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Books received: Barbosa, Jose Carlos, Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil. Trans. Fraser G. MacHaffie and Richard K. Danford. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2008. Bauman, Chad M., Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. Beaudoin, Tom, Witness to Dispossession: The...; Tags: American, Cambridge University Press, Grand, History, John, Oxford University Press, Press, Religion, William; Research articles 2009-03-01
History: NONFICTION **** The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family By Annette Gordon-Reed * 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York University and teaches history at Rutgers University. This is her second book resulting from her research on...; Tags: American, Dream, Fischer, James, Lincoln, McPherson, McPherson's Ltd.; Research articles 2009-01-01
The Imperial Origins of the King's Church in Early America, 1607-1783: doi:l0.1017/S0009640708001789 The Imperial Origins of the King's Church in Early America, 1607-1783. By James B. Bell. Studies in Modern History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xxvi + 301 pp. $90.00 cloth. This is a welcome and worthy addition to the series appearing under the general editorship of J. C....; Tags: American, Church, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-12-01
The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France: RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...; Tags: American, Cartesian, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Early, Fall, G., God, H., History, J., Jacques, Jeffrey, Jesus, John, Joseph, Journal, L., La, Les, M., O'Connor, Old, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Voltaire Inc., W.; Research articles 2008-12-01
"Torture" in the Dock: - SCENE 1 : Frankfurt, Germany, ? October 2002, early morning IN THE FRANKFURT police headquarters, the atmosphere is tense. Deputy Police Chief Wolfgang Daschner is losing patience. On the previous day, his officers arrested one Magnus Gägen, a 2 7 -year-old law student. Gäfgen is suspected of having kidnapped...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Author, Convention, Court, European Court; Research articles 2008-12-01

Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family: Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. By Claudio Saunt. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 300. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-517631-5.) Claudio Saunt's Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, like Tiya Miles's Ties That...; Tags: American, Indian, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-11-01
Dubai or not Dubai?: A review of foreign investment and acquisition laws in the U.S. and Canada: ABSTRACT The proposed purchase of a British company that controlled several ports in the United States by Dubai Ports World could accurately be described as one of the most politically contentious acquisitions in U.S. history. The transaction raised questions not only about U.S. foreign investment laws but provoked national...; Tags: A., American, B., CNOOC Ltd., Cohen, House, L., Note, Part III, Review, Treasury, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-11-01
J.P. MORGAN'S GREATEST BLUNDER UNITED STATES LINES: America 's pre-eminent financier created dozens of memorable multi-million dollar mergers yet his heirs weren't able to save one of his pet creations from corporate oblivion J.P. Morgan & Company was one of the most-powerful banking houses in America at the end of the 19th century and into...; Tags: American, Cunard Line Ltd., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Navy, North, White; Research articles 2008-10-01
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Oxford History of the United States series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 904 pp. $35.00 US cloth. Thomas Carlyle's notion that it is great men that make history has not had much traction lately....; Tags: American, Americans, Daniel, History, Morse Plc., Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-09-22
New book chronicle: Memory, from the 'dark abyss of time' to present day conflict zones, via biographies of some of the British players in twentieth-century archaeology, permeates this chronicle. Two points emerge: first, that good writing matters. Second, that the past is eternally composed. The past composite LAURENT OLIVIER. Le sombre...; Tags: A., American, Andrew, Athens, Classical, Cyprus, David, Davis, Early, English, Heritage, Ma, Mediterranean, Memory, Michael, Museum, Norman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philip, Press, Rome, Studies; Research articles 2008-09-01
Books received: Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008. d'Abrera, Anna Ysabel, The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515. Europa Sacra 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Ando, Clifford, The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. The Transformation of the Classical...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Charles, Church, Culture, David, Early, Faith, History, J., James, John, L., Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Press, Theology, William; Research articles 2008-09-01
SPARRING WITH DRAGONS: Captain Giliberto-A Yangtze Legend: When Gaetano Giliberto first saw the middle section of the Yangtze River above Hankow, it was the spring of 1927. That date was significant for two reasons. First, it marked the worst flooding that the Yangtze had experienced in many decades, and second, it coincided with perhaps the most violent...; Tags: American, Navy, Standard Oil; Research articles 2008-08-01
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence: Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. By John Ferling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. [xiv], 679. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-518121-0.) John Ferling has been writing distinguished work on war in early America and the American Revolution for quite a long...; Tags: American, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-08-01
Standard Oil and Yukos in the Context of Early Capitalism in the United States and Russia: Abstract: The author compares two conflicts between large businesses and the state in the United States and Russia. Although almost one hundred years apart, the Standard Oil and Yukos cases are comparable in so far as they erupted in the context of early capitalism in a weak institutional environment. Both...; Tags: American, Federal, Friedman, Morgan, Politics, Rockefeller, Rosneft, Russian, Society, Standard Oil, Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos; Research articles 2008-07-01
mirage in the VALLEY OF THE SUN, the: ABSTRACT The Valley of the Sun, a booming metropolitan region of 3.7 million people in a desert that gets seven inches of annual rainfall, has enjoyed an oasis lifestyle during the twentieth century, supported by government-funded reclamation projects and water pumped from aquifers deep underground. Following World War II, groundwater...; Tags: A., American, Bureau, CARTER, Growth, History, Jacob, James, John, Jr., Management, Phoenix Technologies, Press, Salt River Project, Scottsdale, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tucson, West, Western, William; Research articles 2008-07-01
Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
Garrett Epps: MR. EPPS: Thanks, Paul. Paul's invitation to come to this conference and honor Professor Dershowitz, whom I will call Professor Dershowitz since we've barely met and I never was a student, arrived, luckily, on a Thursday. And I say luckily because on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, I say to myself,...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Freedom, Holmes, Justice, Paul, South; Research articles 2008-06-22
Books received: Aitken, Tom, Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissar: The Salvation Army in Russia, 1907 1923. Studies in Christian History and Thought. Milton Keynes, U.K.: Paternoster, 2007. Anyabwile, Thabiti M., The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2007. Austin,...; Tags: American, Harvard University, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-06-01
New book chronicle: Piles of animals, smaller piles of records from the 1920s to 1940s, revisited: three reports on three sites, seminal for the recognition of the antiquity of humans in North America, showcase new investigative methods and techniques to further our understanding of human-animal interaction in the dying days of the Pleistocene...; Tags: American, Athens, Chapter 5, Classical, David, Early, History, Hudson, John, Medieval, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Robert, Royal Commission; Research articles 2008-06-01
Whatever happened to Iraq? How the media lost interest in a long-running war with no end in sight: Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it. [ILLUSTRATION...; Tags: American, Americans, Fox News Channel, Friedman, McClatchy Newspapers Inc., Times; Research articles 2008-06-01