Volume 103, Issue 1
February 1998
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Cairo Street (Rue du Caire), a streetscape created at the Universal Exposition, Paris, 1889, to evoke Old Cairo. It was one of the most popular but also—then and since—most controversial exhibits. From William Walton, Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1889 (Philadelphia and Paris, 1889), xxix, in the Fine Arts Library, Ohio State University. See the article in this issue by Carter Vaughn Findley, “An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889,” pp. 15–49.
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Reviews of Books (continued)
Asia (continued)
B. A. Hussainmiya. Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III and Britain: The Making of Brunei Darussalam. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. Pp. xxx, 447. $45.00
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William J. Lines. An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy. Paperback edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 400. $14.95
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Kay Schaffer. In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 320. $49.95
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Ros Pesman. Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. viii, 271. $45.00
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Stuart Piggin. Evangelical Christianity in Australia: Spirit, Word and World. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xiv, 290. $39.95
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Gregory Melleuish. Cultural Liberalism in Australia: A Study in Intellectual and Cultural History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. viii, 226. $59.95
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Jan Todd. Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia. (Studies in Australian History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xii, 300. $59.95
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Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar, editors. Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India 1700–1947. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. 1995. Pp. 348. $32.00
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Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr. Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. x, 222. $45.00
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Prem Shankar Jha. Kashmir, 1947: Rival Versions of History. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 151. $15.95
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United States
John Bodnar, editor. Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1996. Pp. viii, 352. Cloth $55.00, paper $16.95
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Thomas A. Tweed, editor. Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 302. Cloth $40.00, paper $13.95
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Carroll Pursell. The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 358. Cloth $45.00, paper $15.95
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Glenn W. Fisher. The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America. (Studies in Government and Public Policy.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1996. Pp. x, 245. $35.00
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Carol Berkin. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. Assisted by Eric Foner. New York: Hill and Wang. 1996. Pp. xiv, 234. $23.00
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Patience Essah. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865. (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies.) Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1996. Pp. xv, 216. $29.50
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Michael Meranze. Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760–1835. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture. 1996. Pp. xii, 338. $45.00
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Edward S. Cooke, Jr. Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut. (Studies in Industry and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996. Pp. xiii, 295. $45.00
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Stephen Aron. How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 285. $29.95
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Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1997. Pp. xv, 353. $29.95
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Mary A. DeCredico. Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life. (American Profiles.) Madison, Wis.: Madison House. 1996. Pp. xv, 176. Cloth $28.95, paper $16.95
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LeeAnn Whites. The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860–1890. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1995. Pp. x, 277. $35.00
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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xxii, 384. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95
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Jonathan M. Bryant. How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850–1885. (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. x, 266. $29.95
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Paul Harvey. Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865–1925. (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Pp. x, 330. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95. 1997
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Wendy Gamber. The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860–1930. (Women in American History.) (The Working Class in American History.) Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 300. Cloth $39.95, paper $16.95
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Scott Molloy. Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1996. Pp. xvii, 238. $36.50
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David E. Ruth. Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918–1934. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996. Pp. x, 190. Cloth $42.50, paper $15.95
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Charles Bright. The Powers That Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the “Big House,” 1920–1955. (Law, Meaning, and Violence.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1996. Pp. 326. $47.50
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Georgina D. Feldberg. Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society. (Health and Medicine in American Society.) New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 274. Cloth $52.00, paper $18.95
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Louis Galambos and Jane Eliot Sewell. Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xi, 273. $39.95
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Geoffrey Perret. Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur. New York: Random House. 1996. Pp. xii, 663. $32.50
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Howard Ball. Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warrior. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. xiv, 305. $35.00
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David L. Stebenne. Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. viii, 539. $45.00
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Patricia Sullivan. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. PP. xiii, 335. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95
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Grace Palladino. Teenagers: An American History. New York: BasicBooks. 1996. Pp. xxii, 313. $25.00
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Thomas Cripps. Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking and Society before Television. (The American Moment.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 270. Cloth $38.50, paper $13.95
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Ruth Vasey. The World According to Hollywood, 1918–1939. (Wisconsin Studies in Film.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1997. Pp. xv, 299. Cloth $54.00, paper $17.95
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Robert Brent Toplin. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 267. Cloth $34.95, paper $14.95
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Jenel Virden. Good-bye, Piccadilly: British War Brides in America. (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series.) Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 177. Cloth $29.95, paper $13.95
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James A. Gross. Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947–1994. (Labor and Social Change.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 404
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Saki Dockrill. Eisenhower's New-Look National Security Policy, 1953–61. New York: St. Martin's. 1996. Pp. xvi, 400. $59.95 and Peter J. Roman. Eisenhower and the Missile Gap. (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1995. Pp. x, 264. $35.00
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Paul N. Edwards. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. (Inside Technology.) Cambridge: MIT Press. 1996. Pp. xx, 440. $40.00
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Milton J. Bates. The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1996. Pp. x, 328. Cloth $50.00, paper $18.95
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Jennifer L. Hochschild. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1995. Pp. xx, 412. $29.95
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Latin America and the Caribbean
Arthur L. Stinchcombe. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1995. P. xvii, 361. $45.00
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Brian L. Moore. Cultural Power, Resistance and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838–1900. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. McGill-Queen's University Press. 1996. Pp. xiii, 376. $21.00
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Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Phyllis Shand Allfrey. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 335. Cloth $50.00, paper $18.95
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Stefan Rinke. “Der letzte freie Kontinent”: Deutsche Lateinamerikapolitik im Zeichen transnationaler Beiziehungen, 1918–1933. In two volumes. (Historamericana, number 1.) Stuttgart: Hana-Dieter Heinz. 1996. Pp. 412; 413–836
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Manuel Sarkisyanz. Felipe Carrillo Puerto: Actuatión y muerte del Apóstol “Rojo” de los Mayas; Con un ensayo sobre hagiografía secular en la Revolutión Méxicana. Translated from German by Josep Barnadas. Forewords by Roque Castro Gonzalez and José Luis Sierra Villarreal. Mérida, Mexico: H. Congreso del Estado de Yucatan. 1995. Pp. 337
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Yvon Le Bot. La guerra en tierras mayas: Comunidad, violencia y modernidad en Guatemala (1970–1992). Translated by Maria Antonia Neira Bigorra. Foreword by Alain Touraine. (Sección de Obras de Sociologfa.) Mexico City and San Diego: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1995. Pp. 327. $10.99
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Núria Sala i Vila. Y se armó el tole tole: Tributo indígena y movimientos sociales en el Virreinato del Perú, 1790–1814. Huamanga, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Regionales José Maria Arguedas. 1996. Pp. 320
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Andres Guerrero. La Semantica de la dominación: El concertaje de indios. Quito: Libri Mundi. 1991. Pp. 336
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Susan K. Besse. Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xv, 285. Cloth $39.95, paper $16.95
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Barbara Weinstein. For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xvii, 435. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95
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Film Reviews
Disgraced Monuments. Produced, written, and directed by Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey. 1993, 1996 video release; color; 48 minutes. Distributor: Cinema Guild
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The Great White Man Of Lambaréné [Le grand blanc de Lambaréné]. Produced by Françoise Leherissey, Pierre-Marie Dong, and Bassek ba Kobhio; written and directed by Bassek ba Kobhio. 1995; color; 93 minutes. Gabon/Cameroon/France. French with English subtitles. Distributor: California Newsreel and Rouch in Reverse. Produced by Parmindar Vir; written and directed by Manthia Diawara. 1995; color; 52 minutes. United Kingdom/United States/Mali. French and English with English subtitles. Distributor: California Newsreel
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Wonderland. Produced and directed by John O'Hagan. 1997; color; 80 minutes. Distributor: Rhinestone Productions/Cinemax
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Collected Essays
Collected Essays
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Documents and Bibliographies
Documents and Bibliographies
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Other Books Received
Other Books Received
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Communications
To the Editor
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Erratum
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Index
Index to American Historical Review, February 1998
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Index of Advertisers
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