Book Reviews

AbstractReview Essay“Regional Variations in Slavery”The African‐American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridgze: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 368, companion website. $80.00.)Slavery in the American Mountain South. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 352, companion website. $70.00.) University of Maine at Presque Isle Reviewed by John J. ZaborneyAfricaand the Middle EastSaudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939–1953. By Shafi Aldamer. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 277. $49.50.) Arizona State University Reviewed by Roger AdelsonIn Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By Nelly Hanna. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 219. $19.95.) Framingham State College Reviewed by Mona L. Russell“The Pygmies Were Our Compass”: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. By Kairn A. Klieman. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 253. $26.00.) Whitworth College Reviewed by John C. YoderThe AmericasBuilding the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919. By Robin F. Bachin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 434. $35.00.) University of Montana Reviewed by Jeff WiltseGentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. By Richard Brookhiser. (New York: Free Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 251. $26.00.) Wesleyan University Reviewed by Richard Buel, Jr.The Real Fidel Castro. By Leycester Coltman. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 335. $30.00.) University of South Florida Reviewed by Paul J. DosalWashington's Crossing. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 564. $35.00.) Reviewed by Thomas K. TateThe Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression. By Robert E. Gilbert. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. viii, 288. $67.95.) Champaign, Illinois Reviewed by John BraemanThe Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order. By Colin S. Gray. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 195. $29.95.) Old Dominion University Reviewed by Lorraine M. LeesFront Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. By Keith P. Griffler. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvi, 169. $35.00.) South Carolina State University Reviewed by Stanley HarroldLincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. By Allen C. Guelzo. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Pp. xiii, 332. $26.00.) Colby College Reviewed by Elizabeth D. LeonardThe Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. x, 363. $34.95.) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Reviewed by Steven F. LawsonDefining America through Immigration Policy. By Bill Ong Hing. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 324. $26.95.) California State University San Bernardino Reviewed by Elliott R. BarkanCasta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth‐Century Mexico. By Ilona Katzew. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 242. $60.00.) University of California, Los Angeles Reviewed by Jose C. MoyaThe Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Edited by Shawn Lay. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 230. $20.00.) Indiana University‐Purdue University, Fort Wayne Reviewed by Christine K. EricksonMaking Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England. By Anne S. Lombard. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 244. $45.00.) University of California, Berkeley Reviewed by Caroline Hinkle McCamantSlavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750–1850. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 273. $24.95.) Binghamton University Reviewed by Dale TomichReconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. By Kevin J. McMahon. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. x, 298. $20.00.) Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Reviewed by Timothy Walch“Lest We Be Marshall’d”: Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 1806–1812. By Donald F. Melhorn, Jr. (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 291. $44.95.) Kent State University, Stark Campus Reviewed by Thomas C. SosnowskiThe Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. By Richard S. Newman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 256. $18.95.) Goucher College Reviewed by Julie Roy JeffreyNo Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai’i during World War II. By Franklin Odo. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 328. $19.95.) Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Reviewed by Robert ShafferWinfield Scott and the Profession of Arms. By Allan Peskin. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 328. $49.00.) United States Air Force Academy Reviewed by Jeanne T. HeidlerRethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919–1923. By Todd J. Pfannestiel. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. v, 189. $79.95.) Texas A&M University at Galveston Reviewed by James G. RyanThreatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. By David Price. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 426. $23.95.) University of California, Berkeley Reviewed by Laura NaderModernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn‐of‐the‐Century Argentina. By Kristin Ruggiero. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 244. $49.50.) University of California at Los Angeles Reviewed by Adrian Lopez DenisBeing Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Pp. x, 38. $16.50.) Georgia College Reviewed by Lee Ann CaldwellChurch and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City. By Patience A. Schell. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. Pp. 290. $50.00.) University of Utah Reviewed by Susie S. PorterCrucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. By Andrew Shankman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. vii, 298. $34.95.) Elizabethtown College Reviewed by David S. BrownFranklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court. Edited by Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. Pp. 271. $22.95.) State University of New York, Fredonia Reviewed by Kevin J. McMahonThe Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America. By William M. Shea. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 402. $35.00.) Mississippi University for Women Reviewed by William R. GlassThe Life and Times of Mexico. By Earl Shorris. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. xviii, 743. $29.95.) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Reviewed by Mark WassermanParty Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 352. $22.50.) San Francisco State University Reviewed by Robert W. ChernyThe Philadelphia Campaign, 1777–1778. By Stephen R. Taaffe. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 336. $35.00.) University of Oklahoma Reviewed by Paul A. GiljeThree Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. By J. Samuel Walker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 303. $24.95.) Central Washington University Reviewed by Thomas R. WellockThe Beecher Sisters. By Barbara A. White. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 399. $35.00.) Elmira College Reviewed by Myra C. GlennHeir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government. By Gary V. Wood. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. vii, 249. $70.00.) Cornell College Reviewed by M. Philip LucasThe Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Penguin, 2004. Pp. ix, 286. $25.95.) University of Montevallo Reviewed by David T. MorganAsiaandthe PacificMaritime India. By Holden Furber, Sinnappah Arasaratnam, and Kenneth McPherson. With an introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 1074. $65.00.) State University of New York at Fredonia Reviewed by Markus VinkSubotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xii, 164. $39.95.) Kansas State University Reviewed by David A. GraffHinduism: Past and Present. By Axel Michaels. Translated by Barbara Harshav. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 429. $19.95.) Ohio Wesleyan University Reviewed by R. Blake MichaelThe Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. By Mark Ravina. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Pp. xvi, 265. $24.95.) Earlham College Reviewed by Charles L. YatesFire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China. By Ralph D. Sawyer. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. Pp. x, 445. $26.00.) Kansas State University Reviewed by David A. GraffEuropePriests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750. By Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 390. $30.00.) University of Western Ontario Reviewed by Michael P. CarrollThe Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages. By Robert Bartlett. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 168. $24.95.) University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Reviewed by Joyce E. SalisburyLandscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience. By Susan Guettel Cole. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 292. $45.00.) Cornell University Reviewed by Laura GawlinskiEmperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium. By Gilbert Dagron. Translated by Jean Birrell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 337. $75.00.) Rutgers University Reviewed by Tia M. KolbabaThe Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century. By Catherine Epstein. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 322. $29.25.) University of Strathclyde Reviewed by Conan J. FischerThe Coming of the Third Reich. By Richard J. Evans. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 622. $34.95.) Denison University Reviewed by Donald G. SchillingDefending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938. By Carole Fink. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 448. $80.00.) American University Reviewed by Eric LohrThe Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus. By Owen Gingerich. (New York: Walker and Company, 2004. Pp. xii, 306. $25.00.) Western Washington University Reviewed by Michael E. HobartCold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953. By Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 248. $35.00.) University of Glasgow Reviewed by Simon BallByzantium and the Crusades. By Jonathan Harris. (London: Hambledon, 2003. Pp. xvii, 259. $29.95.) Alma College Reviewed by Paul CrawfordComparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish–American War. By Jonathan Hart. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Pp. vi, 192. $59.95.) University of Kentucky Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce Reviewed by John D. StempelThe Nazi Conscience. By Claudia Koonz. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2003. Pp. 362. $29.95.) The University of Scranton Reviewed by F. X. J. HomerThe Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650–1831. By John P. LeDonne. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 261. $60.00.) University of Houston Reviewed by Victor L. MoteGreek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths. By Mary Lefkowitz. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 288. $30.00.) University of Arkansas Reviewed by Daniel B. LevineElizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett‐Graves. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii, 282. $79.95.) University of Liverpool Reviewed by Anne McLarenSwordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms. By Roger B. Manning. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 272. $72.00.) North Carolina State University Reviewed by Charles CarltonThe Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary 1750–1850. By Sarah Maza. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 255. $39.95.) Ohio University Reviewed by Douglas C. BaxterThe Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany. Edited by Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 299. $60.00.) Drexel University Reviewed by Eric BroseThe People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. Edited by Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 268. $65.00.) University of Manchester Reviewed by Bertrand TaitheThe Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. By Alex Owen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 355. $30.00.) Saint Vincent College Reviewed by Rene KollarThe Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle. By Anthony Read. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Pp. 984. $34.95.) University of Akron Reviewed by Shelley BaranowskiSolovki: The Story of Russia Told through Its Most Remarkable Islands. By Roy R. Robson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 296. $30.00.) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Reviewed by Donald J. RaleighProvincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661–1790. By Julian Swann. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 460. $85.00.) The Johns Hopkins University Reviewed by Orest RanumThe Victorians. By A. N. Wilson. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xii, 724. $17.50.) University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Reviewed by Walter L. ArnsteinGeneral, Comparative, HistoriographicalThing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. By Davis Baird. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 273. $65.00.) Tennessee Technological University Reviewed by George E. WebbThe Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War. By David Caute. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 788. $39.95.) University of Glasgow Reviewed by Simon BallGetting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressive Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. By Kieran Egan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 204. $16.00.) New York Law School Reviewed by Edward A. Purcell, Jr.The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. By Robert William Fogel. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 191. $23.99.) University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee Reviewed by Bruce FetterWar and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present. By Michael S. Neiberg. (New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 199. $27.95.) United States Military Academy Reviewed by Eugenia C. KieslingThe Global Eighteenth Century. Edited by Felicity A. Nussbaum. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 385. $55.00.) Adelphi University Reviewed by Armstrong StarkeyWhat History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe. Edited by Stanley Payne, David J. Sorkin, and John S. Tortorice. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 292. $19.95.) Boston College Reviewed by Paul Breines

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