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Recent Prize‐Winning Books in History:Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorthea Dix.Providence island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony.Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism.The New Rural History: A Subject Whose Time Has ComeBorn in the Country: A History of Rural America.Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890‐1930.Africa and the Middle East The Boundaries of Modern Iran.Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People.The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective.The Americas: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America.The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885‐1895.The George R. “Bob” Caron Story—Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay: Fire of a Thousand Suns.Science and Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison.The Scottish High Church Tradition in America: An Essay in Scotch‐Irish Ethnoreligious History.The Abolitionists & The South, 1831‐1865.Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control.Our Rightful Share: The Afro‐Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886‐1912.Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800‐1854.Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England.Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917‐1994.The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions.Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America.To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II.Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side.Rural Guatemala: 1760‐1940.Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment.Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency.“Lest We Forget:” A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland.The Sixties and the End of Modern America.Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography.McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt.Asia and the Pacific China in World History.To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization.The Cambridge History of China. Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907‐1368.Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth‐Century China.Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education.The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III:4, Ideologies of the Raj.The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty‐First Century.A History of Brunei.Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution.Europe: Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance?The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule.Counter‐Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646‐8.Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution.Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth‐Century England.Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage.Asquith As War Leader.Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune.A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy.Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth‐Century France.Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan.Charlotte Brontë. A Passionate Life.Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth‐Century Church of England.Captain James Cook: A Biography.Poland Since 1944: A Portrait of Years.Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron.Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond.New French Thought: Political Philosophy.The Franks in the Aegean 1204‐1500.Gladstone 1875‐1898.The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760‐1857.The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494‐1545.Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London, 1850‐1915.Who Are The Macedonians? Exile and Destruction. The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938‐1945.Economic Structures of Antiquity.The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France.Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum.The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle.London at War, 1939‐1945.kathinka Zitz‐Halein and Female Activism in Mid‐Nineteenth‐Century Germany.General, Comparative, Historiographical The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy.The pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim states and the Pacific Islands.