2008-2009 History Faculty Book Reviews

2008-2009 History Faculty Book Reviews

Department of History

Research News Archive 2008 - 2009

Faculty Research

Book Reviews

Beyan, Amos J. Review of An African Republican: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia Chapel Hill, by Marie Tyler McGraw. Journal of American History 95:3 (2008), 832-833.

Berkhofer, Robert. Review of The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian, by Dominique Barthélemy. Choice (July 2009).

Borish, Linda J. Review of Senda Berenson: The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball, by Ralph Melnick. Journal of American History 96:1 (June 2009), 247-248.

Coryell, Janet. Review of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. Journal of American History 95 (March 2009): 1167-68.

Coryell, Janet. Review of Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War, by Victoria E. Ott. Civil War Book Review (November 2008): http://www.cwbr.com/index.php?q=3040&field=ID&browse=yes&record=full&searching=yes&Submit=Search.

Maier, Paul. Review of What’s So Great about Christianity, by Dinesh D’Souza. Christian Research Journal 31 (Summer 2008): 47.

Maier, Paul. Review of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--and Doesn't, by Stephen Prothero. Christian Research Journal (Fall 2008), 48-49.

Maier, Paul. Review of The Missing Gospels, by Darrell L. Bock. Christian Research Journal 31 (Fall 2008): 18.

Maier, Paul. "Torture, Terror, and Theology." Review of The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God, by Jonathan Kirsch. Christian Research Journal 32 (Spring 2009): 52-53.

Martini, Edwin. Review of Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968, by James Carter. The Sixties 2:1 (June 2009): 125-127.

Martini, Edwin. Review of A Temporary Sort of Peace, by James McGarrah. Michigan Historical Review 34:2 (November 2008): 150-51.

Palmitessa, James. Review of Die Oberlausitz im frühneuzeitlichen Mitteleuropa, edited by Joachim Bahlcke, H-German@h-h-net.msu (June 2009).

Rubin, Eli. Review of Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics, edited by Paul Betts and Katherine Pence. German Politics and Society, Spring 2009.

Rubin, Eli. Review of Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990, by Dolores Augustine. Journal of Modern History, Winter 2008.

Rubin, Eli. Review of The Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family and Communism in the German Democratic Republic, by Donna Harsch. Social History, Fall 2008.

 

 

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