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1. Burn After Reading.

Author

POPKEY, MIRANDA

Subjects
*LETTERS, *NONFICTION, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY
Published
2016

3. Peripheries.

Author

Miller, Peter N.

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

A review is presented of the book "Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds" by Natalie Zemon Davis.

Published
2006

4. Fruits of the Sea.

Author

Green, Peter

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Memory and the Mediterranean," by Fernand Braudel, edited by Roselyne de Ayala and Paule Braudel and translated by Siaˆn Reynolds.

Published
2002

5. Reason's Secrets.

Author

Rosand, David

Subjects
HISTORY, RENAISSANCE, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance," by Aby Warburg.

Published
1999

6. Flood of Forms.

Author

Locke, Richard

Subjects
HISTORY, VOYAGES & travels, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters," by Julian Barnes.

Published
1989

7. The Unquiet Graves.

Author

Conquest, Robert

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION, HUMANITIES
Abstract

Reviews the book "Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism," edited and translated by George Shriver.

Published
1989

8. A GUERRILLA AND HIS PEN.

Author

Arguello, Xavier

Subjects
REVOLUTIONS, HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Fire From the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista," by Omar Cabezas.

Published
1986

9. AN IMMODEST PROPOSER.

Author

Paulson, Ronald

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age," by Irvin Ehrenpreis.

Published
1984

10. A WILL TO FREEDOM.

Author

Watt, Richard M.

Subjects
HISTORY, WAR, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The History of Poland Since 1863," by R.F. Leslie, Antony Polonsky, Jan M. Ciechanowski and Z.A. Pelczynski.

Published
1981

11. BECOMING FRANCE.

Author

Bell, David A.

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Children of the Revolution: The French 1799-1914," by Robert Gildea.

Published
2009

12. Odors and Ideas.

Author

Bell, David A.

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The Making of Revolutionary Paris," by David Garrioch.

Published
2002

14. The Fake's Progress: Being the Cautionary History of the Master Painter and Simulator Mr Tom Keating, as Recounted with the Utmost Candor with out Fear or Favor to Mr Frank Norman, together with a Desseration upon the Traffic in works of Art by Mrs Geraldine Norman

Author

Hofstadter, Dan

Subjects
HISTORY, PAINTERS, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The Fake's Progress: Being the Cautionary History of the Master Painter and Simulator Mr Tom Keating, As Recounted With the Utmost Candor without Fear or Favor to Mr Frank Norman, Together With a Dissertation Upon the Traffic in Works of Art," by Geraldine Norman.

Published
1977

15. Joseph Smith: The First Mormon.

Author

Seelye, John

Subjects
MORMONS, NONFICTION, HISTORY
Abstract

Reviews the book "Joseph Smith: The First Mormon," by Donna Hill.

Published
1977

16. A Study of History.

Author

Winks, Robin W.

Subjects
HISTORY, SOCIETIES, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "A Study of History," by Arnold Toynbee.

Published
1976

17. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Author

Stone, Lawrence

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years," by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

Published
1996

18. IN BLACK AND WHITE.

Author

Fredrickson, George M.

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886-1914," volumes 1 and 2, by Charles van Onselen.

Published
1984

19. EVERYBODY BUT SHAKESPEARE.

Author

Knox, Bernard

Subjects
CIVIL war, HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939," by Peter Wyden.

Published
1983

20. Literary Politics, Soviet Style.

Author

Brown, Edward J.

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, and Novy Mir," by Vladimir Lakshin and translated and edited by Michael Glenny.

Published
1981

21. Lying-in: A History of Childbirth in America.

Subjects
CHILDBIRTH, NONFICTION, HISTORY
Abstract

The article presents a review of the book "Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America," by Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz.

Published
1977

22. Pablo Picasso.

Author

Lee, Sherman E.

Subjects
BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Pablo Picasso," by Pierre Cabanne.

Published
1977

23. The Japanese.

Author

Rosenstone, Robert A.

Subjects
JAPANESE people, HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The Japanese," by Edwin O. Reischauer.

Published
1977

24. Montgomery of Alamein.

Author

Lant, Jeffrey L.

Subjects
HISTORY, WAR, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Montgomery of Alamein," by Alun Chalfont.

Published
1976

25. Tell Me a Riddle.

Author

Coles, Robert

Subjects
WOMEN, HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Tell Me a Riddle," by Tillie Olsen.

Published
1975

27. BRIEF REVIEW.

Author

Feeney, Mark

Subjects
HISTORY, NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Contemporaries: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present," by Alfred Kazin.

Published
1983