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Review Of Related Lives: Confessors And Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750, By J. Bilinkoff, Elizabeth Lehfeldt

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Review of Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750, by J. Bilinkoff

(Review) Nails In The Wall: Catholic Nuns In Reformation Germany, Marc R. Forster

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What I Overheard In The Sesquicentennial Conversation, Una M. Cadegan

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Catholic higher education is in many ways still responding to the challenge first articulated by John Tracy Ellis in his 1955 essay. In efforts to promote both a unique Catholic identity and a culture of excellence on par with secular institutions, Catholic universities can learn much from their historical context, founding religious communities, and contemporary experience.

This essay suggests some practical applications for campus life and governance that might be culled from a university’s religious history.

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

Review Of Isabella Greenway, An Enterprising Woman, Thomas A. Britten

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Kristie Miller’s interesting biography examines the life and legacies of Isabella Greenway, the “first of a number of remarkable women in Arizona politics” (p. xv) and the founder of the acclaimed Arizona Inn. The daughter of rancher Tilden Selmes and Martha (Patty) Flandrau, Isabella was born in the Dakota Badlands in March 1886. The Selmeses befriended a grieving Theodore Roosevelt, who had fled west following the deaths of his mother and wife in 1884. According to Miller, Isabella’s beginnings in the Dakotas and her family’s fortuitous relationship with Roosevelt “determined the course of her life” (p. 3).

Constitutionalists And Cossacks: The Constitutional Movement And Russian Intervention In Tabriz, 1907–11, James D. Clark

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It is well known to the students of Iranian history that the great powers of Britain and Russia played important roles in shaping events and their course during the period of the Constitutional Movement (1905-11). And nowhere was Russia's involvement greater than in the northwestern province of Azerbaijan, the closest Iranian to Russian territory in the Caucasus. Beginning in 1907, the extent of her involvement in the province increased, although it continued to be restricted to material support for the royalists in their struggles with the province's constitutionalists. The first example of direct intervention on the part of the Russians …

The Cambridge Companion To John Calvin (Book Review), John B. Roney

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Book review by John Roney.

McKim, D. K. (Ed.). (2004).The Cambridge companion to John Calvin. Cambridge University Press.

ISBN 9780521816472; 9780521016728 (pbk.)

Vengeance And The Crusades, Susanna A. Throop

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This article demonstrates that the popularity of the idea of crusading as vengeance was not limited to the laity, and, instead of fading away after 1099, the ideology grew more widespread as the twelfth century progressed. The primary aim here is to present the evidence alongside preliminary analysis, reserving further, more detailed interpretation for future publications.

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

Review Of The Other New York: The American Revolution Beyond New York City, 1763-1787, Edited By J.S. Tiedmann And E.R. Fingerhut, Thomas J. Humphrey

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Comrade Pavlik: The Rise And Fall Of A Soviet Boy Hero (Book Review), Lisa Kirschenbaum

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'We Were Not Ladies': Gender, Class, And A Women’S Auxiliary’S Battle For Mining Unionism, Caroline Waldron Merithew

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“We Were Not Ladies” uses the 1930s dual union fight between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Miners to challenge the historiography on women’s auxiliaries in the United States. While most labor and women’s historians have focused on the traditional and supporting roles that non-wage-earning women played in male unions, I show a more radical side to working-class housewives’ activism. Through the Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners, coal miners’ daughters and wives recognized that conventional gender roles could neither gain them political and economic power in their communities, nor could these roles encompass their evolving political …

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.

Review Of Beasts Of The Field: A Narrative History Of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913, By R.S. Street, Thomas J. Humphrey

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Review of Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913, by R.S. Street

Race, Nation, And Religion In The Americas, Edited By Henry Goldschmidt And Elizabeth Mcalister, R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Goldschmidt, Henry and Elizabeth McAlister, eds. Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

ISBN 978-0195149197

Qu'est-Ce Que La Postcolonie? Contribution À Un Débat Francophone Trop Afrocentré, Abou B. Bamba

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Cet essai n’a rien d’une élaboration philosophique. Même si la question du titre fait songer à un Kant du « Was ist Aufklärung ? », un Sartre de Qu’est-ce la littérature ? ou encore à un Foucault de « Qu’est-ce que les lumières? ». Il a moins la prétention d’être un exercice théorique. Encore que les discussions sur la postcolonialité ne le sont guère que très rarement. Plutôt, ce texte est la contribution d’un américaniste, observateur de surcroît des sociétés et espaces publics francoafricains de l’après Deuxième Guerre mondiale ; contribution à un débat initié— il y a quelques temps …

Review Of Feminizing The Enemy: Imperial Spain, Transvestite Drama, And The Crisis Of Masculinity, By S. Donnell, Elizabeth Lehfeldt

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Review of Feminizing the Enemy: Imperial Spain, Transvestite Drama, and the Crisis of Masculinity, by S. Donnell

Patterns Of Civil Society In A Modernizing Multiethnic City: A German Town In The Russian Empire Becomes Estonian, Bradley Woodworth

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In his article Bradley Woodworth examines the nationalization of a multiethnic provincial town in the Russian Empire -- Tallinn (Ger. Reval, Rus. Revel') -- in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, seeing it as part of the process of territorialization of national communities. At the center of this study is the development of civil society, the activities of professional and associational groups and local city government. The author argues that unlike earlier histories of the region, all three major ethnic groups (Baltic Germans, Estonians, and Russians) developed socially in similar ways. Overall, during this the dominance of social …

Reforming Men And Women: Gender In The Antebellum City (Book Review), Karin Gedge

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The American Civil War, Emancipation, And Reconstruction On The World Stage, Edward L. Ayers

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Americans demanded the world's attention during their Civil War and Reconstruction. Newspapers around the globe reported the latest news from the United States as one vast battle followed another, as the largest system of slavery in the world crashed into pieces, as American democracy expanded to include people who had been enslaved only a few years before.

A History Under Siege: Intensive Agriculture In The Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19thcentury To The Present, Christopher A. Conte, Lowe Borjeson

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From ‘Sweet Mamas’ To ‘Bodacious’ Hillbillies: Billy Debeck’S Impact On American Culture, Anthony Harkins

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Mestizajes Tecnológicos Y Cambios Culturales En México, Charlotte M. Gradie

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This article reviews the book "Mestizajes tecnológicos y cambios culturales en México," edited by Enrique Florescano and Virginia García Acosta.

Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life And Trial Of An American Slave Trader, Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: the life and trial of an American slave trader. New York: Atria Books, 2006.

ISBN 9780743267274

The Captured: A True Story Of Abduction By Indians On The Texas Frontier. By Scott Zesch (Review), Thomas A. Britten

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What started out as a quiet walk through a small rural cemetery for author Scott Zesch turned into a quest to understand a long-forgotten relative. Adolph Korn, the author's great-great uncle, was just ten years old when he was captured by Apaches in 1870. His abductors took him to the Indian Territory, where they sold him to Quahada Comanches, with whom he lived for the next three years. In an effort to better understand the emotional and physical trauma his uncle must have endured, Zesch examines the stories of eight additional children captured by Indians between July 1865 and February …

'Subterranean Evil' And 'Tumultuous Riot' In Buganda: Authority And Alienation At King's College, Budo, 1942, Carol Summers

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Staff petitions, sexual and disciplinary scandal and open riot pushed Buganda's leaders to close Budo College on the eve of Kabaka (King) Muteesa II's coronation. The upheaval at the school included a teachers' council that pro-claimed ownership of the school, student leaders who manipulated the headmaster through scandal and school clubs and associations that celebrated affiliation over discipline. Instead of enacting and celebrating imperial partnership and order in complex, well-choreographed coronation rituals, the school's disruption delineated the fractures and struggles over rightful authority, order and patronage within colonial Buganda, marking out a future of tumultuous political transition.

The Creative Intelligentsia And The Rise Of Official Russocentrism Under Stalin, David Brandenberger

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In the mid-to-late 1930s, Soviet society witnessed a major ideological about-face as party propaganda and mass culture assumed an increasingly patriotic, Russo-centric orientation. Heroes, imagery, and legends from the Russian national past were deployed to bolster the legitimacy of the Soviet state and provide a complement to the reigning Marxist-Leninist ideology, then in a trend threatening to eclipse the stress on revolutionary class consciousness that had characterized the Soviet experiment for nearly two decades.

This shift away from proletarian internationalism toward Russo-centric etatism has been a source of considerable scholarly controversy. Some have linked this phenomenon to nationalist sympathies within …

Bernardus Baptizatus, Bernard De La Planche And The Sermon “Sedens Docebat Turbas” At The Council Of Constance, Chris L. Nighman, Sophie Vallery-Radot

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This article demonstrates on the basis of various manuscript evidence that two distinct individuals who attended the Council of Constance have been mistakenly conflated into a single person by historians of this important church council.

"Monkeying With The Bible”: Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation, R. Bryan Bademan

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Devotion to the Bible remains an underappreciated aspect of American religious life partly because it fails to generate controversy. This essay opens a window onto America's relationship with the Bible by exploring a controversial moment in the history of the Bible in America: the public reception of University of Chicago professor Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation (1923). Initially, at least, most Americans flatly rejected Goodspeed's impeccably credentialed attempt to cast the language of the Bible in contemporary "American" English. Accusations of the professor's irreligion, bad taste, vulgarity, and crass modernity emerged from nearly every quarter of the Protestant establishment (with …

Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Schneider, Thomas E. Lincoln’s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.

ISBN 9780826216069