Book Reviews.

History and Beyond. By Romila Thapar. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 490. $29.95.) One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church. By Richard Abanes. (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002, Pp. 651. $32.00.) Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. By Harriet Hyman Alonso. (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 409. $24.95.) Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. By Lloyd E. Ambrosius. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. 233. $24.95.) The Death Penalty: An American History. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 385. $29.95.) A Stroll with William James. By Jacques Barzun. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $18.00.) The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiii, 174. $64.95.) Comanche Society: Before the Reservation. By Gerald Betty. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 239. $39.95.) Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty. By Helen Bryan. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002. Pp. xiv, 417. $30.00.) Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace. By Ira Chernus. (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 162. $14.95.) Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War. By Jack D. Coombe. (New York: Bantam Books, 2002. xv, 268. $23.95.) Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. By Sharla M. Fett. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 290. $39.95.) The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. By Linda Gordon. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 446. $34.95.) Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. Edited by Annette Gordon-Reed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 234. $19.95.) Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 220. $39.95.) That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. By D. G. Hart. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. ix, 246. $24.95.) Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xix, 543. $39.95.) A Companion to American Women's History. Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. xviii, 492. $124.95.) George Washington: Uniting a Nation. By Don Higginbotham. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Pp. xii, 173. $22.95.) FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address. By Davis W. Houck. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002, Pp. xii, 166. $29.95.) The Indian Frontier, 1763–1846. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 300. $45.00.) Empire City: New York through the Centuries. Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 982. $39.95.) Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History. By Angus McLaren. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 332. $35.00.) How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. By Joanne Meyerowitz. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 363. $29.95.) Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990. By Sandra Morgen. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 284. $24.00.) Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. By Leonard L. Richards. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. x, 204. $24.95.) Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia. By Todd L. Savitt. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 332. $18.95.) Ratifying the Republic: Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time. By David J. Siemers. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 292. $55.00.) Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. By Joel H. Silbey. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Pp. xiv, 235. $35.00.) Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution. By Harry M. Ward. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xii, 329. $49.95.) The Paraguayan War. Volume I. Causes and Early Conflict. By Thomas L. Whigham. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00.) Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War. By Keith P. Wilson. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 336. $39.00.) Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools. By Jonathan Zimmerman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 307. $42.95.) The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. By R. J. Barendse. (Armonk, NY, and London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvi, 588. $34.95.) Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience and Renewal. By Lee Butler. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. Pp. viii, 412. $39.50.) Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab. By Anshu Malhotra. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 231. $35.00.) Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900. By Susan Naquin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxxvi, 816. $80.00.) Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years, 1919–1941. By Sophie Quinn-Judge. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 356. $39.95.) National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956. By David Brandenberger. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 378. $49.95.) Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime, and Deviance in Scotland since 1400. Edited by Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson. (Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 212. $23.95.) Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion. By Philip Conner. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. Pp. xiv, 257. $84.95.) Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880–1960. By Laura Lee Downs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 411. $74.95.) This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia. By Christopher Ely. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 278. $42.00.) A Brief History of Heresy. By G. R. Evans. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. 195. $17.95.) Literature and the Irish Famine, 1845–1919. By Melissa Fegan. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. x, 281. $49.95.) Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. By Alan Forrest. (London: Hambledon and London, 2002. Pp. xv, 248. $29.95.) The Great Armies of Antiquity. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxi, 430. $59.95.) Humour, History, and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Guy Halsall. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 208. $50.00.) Napoleon: His Wives and Women. By Christopher Hibbert. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2002. Pp. xvii, 381. $27.95.) Paris: Capital of the World. By Patrice Higonnet. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 493. $35.00.) The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius & Laughter in Literary London, 1817. By Penelope Hughes-Hallett. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xvi, 336. $27.50.) Peter the Great: A Biography. By Lindsey Hughes. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 285. $29.95.) La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. By Donald S. Johnson. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 262. $26.95.) Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350–1500. By Kathleen Kamerick. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xii, 292. $69.95.) Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. By John Lukacs. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 202. $21.95.) Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I. By Albert Palazzo. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 239. $18.95.) Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion. By Luc Racaut. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2002. Pp. xiv, 161. $74.95.) The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661–1701. By Guy Rowlands. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxv, 404. $70.00.) A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By Margaret H. B. Sanderson. (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 244. $26.95.) Rebellion, Community, and Custom in Early Modern Germany. By Norbert Schindler. Translated by Pamela E. Selwyn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 311. $75.00.) The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth. By Diana Spencer. (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 277. $79.95.) Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia. By E. Anthony Swift. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 346. $49.95.) Fashion Under the Occupation. By Dominique Veillon. Translated by Miriam Kochan. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. Pp. xi, 205. $22.50.) The Carolingian Economy. By Adriaan Verhulst. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 160. $50.00.) Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity. By Brian Vick. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 283. $49.95.) Preaching during the English Reformation. By Susan Wabuda. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 203. $55.00.) Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809–1900. By Lydia Wevers. (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 234. $24.95.) Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871–1914. By Terence Zuber. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $72.00.) Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man. By Michael Boulter. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 210. $26.00.) Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. By Shehong Chen. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 239. $39.95.) Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. By Mark Hulliung. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 250. $39.95.) Fascism: A Very Short Introduction. By Kevin Passmore. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 162. $9.95.) Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. By Roy Porter. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Co., 2002. Pp. 199. $21.95.) Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. By Martin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. 309. $35.00.) When Men Lost Faith in Reason: Reflections on War and Society in the Twentieth Century. By H. P. Willmott. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. x, 274. $69.95.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]