H-Net reviews posted to the web 20 Apr 2009 – 04 May 2009

H-Net Reviews

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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 20 Apr 2009 and 04 May 2009.

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Christopher Slogar, PhD
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip; Ferguson, T. J., eds. _Collaboration
in Archaeological Practice: Engaging Descendant Communities_.
Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2008. xii + 317 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-
7591-1053-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23474

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Elisabeth den Otter
McNaughton, Patrick R.. _Bird Dance Near Saturday City: Sidi
Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade, A_. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2008. Illustrations. xvii + 300 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35148-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23528

Reviewed for H-Africa by Melissa Graboyes
Rödlach, Alexander. _Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS &
Cultures of Blame in Africa_. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press,
2006. 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59874-034-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24594

Reviewed for H-Africa by Nana Yaw B. Sapong
Diouf, Sylviane A.. _Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Story of
the Clotilda and the Last Enslaved Africans Brought to America_.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 416 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-
0-19-531104-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24598

Reviewed for H-Albion by Brian Refford
Brown, Vincent. Reaper's Garden, The. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2008. 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-02422-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24638

Reviewed for H-Albion by Elizabeth Todd
Crowther, M. Anne; Dupree, Marguerite W.. _Medical Lives in the
Age of Surgical Revolution_. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. 444 pp. $134.00, ISBN 978-0-521-83548-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24652

Reviewed for H-Albion by Janet Nelson
Pratt, David. Political Thought of King Alfred the Great, The.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 413 pp. $117.00, ISBN
978-0-521-80350-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24546

Reviewed for H-Albion by Jeremy Webster
Toulalan, Sarah. _Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in
Seventeenth-Century England_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2007. ix + 323 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-920914-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24449

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Angela Hudson
Naylor, Celia E.. _African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From
Chattel to Citizens_. The John Hope Franklin Series in African
American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2008. Illustrations, maps. xii + 360 pp. $55.00,
ISBN 978-0-8078-3203-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23636

Reviewed for H-Amstdy by Ralph Bauer
Muthyala, John. _Reworlding America: Myth, History, and
Narrative_. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. 232 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1675-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24395

Reviewed for H-Canada by Adrienne Byng
Grypma, Sonya. _Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China
Mission, 1888-1947_. Vancouver: University of British Columbia
Press, 2007. 292 pp. $93.95, ISBN 978-0-7748-1399-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24583

Reviewed for H-Diplo by John Sugden
Witherspoon, Kevin B.. _Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and
the 1968 Olympic Games_. Northern Illinois University Press,
2008. xi + 212 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-388-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23906

Reviewed for H-Environment by Brian Black
Phillips, Sarah. _This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural
America, and the New Deal_. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
312 p. $23.99, ISBN 978-0-521-61796-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24571

Reviewed for H-French-Colonial by Michael Vann
Hale, Dana S.. _Races on Display: French Representations of
Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2008. x + 215 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-253-34854-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24034

Reviewed for H-French-Colonial by Thomas J. Lappas
Pritchard, James. _In Search of Empire: The French in the
Americas, 1670-1730_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004. Illustrations. xxvii + 484 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-521-
82742-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24337

Reviewed for H-German by Barbara Eichner
Hilmes, Oliver. Herrin des Hügels: Das Leben der Cosima Wagner.
Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 2007. 494 pp. EUR 24.95, ISBN 978-3-
88680-836-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24472

Reviewed for H-German by Brad Prager
Blackler, Deane. _Reading W. G. Sebald: Adventure and
Disobedience_. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and
Culture Series. Rochester: Camden House, 2007. xiv + 255 pp. ,
ISBN 978-1-57113-351-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23930

Reviewed for H-German by David Clarke
Mews, Siegfried. _Günter Grass and His Critics: From "The Tin
Drum" to "Crabwalk"_. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics,
and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective Series. Rochester:
Camden House, 2008. viii + 426 pp. , ISBN 978-1-57113-062-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23838

Reviewed for H-German by Dolores L. Augustine
Heitmann, Clemens. _"Schützen und helfen"?: Luftschutz und
Zivilverteidigung in der DDR 1955 bis 1989/90_. Berlin: Christoph
Links Verlag, 2006. 500 pp. EUR 29.90, ISBN 978-3-86153-400-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24202

Reviewed for H-German by Edward N. Snyder
Richardi, Hans-Gunter. _Widerstand hinter dem Stacheldraht: Der
Sudtirloer Friedl Volgger als "Schutzhaftgefangener Nr. 66166'' im
Konzentrationslager Dachau_. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2007. 169
pp. , ISBN 978-3-7065-4489-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24027

Reviewed for H-German by Günter Bischof
Stöver, Bernd. _Der Kalte Krieg: Geschichte eines radikalen
Zeitalters 1947-1991_. Munich: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2007. 528 pp.
, ISBN 978-3-406-55633-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23940

Reviewed for H-German by Jennifer Spinks
Burke, Peter; Po-chia Hsia, Ronnie, eds.. _Cultural Translation
in Early Modern Europe_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. 252 pp. $101.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86208-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24355

Reviewed for H-German by Jonathan R. Lyon
Bisson, Thomas N.. _Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power,
Lordship, and the Origins of European Government, The_.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxviii + 677 pp.
Illustrations. $39.50, ISBN 978-0-691-13708-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24473

Reviewed for H-German by Jost Dülffer
Suri, Jeremi. Henry Kissinger and the American Century.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. 368
pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02579-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24116

Reviewed for H-German by Kevin Teo Kia-Choong
McKitterick, Rosamond. _Charlemagne: The Formation of a European
Identity_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii
+ 460 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88672-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24138

Reviewed for H-German by Marc R. Forster
Ehrenpreis, Stefan; Lotz-Heumann, Ute; Mörke, Olaf; Schorn-
Schütte, Luise, eds.. _Wege der Neuzeit: Festschrift für Heinz
Schilling zum 65. Geburtstag_. Historische Forschungen. Berlin:
Duncker & Humblot, 2007. 656 pp. EUR 78.00, ISBN 978-3-428-
12394-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24641

Reviewed for H-German by Mark R. Correll
Russell, Mark A.. _Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg
and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg, 1896-1918_. Oxford:
Berghahn Books, 2007. xii + 257 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-
369-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24075

Reviewed for H-German by Patricia Kollander
Hoffmanm, Peter. _Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg: Die
Biographie_. Revised and expanded edition of _Claus Schenk Graf
von Stauffenberg und seine Brüder_. Munich: Pantheon, 2007. vii
+ 708 pp. , ISBN 978-3-570-55046-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15665

Reviewed for H-German by Peter Barker
Bauer, Babett. _Kontrolle und Repression: Individuelle
Erfahrungen in der DDR (1971-1989). Historische Studie und
methodologischer Beitrag zur Oral History_. Schriften des Hannah-
Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2006. 492 pp., ISBN 978-3-525-36907-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23748

Reviewed for H-German by Roland Spickermann
Owzar, Armin. _"Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold":
Konfliktmanagement im Alltag des wilhelminischen
Obrigkeitsstaates_. Constance: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006.
482 pp. EUR 39.00, ISBN 978-3-89669-718-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24454

Reviewed for H-German by Ruth von Bernuth
Reinhart, Max, ed.. Early Modern German Literature, 1350-1700.
Camden House History of German Literature Series. Rochester:
Camden House, 2007. liii + 1094 pp. Illustrations $110.00, ISBN
978-1-57113-247-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23091

Reviewed for H-German by Sanna Pederson
Youens, Susan. Heinrich Heine and the Lied. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxx + 378 pp. $99.00, ISBN
978-0-521-82374-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24059

Reviewed for H-German by Sean F. Dunwoody
Schilling, Heinz. _Early Modern European Civilization and its
Political and Cultural Dynamism_. The Menahem Stern Jerusalem
Lectures. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. ix
+ 124 pp. , ISBN 978-1-58465-700-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24065

Reviewed for H-German by Theo Pronk
Plath, Christian. _Konfessionskampf und fremde Besatzung: Stadt
und Hochstift Hildesheim im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des
Dreissigjährigen Krieges (ca. 1580-1660)_.
Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte. Münster: Aschendorff
Verlag, 2005. 732 pp. EUR 89.00, ISBN 978-3-402-03814-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24453

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Elizabeth Baigent
Cosgrove, Denis E.; Della Dora, Veronica, eds. _High Places:
Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science_. London: I.
B. Tauris, 2009. xiv + 273 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-84511-616-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24600

Reviewed for H-Italy by Claudia Bolgia
Ó Carragáin, Éamonn; Vegvar, Carol L. Neuman de, eds.. _Roma
Felix: Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome_. Church,
Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West Series. Burlington:
Ashgate, 2007. x + 353 pp. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-6096-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24152

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Angela Tarango
Anderson, Allan. _Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early
Pentecostalism_. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2007. 312 pp. $35.00,
ISBN 978-1-57075-749-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15628

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by William Prevette
Lord, Andrew. _Spirit-Shaped Mission: A Holistic Charismatic
Missiology_. Studies in Pentecostal and Charismatic Issues
Series. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2005. xii + 154 pp. $17.99,
ISBN 978-1-84227-264-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15644

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Deanna Gillespie
Sartain, Lee. _Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP
and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945_. Louisiana State
University Press, 2007. 212 pp. $36.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-3221-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23454

Reviewed for H-Urban by Barbara Ladd
Powell, Lawrence N.. _New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The
1887 Census Office Report, The_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2008. ix + 207 pp. $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-
3319-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22902

Reviewed for H-Women by Cyrelene Amoah
McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. _Yoruba Women, Work, and Social
Change_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv + 336
pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35279-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24499

Reviewed for H-Women by Deborah L. Bauer
Dunaway, Wilma A.. _Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum
Mountain South_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
xiv + 301 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88619-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22990

Reviewed for Jhistory by Doug Medenhall
Bernstein, Richard. _New York Times: The Complete Front Pages,
1851-2008, The_. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers,
2008. Fold-out pages. 456 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-57912-749-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24394

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