FYI... This is cross-posted from the N-NET list. Sorry about any duplications. Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Friends, The following reviews have been posted to the web during the past week. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, there will be no list of posted reviews distributed next week. Two weeks from today, however, you'll receive a list of reviews added to the web both next week and the week after. Thanks, H-Net Staff Reviewed for H-AfrLitCine by Dayna Oscherwitz Anne V. Adams and Janis A. Mayes, eds. _Mapping Intersections: African Literature and Africa's Development_. Annual Selected Papers of the ALA, No. 2. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1998. 316 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-86543-633-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-86543-634-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13098911339288 Reviewed for HABSBURG by Leo van de Pas Daniel A. Brewer-Ward. _The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia_. Baltimore: Clearfield Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. xi + 460 pp. Genealogical tables and bibliographic references. $37.50 (paper), ISBN 0-8063-4644-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11201911504394 Reviewed for H-Russia by Dietmar Neutatz Sarah Davies. _Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941_. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xix + 236 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-56214-7; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-56676-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3607911406218 Reviewed for H-Women by Stacy A. Cordery Desley Deacon. _Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life_. Women in culture and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xvi + 520 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-13907-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10518911503267 Reviewed for H-LatAm by Anupama Mande Laura J. Enriquez. _Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. x + 206 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-1489-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3499911406108 Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Joseph G. Tregle, Jr. Kimberly S. Hanger. _Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803_. Durham, N. C., and London: Duke University Press, 1997. xiii + 248 pp. Tables, notes, illustrations, and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-1906-3; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-1898-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6202911410594 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bjoern Hansen Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning, Hrsg. _Krisen und Krisenbewaeltigung vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute_. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998. 213 S. Bibliographie. DM 65.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-631-32621-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9112911501312 Reviewed for EH-NET by Gerald Friedman Daniel Jacoby. _Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America_. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. ix + 209 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $61.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-765-60251-2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-765-60252-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8242911332456 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Rainer Decker (1)Robert Lemm. _Die Spanische Inquisition. Geschichte und Legende_. Muenchen: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996. 221 S. Bibliographie und Index. DM 29.90 (Taschenbuch), ISBN 3-423-04700-3. (2)John Tedeschi. _Il Giudice e l'Eretico. Studi sull'Inquisizione romana_. Cultura e Storia 13. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1997. 458 S. Bibliographie. 60.000 Lire (Gebunden), ISBN 88-343- 2914-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19497911235557 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Rene Schiller Stephanie Merkenich. _Gruene Front gegen Weimar. Reichs-Landbund und agrarischer Lobbyismus 1918-1933_. Beitraege zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, 113. Duesseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1998. 424 S. Bibliographie und Index. DM 98.00 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-7700-5208-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9129911501338 Reviewed for H-LatAm by Thomas Jordan Anthony W. Pereira. _The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988_. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. xxi + 232 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-3964-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8229-5618-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12959911339076 Reviewed for H-France by Richard Lebrun Jacques Roger. _The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought_. Edited by Keith R. Benson. Translated by Robert Ellrich. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xliv + 760. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-2578-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27173911594054 Reviewed for H-Urban by Roger Guy Leland Saito. _Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb_. The Asian American Experience Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiii + 250 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02413-3; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06720-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=7316911331302 Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Charlotte A. Haller Jon F. Sensbach. _A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxiii + 342. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2394-5; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4698-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3567911490940 Reviewed for H-Women by Mary E. Chalmers Helene Silverberg, ed. _Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years_. Princeton, N.J. and Chichester, England: Princeton University Press, 1998. x + 334 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01749-2; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-04820-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10730911503600 Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jeroen Oskam Ilan Stavans, ed. _Prospero's Mirror: A Translators' Portfolio of Latin American Short Fiction_. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 1998. xxvi + 323 pp. Bibliographical references. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 1-880684-49-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13103911339291 Reviewed for H-AfrLitCine by Natalie Sandomirsky Susan Stringer. _The Senegalese Novel by Women: Through Their Own Eyes_. Francophone Cultures and Literature, vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. x + 172 pp. Bibliographical references. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8204-2664-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21445911583513 Reviewed for H-Urban by Ronald Young Museo Rufino Tamayo, ed. _Picture Mexico City: Landmarks of a New Generation = Camara! Ciudad de Mexico: Monumentos de una nueva generacion_. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation, 1997. 127 pp. Maps and illustrations. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-89236-490-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3377911490620 Reviewed for H-Urban by Brett Abrams Caroline Ware. _Greenwich Village 1920-1930: A Comment on American Civilization in the Post-War Years_. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xxv + 496 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, and index. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-520-08566-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5079911493923 Reviewed for H-LatAm by Douglas R. Keberlein Gutierrez Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter. _Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy_. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. ix + 244 pp. Tables, endnotes, bibliographical references, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4041-8; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8229-5646-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8215911332410 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Guido O. Kirner Edward O. Wilson. _Die Einheit des Wissens_. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Yvonne Badal. Berlin: Siedler Verlag, 1998. 442 S. Bibliographie une Index. DM 49.90 (Gebunden), ISBN 3-88680-620-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19388911235440 Reviewed for H-AfrLitCine by Simon Lewis Derek Wright. _New Directions in African Fiction_. Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 869. New York: Twayne, 1997. xiii + 201 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8057-4566-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14761911341962 __________________________________________________________________ MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Marcus Hahn Joerg Schaefer. _Deutsche Geschichte von 1949 bis zur Gegenwart_. OLZOG Verlag, 1997. 1 CD-ROM; DM 49.00, ISBN 3-7892-9670-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=79 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Dr. Wilfried Enderle _Internationaler Biographischer Index / World Biographical Index_. CD-ROM Edition, 4. Ausgabe. K.G. Saur-Verlag, 1998. DM 1.980, ISBN 3-598-40398-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=78 ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
