Friends, The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past week.
H-Net Staff
Reviewed for H-France by Jay Winter (1)Michael Adcock, Emily Chester, and Jeremy Whiteman, eds.
_Revolution, Society and the Politics of Memory: the Proceedings
of the Tenth George Rude Seminar in French History and
Civilisation, Melbourne, 1996_. Melbourne: University of
Melbourne, 1996. 325 pp. Illustrations, tables, graphs, and
notes. A$24.95, ISBN 0-7325-126-0-3. (2)Pierre Nora, ed. _Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French
Past: Traditions_. (Vol II), Trans. by Arthur Goldhammer. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xii + 591 pp.
Illustrations, notes, and indexes. $37.50, ISBN 0-231-10634-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21047904917129
Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Marshall Fishwick
James Annesley. _Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture, and the
Contemporary Novel_. New York: St. Martin's Press, l998. ix +
175 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $55.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-312-21534-7; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-312-21535-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20924904916866
Reviewed for H-Indiana by Dan M. Hockman
Andrew R. L. Cayton. _Frontier Indiana_. A History of the
Trans-Appalachain Frontier. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1996. xii + 340 pp. 20 black and white photos, maps,
bibliographical references, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-253-33048-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26014904928166
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Lisa Fischer und Emil Brix, Hg. _Die Frauen der Wiener Moderne_.
Muenchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. 242 S. Bibliographie. DM
42,00 (Kartoniert), ISBN 3-486-56290-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28633904743456
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Dimitri D. Lazo (1)Erika A. Kuhlman. _Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender
Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate
Over War, 1895-1919_. Contributions in Women's Studies, no.
160. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. xiv + 146 pp.
Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-313-30341-X. (2)Alan Price. _The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and
the First World War_. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xvii
+ 238 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-312-12938-6; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-312-17677-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15144904684714
Reviewed for H-Labor by Brian Kelly
Daniel Letwin. _The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama
Coal Miners, 1878-1921_. xii + 289 pp. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii + 289 pp. Maps, notes,
bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2377-5;
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4678-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21024904917075
Reviewed for H-France by Richard A. Lebrun
Jean-Jacques Rousseau. _Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of
Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps_.
_The Collected Writings of Rousseau_, volume 6. Translated and
annotated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Hanover and London:
University Press of New England, 1997. xxxi + 728 pp. Notes,
appendices, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $60.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-87451-824-5; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0-87451-1825-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15083904684671
Reviewed for H-Nilas by Boria Sax
David Seamon and Arthur Zajonc, eds. _Goethe's Way of Science:
A Phenomenology of Nature_. Suny Series in Environmental and
Architectural Phenomenology. Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1998. xii + 324 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. (cloth), ISBN 0-7914-3681-0; $24.95
(paper), ISBN 0-7914-3682-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26021904928169
Reviewed for H-Law by R. B. Bernstein
Colleen A. Sheehan and Gary L. McDowell, eds. _Friends of the
Constitution: Writings of the "Other" Federalists, 1787-1788_.
Introduction by Herbert J. Storing. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
1998. l + 523 pp. Preface, editors' note, index. $25.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-86597-154-4; $15.00 (paper), ISBN 0-86597-155-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26032904928172
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Angela Schwarz
Elisabeth Stinshoff. _Identitaeten im Wandel. Historische
Frauenbilder aus den USA_. Europaeische Hochschulschriften, Reihe
XXII Soziologie, Bd. 314. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1998. 211
S. Bibliographie. DM 64,00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-631-32796-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32403904570084
Reviewed for H-Francais by Francois Jarraud
Tomithy Tackett. _Par la volonte du peuple. Comment les deputes
de 1789 sont devenus revolutionnaires_. Paris: Albin Michel,
1997. 366 pp. Bibliography. 145,00 F, ISBN 2-226-094427-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21015904917049
Reviewed for EH.Net by Michael Palairet
Alice Teichova, ed. _Central Europe in the Twentieth Century. An
Economic History Perspective_. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate
Publishing, 1997. xiii + 174 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical
references, and index. $68.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-85928-105-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28668904743528
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Gudrun Staedel-Schneider
Kurt W. Treptow, ed. _Romania and Western Civilization / Romania
si civilizatia occidentala_. Iasi: The Center for Romanian
Studies and The Foundation for Romanian Culture Studies, 1997.
478 pp. Photos, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
973-98091-5-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15094904684682
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MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS
Reviewed for H-Survey by Alan Lessoff
_American History Explorer: A.D. 1000-1875_. Hiawatha, Ia.:
Parsons Technology, 1995. CD-ROM and information guide. $29.95.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=61
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Margaret Power
Patricio Guzman. _The Battle of Chile_. New York: First
Run/Icarus Films, 1975, 1976 and 1978. 287 minutes. Video
documentary in three parts, in Spanish with English subtitles.
Available for rental at $275 from First Run/Icarus Films, 153
Waverly Place, New York, NY, 10014, 1-800-876-1710,
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=65
Reviewed for H-Survey by Sarah M. Henry
_Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: Primary Sources,
Activities, and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and
Students_. National Archives and Records Administration.
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=68