Volume 88, Issue 1
February 1983
Cover image
Cover image
John Wesley (1703-1791). An engraving by J. Faber after J. Williams. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. See the article in this issue by Frederick Dreyer, “Faith and Experience in the Thought of John Wesley,” pages 12-30.
ISSN 0002-8762
EISSN 1937-5239
Issue navigation
Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983
Reviews of Books (continued)
United States (continued)
Dwight G. Anderson. Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1982. Pp. viii, 271. $16.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.184-a
Allan G. Bogue. The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1981. Pp. 369. $28.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 185–186, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.185
Joseph G. Dawson III. Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862–1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1982. Pp. 294
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 186–187, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.186
James E. Kerr. The Insular Cases: The Role of the Judiciary in American Expansionism. (National University Publications; Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Law.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1982. Pp. vii, 131. $16.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 187, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.187
Walter J. Fraser, Jr. and Winfred B. Moore, Jr., editors. From the Old South to the New: Essays on the Transitional South. (Contributions in American History, number 93.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1981. Pp. xiii, 286. $35.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 187–189, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.187-a
Newell G. Bringhurst. Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism. (Contributions to the Study of Religion, number 4.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1981. Pp. xix, 254
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 189, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.189
Durward T. Stokes. Company Shops: The Town Built by a Railroad. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 1981. Pp. 169. $14.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 189–190, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.189-a
Eric H. Monkkonen. Police in Urban America, 1860–1920. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1981. Pp. xv, 220. $24.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.190
William M. De Marco. Ethnics and Enclaves: Boston's Italian North End. (Studies in American History and Culture, number 31.) Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. 1981. Pp. xx, 156. $29.95 and Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, editors. Little Italies in North America. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario. 1981. Pp. 210
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 191–192, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.191
Janet Forsythe Fishburn. The Fatherhood of God and the Victorian Family: The Social Gospel in America. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1981. Pp. xi, 208. $19.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 192–193, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.192
Carl T. Jackson. The Oriental Religions and American Thought: Nineteenth-Century Explorations. (Contributions in American Studies, number 55.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1981. Pp. xii, 302. $27.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 193, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.193
Alan Trachtenberg. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. (American Century Series.) New York: Hill and Wang. 1982. Pp. vii, 260. $6.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.193-a
Anita Clair Fellman and Michael Fellman. Making Sense of Self: Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1981. Pp. vii, 198. $16.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 194, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.194
Arthur Lipow. Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1982. Pp. xii, 315. $28.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 194–195, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.194-a
Paul R. Baker. Richard Morris Hunt. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1980. Pp. xvi, 588. $39.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.195
Eugenia Kaledin. The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams. (American Civilization.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1981. Pp. xvii, 306. $22.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 196–197, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.196
Linda O. Mcmurry. George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol. New York: Oxford University Press. 1981. Pp. x, 367. $25.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 197, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.197
Deborah Dash Moore. B'nai B'rith and the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership. (Suny Series in Modern Jewish History.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 1981. Pp. xvi, 288. $18.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.197-a
Gary Dean Best. To Free a People: American Jewish Leaders and the Jewish Problem in Eastern Europe, 1890–1914. (Contributions in American History, number 98.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1982. Pp. xi, 240. $27.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.198
Roger M. Olien. From Token to Triumph: The Texas Republicans since 1920. Dallas: SMU Press. 1982. Pp. x, 309. $15.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 199, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.199
Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1982. Pp. xiv, 220. $16.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.199-a
James C. Foster, editor. American Labor in the Southwest: The First One Hundred Years. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1982. Pp. xii, 236. Cloth $18.50, paper $9.85
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.200
William L. Kahrl. Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1982. Pp. xii, 583. $24.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.201
Ronald F. Lockmann. Guarding the Forests of Southern California: Evolving Attitudes Toward Conservation of Watershed, Woodlands, and Wilderness. (Western Lands and Waters, number 12.) Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark. 1981. Pp. 184. $19.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 202, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.202
Robert M. Collins. The Business Response to Keynes, 1929–1964. (Contemporary American History Series.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1981. Pp. xii, 293. $24.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 202–203, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.202-a
John W. Johnson. American Legal Culture, 1908–1940. (Contributions in Legal Studies, number 16.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1981. Pp. x, 185. $23.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.203
Bruce Allen Murphy. The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices. New York: Oxford University Press. 1982. Pp. x, 473. $18.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 204–205, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.204
Michael E. Parrish. Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years. New York: Free Press or Collier Macmillan, London. 1982. Pp. vi, 330. $17.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 205, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.205
Linda J. Lear. Harold L. Ickes: The Aggressive Progressive, 1874–1933. (Modern American History.) New York: Garland. 1981. Pp. vii, 452. $55.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 206, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.206
Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson. Abraham Went Out: A Biography of A. J. Muste. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1981. Pp. xvii, 341. $22.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 206–207, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.206-a
Eileen Eagan. Class, Culture, and the Classroom: The Student Peace Movement of the 1930s. (American Civilization.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1981. Pp. xi, 319. $22.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.207
Douglas P. Seaton. Catholics and Radicals: The Association of Catholic Trade Unionists and the American Labor Movement, from Depression to Cold War. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press. 1981. Pp. 269. $22.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 208, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.208
Lowell K. Dyson. Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1982. Pp. xii, 259. $18.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 208–209, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.208-a
Robert H. Kargon. The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1982. Pp. 205. $22.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.209
David Kite Allison. New Eye for the Navy: The Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory. (Naval Research Laboratory Report, number 8466.) Washington: Naval Research Laboratory. 1981. Pp. xi, 228
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 210, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.210
Travis Beal Jacobs. America and the Winter War, 1939–1940. (Modern American History, number 28.) New York: Garland. 1981. Pp. xvi, 265. $35.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.210-a
Ronald Lewin. The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1982. Pp. xv, 332. $14.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 211, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.211
Leon Martel. Lend-Leose, Loans, and the Coming of the Cold War: A Study of the Implementation of Foreign Policy. (Westview Special Studies in International Relations.) Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 1979. Pp. xix, 304. $32.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.211-a
Robert L. Messer. The End of an Alliance; James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman, and the Origins of the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1982. Pp. viii, 292. $19.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.212
Thomas A. Bryson. Seeds of Mideast Crisis: The United States Diplomatic Role in the Middle East during World War II. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 1981. Pp. viii, 216. $16.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 213, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.213
Lawrence S. Wittner. American Intervention in Greece, 1943–1949. (Contemporary American History Series.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1982. Pp. xii, 445. $19.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.213-a
R. Alton Lee. Dxvight D. Eisenhower: Soldier and Statesman. Chicago: Nelson-Hall. 1981. Pp. xii, 379. Cloth $21.95, paper $10.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 215, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.215
Leonard Dinnerstein. America and the Survivors of the Holocaust. (Contemporary American History Series.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1982. Pp. xiv, 409. $19.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.215-a
Harry R. Borowski. A Hollw Threat: Strategic Air Power and Containment before Korea. (Contributions in Military History, number 25.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1982. Pp. xii, 242. $27.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 216–217, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.216
Ronald W. Preussen. John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power. New York: Free Press or Collier Macmillan, London. 1982. Pp. xiv, 575. $19.95
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 217, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.217
Michael O'Brien. McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1980. Pp. ix, 269. $20.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 217–218, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.217-a
Barbara Barksdale Clowse. Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and the National Defense Education Act of 1958. (Contributions to the Study of Education, number 3.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1981. Pp. x, 225. $27.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 218, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.218
Canada
Frederick J. Thorpe. Remparts lointains: La politique française des travaux publics à Terre-Neuve et à l'île Royale, 1695–1758. (Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Universitè d'Ottawa, number 11.) Ottawa: Éditions de l'Universitè d'Ottawa. 1980. Pp. 194. $6.75.
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 219, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.219
Paul Craven. “An Impartial Umpire”: Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900–1911. (The State and Economic Life, number 3.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1980. Pp. x, 386. $13.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 219–220, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.219-a
Jonathan F. Wagner. Brothers beyond the Sea: National Socialism in Canada. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press; distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 1981. Pp. xxiii, 163
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.220
John W. Holmes. The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943–1957. Volume 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1982. Pp. x, 441. $37.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 221–222, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.221
Latin America
David R. Murray. Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain, and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade. (Cambridge Latin American Studies, number 37.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1980. Pp. xi, 423. $44.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 222–223, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.222
Amy Bushnell. The King's Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Florida Treasury, 1565–1702. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida. 1981. Pp. ix, 198. $20.00 and Geoffrey J. Walker. Spanish Politics and Imperial Trade, 1700–1789. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1979. Pp. xvii, 297. $17.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 223–224, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.223
Vasant Kumar Bawa. Latin American Integration. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. 1980. Pp. xx, 244. $13.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 224–225, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.224
Burr Cartwright Brundage. The Phoenix of the Western World: Quetzalcoatl and the Sky Religion. (Civilization of the American Indiana, number 160.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1982. Pp. xvi, 349. $17.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 225, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.225
Manuel Miño Grijalva et al. Tres aspectos de la presencia española en México durante el porfiriato: Relaciones económicas, comerciantes y población. (Centro de Estudios Históricos.) Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico. 1981. Pp. ix, 235
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 226, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.226
Harry E. Cross and James A. Sandos. Across the Border: Rural Development in Mexico and Recent Migration to the United States. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 1981. Pp. xix, 198. $12.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 226–227, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.226-a
Maurizio Vernassa. Emigrazione, diplomazia e cannoniere: Uintervento italiano in Venezuela, 1902–1903. Leghorn: Editrice Stella. 1980. Pp. 152
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 227, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.227
Jonathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein. Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: A Theory Applied to the National Revolution in Bolivia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1981. Pp. xvi, 279. $26.50
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 227–228, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.227-a
David Gueiros Vieira. O protestantismo, a maçonaria e a questão religiosa no Brasil [Protestantism, Freemasony, and the Religious Question in Brazil]. Foreword by Gilberto Freire. (Coleção Temas Brasileiros.) Brasilia: Editora Universidade de Brasilia. 1980. Pp. 409
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.228
Gertrude Matyoka Yeager. Barros Amna's Historia jeneral de Chile: Politics, History, and National Identity. (Monograph Series in History and Culture.) Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. 1981. Pp. xiv, 187. $12.00
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 229–230, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.229
Heinrich Volberg. Auslandsdeutschtum und Drittes Reich: Der Fall Argentinien. Cologne: Böhlau. 1981. Pp. xiv, 219. DM 48
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 230, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.230
Collected Essays
Collected Essays
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 231–236, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.231
Documents and Bibliographies
Documents and Bibliographies
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 237–239, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.237
Other Books Received
Other Books Received
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 240–244, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.240
Communications
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 245, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.245
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 245–246, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.245-a
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 246, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.246
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 246–247, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.246-a
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.247
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 247–249, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.247-a
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 249, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.249
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 249, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.249-a
To the Editor
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.249-b
Index of Advertisers
Index of Advertisers
The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 1983, Page 36a, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.1.36-a
