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The Mourning Of Alexander The Great, Jeanne Reames

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To say that Hephaistion's death devastated the conqueror merely repeats a commonplace. But was Alexander's subsequent bereavement excessive, or-to use clinical terms-pathological?l Pervading popular opinion has been a guarded (or not-so-guarded) "yes." Nonetheless, I propose to argue that a number of actions heretofore seen as abnormal are in fact behaviors typical of the bereaved. The difference in Alexander's case was due to his wealth and his authority: he could both afford such gestures and have them enforced.

Chen Jiongming And The Federalist Movement: Regional Leadership And Nation Building In Early Republican China, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Chen, Leslie H. Dingyan. Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement: Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1999.

Michoacán And Eden: Vasco De Quiroga And The Evangelization Of Western Mexico, By Bernardino Verástique, Charlotte M. Gradie

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Reviews the book `Michoacan and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico,' by Bernardino Verastique.

Culture And State In Late Choson Korea (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Haboush, JaHyun Kim and Martina Deuchler, eds. Culture and State in Late Choson Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.

ISBN 0-674-17982-X.

Faith, History, And The Conference On Faith And History, William Vance Trollinger

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The author notes of this paper, given as a keynote address:

• The talk that I give tonight is not the talk that I was originally planning to deliver at this conference. When I was asked to give the keynote address, I assumed that I would simply present an elongated version of the paper that I was going to give in this morning's session on "Peace, Justice, and Evangelicals"; my paper was to be on the strengths and weaknesses and omissions in the recent literature written by evangelicals on the notion of a Christian approach to history. But the more I …

The Pasts And Futures Of Digital History, Edward L. Ayers

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The historical profession approaches new information technologies with mixed emotions. Differences of resources, temperament, and generation create both determined resistance and eager acceptance as well as widespread ambivalence. While it is increasingly unusual for people working in history to resist the obvious benefits of the Internet and e-mail, it is even more unusual for Internet users to pursue the full implications and possibilities of the new technology. The great majority of us take a few things from the menu of possibilities and leave the rest untouched.

Studies On The Internal Diaspora Of The Byzantine Empire (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire (edited by Hélène Ahrweiler and Angeliki E. Laiou).

Colonial Modernity In Korea (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Shin, Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson, eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Area Center, 1999. ISBN 0-674-14255-1.

The Gold Coast Church And The Ghetto: Christ And Culture In Mainline Protestantism By James K. Wellman (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism by James K. Wellman.

Petroleum Tanker Shipping On German Inland Waterways, 1887-1994, Ingo Heidbrink

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Tanker shipping today is one of the major branches of German inland navigation. Indeed, the transport of petroleum and its derivatives together comprise nearly twenty percent of total inland shipping; more than 42,000,000 tons of liquid petroleum products were shipped in 1996 by a fleet with a total cargo capacity of more than 500,000 tons.' Tanker shipping is by far the largest kind of specialist transportation on German inland waterways. But because of its very special technical requirements, a high degree of dependence on a small group of shippers, and a number of risks peculiar to this trade, there are …

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.

A Historian In Cyberspace, Edward L. Ayers

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I am writing here about an American Place, but not about Thomas Jefferson's town, where I live, or about the South, to which I have devoted my working life. Rather, I am writing about that new American place we cannot see but whose effects we increasingly feel, cyberspace.

The Great Valley And The Meaning Of The Civil War, Edward L. Ayers

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To understand the coming of the Civil War, then, we need to pick up the story before Fort Sumter and to carry it deeper than national events. We need to understand both the advocated of conflict and those who sought to avoid it regardless of the cost. We need to understand the communities people fought to defend, the institutions that held them together and that drove them apart.

Lincoln And The Abolitionists, Allen C. Guelzo

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It has always been one of the ironies of the era of the Civil War and the end of slavery in the United States that the man who played the role of Great Emancipator of the slaves was so hugely mistrusted and so energetically vilified by the party of abolition. Abraham Lincoln, whatever his larger reputation as the liberator of more than three million black slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation, has never entirely shaken off the reputation of being something of a half-heart about it. [excerpt]

From Tong-Tong To Tempo Doeloe: Eurasian Memory Work And The Bracketing Of Dutch Colonial History, 1957-1961, Andrew Goss

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Jewish Stars In Texas: Rabbis And Their Work By Hollace Ava Weiner (Review), Harriett Denise Joseph

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In Jewish Stars in Texas, Hollace Ava Weiner uses a bibliographical approach to examine a century of "Texas history through the eyes of its rabbis" (p. xiv). She profiles eleven Jewish religious leaders who made an impact that extended far beyond their congregations. Chronologically they range from Heinrich Schwarz, Texas's first ordained rabbi (arriving in Hempstead in 1873), to civil rights activist Rabii Levi Olan, who served Dallas's Temple Emanu-El from 1949 to 1970. Included is information on each rabbi's religious background, his personal life, the city involved, the temple served, and contributions made. A few prominent rebbitsins (rabbis' wives) …

(Review) Wolfgang Burgdorf, Reichskonstitution Und Nation, Marc R. Forster

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Convents As Litigants: Dowry And Inheritance Disputes In Early-Modern Spain, Elizabeth Lehfeldt

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This article examines the contentious and frequently litigious relationship between convents and the families of professed nuns in early-modern Spain. From the:mid-sixteenth century forward Spanish convents entered into oftentimes protracted lawsuits over disputes involving these nuns' dowry payments, yearly maintenance allowances, and inheritance rights subsequent to their profession. Because the parties to these disputes were willing to risk long-standing and mutually beneficial relationships to defend their social and financial interests in court, these clashes are significant for what: they reveal about the complex social matrix involving nuns, their families, and convents. Nuns demonstrated a profound sense of connection to family …

Bernard Devoto's ‘Utah’, Davis Rich Lewis

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Broadening The Horizons Of Chinese History, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Huang, Ray. Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

Chinese Foreign Policy During The Cultural Revolution (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.Chinese Foreign Policy during the Cultural Revolution. London: Kegan Paul International, 1998. ISBN 0-7103-0580-X

From The City Inside The Red River (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Nguyen, Dinh-hoa. From the City Inside the Red River: A Cultural Memoir of Mid-Century Vietnam. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1999.

ISBN 0-7864-0498-1.

Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers

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I write not of Thomas Jefferson's town, where I live, nor of the American South to which I have devoted my working life. Rather, I write of a new American place, one we cannot see but whose effects we increasingly feel: "cyberspace." That place, simultaneously metaphorical and tangible, has touched every part of the United States. Information surges along networks of copper and glass, weaving ever tighter webs across the country and the world.

Byzantium In The Ninth Century: Dead Or Alive?: Papers From The Thirtieth Spring Symposium Of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996 (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Byzantium in the Ninth-Century: Dead or Alive?: Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996 (edited by Leslie Brubaker).

Internationalism, Regionalism, And National Culture: Music Control In Bavaria, 1945–1948, David Monod

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For many Germans in the immediate postwar period, all that remained of their country was its art. Subjugation, destruction, the pain of unfathomable guilt: these had ripped away at the national psyche, severing nation from nationalism, person from people, the present from the past. “We are,” wrote Wolfgang Borchert in 1946, “a generation without a homecoming, because we have nothing to which we can return.” Nation: what would that word now mean? An occupied state no longer possessing statehood, a conquered people starved even of the moral strength that might come from resisting. Even if the institutions of national governance …

The Politics Of Numbers: Zemstvo Land Assessment And The Conceptualization Of Russia's Rural Economy, David W. Darrow

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Historians of statistics are only beginning to understand the politics of numbers that accompanied the rise of statistical thinking in the nineteenth century. In the Russian empire, this statistical awakening opened numerous possibilities for state servitors and the intelligentsia. To officials in St. Petersburg, especially the enlightened bureaucrats who shaped the Great Reforms, statistics held out the promise of providing hard data for the development of informed policies.

For educated society, numbers had a profound impact on debates over the nature of Russia’s rural (particularly peasant) economy. Numbers provided a cloak of objectivity for polemics motivated by different visions of …

How John Nelson Darby Went Visiting: Dispensational Premillennialism In The Believers Church Tradition And The Historiography Of Fundamentalism, William Vance Trollinger

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In the United States the history of John Nelson Darby's dispensational premillennialism is intimately tied up with the history of fundamentalism. It is difficult to talk about dispensational premillennialism in the believers church tradition in the twentieth century without making some reference to the fundamentalist movement. In fact, the two distinguishing marks of fundamentalist theology have been the doctrine of biblical inerrancy and the eschatological schema known as dispensationalism. It is thus rather surprising that historians have de-emphasized dispensational premillennialism in explaining the history of fundamentalism. I think that this is a mistake. But to explain why I think this …

Rethinking Slavery And Freedom (Book Reviews), Edward L. Ayers

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Review essay of the following books:

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin.

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland.

Fish Or Foul: A History Of The Delaware River Basin Through The Perspective Of The American Shad, 1682 To The Present, Charles A. Hardy Iii

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No abstract provided.

Review Of The Encyclopedia Of Native American Legal Tradition, Mark R. Scherer

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Native American law has been traditionally and accurately characterized as one of the most complex and contradictory realms of American jurisprudence. Today it is also, of course, one of the most dynamic areas of legal activity, as questions of renewed tribal sovereignty, often centering on Indian gaming issues, reverberate in statehouses and the halls of Congress. The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition appears, then, at a particularly propitious time. Bruce E. Johansen has produced a valuable and accessible reference work, useful to academic researchers but largely free of legal jargon. More significantly, he has filled a gap left by …