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

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H-Net Reviews

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

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Andrea Allen
Curto, Jose C.; Soulodre-La France, Renee, eds.. _Africa and the
Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade_. Trenton:
Africa World Press, 2004. 312 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59221-272-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23032

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Tania Tribe
Silverman, Raymond Aaron, with Qes Adamu Tesfaw, Leah Niederstadt,
and Neil W. Sobania. _Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes
Adamu Tesfaw_. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2005. Illustrations. 119 pp.
$30.00, ISBN 978-0-9748729-2-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23479

Reviewed for H-Albion by Anne Clendinning
Romain, Gemma. _Connecting Histories: A Comparative Exploration
of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern
Britain_. Anthropology, Economy and Society Series. London: Kegan
Paul, 2006. 300 pp. $135.00, ISBN 978-0-7103-1223-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23997

Reviewed for H-Albion by Antoine Capet
Watson, Alexander. _Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and
Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918_. Cambridge
Military History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008. xv + 288 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88101-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24067

Reviewed for H-Albion by Arthur Williamson
Ferrell, Lori Anne. Bible and the People, The. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2009. 288 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-300-11424-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23532

Reviewed for H-Albion by Chris L. Nighman
Wenzel, Siegfried. _Preaching in the Age of Chaucer: Selected
Sermons in Translation_. Washington DC: Catholic University of
America Press, 2008. xvii + 334 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8132-
1529-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24036

Reviewed for H-Albion by Jerry Brookshire
Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945-1951. New York:
Walker and Company, 2008. 704 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8027-1693-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15564

Reviewed for H-Albion by Kate Teltscher
Guest, Harriet. _Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: James Cook,
William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific_. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Plates. xx + 249 pp. $99.00,
ISBN 978-0-521-88194-4 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23008

Reviewed for H-Albion by Laura J. Snyder
Fyfe, Aileen; Lightman, Bernard V., eds. _Science in the
Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. x + 410 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-
0-226-27650-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22999

Reviewed for H-Albion by Malcolm Smuts
Keay, Anna. _Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies
of Power, The_. London: Continuum, 2008. Plates. xii + 319 pp.
$27.95, ISBN 978-1-84725-225-8 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23529

Reviewed for H-Albion by Rebecca Mills
Miller, Shannon. _Engendering the Fall: John Milton and
Seventeenth-Century Women Writers._. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2008. viii + 280 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-
8122-4086-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22851

Reviewed for H-Albion by Susannah Ottaway
Steedman, Carolyn. _Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the
English Industrial Age_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. xi + 262 pp. $91.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87446-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23037

Reviewed for H-Albion by Tim Stretton
Cormack, Bradin. _Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English
Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509-1625, A_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2008. 406 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-
226-11624-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24037

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Christine Boston
DePasquale, Paul, ed. _Natives and Settlers Now and Then:
Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land
Claims in Canada_. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006.
220 pp. $49.94, ISBN 978-0-88864-462-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23547

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Kirsten Schultz
Rafael de Bivar Marquese. _Administração e escravidão: Idéias
sobre a gestão da agricultura escravista brasileira_. São Paulo:
Editora Hucitec/Fapesp, 1999. 259 pp. No Price Listed, ISBN 978-
85-271-0487-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22860

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Barbra Clayton
Mrozik, Susanne. _Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of
Morality in Buddhist Ethics_. Religion, Culture and History
Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. vii + 184 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530500-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23879

Reviewed for H-Caribbean by Stephen Stuempfle
Guilbault, Jocelyne. _Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of
Trinidad's Carnival Musics_. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2007. Plates, illustrations. xii + 343 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-0-226-31060-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23624

Reviewed for H-Childhood by Ingrid Solderlind
Bernini, Stefania. _Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-
War Europe: Britain and Italy Compared_. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008. 199 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-8795-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23554

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Paul A. Cimbala
Johnson, Suzanne Stone; Johnson, Robert. _Bitter Freedom: William
Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau_. Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 2008. Plates. xxxii + 117 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-766-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23416

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Theresa Storey Hefner-Babb
Bradley, George C.; Dahlen, Richard L.. _From Conciliation to
Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John
B. Turchin_. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 312
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1526-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23915

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Dianne Kirby
Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman. _Politics of Secularism in International
Relations, The_. Princeton Studies in International History and
Politics Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 264
pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13466-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22958

Reviewed for H-Genocide by David Buck
Tsang, Steve. _Intelligence and Human Rights in the Era of Global
Terrorism_. Stanford Security Studies Series. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2008. xii + 224 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8047-
5969-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23592

Reviewed for H-German by Andrea Westermann
Olson, Richard. _Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century
Europe_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 349 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03188-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15659

Reviewed for H-German by Bernd Schaefer
Weber, Hermann; Weber, Gerda. _Leben nach dem "Prinzip Links":
Erinnerungen aus fünf Jahrzehnten_. Berlin: Christoph Links
Verlag, 2006. 450 pp. EUR 19.90, ISBN 978-3-86153-405-1 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23783

Reviewed for H-German by Brian G.H. Ditcham
Tantner, Anton. _Ordnung der Häuser, Beschreibung der Seelen:
Hausnummerierung und Seelenkonskription in der
Habsburgermonarchie_. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2007. Wiener
Schriften zur Geschichte der Neuzeit. 294 pp EUR 34.90, ISBN 978-
3-7065-4226-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23719

Reviewed for H-German by Catherine Albrecht
Judson, Pieter M.; Rozenblit, Marsha L., eds.. _Constructing
Nationalities in East Central Europe_. Oxford: Berghahn Books,
2005. Austrian History, Culture, and Society. xx + 293 pp
$27.95, ISBN 978-1-57181-175-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23702

Reviewed for H-German by Christine Fojtik
Gottfried, Heidi; Gottschall, Karin; Osawa, Mari; Walby, Sylvia,
eds. Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 320 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-
1-4039-9457-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23718

Reviewed for H-German by Dean Phillip Bell
Poliwoda, Guido N.. _Aus Katastrophen lernen: Sachsen im Kampf
gegen die Fluten der Elbe 1784 bis 1845_. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag,
2007. 295 pp. EUR 37.90, ISBN 978-3-412-13406-8 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23778

Reviewed for H-German by Diethelm Prowe
Daum, Andreas W.. Kennedy in Berlin. Washington, D.C.: German
Historical Institute, 2008. xxii + 294 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-
521-85824-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23089

Reviewed for H-German by Eagle Glassheim
Zahra, Tara. _Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the
Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands 1900-1948_. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2008. xvii + 279 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-
0-8014-4628-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15656

Reviewed for H-German by Edmund Clingan
Pollems, Sebastian T.. _Der Bankplatz Berlin zur Nachkriegszeit:
Transformation und Rekonstruktion des Ost- und Westberliner
Bankwesens zwischen 1945 und 1953_. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot,
2006. 501 pp. , ISBN 978-3-428-11995-0 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15657

Reviewed for H-German by Elaine Glovka Spencer
Kobrak, Christopher. _Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank
and the United States, 1870 to the Present_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007. 503 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86325-4 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23714

Reviewed for H-German by Hoi-eun Kim
Kreager, Philip; Schroeder-Butterfill, Elisabeth; eds.. _Ageing
without Children: European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly
Access to Support Networks_. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. 256
pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-57181-614-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15499

Reviewed for H-German by James E. Cathey
Drinkwater, John F.. _Alamanni and Rome 213?496: (Caracalla to
Clovis), The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xi +
408 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-929568-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23731

Reviewed for H-German by Janet M. C. Walmsley
Fuchs, Rachel G.. _Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century
Europe_. New Approaches to European History Series. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005. 276 pp. $25.99, ISBN 978-0-
521-62926-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23780

Reviewed for H-German by Jason Tebbe
Sabean, David W.; Teuscher, Simon; Mathieu, Jon, eds. _Kinship in
Europe: Approaches to Long-term Development (1300-1900)_.
Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. 350 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-
288-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23448

Reviewed for H-German by Marc Pierce
Lorenz, Sönke; Scholkmann, Barbara, eds. _Die Alemannen und das
Christentum: Zeugnisse eines kulturellen Umbruchs_. Leinfelden-
Echterdingen: DRW-Verlag, 2003. Schriften zur südwestdeutschen
Landeskunde. 176 pp EUR 55.50, ISBN 978-3-87181-748-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23735

Reviewed for H-German by Marynel Ryan Van Zee
Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig. _Politics of Sociability: Freemasonry
and German Civil Society, 1840-1918, The_. Translated by Tom
Lampert. Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. x + 413
pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-472-11573-0 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23502

Reviewed for H-German by Michael J. Sauter
Smith, Pamela H.; Schmidt, Benjamin, eds.. _Making Knowledge in
Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800_.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ix + 360 pp. $68.00,
ISBN 978-0-226-76328-6 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23734

Reviewed for H-German by Michael L. Hughes
Knoch, Habbo. _Bürgersinn mit Weltgefühl: Politische Moral und
solidarischer Protest in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren_.
Veröffentlichungen des Zeitgeschichtlichen Arbeitskreises
Niedersachsen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. 334 pp. EUR
32.00, ISBN 978-3-8353-0068-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23711

Reviewed for H-German by Peter Fritzsche
Littell, Jonathan. Kindly Ones, The. Translated by Charlotte
Mandell. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 984 pp. $29.99, ISBN
978-0-06-135345-1 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24135

Reviewed for H-German by Werner D. Lippert
Engel, Jeffrey A.; Engel, Katherine Carté, eds.. _Local
Consequences of the Global Cold War_. Washington, DC: Woodrow
Wilson Center Press, 2007. xvii + 334 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-
8047-5947-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23725

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Paul Parker
Davis, Jeffrey. _Justice across Borders: The Struggle for Human
Rights in U.S. Courts_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008. xi + 303 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87817-3 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23542

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Richard Freund
Eshel, Hanan. Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State, The.
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. Plates. xii + 208 pp.
$28.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-6285-3 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23870

Reviewed for H-NC by Michael Smith
McClintock, Russell. _Lincoln and the Decision for War: The
Northern Response to Secession_. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2008. 400 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3188-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23925

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Asonzeh Ukah
Ranger, Terence O., ed.. _Evangelical Christianity and Democracy
in Africa_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxx + 267 pp.
$99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517477-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22993

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Mary Ellen Pethel
Berry, Daina Ramey. _"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe":
Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia_. Women in American
History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Plates. xvi + 224 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03146-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23014

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Amanda B. Moniz
Koschnik, Albrecht. _"Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together":
Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-
1840_. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2007. xii
+ 351 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2648-3 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22835

Reviewed for H-Travel by Eric Zuelow
Williams, William H. A.. _Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish
Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland_.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xi + 267 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-299-22520-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15712

Reviewed for H-Urban by Balázs Szelényi
Miller, Jaroslav. _Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500-
1700_. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xxii + 292 pp. $99.95, ISBN
978-0-7546-5739-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23514

Reviewed for H-Urban by Josep Miquel Sobrer
Resina, Joan Ramon. _Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and
Decline of an Urban Image_. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2008. x + 272 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5832-1 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23446

Reviewed for H-Urban by Tim Cole
Horwitz, Gordon J.. _Ghettostadt: ?ód? and the Making of a Nazi
City_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Plates. 395
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02799-2 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23509

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Dayna Barnes
Matsuda, Takeshi. _Soft Power and Its Perils: U.S. Cultural
Policy in Early Postwar Japan and Permanent Dependency_.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. Plates. xx + 372 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-0040-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23012

Reviewed for H-Women by Deb Wilson
Peña, Milagros. _Latina Activists across Borders: Women's
Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas_. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2007. 208 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3951-9 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22952

Reviewed for H-Women by Holly Kent
Davis, Sue. _Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's
Rights and the American Political Traditions, The_. New York: New
York University Press, 2008. 304 pp. $49.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-
1998-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22949

Reviewed for Jhistory by Noah Arceneaux
Sterling, Christopher; Keith, Michael. _Sounds of Change: A
History of FM Broadcasting in America_. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, . 336 pp. $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5888-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23664

Reviewed for Jhistory by Stephen Byers
Tremayne, Mark, ed. _Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of
Media_. London: Routledge, 2007. xix + 287 pp. $27.95, ISBN
978-0-415-97940-5 .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23374

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