Matthew Jeffries. Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of Industrial Architecture. Oxford and Providence, R.I.: Berg Publishers, 1995. xiii + 318 pp. $45.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85496-945-6.
Reviewed by Mark Peach (Southern College) Published on H-German (March, 1996)
James R. Dow, Hannjost Lixfeld, eds. The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xx + 354 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-31821-3.Hannjost Lixfeld. Folklore and Fascism: The Reich Institute for German Volkskunde.
Edwin Adams Davis. Fallen Guidon: The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. 173 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89096-683-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-89096-684-6.
Reviewed by Donald S. Frazier (McMurry University) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)
Stephanie McCurry. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 320 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-507236-5.
Reviewed by Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)
James M. McPherson, ed. "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. viii + 176 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-02190-9.
Reviewed by Robert J. Havlik (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)
Stephen R. Wise. Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. xii + 312 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87249-985-0.
Reviewed by W. Wayne Smith (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)
Christine de Pizan. The Book of the Body Politic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xli + 113 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-42259-8.
Reviewed by Gretchen V. Angelo (California State University, Los Angeles) Published on H-Rhetor (February, 1996)
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner. The Western Heritage: Brief Combined Edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996. xxix + 763 pp. $42.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-02-361872-7.
Reviewed by David K. McQuilkin (Bridgewater College) Published on H-W-Civ (February, 1996)
Myra Macdonald. Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. v + 250 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-340-58016-5.
Reviewed by Mary W. Atwell (Radford University) Published on H-PCAACA (February, 1996)
F. Todd Smith. The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires 1542-1854. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. 229 pp. $24.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89096-981-6.
Reviewed by Michael J. Foret (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) Published on H-Local (February, 1996)
Robert H. Holden. Mexico and the Survey of Public Lands: The Management of Modernization, 1876-1911. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. 235 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-181-0.
Reviewed by F. Arturo Rosales (Arizona State University) Published on H-Rural (February, 1996)
Gerard Chaliand, Jean-Pierre Rageau. The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas. New York: Viking, 1995. xxi + 183 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-670-85439-4.
Reviewed by John Radzilowski (Arizona State University) Published on H-Ethnic (February, 1996)
Scott W. Lackey. The Rebirth of the Habsburg Army: Friedrich Beck and the Rise of the General Staff. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. xiii + 253 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-29361-0.
Reviewed by Lawrence Sondhaus (University of Indianapolis) Published on HABSBURG (February, 1996)
The Forgotten Feldzeugmeister
Irina Livezeanu. Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. xx + 340 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-2445-8.
Reviewed by Jim Niessen (Texas Tech University) Published on HABSBURG (February, 1996)
Regionalism, Education, and Romanian Nationalism
Jean-Marie Guehenno. The End of the Nation State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. 160 pp. $21.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-2660-1.
Reviewed by David Schoenbaum (University of Iowa) Published on H-Diplo (February, 1996)
