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Presidential Address Articles Review Essay Reviews of Books The AHR Vol. 108; N. 1 Febrero 2003 In This Issue xiii Presidential Address The World We Have Gained: The Future of the French Revolution By Lynn Hunt 1 Articles Missing, Now Found in the Eighteenth Century: Weber's Protestant Capitalist By Margaret C. Jacob and Matthew Kadane 20 Empire and the Confessional State: Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia By Robert Crews 50 The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story By Martha Hodes 84 Review Essay Paradigms and Paranoia: How Modern Is the French Revolution? By Rebecca L. Spang 119 Reviews of Books METHODS/THEORY Philippe Buc. The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. By Gabrielle M. Spiegel 148 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth- Century Atlantic World. By Richard C. Trexler 149 Nancy Leys Stepan. Picturing Tropical Nature. By John M. MacKenzie 150 Ellen Fitzpatrick. History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880–1980. By Harvey J. Kaye 151 Thomas Bender, editor. Rethinking American History in a Global Age. By Peter Kolchin 152 COMPARATIVE/WORLD Lauren Benton. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900. By Jeremy Adelman 153 Peter Karsten. Between Law and Custom: "High" and "Low" Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora—The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600–1900. By Christopher Tomlins 154 Patricia Seed. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 155 Ernst van Veen. Decay or Defeat? An Inquiry into the Portuguese Decline in Asia 1580–1645. By Glenn J. Ames 156 Judith A. Carney. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. By Lorena S. Walsh 157 Sam A. Mustafa. Merchants and Migration: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776–1835. By Farley Grubb 158 Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. Vor der großen Flut: Die europäische Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1783–1820. By Sam A. Mustafa 158 Liah Greenfeld. The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. By Carl Strikwerda 159 Demetrius L. Eudell. The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South. By Alan L. Karras 160 Seymour Drescher. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. By David Turley 161 Tony Ballantyne. Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire. By James Belich 162 Adam McKeown. Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900–1936. By Evelyn Hu-DeHart 163 Claude Markovits. The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750– 1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama. By Michael N. Pearson 164 Brian Keith Axel. The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of the Sikh "Diaspora." By Hugh Johnston 165 Simon A. Cole. Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. By Jonathan Simon 165 George Q. Flynn. Conscription and Democracy: The Draft in France, Great Britain, and the United States. By S. P. MacKenzie 166 Shu Guang Zhang. Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963. By Ian Jackson 167 Matthew Jones. Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965: Britain, the United States and the Creation of Malaysia. By John T. McNay 168 Akira Iriye. Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. By Lawrence S. Wittner 169 ASIA Charles Holcombe. The Genesis of East Asia: 221 B.C.—A.D. 907. By Rafe de Crespigny 170 David Robinson. Bandits, Eunuchs and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China. By Thomas Buoye 171 William T. Rowe. Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China. By Jerry Dennerline 171 Alan Richard Sweeten. Christianity in Rural China: Conflict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860–1900. By Lawrence Kessler 172 Catherine Pagani. "Eastern Magnificence&European Ingenuity": Clocks of Late Imperial China. By R. Bin Wong 173 Marcia Reynders Ristaino. Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai. By Hanchao Lu 174 Eileen P. Scully. Bargaining with the State from Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844–1942. By Jacqueline M. Moore 175 Rebecca E. Karl. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. By Henrietta Harrison 176 Q. Edward Wang. Inventing China through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography. By Chang-tai Hung 177 Yung-Chen Chiang. Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919–1949. By R. David Arkush 178 Stewart Lone. Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of General Katsura Taro. By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka 179 Nicholas B. Dirks. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. By Sanjay Joshi 180 CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES Ken Moffatt. A Poetics of Social Work: Personal Agency and Social Transformation in Canada, 1920–1939. By Sara Z. Burke 180 Philip Massolin. Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939–1970. By Larry A. Glassford 181 James F. Brooks. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. By Theda Perdue 182 Paul E. Hoffman. Florida's Frontiers. By Michael Gannon 183 Michael P. Winship. Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641. By Mark A. Peterson 184 Trevor Burnard. Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691– 1776. By Thomas Murphy, S.J. 185 John R. Finger. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. By Altina L. Waller 185 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737–1832. By Kim M. Gruenwald 186 Philip N. Mulder. A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South. By Frank Lambert 187 Elizabeth A. Fenn. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. By Clifford E. Trafzer 188 Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg, editors. Federalists Reconsidered. By Van Beck Hall 189 Joanne B. Freeman. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. By Susan Branson 190 Jeffrey L. Pasley. "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic. By David Paul Nord 191 Robert E. Wright. Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750–1800. By Thomas S. Wermuth 192 Suzanne R. Thurman. "O Sisters Ain't You Happy?" Gender, Family, and Community among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781–1918. By Elizabeth A. De Wolfe 192 Deborah Pickman Clifford. The Passion of Abby Hemenway: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History. By Robert N. Hudspeth 193 Robert James Branham and Stephen J. Hartnett. Sweet Freedom's Song: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America. By Alan H. Levy 194 Shelley Streeby. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. By Rodolfo F. Acuña 195 Steven J. Ramold. Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy. By Robert M. Browning, Jr. 196 Michael Vorenberg. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. By James W. Ely, Jr. 197 James G. Hollandsworth. An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Riot of July 30, 1866. By Steve Tripp 198 Sally G. McMillen. To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915. By Frederick A. Bode 199 Gregg D. Crane. Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature. By Nancy Isenberg 199 Barbara Young Welke. Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920. By Elizabeth Dale 200 Elizabeth Dale. The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. By Eric Arnesen 201 David Healy. James G. Blaine and Latin America. By Joseph A. Fry 202 Hasia R. Diner. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. By Harvey Levenstein 203 Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan. Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880–1930. By Judith Sealander 204 John A. Jakle. City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. By David E. Nye 205 Lawrence J. Vale. From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors. By Henry Binford 206 Laurie A. Wilkie. Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity in Oakley Plantation, Louisiana 1840– 1950. By Johanna Miller Lewis 207 Walter L. Buenger. The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. By Marilyn McAdams Sibley 207 Brooks Blevins. Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image. By Nicole Etcheson 208 William G. Jordan. Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914–1920. By Barbara Dianne Savage 208 Jonathan Scott Holloway. Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919–1941. By John P. Jackson, Jr. 209 Wendy Kline. Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. By Carole McCann 210 Becky M. Nicolaides. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965. By Nicholas Bloom 211 Matt Garcia. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970. By David Vaught 212 James H. Meriwether. Proudly We Can be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935–1961. By Dennis Hickey 213 John A. Kirk. Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970. By Mark Robert Schneider 214 Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. By David G. Gutiérrez 215 Christoph Frei. Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography. By Warren F. Kimball 216 John L. Rudolph. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education.
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