Rochona Majumdar. Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 343 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4462-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4478-0.
Reviewed by Judith Walsh
Published on H-Asia (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Family and Marriage in Colonial Bengal
Timothy R. Pauketat. Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi. New York: Viking, 2009. 208 pp. $22.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-670-02090-4.
Reviewed by Peter S. Wells (University of Minnesota)
Published on H-Urban (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Michael E. Smith
Urban Centers in Prehistoric Societies: A North American Example
Fabio Rambelli. Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv + 394 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-5682-2.
Reviewed by Pamela Winfield (Elon University)
Published on H-Buddhism (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Gereon Kopf
The Material World of Japanese Buddhism
Stuart Taberner, Karina Berger, eds. Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic. Rochester: Camden House, 2009. vi + 259 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-393-9.
Reviewed by Undine S. Weber (Rhodes University)
Published on H-German (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Benita Blessing
No More Question Marks: Germans as Victims
Dina Pinsky. Jewish Feminists: Complex Identities and Activist Lives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. viii + 137 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03486-2; $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07677-0.
Reviewed by Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota)
Published on H-Judaic (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Jill Fields. An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 392 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-25261-5.
Reviewed by Madeleine Hamilton (University of Melbourne)
Published on H-Histsex (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Timothy W. Jones
Restraining the American Woman
Hannah B. Higgins. The Grid Book. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. 300 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-51240-4.
Reviewed by Jill Grant (Dalhousie University)
Published on H-Urban (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Michael E. Smith
Grids in History
Joe Martin Richardson, Maxine Deloris Jones. Education for Liberation: The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xvii + 287 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-1657-0.
Reviewed by Adam Laats (Binghamton University (SUNY))
Published on H-Education (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Jonathan Anuik
Ben Marsh. Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. Tables, graphs, illustrations. xiii + 253 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-2882-9.
Reviewed by Lisa Crutchfield
Published on H-SAWH (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
The Transformation of a Southern Colony
Ida Powell Dulany. In the Shadow of the Enemy: The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulany. Edited by Mary L. Mackall, Stevan F. Meserve, and Anne Mackall Sasscer. Voices of the Civil War Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. 328 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57233-658-2.
Reviewed by Robert S. Brandt
Published on H-SAWH (July, 2010)
Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm
