The Americas

Books reviewed: Jan E. Dizard, Robert Merrill Muth and Stephen P. Andrews Jr. (eds.), Guns in America: A Reader. David K. Adams and Cornelis A. van Minnen (eds.), Aspects of War in American History Stuart Banner Anglo‐American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690–1860 Conrad Edick Wright and Katheryn P. Viens (eds.), Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700–1850 Frank Lambert Inventing the ‘Great Awakening’ Russell Snapp John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier Philip McFarland The Brave Bostonians: Hutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the Coming of the American Revolution Richard Buel In Irons: Britain’s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy Max M. Mintz Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois Donald R. Kennon (eds.), A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic Christina Vella Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba William E. Van Vugt Britain to America: Mid‐nineteenth‐century Immigrants to the United States John Harley Warner Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth‐century American Medicine Leonard G. Wilson Lyell in America: Transatlantic Geology, 1841–1853 Gerda Lerner The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké Emmett M. Essin Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the US Army Mule Steven E. Woodworth The Art of Command in the Civil War Daniel E. Sutherland Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign James M. McPherson and Patricia R. McPherson (eds.), Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, US Navy Ann Hartwell Britton and Thomas J. Reed (eds.), To My Beloved Wife and Boy at Home: The Letters and Diaries of Orderly Sergeant John F. L. Hartwell John Beatty The Citizen Soldier: The Memoirs of a Civil War Volunteer Philip M. Katz From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune Jeffrey Burton Indian Territory and the United States, 1866–1906: Courts, Government, and the Movement for Oklahoma Statehood Charles W. Allen From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West that Was Edward J. Renehan Jr. The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and his Family in Peace and War John C. Spurlock and Cynthia A. Magistro New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women’s Emotional Culture Mark Meigs Optimism at Armageddon: Voices of American Participants in the First World War Edwin J. Perkins Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle Class Investors John Howard Carryin’ on in the Lesbian and Gay South Peter N. Stearns Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self‐control in Modern America William Doyle Inside the Oval Of ce: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton Ronald Edsforth The New Deal: America’s Response to the Great Depression Kevin Starr Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California M. J. Heale Franklin D. Roosevelt: The New Deal and War Kevin Ruane War and Revolution in Vietnam, 1930–75 Vivienne Sanders The USA and Vietnam, 1945–75 Peter Lowe The Vietnam War One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam Timothy N. Castle David S. Painter The Cold War: An International History Carl L. Kell and L. Raymond Camp In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention Keith Walden Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture Matthew Restall The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550–1850 Stephen J. Randall and Graeme S. Mount The Caribbean Basin: An International History Boris Fausto A Concise History of Brazil