Book Reviews
Source: The Historian, Volume 66, Number 2, June 2004 , pp. 335-420(86)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Abstract:
Review Essay Drug Use and Responses to it in History David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Richard Davenport-Hines. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. Africa and the Middle East Ch. Didier Gondola. The History of the Congo. The Americas Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon, eds. The House & Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Anne M. Boylan. The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 17971840. Sherri Broder. Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Thomas E. Chávez. Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift. Christopher H. Evans and William R. Herzog II. The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture. Hugh E. Evans. The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. Max Evans. Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. Paul Foos. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War. Michael J. Gonzales. The Mexican Revolution, 19101940. Barry Gough. Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. Wilbert L. Jenkins. Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African-Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Clayton E. Jewett. Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. Marjoleine Kars. Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Sarah A. Leavitt. From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. Mitchell B. Lerner. The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. Tim Maga. America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was. James M. McPherson. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Rusty L. Monhollon. This Is America?: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. Edmund S. Morgan. Benjamin Franklin. Iwan Morgan. Nixon. Alexander Nemerov. The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 18121824. Thomas C. Parramore. First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation. Donald J. Pisani. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 19021935. Sarah J. Purcell. Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. David Rock. State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 18601916. Hal Rothman. Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. Jeffrey Sklansky. The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 18201920. Gene Smiley. Rethinking the Great Depression. John Stauffer. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Julia E. Sweig. Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. Conevery Bolton Valencius. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. Thomas L. Whigham. Causes and Early Conflict. Volume I of The Paraguayan War. Asia and the Pacific Kenneth Hammond, ed. The Human Tradition in Premodern China. Donald Keene. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 18521912. Andrei Lankov. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 19451960. Hajime Nakamura. History of Japanese Thought. B. R. Nanda. In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections. Maurizio Peleggi. Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image. Europe Jan Assman, Andrew Jenkins trans. The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. Roman Brackman. The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. Victor Brombert. Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth. Robert Bartlett, ed. Life and Miracles of St. Modwenna. Arne Sø Christensen. Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Jamie H. Cockfield. White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 18591919. Steve Craig. Sports and Games of the Ancients. J. A. Everard. Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 11581203.
Document Type: Book review
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0018-2370.2004.00074.x
Publication date: 2004-06-01
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