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Book Reviews

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Adding Color to a Four-Color World: Recent Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity in the Comics
Arie Kaplan. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2008. 240 pp.: Mark Evanier. Kirby: King of Comics. New York: Abrams, 2007. 224 pp.: Nancy Goldstein. Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 240 pp.
Dwain C. Pruitt
Pages: 45-47
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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“No Simple Victory”: A New Interpretation of World War II in Europe
Norman Davies. No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945. New York: Penguin, 2008 (orig. pub. 2007). 560 pp.
Mary Kathryn Barbier
Pages: 49-52
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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How Congress Learned to Govern
Kimberly S. Johnson. Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–1929. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 226 pp.
Elisabeth S. Clemens
Pages: 53-56
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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North America

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Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South
Fitgerald, Michael W.: Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 256 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
Gunja Sengupta
Page: 57
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States
Cusset, François: Trans. Jeff Fort Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 388 pp., Publication Date: April 2008
Justine Lutzel
Pages: 57-58
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Baseball in America and America in Baseball
Kyle, Donald G., and Robert B. Fairbanks, eds.: College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 252 pp., Publication Date: May 2008
Donald Spivey
Pages: 58-59
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Blue Water Patriots: The American Revolution Afloat
Volo, James M.: Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 298 pp., Publication Date: September 2008 (orig. pub. 2007)
Thomas Sheppard
Page: 59
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II
Billy, George J., and Christina M. Billy: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 336 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
Joan E. Denman
Page: 60
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death
Schantz, Mark S.: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 264 pp., Publication Date: May 2008
Michael T. Bernath
Pages: 60-61
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Latin America

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The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Dwyer, John J.: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 408 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
José Angel Hernández
Pages: 61-62
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Indian Captivity in Spanish America: Frontier Narratives
Operé, Fernando: Trans. Gustavo Pellón Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 289 pp., Publication Date: December 2007
Peter Stern
Pages: 62-63
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The British Isles

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Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
Stack, David: London: Continuum, 368 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Roger Pauly
Page: 63
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Public Life and Public Lives: Politics and Religion in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Richard W. Davis
LoPatin-Lummis, Nancy, ed.: Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 200 pp., Publication Date: April 2008
Douglas Kanter
Page: 64
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
Wood, Andy: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 316 pp., Publication Date: November 2007
Kristen Post Walton
Pages: 64-65
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Europe

Book Review
Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo
Labalme, Patricia H., and Laura Sanguineti White, eds.: Trans. Linda L. Carroll Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 640 pp., Publication Date: June 2008
Holly S. Hurlburt
Pages: 65-66
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944–1945
Holland, James: New York: St. Martin's Press, 606 pp., Publication Date: April 2008
Raffaella Luciani
Page: 66
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland
Browning, Christopher, Nechama Tec, and Richard S. Hollander, eds.: New York: Cambridge University Press, 286 pp., Publication Date: October 2007
Wendy A. Maier-Sarti
Pages: 66-67
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Russia and the C.I.S.

Book Review
Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised
Combs, Dick: University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 361 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Jonathan M. House
Pages: 67-68
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Africa and the Middle East

Book Review
A History of Modern Iran
Abrahamian, Ervand: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 228 pp., Publication Date: July 2008
Houri Berberian
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Mother of all Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War
Woods, Kevin M.: Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 352 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Stephen A. Bourque
Page: 69
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Asia

Book Review
The Idea of Indonesia: A History
Elson, R. E.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 365 pp., Publication Date: April 2008
Andrew Goss
Pages: 69-70
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Ancient

Book Review
Imagining Men: Ideals of Masculinity in Ancient Greek Culture
Van Nortwick, Thomas: Westport, CT: Praeger, 166 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Judith Lynn Sebesta
Pages: 70-71
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Biography

Book Review
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
Brown, Meredith Mason: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 424 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
Sheldon Avenius
Page: 71
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
Myers, Peter C.: Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 265 pp., Publication Date: February 2008
Erik J. Chaput
Pages: 71-72
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Hayes, Kevin J.: New York: Oxford University Press, 738 pp., Publication Date: July 2008
Brian Schoen
Pages: 72-73
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
Puls, Mark: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 282 pp., Publication Date: February 2008
John Mosher
Pages: 73-74
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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General

Book Review
Glamour: A History
Gundle, Stephen: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 472 pp., Publication Date: July 2008
Malia McAndrew
Page: 74
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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A Short History of the Twentieth Century
Blainey, Geoffrey: Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 384 pp., Publication Date: September 2008 (orig. pub. 2006)
Herbert F. Ziegler
Page: 75
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
Norton, Marcy: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 352 pp., Publication Date: October 2008
Christopher P. Magra
Pages: 75-76
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Hiroshima: The World's Bomb
Rotter, Andrew J.: New York: Oxford University Press, 371 pp., Publication Date: April 2008
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Pages: 76-77
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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