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Vol. 109, No. 2

APRIL 2004



In This Issue xiv


Articles

How Does Social Capital Affect Women? Guilds and Communities in Early Modern Germany
by Sheilagh Ogilvie 325

The Dynamics of Urban Development: Towns in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Hungary
by Balázs A. Szelényi 360

South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina
by Julia Rodriguez 387

Eurasian Eclipse: Japan's End Game in World War II
by Yukiko Koshiro 417


Review Essay

Empires, Borderlands, and Diasporas: Eurasia as Anti-Paradigm for the Post-Soviet Era
by Mark von Hagen 445


Reviews of Books and Films

METHODS/THEORY

D. R. Woolf. Reading History in Early Modern England.
By Rosemary Mitchell 469

J. G. A. Pocock. Barbarism and Religion
By Daniel Woolf 470

Lawrence W. McBride, editor. Reading Irish Histories: Texts, Contexts, and Memory in Modern Ireland.
By Anne Dolan 471

Colin Newbury. Patrons, Clients, and Empire: Chieftaincy and Over-Rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
By Jane Samson 472

David W. Noble. The Death of the Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism.
By Donald Pease 473

Charles Tilly. The Politics of Collective Violence.
By Geoffrey Robinson 474

John Lewis Gaddis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past.
By Joseph Mali 475

David M. Halperin. How to Do the History of Homosexuality.
By John Howard 476


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Perez Zagorin. How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.
By Christine Kooi 477

Thomas Laqueur. Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.
By Rachel Maines 478

Ruth H. Bloch. Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800.
By Mary Beth Norton 479

Linda Young. Middle-Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain.
By John E. Crowley 480

Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839–1850.
By Satadru Sen 481

Elizabeth Elbourne. Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799–1853.
By Norman Etherington 482

Patrick Brantlinger. Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930.
By Antoinette Burton 482

Philippa Levine. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.
By Mark Harrison 483

Robert J. Blyth. The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858–1947.
By Daniel R. Headrick 484

Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. The Origins of World War I.
By Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. 485

Wolfgang Schivelbusch. The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery.
By Alon Confino 486

Maud S. Mandel. In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France.
By Alex Alvarez 487

Christopher Price. Britain, America and Rearmament in the 1930s: The Cost of Failure.
By John Ferris 488

R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, editors. The American Century in Europe.
By Richard F. Kuisel 489


ASIA

Michael Szonyi. Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China.
By Pamela Kyle Crossley 491

Susan L. Glosser. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953.
By Gail Hershatter 492

Yunxiang Yan. Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999.
By Susan Glosser 493

Yomi Braester. Witness against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China.
By Peter Zarrow 494

Marcia Yonemoto. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868).
By Philip Brown 495

The Last Samurai. Directed by Edward Zwick.
By Thomas Keirstead 496

Parks M. Coble. Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945.
By Rana Mitter 497

Charles K. Armstrong. The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950.
By Michael J. Seth 497

Sophie Quinn-Judge. Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years 1919–1941.
By David G. Marr 499

Patricia M. Pelley. Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past.
By Ngo Vinh Long 499

Jos Gommans. Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire, 1500–1700.
By Stephen P. Blake 501

Robert Eric Frykenberg. Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500.
By Duncan B. Forrester 502

Rajat Kanta Ray. The Felt Community: Commonalty and Mentality before the Emergence of Indian Nationalism.
By Kumkum Chatterjee 503

Suvir Kaul, editor. The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India.
By Yasmin Saikia 503


OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White, editors. Cultural History in Australia.
By Gregory Melleuish 504

Dayton McCarthy. The Once and Future Army: A History of the Citizen Military Forces 1947–1974.
By David Day 505


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

William Henry Foster. The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier.
By June Namias 506

Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland. Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civic Culture.
By Allan Smith 507

Patrick Brode. Courted and Abandoned: Seduction in Canadian Law.
By James Snell 508

Suzanne Morton. At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919–1969.
By Robert A. Campbell 509

Jackson Lears. Something for Nothing: Luck in America.
By Brian Roberts 510

Richard L. Kagan, editor. Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States.
By Ramón A. Gutiérrez 511

Douglas Anderson. William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word.
By David Read 512

Sharon V. Salinger. Taverns and Drinking in Early America.
By Mark Edward Lender 513

Anne S. Lombard. Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England.
By Daniel Scott Smith 514

John Ruston Pagan. Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia.
By Merril D. Smith 515

Terri L. Snyder. Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia.
By Jane Kamensky 515

John Ferling. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.
By Woody Holton 516

H. Jefferson Powell. A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics.
By Joyce Lee Malcolm 517

James Horn and Peter S. Onuf, editors. The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic.
By Michael Zuckert 518

Jon Kukla. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America.
By Peter S. Onuf 519

Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown. The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America.
By Amy Gilman Srebnick 520

Wendy A. Woloson. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionary, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America.
By Susan J. Terrio 521

Robert Bruce Mullin. The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell.
By Douglas A. Sweeney 522

Diane Batts Morrow. Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828–1860.
By Thomas Murphy, S.J. 523

Marvin McAllister. White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater.
By Dale Cockrell 524

Elizabeth McHenry. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies.
By David Henkin 525

Stanley Harrold. Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D. C., 1828–1865.
By Leonard L. Richards 526

David S. Cecelski. The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina.
By William J. Mahar 526

Harold S. Wilson. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War.
By Michael Gagnon 527

Michèle Tucker Butts. Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty.
By Sherry L. Smith 528

Stephen V. Ash. A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865.
By Daniel W. Crofts 529

James Alex Baggett. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
By Michael W. Fitzgerald 530

Michael W. Fitzgerald. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890.
By Samuel L. Webb 531

Charles Perrow. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism.
By Gerald Zahavi 532

Susan Wiley Hardwick. Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast.
By Matthew W. Klingle 533

Eric Sandweiss, editor. St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall.
By James Borchert 534

Gary J. Hausladen, editor. Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West.
By William G. Robbins 535

Bonnie Christensen. Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys.
By Brian W. Dippie 536

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip. Directed by Ken Burns.
By James A. Ward 537

Rennie B. Schoepflin. Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America.
By Susan E. Cayleff 538

Carolyn Thomas de la Peña. The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American.
By Tim Armstrong 539

Lisa Duggan. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity.
By Marc Stein 540

Phil Roberts. A Penny for the Governor, a Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington.
By John D. Buenker 541

Tom Coffman. The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawai'i.
By Paul F. Hooper 542

Stephen J. Pitti. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans;Glenna Matthews. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.
By Donna R. Gabaccia 542

Joyce A. Hanson. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism.
By Ann D. Gordon 544

Robert Miraldi. The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell.
By Joseph P. McKerns 545

Ferdinando Fasce. An American Family: The Great War and Corporate Culture in America.
By Sanford M. Jacoby 546

Christopher M. Sterba. Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War.
By Neil A. Wynn 546

Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler. The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence.
By Thomas Schoonover 547

Michael Willrich. City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago.
By Elizabeth Dale 548

Lawrence J. Nelson. Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age.
By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 549

Catherine Turner. Marketing Modernism Between the Two World Wars.
By Jay Satterfield 550

Jay Satterfield. The World's Best Book: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library.
By Paul R. Gorman 551

Amy Kaplan. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture.
By Kristin Hoganson 552

Benjamin L. Alpers. Dictators, Democracy, & American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s.
By Saverio Giovacchini 553

Neil Smith. American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization.
By Martin W. Lewis 554

Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability.
By Paul K. Longmore 554

Louis Fisher. Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law.
By William M. Wiecek 555

Peter J. Westwick. The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947–1974.
By Daniel Lee Kleinman 556

George Cotkin. Existential America.
By Terry A. Cooney 557

Lee Bernstein. The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America.
By David E. Ruth 558

R. Warren Metcalf. Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah.
By Wade Davies 559

Tinsley E. Yarbrough. Race and Redistricting: The Shaw-Cromartie Cases.
By Chandler Davidson 559

Richard A. Pride. The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954–1997.
By Steven J. L. Taylor 560

Jerald E. Podair. The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis.
By Marjorie Murphy 561

Josh Ozersky. Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968–1978.
By Aniko Bodroghkozy 562

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and John L. Esposito, editors. Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States.
By Stuart E. Knee 563

Jason C. Bivins. The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics.
By Robert H. Craig 564

Colin Gordon. Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America.
By Daniel M. Fox 565

Susan D. Jones. Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America.
By Nigel Rothfels 566

Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution.
By Allison L. Hepler 567

Peter N. Stearns. Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America.
By David I. Macleod 568

Douglas Little. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945.
By Michael A. Palmer 569


CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Ann Twinam. Private Lives, Public Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America.
By Arlene J. Díaz 570

Victoria González and Karen Kampwirth, editors. Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right.
By Asunción Lavrin 571

Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, editors. Race and Nation in Modern Latin America.
By Greg Grandin 572

Mimi Sheller. Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies.
By Arnold J. Bauer 573

Christopher R. Boyer. Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920–1935.
By Suzanne Pasztor 574

1932: Scars of Memory (Cicatríz de la Memoria). Directed by Jeffrey Gould and Carlos Henriquez Consalvi.
By Virginia Garrard-Burnett 575

Julie A. Charlip. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930.
By David McCreery 576

W. John Green. Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia.
By Frank Safford 577

Sinclair Thomson. We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency.
By Nils Jacobsen 577

Juanita De Barros. Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889–1924.
By Ana Paulina Malavassi-Aguilar 578

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo 1750–1850.
By Mieko Nishida 579

Mieko Nishida. Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888.
By Hendrik Kraay 580

Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society.
By Kathleen Higgins 581

Jerry Dávila. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945.
By Seth Garfield 581

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison. Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930.
By Deborah T. Levenson 582


EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Tim G. Parkin. Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History.
By Donald G. Kyle 583

Walter E. Kaegi. Heraclius Emperor of Byzantium.
By Michael Whitby 584

Kathryn M. Ringrose. The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium.
By Glenn Peers 585

Bonnie Effros. Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul.
By Thomas F. X. Noble 586

Daniel Baraz. Medieval Cruelty: Changing Perceptions, Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.
By Richard W. Kaeuper 586

Jussi Hanska. Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages.
By Peregrine Horden 587

Dominique Iogna-Prat. Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000–1150).
By Giles Constable 588

Dawn Marie Hayes. Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100–1389.
By Joyce E. Salisbury 589

Lars Hermanson. Släkt, vänner och makt: En studie av elitens politiska kultur i 1100-talets Danmark
Kurt Villads Jensen 590

Linda E. Mitchell. Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and Politics in England 1225–1350.
By Joel T. Rosenthal 590

Pierre Chaplais. English Diplomatic Practice in the Middle Ages.
By Joseph P. Huffman 591

Kenneth Baxter Wolf. The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered.
By E. Randolph Daniel 592

Andrew Jotischky. The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages.
By Malcolm Barber 593


EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Roger French. Medicine Before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctors from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
By Joseph Shatzmiller 594

Tom Betteridge, editor. Sodomy in Early Modern Europe.
By Garthine Walker 595

Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers. A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe.
By Miriam Bodian 596

Robert Bireley. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors.
By Ronald G. Asch 597

Jason Lavery. Germany's Northern Challenge: The Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Struggle for the Baltic, 1563–1576.
By Marsha Frey 598

Walter Goffart. Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870.
By David Buisseret 598

Charles Esdaile. The Peninsular War: A New History.
By Owen Connelly 599

William I. Brustein. Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust.
By Sander L. Gilman 600

Conan Fischer. The Ruhr Crisis, 1923–1924.
By Larry Peterson 601

Stephanie C. Salzmann. Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union: Rapallo and After, 1922–1934.
By Jon Jacobson 602

Claudia Baldoli. Exporting Fascism: Italian Fascists and Britain's Italians in the 1930s.
By R. J. B. Bosworth 604

Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson. England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy.
By David Loades 604

David Loades. Elizabeth I.
By Retha M. Warnicke 605

Pamela E. Ritchie. Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548–1560: A Political Career.
By Stuart Carroll 606

John Cramsie. Kingship and Crown Finance under James VI and I 1603–1625.
By Johann P. Sommerville 607

Joad Raymond. Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain.
By Cyndia Susan Clegg 608

Stuart Andrews. Unitarian Radicalism: Political Rhetoric, 1770–1814.
By James E. Bradley 609

Ron Harris. Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720–1844.
By V. Markham Lester 610

Catherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830–1867.
By Gyan Prakash 611

P. J. Cain. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887–1938.
By Trevor Lloyd 612

Patricia Lynch. The Liberal Party in Rural England 1885–1910: Radicalism and Community.
By Barry Reay 613

Kelly Boyd. Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940.
By Stephanie Barczewski 614

Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World. Directed by James Hawes.
By Thomas Prasch 615

Timothy Larsen. Christabel Pankurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition.
By Kathryn Gleadle 616

Martin Daunton. Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914–1979.
By Jon Lawrence 617

Richard Toye. The Labour Party and the Planned Economy 1931–1951.
By Steven Fielding 618

Robert Mackay. Half the Battle: Civilian Morale in Britain during the Second World War.
By Rodney Lowe 619

Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau. In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain.
By Helen Nader 620

Jean-Philippe Luis. L'Utopie réactionnaire: Épuration et modernisation de l'état dans l'Espagne de la fin de l'Ancien Régime.
By Jesus Cruz 621

José Alvarez-Junco. The Emergence of Mass Politics in Spain: Populist Demagoguery and Republican Culture, 1890–1910.
By David Ortiz, Jr. 621

Helen Graham. The Spanish Republic at War 1936–1939.
By Adrian Shubert 622

Michael Seidman. Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War.
By Pamela Beth Radcliff 623

Robert Morrissey. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology.
By Patrick J. Geary 624

Christelle Cazaux. La musique à la cour de Françcois Ier.
By David Mateer 625

Henry Heller. Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France.
By Robert M. Kingdon 626

Jessica Riskin. Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment.
By Larry Stewart 627

L. W. B. Brockliss. Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France.
By Harvey Chisick 628

Sarah Maza. The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary 1750–1850.
By Christine Adams 629

Pamela Pilbeam. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks.
By Gary Kates 630

Wayne Hanley. The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796 to 1799.
By Leigh Whaley 630

Claire Lemercier. Un si discret pouvoir: Aux origines de la chambre de commerce de Paris 1803–1853.
By Roger Price 631

Sirkka Ahonen and Jukka Rantala, editors. Nordic Lights: Education for Nation and Civic Society in the Nordic Countries, 1850–2000.
By Pirjo Markkola 632

Helmut Puff. Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400–1600.
By R. Po-chia Hsia 633

Helmut Walser Smith. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town.
By Michael A. Meyer 634

Paul Lerner. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930.
By Robert Weldon Whalen 635

Douglas C. Peifer. The Three German Navies: Dissolution, Transition, and New Beginnings, 1945–1960.
By Larry V. Thompson 636

Valeria Finucci. The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance.
By P. Renée Baernstein 637

Carole Collier Frick. Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing.
By Elizabeth S. Cohen 638

Jonathan Glixon. Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260–1807.
By Ann E. Moyer 639

David Laven. Venice and Venetia Under the Habsburgs, 1815–1835.
By Anthony L. Cardoza 640

Mary Gibson. Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminology.
By Daniel Pick 641

Karin J. MacHardy. War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521–1622.
By Robert Bireley 642

Gunnar S. Paulsson. Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945.
By Shimon Redlich 643

Norman M. Naimark and Holly Case, editors. Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.
By Carole Rogel 644

Stephen Lovell. Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000.
By Christopher Ely 645

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater.
By Gary Marker 646

Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism.
By Catherine Evtuhov 647

Eric Lohr. Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I.
By Hubertus F. Jahn 648

Donald J. Raleigh. Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917–1922.
By N. G. O. Pereira 649

Paula A. Michaels. Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia.
By Shoshana Keller 650

Nikolai V. Ssorin-Chaikov. The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia.
By John McCannon 651


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Khaled Abou El Fadl. Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law.
By Colin Imber 651

Wendy M. K. Shaw. Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire.
By Rhoads Murphey 652

Sarah Shields. Mosul Before Iraq: Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells.
By Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet 653

R. Stephen Humphreys. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.
By Carter Vaughn Findley 654

Jean-Christophe Attias and Esther Benbassa. Israel, the Impossible Land.
By David Biale 655

Heather J. Sharkey. Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
By Lidwien Kapteijns 656

Bahru Zewde. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century.
By Edmond J. Keller 657


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin, editors. Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.
By Charles Ambler 658

Osaak A. Olumwullah. Dis-Ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya.
By Nancy Gallagher 659

Thaddeus Sunseri. Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania.
By Marcia Wright 660

Tony Chafer. The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization?
By Raymond F. Betts 661


Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Christian Hesseet al., editor.Personen der Geschichte, Geschichte der Personen: Studien zur Kreuzzugs-, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte; Festschrift für Rainer Christoph Schwinges zum 60. Geburtstag. 662


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Emily O. Goldman and Leslie C. Eliason, editors.The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas. 662

Donald J. Stoker, Jr., and Jonathan A. Grant, editors.Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815–1940. 662

Ian Gow, Yoichi Hirama and John Chapman, editors.The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000. 663

Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom and Warren Whatley, editors.History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change. 1578

David Thorburn, Henry Jenkins, editor.Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. 663

Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn, editors. Democracy and New Media. 664

Andrew Ballantyne, editors. Architectures: Modernism and After. 664

Jeffrey Lesser, editors. Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism. 664


ASIA

Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, editors. Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture, Volume 1. 664

William C. Kirby, editors. Realms of Freedom in Modern China. 664


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

James Truncer, editors. Picking the Lock of Time: Developing Chronology in American Archaeology. 665

Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts, editors. Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies. 665

Samuel Kernell, editors. James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government. 665

Thomas H. Appleton, Jr., and Angela Boswell, editors. Searching for Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Centuries. 665

Todd W. Nichol, editors. Crossings: Norwegian-American Lutheranism as a Transatlantic Tradition. 665


EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Scott Noegel, Joel Walker and Brannon Wheeler, editors. Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. 666

Averil Cameron, editors. Fifty Years Of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond. 666

Monique Goullet and Martin Heinzelmann, editors.La réécriture hagiographique dans l'occident médiéval: Transformations formelles et idéologiques. 666

Jacqueline Jenkins and Katherine J. Lewis, editors.St. Katherine of Alexandria: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe. 666

Warren C. Brown and Piotr Górecki, editors.Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture. 666


EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Helen Parish and William G. Naphy, editors. Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe. 667

Margaret Mikesell and Adele Seeff, editors. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. 667

Denise Turrel, editors. Villes rattachées, villes reconfigurées XVIe-XXe siècles. 667

Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino, editors. The City and the Railway in Europe. 668

Terry Gourvish, editor. Business and Politics in Europe, 1900–1970: Essays in Honour of Alice Teichova. 1582

C. S. Knighton and Richard Mortimer, editors. Westminster Abbey Reformed: 1540–1640. 668

Tyler Stovall and Georges Van den Abbeele, editors. French Civilization and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race. 668

Heinz Duchhardt and Karl Teppe, editors. Karl vom und zum Stein: Der Akteur, der Autor, seine Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte. 668

Geoff Eley and James Retallack, editors. Wilhelminism and its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890–1930; Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann. 668

Hans Hesse, editors. Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime. 669

Moishe Postone and Eric Santner, editors. Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century. 669

M. B. B. Biskupski, editors. Ideology, Politics and Diplomacy in East Central Europe. 669


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Miriam Hoexter, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Nehemia Levtzion, editors. The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies. 670


Documents and Bibliographies 671

Other Books Received 673

Communications 681


Topical Table of Contents

Administration
472, 484, 505, 518, 578, 585, 590, 618, 621, 625, 631, 635, 640, 642, 648, 649, 661

Agriculture
576

Anthropology/Archaeology
547, 586, 652

Art/Architecture
589

Biography
499, 520, 522, 529, 544, 545, 554, 577, 584, 590, 596, 605, 606, 616, 621, 630

Business/Finance
497, 532, 546, 550, 551, 596, 607, 617, 630, 631

Careers/Professions
591,