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era, by Samuel J. Thomas

Oberly, A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815–1972, by Stephen Warren

Olwell and Tully, eds., Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, by John Wood Sweet

Otto, The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley, by Mark Meuwese

Parkin, Food Is Love: Food Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, by Carolyn L. Kitch

Phipps, Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee, by Amy Murrell Taylor

Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, by Raphael Sonenshein

Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty, by Sean R. Busick

Rabe, U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story, by Winston James

Rauchway, Blessed among Nations: How the World Made America, by John M. Dobson

Redinger, American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924–1936, by John A. Britton

Riney-Kehrberg, Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest, by Linda Pickle

Ritterhouse, Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race, by John A. Kirk

Robins, Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas, by Gary Clayton Anderson

Rosenthal, Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Eugene M. Tobin

Rubin, South Carolina Scalawags, by William Scott Poole

Samuels, Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War, by Bruce A. Ronda

Schrag, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, by Sy Adler

Schwartz, Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, by James O. Breeden

Shamir, Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature, by Debby Applegate

Shenk, “Work or Fight!”: Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One, by Jeanette Keith

Sinyai, Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement, by Martin Halpern

Smith, Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America’s Wilderness, by J. Brooks Flippen

Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, by Jennifer Ritterhouse

Soodalter, Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader, by Steven Deyle

Spalding, The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism, by Arnold A. Offner

Stearns, ed., American Behavioral History: An Introduction, by E. Doyle McCarthy

Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, by Jon Smith

Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Randall M. Miller

Striner, Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery, by Michael P. Johnson

Summers, Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950, by Kendrick A. Clements

Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, by Peter C. Mancall

Thiesen, Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920, by Richard M. Candee

Toplin, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11: How One Film Divided a Nation, by Mary E. Stuckey

Trafzer, Keller, and Sisquoc, eds., Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences, by Michael C. Coleman

Tuchman, Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D., by Stephanie P. Browner

Tucker, Ott, and Buckler, eds., The Scrapbook in American Life, by Gayle R. Davis

Tudda, The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, by Martin Medhurst

Walker and Sharpless, eds., Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, by Sue Headlee

Warner, When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear, by Gerald R. Gems

Warren, Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts, by Richard H. Chused

Wehrle, Between a River and a Mountain: The afl-cio and the Vietnam War, by Kevin Boyle

Wertheim, Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers, by M. Alison Kibler

Williams-Forson, Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power, by Rebecca Sharpless

Wilson, The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865, by Lenette S. Taylor

Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America, by Elliott R. Barkan