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1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
Robert C. Sims ◽  
Darlene E. Fisher ◽  
Steven A. Leibo ◽  
Pasquale E. Micciche ◽  
Fred R. Van Hartesveldt ◽  
...  

Michael B. Katz. Reconstructing American Education. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 212. Cloth, $22.50; E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1987. Pp. xvii, 251. Cloth, $16.45; Diana Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, Jr. What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Pp. ix, 293. Cloth, $15.95. Review by Richard A. Diem of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Henry J. Steffens and Mary Jane Dickerson. Writer's Guide: History. Lexington, Massachusetts, and Toronto: D. C. Heath and Company, 1987. Pp. x, 211. Paper, $6.95. Review by William G. Wraga of Bernards Township Public Schools, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. J. Kelley Sowards, ed. Makers of the Western Tradition: Portraits from History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Fourth edition. Vol: 1: Pp. ix, 306. Paper, $12.70. Vol. 2: Pp. ix, 325. Paper, $12.70. Review by Robert B. Luehrs of Fort Hays State University. John L. Beatty and Oliver A. Johnson, eds. Heritage of Western Civilization. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987. Sixth Edition. Volume I: Pp. xi, 465. Paper, $16.00; Volume II: pp. xi, 404. Paper, $16.00. Review by Dav Levinson of Thayer Academy, Braintree, Massachusetts. Lynn H. Nelson, ed. The Human Perspective: Readings in World Civilization. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Vol. I: The Ancient World to the Early Modern Era. Pp. viii, 328. Paper, $10.50. Vol. II: The Modern World Through the Twentieth Century. Pp, x, 386. Paper, 10.50. Review by Gerald H. Davis of Georgia State University. Gerald N. Grob and George Attan Billias, eds. Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives. New York: The Free Press, 1987. Fifth Edition. Volume I: Pp. xi, 499. Paper, $20.00: Volume II: Pp. ix, 502. Paper, $20.00. Review by Larry Madaras of Howard Community College. Eugene Kuzirian and Larry Madaras, eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History. -- Volume II: Reconstruction to the Present. Guilford, Connecticut: The Dushkin Publishing Groups, Inc., 1987. Pp. xii, 384. Paper, $9.50. Review by James F. Adomanis of Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Annapolis, Maryland. Joann P. Krieg, ed. To Know the Place: Teaching Local History. Hempstead, New York: Hofstra University Long Island Studies Institute, 1986. Pp. 30. Paper, $4.95. Review by Marilyn E. Weigold of Pace University. Roger Lane. Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. 213. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Ronald E. Butchart of SUNY College at Cortland. Pete Daniel. Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 352. Paper, $22.50. Review by Thomas S. Isern of Emporia State University. Norman L. Rosenberg and Emily S. Rosenberg. In Our Times: America Since World War II. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Third edition. Pp. xi, 316. Paper, $20.00; William H. Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, eds. A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Second edition. Pp. xiii, 453. Paper, $12.95. Review by Monroe Billington of New Mexico State University. Frank W. Porter III, ed. Strategies for Survival: American Indians in the Eastern United States. New York, Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 232. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Richard Robertson of St. Charles County Community College. Kevin Sharpe, ed. Faction & Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History. London and New York: Methuen, 1985. Pp. xvii, 292. Paper, $13.95; Derek Hirst. Authority and Conflict: England, 1603-1658. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 390. Cloth, $35.00. Review by K. Gird Romer of Kennesaw College. N. F. R. Crafts. British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 193. Paper, $11.95; Maxine Berg. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 378. Paper, $10.95. Review by C. Ashley Ellefson of SUNY College at Cortland. J. M. Thompson. The French Revolution. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985 reissue. Pp. xvi, 544. Cloth, $45.00; Paper, $12.95. Review by W. Benjamin Kennedy of West Georgia College. J. P. T. Bury. France, 1814-1940. London and New York: Methuen, 1985. Fifth edition. Pp. viii, 288. Paper, $13.95; Roger Magraw. France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 375. Cloth, $24.95; Paper, $9.95; D. M.G. Sutherland. France, 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 242. Cloth, $32.50; Paper, $12.95. Review by Fred R. van Hartesveldt of Fort Valley State College. Woodford McClellan. Russia: A History of the Soviet Period. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1986. Pp. xi, 387. Paper, $23.95. Review by Pasquale E. Micciche of Fitchburg State College. Ranbir Vohra. China's Path to Modernization: A Historical Review from 1800 to the Present. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Pp. xiii, 302. Paper, $22.95. Reivew by Steven A. Leibo of Russell Sage College. John King Fairbank. China Watch. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. viii, Cloth, $20.00. Review by Darlene E. Fisher of New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois. Ronald Takaki, ed. From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 253. Paper, $13.95. Review by Robert C. Sims of Boise State University.

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Herbert Janick ◽  
Stephen S. Gosch ◽  
Donn C. Neal ◽  
Donald J. Mabry ◽  
Arthur Q. Larson ◽  
...  

Anthony Esler. The Human Venture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. Volume I: The Great Enterprise, a World History to 1500. Pp. xii, 340. Volume II: The Globe Encompassed, A World History since 1500. Pp. xii, 399. Paper, $20.95 each. Review by Teddy J. Uldricks of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. H. Stuart Hughes and James Wilkinson. Contemporary Europe: A History. Englewood Clifffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Sixth edition. Pp. xiii, 615. Cloth, $35.33. Review by Harry E. Wade of East Texas State University. Ellen K. Rothman. Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 370. Paper, $8.95. Review by Mary Jane Capozzoli of Warren County Community College. Bernard Lewis, ed. Islam: from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Volume I: Politics and War. Pp.xxxvii, 226. Paper, $9.95. Volume II: Religion and Society. Pp. xxxix, 310. Paper, $10.95. Review by Calvin H. Allen, Jr. of The School of the Ozarks. Michael Stanford. The Nature of Historical Knowledge. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. vii, 196. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95. Review by Michael J. Salevouris of Webster University. David Stricklin and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. The Past Meets The Present: Essays On Oral History. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. Pp. 151. Paper, $11.50. Review by Jacob L. Susskind of The Pennsylvania State University. Peter N. Stearns. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity. New York: Harper and row, 1987. Pp. viii, 598. Paper, $27.00; Theodore H. Von Laue. The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 396. Cloth, $24.95. Review by Jayme A. Sokolow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean R Quataert, eds. Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 281. Cloth, $29.95; Paper, $10.95. Review by Samuel E. Dicks of Emporia State University. Dietrich Orlow. A History of Modern Germany: 1870 to Present. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987. Pp. xi, 371. Paper, $24.33. Review by Gordon R. Mork of Purdue University. Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. Pandora: London and New York, 1987. Pp. xiii, 330. Paper, $14.95. Review by Paul E. Fuller of Transylvania University. Moshe Lewin. The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 176. Cloth, $16.95; David A. Dyker, ed. The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev: Prospects for Reform. London & New York: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 227. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson of Northern Essex Community College. Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 308. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Arthur Q. Larson of Westmar College. Stephen G. Rabe. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. Chapel Hill &  London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. 237. Cloth $29.95; paper, $9.95. Review by Donald J. Mabry of Mississippi State University. Earl Black and Merle Black. Politics and Society in the South. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 363. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Donn C. Neal of the Society of American Archivists. The Lessons of the Vietnam War: A Modular Textbook. Pittsburgh: Center for Social Studies Education, 1988. Teacher edition (includes 64-page Teacher's Manual and twelve curricular units of 31-32 pages each), $39.95; student edition, $34.95; individual units, $3.00 each. Order from Center for Social Studies Education, 115 Mayfair Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228. Review by Stephen S. Gosch of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Media Reviews Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History. Videotape (VIIS). 45 minutes. Presented at SUNY-Brockport's Institute of Local Studies First Annual Symposium, September 1987. $29.95 prepaid. (Order from: Dr. Ronald W. Herlan, Director, Institute of Local Studies, Room 180, Faculty Office Bldg., SUNY-Brockport. Brockport. NY 14420.) Review by Herbert Janick of Western Connecticut State University.


1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Steven A. Leibo ◽  
Abraham D. Kriegel ◽  
Roger D. Tate ◽  
Raymond J. Jirran ◽  
Bullitt Lowry ◽  
...  

David K. Dunaway and Willa K. Baum, eds. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Nashville: American Assocation for State and Local History, 1984. Pp. xxiii, 436. Paper, $17.95 ($16.15 to AASLH members); cloth $29.50 ($26.95 to AASLH members). Review by Jacob L. Susskind of The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. Salo W. Baron. The Contemporary Relevance of History: A Study in Approaches and Methods. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 158. Cloth, $30.00; Stephen Vaughn, ed. The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1985. Pp. 406. Paper, $12.95. Review by Michael T. Isenberg of the United States Naval Academy. Howard Budin, Diana S. Kendall and James Lengel. Using Computers in the Social Studies. New York and London: Teachers College Press, 1986. Pp. vii, 118. Paper, $11.95. Review by Francis P. Lynch of Central Connecticut State University. David F. Noble. Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xviii, 409. Paper, $8.95. Review by Donn C. Neal of the Society of American Archivists. Alan L. Lockwood and David E. Harris. Reasoning with Democratic Values: Ethical Problems in United States History. New York and London: Teachers College Press, 1985. Volume 1: Pp. vii, 206. Paper, $8.95. Volume 2: Pp. vii, 319. Paper, $11.95. Instructor's Manual: Pp. 167. Paper, $11.95. Review by Robert W. Sellen of Georgia State University. James Atkins Shackford. David Crocketts: The Man and the Legend. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xxv, 338. Paper, $10.95. Review by George W. Geib of Butler University. John R. Wunder, ed. At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 213. Cloth, $29.95. Review by Richard N. Ellis of Fort Lewis College. Sylvia R. Frey and Marian J. Morton, eds. New World, New Roles: A Documentary History of Women in Pre-Industrial America. New York, Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 246. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Barbara J. Steinson of DePauw University. Elizabeth Roberts. A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890-1940. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. vii, 246. Paper, $12.95. Review by Thomas T. Lewis of Mount Senario College. Steven Ozment. When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 283. Cloth, $17.50; Paper, $7.50. Review by Sanford Gutman of State University of New York, College at Cortland. Geoffrey Best. War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 336. Paper, $9.95; Brian Bond. War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 256. Paper, $9.95. Review by Bullitt Lowry of North Texas State University. Edward Norman. Roman Catholicism in England: From the Elizabethan Settlement to the Second Vatican Council. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 138. Paper, $8.95; Karl F. Morrison, ed. The Church in the Roman Empire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 248. Cloth, $20.00; Paper, $7.95. Review by Raymond J. Jirran of Thomas Nelson Community College. Keith Robbins. The First World War. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. 186. Paper, $6.95; J. M. Winter. The Great War and the British People. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 360. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Roger D. Tate of Somerset Community College. Gerhardt Hoffmeister and Frederic C. Tubach. Germany: 2000 Years-- Volume III, From the Nazi Era to the Present. New York: The Ungar Publishing Co., 1986. Pp. ix, 279. Cloth, $24.50. Review by Abraham D. Kriegel of Memphis State University. Judith M. Brown. Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 429. Cloth, $29.95; Paper, $12.95. Review by Steven A. Leibo of Russell Sage College.


1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Marvin Reed ◽  
Charles Coate ◽  
Ross W. Beales ◽  
Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson ◽  
Glenn E. Torrey ◽  
...  

James Hoopes. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press , 1979. Pp. 155. Cloth, $10.00; paper, $5.00. Review by Arthur A. Hansen of California State University, Fullerton. Robin S. Winks. Western Civilization: A Brief History. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Pp. xv, 484. Paper, $12.95; Raymond F. Betts. Europe in Retrospect: A Brief History of the Past Two Hundred Years. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co., 1979. Pp. xvi, 249. Paper, $5.95. Review by Robert H. Welborn of Clayton Junior College. Barbara Kanner, ed. The Women of England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present. Hamden, Connecticut: Shoe Strong Press, Inc., 1979. Pp. 429. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Shirlene Soto of California Polytechnic State University. Peter J. Klassen. Europe in the Reformation. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Pp. vi, 298. Paper, $10.95. Review by Robert O. Lindsay of the University of Montana. Gordon A. Craig. Germany 1866-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 825. Paper, $10.95. Review by Glenn E. Torrey of Emporia State University. M.K. Dziewanowski. A History of Soviet Russia. Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1979. Pp. x, 406. Paper, $12.95. Review by Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson of Northern Essex Community College. James Kirby Martin. In the Course of Human Events: An Interpretive Exploration of the American Revolution. Arlington Heights, Illinois: AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979. Pp. x, 271. Cloth, $11.95, paper, $6.95. Review by Ross W. Beales, Jr. of the College of the Holy Cross. Arthur S. Link. Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War and Peace. Arlington Heights, Illinois: AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979. Pp. vii, 138. Cloth, $9.95; paper, $5.95. Review by Charles Coate of Eastern Oregon State College. Daniel Snowman. America Since 1920. Exeter, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1978. Pp. ix, 246. Cloth, $17.95; paper, $6.75. Review by Marvin Reed of Ursinus College.


1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
John F. Sutherland ◽  
Thomas T. Lewis ◽  
Martha H. Swain ◽  
Davis D. Joyce ◽  
James A. Sokolow ◽  
...  

James Stuart Olsen. The Ethnic Dimension in American History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. xxv, 440:- Cloth, $14.95; paper, $7.95; A. C. Hepburn, ed. Minorities in History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. 251 . Cloth, $27.50. Review by John F. Sutherland of Manchester (Connecticut) Community College. David Burner, Eugene Genovese, and Forrest McDonald. The American People. St. James, New York: Revisionary Press, 1980. Cloth, $20.95; paper, $16.95. Review by Thomas T. Lewis of Mount Senario College. Richard E. Beringer. Historical Analysis: Contemporary Approaches to Clio's Craft. New York: John Wiley and Sonds, 1978. Pp. xii, 317. Paper, $12.95. Review by Martha H. Swain of Texas Woman's University. John T. Marcus. Sub Specie Historiae: Essays in the Manifestation of Historical and Moral Consciousness. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1980. Pp. 325. Cloth, $22.50. Review by David D. Joyce of The University of Tulsa. A. K. Dickinson and P. J. Lee. History Teaching and Historical Understanding. Exeter, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1978 . Pp. viii, 176. Paper, $10.95. Review by Jayme A. Sokolow of Texas Tech University. Richard W. Hull. Modern Africa: Change and Continuity. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980. Pp. xii, 274. Paper, $9.95. Review by Thomas O'Toole of Western Carolina University. Clayton Roberts and David Roberts. A History of England. 2 volumes. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980. Pp. 891. Paper, $13.95 per volume. Review by Eugene E. Kuzirian of The University of Texas at El Paso. Alex de Jonge. The Weimar Chronicle: Prelude to Hitler. New York: New American Library, 1978 . Pp . 256 . Paper, $5.95. Review by Helmut J. Schmeller of Fort Hays State University. A. J. P. Taylor. The War Lords. New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Pp. 189. Paper, $3.95. Review by Clarence B. Davis of The College of Charleston. History Broadsheets. Exeter, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978, 1979. $5.00 per packet. Review by Jacob L. Susskind of The Pennsylvania State University/ The Capitol Campus. Robert L. Heilbroner. The Economic Transformation of America. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977. Pp. 276. Paper, $9.95; Henry C. Dethloff. Americans and Free Enterprise. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1979. Pp, 336. Cloth, $13.95; Susan Previant Lee and Peter Passell. A New Economic View of American History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979. Pp. 410. Cloth, $18.95; paper, $9.95; Martin L. Primack and James F. Willis. An Economic History of the United States. Menlo Park, Carlifornia: The Benjamin Cummings Publishing Company, 1980. Pp. 462. Cloth. $16.95. Review by William L. Downard of Saint Joseph's College, Indiana. John Chester Miller. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: New American Library, 1977. Pp. xiv, 323. Paper, $5.95. Review by Larry R. Morrison of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Edmund Morris. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. Pp. 886. Paper, $8.95. Review by Marvin Reed of Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Ellis W. Hawley. The Great War and the Search for Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 264. Cloth, $12.95; paper, $4.95; Gerald D. Nash. The Great Depression and World War II: Organizaing America, 1933-1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. xvi, 1976. Clotch, $12.95; paper, $4.95. Review by Howard W. Smith of Spring Hill College. William L. Griffen and John Marciano. Teaching the Vietnam War. Montclair, New Jersey: Allanheld, Osmun, 1979. Pp. xx, 183. Paper, $6.50. Review by Frank J. Rader of SUNY Empire State College. Michael V. Namorato, ed. Have We Overcome? Race Relations Since Brown. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press Of Mississippi, 1979. Pp. xix, 232. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $7.95. Review by Gary J. Hunter of Glassboro State College.


2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-770
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh

Danziger, Kurt: Marking the mind. A history of memory . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008Farkas, Katalin: The subject’s point of view. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008MosoninéFriedJudités TolnaiMárton(szerk.): Tudomány és politika. Typotex, Budapest, 2008Iacobini, Marco: Mirroring people. The new science of how we connect with others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008Changeux, Jean-Pierre. Du vrai, du beau, du bien.Une nouvelle approche neuronale. Odile Jacob, PárizsGazzaniga_n


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