Book Reviews
Dec. 2007, Vol. 94 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 |

Ackerman, Wade Hampton III, by Daniel W. Crofts

Adams, Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation, by Scott Peller

Alvah, Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946–1965, by Sylvia Ellis

Antler, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother, by Maxine Schwartz Seller

Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, by Alan R. Gibson

Armus, French Anti-Americanism, 1930–1948: Critical Moments in a Complex History, by Christopher Endy

Austin, Up against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party, by Robyn Ceanne Spencer

Badillo, Latinos and the New Immigrant Church, by Alberto López Pulido

Baker, On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, by Tom Zaniello

Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, by Susan Sleeper-Smith

Beneke, Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, by John D. Krugler

Berry, My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua

Blauvelt, The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830, by Leslie J. Lindenauer

Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, by Caroline Jean Acker

Brekus, ed., The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, by Martha Tomhave Blauvelt

Brick, Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Brown, Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal, by Anne Meis Knupfer

Burgos, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, by Rob Ruck

Burstein, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving, by Elizabeth Hewitt

Byerman, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction, by James Edward Smethurst

Cahn, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, by Gail S. Murray

Cantrell and Turner, eds., Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, by James D. Ivy

Castellanos, Encuentro en 1898: Tres pueblos y cuatro hombres; España-Cuba-Estados Unidos; Cervera-Roosevelt-Calixto García-Juan Gualberto Gómez (Encounter in 1898: Three towns and four men; Spain, Cuba, United States; Cervera-Roosevelt-Calixto García-Juan Gualberto Gómez), by Francisca Lopez Civeira

Confer, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, by Scott L. Stabler

Cresswell, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917, by Eric Anderson

Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture, by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis

Dick and Launius, eds., Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, by Rip Bulkeley

Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, by Elizabeth Regosin

Dirck, ed., Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, by Michael T. Smith

Duck, The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, by Keith E. Byerman

Dye, Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy, by Michael J. Bennett

Eby, Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, by Robert A. Rosenstone

Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy, by Marc Dierikx

Evans, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History, by Amy Thompson McCandless

Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South, by Wayne J. Urban

Ferguson, The Trial in American Life, by John W. Johnson

Ferris and Greenberg, eds., Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, by Deborah R. Weiner

Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, by Jane Farrell-Beck

Fotsch, Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America, by Peter Norton

Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, by Andrew Burstein

Friedman, From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942–1946, by Vicki Howard

Gaffney, Teachers United: The Rise of New York State United Teachers, by Joseph E. Slater

Germany, New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, by Michael K. Brown

Green, Rubin, and Smethurst, eds., Radicalism in the South since Reconstruction, by Jeanne Perreault

Gronim, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York, by Walter W. Woodward

Gurock, Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports, by Stephen H. Norwood

Haberski, Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture, by Gregory D. Black

Hamilton, The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, by Michael Les Benedict

Hatzenbuehler, “I Tremble for My Country”: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry, by Franklin Kalinowski

Hays, Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America, by James Morton Turner

Hild, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South, by James M. Beeby

Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Meacham Gould

Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: sncc’s Dream for a New America, by Cheryl Greenberg

Horne, The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States, by Scott Beekman

Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance, by Christopher Layne

Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Michael D. Gordin

Jabour, Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South, by Christine Jacobson Carter

Jacoway, Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation, by Barbara J. Shircliffe

Janda, Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller, by Janis L. King

Jarvis, Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It, by Polly Welts Kaufman

Johnson, Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–1929, by William R. Childs

Jones, James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-day Adventists, by Peter C. Murray

Juliani, Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia’s “Little Italy”, by Evelyn Savidge Sterne

Jumonville and Mattson, eds., Liberalism for a New Century, by John G. Gunnell

Kirschke, Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll

Kraut and Kraut, Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America, by Allison L. Hepler

La Chapelle, Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California, by Howard A. DeWitt

Larres and Osgood, eds., The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?, by Donald E. Davis

Lerner, Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, by Joseph F. Spillane

Lewis, Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880–1951, by H. Roger Grant

Lipin, Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30, by Kathryn Morse

Lloyd, Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, by Michael R. Stamm

Lovett, Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1938, by Susan Currell

MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640, by Herbert A. Johnson

Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood, by Kathleen Feeley

Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors, by Anthony Pagden

Mancall, Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America, by Eliga H. Gould

Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, by Harold D. Tallant

Mazzari, Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War, by Thomas A. Underwood

McClay, ed., Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, by Martin Halliwell

McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, by Albert H. Tillson Jr.

McGee, From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western, by Michael Welsh

McGurty, Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, pcbs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice, by Amy Hay

McLaren, Impotence: A Cultural History, by Thomas A. Foster

McMillen, Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory, by Byron E. Pearson

Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice, by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Moore, World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805, by S. Scott Rohrer

Moore, The South’s Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945–1970, by James M. Woods

Motomura, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, by Robert F. Zeidel

Nelson, Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880, by Randolph B. Campbell

Peck, Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism, by Marc Gallicchio

Peretti, Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan, by Angela M. Blake

Peretz, Le combat pour les Juifs soviétiques. Washington-Moscou-Jérusalem, 1953–1989 (The battle over the Soviet Jews: Washington-Moscow-Jerusalem, 1953–1989), by R. Craig Nation

Priest, The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America, by George D. E. Philip

Procter, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, by Rodney Carlisle

Reeve, Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes, by Anne F. Hyde

Reinhardt, Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the ira to Wounded Knee, by David Wilkins

Rosenbaum, Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity, by Thomas J. Brown

Rubin, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America, by Jeffrey G. Gundy

Ruotsila, John Spargo and American Socialism, by Mark Pittenger

Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940, by Brian C. Black

Sheehan-Dean, ed., The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers, by Michael Barton

Shepard, Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South, by Alice O’Connor

Silbey, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War, by Michael William Pfau

Simon, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by William Howard Moore

Slotkin, Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality, by Marvin Fletcher

Smith, Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush, by Bruce J. Dierenfield

Snow, Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924, by Lisa Joy Pruitt

Stanton, The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City, by Joseph Heathcott

Statler and Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, by Cary Fraser

Sullivan, Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann D. Gordon

Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, by Katherine G. Aiken

Utley, Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers, by Charles M. Robinson III

Vaudagna, ed., The Place of Europe in American History: Twentieth-Century Perspectives, by Fraser J. Harbutt

Vaught, After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley, by James J. Rawls

Walker, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975, by Julia Kirk Blackwelder

Warren, Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking, by Eric J. Morser

Warren, Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab, by Jonathan Rees

Watkins, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America, by Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer

Wiethoff, Crafting the Overseer’s Image, by James David Miller

Wilson, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, by Scott Hancock

Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, by Ed Krzemienski

Wolf, Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner’s Rebellion, by Stephen Howard Browne

Woodrum, “Everybody Was Black Down There”: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields, by Walter T. Howard

Woods, lbj: Architect of American Ambition, by Michael B. Stoff

Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness, by Steven Noll

Wurtzler, Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media, by Jody Pennington

Zacharasiewicz, Images of Germany in American Literature, by Ethan Kytle

Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968–1980, by Daniel Horowitz

Zietlow, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights, by Michal R. Belknap