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Book reviewed in this article: The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ap. By Chris Given-Wilson The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar 1590–1640. By Wilfred Prest Petty Foggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England. By C. W. Brooks The Union of England and Scotland, 1603–1608. By Bruce Galloway Servility and Service: The Life and Work of Sir John Coke. By Michael B. Young The Private Journals of the Long Parliament, 7 March to I June 1642. Edited by Vernon F. Snow and Anne Steele Young Politics and People in Revolutionary England: Essays in Honour of Ivan Roots. Edited by Colin Jones, Malyn Newitt and Stephen Roberts The Life of James Sharp Avchbishop of St Andrews 1618–1679: A Political Biography. By Julia Buckroyd Revolutionary Politics and Locke's ‘Two Treatises of Government’. By Richard Ashcraft Glencoe and the End of the Highland War. By Paul Hopkins Patronage and Politics in Scotland, 1707–1832. By Ronald M. Sunter A New History of Ireland. Volume IV: Eighteenth-Century Ireland 1691–1800. Edited by T. W. Moody and W. E. Vaughan British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole. By Jeremy Black The Aristocracy in England 1660–1914. By J. V. Beckett British Libevalism: Liberal Thought from the 1640s to the 1980s. By Robert Eccleshall British Conservatism: Conservative Thought. from Burke to Thatcher. By Frank O'Gorman Pillars of Government and Other Essays on State and Society c. 1770–c. 1880. By Norman Gash Patronage and Society in Nineteenth-Century England. By J. M. Bourne From Luddism to the First Reform Bill: Reform in England 1810–1932. By J. R. Dinwiddy John Fielden and the Politics of Populav Radicalism 1832–1847. By Steuart Angas Weaver Benjamin Disvaeli Lettevs: 1838–1841. Edited by M. G. Wiebe, J. B. Conacher, john Matthcws and Mary S. Millar 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement. By John Saville Reactions to Irisk Nationalism: 1863–1914. Edited by Alan O'Day Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1867–1875 Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England. By George L. Berristein Labour Peopk: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock. By Kenneth O. Morgan The Ideology of the British Right 1918–1939. By G. C. Webber     

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Book reviewed in this article: The New Monarchy: England 1471–1534. By Anthony Goodman. Richard III: A Study of Service. By Rosemary Horrox. Tudor England. By John Guy. A Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lords in British Politics 1640–1784. Edited by Clyve Jones. By Force or by Drfault? The Revolution of 1688–89. Edited by Eveline Cruickshanks. Poll Books c. 1696–1872: A Directory to Holdings in Great Britain. By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. Electoral Registers since 1832; And Burgess Rolls. By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. Parliament, Politics and People: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Irish History. Edited by Gerard O'Brien. The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, 1742–1763. Edited with an introduction by J. C. D. Clark. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785–1865. By Boyd Hilton. Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity. By K. Theodore Hoppen. Before the Vote Was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage, 1864–1896. Edited by Jane Lewis. The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. By Gary W. Cox. The Revolution in Ireland 1879–1923. Edited by D. G. Boyce. Baldwin and the conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929–1931. By Stuart Ball.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Impeachment of Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in 1386 in the Context of the Reign of Richard II. By J.S. Roskell. Property and Politics: Essays in Later Medieval English History. Edited by A.J. Pollard. Henry VII. By Roger Lockyer. Lancastrians and Yorkists: The Wars of the Roses. By David R. Cook. The Reign of Mary I. By Robert Tittler. All the Queen's Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart's Scotland. By Gordon Donaldson. Lordship to Patronage: Scotland 1603–1745. By Rosalind Mitchison. The House of Lords 1603–1649: Structure, Procedure and the Nature of Its Business. By Elizabeth Read Foster. Stuart Royal Proclamations. Volume II: Proclamations of King Charles I 1625–1646. Edited by James F. Larkin. The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640–1790. By Philip Jenkins. Two Diaries of the Long Parliament. Edited by Maija Jansson. Party and Management in Parliament 1660–1784. Edited by Clyve Jones. A Handlist of British Parliamentary Poll Books. Edited by John Sims. The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle 1724–1750. Edited by Timothy J. McCann. Soame Jenyns. By Ronald Rompkey. British Parliamentary Parties 1742–1832: From the Fall of Walpole to the First Reform Act. By B.W. Hill. The Younger Pitt: The Reluctant Transition. By John Ehrman. The British Political Tradition. By W.H. Greenleaf. Victorian Radicalism: The Middle-Class Experience 1830–1914. By Paul Adelman. Crosses on the Ballot: Patterns of British Voter Alignment since 1885. By Kenneth D. Wald. Lloyd George: Backbencher. By W.R.P. George. Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890–1918. By Keith Laybourn and Jack Reynolds. Neville Chamberlain. Volume One: Pioneering and Reform 1869–1929.By David Dilks. Wars and Welfare: Britain 1914–1945. By Max Beloff. The Legend of Red Clydeside. By Iain McLean. Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill 1939–41. By Martin Gilbert. Civil Liberties in Britain during the Second World War: A Political Study. By Neil Stammers.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The True Law of Kingship. Concepts of Monarchy in Early Modern Scotland. By J. H. Burns. Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England. The Parliament of England, 1584–1601. By David Dean. The Right to be King. The Succession to the Crown of England, 2603–1714. By Howard Nenner. A Taste for Empire and Glory. Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660–1800. By Philip Lawson. Officials of the Royal Household, 1660–1837. Part 1: Department of the Lord Chamberlain and Associated Offices. Compiled by J. C. Sainty and R. O. Bucholz. From Patriots to Unionists. Dublin Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660–1840. By Jacqueline Hill. Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700–1870. By David Eastwood. ‘Scotland's Ruine’. Lockhart of Camwath's Memoirs of the Union. Edited by Daniel Szechi. Parties, Patriots and Undertakers. Parliamentary Politics in Early Hanoverian Ireland. By Patrick McNally. Illusory Consensus. Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole 1730–1737. By Alexander Pettit. Edmund Burke. A Life in Caricature. By Nicholas K. Robinson. The Younger Pitt. The Consuming Stmale. By John Ehrman. Thomas Erskine and Trial by Jury. By John Hostettler. Party, State and Society. Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820. Edited by Jon Lawrence and Miles Taylor. Education Act Forster. A Political Biography of W. E. Forster (1818–1886). By Patrick Jackson. The Transformation of British Politics, 1860–1995. By Brian Hamson. The Rise of Socialism in Britain, c.1881–1951. By Keith Laybourn. A History of the British Labour Party. By Andrew Thorpe. Generating Socialism. Recollections of L in the Labour Party. By Daniel Weinbren. The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain. Edited by S. J. D. Green and R. C. Whiting. Jennie Lee. A Life. By Patricia Hollis. Remaking the Labour Party From Gaitskell to Blair. By Tudor Jones. The Labour Party. ‘Socialism’ and Society Since 1951. By Steven Fielding. ideas and Policies under Labour 1945–1951. By Martin Francis. Labour and conservative Party Members, 1990–92. Social Charactetistics, Political Attitudes and Activities. By Patrick Seyd, Paul Whiteley and Jon Parry. How Scotland Votes. Scottish Parties and Elections. By Lynn Bennie, Jack Brand and James Mitchell.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond. Edited by H. S. Cobb. London: House of Lords Record Office A History of the County of Chester: Volume II (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Edited by B. E. Harris. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000–1306. By G. W. S. Barrow. (The New History of Scotland, Volume 2.) London: Edward Arnold. 1981 Robert Winchelsey and the Crown 1294–1313: A Study in the Defence of Ecclesiastical Liberty. By Jeffrey H. Denton. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third series, Volume 14.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press John Russell, First Earl of Bedford: One of the King's Men. By Diane Willen. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 23; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd The Lisle Letters. Edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. By Brendan Bradshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press King Charles I. By Pauline Gregg. London: Dent Denzil Holles 1598–1680: A Study of his Political Career. By Patricia Crawford. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 16; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 1. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761: A Supplement. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 3. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E. S. de Beer. (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.) Volume VI: Letters Nos. 2119–2664. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England. Edited by John Cannon. London: Edward Arnold Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760–1801. By R. B. McDowell. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor: Paul Langford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Volume II: Party, Parliament and the American Crisis 1766–1774. Edited by Paul Langford The English Administrative System 1780–1870. By Sir Norman Chester. Oxford: Clarendon Press Order and Equipoise: The Peerage and the House of Lords 1783–1806. By Michael W. McCahill. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 11; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd. Castlereagh. By Wendy Hinde. London: Collins The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. By Geoffrey B. A. M. Finlayson. London: Eyre Methuen British Interparty Conferences: A Study of the Procedure of Conciliation in British Politics 1867–1921. By John D. Fair. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance 1872–1895. By A. E. Dingle. London: Croom Helm Joseph Chamberlain: A Political Study. By Richard Jay. Oxford: Clarendon Press Colne Valley: Radicalism to Socialism. The Portrait of a Northern Constituency in the Formative Years of the Labour Party 1890–1910. By David Clark. London: Longman The People's Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics. By Bruce K. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935. By Tom Stannage. London: Croom Helm The Commons in Perspective. By Philip Norton. Oxford: Martin Robertson Works of Art in the House of Lords. Edited by Maurice Bond. London: H. M. S. O.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
From Reformation to Improvement. Public Welfare in Early Modern England. By Paul Slack.
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1585–1597. By Paul E.J. Hammer.
The Stuart Parliaments 1603–1689 . By David L. Smith.
World Enough and Time. The Life of Andrew Marv dl. By Nicholas Murray.
The Age of Faction. Court Politics, 1660–1102. By Alan Marshall.
Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England . By Melinda Zook.
Eighteenth Scotland. New Perspectives . Edited by T.M. Devine and J.R. Young
Unionist-Nationalism. Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–60 . By Graeme Morton.
An Appetite for Power. A History of the Conservative Party Since 1830 . By John Ramsden.
Gladstone. Heroic Minister 1865–1898 . By Richard Shannon.
Salisbury. Victorian Titan . By Andrew Roberts.
The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878–1948 . By John Macnicol.
Churchill. His Radical Decade . By Malcolm Hill.
Bonar Law . By R.J.Q. Adams. London: John Murray.
The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage, Popular Conservatism, 1919–1929 . By Neal McCrillis.
Labour in Crisis. The Second Labour Government 1929–1931 . By Neil Riddell.
Thatcherism and British Politics 1975–1999 . By Brendan Evans.
British Parliamentary Election Results 1983–1997 . Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher
Governing Scotland: Problems and Prospects. The Economic Impact of the Scottish Parliament . Edited by John McCarthy and David Newlands     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Sovereignty of Parliament. History and Philosophy. By Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Edward VI. By Jennifer Loach. Tudor Church Militant. Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. State and Society in Early Modem Scotland. By Julian Goodare. England's Troubles. Seventeenth‐Century English Political Instability in European Context. By Jonathan Scott. Sociability and Power in Late‐Stuart England. The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys 1660–1720. By Susan E. Whyman. Bom to Rule. British Political Elites. By Ellis Wasson. Contesting Ireland. Irish Voices Against England in the Eighteenth Century. By T. O. McLoughlin. The Moravian Church in England 1728–1760. By Colin Podmore. A Life of George Dempster, Scottish M.P. of Dunnichen (1732–1818). By Andrew Munro Lang. John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751–1838. The Duty of Loyalty. By Rose A. Melikan. British Politics in an Age of Reform. By Michael J. Turner. Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1885. By Edwin Jaggard. Wellington Studies II. Edited by C. M. Woolgar. Wellington Studies III. Edited by C. M. Woolgar. Protection and Politics. Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815–1852. By Anna Gambles. The Self‐Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818–1851. Edited by Charles Richmond and Paul Smith. Policing Provincial England 1829–1856. The Politics of Reform. By David Philips and Robert D. Storch. Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. Defining the Victorian Nation. Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867. By Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall. Famine, Land and Politics. British Government and Irish Society 1843–1850. By Peter Gray. Local and Parliamentary Politics in Liverpool from 1800 to 1911. By D. Ben Rees. Lord Salisbury. A Political Biography. By David Steele. The Labour Party. A Centenary History. Edited by Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan. The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jack Hayward, Brian Barry and Archie Brown. Sacred Cows and Common Sense. The Symbolic Statecraft and Political Culture of the British Labour Party. By Tim Bale.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Clandestine Marriage in England, 150–850. By R.B. OUthwaite The Later Tudors. England, 1547–2603. By Penry Williams Thonias Nortorz: The Parliament Man. By Michael A.R. Graves Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution. By Glenn Burgess The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621–1641. Henry Parker and the English Civil Way. The Political Thought of the Pirhlic's ‘Privado’. By Michael Mendle Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570–1640. Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649–1776. By Markku Peltonen Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776. Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth 1660–1722. By Perry Gauci Ireland in the Stuart Papers. Correspondence and Documents of Irish Interest from the Stuart Papers in the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle. Cuto's Letters. Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects. By John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon The Correspondence of Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury, Warwickshire. Imagining the Middle Class. The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c. 1780–1840. By Dror Wahrman Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery. The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade, 1787–1807. By J.R. Oldfield Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism. The Church Rate Conzict in England and Wales, 1832–1868. By J.P. Ellens Parliament, Party and Politics in Victorian Britain. By T.A. Jenkins The Era of the Reform League: English Labour and Radical Politics, 1857–1872. Documents Selected by Gustav Mayer. Politics and Law in the Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. By John Hostettler Conceptualizing the State. Innovation and Dispute in British Political Thought, 1880–2914. By James Meadowcroft Turncoats: Changing Party Allegiance by British Politicians. By Robert Leach SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party. By Ivor Crewe and Anthony King The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions. By Peter Dorey Party Politics and Decolonization. The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa 2951–1964. By Philip Murphy The Winds of Change. Macmillan to Heath 1957–1975. By John Ramsden     

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Book reviewed in this article: Parliament and community. Edited by Art Cosgrove and J.I. McGuire. English Lordship in Ireland 1318–1361. By Robin Frame. The Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More. By Jasper Ridley. The Axe of Elizabeth: England under the Later Tudors 1547–1603. By D.M. Palliser. Calendar of tha Correspondernce of the Smyth Family of Ashton Court 1548–1642. Edited by J.H. Bettey. Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion 1559. By Norman L. Jones. De Republica Anglorum by Sir Thomas Smith. Edited by Mary Dewar. Charles I: The Personal Monarch. By Charles Carlton. Charles I and the Popish Plot. By Caroline M. Hibbard. The English Republic 1649–3660. By Toby Barnard. England without a King 3649–1660. By Austin Woolrych. The Poet's Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell. By Warren L. Chernaik. William Molyneux of Dublin 1656–1698. By J.G. Simms. Edited by P.H. Kelly. The Glorious Revolution. By John Miller. Hell-Fire Duke: The Lije of tlie Duke of Wharton. By Mark Blackett-Ord. Lord Bolingbroke: Contributions to the Craftsman. Edited by Simon Varey. Pvoceedinp and Debates of the Brifish Parliament Rcspecfirg North America 1754-1 781.Edited by R.C. Simmons and P.D.G. Thomas. The Emergence of the British Two-Party System 1760–1832. By Frank O'Gorman. A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763–1765. By John L. Bullion. Peaceable Kingdom: Stability and Change in Modern Britain. By Brian Harrison. Palmerston: The Early Years 1784–1841. By Kenneth Bournc. Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792–1799. Edited by Mary Thale. The Great Reform Act of 1832. By Eric J. Evans. Lord Aberdeen: A Political Biography. By Muriel E. Chamberlain. A Political Odyssey: Thornas O'Donnell M.P. for West Kerry 1900–1918. By J. Anthony Gaughan. Britain and Ireland 1914–23. By Sheila Lawlor.     

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Book reviewed in this article: History and Imagination: Essays in Honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper. Edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones Studies in Irish History Presented to R. Dudley Edwards. Edited by Art Cosgrove and Donal McCartney. Dublin: University College. (Distributed in Great Britain by Colin Smythe Ltd., Gerrards Cross.)1979. [ix], 253 pp. IR £12.00. Ireland under the Union: Varieties of Tension. Essays in Honour of T. W. Moody. Edited by F. S. L. Lyons and R. A. J. Hawkins. Plantation to Partition: Essays in Ulster History in Honour of J. L. McCracken. Edited by Peter Roebuck Documents Illustrating the Crisis of 1297-98 in England. Edited by Michael Prestwich. The Crown and Local Communities in England and France in the Fifteenth Century. Edited by J. R. L. Highfield and Robin Jeffs. The Public Career of Sir Thomas More. By J. A. Guy. Brighton The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I: An Institutional Study. By Michael A. R. Graves. Cambridge Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I: Volume I: 1558–1581. Edited by T. E. Hartley. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy 1572–1588. By Wallace T. MacCaffrey. Commonwealth to Protectorate. By Austin Woolrych. The Declaration of Rights 1689. By Lois G. Schwoerer. London Politics 1713–1717: Minutes of a Whig Club 1714–1717, edited by H. Horwitz The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems. By J. C. D. Clark. The Parliamentary Agents: A History. By D. L. Rydz. Holland House. By Leslie Mitchell. Gladstone: Church, State and Tractarianism. A Study of His Religious Ideas and Attitudes 1809–1859. By Perry Butler. Lord Ripon 1827–1909: A Political Biography. By Anthony Denholm. Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life. By R. F. Foster. Edward Carson. By A. T. Q. Stewart. Property and Politics 1870–1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England. By Avner Offer. The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics 1870–1914. By D. W. Bebbington. Anthony Eden: A Biography. By David Carlton.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nationalism in Ireland. By D. George Boyce Mortmain Legislation and the English Church 1279–1500. By Sandra Raban Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England. By J.S. Roskell. Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century. By Nigel Saul. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Edited and introduced by G.R. Elton. Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics. By Peter Holmes. Scotland under Morton 1572–80. By George R. Hewitt Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I. By Linda Levy Peck. The Private Journals of the Long Parliament 3 January to 5 March 1642. Edited by Willson H. Coates, Anne Steele Young and Vernon F. Snow. Reactions to the English Civil War 1642–1649. Edited by John Morrill The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E.S. de Beer. Estate Management in Eighteenth-Century England: The Building of the Leveson-Gower Fortune. By J.R. Wordie. The Devonshire Diary: William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire, Memoranda on State Affairs 1759–1762. Edited by Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer. Wars and Revolutions: Britain 1760–1815. By Ian R. Christie. Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume. Edited with an introduction and notes by David R. Raynor. Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters and Straights. By John A. Phillips. The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793–1815. By J.E. Cookson. For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796–1821. By J. Ann Hone. Nineteenth-Century Parliamentary Elections in East Yorkshire. By John Markham. The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Movement 1832–1842. By James Epstein. The Red Earl: The Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer 1835–1910. Volume I: 1835–1885. Edited by Peter Gordon. Peel, Priests and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 2841–1846. By Donal A. Kerr. Lord Reading: Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, 1860–1935. By Denis Judd. G.P. Gooch: A Study in History and Politics. By Frank Eyck. De Valera and the Ulster Question 1927–1973. By John Bowman. The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics. By Vernon Bogdanor. The Almanac of British Politics. By Robert Waller.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Early Elizabethan Polity. William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558–1569. By Stephen Alford. Jacobean Gentleman. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. Princeton: Princeton University Press. British Identities before Nationalism. Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. By Colin Kidd. The English Revolution. Politics, Events, Ideas. By Perez Zagorin. Protestantism and National Identity. Britain and Ireland c. 1650‐c. 1850. Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Tory and Whig. The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, M.P. for Seaford, 1716–53. Edited by Stephen Taylor and Clyve Jones. Edmund Burke. Volume 1: 1730–1784. By F. P. Lock. Britannia's Glories. The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain. By Philip Woodfine. John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare. Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth‐Century Ireland. By Ann C. Kavanaugh. George IV. By E. A. Smith. Britain and the American Revolution. Edited by H. T. Dickinson. Unionist Scotland 1800–1997. Edited by Catriona M. M. MacDonald. British Politics on the Eve of Reform. The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–30. By Peter Jupp. Parliamentary Constituencies and their Registers since J 832. A List of Constituencies and their Registers from the Great Reform Act with the British Library's Holdings of Electoral Registers together with the Library's Holdings of Burgess Rolls, Poll Books and Other Registers. By Richard H. A. Cheffins. The Boundary Commissions. Redrawing the UK's Map of Parliamentary Constituencies. By D. J. Rossiter, R. J. Johnston and C. J. Pattie. Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846–1946. By Anthony Howe. Managing the South African War, 1899–1902. Politicians v. Generals. By Keith Terrance Surridge. Opinion Polls. History, Theory and Practice. By Nick Moon. Anthony Crosland. A New Biography. By Kevin Jefferys. Devolution in the United Kingdom. By Vernon Bogdanor. Britain Votes. 6: British Parliamentary Election Results 1997. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Richard II and the Revolution of 1399. By Michael Bennett. Cheshire and the Tudor State 1480–1560. By Tim Thornton. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I. Queen and Commonwealth 1558–1585. By A. N. McLaren. Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth‐Century England. The Political Significance of Oaths and Engagements. By David Martin Jones. Political Thought in Seventeenth‐Century Ireland. Kingdom or Colony. Edited by Jane Ohlmeyer. Ambition and Failure in Stuart England. The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore. By Ian Atherton. The Making of the Eighteenth‐Century Irish Constitution. Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692–1714. By Charles Ivar McGrath. Professors of the Law. Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century. By David Lemmings. The Irish Political System 1740–1765. The Golden Age of the Undertakers. By Eoin Magennis. Reform in Great Britain and Germany 1750–1850. Edited by T. C. W. Blanning and Peter Wende. The Age of Unease, Government and Reform in Britain 1782–1832. By Michael J. Turner. The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor: Paul Langford. Volume VII: India: The Hastings Trial 1789–1794. Edited by P. J. Marshall The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker. Politics and History in the Age of Reform. By William Thomas. The Reform Act 1832 on CD‐ROM. William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. By Robert Sloan. Gladstone Centenary Essays. Edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift. The March of the Women. A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866–1914. By Martin Pugh. Labour's First Century. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo. The Labour Party in Wales, 1900–2000. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams and Deian Hopkin. Augmenting Democracy. Political Movements and Constitutional Reform During the Rise of Labour, 1900–1924. By Andrew Chadwick. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters. Volume 1: The Making of a Politician, 1915–1920. Edited by Robert Self. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters. Volume 2: The Reform Years, 1921–1927. Edited by Robert Self.     

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Book reviewed in this article Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. By Isaiah Berlin. Edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer. Truth in History. By Oscar Handlin. Shrinking History; On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory. By David E. Stannard. Humanity in Warfare. By Geoffrey Best. Martin of Tours: Parish Priest, Mystic, and Exorcist. By Christopher Donaldson. Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Edited by Edward Jones. The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History. By G. W. S. Barrow. A History of Medieval Ireland. By A. J. Otway-Ruthven, with an introduction by Kathleen Hughes. Second edition. Tudor Mercenaries and Auxiliaries, 1485-1547. By Gilbert John Millar. Cromwellian Scotland, 1651-1660. By F. D. Dow. The Lancashire Gentry and the Great Rebellion 1640-1660. By B. G. Black wood. Queen Anne. By Edward Gregg. Queen Anne. By Edward Gregg. The British Atlantic Empire before the American Revolution. Edited by Peter Marshall and Glyn Williams. Paternalism in Early Victorian England. By David Roberts. Lloyd George's Secretariat. By John Turner. Haldane: An Army Reformer. By Edward M Spiers. Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison. By Kenneth and Jane Morgan. Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. By Bernard Wasserstein. The Churchill Coalition, 1940-1945. By J.M. Lee. The Early Life of Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1893. By Jack D. Ellis. The Students of Paris and the Revolution of 1848. By John G. Gallaher. Elie Halévy: An Intellectual Biography. By Myrna Chase. Dilemmas of Italian Socialism: The Politics of Filippo Turati. By Spencer DiScala. Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck. Geoff Eley. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 387. $30.00.) The Enigma War. By Józef Garliski. The Western Alliance: Eropean-American Relations since 1945. By Alfred Grosser, with translation by Michael Shaw. Revolutions and Revolutionaries. By A. J. P. Taylor. A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism. By Andrzej Walicki. The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change, 1917-1923. By Robert Service. Shang Civilization. by Kwang-chih Chang. “Myne Own Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virgmia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. By T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes. Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution. By Alice Hanson Jones. The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives. Edited by William M. Fowler, Jr., and Wallace Coyle. The Press and the American Revolution. Edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. By Pauline Maier. Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800. By John K. Alexander. Rocks and Shoals: Order and Discipline in the Old Navy, 1800-1861. By James E. Valle. The Imperiled Union: Essays in the Background of the Civil War. By Kenneth Stampp. Francis Preston Blair. By Elbert B. Smith. The Rise of American Naval Power, 1776-1918. By Harold and Margaret Sprout. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy. By Paolo E. Coletta. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930. Edited by Martin V. Melosi. Small Business in American Life. Edited by Stuart W. Bruchey. Years of Estrangement: American Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941. By Thomas R. Maddux. Dilemma in China: America's Policy Debate, 1945. By Kenneth S. Chern. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System. By Frank J. Donner. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1945-1962: Perón to Frondizi. By Robert A. Potash. São Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937. By Joseph L. Love.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship. By John Watts John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553. By David Loades The Nerves of State. Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558–1714. By Michael J. Braddick The Papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Bart. (1585–1645). Edted by Richard Cust. The Scottish Parliament 1639–1661. A Political and Constitutional Analysis. By John R. Young Protestantism and Patriotism. Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668. By Steven C. A. Pincus The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II. By Andrew Swatland William III and the Godly Revolution. By Tony Claydon The Parliamentary Diary of sir Richard Cocks, 1698–1702. Edited by D. W. Hayton. John Wilkes. A Friend to Liberty. By Peter D. G. Thomas. The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’. The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779–1846. By Philip Harling Henry Goulbum, 1784–1856. A Political Biography. By Brian Jenkins Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon 1807–1815. By Rory Muir. The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847–1860. By Miles Taylormbridge Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931. Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1870–1939. Compiled by Elaine Harrison Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement, 1880–1914. By Loge Barrow and Ian Bullock The Conservatives and British Society, 1880–1990. Edited by Martin Francis and Ina Zweiniger-Bargelowska The Age of Salisbury, 1881–1902. Unionism and Empire. By Richard Shannon. Democratic Rhondda. Politics and Society 1885–1951. By Chris William A History of Conservative Politics, 1900–1996. By John Channley The Republican Crown. Lawyers and the Making Of the State in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Joseph M. Jacob. Out of Control. British Foreign Policy and the Union of Democratic Control 1914–1918. By Sally Harris. Clement Attlee. By Jerry H. Brookshire. The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays 1932–1939. An Insider's Account of the House of Commons. Edited by Nick Smart Politics and the Constitution: Essays on British Government. By Vernon Bogdanor. The Heath Government 1970–1974. A Reappraisal. Edited by Stuart Ball and Anthony Seldon     

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Book reviwed in this article Past Meets Present: Essays about Historic Interpretation and Public Audiences. Edited by Jo Blatti. Selvages and Biases: The Fabric of History in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. Morbid Appearances: The Anatomy of Pathology in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Russell C. Maulitz. Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence and Culture. [Sport and History Series.] By Michael B. Poliakoff. Poets and Emperors: Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry. By Peter Godman. The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850–1150. By Charles M. Radding. Henry the Lion: A Biography. By Karl Jordan. Translated by P. S. Falla. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. By Morris Rossabi. The Kingdom of Armenia. By M. Chahin. Politics and Society in Reformation Europe: Essays for Sir Geoffrey Elton on his Sixty Fifth Birthday. Edited by E. I. Kouri and Tom Scott. Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Edited by G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter. The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Stuart Woolf. Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770–1860. By Catharina Lis. The Forced Loan and English Politics, 1626–1628. By Richard Cust. Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1867–1875. By J. P. Parry. The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740–1830. By Gerald Newman. Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain. By Angus Hawkins. Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire. By John Charmley. The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Essays in Memory of Stephen Koss. Edited by J. M. W. Bean. The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution: The Middle Years. By Michael L. Kennedy. Joseph II: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741–1780. By Derek Beales. Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History. By Fritz Stern. The Holocaust in History. By Michael R. Marrus. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. By Joseph W. Esherick. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years: War in America. By Francis Jennings. The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution, 1767–1773. By Peter D. G. Thomas. The Forging of the Union, 1781–1789. [New American Nation Series.] By Richard B Morris. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. By Donald B. Smith. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763–1834. By Paul A. Gilje. The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791–1850. By Randolph A. Roth. Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. By Sterling Stuckey. The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1849–1861. By Mark W. Summers. American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History. By William G. Rothstein. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. By William Garrett Piston. Visions of Harmony: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Millenarianism. By Anne Taylor. Able-Bodied Womanhood, Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By Martha H. Verbrugge. Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. [Volume 40 of the Harvard Studies in Business History. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.] By Robert F. Dalzell Jr. The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840–1900. [Religion in North America Series.] By Colleen McDannell. The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904–1984. Edited by Ronald Lawson. The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906–1916. By James Wright. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. Edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet et al. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, The State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933. By Joyce Shaw Peterson. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877–1919. By Nell Irvin Painter. The Collapse of the Grand Alliance, 1945–48. By James L. Gormly. Mormons at the Missouri, 1846–1852: “And Should We Die.” By Richard E. Bennett. Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People Party in the Oklahoma Territory. By Worth Robert Miller. The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History. By John Moore. America Through Russian Eyes, 1874–1926. Edited and translated by Olga Peters Hasty and Susanne Fusso. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. By Stephen G. Rabe. Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. By Robert C. Williams. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1850. By Mary C. Karasch.     

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Book reviwed in this article From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation. By A. B. Bosworth. The Jews in the Greek Age. By Elias J. Bickerman. Greeks, Romans and Barbarians. By Barry Cunliffe. On Pagans, Jews, and Christians. By Arnaldo Momigliano. The Crusades: A Short History. By Jonathan Riley-Smith. Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John. By L. N. Gumilev. Translated by R. E. F. Smith. The Papal Prince, One Body and Two Souls: The Papal Monarchy in Early Modern Europe. By Paolo Prodi. Translated by Susan Haskins. Britannia: A History of Roman Britain. By Sheppard Frere. The English: A Social History, 1066–1945. By Christopher Hibbert. Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County, 1500–1600. By Barmaid MacCulloch. Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509–1640. By Roger B. Manning. The Civil Wars of England. By J. P. Kenyon. Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660. By Ann Hughes. Charles I and Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Contrasts and Comparisons. By Maurice Ashley. Criticism and Compliment. The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I. By Kevin Sharpe. London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis. By Tim Harris. The Quakers and the English Legal System, 1660–1688. By Craig W. Horle. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865–1914. By Patricia Hollis. Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France. The Practice of Inegalitarianism. By David Higgs. The Search for Social Peace: Reform Legislation in France, 1890–1914. By Judith F. Stone. The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. By Brigitte Hamann. Translated by Ruth Hein. Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621–1665. By R. A. Stradling. Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin. By Deborah Hertz. Rethinking German History: Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich. By Richard J. Evans. Germany and Europe in the Era of the Two World Wars: Essays in Honor of Oron James Hale. Edited by F. X. J. Homer and Larry D. Wilcox. The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries: Voices from the Menshevik Past. By Leopold H. Haimson in collaboration with Ziva Galilii y Garcia and Richard Wortman. Stalin: Man and Ruler. By Robert H. McNeal. Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev. By Anthony D'Agostino. Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus. By Brian Roberta. Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632–1715. By David W. Jordan. “To Serve Well and Faithfully”: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800. By Sharon V. Salinger. The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. By John Phillip Reid. Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England. By Donald Weber. Greatness in The White House: Rating the Presidents, Washington Through Carter. By Robert K. Murray and Tim H. Blessing. Towards a Christian Republic: Antimasonry and the Great Transition in New England, 1826–1836. By Paul Goodman. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848. By Robin Blackburn. Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. Cray Jr. A House Divided: Sectionalism and Ciuil War, 1848–1865. [The American Moment Series.] By Richard H. Sewell. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. By Gerald F. Linderman. The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800–1907. By Thomas D. Hamm. Feud: Hatfields. McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900. By Altina L. Waller. Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham. By Charles W. Calhoun. Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California. By John Boessenecker. No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865–1900. By Paula Petrik. Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States. [Midwestern History and Culture Series.] Edited by James H. Madison. The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland. [American Presidency Series.] By Richard E. Welch Jr. A History of Neglect: Health Care for Blacks and Mill Workers in the Twentieth-Century South. By Edward H. Beardsley. Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780–1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude. By Paul J. Nahin. Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War. By Eric Larrabee. William Fulbright and the Vietnam War. By William C. Berman. The Cold War Begins in Asia. [Contemporary American History Series.] By Marc S. Gallicchio. Mexico through Russian Eyes, 1806–1940. By William Harrison Richardson.