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Review Essay“Crusades Scholarship”The Experience of Crusading Volume 1, Western Approaches. Edited by Marcus Bull and Norman Housley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 307. $60.00.)The Experience of Crusading Volume 2, Defining the Crusader Kingdom. Edited by Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 311. $65.00.)
Saint Louis University
Reviewed by Thomas F. MaddenAfrica and the Middle EastSearching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco. By Shana Cohen. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 177. $21.95.)
University of South Carolina
Reviewed by Kenneth J. PerkinsGod's Rule: Government and Islam, Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought. By Patricia Crone. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 462. $39.50.)
Loyola University, Chicago
Reviewed by Zouhair GhazzalWarlords and Merchants: The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment. By Kamal Dib. (Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2004. Pp. 333. $49.50.)
Harvard University
Reviewed by Roger OwenDhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. By Erik Gilbert. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 176. $26.95.)
Colorado State University
Reviewed by Thaddeus SunseriThe Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 487. $30.00.)
Simmons College
Reviewed by Kirk J. BeattieThe AmericasAudacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee. Edited by Peter S. Carmichael. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 174. $24.95.)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Reviewed by Carl H. MoneyhonThe Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941. By Edward M. Coffman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 519. $35.00.)
Hanover College
Reviewed by Daniel MurphyBrothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment. By Mark H. Dunkelman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 344. $39.95.)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Reviewed by James I. Robertson Jr.Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America. By George C. Edwards III. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 198. $26.00.)
Oakland University
Reviewed by David A. DulioSlavery in the Development of the Americas. Edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 372. $75.00.)
University of Texas at Dallas
Reviewed by Stephen G. RabeSurprise, Security, and the American Experience. By John Lewis Gaddis. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 150. $18.95.)
University of Connecticut
Reviewed by J. Garry CliffordPuritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology. Edited by David D. Hall. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 370. $19.95.)
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
Reviewed by Steven Jay WhiteThe Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists. By Barry Hankins. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 200. $45.00.)
Duquesne University
Reviewed by Michael CahallArmies without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821–1960. By Robert H. Holden. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 336. $55.00.)
University of Kansas
Reviewed by Charles L. StansiferAn Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866. By James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 168. $28.95.)
Louisiana State University
Reviewed by John C. RodrigueDowntown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. By Alison Isenberg. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 441. $32.50.)
University of Wisconsin, Marathon County
Reviewed by Cornelia F. SexauerSinging in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. By Jerma A. Jackson. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 193. $15.95.)
Kent State University, Trumbull
Reviewed by Kenneth J. BindasThe Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. By Peter J. Kastor. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 311. $35.00.)
Arizona State University
Reviewed by Susan E. GrayThe Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920. By Alecia P. Long. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 282. $39.95.)
University of Portsmouth
Reviewed by Kevin WhiteThe Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict. By John Missall and Mary Lou Missall. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. xxii, 255. $29.95.)
Hamilton, Mississippi
Reviewed by Jane F. LancasterThe Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. By Edmund S. Morgan. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 91. $19.95.)
Elizabethtown College
Reviewed by David S. BrownGlory, Darkness, Light: A History of the Union League Club of Chicago. By James D. Nowlan. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004. Pp. 290. $29.95.)
University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign
Reviewed by Robert McColleyRough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947. By Michael J. Pfeifer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. x, 246. $35.00.)
Montana State University, Billings
Reviewed by Norton H. MosesInside the Pentagon Papers. Edited by John Prados and Margarett Pratt Porter. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 248. $29.95.)
New York University
Reviewed by Marilyn B. YoungFranklin D. Roosevelt. By Patrick Renshaw. (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2004. Pp. xxx, 223. $26.99.)
Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
Reviewed by M. J. HealeMinding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. By Stephen P. Rice. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 230. $49.95.)
Brown University
Reviewed by David R. MeyerWomen at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. By Jane E. Schultz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 360. $39.95.)
Temple University
Reviewed by Elizabeth R. VaronBound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870–1920. By Diana B. Turk. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. Pp. v, 245. $20.00.)
Hofstra University
Reviewed by Susan M. YohnRace, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfiran Mexico. By Richard Weiner. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 167. $39.95.)
Ohio Wesleyan University
Reviewed by Jeremy BaskesThe Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800–1861. By Jonathan Daniel Wells. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 321. $22.50.)
Denison University
Reviewed by Mitchell SnayChains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina. By Emily West. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 184. $30.00.)
Radford University
Reviewed by Sharon A. Roger HepburnDoomed to Fail: The Built‐in Defects of American Education. By Paul A. Zoch. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. ix, 237. $26.95.)
Florida State University
Reviewed by Victoria‐María MacDonaldAsia and the PacificThe History of New Zealand. By Tom Brooking. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xxxv, 250. $45.00.)
Victoria University of Wellington
Reviewed by Giselle M. ByrnesStitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles. By Saurabh Dube. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 259. $84.95.)
Edmond, Oklahoma
Reviewed by Henry F. DobynsPacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste. Edited by Brij V. Lal. (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 345. $57.00.)
University of Hawai’i
Reviewed by Keith L. CamachoThe Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth‐Century China. By Iona D. Man‐Cheong. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 298. $55.00.)
Johns Hopkins University
Reviewed by William T. RoweThe Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire. By Thomas H. Reilly. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 235. $45.00.)
Pace University, New York
Reviewed by Joseph Tse‐Hei LeeGandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity. By G. B. Singh. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004. Pp. 355. $32.00.)
Illinois State University
Reviewed by Manfred B. StegerRelics of the Buddha. By John S. Strong. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 290. $39.50.)
Academia Sinica
Reviewed by John KieschnickTaiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writings and Pictures, 1683–1895. By Emma J. Teng. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 400. $49.95.)
Baruch College, City University of New York
Reviewed by Murray A. RubinsteinEuropeNapoleon in Egypt. Edited by Irene A. Bierman, with an introduction by Afaf Lutfi Al‐Sayyid Marsot. (Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2003. Pp. v, 187. $49.50.)
University of York
Reviewed by Alan ForrestParliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century. By Jeremy Black. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 261. $70.00.)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Reviewed by James J. SackThe Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union. By Christopher Booker and Richard North. (New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. xiii, 474. $39.95.)
University of Trenton
Reviewed by Mark GilbertThe Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885–1914. By Marc Brodie. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 240. $95.00.)
Ohio State University, Marion Campus
Reviewed by Vladimir SteffelAlexander the Great: A New Life. By Paul Cartledge. (New York: Overlook Press, 2004. Pp. 352. $28.95.)
Baylor University
Reviewed by Carol J. KingThe Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800– 1975. By Hera Cook. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 412. $55.00.)
University of Victoria
Reviewed by Angus McLarenAthenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays. By G. E. M. de Ste. Croix. Edited by David Harvey and Robert Parker, with the assistance of Peter Thonemann. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 464. $145.00.)
University of Alberta
Reviewed by Frances PownallThe Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. By Suzanne Desan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 456. $50.00.)
Norfolk State University
Reviewed by Charles H. FordTo the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette. By Carolly Erickson. (New York: St. Martin's Griffin Press, 2004. Pp. 384. $17.95.)
University College Dublin
Reviewed by Hugh GoughGeorge Sand. By Elizabeth Harlan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 359. $35.00.)
Bowling Green State University
Reviewed by Deborah Houk SchocketA Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. By Julie Hessler. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 366. $39.50.)
University of Kent
Reviewed by Richard SakwaThe Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author. Translated with an introduction and notes by James M. Powell. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. Pp. xlv, 286. $ 59.95.)
Calvin College
Reviewed by Frans van LiereProcopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. By Anthony Kaldellis. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 305. $49.95.)
Rice University
Reviewed by Michael MaasFrench Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. By Steven Kale. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 308. $48.00.)
Baylor University
Reviewed by David LongfellowThe Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445–1503. By J. L. Laynesmith. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 294. $52.00.)
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Reviewed by Diane WattLudwig Erhard: A Biography. By Alfred Mierzejewski. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 278. $49.95.)
Florida State University
Reviewed by Christopher GriffinPeople and Politics in France, 1848–1870. By Roger Price. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 477. $95.00.)
University of Denver
Reviewed by Eric A. Arnold Jr.United We Stand: A History of Britain's Trade Unions. By Alastair J. Reid. (London: Allen Lane, 2004. Pp. xvii, 471. $45.00.)
Youngstown State University
Reviewed by Lowell J. SatreMax Weber: An Intellectual Biography. By Fritz Ringer. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 307. $19.00.)
Cornell University
Reviewed by Richard SwedburgRome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic. By Nathan Rosenstein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. x, 339. $45.00.)
Rutgers University, Newark
Reviewed by Gary D. FarneyThe Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV. By Anne Somerset. (New York: St Martin's Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 377. $27.95.)
James Madison University
Reviewed by Philip F. RileyThe First World War. By Hew Strachan. (New York: Viking, 2004. Pp. xviii, 365. $27.95.)
University of Scranton
Reviewed by F. X. J. HomerA Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern. By Corinna Treitel. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 366. $16.95.)
Liverpool John Moores University
Reviewed by B. J. GibbonsLafayette. By Harlow Giles Unger. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 452. $30.00.)
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Reviewed by Jonathan M. ChuHitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany. By Nikolaus Wachsmann. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 538. $45.00.)
Texas A&M University
Reviewed by Arnold KrammerThe Battle That Stopped Rome. By Peter S. Wells. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. 256. $24.95.)
California State University, Long Beach
Reviewed by David HoodStalin's Empire of Memory: Russian‐Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination. By Serhy Yekelchyk. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 231. $50.00.)
Brown University
Reviewed by Patricia HerlihyGeneral, Comparative, HistoriographicalTolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader. Edited, with an introduction, by Jane Chance. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 340. $35.00.)
Saint Vincent College
Reviewed by Wulfstan CloughMaritime History as World History. Edited by Daniel Finamore. (Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum and Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. xii, 216. $59.95.)
Barnard College, Columbia University
Reviewed by Robert A. McCaugheyNew Approaches to Socialist History. Edited by Keith Flett and David Renton. (Cheltenham: New Clarion Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 175. $19.95.)
University of Warwick
Reviewed by Gerd‐Rainer HornThe Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past. By Mary S. Hartman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 297. $70.00.)
University of Guelph
Reviewed by Jacqueline MurrayAngels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600–1900. By Richard Somerset‐Ward. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 325. $21.00.)
Ohio Wesleyan University
Reviewed by Timothy RodenA Brief History of the Olympic Games. By David C. Young. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. xiv, 184. $54.95.)
University of Western Ontario
Reviewed by Nigel B. Crowther