H-Net reviews posted to the web 09 Mar 2009 – 23 Mar 2009

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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 09 Mar 2009 and 23 Mar 2009.

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Lisa Aronson
Bay, Edna G.. _Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in
African Art_. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv
+ 186 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03255-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23030

Reviewed for H-Africa by Kalala Ngalamulume
Wright, Donald R.. _World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A
History of Globalizaion in Niumi, The Gambia, The_. Second
Edition. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 368 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
7656-1008-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24284

Reviewed for H-Albion by Antoine Capet
Renton, James. _Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-
Zionist Alliance 1914-1918, The_. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2007. xi + 231 pp. , ISBN 978-0-230-54718-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24250

Reviewed for H-Albion by Bruce P. Lenman
Macinnes, Allan I.. _Union and Empire: The Making of the United
Kingdom in 1707_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
xv + 382 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85079-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23000

Reviewed for H-Albion by Geordan Hammond
Cox, Jeffrey. British Missionary Enterprise since 1700, The.
New York: Routledge, 2008. xii + 315 pp. $150.00, ISBN 978-0-
415-09004-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23002

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Mark Miller
Anderson, Terry L.; Benson, Bruce L.; Flanagan, Thomas E., eds..
Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Illustrations. 352 pp.
, ISBN 978-0-8047-5441-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23996

Reviewed for H-Appalachia by Kevin Barksdale
Eller, Ronald D.. Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 376 pp. $29.95,
ISBN 978-0-8131-2523-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23682

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Albert Welter
Adamek, Wendi L.. _Mystique of Transmission: On Early Chan
History and Its Contexts, The_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2007. 448 pp. $51.50, ISBN 978-0-231-13664-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23373

Reviewed for H-Canada by Brandon Dimmel
Cook, Tim. _Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-
1918_. Volume 2. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2008. viii + 727 pp.
$40.00, ISBN 978-0-670-06735-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24290

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Kevin Corbin
Bender, Robert Patrick. _Like Grass before the Scythe: The Life
and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry_.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xiv + 177 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1552-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24342

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Margaret Storey
Durham, David I.. _Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry
Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892, A_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2008. xv + 241 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-
3328-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24341

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Robert Thompson
Holzer, Harold; Gabbard, Sara Vaughn, eds.. _Lincoln and Freedom:
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment_. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. 280 pp. $34.95, ISBN
978-0-8093-2764-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24317

Reviewed for H-Environment by Megan Jones
Wellock, Thomas Raymond. _Preserving the Nation: The Conservation
and Environmental Movements, 1870-2000_. The American History
Series. Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2007. 384 pp. $21.95, ISBN
978-0-88295-254-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24098

Reviewed for H-Genocide by John Gesick
Yarbrough, Fay A.. _Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in
the Nineteenth Century_. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2008. x + 184 pp. , ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23044

Reviewed for H-German by Andrew Reeves
Clemens, Raymond; Graham, Timothy. _Introduction to Manuscript
Studies_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xvi + 301 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-3863-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24063

Reviewed for H-German by Brian Ladd
Thijs, Krijn. _Drei Geschichten, eine Stadt: die Berliner
Stadtjubiläen von 1937 und 1987_. Cologne: Böhlau, 2008. 378 pp.
, ISBN 978-3-412-14406-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23093

Reviewed for H-German by Charles West
Barnish, S. J. B.; Marazzi, Federico, eds.; Stress., Center for
Interdisciplinary Research on Social. _Ostrogoths From the
Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic
Perspective, The_. Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007. 497 pp. , ISBN 978-1-84383-074-
0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24006

Reviewed for H-German by Daniel T. Bullard
Berman, Nina. _Impossible Missions?: German Economic, Military
and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa_. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2004. 271 pp. , ISBN 978-0-8032-1334-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15672

Reviewed for H-German by Dieter K. Buse
Williams, John A.. _Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism,
and Conservation, 1900-1940_. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2007. x + 354 pp. , ISBN 978-0-8047-0015-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23785

Reviewed for H-German by Emily Pugh
Biskup, Thomas; Schalenberg, Marc; eds. _Selling Berlin:
Imagebildung und Stadtmarketing von der preußischen Residenz bis
zur Bundeshauptstadt_. Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte und
Urbanisierungsforschung. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.
356 pp. , ISBN 978-3-515-08952-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23841

Reviewed for H-German by Erik Jensen
Erenberg, Lewis. _Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs.
Schmeling., The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii
+ 274 pp. , ISBN 978-0-19-531999-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23827

Reviewed for H-German by Frank B. (Ben) Tipton
Eichengreen, Barry. _European Economy since 1945: Coordinated
Capitalism and Beyond, The_. The Princeton Economic History of
the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
504 pp. , ISBN 978-0-691-12710-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15658

Reviewed for H-German by Georg Menz
Sinn, Hans-Werner. _Can Germany Be Saved?: The Malaise of the
World's First Welfare State_. Boston: MIT Press, 2007. xvi + 338
pp. , ISBN 978-0-262-19558-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23729

Reviewed for H-German by Ian Armour
Cole, Laurence; Unowsky, Daniel L., eds. _Limits of Loyalty:
Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in
the Late Habsburg Monarchy, The_. Austrian and Habsburg Studies.
New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. viii + 246 pp. , ISBN 978-1-
84545-202-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15655

Reviewed for H-German by Jay Lockenour
Wiggenhorn, Harald. _Verliererjustiz: Die Leipziger
Kriegsverbrecherprozesse nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg_. Studien Zur
Geschichte des Völkerrechts. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2005. xv
+ 548 pp. , ISBN 978-3-8329-1538-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23821

Reviewed for H-German by Jeffrey R. Smith
Dowling, Timothy C.. Brusilov Offensive, The. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2008. xxv + 208 pp. Illustrations
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35130-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24057

Reviewed for H-German by Matthew D. Thrond
Fudge, John D.. Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation.
The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD:
Peoples, Economies, and Cultures. Leiden: Brill, 2007. ix + 289
pp. , ISBN 978-90-04-15662-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23084

Reviewed for H-German by Norman J.W. Goda
Salter, Michael. _Nazi War Crimes: Intelligence Agencies and
Selective Legal Accountability_. Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish,
2007. ix + 458 pp. , ISBN 978-1-904385-81-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23948

Reviewed for H-German by Oliver Walton
Weber, Thomas. _Our Friend "The Enemy": Elite Education in
Britain and Germany before World War I_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2007. 360 pp. , ISBN 978-0-8047-0014-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23755

Reviewed for H-German by Peter Hayes
Lund, Joachim. _Working for the New Order: European Business
under German Domination, 1939-1945_. Odense: University Press of
Southern Denmark, 2006. 192 pp. , ISBN 978-87-7674-105-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15668

Reviewed for H-German by Ralph R. Menning
Schwanitz, Wolfgang G., ed.. _Deutschland und der Mittlere
Osten_. Comparativ: Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte
und vergleichender Gesellschaftsforschung. Leipzig: Leipziger
Universitätsverlag, 2004. 186 pp. , ISBN 978-3-937209-48-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23715

Reviewed for H-German by Sarah E. Wobick
Torberg, Friedrich. _Tante Jolesch: or, The Decline of the West
in Anecdotes_. Translated by Maria Poglitsch Bauer. Afterword by
Sonat Birnecker Hart. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2008. 240 pp. ,
ISBN 978-1-57241-149-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24054

Reviewed for H-German by Thomas Weber
Schramm, Martin. _Das Deutschlandbild in der britischen Presse
1912-1919_. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007. 598 pp. , ISBN 978-
3-05-004422-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23083

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Andrew Janco
Gregory, Paul R.. _Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to
Stalin_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. viii + 346 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-13425-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23648

Reviewed for H-Ideas by Andrea Orzoff
Wingfield, Nancy M.; Bucur, Maria, eds.. _Gender and War in
Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe_. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2006. x + 251 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-
21844-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23419

Reviewed for H-Japan by John E. Van Sant
Spector, Ronald H.. _In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese
Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia_. New York: Random
House Trade Paperbacks, 2008. Plates. xiii + 358 pp. $16.00,
ISBN 978-0-8129-6732-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24087

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Herbert Basser
Fram, Edward. _My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the
Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland_.
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2007. xx + 337 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-87820-459-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23860

Reviewed for H-Judaic by John Kampen
Crawford, Sidnie White. _Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple
Times_. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. xii + 160 pp.
$16.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-4740-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23856

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Leena Petersen
Reitter, Paul. _Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-
Fashioning in Fin-de-siècle Europe, The_. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 254 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-70970-
3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23855

Reviewed for H-Law by Gordon Bakken
Holt, Michael F.. _By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential
Election of 1876_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
xiv + 300 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1608-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23850

Reviewed for H-Levant by Christopher Parker
Wien, Peter. _Iraqi Arab Nationalism: Authoritarian,
Totalitarian, and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932-1941_.
SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East Series. London:
Routledge, 2006. x + 162 pp. $150.00, ISBN 978-0-415-36858-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23820

Reviewed for H-Peace by Charles Brown
Presbey, Gail M., ed. _Philosophical Perspectives on the "War on
Terrorism"_. Philosophy of Peace Series. Amsterdam and New York:
Rodopi, 2007. 511 pp. $135.00, ISBN 978-90-420-2196-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23463

Reviewed for H-Peace by Erika Kuhlman
Brennan, Mary C.. _Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace:
Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism_. Boulder:
University Press of Colorado, 2008. xi + 197 pp. $34.95, ISBN
978-0-87081-885-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24003

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by John W. Forje
Akoko, Robert Mbe. _"Ask and You Shall Be Given": Pentecostalism
and the Economic Crisis in Cameroon_. African Studies Collection
Series. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2007. 239 pp. EUR 15,
ISBN 978-90-5448-007-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23129

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Richard Burgess
Ukah, Asonzeh F. K.. _New Paradigm of Pentecostal Power: A Study
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, A_. Trenton:
Africa World Press, 2008. xxiv + 410 pp. $39.64, ISBN 978-1-
59221-621-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22948

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Marise Bachand
Long, Carolyn Morrow. _New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend
and Reality of Marie Laveau, A_. Gainesville: University Press of
Florida, 2007. xxxvii + 294 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3214-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24274

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Jon Smith
Levander, Caroline Field; Levine, Robert S., eds.. _Hemispheric
American Studies_. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008.
vii + 356 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4222-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24174

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Mark Graybill
Desmond, John F.. Walker Percy's Search for Community. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2004. 271 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-
8203-2588-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24229

Reviewed for H-Travel by Aditi Chandra
Henderson, Carol E.; Weisgrau, Maxine, eds.. _Raj Rhapsodies:
Tourism Heritage and the Seduction of History_. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2007. xlvi + 236 pp. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-7067-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15697

Reviewed for H-Urban by Gary Marker
Munro, George E.. _Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the
Reign of Catherine the Great, The_. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson
University Press, 2008. Illustrations, maps. 372 pp. $65.00,
ISBN 978-0-8386-4146-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23507

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Kelly E. Crager
Burkman, Thomas W.. _Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and
World Order, 1914-1938_. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,
2008. xv + 289 pp. $58.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-2982-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23792

Reviewed for H-War by Diane Putney
Stuart, Douglas T.. _Creating the National Security State: A
History of the Law That Transformed America._. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2008. 358 pp. , ISBN 978-0-691-
13371-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23979

Reviewed for H-War by Judith Keene
Bowen, Wayne H.; Alvarez, José E.. _Military History of Modern
Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror,
A_. Westport: Praeger, 2007. viii + 222 pp. , ISBN 978-0-275-
99357-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24033

Reviewed for H-War by Richard Verrone
Milne, David. _America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam
War_. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. 336 pp. , ISBN 978-0-374-
10386-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24172

Reviewed for H-War by Timothy May
Mo?hring, Hannes. Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, 1138-1193.
Translated by David S. Bachrach. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008. xxiii + 113 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-
8991-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23608

Reviewed for H-Water by Abraham Hoffman
Leybourne, Marnie; Gaynor, Andrea, eds.. _Water: Histories,
Cultures, Ecologies_. Crawley: University of Western Australia
Press, 2006. xviii + 246 pp. $35.95, ISBN 978-1-920694-80-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24268

Reviewed for H-Women by Charlene Garfinkle
Iskin, Ruth E.. _Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in
Impressionist Painting_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. 288 pp. $96.00, ISBN 978-0-521-84080-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24122

Reviewed for H-Women by Geoff Read
Garb, Tamar. _Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late
Nineteenth-Century France, The_. The University of Kansas
Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2008. Illustrations. 96 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-
0-295-98793-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23149

Reviewed for H-Women by Tiffany K. Wayne
DuBois, Ellen Carol; Smith, Richard Cándida, eds.. _Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and
Essays_. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 336 pp.
$23.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-1982-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23106

Reviewed for Jhistory by Jeanette McVicker
DiMaggio, Anthony R.. _Mass Media, Mass Propaganda: Examining
American News in the_. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. viii + 329
pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1902-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23988

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