Ellis Island

Lorie Conway. Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2007. 185 pp. Illustrations. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-06-124196-3.

Reviewed for H-New-Jersey by Sandra Moss, Medical History Society of New Jersey

French Acadians

John Mack Faragher. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. xx + 562 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-393-32827-1.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Monica Fitzgerald, Department of History, California State University, East Bay

Female Labour Power

Janet Greenlees, Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007. xx + 244 pp. ?55/$100 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-7546-4050-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Pamela J. Nickless, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Atlantic Slave Trade

Gerald Horne. The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 2007. v + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0.

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Stephen D. Behrendt, Department of History, Victoria University of Wellington

German History

Jeffrey R. Smith. A People's War: Germany's Political Revolution, 1913-1918. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. 213 pp. Bibliography, index. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7618-3642-1.

Reviewed for H-German by Jason Crouthamel, Department of History, Grand Valley State University

Subscribe to