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Book Reviews

Mozart
women on strike

D. Montgomery, Fall of the House of Labor

Lenin giving a speech in Petrograd

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy

Kennedy vs. Khruschev

O. Arne Westad, The Global Cold War

John F. Kennedy

Richard Goodwin, Remembering America

Andy Warhol paints Marilyn Monroe

(A short critique of postmodernism)

The festiveness of working-class life

C. Parratt, More Than Mere Amusement

Revolutionary France

F. Furet, Revolutionary France, 1770–1880

The trenches of World War I

J. Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of War

Painting of the 1848 European revolutions

J. Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848–1851

A Nazi rally

Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

Mussolini and Hitler

B. Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate

Woodstock, 1969

Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity

Abraham Lincoln

Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan

Tricky Dick Nixon

Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time

A slave ship

Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship

An early map of the world

Lewis and Wigen, The Myth of Continents

Slaves being auctioned at the market

Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul

Native American in full regalia

S. Sawyer, Crude Chronicles

Workers in London

E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

An empty classroom

(The history of American education reform)

M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects

Thomas Ferguson, Golden Rule

T. H. Breen, Marketplace of Revolution

Joanne Freeman, Affairs of Honor

Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow

C. Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over

G. Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

C. Calloway, New Worlds for All

W. W. Tarn, Hellenistic Civilisation

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Michael Denning, The Cultural Front

M. Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Tchaikovsky

P. Tillich, The Courage To Be