My Recent Indexes

• History
• Biography
• Art and Architecture
• Film and Radio Studies
• Social Issues
• Literary Criticism
• Anthropology

History

Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, by David
Weber (Yale University Press, 2005)

Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union,
by Francine Hirsch (Cornell University Press, 2005)

The Battle for Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism, by Robert W. Righter (Oxford University Press, 2005)

A Journey Through Texas, or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier, by
Frederick Law Olmsted, ed. by Randolph B. Campbell (Southern Methodist
University, 2004)

Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade, by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science, by Jake Page and Charles Officer (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism, by Stanley G.
Payne (Yale University Press, 2004)

The Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power, by Garry Wills (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)

The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, by Richard D. and Irene Q. Brown (Harvard University Press, 2003)

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente, by Jeremi Suri
(Harvard University Press, 2003).

When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate
Home Front, by Jacqueline Glass Campbell (University of North Carolina Press, 2003)

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary
Societies, by Elizabeth McHenry (Duke University Press, 2002)

Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the Civil War, by David W. Blight
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2002)

"More Than Mere Amusement": Working-class Women’s Leisure in England, 1750-1914, by Catriona M. Parratt (Northeastern University Press, 2001)

Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing
the Sick, by Isaac Jack Levy and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt (University of
Illinois Press, 2001)

Imagining Poverty: Quantification and the Decline of Paternalism, by Sandra Sherman (Ohio State University Press, 2001)

Rails Across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge, by Robert W. Jackson (University of Illinois Press, 2001)

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980, by Venus Green (Duke University Press, 2001)

Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence, by Jack Tager (Northeastern
University Press, 2000)

Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940, by
Sherry L. Smith (Oxford University Press, 2000)

Massachusetts: A Concise History, by Richard D. Brown and Jack Tager
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2000)

Man and Wife in America: A History, by Hendrik Hartog (Harvard University Press, 2000)

The Reader’s Companion to the American Presidency, edited by Alan Brinkley
and Davis Dyer (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)

Biography

Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act, by
Mark Harvey (University of Washington Press, 2005)

February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America, by Sherill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005)

Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Period,
by Robert Lichtman and Ronald Cohen (University of Illinois Press, 2004)

Anna Wickham: A Poet’s Daring Life, by Jennifer Vaughan Jones (Madison Books, 2003)

War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism, by John Seelye
(University of Massachusetts Press, 2002)

Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship that Saved Two POWs in Vietnam, by James
S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004)

Art and Architecture

Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and Urbanism in the United States, by James Early (Southern Methodist University Press, 2003)

Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art, by Jean Givens (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Film and Radio Studies

The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, ed. Martha
W. Driver and Sid Ray (McFarland Publishing Company, 2004)

Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952, by Michele Hilmes (University
of Minnesota Press, 1997)

Social Issues

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, by Paul Roberts (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution, by Robin Marantz Henig (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004)

The Politics of Terror: The U. S. Response to 9/11, ed. by William Crotty (Northeastern University Press, 2004)

The Future of the Southern Plains, ed. Sherry Smith (University of Oklahoma
Press, 2003)

Deathwork: Defending the Condemned, by Michael Mello (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)

Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages, by Mark Abley (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003)

Literary Criticism

In the Presence of Audience: The Self in Diaries and Fiction, by Deborah Martinson
(Ohio State University Press, 2003)

Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China, by Patricia Laurence
(University of South Carolina Press, 2003)

Charles Johnson’s Fiction, by William R. Nash (University of Illinois Press, 2002)

Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth Century Osage, Iowa, by Christine Pawley (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001)

Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, ed. Eileen Barrett and Pat Cramer (New York
University Press, 1997)

Anthropology

Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art, by Fred R. Myers (Duke
University Press, 2002)