Wright's Writing

Book Reviews

D. Montgomery, Fall of the House of Labor

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy

O. Arne Westad, The Global Cold War

Richard Goodwin, Remembering America

(A short critique of postmodernism)

C. Parratt, More Than Mere Amusement

F. Furet, Revolutionary France, 1770–1880

J. Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of War

J. Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848–1851

Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

B. Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate

Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity

Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan

Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time

Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship

Lewis and Wigen, The Myth of Continents

Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul

S. Sawyer, Crude Chronicles

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

(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

P. Tillich, The Courage To Be