FRANK J. BYRNE. Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865. (New Directions in Southern History.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2006. Pp. ix, 297. $50.00.
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Francis Oakley. Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050).Francis Oakley. The Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050–1300).Francis Oakley. The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650).
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FRANCESCA BORDOGNA. William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science and the Geography of Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2008. Pp. x, 382. $39.00.
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War;A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. (The New Cold War History.).
