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/review76.png?hei=100&cvt=jpg eHistory Book Reviews http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews Copyright #Year(Now())# en-us (November Book Review): 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron) - Review by Dallas DeForest<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=VZ10kFV8fQs:m29JwXY1Ffg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=VZ10kFV8fQs:m29JwXY1Ffg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=VZ10kFV8fQs:m29JwXY1Ffg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=76 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (October Book Review): Famine: A Short History by Cormac � Gr�da (Princeton University Press, 2009) - Review by Robert Denning<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=J9i48Lkan4U:qvo6wQ50ozs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=J9i48Lkan4U:qvo6wQ50ozs:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=J9i48Lkan4U:qvo6wQ50ozs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=75 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (September Book Review): A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis is the Thirteenth Century by William Chester Jordan (Princeton University Press, 2009) - Review by James Bennett<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ULDRpCHlLLg:CPMB_Dx4bgA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ULDRpCHlLLg:CPMB_Dx4bgA:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ULDRpCHlLLg:CPMB_Dx4bgA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=74 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (August Book Review): Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (Princeton University Press 2009) - Review by Rapp Crook<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=VEmQigtOB2I:nQb3rkWxEqs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=VEmQigtOB2I:nQb3rkWxEqs:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=VEmQigtOB2I:nQb3rkWxEqs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=73 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (July Book Review): A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 by Dorothy A. Pettit and Janice Bailie (Timberlane Books, 2008) - Review by Anne Sealey<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=jCtoJn2Ra4A:r3UawCVFK9E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=jCtoJn2Ra4A:r3UawCVFK9E:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=jCtoJn2Ra4A:r3UawCVFK9E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=72 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (June Book Review): The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009) - Review by Linda Long-Van Brocklyn<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=fUo0CrIhpqI:MbJIsLiGFcQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=fUo0CrIhpqI:MbJIsLiGFcQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=fUo0CrIhpqI:MbJIsLiGFcQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=69 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (May Book Review): Caesar: A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008) - Review by Gregory Pellam<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=vlz2v5YjrpM:DlW1Cg5FTUU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=vlz2v5YjrpM:DlW1Cg5FTUU:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=vlz2v5YjrpM:DlW1Cg5FTUU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=68 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (April Book Review): The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel (Princeton University Press, 2008) - Review by Benzion Chinn<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ZMPRAC91YCA:l4lcrn4yRps:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ZMPRAC91YCA:l4lcrn4yRps:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ZMPRAC91YCA:l4lcrn4yRps:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=67 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (March Book Review): The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by Linda Long-Van Brocklyn<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=Pa3TXEieENI:JhCNFtCBStw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=Pa3TXEieENI:JhCNFtCBStw:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=Pa3TXEieENI:JhCNFtCBStw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=66 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (February Book Review): Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008) - Review by Danielle Olden<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=2bNzfL2Pv0s:1sOqePvs8Es:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=2bNzfL2Pv0s:1sOqePvs8Es:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=2bNzfL2Pv0s:1sOqePvs8Es:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=65 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (January Book Review): A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009) - Review by Sarah Kernan<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=tKCKeYjEbEw:V-7TpVfLvJ0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=tKCKeYjEbEw:V-7TpVfLvJ0:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=tKCKeYjEbEw:V-7TpVfLvJ0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=64 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (December Book Review): Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue (New York: Random House, 2008) - Review by Jennifer Huff<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=A8yOXwo3grI:_nVaVSuvj7U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=A8yOXwo3grI:_nVaVSuvj7U:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=A8yOXwo3grI:_nVaVSuvj7U:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=63 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (November Book Review): Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by Dallas DeForest<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ZhUqtSc8pTs:09PuGmj5nl4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ZhUqtSc8pTs:09PuGmj5nl4:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=ZhUqtSc8pTs:09PuGmj5nl4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=62 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (October Book Review): 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris (Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by Paul Chamberlin<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=TYd1km2q3ms:ZAxx4OWOPpQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=TYd1km2q3ms:ZAxx4OWOPpQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=TYd1km2q3ms:ZAxx4OWOPpQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=61 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT (September Book Review): The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World by Lorenz M Luthi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008) 375 pages. - Review by Ryan Irwin<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=IP4_PJ68-ek:hVrXV4Jw21c:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=IP4_PJ68-ek:hVrXV4Jw21c:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?a=IP4_PJ68-ek:hVrXV4Jw21c:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eHistoryBookReviews?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://ehistory.osu.edu/perma/default.cfm?type=1&id=60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT