Book Reviews

Source: The Historian, Volume 66, Number 2, June 2004 , pp. 335-420(86)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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, 1797–1840.

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, 1910–1940.

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, 1812–1824.

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, 1902–1935.

Sarah J. Purcell. Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America.

David Rock. State Building and Political Movement in Argentina, 1860–1916.

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, 1820–1920.

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, 1852–1912.

Andrei Lankov. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960.

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, 1859–1919.

Steve Craig. Sports and Games of the Ancients.

J. A. Everard. Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158–1203.

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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