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David Moolten's most recent book, Primitive Mood, won the T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University Press, 2009). He lives and writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft. Edited by Barbara Diefendorf. Early Modern Studies Series. Edited by Michael Wolfe.Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. Pp. vi+312. $50.00.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsSocial Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft. Edited by Barbara Diefendorf. Early Modern Studies Series. Edited by Michael Wolfe.Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. Pp. vi+312. $50.00.Allan TulchinAllan TulchinShippensburg University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 91, Number 3September 2019European State Violence in the Twentieth Century Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/704415 Views: 35Total views on this site For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Beyond Indulgences: Luther's Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518–1520 by Anna Marie Johnson

Reviewed by: Beyond Indulgences: Luther's Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518–1520 by Anna Marie Johnson Mary Jane Haemig Beyond Indulgences: Luther's Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518–1520. By Anna Marie Johnson. Early Modern Studies 21. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2017. 227 pp. This book began as a Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton Theological Seminary. Johnson examines Luther's early pastoral writings and thereby sculpts an alternative narrative of the early years (1517–1521) of the Reformation. Scholarship has traditionally focused on documents and events such as the Ninety-Five Theses (1517) and the Heidelberg Disputation (1518), and theological issues such as indulgences and papal primacy. In contrast, Johnson understands these years by analyzing Luther's reform of traditional Christian practices and focuses on twenty-five pastoral writings between 1517 and 1520. While treating a wide range of practices, these writings had a consistent focus on "sincere faith, trust in God's grace, and the willingness to suffer" (183). Chapter one examines relevant scholarship, the scholarly focus on the so-called "reformation discovery" and polemics, and recent interest in Luther as a pastoral theologian. It also provides background on late medieval Christian practices. Chapter two reviews the two years before the indulgence controversy (1516–1517), looking at, among others, the lectures on Romans and early comments on indulgences, as well as the Ninety-Five Theses. Johnson highlights Luther's "central concern for proper repentance" (57) and notes that "Luther's seemingly disparate conflict with Scholasticism and his protest against indulgences are woven together by his concern about the effects of Scholastic doctrine and Christian practice on the faith of believers" (59). Chapter three, on Lent 1518, examines how Luther [End Page 207] reformed Penance by emphasizing proper preparation—faith and a recognition of one's inclination to sin—rather than false confidence in successful completion of the work of Penance. It also examines Luther's criticism of relics, veneration of saints, and medieval prayer practices. Luther's emphases on the importance of faith, the need to recognize one's sinfulness, and the view that suffering is an essential part of Christian life are themes that also were important at the Heidelberg Disputation. Far from a sidelight, Luther's "concerns about practice appeared repeatedly, corresponded to themes he reiterated in other settings, and were woven into the fabric of his protest" (93). Chapter four, on summer 1518, discusses three pastoral writings produced between the Heidelberg disputation and Luther's meeting with Cajetan. While polemic and academic works, such as the Explanations of the Ninety-Five Theses, focused on penance and indulgences, these pastoral writings (a preface to German Theology, The Ten Commandments Preached to the People of Wittenberg, and an explanation of Psalm 110) took up less controversial themes. Johnson asserts that Luther's approach to questions of piety remained the same and no "seismic shift in Luther's thought" (110) occurred during summer 1518. Chapter five covers early 1519 to the Leipzig Debate. Issues of papal authority and indulgences were the major polemical issues in this period. But Luther also produced a work on the Ten Commandments and one on the Lord's Prayer, as well as five sermons and treatises on "a broad range of ecclesiastically endorsed devotional practices" (115). While offering instruction on such matters as contemplating Christ's passion, prayer, marriage, and good works, Luther articulated a litmus test for Christian practice "Anything that increased trust in God and service to the neighbor is proper Christian practice, while anything that diverted energies away from this goal and made one self-focused is to be discouraged" (140). Chapter six, fall 1519 to summer 1520, examines the period from the Leipzig Debate to Luther's excommunication, including sermons on Confession, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, as well as A Sermon on Preparing to Die, a sermon on usury, and a sermon on good works. Johnson notes that in these months "Luther began to include intense criticism of the church hierarchy in his pastoral writings" and "began to criticize practices of enormous importance to the hierarchy" (178). [End Page 208] Johnson makes a convincing argument that practical issues played a foundational role in Luther's...

Nuclear Energy and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Edited by J. Samuel Walker. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. 229 pp.

Nuclear Energy and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Edited by J. Samuel Walker. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. 229 pp.

Wish You Were Here: Love and Longing in an American Heartland by Zachary Michael Jack

Reviewed by: Wish You Were Here: Love and Longing in an American Heartland by Zachary Michael Jack Maria Nazos Wish You Were Here: Love and Longing in an American Heartland. By Zachary Michael Jack. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. ix + 256 pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography. $15.95 paper. Zachary Michael Jack has crafted a compelling and unlikely collection of essays that deal with the intricacies of living as a seventh-generation male in the remote rurality of eastern Iowa. Jack refuses to shy away from difficult concepts such as the struggles of dating, the excitement of politics, and his ancestral roots. Throughout these essays are several common threads, but the most salient one is the author's paradoxical longing for a place which, despite its loneliness and challenges, he nonetheless loves and does not wish to leave. Jack cultivates a voice that engages the reader in a come-here-go-away dance; the narrator both yearns for others to understand and even join him in this remote area, while at the same time praising this region for its isolation. Wish You Were Here contains interviews with other younger farm-dwellers, research into the author's familial background, and more intimate vignettes of Jack's personal life, including the complications of modern dating. This thread of love, longing, and impossibility is once again investigated throughout these essays as the author searches for love. Jack possesses an admirable willingness to be vulnerable and take an unflinching look at himself, the [End Page 323] landscape that surrounds him, and his sparse romantic prospects. One can feel the longing, loneliness, and heartache in "Digital Divides," one of the most compelling essays of the collection, in which the author describes his online dating experience. Jack reveals that after much cajoling from his friends to create an online dating profile, he finds himself both hopeful and cynical: "The Internet has practically become a love-lifeline, my urban friends convince me, with a missionary zeal in their voices" (113). Championing this narrator becomes easy as Jack candidly describes how remote rural living has led to "years of fitful celibacy" (113), and displays an admirable willingness to be vulnerable, both in his memoir and his life. After briefly dating a woman who lives in Chicago, however, her phobia of open spaces and the author's devotion to his rural life become an increasingly impenetrable barrier, so that the collection interrogates the paradox behind its title. The author craves love and intimacy, yet on the other hand, he has worked to maintain his beloved pastoral life, so the reader is left in as much of a state of yearning as the memoirist himself. We do not want Jack to leave his home, either, but we do wish that special someone will show up there. Throughout these self-revealing moments, though, occasionally there are some problematic terms used, not by the author, but by one of his hometown predecessors, Osha Gray Davidson. Although Jack somewhat implies that this term is problematic in his subsequent conversation with Davidson, he never directly states his reaction to this term. When Davidson refers repeatedly to the open prairie as a "rural ghetto," he appropriates an equally problematic phrase that has traditionally been used to define urban communities of color. This is a risky undertaking for Davidson; it is unwieldy to equate a white-dominated Great Plains countryside using slang that has historically defined an urban working-class minority community. The notion of Davidson's comparing two disparate cultures is inexact at best. As a reader, I wanted to see Jack's position more viscerally. In its entirety, Wish You Were Here proves to be a poetic, well written, and honest examination of both the self and the Great Plains landscape. The author provides a multifaceted view of a terrain that he refuses to completely laud or dismiss; rather, he dwells within the paradox between love and yearning, because to Jack, they are inextricably linked. Maria Nazos Department of English University of Nebraska–Lincoln Copyright © 2018 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

In Missouri’s Wilds: St. Mary’s of the Barrens and the American Catholic Church, 1818 to 2016 by Richard J. Janet

Reviewed by: In Missouri’s Wilds: St. Mary’s of the Barrens and the American Catholic Church, 1818 to 2016 by Richard J. Janet John Harney In Missouri’s Wilds: St. Mary’s of the Barrens and the American Catholic Church, 1818 to 2016. By Richard J. Janet. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2017. 288 pp. $24.95. Richard Janet takes the main issue head on at the beginning of In Missouri’s Wilds: how does one write an in-depth specific history of an institution with enormous importance to a limited number of scholars while still producing something useful to colleagues across the broader fields and subfields of Catholic history? His subject, St. Mary’s of the Barrens, is in truth suffuse with importance and potential for any historian of American Catholicism. The fourth Catholic seminary founded in the American Catholic church, St. Mary’s served as the mother house of American members of the Congregation of the Mission from its formation in 1818 until various difficulties forced the move of the Vincentian formation program to St. Louis in 1862. Reopened in 1888, the seminary continued in support of the Western Province of the order following the division of the American Province that year. Formation activities ceased in 1985, but St. Mary’s continues today as the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, a status held since 1929. The institution occupies a space straddling the history of Catholicism in the American South and the early West, the structuring of early Catholic communities, and the shifting fortunes of American Catholicism within the Catholic world and Catholicism within American society. Janet seeks to specifically place St. Mary’s within an historiographical context that situates the seminary within a larger discussion of the evolution of American Catholicism. This results in an interesting shift in the book’s structure partway through, as Janet [End Page 84] transitions from discussing the role the seminary played as a frontier vanguard of American Catholicism in the nineteenth century to the changing realities of the American role in the global church in the decades leading up to Vatican II. Key questions are addressed: What does an American Catholic institution look like in the early nineteenth century, and how soon does such an attempt at categorization fail in the face of diverse and challenging local experiences? How did the rising tide of American influence within the church throughout the twentieth century manifest in the fortunes of this institution, and what led to steep changes shortly afterwards? Answers provided tend to dwell on the immediate, focusing on leadership decisions and reactions to changing local conditions in Missouri and within the Vincentian order. The result is a trove of valuable information, including context on the finances of St. Mary’s at various given times and extensive coverage of internal discussions on the management of the seminary, that offers valuable material for Janet’s fellow scholars to digest. Thematically, the author ultimately offers us the importance of examining community: the community within St. Mary’s and the community around it. This work is at its best when the author manages to tie these various interests together without causing too much narrative strain, as seen in the treatment of the long discussion within the order leading to the closing of the seminary in 1985 and its removal from consideration as a site of apostolic work a decade later. Janet could perhaps have engaged in further detail with American Vincentian missionary work that for much of the twentieth century looked to St. Mary’s as a logistical and spiritual home, but the historical work here is for the most part diligent and exhaustive. The greatest strength of Janet’s work lies in the depth of his interrogation of St. Mary’s importance and historical presence as an American Catholic institution in changing times. This can occasionally drift into detailed discussion of historical minutiae, but perhaps my favorite element of the study undertaken here is the author’s success in evoking a culture distinct to St. Mary’s while situating it clearly within broader historical dynamics of global Catholicism and American Catholicism in particular. In Missouri’s Wilds is well...

The Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research. Edited by David M. Whitford

The Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research. Edited by David M. Whitford. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, v. 79. Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press , 2008, xii + 456 pp. ISBN 978-1-931112-72-7 (pbk.); 39.00 USD.*This collection of essays entitled The Reformation and Early Modern Europe,edited by David M. Whitford, is the most recent of the published and still up-todate overviews of the state of discussion concerning the study of the EuropeanReformations of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. This volume is the fourth in a series of so-called “guides to research” focused on Reformation studies and related phenomena. It continues and complements the earlier volumes: Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research, edited by Stephen Ozment (1982); Catholicism in Early Modern History: A Guide to Research, edited by John O’Malley (1987); and Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research II, edited by William Maltby (1992).* The review received on 6.12.2016; approved for publication on 20.12.2016.

Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Edited by MaryAnn HeissMichael J.Hogan. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2015. 240 pp.

Origins of the National Security State and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Edited by MaryAnn HeissMichael J.Hogan. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2015. 240 pp.

Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft. Barbara B. Diefendorf, ed. Early Modern Studies 19. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. vi + 312 pp. $50.

Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft. Barbara B. Diefendorf, ed. Early Modern Studies 19. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2016. vi + 312 pp. $50. - Volume 70 Issue 3

Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton, and Bruce T. Moran, editors.Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era.

Journal Article Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton, and Bruce T. Moran, editors. Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era. Get access Karen Hunger Parshall Michael T. Walton, and Bruce T. Moran, editors. Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era. (Early Modern Studies Series, no. 15.) Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 311. $50.00. The American Historical Review, Volume 121, Issue 2, April 2016, Pages 700–701, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.700d Published: 28 March 2016

Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era. Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton, and Bruce T. Moran, eds. Early Modern Studies 15. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2015. xxii + 312 pp. $50.

Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era. Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton, and Bruce T. Moran, eds. Early Modern Studies 15. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2015. xxii + 312 pp. $50.

Federico Barocci and the Oratorians: Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation by Ian F. Verstegen

Reviewed by: Federico Barocci and the Oratorians: Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation by Ian F. Verstegen Judith W. Mann Federico Barocci and the Oratorians: Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation. By Ian F. Verstegen. [Early Modern Studies, 14.] (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. 2015. Pp. xii, 172. $60.00. ISBN 978-1-61248-132-6.) Ian Verstegen has made important contributions to Barocci scholarship. The 2008 article with John Marciari on scale relationships between Barocci’s drawings [End Page 617] and paintings is among the most frequently cited studies in the Barocci literature. The 2007 volume he edited on the della Rovere dukes provided insights into Barocci’s primary patrons, and his 2003 article enriched our knowledge of Barocci’s most important Roman altarpieces.6 Therefore, one turns to his new publication with high expectations. Although there is some new material in the present volume, Federico Barocci and the Oratorians is, by and large, disappointing. The core of the book reprises the 2003 article. This is acknowledged in the book’s preface, although the extent of overlap, with some passages reprinted virtually unchanged, is not really made clear. Verstegen has added an introductory section that lays out the theoretical and methodological framework for evaluating style. Any but the most theoretically adept scholars will find the terminology and opaque conceptualizations less helpful than they are obscuring. The book, therefore, has limited usefulness for teaching, and would have benefited from attentive editing to serve a wider readership. Furthermore, since Verstegen’s interest is stylistic rather than iconographic, those looking for discussions that elucidate the theological issues in Barocci’s paintings should turn elsewhere. There are several interesting contributions that Verstegen puts forth. As he himself acknowledges, the inclusion of a high-quality photograph of Barocci’s Ambrosiana Nativity (1597) helps buttress the argument from his 2003 article that the Milan painting rather than the Prado version is the primary and finer picture. He is correct on this point, although he does not adequately argue the case for attributing the Prado painting entirely to Barocci’s pupil, Vitali. Verstegen expands his earlier discussion regarding Barocci’s possible involvement in the main altar at the Chiesa Nuova. He explores the possibility that Alessandro Vitali’s Nativity of the Virgin (1588–1603; now in S. Sempliciano, Milan) may represent Barocci’s ideas that were never executed. That picture, however, is composed entirely of rote adaptations of previous Barocci elements with little evidence of Barocci’s design, in spite of Verstegen’s identification of an autograph chalk sketch in Düsseldorf as an early study. That sheet, a type that Barocci used only one other time, represents a topic worthy of further investigation. Verstegen also publishes a new pastel head for the Circumcision, and although this reviewer is skeptical that it represents Filippo Neri as the author claims, it is a beautiful addition to the oeuvre. In multiple small ways, however, the book seems hastily prepared and carelessly edited. Typos and errors abound—two examples make the point: On page [End Page 618] 68, Barocci is identified as being from Rome rather than Urbino; on page 82 his Last Supper in the cathedral in Urbino is titled a Last Judgment. Illustrations are confusingly labeled, and there is no consistency in the manner in which drawings are identified. The sheet from Düsseldorf (p. 105) is labeled with the inventory number, a standard, whereas on pages 74–75, the captions for sheets from Copenhagen, the Fondation Custodia in Paris, and Stockholm include not a single inventory number among them. Their identifying information has been jumbled and would confuse a reader who has not dealt with this material before and would be unable to trace the source of the drawings. All of this makes it seem as if the volume was never carefully edited and certainly not proofread, lessening its value as a contribution to Barocci studies. It is also unfortunate that the press has adopted a style where footnotes do not always include page numbers. Judith W. Mann Saint Louis Art Museum Footnotes 6. John Marciari and Ian Verstegen, “‘Grande quanto l’opera’: Size and Scale in Barocci’s Drawings,” Master...

The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist in Reformation Polemics. By Lawrence P. Buck. Early Modern Studies. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2014. xiii + 258 pp. $49.95 paper.

The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist in Reformation Polemics. By Lawrence P. Buck. Early Modern Studies. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2014. xiii + 258 pp. $49.95 paper. - Volume 84 Issue 4

Reviews [2 book reviews; 2 film reviews

This set of Reviews covers Open Standards in the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks by Andrew L. Russell (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World (Truman State University Press, 2013), a memoir by Jean Jennings Bartik; the Warner Bros. feature film Interstellar (directed by Christopher Nolan); and TWC feature film The Imitation Game (directed by Morten Tyldum).

Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860.By William Patrick O'Brien . ( Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press , 2014 . xii + 211 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, $35.95 , paper; $27.99 , e-book.)

Journal Article Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 Get access Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 . By O'Brien William Patrick . ( Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press , 2014 . xii + 211 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, $35.95 , paper; $27.99 , e-book.) Robert Willoughby Robert Willoughby University of Arkansas—Fort Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 1, Spring 2015, Pages 82–83, https://doi.org/10.2307/westhistquar.46.1.0082 Published: 01 February 2015

Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 by William P. O’Brien (review)

Reviewed by: Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 by William P. O’Brien Christopher Menking Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860. By William P. O’Brien. (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2014. Pp. 219. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) William O’Brien’s book looks at what would become the southwestern United States through the experiences of the town of Independence, Missouri, and the Santa Fe Trail. He uses the economic experience of the town as a microcosm for international trade between the United States and Mexico during this period. This new interpretation of the significance of the Santa Fe Trail allows O’Brien to draw a larger significance from what much of the historiography has considered a regional story. His central argument is that an inquiry into the economic and social experiences of Independence’s role in the Santa Fe Trail can reveal much about this history of the Southwest and the nature of international trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. The Santa Fe Trail serves more as a persistent theme than the focus of O’Brien’s book. He uses the trail and the growth of Independence to show that the nature of international trade meant embracing social and racial differences for the purpose of economic gain. In this version of the narrative, O’Brien argues that the pursuit of profit necessitated the cooperation of groups that normally would be at odds with each other. This argument dominates his book. His discussion includes whites from across the United States, free blacks, Mexicans, and American Indians all working towards their own economic benefit. Without this cooperation, O’Brien argues, the Santa Fe Trail would not have been such a significant part of the international trade with Mexico. O’Brien extrapolates from [End Page 430] the example of racial cooperation in Independence that international trade at this time could only be facilitated by those willing to set aside nationalistic and ethnic differences. This experience on the frontier of the United States that O’Brien argues is so telling of international trade is reminiscent of Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis. O’Brien makes a similar argument: the regional experience of Independence and the merchants of the Santa Fe Trail is significant despite such a small part of the population directly experiencing the trade. While O’Brien never makes as comprehensive a claim as Turner, he establishes a basis for using this particular experience as a benchmark for understanding international trade in the early nineteenth century. O’Brien’s book convincingly ties the experience of international trade in the Southwest to both the national and international experience. Although this is ostensibly a local history of a Missouri town, it also tells the story of the United States in the early 1800s. This frontier town served as a crossroads for the international trade and a microcosm of the changes shaping the United States. This book contributes to the historiographies of not only the Southwest and of economic history but also the United States at large. O’Brien did a remarkable job with such a small volume. Christopher Menking University of North Texas Copyright © 2014 The Texas State Historical Association

Pacific

Pacific Laura Bylenok (bio) Sky swaggers in, low cloudsand sunlight like dried blood flecked around a mouth. Sky violet, skybeaten gold. I’m up on deck alone when the sea crosses its legsand they tremble under a slip of violent silk, dark milk I wantwrecked against my thighs— waves flash, as eyes, as if to say—I push my body up against the rail— I want to feel a thing, to feelmyself turn over in my fingers, turn over in my handsof salt, my mouth of salt. [End Page 93] Laura Bylenok Laura Bylenok is the author of Warp, winner of the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize and forthcoming from Truman State University Press, and the chapbook a/0 (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2014). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Pleiades, North American Review, Guernica, and West Branch, among other journals. Copyright © 2015 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Jennifer Mara DeSilva. Early Modern Studies 10. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2012. xiv + 226 pp. $44.95 paper.

Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Jennifer Mara DeSilva. Early Modern Studies 10. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2012. xiv + 226 pp. $44.95 paper. - Volume 83 Issue 2

Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas. Edited by James I.Matray. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2012. 362 pp.

Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas. Edited by James I.Matray. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2012. 362 pp.