Book Reviews

Abstract

Peter C. Rollins, Editor. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Pp. x, 276. Paper, $10.00; Cloth, $26.00. Review by Richard Robertson of the Alabama Humanities Resource Center. M. A. Fitzsimmons. The Past Recaptured: Great Historians and the History of History. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 230. Cloth, $16.95. Review by Dana Greene of St. Mary's College of Maryland. Peter Loewenberg. Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1983. Pp. 300. Cloth, $20.00. Review by Thomas T. Lewis of Mount Senario College. John Anthony Scott. The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story. Second edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 439. Paper, $12.95. Review by George W. Geib of Butler University. Stanley Coben and Lorman Ratner, eds. The Development of an American Culture. Second edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 371. Cloth, $15.95; Paper, $8.95. Review by Peter Gregg Slater of Mercy College. Jerome R. Reich. Colonial America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984. Pp. x, 307. Paper, $15.95. Review by Raymond C. Bailey of Northern Virginia Community College. Vivian C. Fox and Martin H. Quitt, eds. Loving, Parenting, and Dying: The Family Cycle in England and America., Past and Present. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 488. Cloth, $38.50; paper, $11.95. Review by Ross W. Beales, Jr. of the College of the Holy Cross. Arthur S. Link and William A. Link. The Twentieth Century: An American History. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1983. Pp. x, 374. Cloth, $27.50; Paper, $16.95. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays State University. Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 209. Paper, $8.95. Review by Eckard V. Toy, Jr. of Oregon State University. Brian Catchpole. A Map History of Our Own Times from the 1950s to the Present Day. London and Exeter: Heinemann Books, 1983. Pp. vii, 148. Paper, $7.00. Review by Gerald H. Davis of Georgia State University. Edward Peters. Europe and the Middle Ages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. Pp. 319. Paper, $14.95. Review by Robert O. Lindsay of the University of Montana. P. M. Harman. The Scientific Revolution. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. vii, 35. Paper, $2.95. J. H. Shennan; France Before the Revolution. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. vii, 35. Paper, $2.95. Review by Harry E. Wade of East Texas State University. Woodruff D. Smith. European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Chicago: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1982. Pp. vii, 273. Cloth, $20.95; Paper, $10.95. Review by Irby C. Nichols Jr., North Texas State University.