THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOL. CVII      NO.1   February 2002

Table of Contents

Presidential Address

The Dissolution of the British Empire in the Era of Vietnam
By Wm. Roger Louis 1

Articles

Seeing Double: John Gerson, the Discernment of Spirits, and Joan of Arc
By Dyan Elliott 26
Cosmopolitan Domesticity: Importing the American Dream, 1865–1920
By Kristin Hoganson 55

AHR Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution?

Introduction
By Anthony Grafton 84
An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited
By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 87
How to Acknowledge a Revolution
By Adrian Johns 106
Reply
By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 126

Review Essay

 

Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History
By Thomas Bender 129


Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

 

1.Igor M. Diakonoff. The Paths of History.
By S. H. Rigby 154
2.Werner Berg. Die Teilung der Leitung: Ursprünge industriellen Managements in den landwirtschaftlichen Gutsbetrieben Europas.
By Klaus P. Fischer 155
3.Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, editors. Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society.
By Peter Novick 156
4.John Patrick Diggins. On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History.
By Michael P. Zuckert 157
5.Warren Breckman. Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origin of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self.
By Harold Mah 158
6.Marcel Gauchet and Gladys Swain. Madness and Democracy: The Modern Psychiatric Universe.
By Sander L. Gilman 159


COMPARATIVE/WORLD

 

7.James D. Tracy, editor. City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective.
By Bruce Masters 160
8.Molly Greene. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean.
By K. E. Fleming 161
9.Roberta Wollons. Kindergartens and Cultures: The Global Diffusion of an Idea.
By Gretchen R. Galbraith 162
10.Michael Berkowitz. The Jewish Self-Image in the West.
By David S. Katz 163
11.Howard Cox. The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco 1880–1945.
By Sudipta Sen 164
12.Robert Bickers. Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900–1949.
By Charles W. Hayford 165
13.Barbara Bush. Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain, 1919–1945.
By Kenneth P. Vickery 165
14.Douglas A. Borer. Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared.
By Lloyd Gardner 166


ASIA

 

15.Susan Naquin. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900.
By Philip A. Kuhn 167
16.Benjamin A. Elman. A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China.
By Kai-wing Chow 168
17.Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, editors. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952; Edward R. Slack, Jr. Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924–1937.
By Jonathan Spence 169
18.Rana Mitter. The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China.
By Q. Edward Wang 171
19.Wang Fan-sen. Fu Ssu-nien: A Life in Chinese History and Politics.
By Edmund S. K. Fung 172
20.Masuda Wataru. Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era.
By Timothy Brook 172
21.John E. Van Sant. Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850–80.
By Paul Spickard 173
22.Frederick R. Dickinson. War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919.
By Gordon M. Berger 174
23.Michael Lewis. Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868–1945.
By Steven J. Ericson 175


OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

 

24.Bob Reece. The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales.
By Joy Damousi 176


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

 

25.Andrew C. Holman. A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns.
By David Gagan 176
26.Akhil Reed Amar. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction.
By Joyce Lee Malcolm 177
27.David E. Kyvig, editor. Unintended Consequences of Constitutional Amendment.
By Harold M. Hyman 178
28.Nancy Bercaw, editor. Gender and the Southern Body Politic.
By Jane Dailey 180
29.Eric H. Monkkonen. Murder in New York City.
By Amy Gilman Srebnick 181
30.Karal Ann Marling. Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday.
By Penne Restad 182
31.Virginia Scott Jenkins. Bananas: An American History.
By Daniel Sack 182
32.Joyce E. Chaplin. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676.
By Londa Schiebinger 183
33.John T. McGrath. The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane.
By Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr. 184
34.Richard Archer. Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century.
By Richard R. Johnson 185
35.Louise A. Breen. Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692.
By Michael P. Winship 185
36.Renate Wilson. Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America.
By Marianne S. Wokeck 186
37.Gilbert C. Din. Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803.
By Thomas N. Ingersoll 187
38.Ruth Wallis Herndon. Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England.
By Robert E. Cray, Jr. 188
39.Mark S. Schantz. Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island.
By David W. Kling 189
40.Catherine Allgor. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government.
By Jean Baker 190
41.Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix. Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage.
By John Hanners 191
42.John Lauritz Larson. Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States.
By James A. Ward 192
43.Donald J. Ratcliffe. The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818–1828.
By Frederick J. Blue 193
44.Donna J. Rilling. Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790–1850.
By Richard Stott 194
45.John Majewski. A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War.
By Carol Sheriff 194
46.Sally E. Hadden. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas.
By Donna J. Spindel 195
47.David F. Ericson. The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America.
By James Oakes 196
48.Charles B. Dew. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War.
By Daniel W. Crofts 197
49.William C. Davis. The Union that Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens.
By Gregg Cantrell 198
50.William W. Freehling. The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
By William C. Harris 199
51.A. James Fuller. Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South.
By William Blair 199
52.Rod Andrew, Jr. Long Gray Lines: The Military School Tradition, 1839–1915.
By Dan R. Frost 200
53.Kurt Hackemer. The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847–1883.
By Jeffery M. Dorwart 201
54.Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, editors. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations.
By Louis S. Gerteis 202
55.David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
By Jim Cullen 203
56.Jane Dailey. Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia.
By Kenneth C. Barnes 204
57.J. William Harris. Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation.
By Robert C. Kenzer 205
58.Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830–1915.
By Stephen A. Vincent 206
59.Murray R. Wickett. Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma 1865–1907.
By F. Todd Smith 207
60.Bess Beatty. Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837–1900.
By Marion W. Roydhouse 208
61.Annette Atkins. We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America.
By Julia Grant 208
62.David Blanke. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest.
By Jane Adams 209
63.David Strauss. Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin.
By James Turner 210
64.James G. Cassidy. Ferdinand V. Hayden: Entrepreneur of Science.
By Bill Waiser 211
65.John T. Cumbler. Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England 1790–1930.
By Margaret Beattie Bogue 212
66.Margaret Beattie Bogue. Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History 1783–1933.
By John T. Cumbler 213
67.Karl Jacoby. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation.
By Ted Steinberg 214
68.Michael D. McNally. Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion.
By Rebecca Kugel 214
69.Eliza McFeely. Zuni and the American Imagination.
By Sherry L. Smith 215
70.Kathi Kern. Mrs. Stanton's Bible.
By Ellen Carol DuBois 216
71.Elliott J. Gorn. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
By Robert Bussel 217
72.Orm Øverland. Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930.
By April R. Schultz 218
73.Julianna Puskás. Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States.
By John J. Bukowczyk 219
74.Henry Yu. Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America.
By Yong Cheng 219
75.Stefano Luconi. From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia.
By Richard Alba 220
76.Hasia R. Diner. Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America.
By Benny Kraut 221
77.Karla Goldman. Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism.
By Lynn Davidman 222
78.Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929.
By Paul Harvey 223
79.Grant Wacker. Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture.
By David Edwin Harrell, Jr. 224
80.Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman. On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren.
By Perry Bush 225
81.Susan Schulten. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880–1950.
By Martin W. Lewis 226
82.William E. Nelson. The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920–1980.
By Charles W. McCurdy 226
83.Clark Davis. Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892–1941.
By Sharon Hartman Strom 227
84.Matthew A. Crenson. Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System.
By Peter C. Holloran 228
85.Julie Berebitsky. Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950.
By Nurith Zmora 229
86.Emily K. Abel. Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940.
By Judy Barrett Litoff 230
87.Beatrix Hoffman. The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.
By Lawrence R. Jacobs 231
88.John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin Szylvian, editors. From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America; A. Scott Henderson. Housing and the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams.
By Eugene P. Moehring 232
89.Kendrick A. Clements. Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life; Richard Melzer. Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933–1942.
By Rebecca Conard 234
90.Michael Szalay. New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State; Sean McCann. Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism.
By Lary May 235
91.Douglas B. Craig. Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940; Michael S. Sweeney. Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II.
By David F. Krugler 237
92.Hugh R. Slotten. Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960.
By Craig Allen 238
93.Andrew J. Rotter. Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947–1964.
By Anders Stephanson 239
94.Ronald R. Krebs. Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy toward Eastern Europe under Eisenhower.
By Michael S. Mayer 240
95.Sharon Hartman Strom. Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform.
By Mina Carson 241
96.Kathleen A. Laughlin. Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor 1945–1970.
By Robyn Muncy 242
97.Molly H. Mullin. Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest.
By Richard W. Etulain 243
98.Gerald Horne. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois.
By Sharon Harley 243
99.Jack E. Davis. Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930.
By Xi Wang 245
100.Kari Frederickson. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932–1968.
By Roger Biles 245
101.Mary L. Dudziak. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.
By Steven F. Lawson 246
102.James T. Patterson. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.
By Brian K. Landsberg 247
103.Richard C. Cortner. Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases.
By Edward A. Purcell, Jr. 248
104.David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler, editors. African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City.
By Ben Keppel 249
105.Earl M. Maltz. The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969–1986.
By David Yalof 250
106.Tom Wells. Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg.
By Melvin Small 251
107.Eva S. Moskowitz. In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment.
By Ellen Herman 252
108.Bradford W. Wright. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.
By Carol Polsgrove 253
109.Jennifer Terry. An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society.
By John D'Emilio 254
110.John B. Rehder. Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape.
By Greta de Jong 255


CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

 

111.Robin F. A. Fabel. Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759–1775.
By James H. O'Donnell 255
112.Maurice St. Pierre. Anatomy of Resistance: Anti-Colonialism in Guyana 1823–1966.
By Thomas J. Spinner, Jr. 256
113.Iván Molina and Steven Palmer. Educando a Costa Rica: Alfabetización popular, formación docente y género (1880- 1950).
By John A. Britton 257
114.Laird W. Bergad. Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888.
By Douglas Cole Libby 258
115.Roderick Barman. Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–91.
By Neill Macaulay 259
116.Rachel E. Harding. A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.
By Kim D. Butler 260
117.James N. Green. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Brazil.
By Richard Parker 261


EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

 

118.W. Jeffrey Tatum. The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher.
By Nicholas K. Rauh 262
119.Thomas Schilp. Norm und Wirklichkeit religiöser Frauengemeinschaften im Frühmittelalter: Die Institutio sanctimonialium Aguisgranensis des Jahres 816 und die Problematik der Verfassung von Frauenkommunitäten.
By Thomas F. X. Noble 263
120.Alexander Murray. Suicide in the Middle Ages: The Curse on Self-Murder.
By Giles Constable 264
121.David Levine. At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000.
By Robert Bartlett 264
122.C. Warren Hollister. Henry I.
By Frank Barlow 265
123.John Gillingham. Richard I.
By James A. Brundage 266
124.Joseph A. Gribbin. The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England.
By R. N. Swanson 267
125.Frederik Pedersen. Marriage Disputes in Medieval England.
By Shannon McSheffrey 268
126.Nancy Bradley Warren. Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England.
By Jo Ann McNamara 268
127.Kouky Fianu and DeLloyd J. Guth, editors. Écrit et pouvoir dans les chancelleries médiévales: Espace français, espace anglais.
By Michael T. Clanchy 269
128.Margaret Harvey. The English in Rome 1362–1420: Portrait of an Expatriate Community.
By Diana Webb 270


EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

 

129.John Larner. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World.
By James A. Millward 271
130.Karen Offen. European Feminisms 1700–1950: A Political History.
By Judith A. Allen 272
131.Michael Hughes. Diplomacy before the Russian Revolution: Britain, Russia and the Old Diplomacy, 1894–1917.
By Richard K. Debo 273
132.Doreen Evenden. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London.
By W. F. Bynum 274
133.David B. Ruderman. Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought.
By Eugene C. Black 275
134.Keir Waddington. Charity and the London Hospitals 1850–1898.
By Ronald D. Cassell 276
135.Roland Hill. Lord Acton.
By Gregory Claeys 277
136.James G. Nelson. Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson.
By Jonathan Rose 277
137.Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska. Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939–1955.
By Mark Donnelly 278
138.Alice Hills. Britain and the Occupation of Austria, 1943–45.
By Siegfried Beer 279
139.Peter Jupp and Eoin Magennis. Crowds in Ireland, c. 1720–1920.
By Kieran Allen 280
140.Robert Sloan. William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.
By Donald Jordan 281
141.J. N. Hillgarth. The Mirror of Spain, 1500–1700: The Formation of a Myth.
By James S. Amelang 282
142.David Ortiz, Jr. Paper Liberals: Press and Politics in Restoration Spain.
By Laura Desfor Edles 283
143.Wayne H. Bowen. Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order.
By Michael Richards 284
144.Peter Russell. Prince Henry "the Navigator": A Life.
By Marvin Lunenfeld 285
145.Lars M. Andersson. En jude är en jude är en jude . . . : Representationen av "juden" i svensk skämtpress omkring 1900–1930.
By Rochelle Wright 286
146.Kirsi Sirén. Suuresta suvusta pieneen perheeseen: Itäsuomalainen perhe 1700-luvulla; Elina Waris. Yksissä leivissä: Ruokolahtelainen perhelaitos ja yhteisöllinen toiminta 1750–1850.
By Beatrice Moring 287
147.Philippe Hamon. "Messieurs des finances": Les grands officiers de finance dans la France de la Renaissance.
By Gayle K. Brunelle 288
148.Lisa Silverman. Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France.
By Malcolm Greenshields 289
149.Leonard N. Rosenband. Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761–1805.
By David Longfellow 290
150.Michael Rapport. Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: The Treatment of Foreigners 1789–1799.
By Barry Shapiro 291
151.Stephen Bird. Reinventing Voltaire: The Politics of Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century France.
By James R. Lehning 292
152.Jean-François Chanet. Les félibres cantaliens: Aux sources du régionalisme auvergnat (1879–1914).
By Eugen Weber 292
153.Jean-Philippe Mathy. French Resistance: The French-American Culture Wars.
By David A. Bell 293
154.Susan A. Crane. Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany.
By Andrew Lees 294
155.James J. Sheehan. Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism.
By Celia Applegate 295
156.Matthew Levinger. Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture 1806–1848.
By David E. Barclay 296
157.Steven R. Welch. Subjects or Citizens? Elementary School Policy and Practice in Bavaria 1800–1918.
By Mary Jo Maynes 297
158.Barbara Haubner. Nervenkitzel und Freizeitvergnügen: Automobilismus in Deutschland 1886–1914.
By Michael Thad Allen 298
159.Belinda J. Davis. Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin.
By Ann Taylor Allen 298
160.Timothy R. Vogt. Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany: Brandenburg, 1945–1948.
By Philipp Ther 299
161.Raymond G. Stokes. Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany 1945–1990.
By Raymond Bentley 300
162.M. E. Sarotte. Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969–1973.
By Peter Grieder 301
163.Giovanni Ciappelli and Patricia Lee Rubin, editors. Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence.
By Randolph Starn 302
164.Jutta Gisela Sperling. Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice.
By Kate Lowe 303
165.Sandro Bellassai. La morale comunista: Pubblico e privato nella rappresentazione del PCI (1947–1956).
By David I. Kertzer 304
166.András Gero. Emperor Francis Joseph, King of the Hungarians.
By Z. J. Kosztolnyik 305
167.David Cesarani. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind.
By Michael Berkowitz 306
168.Aviezer Tucker. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel.
By James Satterwhite 306
169.Rebecca Haynes. Romanian Policy towards Germany, 1936–40.
By Frederick Kellogg 307
170.Stephen P. Frank. Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856–1914.
By Jane Burbank 308
171.Wayne Dowler. Classroom and Empire: The Politics of Schooling Russia's Eastern Nationalities, 1860–1917.
By Daniel Brower 309
172.Anne E. Gorsuch. Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents.
By Eric Naiman 310
173.Karen Petrone. Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin.
By Denise J. Youngblood 311
174.Amir Weiner. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution.
By Robert W. Thurston 312


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

 

175.Steven Heydemann, editor. War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East.
By Kemal H. Karpat 313
176.Ussama Makdisi. The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon.
By James L. Gelvin 315
177.Ralph M. Coury. The Making of an Egyptian Arab Nationalist: The Early Years of 'Azzam Pasha, 1893–1936.
By Joel Beinin 316
178.Isaiah Friedman. Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land?The British, the Arabs and Zionism, 1915–1920.
By Briton C. Busch 316


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

 

179.Pieter Boele van Hensbroek. Political Discourses in African Thought: 1860 to the Present.
By E. S. Atieno Odhiambo 317
180.Beverly B. Mack and Jean Boyd. One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u; Scholar and Scribe.
By Lucy E. Creevey 318


Collected Essays

COMPARATIVE/WORLD

 

1.Jane Hathaway, editor. Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective. 325
2.Miriam R. Levin, editor. Cultures of Control. 325
3.Jonathan Hollowell, editor. Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations. 325
4.Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack, editors. In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century. 325
5.Himani Bannerji, Shahrzad Mojab, and Judith Whitehead, editors. Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. 326


ASIA

 

6.Yingjin Zhang, editor. Cinema and Urban Future in Shanghai, 1922–1943. 326


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

 

7.Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna, editors. Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. 326
8.Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, editors. Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. 326
9.Tom Sitton and William Deverell, editors. Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. 327
10.Nancy Foner, editor. Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. 327
11.Elliott Abrams, editor. The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy. 327


EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

 

12.Klaus Herbers, editor. Europa an der Wende vom elften zum zwoelften Jahrhundert: Beiträge zu Ehren von Werner Goez. 327
13.David R. Blanks and Michael Frassetto, editors. Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other. 327


EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

 

14.Joseph Marino and Melinda Schlitt, editors. Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History: Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever. 328
15.James Hamilton, editor. Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scienctists 1815–1960. 328
16.Christoph Conrad and Jürgen Kocka, editors. Staatsbürgerschaft in Europa: Historische Erfahrungen und aktuelle Debatten. 328
17.Dan Stone, editor. Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust. 328
18.Martin A. Schain, editor. The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After. 328


MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

 

19.Lavon Chorbajian, editor. The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: From Secession to Republic. 329