• DOI:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00122.x
• Corpus ID: 218500122

Book Reviews

@article{2005BookR,
  title={Book Reviews},
  author={},
  journal={The Historian},
  year={2005},
  volume={67},
  pages={507 - 593}
}

• Published 1 September 2005
• History
• The Historian

Review 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. Zaborney Africaand the Middle East Saudi 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 Adelson In 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. Yoder The Americas Building 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 Wiltse Gentleman 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. Dosal Washington's Crossing. By David Hackett Fischer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 564. $35.00.) 
Reviewed by Thomas K. Tate The 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 Braeman The 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. Lees Front 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 Harrold Lincoln'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. Leonard The 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. Lawson Defining 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. Barkan Casta 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. Moya The 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. Erickson Making 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 McCamant Slavery 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 Tomich Reconsidering 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. Sosnowski The 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 Jeffrey No 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 Shaffer Winfield 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. Heidler Rethinking 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. Ryan Threatening 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 Nader Modernity 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 Denis Being 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 Caldwell Church 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. Porter Crucible 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. Brown Franklin 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. McMahon The 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. Glass The 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 Wasserman Party 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. Cherny The 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. Gilje Three 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. Wellock The Beecher Sisters. By Barbara A. White. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 399. $35.00.) 
Elmira College
Reviewed by Myra C. Glenn Heir 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 Lucas The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Penguin, 2004. Pp. ix, 286. $25.95.) 
University of Montevallo
Reviewed by David T. Morgan Asiaandthe Pacific Maritime 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 Vink Subotai 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. Graff Hinduism: 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 Michael The 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. Yates Fire 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. Graff Europe Priests, 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. Carroll The 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. Salisbury Landscapes, 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
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