Jim Cullen. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. x + 253 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56098-459-7.
Reviewed by Mark D. Van Ells (CUNY-Queensborough) Published on H-PCAACA (September, 1995)
Robin Gardiner, Dan van der Vat. The Riddle of the Titantic. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. xv + 312 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-297-81528-0.
Reviewed by Richard Howells (University of Leeds) Published on H-PCAACA (September, 1995)
Bennett M. Berger. An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. . $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-20016-6; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-20017-3.
Reviewed by Bill Mullen (Youngstown State University) Published on H-Ethnic (August, 1995)
Stephen R. Niblo. War, Diplomacy and Development: The United States and Mexico, 1938-1954. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1995. xx + 320 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8420-2550-8.
Reviewed by David Walker (Michigan State University) Published on H-LatAm (August, 1995)
Andrew L. Knaut. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xx + 248 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-2727-9.
Reviewed by Jesus F. de laTeja (Southwest Texas State University) Published on H-LatAm (August, 1995)
Susan Carol Stokes. Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements and the State in Peru. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. . $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-08617-3; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-20023-4.
Reviewed by David B. Parker (Queen's University) Published on H-LatAm (August, 1995)
Michael Tangeman. Mexico at the Crossroads: Politics, the Church and the Poor. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1995. xiv + 138 pp. $17.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57075-018-2.
Reviewed by Drew P. Halevy (University of Arkansas) Published on H-LatAm (August, 1995)
Joseph Smith. The Spanish-American War: Conflict in the Caribbean and the Pacific 1895-1902 (Modern Wars in Perspective). London: Longman, 1994. . $39.80 (textbook), ISBN 978-0-582-04340-4; $60.75 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-582-04300-8.
Reviewed by William Schell (Murray State University) Published on H-LatAm (August, 1995)
Jorge Dominguez, ed. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. xi + 371 pp. $62.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8153-1491-2.
Reviewed by Iain S. Maclean (Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University) Published on H-LatAm (August, 1995)
Stanley Harrold. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. x + 245 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-1906-9.
Reviewed by Frank Towers (History Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1995)
David T. Hedrick, Gordon Barry Davis Jr.., eds. I'm Surrounded by Methodists ... Diary of John H.W. Stuckenberg, Chaplain of the 145th Pennsylvania. Gettysburg, Penn.: Thomas Publications, 1995. 140 pp. $16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-939631-75-9.
Reviewed by Matthew Gallman (Loyola University) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1995)
Mark C. Smith. Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918-1941. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1994. 353 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-1484-3 $15.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-1497-4.
Reviewed by Loretta Czernis (Bishop's University) Published on H-Ideas (August, 1995)
Exhibited Decisions
Richard S. Wortman. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. Princeton, N.J.,: Princeton University Press, 1995. xiii + 432 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-03484-3.
Reviewed by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Published on H-Russia (August, 1995)
M. S. Anderson. Peter the Great (Profiles in Power). London: Longman, 1995. . $57.75 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-582-08412-4; $31.20 (paper), ISBN 978-0-582-08411-7.
Reviewed by Ernest A. Zitser (Department of History, Columbia University) Published on H-Russia (August, 1995)
Peter Goldman, Mark Miller, Tom Mathews, Andrew Murr, Thomas M. DeFrank. Quest for the Presidency, 1992. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994. xv + 742 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89096-644-0.
Reviewed by Roger Biles (East Carolina State University) Published on H-Pol (August, 1995)
The Presidency as Prize
