The Americas.

Books reviewed: Robert D. Schulzinger, A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Rebecca Starr (ed), Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honour of J. R. Pole. John Grenier, The First Way of War. American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814. Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Anthony S. Parent, Jr (ed), Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660– 1740. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Matthew C. Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765. Philip Gould, Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World. Robert A. Ferguson, Reading the Early Republic. Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. W. Barksdale Maynard, Walden Pond: A History. William L. Richter, Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Theresa McDevitt, Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography. Duncan Andrew Campbell, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. William C. Harris, Lincoln's Last Months. Thomas Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900. Carol J. Williams, Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest. Raymond Lamont-Brown, Carnegie: ‘The Richest Man in the World’. Joseph P. McCallus (ed), Gentleman Soldier: John Clifford Brown and the Philippine–American War. Edward M. Coffman (ed), The Regulars: The American Army 1898–1941. Stephen J. Whitfield (ed), A Companion to 20th-Century America. Michael J. Heale, Twentieth Century America: Politics and Power in the United States 1900–2000. R. Laurence MooreMaurizio Vaudagna (ed), The American Century in Europe. Neil A. Wynn, Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression. Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Ibrahim Sundiata, Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940. Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. Patrick Renshaw, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Resa Willis, FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends. Renee C. Romano, Race Mixing. Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. Peter L. Hahn, Caught in the Middle East: U. S. Policy toward the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961. Peter N. Stearns, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. Laura A. Lewis, Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico. Paul Sullivan, Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan. Pedro L. V. Welch, Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados 1680–1834. Howard A Fergus, A History of Education in the British Leeward Islands, 1838–1945. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]