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Africa and the Middle East Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic. Edited by Lois Beck and Guity Nashat. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. $45.00.) Oregon State University Reviewed by Jonathan G. Katz Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. By Natana J. Delong-Bas. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 370. $35.00.) Princeton University Reviewed by Lawrence Rosen Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750–1920. By Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii, 370. $29.95.) University of Iowa Reviewed by James L. Giblin Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890–1940. By Eddy Tshidiso Maloka. (Darkar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. Pp. 257. $47.95.) 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Temple University Reviewed by David Farber Shades of Hiawatha: Shaping Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xxv, 370. $30.00.) University of Nebraska at Omaha Reviewed by Bruce E. Johansen Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow. By Thomas Adam Upchurch. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 302. $40.00.) Indiana University–Bloomington Reviewed by Vernon J. Williams Jr. The Antebellum Period. By James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 401. $49.95.) DePauw University Reviewed by Valarie H. Ziegler Asia and the Pacific The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History. By Giselle Byrnes. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 222. $35.00.) University of Otago Reviewed by Tom Brooking Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. By Kai-wing Chow. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. 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Emory University Reviewed by Douglas Palmer Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. By Michael Freeman. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 310. $45.00.) National University of Singapore Reviewed by Stephen L. Keck Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich. By Stephen G. Fritz. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvii, 382. $35.00.) Albion College Reviewed by Geoffrey Cocks First Nights at the Opera. By Thomas Forrest Kelly. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 441. $35.00.) University of Maryland Reviewed by Jacqueline Letzter Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to War. By Ian Kershaw. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 464. $29.95.) Wabash College Reviewed by James J. Barnes An Amazing Grace: John Thornton and the Clapham Sect. By Milton Klein. (New Orleans, La.: University Press of the South, 2004. Pp. xv, 160. $12.95.) 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