Janet Elizabeth Chute. The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xii + 359 pp. + 20 pp. of plates. $66.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8020-4273-6; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8020-8108-7.
Reviewed by Karl S. Hele (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, McGill University) Published on H-AmIndian (April, 2000)
Evan Burr Bukey. Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era 1938-1945. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi + 320 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2516-7.
Reviewed by Milton Goldin (H-Holocaust Book Review Editor) Published on H-Holocaust (April, 2000)
Explaining History
John Cornwell. Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. New York: Viking, 1999. ix + 430 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-670-88693-7.
Reviewed by Kevin Madigan (Catholic Theological Union at the University of Chicago) Published on H-Holocaust (April, 2000)
Real Problems
Thomas Osborne. Aspects of Enlightenment: Social Theory and the Ethics of Truth. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. xv + 216 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8476-9078-7; $104.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8476-9077-0.
Reviewed by Michael Kugler (Department of History, Northwestern College (IA)) Published on H-Ideas (April, 2000)
Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life, Including a Translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus Physicus De Natura Aeris. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. x + 456 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-02432-5.
Reviewed by Anna Marie Roos (Department of History, University of Minnesota, Duluth) Published on H-Ideas (April, 2000)
Perry Miller. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1982. xii + 491 pp. $18.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-61306-5.Perry Miller. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. ix + 485 pp.
Judith Pallot. Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1999. xv + 255. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-820656-9.
Reviewed by Michael C. Hickey (Department of History, Bloomsburg University) Published on H-Russia (April, 2000)
The Best Laid Plans [or is that
Bruce A. Elleman. Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. xvii + 322 pp. $80.95 (cloth), ISBN -7656-0142-7; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7656-0142-1.
Reviewed by Clayton Black (Department of History, Washington College) Published on H-Russia (April, 2000)
Moscow's Two Faces in China
Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999. 688 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58243-028-7.
Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb (National Endowment for the Humanities) Published on H-Russia (April, 2000)
Thomas M. Barrett. At the Edge of Empire: The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1999. xv + 243. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8133-3671-8.
Reviewed by Willard Sunderland (Department of History, University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Russia (April, 2000)
