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...Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. When motion picture stars who served their country during wartime are mentioned, many people inevitably think of the late actor Jimmy Stewart who served in...

...Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1940. Friedrich E. Schuler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. In the introduction Shuler sets up his approach: by viewing Mexico from the inside looking outward rather than through...

...Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research. Duane Anderson, ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. xiii + 224 pp., 1999. A legacy is "a gift from an ancestor; something handed down across time and space, and through the generations. It draws its significance from how...

......Massachusetts. Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996...Press, 1993), documents the changing industrial scene. Brian C. Mitchell's book entitled The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell......

...New Deal. Paul Fagette. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. $40.00 cloth. This 255-page volume contributes substantially to our understanding of economic relief in the form of employment during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the parallel need to conduct professional...

...Virtual Archaeology: Re-creating Ancient Worlds. Maurizio Forte and Alberto Siliotti, eds. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. This handsome and impressive volume is Judith Toms's British English translation of an Italian publication Archeologia: percorsi virtuali...

......first-hand accounts include Eliza P. Donner Houghton's The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1911), although Eliza was but three years of age at the time. The primary synthesis is George R. Stewart's Ordeal......

...Strategy, Security, and Spies: Mexico and the U.S. as Allies in World War II. Maria Emilia Paz. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823, John ("Black Jack") Pershing's attempt to capture Francisco ("Pancho") Villa, the infamous Zimmerman telegram of...

......melancholic. Known to many film fans as actors rather than as Marines are Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Tyrone Power, and George C. Scott. Perhaps less well known are Sterling Hayden, Peter Ortiz, Lee Powell, and Tad Van Brunt. There were troubled youths......

......Edited by Wade S. Kolb III and Robert M...South Carolina Press, c. 2011. Pp. [Ix...Volunteers from Savannah to Charles Town, then to Ninety...Blacksburg, S.C., 2000]); however...Editors Wade S. Kolb III and Robert M......

...Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. When motion picture stars who served their country during wartime are mentioned, many people inevitably think of the late actor Jimmy Stewart who served in...

...Mexico between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1940. Friedrich E. Schuler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. In the introduction Shuler sets up his approach: by viewing Mexico from the inside looking outward rather than through...

...Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research. Duane Anderson, ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. xiii + 224 pp., 1999. A legacy is "a gift from an ancestor; something handed down across time and space, and through the generations. It draws its significance from how...

......Massachusetts. Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996...Press, 1993), documents the changing industrial scene. Brian C. Mitchell's book entitled The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell......