eHistory Book Reviews Reviews of historical non-fiction, both of real scholarly significance and of appeal to a wide audience of interested readers http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews http://images.asc.ohio-state.edu/is/image/eHistory/reviews/review59.jpg?hei=100&cvt=jpg eHistory Book Reviews http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews Copyright #Year(Now())# en-us (July Book Review): After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007) - Review by Stephen Shapiro http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=59 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (June Book Review): The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by John Hunt http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=58 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (May Book Review): School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008) - Review by Jennifer Huff http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=57 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (April Book Review): Byzantium by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008) - Review by Morgan Myers http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=56 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (March Book Review): ?What Hath God Wrought??: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press, 2007) - Review by Steven Conn http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=55 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (February Book Review): American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust by Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007) - Review by Laura Herron http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=54 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (January Book Review): In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007) - Review by Brian Kennedy http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=51 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (December Book Review): A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press) - Review by Ursula Gurney http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=50 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (November Book Review): Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007) - Review by Robert Clemm http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=49 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (October Book Review): Children at Play: An American History by Howard Chudacoff (New York: New York University Press, 2007). - Review by Christine LaHue http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=48 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (September Book Review): Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007) - Review by Faith Anne Scott http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=47 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (August Book Review): The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007) - Review by Larry Skillin http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=46 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (July Book Review): Ho Chi Minh: A Biography by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 265 pages. Preface, Timeline, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, Index) - Review by Ryan Irwin http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=45 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (June Book Review): The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006) - Review by Steven Conn http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=44 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT (May Book Review): The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; index, source notes, bibliography, unillustrated) - Review by Patrick Crawford http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=43 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT