H-Net reviews posted to the web 01 Jun 2009 – 15 Jun 2009

H-Net Reviews

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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 01 Jun 2009 and 15 Jun 2009.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Antoine Capet
Offer, Avner. _Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-
Being in the United States and Britain since 1950, The_. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2006. Illustrations, graphs, tables.
xvii + 454 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-921662-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24068

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Nara Milanich
González, Ondina E.; Premo, Bianca, eds.. _Raising an Empire:
Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America_.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 270 pp.
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-3441-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24532

Reviewed for H-Canada by Wendy Cameron
Bumsted, J. M.. Lord Selkirk: A Life. East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press, 2009. Illustrations. xvii + 517 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-87013-853-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24773

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Anya Jabour
Silber, Nina. Gender and the Sectional Conflict. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xxi + 117 pp. $24.95,
ISBN 978-0-8078-3244-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24227

Reviewed for H-CivWar by L. Diane Barnes
Oakes, James. _Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass,
Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery, The_. New York:
W. W. Norton and Company, 2007. 320 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-393-
06194-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23417

Reviewed for H-Diplo by John Dumbrell
Auten, Brian J.. _Carter's Conversion: The Hardening of American
Defense Policy_. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008.
xiv + 344 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1816-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24296

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Pierre Asselin
Lumbers, Michael. _Piercing the Bamboo Curtain: Tentative Bridge-
Building to China during the Johnson Years_. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2008. x + 286 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-
0-7190-7778-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23391

Reviewed for H-French-Colonial by Matthew G. Stanard
Cole, Juan. Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Illustrations, maps. xi + 279 pp.
$16.95, ISBN 978-0-230-60603-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24368

Reviewed for H-German by Allie Tichenor
Ditfurth, Jutta. Ulrike Meinhof: Die Biografie. Berlin:
Ullstein Verlag, 2007. 478 pp. EUR 22.90, ISBN 978-3-550-08728-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24303

Reviewed for H-German by Christina Gerhardt
Klimke, Martin; Scharloth, Joachim, eds.. _1968: Handbuch zur
Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung_. Stuttgart:
J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2007. 323 pp. EUR 49.95, ISBN 978-3-476-
02066-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24159

Reviewed for H-German by Christine Magin
Gotzmann, Andreas; Wendehorst, Stephan, eds.. _Juden im Recht:
Neue Zugänge zur Rechtsgeschichte der Juden im Alten Reich_.
Zeitschrift für historische Forschung, Beihefte. Berlin: Duncker &
Humblot, 2007. vi + 419 pp. EUR 58.00, ISBN 978-3-428-12521-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24555

Reviewed for H-German by David Scott Gehring
Euler, Carrie. _Couriers of the Gospel: England and Zurich, 1531-
1558_. Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte. Zurich:
Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2006. x + 356 pp. , ISBN 978-3-290-
17393-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24007

Reviewed for H-German by Gary Roth
Hoffrogge, Ralf. _Richard Müller: Der Mann hinter der
Novemberrevolution_. Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin, 2008.
240 pp. EUR 19.90, ISBN 978-3-320-02148-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24647

Reviewed for H-German by Gary Roth
Schmidt, Oliver. _"Meine Heimat ist - die deutsche
Arbeiterbewegung": Biographische Studien zu Richard Löwenthal im
Übergang vom Exil zur frühen Bundesrepublik_. Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang, 2007. 390 pp. EUR 56.60, ISBN 978-3-631-55829-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24452

Reviewed for H-German by Hilary Earl
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 400 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-
300-12427-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24692

Reviewed for H-German by James Palmitessa
Bahlcke, Joachim, ed.. _Die Oberlausitz im fruhneuzeitlichen
Mitteleuropa_. Quellen und Forschungen zur sächsischen
Geschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. 500 pp.
$84.00, ISBN 978-3-515-08983-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24644

Reviewed for H-German by Jason Crouthamel
Streubel, Christiane. _Radikale Nationalistinnen: Agitation und
Programmatik rechter Frauen in der Weimarer Republik_. Frankfurt
am Main: Campus Verlag, 2006. 444 pp. EUR 45.00, ISBN 978-3-593-
38210-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24164

Reviewed for H-German by Jens Gieseke
Steege, Paul. Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life, 1946-1949.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 376 pp. $85.00,
ISBN 978-0-521-86496-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24457

Reviewed for H-German by Joseph W. Moser
Kreuzer, Franz; Prechtl, Gerd; Steiner, Christoph. _Tiger in the
Tank: Ernest Dichter: An Austrian Advertising Guru, A_.
Translated by Lars Henning. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2007. 214
pp. , ISBN 978-1-57241-152-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23795

Reviewed for H-German by Judith Becker
Braun, Guido; Lachenicht, Susanne, eds.. _Hugenotten und deutsche
Territorialstaaten: Immigrationspolitik und Integrationsprozesse
(Les Etats allemands et les huguenots : politique d'immigration et
processus d'integration)_. Pariser Historische Studien. Munich:
R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007. 255 pp. EUR 34.90, ISBN 978-3-486-
58181-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24517

Reviewed for H-German by Karsten Uhl
Munck, Bert De; Kaplan, Steven L.; Soly, Hugo, eds.. _Learning on
the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship_.
International Studies in Social History. New York: Berghahn Books,
2007. viii + 232 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-341-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24203

Reviewed for H-German by Katrin Paehler
Schäfer, Kirstin A.. _Werner von Blomberg: Hitlers erster
Feldmarschall: Eine Biographie_. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2006. 291
pp. Illustrations. EUR 32.90, ISBN 978-3-506-71391-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24691

Reviewed for H-German by Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker
Walkenhorst, Peter. _Nation - Volk - Rasse: Radikaler
Nationalismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914_. Kritische
Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2007. 400 pp. , ISBN 978-3-525-35157-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15532

Reviewed for H-German by Matthias Lehmann
Goldish, Matt. _Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in
the Early Modern Period_. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2008. lxiii + 180 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12264-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24066

Reviewed for H-German by Michael Grutchfield
Weiß, Dieter J.. _Kronprinz Rupprecht von Bayern (1869-1955):
Eine politische Biografie_. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag,
2007. 464 pp. , ISBN 978-3-7917-2047-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23944

Reviewed for H-German by Randolph Head
Maissen, Thomas. _Die Geburt der Republic: Staatsverständnis und
Repräsentation in der frühneuzeitlichen Eidgenossenschaft_. 2nd,
revised edition. Historische Semantik. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2006. 672 pp. EUR 59.90, ISBN 978-3-525-36706-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24518

Reviewed for H-German by William Smaldone
Schulz, Günther, ed.. _Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in
Deutschland seit 1945: Vol. 3: Bundesrepublik 1949-1957.
Bewältigung der Kriegsfolgen, Rückkehr zur sozialpolitischen
Normalität_. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2006. 1,151 pp. CD-ROM
EUR 169.00, ISBN 978-3-7890-7317-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24161

Reviewed for H-HRE by Constance H. Berman
Bardsley, Sandy. Women's Roles in the Middle Ages. Portsmouth:
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. 264 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-
313-33635-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24599

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by David Webster
Nobles, Melissa. Politics of Official Apologies, The. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 200 pp. $70.00,
ISBN 978-0-521-87231-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24291

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Dana Evan Kaplan
Cohon, Baruch J., ed.. _Faithfully Yours: Selected Rabbinical
Correspondence of Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon during the Years 1917-
1957_. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing House, 2008. xvii + 407 pp.
$29.50, ISBN 978-1-60280-019-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24509

Reviewed for H-Levant by Hannes Baumann
Blanford, Nicholas. _Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of
Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East_. I. B. Tauris &
Company, Limited, 2006. 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-84511-202-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24380

Reviewed for H-Minerva by Donna Knaff
Leder, Jane Mersky. _Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and
World War II_. Portsmouth: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. 240
pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-275-98879-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24670

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Odile Goerg
Morange, Marianne. _La question du logement a? Mandela-City, ex-
Port-Elizabeth_. Paris: Karthala, 2006. 410 pp. No price
listed, ISBN 978-2-84586-770-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24790

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Dominique Brégent-Heald
Mahar, Karen Ward. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood.
Studies in Industry and Society Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2006. 304 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8436-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24799

Reviewed for H-Urban by Stephen Lekson
Fletcher, Roland. _Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical
Outline, The_. Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxiv + 276 pp.
$57.99, ISBN 978-0-521-03810-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24327

Reviewed for H-War by Eva Goldschmidt
Levine, Ari Daniel. _Divided by a Common Language: Factional
Conflict in Late Northern Song China_. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 2009. 273 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3266-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24695

Reviewed for H-Women by Sylvea Hollis
Gross, Kali N.. _Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black
Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910_. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2006. 248 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3799-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22981

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