The Americas

Books reviewed: A Continent Defined: North American Exploration 2 . Edited by John Logan Allen Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use . Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis A History of the United States . By Philip Jenkins The Degradation of American History . By David Harlan An Emotional History of the United States . Edited by Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York . By Cathy Matson Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro‐Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868 . By Caryn Cossé Bell A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples, 1724–1774 . By Michael N. McConnell A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present . Edited by Jerry K. Sweeney A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics . By Mark E. Kann Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies . By Joyce Appleby Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City in the Nineteenth Century . By Mary P. Ryan Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1899 . By Samuel C. Hyde, Jr Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996 . By John Gerring Daniel Webster: The Man and his Times . By Robert V. Remini The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade . By Thomas N. Layton Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen . By Gary Collison Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South . By Douglas Ambrose Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from the Civil War . By Emmy E. Werner The Confederate War . By Gary W. Gallagher Lee: The Soldier . Edited by Gary W. Gallagher Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns . By Steven E. Woodworth Shook over Hell: Post‐traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War . By Eric T. Dean Jr‘Right or Wrong, God Judge Me’: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth . Edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado . By Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865–1920 . By Jerry Cooper Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell . By Joan Waugh Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood . By Robert Hamburger The Important Things of Life: Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880–1929 . By Dee Garceau The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884–1928 . By Priscilla Murolo Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell . By Dan Aadland Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician: An Assessment . By David H. Burton The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I . By Edward M. Coffman Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I . By Leslie Midkiff DeBauche The USA and the World, 1917–45 . By Peter Brett Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920–1939 . By Warren F. Kuehl and Lynne K. Dunn Lindbergh . By A. Scott Berg Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision‐making . By Barbara Rearden Farnham Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island . By Gregory J. W. Urwin Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA . Edited by Rhodri Jeffreys‐Jones and Christopher Andrew Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino‐American Conflict, 1947–1958 . By Thomas J. Christensen Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in US–Korea Relations . By Katherine H. S. Moon Kennedy . By Hugh Brogan The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK . By John Hellmann Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited . Edited by Mark J. White Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle . By Walt Crowley The Scar that Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War . By Keith Beattie Burning the Flag: The Great 1989–90 American Flag Desecration Controversy . By Robert Justin Goldstein‘Your Fyre Shall Burn No More’: Iroquois Policy toward New France and its Native Allies to 1701 . By José António Brandão Life and Religion in Louisbourg, 1713–1758 . By A. J. B. Johnston Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War . By Shane B. Schreiber La France et le Canada: d'une après‐guerre à l'autre (1918–1944) . By Philippe Prévost The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492–1810 . By John R. Fisher‘Tiger in the Stars’: The Anatomy of Indian Achievement in British Guiana 1919–1929 . By Clem Seecharan