Booknotes

Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France, by David Allen Harvey ’93, assistant professor of history at New College of Florida (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005)

Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the “General Prologue” to the Canterbury Tales, by Laura F. Hodges ’85 (Boydell & Brewer, 2005)

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: A Political History, by James Wooten ’81, associate professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo (University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2005)

Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformations in the American South, by Michele Gillespie ’83, the Kahle Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University, and Susanna Delfino (University of Missouri Press, 2005)

How to Get a Job in Europe, by Cheryl Matherly, assistant dean of student affairs and director of Rice’s Career Services Center (Planning Communications, 2004)

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement, by Steve Estes ’94, assistant professor of history at Sonoma State University (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

Leadership Communication, by Deborah Barrett, senior lecturer in management and director and instructor of management communications at Rice (McGraw Hill, 2005)

Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance, by John Eliot, lecturer in kinesiology at Rice (Penguin, 2004)

Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago, by Harold L. Platt ’74, professor of history at Loyola University (University of Chicago Press, 2005)

Wanderers Between Two Worlds: German Rebels in the American West, 1830–1860, by Douglas Hale ’52, professor emeritus of history at Oklahoma State University (Xlibris, 2005)

The West: Encounters and Transformations, by Michael Maas, professor of history and director of the Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations Program at Rice, Brian P. Levack, and Meredith Veldman (Pearson Longman, 2003)

Women Medievalists and the Academy, edited by Jane Chance, professor of English at Rice (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)

Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, edited by Cary E. Wolfe, the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)