H-Net reviews posted to the web 03 Aug 2009 and 24 Aug 2009

H-Net Reviews

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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 03 Aug 2009 and 24 Aug 2009.

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Alison Rose
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=24884

Reviewed for H-Albion by Michelle White
Griffey, Erin, ed.. _Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics, and
Patronage_. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Illustrations. xii + 227 pp. $99.95,
ISBN 978-0-7546-6420-8 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24113

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Holly A. Rine
Haefeli, Evan; Sweeney, Kevin, eds.. _Captive Histories: English,
French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid_. Native
Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary
Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xx
+ 298 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-543-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24758

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by John McRae
Kirchner, Thomas Yu?ho?, ed.. Record of Linji, The. Translated
and with commentary by Ruth Fuller Sasaki. Honolulu: University of
Hawai?i Press, 2009. xxxii + 485 pp. $53.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-
2821-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23133

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by José Cabezón
Martin Brauen. Dalai Lamas: A Visual History, The. Chicago:
Serindia Publications, 2005. Illustrations, map, timeline. 304
pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-932476-22-4 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25113

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Michiko Yusa
Ruch, Barbara, ed.. _Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in
Premodern Japan_. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Illustrations, charts, maps. lxxviii + 706 pp. $69.00, ISBN 978-
1-929280-15-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25097

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Richard P. Hayes
Tubb, Gary A.; Boose, Emery R.. _Scholastic Sanskrit: A Handbook
for Students_. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies,
2005. 276 pp. $36.00, ISBN 978-0-9753734-7-7 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22809

Reviewed for H-Canada by Jason Blake
Melanc?on, Benoi?t. _Rocket: A Cultural History of Maurice
Richard, The_. Translated by Fred A. Reed. Vancouver: Greystone
Books, 2009. 304 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-55365-336-3 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24872

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Susan R. Boettcher
Head, Randolph Conrad; Christensen, Daniel Eric, ed..
_Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture:
Order and Creativity, 1550-1750_. Studies in Central European
Histories Series. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Illustrations. xii + 246
pp. $129.00, ISBN 978-90-04-16276-1 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24859

Reviewed for H-Childhood by Bryan Ganaway
Saunders, Anna. _Honecker's Children: Youth and Patriotism in
East(ern) Germany, 1979-2002_. Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2007. xii + 252 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-7190-7411-0 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24590

Reviewed for H-Childhood by Caroline Cox
Drago, Edmund L.. _Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their
Families in South Carolina_. New York: Fordham University Press,
2008. Illustrations. x + 204 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2937-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23984

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Kevin Levin
Schmutz, John F.. _Battle of the Crater: A Complete History,
The_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2008. 428 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-
7864-3982-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24292

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Robert M. Citino
Neely, Mark E.. Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, The.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 277 pp. $27.95, ISBN
978-0-674-02658-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25218

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Antoine Capet
Harris, J. P.. Douglas Haig and the First World War. Cambridge
Military Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Illustrations, maps. xi + 652 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-521-89802-7 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23905

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Kenneth Hemmerechts
Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception. Translated by Kevin
Attell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 104 pp.
$15.00, ISBN 978-0-226-00925-4 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23630

Reviewed for H-German by Ben Gook
Müller, Birgit. _Disenchantment with Market Economics: East
Germans and Western Capitalism, The_. Translated by John Bellamy,
Jennie Challender, and Kathleen Repper. European Anthropology in
Translation. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. ix + 244 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-217-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24516

Reviewed for H-German by Clifton Ganyard
Rathenau, Walther. _Briefe, Band V, Teilband 1: 1871-1913,
Teilband 2: 1914-1922_. 2 vols. Edited by Alexander Jaser,
Clemens Picht, and Ernst Schulin. Rathenau Gesamtausgabe.
Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 2006. 2829 pp. EUR 182.00, ISBN 978-
3-7700-1620-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25014

Reviewed for H-German by David Clarke
Braun, Rebecca. _Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter
Grass_. Oxford Modern Languages and Literatures. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2008. viii + 197 pp. $110.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
954270-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24689

Reviewed for H-German by Erik Tängerstad
Hardtwig, Wolfgang. _Ordnungen in der Krise: Zur politischen
Kulturgeschichte Deutschlands 1900-1933_. Ordnungssysteme:
Studien zur Ideengeschichte der Neuzeit. Munich: Oldenbourg
Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007. 566 pp. EUR 79.80, ISBN 978-3-486-
58177-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24354

Reviewed for H-German by Lee Baker
Liebling, A. J.. World War II Writings. New York: Library of
America, 2008. xiii + 1089 pp. , ISBN 978-1-59853-018-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23951

Reviewed for H-German by Luke A. Nichter
Heiss, Mary Ann; Papacosma, S. Victor, eds.. _NATO and the Warsaw
Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts_. Kent: Kent State University Press,
2008. xv + 244 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-936-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24016

Reviewed for H-German by Milton Kooistra
Bethencourt, Francisco; Egmond, Florike, eds.. _Cultural Exchange
in Early Modern Europe, vol. 3: Correspondence and Cultural
Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700_. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. xx + 374 pp. EUR 70.00, ISBN 978-0-521-84548-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24458

Reviewed for H-German by Patrick Salmon
Barker, Peter; Ohse, Marc-Dietrich; Tate, Dennis, eds.. _Views
from Abroad: Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive_. Bielefeld: WBV,
W. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2007. 284 pp. EUR 19.90, ISBN 978-3-7639-
3569-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25048

Reviewed for H-German by Wolfram von Scheliha
Loth, Wilfried. _Die Sowjetunion und die deutsche Frage: Studien
zur sowjetischen Deutschlandpolitik_. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2007. 318 pp. EUR 24.90, ISBN 978-3-525-36298-3 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24359

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Anthony Tirado Chase
Akbarzadeh, Shahram; MacQueen, Benjamin, eds.. _Islam and Human
Rights in Practice: Perspectives Across the Ummah_. London:
Routledge, 2008. x + 176 pp. $140.00, ISBN 978-0-415-44959-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24886

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Sonia Cardenas
Mertus, Julie. _Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National
Human Rights Institutions_. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2009. xi + 223 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6093-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24264

Reviewed for H-Ideas by Roger Chapman
Tracy, James D.; Rangow, Marguerite, eds.. _Religion and the
Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West_. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 415 pp. $80.00, ISBN
978-0-521-82825-3 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25116

Reviewed for H-Italy by Elizabeth Mellyn
Gentilcore, David. Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 426 pp. $150.00, ISBN
978-0-19-924535-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24158

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jonathan Judaken
Mendelsohn, Richard; Shain, Milton. _Jews in South Africa: An
Illustrated History, The_. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2008. x
+ 234 pp. $31.95, ISBN 978-1-86842-281-4 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24051

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven Bowman
Rosman, Murray Jay. How Jewish Is Jewish History?. Oxford:
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. xii + 220 pp.
$39.50, ISBN 978-1-904113-34-8 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23864

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Marc Becker
Milton, Cynthia E.. _Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism,
Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador,
The_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xxi + 356 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5178-0 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24989

Reviewed for H-Law by Christopher Olsen
Burton, Orville Vernon. Age of Lincoln, The. New York: Hill
and Wang, 2007. Illustrations. 420 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-
9513-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25083

Reviewed for H-Law by Michael Fitzgerald
Hahn, Steven; Miller, Steven F.; O?Donovan, Susan E.; Rodrigue,
John C.; Rowland, Leslie S., eds.. _Freedom: A Documentary
History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and
Labor, 1865_. Freedom, a Documentary History of Emancipation,
1861-1867. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
xxxiv + 1073 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3147-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23878

Reviewed for H-NewMexico by Kathleen Holscher
Hordes, Stanley M.. _To the End of the Earth: A History of the
Crypto-Jews of New Mexico_. New York: Columbia University Press,
2008. 376 pp. $24.50, ISBN 978-0-231-12937-4 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23916

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Jane Carruthers
Limb, Peter, ed. _Orb and Sceptre: Studies on British Imperialism
and Its Legacies, in Honour of Norman Etherington_. Clayton:
Monash University ePress, 2008. xv + 269 pp. , ISBN 978-0-
9803616-6-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23584

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Sean Redding
Ntsebeza, Lungisile. _Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the
Politics of the Land in South Africa_. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 300
pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-90-04-14482-8 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23812

Reviewed for H-Urban by Allen Dieterich-Ward
Stradling, David. _Making Mountains: New York City and the
Catskills_. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2007. Illustrations. xxvii + 311
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98747-7 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25085

Reviewed for H-Urban by Cathy L. Stanton
Dolkart, Andrew. _Biography of a Tenement House in New York City:
An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street_. Sante Fe: Center
for American Places, 2006. Illustrations. ix + 142 pp. $35.00,
ISBN 978-1-930066-57-1 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24181

Reviewed for H-Urban by Heather M. Stur
Li, Wei. Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. xvii + 214 pp.
$56.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3065-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24936

Reviewed for H-Urban by Samantha MacBride
Keller, Lisa. _Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in
New York and London_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
xvii + 338 pp. Illustrations. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-231-14672-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25220

Reviewed for H-Urban by Sheila Crane
Çelik, Zeynep. _Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-
Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914_. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 2008. Illustrations. 337 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-295-
98779-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23699

Reviewed for H-Urban by Steven Seegel
Kozi?ska-Witt, Hanna. _Krakau in Warschaus langem Schatten:
Konkurrenzkämpfe in der polnischen Städtelandschaft 1900-1939_.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 231 pp. EUR 35.00, ISBN
978-3-515-08666-0 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23994

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Fintan Hoey
Van Sant, John; Mauch, Peter; Sugita, Yoneyuki. _Historical
Dictionary of United States-Japanese Relations_. Historical
Dictionaries of U.S. Diplomacy Series. Lanham: Scarecrow Press,
2007. Illustrations, maps. 344 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-8108-5608-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23063

Reviewed for H-War by John T. Broom
Nichols, Thomas M.. _Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of
Preventive War_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008. xiv + 171 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4066-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24679

Reviewed for H-Women by Kelly A. Ryan
Adams, Gretchen A.. _Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch
Trials in Nineteenth-Century America, The_. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2008. xiii + 223 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-
00541-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24397

Reviewed for H-Women by Michelle Finn
Morris, Bonnie J.. Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii + 167 pp.
$50.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35295-8 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24396

Reviewed for H-Women by Rebecca Tuuri
Stanton, Mary. _Journey toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan
and the Montgomery Bus Boycott_. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2006. 288 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2857-7 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24465

Reviewed for Jhistory by Paul Ringel
Cohen, Patricia Cline; Gilfoyle, Timothy J.; Horowitz, Helen
Lefkowitz. _Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New
York, The_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 278 pp.
$50.00, ISBN 978-0-226-11233-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25055

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