History: Reviews of New Books, Volume 37, Issue 3 (2009)

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Book Reviews

Book Review
The Vietnam War: Orthodoxy, Revisionism, or None of the Above?
Gary R. Hess. Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. 232 pp.: Mark Atwood Lawrence. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 224 pp.: Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young, eds. Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 336 pp.
James McAllister
Pages: 85-87
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Gordon: A Victorian Life of Adventure and Service
C. Brad Faught. Gordon: Victorian Hero. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2008. 140 pp.
Rebecca Matzke
Pages: 89-92
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Ogre is Brought to Book: A Review of Recent Books on Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Esdaile. Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803–1815. London: Allen Lane, 2007. 622 pp.: Michael V. Leggiere. The Fall of Napoleon, Vol. 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813–1814. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 686 pp.
Paddy Griffith
Pages: 93-95
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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North America

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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Gordon, Colin: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 304 pp., Publication Date: April 2008
Charles Connerly
Page: 97
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development
Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 480 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
Mark R. Finlay
Pages: 97-98
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
Maher, Neil M.: New York: Oxford University Press, 328 pp., Publication Date: November 2007
Kathy S. Mason
Pages: 98-99
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Latin America

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Political Struggle, Ideology and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817–1850
Mosher, Jeffrey C.: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 360 pp., Publication Date: July 2008
Sarah Sarzynski
Pages: 99-100
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The British Isles

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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
Beaver, Daniel C.: New York: Cambridge University Press, 192 pp., Publication Date: June 2008
D. Alan Orr
Page: 100
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War
O'Halpin, Eunan: New York: Oxford University Press, 380 pp., Publication Date: May 2008
Robert Cole
Pages: 100-101
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Black Bartholomew's Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity
Appleby, David J.: Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 272 pp., Publication Date: February 2008
David O'hara
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power
Keay, Anna: London: Continuum, 336 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
Johann Sommerville
Page: 102
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England
Blair, John, ed.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 320 pp., Publication Date: February 2008
James M. Murray
Pages: 102-103
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Europe

Book Review
Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age
Parker, Charles H.: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 346 pp., Publication Date: February 2008
Dália Leonardo
Pages: 103-104
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe
Atkin, Nicholas, ed.: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 280 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Nicole Dombrowski Risser
Pages: 104-105
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
Lynn, John A., II: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 252 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
Stephen Morillo
Pages: 105-106
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Everyday Subversion: From Joking to Revolting in the German Democratic Republic
Riley, Kerry Kathleen: East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 352 pp., Publication Date: October 2007
Timothy Barney
Pages: 106-107
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Markham, William T.: New York: Berghahn Books, 416 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Frank Zelko
Page: 107
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Asia

Book Review
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line
Szonyi, Michael: New York: Cambridge University Press, 328 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Xiaobing Li
Page: 108
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Biography

Book Review
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
Drazin, Charles: Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 352 pp., Publication Date: September 2008
John J. Hurt
Pages: 108-109
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume 2: Achievement, 1851–1869
Hawkins, Angus: New York: Oxford University Press, 552 pp., Publication Date: October 2008
Nancy Lopatin-Lummis
Pages: 109-110
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women
Glynn, Jenifer: London: Hambledon Continuum, 240 pp., Publication Date: January 2008
Gwen Kay
Page: 110
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Book Review
Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution
Carbone, Gerald M.: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 288 pp., Publication Date: June 2008
Gregory J. W. Urwin
Pages: 110-111
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography
Hoogenboom, Ari: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 408 pp., Publication Date: October 2008
Gregory N. Stern
Pages: 111-112
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
Palmer, James: New York: Basic Books, 274 pp., Publication Date: February 2009
Michael C. Brose
Page: 112
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
Scott, Michelle R.: Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 215 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Debra Newman Ham
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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General

Book Review
The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660
Games, Alison: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 400 pp., Publication Date: July 2008
Newton E. Key
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830–1914
Çelik, Zeynep: Seattle: University of Washington Press, 368 pp., Publication Date: November 2008
Steven Kale
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America
Rosen, Fred, ed.: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 288 pp., Publication Date: August 2008
Sheldon Avenius
Page: 115
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Book Review
The Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR
von Dannenberg, Julia: New York: Oxford University Press, 260 pp., Publication Date: February 2008
Ronald J. Granieri
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Book Review
Kennedy in Berlin
Daum, Andreas W.: Trans. Dona Geyer Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 406 pp., Publication Date: December 2007
Derek Charles Catsam
Pages: 116-117
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Dudziak, Mary L.: New York: Oxford University Press, 272 pp., Publication Date: May 2008
Andrew Grant-Thomas
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 25 Jul 2012
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