Anthony Grafton. Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 368 pp. $54.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-00468-9; $18.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-01597-5.
Reviewed by Nancy Bisaha (Department of History, Vassar College) Published on H-W-Civ (August, 2004)
Channeling the Ghosts of the Renaissance
Jill Harsin. Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. x + 417 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-312-29479-3.
Reviewed by Bradford C. Brown (Department of History, Bradley University) Published on H-W-Civ (December, 2003)
Radical Republicanism under the July Monarchy
Malcolm Lambert. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. vi + 491 pp. $52.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-631-22276-7; $98.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-631-22275-0.
Reviewed by John Cotts (Department of History, Grinnell College) Published on H-W-Civ (October, 2003)
Peter Marshall, Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 242 pp. $30.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-00324-7; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-80274-1.
Reviewed by H. Tyler Blethen (Department of History, Western Carolina University) Published on H-W-Civ (September, 2003)
Patrick K. O'Brien, ed. Atlas of World History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-521921-0.
Reviewed by Michael Rice (Department of History, Western Carolina University) Published on H-W-Civ (August, 2003)
World History at a Global Glance
World History at a Global Glance
Samuel K. Jr.. Cohn. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. London: Edward Arnold Publishers, 2002. x + 318 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-340-70647-3; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-340-70646-6.
Reviewed by Mary A. Valante (Department of History, Appalachian State University) Published on H-W-Civ (July, 2003)
Theo Balderston. Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 123 S. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-77760-5; $35.00 (leinen), ISBN 978-0-521-58375-6.
Reviewed by Roland Spickermann (Department of History, University of Texas-Permian Basin) Published on H-W-Civ (July, 2003)
A Handbuch rather than a textbook
Michele Renee Salzman. The making of a Christian aristocracy: Social and religious change in the Western Roman Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. XIV + 354 S. $52.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-00641-6.
Reviewed by Randall S. Howarth (Mercyhurst College) Published on H-W-Civ (June, 2003)
Was the Emperor's Preference Decisive?
Antony Alcock. A Short History of Europe: From the Greeks and Romans to the Present Day. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xiv + 324 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-333-99407-8.
Reviewed by David Head (Division of Arts and Sciences, John Tyler Community College, Midlothian, Virginia) Published on H-W-Civ (April, 2003)
A Small Bite of a Large Subject
Teofilo F. Ruiz. Spanish Society, 1400-1600. Social History of Europe Series. London: Longman, 2001. xv + 286 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-582-28692-4.
Reviewed by Theresa Earenfight (Department of History, Seattle University) Published on H-W-Civ (June, 2002)
More Than Just Social History
More Than Just Social History
Ronald Schechter, ed. The French Revolution: The Essential Readings. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. viii + 344 pp. $62.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-631-21271-3.
Reviewed by David Andress (School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK) Published on H-W-Civ (September, 2001)
Olwen Hufton. Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789. Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. vii + 288 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-631-21381-9.
Reviewed by Anja Victorine Hartmann (Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany) Published on H-W-Civ (September, 2001)
Kenneth O. Morgan, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv + 646 pp. $26.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-289326-0.
Reviewed by Victor Stater (Louisiana State University) Published on H-W-Civ (August, 2001)
Still Relevant After All These Years
Still Relevant After All These Years
John E Wills, Jr. 1688: A Global History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. vii + 330 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-04744-8.
Reviewed by Andrew D. Nicholls (Department of History, Buffalo State College) Published on H-W-Civ (August, 2001)
The Unconfineable Variety, Splendor, and Strangeness of the Human Condition
Bonnie G. Smith. Imperialism. A History in Documents. Pages From History Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 165 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-510523-0.
Reviewed by Magnus Bernhardsson (Department of History, Hofstra University) Published on H-W-Civ (June, 2001)
