Booknotes

Against the Gates of Hell: The Life and Times of Henry Perry, a Christian Missionary in a Moslem Land, by Diana Severence ’70, curator of the Bible in America Museum at Houston Baptist University, and Gordon Severence (University Press of America, 2003)

Cut and Run, by Jeff Abbott ’85 (Onyx Books, 2003)

Gender and the Modern Research University, by Patricia Mazon ’88 (Stanford University Press, 2003)

The Journals of Tommie L. Hubbard, by Deborah Nelson-Campbell, professor of French at Rice (Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2003)

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration, by Atieno Odhiambo, professor of history at Rice, and John Lonsdale (Ohio University Press, 2003)

Middle English Hagiography and Romance in Fifteenth-Century England: From Competition to Critique, by Elizabeth Leigh Smith ’91, assistant professor of English at East Stroudsburg University (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003)

The Origins of the New South: Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic, edited by John B. Boles ’65, the William Pettus Hobby Professor of History at Rice, and Bethany L. Johnson (Louisiana State University Press, 2003)

Partial Truths and the Politics of Community, edited by Mary Ann Tétreault ’79, the Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity University, and Robin L. Teske (University of South Carolina Press, 2003)

Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg–Burgundian Court, by Honey Meconi, associate professor of musicology and music history at Rice (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages, by Debra Javeline, assistant professor of political science at Rice (University of Michigan Press, 2003)

Reading the East India Company, 1720–1840, by Betty Joseph, associate professor of English at Rice (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000, by Steven H. Wilson ’86 (University of Georgia Press, 2003)

Searching for Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Centuries, edited by Angela Boswell ’95, associate professor history at Henderson State University, and Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. (University of Missouri Press, 2003)

Toni Morrison: Playing with Differences, by Lucille P. Fultz, associate professor of English at Rice (University of Illinois Press, 2003)

Trading Up, by Candace Bushnell ’80 (Hyperion Press, 2003)

Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River, by William L. Shea ’75, professor of history at the University of Arkansas, and Terrence J. Winschel (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)

The Wakefield Master’s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding, by Liam O. Purdom ’81 (University Press of Florida, 2003)