| Contents | The American Historical Review, 110.1

Vol. 110, No. 1

FEBRUARY 2005


In This Issue	xiii

Presidential Address

Cliffhanger Days: A Chinese Family in the Seventeenth Century
By Jonathan Spence	1

Articles

Does Inquisition Belong to Religious History?
By Christine Caldwell Ames	11

Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd
By Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt	38

The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, National History, and State Formation in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala
By Greg Grandin	46

A Historian's Brief Guide to New Museum Studies
By Randolph Starn	68

Reviews of Books and Films

METHODS/THEORY

Constantin Fasolt. The Limits of History.
By Ernst Breisach	99

Sandra Rudnick Luft. Vico's Uncanny Humanism: Reading the New Science between Modern and Postmodern.
By Carol Quillen	99

Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait, editors Theatricality.
By Peter Jelavich	100

Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin and John S. Tortorice, editors. What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe.
By Michael Berkowitz	101

Cathy A. Frierson and Samuel H. Baron, editors. Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars From the Cold War to the Present.
By Ben Eklof	102

Wendy Gamber, Michael Grossberg, and Hendrik Hartog, editors. American Public Life and the Historical Imagination.
By Glenn C. Altschuler	104

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Anthony D. Smith. Chosen Peoples.
By Donald Harman Akenson	105

Anouar Majid. Freedom and Othodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age.
By John Voll	105

Federico Garza Carvajal. Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico.
By Gretchen Starr-LeBeau	106

Lester D. Langley. The Americas in the Modern Age.
By Mark T. Gilderhus	107

Gilbert G. González. Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880–1930.
By Júgen Buchenau	108

Thomas Schoonover. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization.
By Robert E. May	109

Benedikt Stuchtey and Eckhardt Fuchs, editors. Writing World History 1800–2000.
By Lauren Benton	110

Christoph Cornelien, Lutz Klinkhammer, and Wolfgang Schwentker. Erinnerungskulturen: Deutschland, Italien und Japan seit 1945.
By Siobhan Kattago	110

Steve Marsh. Anglo-American Relations and Cold War Oil.
By Fiona Venn	112

David Caute. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War.
By James von Geldern	112

ASIA

Ye Xiaoqing. The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898.
By Madeleine Y. Dong	113

Qin Shao. Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890–1930.
By Antonia Finnane	114

Karl Gerth. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation.
By Ralph Croizier	115

Michael J. Seth. Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea.
By Dennis McNamara	116

Rudolf C. Heredia and Shereen F. Ratnagar, editors. Mobile and Marginalized Peoples: Perspectives from the Past.
By Laxman D. Satya	117

Kumari Jayawardena. Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka.
By Nihal Perera	117

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

John G. Reidet al., The "Conquest" of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions.
By Olive Patricia Dickason	118

Katie Pickles. Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.
By Adele Perry	119

Patricia E. Roy. The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914–41.
By Alicja Muszynski	120

Jonathon D. Sarna. American Judaism: A History.
By Jeffrey S. Gurock	121

Richard Wightman Fox. Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession;Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon.
By David Brakke	121

David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney, editors. Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons.
By E. Brooks Holifield	123

Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler. From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History.
By David Morgan	124

Kenneth L. Kusmer. Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History.
By Priscilla Ferguson Clement	124

Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, editors. The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History.
By Glenn Altschuler	125

Richard Cullen Rath. How Early America Sounded.
By Peter Thompson	126

Martha McCollough. Three Nations, One Place: A Comparative Ethnohistory of Social Change Among the Comanches and Hasinais During Spain's Colonial Era, 1689–1821.
By David La Vere	127

Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield.
By Guy Chet	128

T. H. Breen. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
By Jean-Christophe Agnew	129

Helen Tangires. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteeth-Century America.
By Bradley G. Bond	130

Elizabeth D. Samet. Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898.
By Andrew Burstein	131

Christopher Collier. All Politics is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution.
By Max M. Edling	132

Max M. Edling. A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State.
By Lance Banning	132

Frank W. Brecher. Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance.
By Lawrence S. Kaplan	133

William Howard Adams. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life.
By Philander D. Chase	134

James G. Cusick. The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida.
By Paul E. Hoffman	135

Colin G. Calloway. One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis And Clark.
By Dan Flores	136

Maureen Konkle. Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863.
By Lucy Maddox	137

Jill Norgren. The Cherokee Cases: Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty.
By Andrew Denson	137

Tanis C. Thorne. The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune.
By Terry P. Wilson	138

Candy Gunther Brown. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880.
By Paul Harvey	139

Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813–1895.
By David B. Parker	140

John Bezís-Selfa. Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution.
By Ronald Schultz	141

Michael J. Connolly. Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England.
By Sarah H. Gordon	142

Joel Daehnke. In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930.
By Penne Restad	142

Robert E. Abrams. Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism.
By Lawrence Buell	143

Sarah Burns. Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America.
By Gail Husch	144

Thomas Augst. The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America.
By Clyde Griffen	145

Michael Zakim. Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860.
By Patricia A. Cunningham	146

Paul E. Johnson. Sam Patch, The Famous Jumper.
By Stephen Nissenbaum	147

Lawrence B. Goodheart. Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.
By Andrew Scull	148

Steven M. Stowe. Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth Century.
By John S. Haller, Jr.	149

Alan M. Kraut. Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader.
By Sander L. Gilman	150

Nathan Stormer. Articulating Life's Memory: U.S. Medical Rhetoric about Abortion in the Nineteenth Century.
By Deborah Kuhn McGregor	150

Paul Foos. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-American War.
By Shelley Streeby	151

Barbara Cutter. Domestic Devils, Battlefield Angels: The Radicalism of American Womanhood, 1830–1865.
By Carolyn J. Lawes	152

Deborah Van Broekhaven. The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network.
By Shirley J. Yee	153

Scot French. The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory.
By Christopher Metress	154

Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.. "Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John Brown.
By Lawrence B. Goodheart	155

Melinda Lawson. Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North.
By Joan Waugh	156

Gregory J. W. Urwin, editor. Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War.
By John David Smith	157

Mitch Kachun. Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915.
By Sterling Stuckey	158

Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865.
By James M. Denham	159

James C. Klotter. Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid.
By Gail Williams O'Brien	159

Karen L. Cox. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.
By LeeAnn Whites	160

Nina Baym. American Women of Letters and the Nineteeth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation.
By George E. Webb	161

Evelyn Savidge Sterne. Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence.
By Mark S. Schantz	162

Rebecca J. Mead. How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914.
By Frank Van Nuys	163

Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford. One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930.
By Elizabeth J. Clapp	164

Derek Vaillant. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1878–1935.
By Michael Broyles	164

Virginia Scharff, editor. Seeing Nature Through Gender.
By Kenneth R. Olwig	166

Joel Tarr, editor. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region.
By Ari Kelman	167

Richard Ian Kimball. Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940.
By Clifford Putney	168

Jonathan M. Hansen. The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920.
By Robert E. Hannigan	169

Walter A. Friedman. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America.
By Susan J. Matt	169

Rob Schorman. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century.
By Jenna Weissman Joselit	170

John Fabian Witt. The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law.
By Jacob S. Hacker	171

Susan E. Hirsch. After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman.
By Shelton Stromquist	172

An Injury to One. Directed by Travis Wilkerson.
By Laurie Mercier	173

David Farber. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors.
By Stan Luger	174

Jerrold Hirsch. Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project.
By Catherine Cocks	175

Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco. Summer Stock! An American Theatrical Phenomenon.
By Richard Butsch	175

Stephanie A. Carpenter. On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II.
By Maureen Honey	176

Franklin Odo. No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i During World War II.
By Greg Robinson	177

Eduardo Obregón Pagán. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.
By Paul A. Gilje	178

Campbell Craig. Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz.
By H. W. Brands	179

Alice L. George. Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.
By Kenneth D. Rose	179

E. Melanie DuPuis. Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink.
By Harvey Levenstein	181

Sylvie Murray. The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945–1965.
By Burton J. Bledstein	181

Laughlin McDonald. A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia.
By Thomas Adams Upchurch	182

John D'Emilio. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.
By William L. Van Deburg	183

Warren Goldstein. William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience.
By Michael B. Friedland	184

Hamilton Cravens, editor. The Social Sciences Go to Washington: The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age.
By Michael E. Latham	185

Steven Harmon Wilson. The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000.
By Alexander Charns	186

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, editors. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas.
By Steven Topik	186

José Manuel Azcona Pastor. Possible Paradises: Basque Emigration to Latin America.
By José C. Moya	188

Daniel M. Masterson and Sayaka Funada-Classen. The Japanese in Latin America.
By Janet E. Worrall	188

Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero, editors. After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas.
By Eric Van Young	189

José F. Buscaglia-Salgado. Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean.
By Demetrius L. Eudell	190

Richard C. Trexler. Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa.
By Fernando Cervantes	192

Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel Maurer. The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929.
By Richard J. Salvucci	193

David G. LaFrance. Revolution in Mexico's Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913–1920.
By Francie Chassen-López	194

Robinson A. Herrera. Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala.
By Richmond F. Brown	194

Sergio Serulnikov. Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes.
By Ward Stavig	195

João José Reis. Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.
By Dain Borges	196

Noemí M. Girbal-Blacha. Mitos, paradojas y realidades en la Argentina peronista (1946–1955): Una interpretación histórica de sus decisiones político-económicas.
By Joel Horowitz	197

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Benjamin Isaac. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity.
By Mary Lefkowitz	198

Beryl Rawson. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy.
By Mary Harlow	199

Olivia Remie Constable. Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
By Harald Kleinschmidt	199

Guy Halsall, editor. Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
By Conrad Leyser	200

Céline Martin. La géographie du pouvoir dans l'Espagne visigothique.
By Teofilo F. Ruiz	201

Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, editors. Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.
By William Chester Jordan	202

Per Ingesman. Provisioner og Processer: Den romerske Rota og dens behandling af danske sager i middelalderen
Jens E. Olesen	203

Corinne Leveleux. La parole interdite: Le blasphème dans la France médiévale (XIII^e-XV^e siècles); Du péché au crime.
By James Given	204

Giovanni Ceccarelli. Il gioco e il peccato: Economia e richio nel Tardo Medioevo.
By William P. Caferro	204

Valentin Groebner. Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages.
By Daniel Baraz	205

Lisane Lavanchy. Écrire sa mort, décrire sa vie: Testaments de laîcs lausannois (1400–1450).
By Esther Cohen	206

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett. Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750.
By Raymond Grew	207

Saho Matsumoto-Best. Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution 1846–1851.
By Maura O'Connor	208

Alan S. Kahan. Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage.
By Michael Bentley	209

Johanna Gehmacher, Elizabeth Harvey, and Sophia Kemlein, editors. Zwischen Kriegen: Nationen, Nationalismen und Geschlechter-verhältnisse in Mittel- und Osteuropa 1918–1939.
By Susan Zimmermann	209

Talbot C. Imlay. Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938–1940.
By Robert Boyce	210

Roger B. Manning. Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms.
By Mark Charles Fissel	211

Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, editors. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England.
By Alexandra Halasz	212

Reid Barbour. John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England.
By Markku Peltonen	213

David R. Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England.
By J. C. Davis	214

Julie Spraggon. Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War.
By John Morrill	215

Sharon Achinstein. Literature and Dissent in Milton's England.
By John Coffey	216

A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote. The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year.
By Vanessa Harding	217

William J. Ashworth. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845.
By David Stasavage	217

Jeremy Black. Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century.
By Stephen Conway	218

Paul Kléber Monod. The Murder of Mr. Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town.
By Joel Peter Eigen	219

Timothy Shakesheff. Rural Conflict, Crime, and Protest: Herefordshire, 1800 to 1860.
By John E. Archer	220

Alyson Brown. English Society and the Prison: Time, Culture and Politics in the Development of the Modern Prison, 1850–1920.
By Seán McConville	221

Leslie A. Williams. Daniel O'Connell, the British Press, and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks.
By Christine Kinealy	221

Hera Cook. The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800–1975.
By Anna Clark	222

Marjorie Levine-Clark. Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England.
By Carolyn Malone	223

Carolyn Malone. Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England 1880–1914.
By Barbara Harrison	224

Rhonda Anne Semple. Missionary Women: Gender, Professionalism and the Victorian Idea of Christian Mission.
By Geoffrey A. Oddie	225

James H. Mills. Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800–1928.
By Carl A. Trocki	226

Vera Drake: Wife, Mother, Criminal. Directed by Mike Leigh.
By Stephen Brooke	227

Geoffrey Jensen. Irrational Triumph: Cultural Despair, Military Nationalism, and the Ideological Origins of Franco's Spain.
By Sebastian Balfour	228

Barbara Stephenson. The Power and Patronage of Maguerite de Navarre.
By Gayle K. Brunelle	229

Janis Langins. Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution.
By Alan Forrest	229

Peter Sahlins. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After.
By Sophia Rosenfeld	230

Robert Zaretsky. Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue.
By Peter McPhee	232

Kolleen Guy. When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity.
By Leora Auslander	232

Joan L. Coffey. Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer.
By Caroline Ford	233

Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall, editors. The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France.
By David H. Slavin	234

Kristen Stromberg Childers. Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914–1945.
By Jean Elisabeth Pedersen	236

Michael Bess. The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960–2000.
By Richard Kuisel	237

Beth Kreitzer. Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century.
By Lorna Jane Abray	238

Ulrike Strasser. State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State.
By Marc R. Forster	239

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie. A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany.
By Terence McIntosh	240

Erik Grimmer-Solem. The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany 1864–1894.
By Hermann Beck	241

Corinna Treitel. A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern.
By Michael Hau	241

Mark D. Karau. "Wielding the Dagger": The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914–1918.
By John H. Morrow, Jr.	242

Jonathan Wright. Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman.
By Manfred J. Enssle	243

Shelley Baranowski. Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich.
By Hartmut Berghoff	244

Christopher S. Celenza. The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy.
By Douglas Biow	245

Lawrin Armstrong. Usury and Public Debt in Early Renaissance Florence: Lorenzo Ridolfi on the Monte Comune.
By Benjamin G. Kohl	246

Serena Luzzi. Stranieri in città: Presenza tedesca e società urbana a Trento (secoli XV-XVIII).
By Paul F. Grendler	247

Gérard Pelletier. Rome et la Révolution française: La théologie et la politique du Saint-Siège devant la Révolution françiase (1789–1799).
By Norman Ravitch	248

Emilio Gentile. The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism.
By Simonetta Falasca Zamponi	248

Claudio Fogu. The Historic Imaginary: Politics of History in Fascist Italy.
By David D. Roberts	249

Jeremy King. Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848–1948.
By Scott Spector	250

Joshua D. Zimmerman. Poles, Jews and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia, 1892–1914.
By Samuel Kassow	252

Vladimir Tismaneanu. Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism.
By Padraic Kenney	253

Karel C. Berkhoff. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule.
By Christian Gerlach	254

Lisa Kirschenbaum. Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932.
By Anne E. Gorsuch	255

Julie Hessler. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953.
By David L. Hoffmann	256

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

J. G. Manning. Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure.
By Rosalie David	256

Eliezer Diamond. Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture.
By Martin A. Cohen	257

Leslie Peirce. Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab.
By Madeline C. Zilfi	258

Gabriel Piterberg. An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play.
By Alan Fisher	259

Stephanie Beswick. Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan.
By Robert O. Collins,	260

Search for Freedom. Directed by Munizae Jahangir.
By David B. Edwards	261

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Mahir �aul and Patrick Royer. West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anti-Colonial War.
By Tony Chafer	262

Nina Berman. Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa.
By Woodruff D. Smith	263

Lynn M. Thomas. Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya.
By Margaret Jean Hay	263

Timothy H. Parsons. The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa.
By Joe Lunn	264

J. M. Burns. Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe.
By N. Frank Ukadike	265

John Edwin Mason. Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa.
By Pier M. Larson	266

Collected Essays

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Eugenio Sonnino, editor.Living in the City (Fourteenth–Twentieth Centuries).	268

Norbert Finzsch and Ursula Lehmkuhl, editors.Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.	268

Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren, editors.The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment.	269

Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn, editors.Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies.	269

S. E. Wilmer, editor.Writing and Rewriting: National Theatre Histories.	269

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Thomas S. Engeman and Michael P. Zuckert, editors.Protestantism and the American Founding.	269

Robert P. Watson, editor.Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House.	270

Robert Lewis, editor.Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe.	270

Bruce E. Johansen, editor.Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies.	270

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

P. J. P. Goldberg and Felicity Riddy, editors.Youth in the Middle Ages.	270

Adrian Jobson, editor.English Government in the Thirteenth Century.	270

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Howard P. Louthan and Randall C. Zachman, editors.Conciliation and Confession: The Struggle for Unity in the Age of Reform, 1415–1648.	270

Jeffrey R. Watt, editor.From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe.	271

Jose Harris, editor.Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions.	271

Michael J. Turner, editor.Reform and Reformers in Nineteenth Century Britain.	271

Philippa Levine editor.Gender and Empire.	271

Documents and Bibliographies	272

Other Books Received	274

Communications	283

Topical Table of Contents

Administration
203, 229, 229, 230, 242, 243, 246, 256, 176, 181, 256

Anthropology/Archaeology
199

Art/Architecture
113, 124, 144

Biography
101, 102, 138, 150, 155, 202, 213, 233, 243

Body
150, 166, 205, 222

Business/Finance
139, 170, 174, 186, 197, 217

Careers/Professions
145, 149, 169, 225, 229

Childhood/Youth
255

Class
141, 147, 227

Colonial/Postcolonial
106, 113, 117, 118, 123, 126, 137, 188, 194, 196, 226, 262, 263, 265, 266

Comparative
100, 106, 110, 186, 188, 189, 207, 209, 210, 264

Constitutional
132, 134, 137

Crime/Violence
152, 155, 157, 159, 173, 178, 204, 219, 220

Cultural
192, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 108, 113, 121, 123, 124, 128, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 152, 154, 164, 170, 172, 177, 178, 179, 189, 190, 198, 199, 200, 202, 204, 205, 206, 214, 216, 219, 221, 226, 232, 237, 238, 239, 241, 244, 248, 249, 257, 259, 263, 265, 266

Demography
206

Diasporas
120, 188

Economic
112, 117, 129, 130, 142, 169, 193, 210, 232, 240, 244, 246, 256

Education/Students
145, 149

Elites
248, 169

Empire
119, 136, 143, 151, 258, 259

Environment/Landscape
117, 142, 143, 166, 167, 181

Ethnicity
121, 150, 232, 250, 260

Exploration/Travel
199

Family
199, 239, 240

Folklore
192, 200

Food
130

Foreign Relations/Diplomatic
107, 109, 112, 133, 135, 208, 218, 243

Frontier/Borderlands
108, 136, 151

Gay/Lesbian
106, 183

Gender
106, 115, 117, 131, 141, 146, 147, 152, 181, 209, 222, 229, 236, 239, 258, 261, 263

Health/Disease
148, 150, 181, 221, 223, 224, 263

Historiography
99, 107, 137, 189, 245, 248

Identity
104, 105, 117, 156, 169, 188, 198, 232

Ideology
104, 105, 110, 112, 115, 143, 181, 190, 211, 228, 233, 236, 244, 249, 253, 254, 255, 256, 265

Immigration/Migration
108, 117, 124, 162, 230, 246

Indigenous Peoples
117, 118, 128, 195, 260, 263

Industry
138, 146, 167, 172, 173, 174, 240

Institutions
116, 119, 125, 148, 160, 169, 171, 175, 176, 185, 197, 199, 203, 207, 208, 209, 218, 221, 229, 241, 248, 253

Intellectual
99, 179, 101, 102, 108, 121, 125, 137, 140, 143, 144, 161, 185, 198, 204, 209, 212, 213, 214, 241, 245, 248, 257

Labor
141, 173, 186, 223

Legal/Legislative
132, 137, 138, 159, 171, 178, 182, 199, 203, 204, 205, 217, 221, 224, 226, 227, 246

Leisure/Entertainment
164, 168

Literature
131, 142, 161, 175, 190, 200, 212, 257

Local/Regional
105, 114, 118, 120, 127, 132, 149, 153, 159, 160, 163, 164, 178, 182, 186, 189, 194, 201, 206, 219, 220, 232, 256, 258

Maritime
242

Material Culture
124, 129, 146, 174

Medicine
148, 222, 223, 227

Memory
110, 154, 173, 254, 260

Methods
101, 102, 107, 110, 125

Military
112, 131, 135, 151, 157, 177, 210

Music
126, 164

National Histories
110, 121, 188, 201, 250

Nationalism
115, 142, 156, 169, 209, 228, 230, 250, 254, 262, 265

Nobility
211, 229

Peace
184

Philanthropy
99, 124, 179, 241, 263

Political
248, 105, 107, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 131, 132, 134, 137, 142, 153, 160, 162, 163, 164, 171, 175, 181, 182, 186, 193, 194, 195, 197, 200, 207, 208, 210, 215, 217, 221, 228, 229, 233, 237, 246, 248, 249, 250, 252, 254, 264