Recently added articles from The Historian:
Staying the royal sword: Alcuin and the conversion dilemma in early medieval Europe.(religious conversion)
Sep 22, 2009; Stofferahn, Steven ... A GRISLY SCENE unfolded after the battle. The treacherous pagans had been defeated and would now be obliged to convert to the new faith. But all that had happened before, and each time the dogs had found a way to return to their vomit. Years of frustration welled up inside the king as he ...
Southeast Asian slavery and slave-gathering warfare as a vector for cultural transmission: the case of Burma and Thailand.
Sep 22, 2009; Beemer, Bryce ... I. OVERVIEW SOUTHEAST ASIA, perhaps more than any other region in area studies, struggles to define itself as a legitimate cultural zone for academic research. This has much to do with the dominant framework for understanding the region as the center point in the long-distance ...
The Indian saltpeter trade, the military revolution and the rise of Britain as a global superpower.
Sep 22, 2009; Frey, James W. ... INTRODUCTION BETWEEN 1601 AND 1801, ships made thousands of voyages carrying goods from Asian ports to the primary European markets for East Indian commodities: Amsterdam, London, l'Orient, Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Stockholm. (1) On average, these Indiamen measured 1,000 tons ...
Demonstrations and lamentations: urban and rural responses to war in Russia in 1914.
Sep 22, 2009; Moore, Colleen M. ... IN A LETTER TO his father dated 20 July 1914, (1) a young Russian officer making his way to the front described the atmosphere in the Russian capital, St. Petersburg, during the first days of World War I: <Pre> The mood of the masses is most patriotic; on the streets they ...
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Stuurman, Siep ... Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752. By Jonathan I. Israel. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 983. $55.00.) In this book, a sequel to his Radical Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2001), the author ...
Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; DeGeorges, Thomas ... Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed. By Martin Evans and John Phillips. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 352. $35.00.) This new book by historian Martin Evans and journalist John Phillips synthesizes some of the more recent scholarship in French and ...
Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Tripp, Charles ... Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest. By Mohammad Gholi Majd. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006. Pp. v, 438. $55.00.) This is a curious book of missed opportunities. For the most part it comprises direct citations of U.S. consular reports, ...
Popular Culture in the Arab World: Arts, Politics, and the Media.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Farah, Caesar E. ... Popular Culture in the Arab World: Arts, Politics, and the Media. By Andrew Hammond. (Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 347. $24.95.) This is a unique and welcome study of aspects of Arab contemporary culture by a journalist who has spent over ...
Empires, Wars and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Karpat, Kemal H. ... Empires, Wars and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World. By T. C. F. Hopkins. (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2007. Pp. 256. $24.95.) The author of this five-chapter book, who has written many adult novels and fantasy books under a different ...
Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia since 1945.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Farah, Caesar E. ... Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia since 1945. By Rob Johnson. (London, England: Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. viii, 240. $25.00.) This study is a thorough and updated account of the trials and tribulations encompassing the newly liberated Central Asian states. Indeed, it is ...
Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Hyland, John ... Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib. By Bruce Lincoln. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 176. $30.00.) There is a long tradition of comparison between the modern west and ancient civilizations, ...
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Gibson, Alan ... Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers. By Brooke Allen. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. xvi, 235. $24.95.) This author is out to refute the common claim made by the religious Right that the United States was founded by Christians to be a Christian nation ....
Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Emerson, Jason ... Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. By Burrus M. Carnahan. (Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Pp. ix, 202. $40.00.) Abraham Lincoln viewed his Emancipation Proclamation as the one act of his presidency for which he would ...
J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Olmsted, Kathryn S. ... J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945. By Douglas M. Charles. (Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 197. $39.95.) In February 1941, amid the "great debate" about ...
Stealing Lincoln's Body.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Lucas, M. Philip ... Stealing Lincoln's Body. By Thomas J. Craughwell. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 250. $24.95.) Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, such as David Donald's excellent account or Carl Sandburg's classic, end with Lincoln's last labored breath or his body's ...
The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Miroff, Bruce ... The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960. By Gary A. Donaldson. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. ix, 199. $22.95.) The author of this study has previously written histories about the presidential elections of 1948 and 1964, but in ...
The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asian-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Seraphim, Franziska ... The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asian-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations. Edited by Marc Gallicchio. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. 337. $84.95.) The editor of this anthology has done the academic community a real favor by making ...
Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Tripp, Steve ... Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation. By Lorri Glover. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 250. $50.00.) In this book the author provides a thorough and fascinating examination of elite, Southern, male child-rearing practices in the early ...
A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Donoghue, Michael E. ... A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952. By Laura Gotkowitz. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 398. $23.95.) The author has written a penetrating and critical revision of the origins and importance of the ...
Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Maass, John R. ... Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America. Edited by Warren Hofstra. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. Pp. xiii, 191. $27.95.) Growing out of a 2004 conference at Shenandoah University, this collection of essays on the American theater of ...
