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Book reviewed in this articleEditorial Office: 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone: 740‐368‐3642 Fax: 740‐368‐3643 E‐mail: brhistor@cc.owu.edu Web address: http://www.cc.owu.edu/~histor/ Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseilles. By Daniel Lord Smail. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850‐1930. By Jose C. Moya. Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America's Game. By John C. Chalberg. Past Time: Baseball as History. By Jules Tygiel. Imperialism: Decolonization and Africa. Edited by Roy Bridges. The Well‐Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876‐1909. By Selim Deringil. The Oxford History of Islam. Edited by John L. Esposito. State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540‐1834. By Dina Rizk Khoury. The War of 1812. By Henry B. Adams. Edited by Major H. A. DeWeerd, with an introduction by Colonel John R. Elting. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754‐1766. By Fred Anderson. Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. By William Brashler. The Other Founders: Anti‐Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788‐1828. By Saul Cornell. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army. By Sarah Emma Edmonds. Edited, with an introduction, by Elizabeth Leonard. The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. By Ronald Edsforth. Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861‐1865. By Karen E. Fritz. How We Got Here: The 1970s, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse). By David Frum. Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. By Charles R. Geisst. The Second Century: U.S.‐Latin American Relations since 1889. By Mark T. Gilderhus. Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco Léon de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution. By Peter V. N. Henderson. Lincoln Seen & Heard. By Harold Holzer. Philanthropic Foundations in the Twentieth Century. By Joseph Kiger. Heirs Apparent: Solving the Vice Presidential Dilemma. By Vance R. Kincade Jr. Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America. By Marc W. Kruman. Divided Arsenal Race and the American State during World War II By Daniel Kryder. Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. By Isabelle Lehuu. Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic. By Stuart Leibiger. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977‐1992. By William M. LeoGrande. Yellowstone: The Reaction and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870‐1903. By Chris J. Magoc. Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest. By Jan Morris. Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption. By Stephen R. Niblo. The Warren Court and American Politics. By Lucas A. Powe Jr. Conflict in the South Cone: The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute with Chile, 1870‐1902. By George Rauch. Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson. By James H. Read. The Sacred and the Secular University. By Jon H. Roberts and James Turner. Bold Dragoon: The Life of J. E. B. Stuart. By Emory M. Thomas. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III.5, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. By David Arnold. Women and Property in China, 960‐1949. By Kathryn Bernhardt. Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China. Edited by Constance A. Cook and John S. Major. Imperial China, 900‐1800. By F. W. Mote. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions. By Evelyn S. Rawski. Vietnam. By Spencer Tucker. The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933‐1945. By Pierre Ayçoberry. Translated by Janet Lloyd. The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. By Paul Cartledge. Reflections on a Ravaged Century. By Robert Conquest. Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension. By David Cressy. The Isles: A History. By Norman Davies. Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu‐Dej and the Police State, 1948‐1965. By Dennis Deletant. Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914‐1940. By R. M. Douglas. Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution. By William Doyle. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Edited by Theodore Evergates. Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916‐1919. By John Fisher. Joan of Arc: The Early Debate. By Deborah A. Fraioli. The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772. By Karin Friedrich. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self‐Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939. By J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. By Eliga H. Gould. Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time. By A. James Gregor. Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power. By Fred Halliday. The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest. By Péter Hanák. John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. By Deborah E. Harkness. Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion. By Julie Candler Hayes. Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis. By Jurgen Herbst. Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans. By Eric A. Johnson. A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville, 1712‐1770. By Allen S. From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870–1990. By Rudy Koshar. The Tragedy of Childbed Fever. By Irvine Loudon. A Concise History of the Crusades. By Thomas F. Madden. Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859‐1888. By John C. G. Rohl. Translated by Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914‐1918. Edited by Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites. For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh. By Frances A. Underhill. The Atlantic. By Paul Butel. Translated by Iain Hamilton Grant. She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea. By Joan Druett. Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today. By Scott Gordon. Empire. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.