Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

christopher r. boyer is associate professor of history and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His scholarship concentrates on the social and environmental history of modern Mexico. He is currently finishing a book on the social history of forest management in Mexico between 1880 and 1991, and he edited a volume of environmental histories of modern Mexico that will be published next year. His articles have appeared in the Latin American Historical Review, Historia Mexicana, the American Historical Review, and other journals. He is coeditor with Lise Sedrez of a University of Arizona Press book series on Latin American environmental history. His first book, Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920 – 1935 (Stanford University Press, 2003) explains how the Mexican land reform influenced rural political culture in the 1920s and 1930s.vera candiani teaches colonial Latin American history at Princeton University. A specialist on the social history of technology and environmental change, Candiani is the author of “The Great Colonial Drainage: Conflict and Collaboration in the Transformation of Mexico City’s Environment” (book manuscript under review), and “Bourbons and Water,” in Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader, edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen (University of Chicago Press, 2011).mark carey is assistant professor of history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. He specializes in Latin American environmental history and the history of science, with a focus on climate history, natural disasters, water, health, and mountaineering. His book In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Oxford University Press) was published in 2010. An article, “The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species,” won the Leopold-Hidy Prize for the best article in the journal Environmental History in 2007. He is currently writing a book on mountaineering history in South America and collaborating with geographers in a three-year research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, on climate, water, and export agriculture in Peru.keely maxwell is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Franklin and Marshall College. She has conducted interdisciplinary ethnographic, ecological, and historical research in Peru for over a decade. Recent publications include articles on Andean energy landscapes and on Inca Trail tourism and local livelihoods. A manuscript on the cultural politics of heritage conservation and tourism in Machu Picchu is in progress. Another of her research projects analyzes historic and contemporary vicuña conservation and commodification.matthew vitz received his PhD in 2010 from New York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of the University of California, San Diego, from 2010 to 2011. Currently a visiting assistant professor of Latin American history at Dartmouth College, he is revising his dissertation, “Revolutionary Environments: The Politics of Nature and Space in the Valley of Mexico, 1890 – 1950,” into a book manuscript.emily wakild is assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University. She specializes in the history of Mexico and modern Latin America with a focus on social change, revolution, and the environment. Her book Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910 – 1940 was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2011. Recent journal articles include “Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation, 1935 – 1945” (Environmental History, 2009) and “Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens, and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City” (Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 2007). At present she is working on a comparative history of transnational conservation and scientific research in Amazonia and Patagonia.

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Journal Article Modem and Contemporary European History. By J. Salwyn Schapiro, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History in the College of the City of New York. Under the Editorship of James T. Shotwell, Ph.D., Professor of History in Columbia University. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1918. Pp. xiv, 804. $3.00.) Get access Modem and Contemporary European History. By Schapiro J. Salwyn, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History in the College of the City of New York. Under the Editorship of Shotwell James T., Ph.D., Professor of History in Columbia University. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1918. Pp. xiv, 804. $3.00.) Ferdinand Schevill Ferdinand Schevill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 24, Issue 2, January 1919, Pages 276–278, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/24.2.276 Published: 01 January 1919

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Author's Introduction Whereas Creationism is usually taught in the context of religion and the history/philosophy of science, this guide has been written in the conviction that creationism is not ultimately about science at all, but is rather about the status of the Bible in the modern world. Creationism as a modern ideology exists in order to defend the authority of the Bible as a repository of trans‐historical truth from the challenges of any and all historical sciences. It belongs to and is inseparable from Protestant Fundamentalists’ desire to resubject the modern world to the authority of the inerrant Bible. Intelligent Design Creationism, to the extent that it distinguishes itself from reactionary biblicism, is a program advocating a supernaturalist, providentialist understanding of the world. This guide outlines an approach to teaching about creationism that situates it in relation to the development, from the early modern period onwards, of the historical, critical study of the Bible and the liberal theology that followed from that study, as well as from the more familiar perspectives of the history and philosophy of science. Annotated Reading List Forrest, Barbara and Paul Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. A thoughtful critique of Intelligent Design Creationism and a well‐documented expose of the wider cultural program of its proponents. Kitcher, Philip. Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design and the Future of Faith . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. A philosopher of science argues that Intelligent Design Creationism is ‘dead science’ rather than non‐science, and then reflects on the religious costs of accepting Darwinism. Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. The best of the voluminous literature on the Scopes Trial. McCalla, Arthur. The Creationist Debate: The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind . London & New York: Continuum, 2006. A wide‐ranging intellectual history study arguing that the debate between creationists and evolutionists is not only about the content of evolutionary and other historical sciences, but also about historical‐mindedness in relation to the status of the Bible in the modern world. Numbers, Ronald. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2nd ed. 2006. This new edition of Numbers’ standard work has been expanded to include discussion of Intelligent Design. Pennock, Robert (ed.). Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. A valuable compendium of key articles by leading proponents of Intelligent Design Creationism and their critics. Rossi, Paolo. The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico , Lydia Cochrane (trans.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. An intellectual history study of how what came to be called geology and anthropology challenged biblical chronology in the early modern period. Ruse, Michael. Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. An accessibly written account of the history and present‐day status of the design argument. Online Materials 1. http://www.ncseweb.org This site of the National Center for Science Education, an organization that defends the teaching of evolution in public schools, monitors anti‐evolution activity in the USA and around the world, provides scientific criticism and historical analysis of creationist claims, and reviews recent publications and videos. 2. http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf This is Judge John E. Jones’ 138‐page Memorandum Opinion in Kitzmiller v Dover (2005), the Pennsylvania test case on the constitutionality of teaching Intelligent Design Creationism in public schools. 3. http://www.talkorigins.org A Usenet newsgroup on the creation/evolution controversy and related topics. The site includes an archive of mainstream scientific responses to frequently asked questions in the group and refutations of creationist claims. 4. http://www.icr.org and http://www.answersingenesis.org These are two influential young‐earth creationist websites, maintained by the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis, respectively. 5. http://www.discovery.org/csc This is the home site of the Discovery Institute, whose Center for Science and Culture spearheads the movement for Intelligent Design. Sample Syllabus This sample syllabus includes readings appropriate to both general‐level courses (indicated by A ) and advanced or seminar courses ( B ). 1. The Earth Acquires A History A Paolo Rossi, The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth

The Danish West Indies under Company Rule, 1671–1754, with a Supplementary Chapter, 1755–1917. By Waldemar Westergaard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at Pomona College. With an Introduction by H. Morse Stephens, Sather Professor of History at the University of California. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1917. Pp. xxiv, 359. $3.00) Get access The Danish West Indies under Company Rule, 1671–1754, with a Supplementary Chapter, 1755–1917. By Westergaard Waldemar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at Pomona College. With an Introduction by H. Morse Stephens, Sather Professor of History at the University of California. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1917. Pp. xxiv, 359. $3.00.) The American Historical Review, Volume 25, Issue 3, April 1920, Pages 535–537, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/25.3.535 Published: 01 April 1920

DANIEL P. JORDAN, Assistant Chairman of the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. The author of numerous articles and reviews, he is now revising for publication a manuscript on political leadership in Jeffersonian Virginia. RICHARD R. JOHNSON, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington, was born in England and educated at Oxford and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. A specialist on the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history, he is the author of several articles on New England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and is now working on a book on the same subject. GEORGE A. COLBURN is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. DOUGLAS D. ALDER is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Utah State University. He has published articles on history education and on his research specialty of modern Central European history in The History Teacher, Social Studies, Social Education, Teaching History, East European Quarterly, and German Studies Review.

TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 185 need results from DeVries’s concentrating on military technology rather than embedding the topic in a broad study of war. Indeed, because this volume focuses on technology rather than war, it forms a useful complement to Philippe Contamine’s synthesis, War in the Middle Ages (New York, 1984). Readers of this book will come away with a comprehensive and useful view of the current state of much of the scholarship in medieval military technology, and the bibliography is a tool they will return to with profit. Unfortunately, minor errors remain unpurged; those who have visited London and seen the four original turrets rising above the White Tower will balk at the remark that the edifice once sported only three (p. 222). E. Malcolm Parkinson Dr. Parkinson, an associate professor of history at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has written on tournaments in early modern Europe. He is a past president of the board of trustees of the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, a museum of medieval and Renaissance arms, armor, and warfare. Turin, 1564—1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation ofthe Absolutist Capital. By Martha D. Poliak. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xxii + 267; illustrations, notes, index. $49.95. Military Architecture, Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City: A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library. By Martha D. Poliak. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1991. Pp. xxxvi + 119; illustrations, notes. $15.00 + $1.50 handling (paper). Martha Poliak, in the introduction to her very ambitious book, promises to “synthesize the history of military architecture and urban design” in order to answer two “larger questions: How was the city planned and built? How were its forms endowed with meaning?” (p. 3). She proposes to address issues of the rulers’ gender, the role of ideology and political theory, and the place of public rituals and poetry in the creation of a capital city. Turin is a case study of the transformation of a small garrison town in the often-contested region of Piedmont into a city celebrated for its imposing design. The royal ambitions of the House of Savoy provided the driving force that extended the streets, renewed the fortifications, and adorned the city with palaces and churches while enforcing a regularity of design unsurpassed in its day. The succeeding dukes used every contrivance available to aspiring royalty to effect this change. They brought their family’s most valued relic, the Holy Shroud, to Turin in order to make it a destination of religious pilgrimages. They dazzled the populace and court alike with public 186 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE spectacles. Most important to Poliak is their use of both civil and military architecture to inspire awe in their more powerful neighbors. With evidence garnered from a vast body of archival documents, Poliak documents the ways in which the rulers of Turin attempted to fulfill their ambitions. Of interest to the readers of Technology and Culture will be the extent to which military architects, military strategy, and what Poliak calls “military spirit” shaped the entire city. She argues that the military expression of the dynastic ambition was the overarching principle that united every aspect of Turin’s design through unprecedented “regularity, uniformity, and auster­ ity” (p. 5). Poliak more than fulfills her promise of providing a “coherent narrative history.” I am afraid, however, that many of the themes she wished to explore get buried in layers of description. It is too easy for the reader to become mired in her evidence and to lose sight of her larger goals. As I reached the end of her text I hoped to find a conclusion that might recapitulate the ways in which all the details would fit into the larger picture. Instead, the book simply comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt. The level of detail, without a commen­ surate level of analysis and interpretation, only exasperated my impatience with certain editorial decisions. The excessive use of excerpts from the original sources in the footnotes and the reprinting of numerous photographs resulted in a long and expensive volume. Nonetheless, Poliak has provided an excellent description of the process of building Turin. Although...

Reviewed by: The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America by Matthew E. Stanley M. Keith Harris, Anne E. Marshall, James Marten, Kristopher Maulden, and Matthew E. Stanley Matthew E. Stanley, The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017) Interest in Civil War memory and post–Civil War sectional reconciliation has expanded greatly in recent years, as two 2016 historiographical essays attest.1 Matthew E. Stanley's new book, The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America is thus well timed to make an important contribution to our evolving understanding of the process of sectional reconciliation in the decades following the Civil War. With his focus on Kentucky's northern neighbors in the lower portions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, the editorial staff of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society believe Stanley's book will help historians better understand the role Kentucky played in the events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which saw a white supremacist version of Civil War memory eclipse an emancipationist version nationally. We have asked four nineteenth-century historians to consider Stanley's book from varying perspectives. M. Keith Harris teaches history at a private high school in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans (2014) and is currently writing a book on D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 silent film, The Birth of a Nation. Anne E. Marshall is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and the author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (2012). James [End Page 79] Marten is professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University. His most recent books are Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011) and America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (2014). Kristopher Maulden is a visiting assistant professor of history at Columbia College in Missouri. He is completing a book manuscript on the influence of Federalist politics and federal policy in the Ohio River Valley, and he is engaged in a study of nineteenth-century Ohio newspaper editor Charles Hammond. Finally, the author of The Loyal West, Matthew E. Stanley, assistant professor of history at Albany State University, will respond to the reviews. M. Keith Harris In The Loyal West, historian Matthew E. Stanley invites his readers to consider sectionalism in Civil War–era Middle America beyond conventional North-South binaries. In so doing, Stanley recalls the words of an Indiana man, who recognized the region as existing "between two fires." The Hoosier in question described a section where conflict was both among regions and within sections: between northern and southern interests, between Yankee and Tidewater lineages, and between abolitionist and secessionist politics. The narrative of the so-called Loyal West was both anti-rebel and anti-eastern and, as Stanley suggests, proved a means of "reconciling antebellum regionalism with postwar sectionalism, balancing the revolutionary aspects of emancipation and the Union Cause with the political and cultural conservatism of the white rural Middle West" (p. 6). Identity studies, be they regional or otherwise, should be steeped in nuance. As such this book is a successful effort—not as an endeavor to "complicate" an unsophisticated Blue-Gray story but rather to acknowledge and understand the people of a particular loyal region on their own terms, as a people who identified outside of that story. Stanley suggests that observations concerning Civil War sectionalism tend to travel down familiar paths, with emphasis on the East. Most recently he notes that scholarship on postwar memory, and especially on veterans' commemorative efforts, leans heavily on sectional contentions [End Page 80] concerning the "northern" or "Unionist" emancipationist cause. My own work on Union and Confederate veterans at least partially follows suit. Guilty as charged. And so I read this book with particular interest, finding it a valuable corrective to a body of scholarship that began to emerge several years ago in response to David W. Blight's influential but flawed Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American...

About This Issue David J. Endres We are pleased to offer these essays on the theme of pilgrimage and migration. U.S. Catholics have long been noted for being “on the move,” migrating from the Old World to the New, from the East to West, from rural to urban America, and from the urban core to the suburbs, among other transitions. These essays highlight their physical and spiritual journeys. We are grateful to our contributors. William S. Cossen is a doctoral candidate in history at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. David J. Endres, in addition to serving as editor of this journal, is academic dean and assistant professor of Church history at the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Adrienne Nock Ambrose is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. Gráinne McEvoy is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland post-doctoral fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She is currently preparing a book-length manuscript titled God at the Gates: American Catholic Social Thought and Immigration, 1910–1965. Anita Casavantes Bradford is associate professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California Irvine. Brett Hendrickson is assistant professor of religious studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Kellie Jean Hogue is a research associate at the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. [End Page i] Copyright © 2016 The Catholic University of America Press