Book Reviews
Sept. 2007, Vol. 94 No. 2

[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 |

Abd-Allah, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb, by Timothy Marr

Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion, by Richard Kyle

Anderson, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture, by Scott Saul

Ascoli, Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South, by Jonathan J. Bean

Bacchilega, Legendary Hawai‘i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism, by Mansel G. Blackford

Baker, The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War, by Mark V. Tushnet

Baker, Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926–1972, by Peter F. Lau

Barry, Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants, by Jane Marcellus

Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, by John T. McNay

Belanger, Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica’s Age of Science, by Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, by Thomas D. Hall

Bray, Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, by Martha McCollough

Brazy, An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York, by Frank J. Byrne

Broadwater, George Mason: Forgotten Founder, by Whitman Hawley Ridgway

Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography, by Matthew Mancini

Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con, by Mary Frances Berry

Browder, Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, by Margot A. Henriksen

Bruce, The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865, by Kevin Conley Ruffner

Byrne, Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865, by Lacy K. Ford

Cañizares-Esguerra, Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700, by Charles L. Cohen

Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life, by David E. Hamilton

Canney, Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842–1861, by Spencer C. Tucker

Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940, by Patrick J. Ryan

Casto, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail, by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler

Christopher, Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730–1807, by Douglas B. Chambers

Chung, Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, by Jane Park

Ciepley, Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism, by Judy Kutulas

Coates, American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land, by Stephanie S. Pincetl

Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity, by Jason Sokol

Cobb-Roberts, Dorn, and Shircliffe, eds., Schools as Imagined Communities: The Creation of Identity, Meaning, and Conflict in U.S. History, by Carroll Engelhardt

Conway-Lanz, Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II, by William Thomas Allison

Cormack, ed., Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World, by Terry Rey

Creswell, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe, by William I. Hitchcock

Crocker, Mrs. Russell Sage: Women’s Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America, by Jennifer de Forest

Currell and Cogdell, eds., Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s, by Sharon M. Leon

Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Melvin Small

DeGroot, Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest, by Stephen E. Kercher

Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l’ascesa dei neoconservatori: Alle origini della politica estera americana (Henry Kissinger and the rise of the neoconservatives: On the origins of American foreign policy), by Robert V. Daniels

Dessens, From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences, by Robert L. Paquette

Dewing, Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression, by Brad D. Lookingbill

Domosh, American Commodities in an Age of Empire, by Lisa Jacobson

Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, by Alan Gallay

Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900, by Christopher J. Otter

Ellinghaus, Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937, by Lisa E. Emmerich

English, A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry, by Pamela Nickless

Erisman, Boys’ Books, Boys’ Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight, by Bernard Mergen

Everitt, A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television, by Nathan Godfried

Fessenden, Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature, by James Emmett Ryan

Fones-Wolf, Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s, by Stephen L. Fisher

Fones-Wolf, Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio, by Elena Razlogova

Frankel, Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890–1950, by Robert Lawson-Peebles

Freyer, Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004, by Wyatt C. Wells

Fry, Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings, by Robert J. McMahon

Gellman, Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827, by Craig D. Townsend

Gitelman, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, by John Nerone

Glatthaar and Martin, Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution, by Gerald F. Reid

Glover, Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation, by Anya Jabour

Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West: 1850–1935, by Michael J. Pfeifer

Gordin, Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, by Gar Alperovitz

Gordon, The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women’s Lives, 1890–1940, by Miriam Forman-Brunell

Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955, by Margaret Garb

Greene, Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test–Ban Debate, 1945–1963, by Ira R. Chernus

Hannah, Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917, by Lisa Mundey

Hastie, Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History, by Nancy J. Rosenbloom

Hendricks, The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, by L. Scott Philyaw

Hudnut-Beumler, In Pursuit of the Almighty’s Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism, by Charles D. Cashdollar

Hurewitz, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, by Martin Meeker

Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, by Margo Anderson

Igra, Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900–1935, by S. J. Kleinberg

Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice, by John Salmond

Jacobs, Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America’s War in Vietnam, 1950–1963, by Edwin Moïse

Jacobson and González, What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, by Susan Carruthers

Johnson, Post-Emancipation Race Relations in the Bahamas, by Bridget Brereton

Karp, Kratz, Szwaja, and Ybarra-Frausto, eds., Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, by Barbara Franco

Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s, by Steven A. Riess

Kilbride, An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia, by Enrico Dal Lago

King, The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era, by Myra B. Young Armstead

Kohler, All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950, by Sharon E. Kingsland

Kurtz, The jfk Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy, by Thomas R. Turner

Leff, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Haim Genizi

Levander, Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois, by Arthur Riss

Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, by Hilary Radner

Lewis, Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement, by Mark Newman

Little, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England, by Matthew C. Ward

Loewen, Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture, by Steven M. Nolt

Longley, Mayer, Schaller, and Sloan, Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America’s Fortieth President, by W. Elliot Brownlee

Lutes, Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930, by Marilyn Greenwald

Margolies, Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization, by Randal L. Hall

Marsh, Georgia’s Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony, by Kent Anderson Leslie

Marszalek, A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina’s George Washington Murray, by Jacqueline M. Moore

Marubbio, Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film, by Gretchen M. Bataille

Mathews, Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South, by Mark Silk

Mazrim, The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archaeology in the Shadow of Lincoln, by Charles E. Orser Jr.

McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776, by Melvin Yazawa

McKenzie, Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War, by Jon L. Wakelyn

McKevitt, Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919, by Jonathan Wright

Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, by Neil A. Wynn

Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972, by Thomas R. Huffman

Miscamble, From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War, by Mary E. Glantz

Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest, by Amy Swerdlow

Murphree, Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783, by Robert Galgano

Nadis, Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America, by Kathryn J. Oberdeck

Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie, by Richard S. Tedlow

Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge, by Brett Walker

Nelson, Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, by Joel Dinerstein

Neptune, Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation, by Alan McPherson

Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, by Gary Dorrien

Nuenlist and Locher, eds., Transatlantic Relations at Stake: Aspects of nato, 1956–1972, by Erin Rose Mahan

Offner, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950, by Stephanie Dyer

Oropeza, ¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War Era, by F. Arturo Rosales

Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, by Jon Wiener

Petrulionis, To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, by Anne M. Boylan

Platt and O’Leary, Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws, from Patton’s Trophy to Public Memorial, by Oren Baruch Stier

Podruchny, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade, by John T. McGrath

Ranney, In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law, by R. Ben Brown

Recchiuti, Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City, by Axel R. Schäfer

Resch and Sargent, eds., War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts, by James Kirby Martin

Reynolds, The Demise of the American Convention System, 1880–1911, by R. Hal Williams

Riss, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Russ Castronovo

Rolinson, Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920–1927, by William P. Jones

Rotberg, A Leadership for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World, by Liping Bu

Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I, by Charles Pete Banner-Haley

Schlatter, Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000, by Catherine McNicol Stock

Schocket, Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia, by Paul Douglas Newman

Schuyler, The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s, by Catherine E. Rymph

Schweitzer, Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature, by Timothy A. Milford

Shawhan and Swain, Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South, by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman

Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy, by Jon Davidann

Simonsen, Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860–1919, by Brenda J. Child

Skocpol, Liazos, and Ganz, What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Robert L. Harris Jr.

Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956, by Robert F. Himmelberg

Sokol, There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945–1975, by Glenn Feldman

Stearns, American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety, by Steven Biel

Stillson, Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush, by Robert J. Chandler

Stole, Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s, by Jacqueline K. Dirks

Stoltzfus, Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment, by Karen Miller Russell

Swibold, Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889–1959, by Jerilyn Sue McIntyre

Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Richard Polenberg

Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, by Ross Knox Bassett

Van Slyck, A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960, by Renee M. Laegreid

Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776, by Timothy J. Shannon

Wald, Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade, by Robert Casillo

Warshauer, Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship, by Paul E. Doutrich

Wendt, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Christopher Barry Strain

Williams, Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom, by Menahem Blondheim

Wright, “The First of Causes to Our Sex”: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834–1848, by Myra C. Glenn

Zaki, Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron, by Hilary J. Moss

Zimmerman, Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, by Stephen Mihm

Zimmerman, Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century, by Fritz Fischer