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Review Of Neuman, Johanna. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought For Women’S Right To Vote, Kelly L. Marino Jan 2021

Review Of Neuman, Johanna. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought For Women’S Right To Vote, Kelly L. Marino

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Book review by Kelly L. Marino.

Neuman, J. (2019). Gilded suffragists: The New York socialites who fought for women’s right to vote. New York University Press.


The Yellow Emperor’S Inner Transmission Of Acupuncture By Zhenhai Yang (Review), David Luesink Jan 2020

The Yellow Emperor’S Inner Transmission Of Acupuncture By Zhenhai Yang (Review), David Luesink

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Review of The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Transmission of Acupuncture.

ISBN: 9789882371132


Lizzie Borden On Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender (Book Review), Kelly L. Marino Jan 2019

Lizzie Borden On Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender (Book Review), Kelly L. Marino

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Most Americans are familiar with the popular children’s rhyme about the accused Massachusetts woman Lizzie Borden and the 40, and subsequent 41, whacks she supposedly inflicted on her parents during their violent assassinations in the family home. However, few people know much about the actual history behind the Borden story. Over generations, popular depictions in literature, film, and television have skewed the details.


The Politics Of Religion In Early Modern France, By Joseph Bergin (Book Review), John B. Roney Jul 2016

The Politics Of Religion In Early Modern France, By Joseph Bergin (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John B. Roney.

Bergin, J. (2014). The politics of religion in early modern France. Yale University Press.


Cohen: Reconstructing The Campus: Higher Education And The American Civil War (Book Review), Julie Mujic May 2014

Cohen: Reconstructing The Campus: Higher Education And The American Civil War (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Cohen, Michael David. Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813933177


Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World (Book Review), John B. Roney Jul 2013

Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John B. Roney.

Lundin, Matthew. Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.


A Fellowship In Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review), Julie Mujic Apr 2011

A Fellowship In Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Francis, Marlene Crandell. A Fellowship in Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Kalamazoo College, 2008.


Transmitting The Ideal Of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since The Late Nineteenth Century (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Jan 2011

Transmitting The Ideal Of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since The Late Nineteenth Century (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Mak, Ricarado K. S., ed. Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since the Late Nineteenth Century. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009.

ISBN 9780761847267


Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs (Book Review), Julie Mujic Apr 2010

Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Wayne State University (WSU) alumna and freelance writer Evelyn Aschenbrenner compiled this book to fulfill her own curiosity about the evolution of Wayne State University's campus in Detroit, Michigan.

Book review by Julie A. Mujic: Aschenbrenner, Evelyn. A History of Wayne State University in Photographs. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780814332825


Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Sep 2008

Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780804753579


Religion And Culture In Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800 (Book Review), John B. Roney Apr 2008

Religion And Culture In Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800 (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John B. Roney.

Greyerz, Kaspar von. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

9780195327656; 9780195327663 (pbk.)


Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Aug 2007

Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Nordstrom, Justin. Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ISBN 9780268036058


Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Jul 2007

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Barton, Paul. Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. ISBN 029271291X1


Earthly Powers: The Clash Of Religion And Politics In Europe From The French Revolution To The Great War (Book Review), John B. Roney Jul 2006

Earthly Powers: The Clash Of Religion And Politics In Europe From The French Revolution To The Great War (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John Roney.

Burleigh, Michael. Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe From the French Revolution to the Great War. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. ISBN 9780060580933


The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts By Andreas Bodenstein (Carlstadt) From Karlstadt (Book Review), John B. Roney Jun 2006

The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts By Andreas Bodenstein (Carlstadt) From Karlstadt (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John Roney.

Karlstadt, Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von. The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts. Waterloo, Ont.; Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1995. ISBN 9780836131161


Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Apr 2006

Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.


The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York, 1865-1900 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Nov 2005

The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York, 1865-1900 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Justice, Benjamin. The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York, 1865-1900. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ISBN 9780791462119; 9780791484463


Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists And The Federal Legislation Of Morality, 1865-1920 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Sep 2005

Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists And The Federal Legislation Of Morality, 1865-1920 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Foster, Gaines M. Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 9780807826973 (hardcover); 9780807853665 (pbk.)


The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, And The Culture Of Modern Liberalism (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Jul 2005

The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, And The Culture Of Modern Liberalism (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Rieser, Andrew C. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Lilberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780231126427


Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families In Nineteenth Century America (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Apr 2003

Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families In Nineteenth Century America (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Rose, Anne C. Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780674006409


China's Trial By Fire [And] Chinese Collaboration With Japan, 1932-1945, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D. Jan 2002

China's Trial By Fire [And] Chinese Collaboration With Japan, 1932-1945, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Jordan, Donald A. China's trial by fire: the Shanghai War of 1932. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Barrett, David P. and Shyu, Lawrence N., eds. Chinese collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945: the limits of accommodation. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.


Women In Republican China (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D. Jan 2001

Women In Republican China (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas Curran.

Lan, Hua R. and Vanessa L. Fong (eds.). Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.


The Making Of The French Episcopate, 1589–1661 (Book Review), John B. Roney Jul 1997

The Making Of The French Episcopate, 1589–1661 (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Reviews the book by Joseph Bergin.

Bergin, Joseph. The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN 9780300067514


Antwerp In The Age Of Reformation: Underground Protestantism In A Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Book Review), John B. Roney Oct 1996

Antwerp In The Age Of Reformation: Underground Protestantism In A Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John B. Roney.

Marnef, G. (1996). Antwerp in the age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a commercial metropolis,1550-1577. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

ISBN 9780801851698


Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents And Family Letters (Book Review), Charles T. Eby Jul 1988

Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents And Family Letters (Book Review), Charles T. Eby

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Book review by Charles T. Eby.

Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents and Family Letters. Edited and annotated by Paton Yoder. Translated by Noah G. Good. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1987.


The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-1913: Chronicle Of A Mennonite Farmer (Book Review), Charles T. Eby Oct 1984

The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-1913: Chronicle Of A Mennonite Farmer (Book Review), Charles T. Eby

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Book review by Charles T. Eby.

The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-1913: Chronicle of a Mennonite Farmer. Edited and annotated by James M. Nyce. Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1982. ISBN 9780919045125