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Book Review: "Staging The French Revolution: Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794", Wayne C. Wentzel

Wayne Wentzel

Dr. Wayne Wentzel's review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 421 pp. Tables, illustrations, graphs, musical examples, bibliography and index. $ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-977372-5.

Reviewed Work: Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience In The Mexican War, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

Book review of Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War. By Richard Bruce Winders. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 284. Illustrations. Paper, $17.95.)

Sean Shesgreen, Images Of The Outcast: The Urban Poor In The Cries Of London, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London"

Tim Hitchcock And John Black, Eds., Chelsea Settlement And Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Tim Hitchcock and John Black, eds., Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766"

Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London"

M.J. Daunton, Ed., Charity, Welfare And Self-Interest In The English Past, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Charity, Welfare and Self-Interest in the English Past"

Review: Worlds Without End: The Many Lives Of The Multiverse, Patrick Blanchfield

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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R. Blake Brown. Arming And Disarming: A History Of Gun Control In Canada., William G. Merkel

William G. Merkel

No abstract provided.

Democracy, Memory, And Methodology [Book Review], Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Indigenous African Warfare, By Col. Festus Boahen Aboagye, Emmanuel Kotia

Emmanuel Wekem Kotia

A review of the book Indigenous African Warfare (Its Concept and Art in the Gold Coast, Asante and the Northern Territories, Up to the Early 1900s), by Colonel Festus Boahen Aboagye. Pretoria, South Africa: Ulinzi Africa Publishing Solutions.

Memory Of A Racist Past — Yazoo: Integration In A Deep-Southern Town By Willie Morris, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

Willie Morris was in many ways larger than life. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he moved with his family to Yazoo City, Mississippi at the age of six months. He attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where his scathing editorials against racism in the South earned him the hatred of university officials. After graduation, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. He would join Harper’s Magazine in 1963, rising to become the youngest editor-in-chief in the magazine’s history. He remained at this post until 1971 when he resigned amid dropping ad sales and a lack of …

Book Review, Christian G. Samito (Ed.). Changes In Law And Society During The Civil War And Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. 352 Pages. $29.50 (Paper), Thomas Reed

Thomas J Reed

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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story Of An American Legend (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend", by Scott Reynolds Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission Of Chapel Car Good Will (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will", by Wilma Rugh Taylor. Texas A&M University Press, 2005.

Syntactic And Lexico-Semantic Aspects Of The Legal Register In Ramesside Royal Decrees, Jacqueline E. Jay

Jacqueline E. Jay

This book is the fifth in the GOFIV series to examine how hieroglyphic "determinatives" (or "script classifiers") reflect the way the ancient Egyptians classified and categorized the elements of their world.

Syntactic And Lexico-Semantic Aspects Of The Legal Register In Ramesside Royal Decrees, Jacqueline E. Jay

Jacqueline E. Jay

Book Review

This book is the fifth in the GOFIV series to examine how hieroglyphic "determinatives" (or "script classifiers") reflect the way the ancient Egyptians classified and categorized the elements of their world. The bulk of the book is a section-by-section transliteration, translation, and analysis of the

Ramesside royal decrees, divided into four generic subsets: