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Vol. 110, No. 2

APRIL 2005



In This Issue xiii


Articles

The Demise of Distance: The Business Press and the Origins of the Information Revolution in the Early Modern Atlantic World
By John J. McCusker 295

Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy
By Saliha Belmessous 322

Notaries, Truth, and Consequences
By Kathryn Burns 350

Indolence and Regeneration: Tropes and Tensions of Risorgimento Patriotism
By Silvana Patriarca 380

Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa
By Gregory Mann 409


Reviews of Books and Films

METHODS/THEORY

Alfred Hiatt. The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England.
By Nick Groom 435

John Ernest. Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861.
By Dwight A. McBride 436

Peter Fritzsche. Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History.
By Michael S. Roth 436

Dominick LaCapra. History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory.
By Bryan D. Palmer 437

Miguel A. Cabrera. Postsocial History: An Introduction.
By Mariana Valverde 438


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Gloria P. Totoricagüena. Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora.
By Angel Smith 439

Juan Javier Pescador. The New World Inside a Basque Village: The Oiartzun Valley and Its Atlantic Emigrants, 1550–1800.
By Carla Rahn Phillips 440

James Pritchard. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730.
By Leslie Choquette 441

Jennifer L. Morgan. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery.
By Barbara Bush 442

Philip Gould. Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
By Trevor Burnard 443

Peter H. Lindert. Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century.
By Daniel Levine 444

Thomas P. Hughes. Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture.
By Paul Josephson 445

Elliot Young. Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border.
By Don M. Coerver 446

Howard Phillips and David Killingray, editors. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19: New Perspectives.
By W. F. Bynum 446

Ibrahim Sundiata. Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940.
By Yaacov Shavit 447

Richard Schweitzer. The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt among British and American Great War Soldiers.
By Allen J. Frantzen 448

The Holocaust Experience. Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk.
By Antony Polonsky 449

Death Squadrons: The French School. Directed by Marie-Monique Robin.
By Ariel C. Armony 450

ASIA

Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937.
By Barbara Mittler 451

Barbara Mittler. A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media, 1872–1912.
By Elizabeth Sinn 452

Xiaoyuan Liu. Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921–1945.
By Patricia Stranahan 453

Hans J. van de Ven. War and Nationalism in China, 1925–1945.
By R. Keith Schoppa 453

Andrew R. Wilson. Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880–1916.
By Colin Mackerras 454

Susan L. Burns. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan.
By Mark McNally 455

Ray A. Moore and Donald L. Robinson. Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur.
By Roger Buckley 456

Manu Goswami. Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space.
By Gyan Prakash 457

OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Giselle Byrnes. The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History.
By Paul Moon 457

Liz Conor. The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s.
By Raelene Frances 458

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Jerry Bannister. The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699–1832.
By David Murray 459

David A. E. Shephard. Island Doctor: John Mackieson and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island.
By Wendy Mitchinson 460

Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond, editors. "Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph": Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities.
By Sarah E. Gardner 461

Stephanie Cole and Alison M. Parker, editors. Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest..
By Linda W. Reese 462

Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, editors. African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000.
By Albert S. Broussard 463

Ronald Radano. Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music.
By Derek W. Vaillant 464

Michael Broyles. Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music.
By Burton W. Peretti 465

Arnaldo Testi. Stelle e strisce: Storia di Una Bandiera.
By Mario Maffi 466

Warren M. Billings. A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century.
By James Horn 467

Warren R. Hofstra. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shendoah Valley.
By Jack Temple Kirby 468

Patricia E. Rubertone. Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians.
By Peter C. Mancall 468

Nancy Shoemaker. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America.
By Theda Perdue 469

Emily Bingham. Mordecai: An Early American Family.
By Debra Renee Kaufman 470

Susan M. Stabile. Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America.
By Tamara Plakins Thornton 471

Gretchen Townsend Buggeln. Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut's Churches, 1790–1840.
By Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe 472

Nora Pat Small. Beauty and Convenience: Architecture and Order in the New Republic.
By James M. Lindgren 472

Susan Dunn. Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism.
By James Roger Sharp 473

Peter J. Kastor. The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America.
By Gregory Nobles 474

Kris Fresonke and Mark Spence, editors. Lewis and Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives.
By Colin G. Calloway 475

Thomas Hallock. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826.
By John L. Allen 476

Sterling F. Delano. Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia.
By Carl J. Guarneri 477

Peter Kafer. Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic..
By Judith Richardson 478

Lorien Foote. Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform.
By John L. Thomas 479

Stephen P. Rice. Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America.
By Lawrence A. Peskin 480

Angela Lakwete. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America.
By W. Bernard Carlson 481

Bridget T. Heneghan. Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination.
By Laurie A. Wilkie 482

Michael O'Brien. Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860.
By Douglas Ambrose 482

Michael P. Carroll. The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico.
By Timothy Matovina 484

The Alamo. Directed by John Lee Hancock; Remember the Alamo. Directed by Joseph Tovares.
By Randall M. Miller 485

Keith P. Griffler. Frontline of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley..
By Graham Russell Gao Hodges 486

Michael Wayne. Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South.
By Dennis C. Rousey 487

Jeffrey N. Lash. A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut.
By James I. Robertson, Jr. 488

Jane E. Schultz. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America.
By Lyde Cullen Sizer 489

James Marten. Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front.
By Joan Gittens 489

Jacqueline Glass Campbell. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.
By Stephanie M. H. Camp 490

Michael A. Ross. Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era.
By Ronald Kahn 491

Richard H. Abbott. For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South.
By William Warren Rogers, Jr. 492

Mark Warren Bailey. Guardians of the Moral Order: The Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860–1910.
By Herman Belz 493

Earl M. Maltz. The Fourteenth Amendment and the Law of the Constitution.
By Xi Wang 494

Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt. The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform.
By Leonard Carlson 495

Joel Pfister. Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern.
By Michael C. Coleman 496

Alecia P. Long. The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920.
By John C. Rodrigue 497

Anne E. Mosher. Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift Pennsylvania, 1855–1916.
By Kenneth C. Wolensky 498

James R. Shortridge. Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas.
By David G. Schwartz 499

Eugene P. Moehring. Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890.
By William G. Robbins 500

Jon A. Peterson. The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917.
By Joseph C. Bigott 500

Werner Troesken. Water, Race, and Disease.
By Kenneth F. Kiple 501

Thomas Adams Upchurch. Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow.
By Kenneth C. Barnes 502

Patricia Beard. After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party that Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905.
By James Hoopes 503

Russell A. Kazal. Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity.
By Philip Gleason 504

Diana B. Turk. Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870–1920.
By Sara Alpern 505

Andrea Hamilton. A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School.
By William W. Cutler III 506

Tracey Jean Boisseau. White Queen: May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity.
By Kathleen A. Laughlin 507

Leigh Ann Wheeler. Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935.
By Randy D. McBee 508

David S. Tanenhaus. Juvenile Justice in the Making.
By Anne Meis Knupfer 509

Peter R. D'Agostino. Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascicm.
By Mary Jo Weaver 509

Penny Schine Gold. Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America.
By Paul Gutjahr 510

John Bodnar. Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film.
By Thomas Doherty 511

Emily Rosenberg. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory.
By Michael J. Hogan 512

Robert O. Kirkland. Observing Our Hermanos De Armas: U.S Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950–1964.
By Louis R. Sadler 513

Emilie Stoltzfus. Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War.
By Sylvie Murray 514

Karal Ann Marling. Debutante: Rites and Regalia of American Debdom.
By Carolyn Kitch 515

Jonathan Michel Metzl. Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs.
By Ellen Herman 515

Shaul E. Cohen. Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America.
By Stephen Haycox 516

Adam Rome. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
By Michael F. Logan 517

Hal K. Rothman. The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism.
By Lisa Benton-Short 518

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

Kathleen Ann Myers. Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America.
By Nancy E. van Deusen 519

Jenny Sharpe. Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives.
By Carole Boyce Davies 520

Laurent Dubois. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804.
By Daniel Gordon 521

Paul Sullivan. Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan.
By Terry Rugeley 522

Richard Weiner. Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexio.
By Mark Wasserman 523

Virginia Mora Carvajal. Rompiendo mitos y forjando historia: Mujeres urbanas y relaciones de género en Costa Rica a inicios del siglo XX.
By Ericka Kim Verba 524

Arlene J. Díaz. Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786–1904.
By Teresa Meade 524

Laura de Mello e Souza. The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil.
By James H. Sweet 525

Patricia R. Pessar. From Fanatics To Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture.
By R. Andrew Chesnut 526

Hendrik Kraay. Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s.
By Andrew J. Kirkendall 527

Todd A. Diacon. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930.
By Shawn Smallman 528

Kristin Ruggiero. Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina.
By Diego Armus 529

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Ingomar Weiler. Die Beendigung des Sklavenstatus im Altertum: Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Sozialgeschichte.
By J. Albert Harrill 530

Pierre Brulé. Women of Ancient Greece.
By Page duBois 531

Martha L. Rose. The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece.
By Lesley Dean-Jones 531

Nicholas F. Jones. Rural Athens Under the Democracy.
By Robert Garland 532

Alexander. Directed by Oliver Stone.
By Ian Worthington 533

Simon MacLean. Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire.
By Warren Brown 534

Leonora Neville. Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950–1100.
By Michael Angold 535

Jeffrey A. Bowman. Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000.
By Donald J. Kagay 536

Teofilo F. Ruiz. From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350.
By David Coleman 537

Paul R. Hyams. Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England.
By Anthony Musson 538

Martin Heale. The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries.
By Megan Cassidy-Welch 538

Robert Bartlett. The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages.
By Patricia Clare Ingham 539

Dyan Elliott. Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages.
By John Coakley 540

Kathryn L. Reyerson. The Art of the Deal: Intermediaries of Trade in Medieval Montpellier.
By Joëlle Rollo-Koster 541

Gerard Nijsten. In the Shadow of Burgundy: The Court of Guelders in the Late Middle Ages.
By Walter Prevenier 542

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. L'Arbre des familles.
By Richard C. Trexler 543

Richard Barber. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief.
By Jane Chance 543

Peter Burke. Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe.
By Margaret C. Jacob 544

William R. Newman. Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature.
By John Hedley Brooke 545

Harold Mah. Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750–1914.
By Sarah Maza 546

John D. Grainger. The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte, 1801–1803.
By Jeremy Black 547

Patricia A. Weitsman. Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War.
By Michael Jabara Carley 548

Michael Mann. Fascists.
By Robert J. Soucy 549

Richard Wolin. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism.
By Dagmar Barnouw 550

Sarah Covington. The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England.
By Christopher Haigh 551

Clare Kellar. Scotland, England, and the Reformation: 1534–61.
By Andrew Pettegree 551

Alan Harding. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion: A Sect in Action in Eighteenth-Century England.
By D. Bruce Hindmarsh 552

Finding Neverland. Directed by Marc Forster.
By John C. Tibbetts 553

Janet S. K. Watson. Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain.
By Sonya O. Rose 554

Mark Connelly. We Can Take It! Britain and the Memory of the Second World War;Donald Thomas. The Enemy Within: Hucksters, Rocketeers, Deserters and Civilians during the Second World War.
By Robert Mackay 555

Frances Finnegan. Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland.
By Maria Luddy 557

Peter Hart. The I. R. A. at War: 1916–1923.
By Peter Neumann 557

Fernando Bouza. Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain.
By James S. Amelang 558

Renato Barahona. Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528–1735.
By Susan Kellogg 559

Hilary Bernstein. Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers.
By Robert A. Schneider 560

Kathleen Wellman. Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot 1633–1642.
By Deborah E. Harkness 561

Charles Coulston Gillispie. Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years.
By Josef W. Konvitz 562

Suzanne Desan. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.
By Brian E. Strayer 563

Richard D. E. Burton. Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840–1970.
By Elinor Accampo 564

Ronald K. Rittgers. The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany.
By Craig Koslofsky 564

George S. Williamson. The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche.
By Benjamin C. Sax 565

Richard Weikart. From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany.
By Andrew Zimmerman 566

Benjamin Carter Hett. Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin.
By Elaine Spencer 567

Irene Guenther. Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich.
By Dagmar Herzog 568

Winfried Süß. Der "Volkskörper" im Krieg: Gesundheitspolitik, Gesundheitsverhältnisse und Krankenmord im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland 1939–1945.
By Paul Weindling 569

Stephen G. Fritz. Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich.
By Eleanor Hancock 570

Anthony D. Kauders. Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945–1965.
By Y. Michal Bodemann 571

Alaric Searle. Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949–1959.
By Donald Abenheim 572

James C. van Hook. Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945–1957.
By A. J. Nicholls 573

Alfred C. Mierzejewski. Ludwig Erhard: A Biography.
By Michael L. Hughes 573

David F. Crew, editor. Consuming Germany in the Cold War.
By Michael Wildt 574

Pertti Ahonen. After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945–1990.
By Ronald J. Granieri 575

Jeannette Z. Madarász. Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989: A Precarious Stability.
By Peter Grieder 576

Ian Reifowitz. Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846–1919.
By Alan Sked 577

Maureen Healy. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I.
By István Deák 577

Nancy Bisaha. Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks.
By John Tolan 578

Lorenzo Polizzotto. Children of the Promise: The Confraternity of the Purification and the Socialization of Youths in Florence 1427–1785.
By Brian Pullan 579

K. J. P. Lowe. Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy.
By Monica Chojnacka 580

Bradley F. Abrams. The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism.
By Nancy M. Wingfield 581

Árpád von Klimó. Nation, Konfession, Geschichte: Zur nationalen Geschichtskultur Ungarns im europäischen Kontext, 1860–1948.
By Pál Hatos 582

Patrice M. Dabrowski. Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland.
By Marci Shore 583

Antony Polonsky and Joanna B. Michlic, editors. The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland;Jonathan Huener. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration 1945–1979.
By Keely Stauter-Halsted 583

Maria Todorova, editor. Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory.
By Melissa Bokovoy 585

John P. LeDonne. The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650–1831.
By David M. Goldfrank 586

Chris J. Chulos. Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861–1917.
By David Moon 587

Matthew Lenoe. Closer to the Masses: Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers.
By Jeffrey Brooks 588

Kate Brown. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland.
By Katherine R. Jolluck 589

Enemy of the People: Armenians Look Back at the Stalin Terror. Directed by Zareh Tjeknavorian.
By Rubina Peroomian 589


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

S. S. Hasan. Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality.
By Ralph M. Coury 590

Elie Podeh and Onn Winckler, editors. Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt.
By Joel Beinin 591

Michael M. Laskier. Israel and the Maghreb: From Statehood to Oslo.
By Bernard Reich 592


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar. Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa.
By Thomas Spear 593

Jean Allman, editor. Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress.
By Allen F. Roberts 594

Kairn A. Klieman. "The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E.
By Ch. Didier Gondola 595

Erik Gilbert. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970.
By Gwyn Campbell 596

William Beinart. The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment, 1770–1950.
By Jock McCulloch 597


Collected Essays

METHODS/THEORY

Mark Salber Phillips and Gordon Schochet, editors.Questions of Tradition. 599

Peter Seixas, editor.Theorizing Historical Consciousness. 599


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann, editors.Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World. 599

David R. Green and Alastair Owens, editors.Gender, Property, and Inheritance since the Seventeenth Century. 599

David Odell-Scott, editor.Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions. 600

Rana Mitter and Patrick Major, editors.Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social History. 600


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Lloyd Chiasson, Jr., editor.Illusive Shadows: Justice, Media, and Socially Significant American Trials. 600

Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, editors.The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. 600

Martin Schiesl, editor.Responsible Liberalism: Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and Reform Government in California 1958–1967. 600

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

P. S. Barnwell and Marco Mostert, editors.Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages. 601

Susan J. Ridyard, editor.The Medieval Crusade. 601

Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk, editors."A Great Effusion of Blood"? Interpreting Medieval Violence. 601

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes, editors.Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe. 601

Clarissa Campbell Orr, editor.Queenship in Europe, 1660–1815: The Role of the Consort. 601

Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor, editors.Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-national Perspective. 602

Dominik Geppert, editor.The Postwar Challenge: Cultural, Social, and Political Change in Western Europe, 1945–58. 602

Betsey Taylor FitzSimons and James H. Murphy, editors.The Irish Revival Reappraised. 602

Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, editors.Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas. 602

Karin Hartewig and Alf Lüdtke, editors.Die DDR im Bild: Zum Gebrauch der Fotografie im anderen deutschen Staat. 603

Matteo Sanfilippo, Alexander Koller, and Giovanni Pizzorusso, editors.Gli archive della Santa Sede e il mondo asburgico nella prima età moderna. 603

Angiolina Arru and Franco Ramella, editors.L'Italia delle migrazioni interne: Donne, uomini, mobilityà in età moderna e contemporanea. 603


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm, editors.Urbanization and African Cultures. 603


Documents and Bibliographies 605

Other Books Received 609

Communications 618


Topical Table of Contents

Administration
500, 534, 535, 538, 542, 560, 562, 573, 597

Agriculture
468, 597

Anthropology/Archaeology
468, 482

Art/Architecture
445, 472, 500

Biography
460, 477, 478, 479, 488, 491, 507, 519, 528, 533, 534, 552, 553, 573, 577, 589

Body
458, 520, 529, 531, 564, 569, 594

Business/Finance
451, 452, 454, 503, 541, 573

Careers/Professions
489, 538, 541, 572

Childhood/Youth
489, 509, 510, 579

Class
480, 511, 515, 537, 554

Colonial/Postcolonial
441, 447, 457, 459, 467, 468, 469, 484, 496, 519, 521, 524, 525, 527, 596

Comparative
442, 444, 445, 446, 449, 530, 543, 549, 593

Constitutional
456, 493, 494, 502

Crime/Violence
450, 487, 503, 509, 522, 529, 538, 555, 559, 567

Cultural
435, 436, 438, 439, 443, 448, 451, 452, 455, 457, 458, 464, 465, 466, 469, 471, 476, 478, 480, 482, 496, 497, 503, 504, 510, 512, 515, 516, 520, 521, 522, 526, 531, 538, 539, 540, 543, 544, 546, 554, 555, 558, 564, 565, 567, 568, 574, 577, 578, 580, 581, 583, 587, 594

Demography
532

Diasporas
439, 447, 544

Economic
444, 523, 535, 537, 541, 573, 574, 596

Education/Students
449, 496, 505,506, 561, 579

Elites
454, 482, 542

Empire
441, 456, 457, 500, 507, 533, 534, 535, 577, 586

Environment/Landscape
476, 516, 517, 518, 597

Ethnicity
440, 447, 453, 462, 470, 484, 486, 504, 522, 523, 571, 577, 578, 589, 589, 595

Exploration/Travel
475

Family
470, 514, 543, 563

Film/Photography
450, 458, 485, 511, 533

Folklore
436, 526, 543, 565

Foreign Relations/Diplomatic
456, 474, 507, 509, 513, 547, 548, 575, 592,

Frontiers/Borderlands
446, 462, 468, 476, 485, 500

Gender
442, 458, 462, 515, 519, 520, 524, 531, 540, 554, 559, 563, 594

Genocide
449, 583

Health/Disease
446, 501, 529, 531, 569

Historiography
436, 437, 438, 455, 457, 550, 565, 582, 583, 585, 591

Identity
437, 439, 453, 454, 455, 461, 504, 508, 546, 577, 578, 585, 595

Ideology
453, 455, 509, 549, 550, 566, 570, 571, 574, 576, 581, 588

Immigration/Migration
439, 440, 447, 454, 575, 592, 595

Indigenous Peoples
441, 457, 468, 469, 485, 495, 496, 595

Industry
480, 481, 498, 568

Institutions
461, 467, 473, 484, 500, 503, 505, 506, 509, 513, 518, 529, 530, 532, 538, 542, 552, 557, 559, 562, 572, 580, 590

Intellectual
435, 436, 436, 437, 445, 478, 482, 493, 523, 545, 546, 549, 550, 562, 565, 566, 578

Journalism
451, 452, 492, 495, 567, 588

Labor
477, 480, 498, 511

Language/Linguistic
544

Legal/Legislative
435, 456, 457, 459, 467, 487, 491, 493, 494, 495, 497, 502, 509, 524, 530, 536, 538, 539, 551, 559, 563, 567

Literature
436, 443, 476, 478, 510, 520, 531, 543, 553, 558

Local/Regional
440, 459, 460, 461, 463, 467, 468, 472, 482, 485, 486, 492, 498, 499, 504, 526, 536, 560, 564, 587, 596

Maritime
459