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Book Reviews June 2002, Vol. 89, 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 \|
A	[Top]
Abel, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940, by Ellen S. More Adams, General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons, by Joseph G. Dawson III Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century, by Ann M. Little Atkins, We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America, by Linda W. Rosenzweig
B	[Top]
Barbour, Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade, by Robert Wooster Beary, Black Bishop: Edward T. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church, by Alfred Moss Beeman and Pritchard, A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900, by James Livingston Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal, by Michael S. Mayer Blackford, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000, by David Farber Brilliant, Private Charity and Public Inquiry: A History of the Filer and Peterson Commissions, by Judith Sealander
C	[Top]
Carnes, ed., Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other), by Dorothy C. Broaddus Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas, by S. Max Edelson Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson Claviez and Moss, eds., Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity, by Charles L. P. Silet Click, Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862–1867, by Janette Thomas Greenwood Clinton, ed., Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz Cochran, Democracy Heading South: National Politics in the Shadow of Dixie, by Bruce J. Schulman Cohen and Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America, by Marc Dollinger Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, by Brooks D. Simpson Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases; and Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, by Raymond Wolters Cottrell, Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union, by Michal R. Belknap Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, by Jim Baumohl Craddock, City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco, by Richard A. Meckel Craig, Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940, by Brett Gary Crane, Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing; and Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America, by Mary W. Blanchard Cumbler, Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790–1930, by Brian Donahue Curtin, Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865–1900, by Karin A. Shapiro
D	[Top]
Davis, Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930, by J. William Harris Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs & Alexander H. Stephens, by Christopher J. Olsen Derrick, Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York, by Clifton Hood Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, by Martin Crawford Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939–1941, by Manfred Jonas Druks, The Uncertain Friendship: The U.S. and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy; and Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences?: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel, by John Snetsinger Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, by John Rockwell Snowden 60
E	[Top]
Eltis, Behrendt, Richardson, and Klein, eds., The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM; and Hall, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699–1860: Information from Original Manuscript Sources (CD-ROM), by Daniel C. Littlefield Ericson, The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America, by Dan R. Frost Everett, Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949, by Thomas Cripps
F	[Top]
Fernlund, William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West; and Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, by Karl Jacoby Fickle, Mississippi Forests and Forestry, by Mikko Saikku Fishman, ed., The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy, by Gwendolyn Wright Fixico, The Urban Indian Experience in America, by Kenneth R. Philp Flores, From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, by Zaragosa Vargas Foucrier, Le rêve californien: Migrants français sur la côte Pacifique, XVIIIe–XXe siècles (Californian dreams: French migrants on the Pacific Coast, 18th–20th centuries), by Rob Kroes Francaviglia and Richmond, eds., Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846–1848, by James M. McCaffrey Freeberg, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language; and Gitter, The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl, by Kim Nielsen Frey, Geschichte des Vietnamkriegs: Die Tragödie in Asien und das Ende des amerikanischen Traums (History of the Vietnam War: The tragedy in Asia and the end of the American dream), by Dennis E. Showalter
G	[Top]
Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, by Eric Arnesen Giglio, Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man, by Richard C. Crepeau Gitter, The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl; and Freeberg, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language, by Kim Nielsen Glover, All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry, by Anya Jabour Goodman and Walsh, The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug; and Lerner, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, by Rima D. Apple Grundy, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina, by Benjamin G. Rader Gulliford, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions, by Christopher Vecsey Gundle, Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991, by Mario Del Pero
H, I	[Top]
Hall, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699–1860: Information from Original Manuscript Sources (CD-ROM); and Eltis, Behrendt, Richardson, and Klein, eds., The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM, by Daniel C. Littlefield Hall, Land & Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia, by Carole Watterson Troxler Haller, The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790–1860, by Anita Guerrini Hamilton-Paterson, America's Boy: A Century of Colonialism in the Philippines; and Linn, The Philippine War, 1899–1902, by Joseph A. Fry Hampf, Freies Radio in den USA: Die Pacifica-Foundation, 1946–1965 (Free radio in the USA: The Pacifica Foundation, 1946–1965), by Brigitte L. Nacos Harper, Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo, by Curtis M. Hinsley Hepler, Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980, by Lynne Curry Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England, by John K. Alexander Hettle, The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War, by Susan-Mary Grant Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act, by John N. Tsuchida Hirsh, Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Utility System, by Robert W. Righter Hollandsworth, An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866, by Jonathan M. Bryant
J, K	[Top]
Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War, by David F. Ericson Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America; and Crane, Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing, by Mary W. Blanchard Justesen, George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life, by Robert Cassanello Katz, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, by Joanne Goodwin Keita, Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx, by David Turley Kern, Mrs. Stanton's Bible, by Nancy Isenberg Klotman and Cutler, eds., Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, by L. S. Kim
L	[Top]
Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975, by Robert R. Tomes Leab, I Was a Communist for the FBI: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic, by Robert Griffith Lee, Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester, by Kate Weigand Lerner, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America; and Goodman and Walsh, The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug, by Rima D. Apple Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963, by V. P. Franklin Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Jon Sensbach Linn, The Philippine War, 1899–1902; and Hamilton-Paterson, America's Boy: A Century of Colonialism in the Philippines, by Joseph A. Fry Longmore and Umansky, eds., The New Disability History: American Perspectives, by James W. Trent
M	[Top]
Mathé, ed., L'Antiaméricanisme: Anti-Americanism at Home and Abroad, by Peter Gibian McBride, Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945; and Moy, War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920–1940, by Gary E. Weir McCann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism; and Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State, by Lawrence J. Oliver McCurdy, The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839–1865, by Martin Bruegel McFeely, Zuni and the American Imagination, by Larry J. Zimmerman Meagher, Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880–1928, by James J. Connolly Medhurst and Brands, eds., Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History, by Melvin Small Mele, Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City, by Ross Miller Melnick, Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South, by Clive Webb Mendelberg, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality, by Matthew Streb Meyer, Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., by Isabelle Gournay Miguel, Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston, by Gilbert G. Gonzalez Miller, Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida's Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era, by Wilbur R. Miller Miller, Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women, by Lisa Cohen Millikan, A Union against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight against Organized Labor, 1903–1947, by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf Mizruchi, ed., Religion and Cultural Studies, by Leigh E. Schmidt Monkkonen, Murder in New York City, by David Wolcott Monnett, Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes, by Donald J. Berthrong Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr Morgan and Promey, eds., The Visual Culture of American Religions, by Paul Eli Ivey Moriyama, Nichibei Kaisen no Seiji Katei (The political process of Japan's decision for war against the United States), by Roger Dingman Moss, Golf and the American Country Club, by John Dizikes Moy, War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. Military, 1920–1940; and McBride, Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945, by Gary E. Weir Mullin, Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest, by Mick Gidley
N, O	[Top]
Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality, by Judith Stein Nelson, The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920–1980, by Randolph Bergstrom Nester, "Haughty Conquerors": Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763, by Michael N. McConnell Nicolson, The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution, by David W. Conroy Niethammer, I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist, by Helen M. Bannan
P, Q	[Top]
Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy; and Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases, by Raymond Wolters Pedersen, The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919–57, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by M. J. Heale Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, by Nancy J. Weiss Pyne, Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910, by Peter Boag
R	[Top]
Rebert, La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857, by Dennis Reinhartz Richards, Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader, by Ruth A. Needleman Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790–1850, by Edward K. Spann Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences?: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel; and Druks, The Uncertain Friendship: The U.S. and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy, by John Snetsinger Rusco, A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act, by Raymond Wilson
S	[Top]
Sarantakes, Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations, by Russell D. Buhite Schantz, Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island, by John W. Quist Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950, by William L. O'Neill Schultz, Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement; and Webb, Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights, by Nancy MacLean Sharp, Condensing the Cold War: Reader's Digest and American Identity, by Susan Schulten Shephard, A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century, by Eric T. Dean Jr. Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, by Timothy Miller Slane, A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy, by Laura A. Belmonte Smith, Grant, by Hans L. Trefousse Smith, The Search for Social Salvation: Social Christianity and America, 1880–1925, by William R. Glass Spurlock and Magistro, New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture, by David Peterson del Mar Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America, by J. Brooks Flippen Stevens, Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics, by Raymond DeVries Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Justus D. Doenecke Strauss, Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin, by Ronald Story Streeter, Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954–1961, by Michael L. Krenn Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform, by Dennis A. Deslippe Strozier, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, by Peter Loewenberg Szasz, Religion in the Modern American West, by Carol K. Coburn Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State; and McCann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, by Lawrence J. Oliver
T, U, V	[Top]
Tager, Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence, by Paul A. Gilje Thornbrough, ed. by Ruegamer, Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century, by Darrel E. Bigham Tygiel, Past Time: Baseball as History, by George B. Kirsch Tyrrell, Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and Its Opponents in Australia, by James Kirby Martin
W, X, Y, Z	[Top]
Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture, by R. Marie Griffith Waddell, The War against the New Deal: World War II and American Democracy, by John W. Jeffries Waldrep and Nieman, eds., Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Walker, Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century, by Sheldon Ungar Walsh, Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA, by William R. Childs Warren, Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry, by Duane A. Smith Wayne, Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, by Daniel W. Crofts Webb, Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights; and Schultz, Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement, by Nancy MacLean Weyeneth, Historic Preservation for a Living City: Historic Charleston Foundation, 1947–1997, by David R. Contosta Wilder, A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Woodson, A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson, by Jan Lewis Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell; and Fernlund, William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West, by Karl Jacoby Wright, Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, by Bernard Mergen Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s–1890s, by A. James Fuller Ye, Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927, by Eileen Scully Zolov, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, by T. M. Scruggs