The following 35 reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 29
Sep 2003 and 06 Oct 2003.

Reviewed for H-Skand by Michael Bregnsbo
Harald Ilsøe. Det kongelige Bibliotek i stobeskeen. Studier og
samlinger til bestandens historie indtil ca. 1780, vol. I-II.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1999. 720 pp. Kr. 500
(cloth), ISBN 87-7289-550-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=214351065137250

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bernhard Lübbers
Elke Goez. Pragmatische Schriftlichkeit und Archivpflege der
Zisterzienser. Ordenszentralismus und regionale Vielfalt,
namentlich in Franken und Altbayern (1098-1525). Münster: LIT
Verlag, 2003. 398 S. EUR 29, ISBN 3-8258-6491-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=214301065137246

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Thomas Neumann
Meike G. Werner. Moderne in der Provinz. Kulturelle Experimente
im Fin de Siècle Jena. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2003. 368
S. EUR 24.00 (broschiert), ISBN 3-89244-594-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=273471064884115

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Andreas Bodenstedt
Peter Lesniczak. Alte Landschaftsküchen im Sog der
Modernisierung. Studien zu einer historischen
Ernährungsgeographie Deutschlands zwischen 1860 und 1930.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 411 S. EUR 85, ISBN 3-
515-08099-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=275101064884232

Reviewed for H-German by Eve Duffy
H. Glenn Penny. Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic
Museums in Imperial Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2001. xi + 296 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-
5430-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=275971064884298

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Linda Goetz Holmes
Scott Waddle with Ken Abraham. The Right Thing. Nashville:
Integrity Publishers, 2002. x + 242 pp. $21.99 (cloth), ISBN 1-
59145-036-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=312771064885806

Reviewed for H-Environment by Michael Egan
J. Donald Hughes. An Environmental History of the World:
Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life. New York:
Routledge, 2001. xiv + 264 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-
13618-0; $31.95 (paper, ISBN 0-415-13619-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=312941064885819

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Stephen E. Towne
Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. Fanatics and Fire-
eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xiii + 138 pp.
$34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02787-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=313301064885823

Reviewed for H-Russia by Roger E. Chapman
Andrew M. Drozd. Chernyshevskii's What Is to Be Done? A
Reevaluation. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001. ix
+ 332 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8101-1739-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=313381064885829

Reviewed for H-Amstdy by Jeanne Cortiel
Justin D. Edwards. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the
American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
xxxiii + 145 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-87745-824-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=313461064885833

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Bradford Wineman
John C. Oeffinger, ed. A Soldier's General: The Civil War
Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 299 pp. $34.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2690-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=313501064885838

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Charles Muller
John Powers. A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Oxford:
Oneworld Publications, 2000. x + 278 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 1-
85168-233-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=62131064888439

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Charles Muller
Soka Gakkai English Buddhist Dictionary Committee. The Soka
Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai, 2002. xix +
979 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 4-412-01205-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=62531064888442

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Charles Muller
Damien Keown. A Dictionary of Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003. ix + 357 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-
860560-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=62851064888445

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Mark Peel
John Y. Simon and Michael E. Stevens, eds.. New Perspectives on
the Civil War: Myths and Realities of the National Conflict.
Lanham and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xiv + 179 pp.
$63.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-945612-62-1; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-
2120-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=111541064889898

Reviewed for H-Amstdy by Stephen Brauer
D. Stanley Eitzen. Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes
of Sport. Lanham and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
vii + 187 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7425-1951-1; $23.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-7425-1952-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=111851064889901

Reviewed for H-W-Civ by Mary A. Valante
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and
Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. London: Edward Arnold
Publishers, 2002. x + 318 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-340-70646-
5; $22.00 (paper), ISBN 0-340-70647-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=111931064889904

Reviewed for H-Asia by Nicholas Clifford
Marcia Reynders Ristaino. Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora
Communities of Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2001. xvii + 367 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-3840-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=111971064889907

Reviewed for H-Women by Constance B. Bouchard
Lisa M. Bitel. Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xv +
326 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-59207-0; $22.00 (paper), ISBN
0-521-59773-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=112041064889910

Reviewed for H-Canada by Jeffrey L. McNairn
Peter A. Baskerville. Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power. Don
Mills: Oxford University Press, 2002. vi + 250 pp. CAD 36.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-19-541137-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=112191064889930

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by John Saillant
Bruce Dain. A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory
in the Early Republic. Cambridge and London: Harvard University
Press, 2002. x + 321 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-00946-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=115991064890305

Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Camron Michael Amin
Brenda Shaffer. Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of
Azerbaijani Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xiii + 248
pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-262-19477-5; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-
262-69277-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=171121064892133

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Sven Externbrink
Toby Osborne. Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy.
Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 304 S. $65.00 (gebunden), ISBN
0-521-65268-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=214531065137275

Reviewed for H-German by Max Paul Friedman
Louis Fisher. Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and
American Law. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xi +
193 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-1238-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=214621065137279

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Ernesto Verdeja
Elazar Barkan. The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating
Historical Injustices. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2001. xli + 414 pp. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-
8018-6807-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=215211065137293

Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Amma A.B. Oduro
Yona Zeldis McDonough. Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson
Mandela. New York: Walker and Company, 2002. 40 pp. Ages 4-8.
$16.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8027-8823-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=215231065137296

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Olaf Blaschke
Massimo Ferrari Zumbini. Die Wurzeln des Bösen. Gründerjahre des
Antisemitismus: Von der Bimarckzeit zu Hitler. Frankfurt am
Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2003. 774 S. EUR 49, ISBN 3-465-
03222-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=215251065137299

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Gregor Pelger
Dan Diner. Gedächtniszeiten. Über jüdische und andere
Geschichten. München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2003. 296 S. EUR
24,00 (broschiert), ISBN 3-406-50560-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=215281065137302

Reviewed for H-Arete by Jeff Powers-Beck Department of English
Milton H. Jamail. Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball. Foreword
by Larry Dierker. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2000. xvii
+ 182 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8093-2310-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=101221065157858

Reviewed for H-Albion by Peter D. Junger
Robert C. Palmer. English Law in the Age of the Black Death,
1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law. Chapel Hill
and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. xiv + 452
pp. , ISBN 0-8078-2099-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=104791065158161

Reviewed for H-W-Civ by Michael D. Rice
Patrick K. O'Brien, ed. Atlas of World History. New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-19-521921-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38581065338722

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Neil Parsons
Linda E. Merians. Envisioning the Worst: Representations of
"Hottentots" in Early Modern England. Newark: University of
Delaware Press, 2001. 289 pp. $46.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-87413-738-
1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38601065338727

Reviewed for H-Africa by Roberta Ann Dunbar
Holger Weiss, ed. Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa.
Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002. 189 pp. $27.95
(paper), ISBN 91-7106-481-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38621065338729

Reviewed for H-Tennessee by Timothy S. Huebner
William Lyons, John M. Scheb II, and Billy Stair. Government and
Politics in Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
2001. x + 478 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-57233-140-2; $20.00
(paper), ISBN 1-57233-141-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38641065338734

Reviewed for H-Survey by T. Stephen Whitman
Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle. Taking Sides: Clashing Views
on Controversial Issues in American History, vol. 1: The Colonial
Period to Reconstruction. Guilford: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2003.
xv + 399 pp. $24.50 (paper), ISBN 0-07-285029-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38661065338736