REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Surviving the Tudors. The ‘Wizard’ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537–1586. By Vincent P. Carey. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2002. 240 pp. £39.38. ISBN 1851825495. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. By Stephen Alford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiv, 233 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0521660556. Parliament at Work. Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England. Edited by Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2002. xiv, 190 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0851158749. Parliament, Politics and Elections, 1604–1648. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. (Camden Society, 5th Series, Volume XVII). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. 355pp. £45.00. ISBN 0521802148. Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. House of Commons and the Strafford Trial. Volume 3: 22 March –17 April 1641. Edited by Maija Jansson, assisted by Jennifer Klein Morrison, Alison Plant and Shawn Smith. (The Yale Center for Parliamentary History.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2001. xxxvii, 608 pp. £ 90.00. ISBN 1580460895. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724–1741. Literary and Political Events in Georgian England. Edited, with commentary by Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston. 2002. xxii, 167 pp. £64.95. ISBN 0773472339. Women, Privilege, and Power. British Politics, 1750 to the Present. Edited by Amanda Vickery. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. x, 413 pp. £60.00. ISBN 0804742847. George III. An Essay on Monarchy. By G. M. Ditchfield. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. xi, 233 pp. £45.00. ISBN 03339 1962 9. Grattan. A Life. By R. B. McDowell. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. 2001. viii, 271 pp. £27.56. ISBN 1901 866726. Revolution, Counter‐Revolution and Union. Ireland in the 1790s. Edited by Jim Smyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii, 245 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521661099. Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914. By Martin Daunton. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii, 438 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521803721. Rational Choice and British Politics. An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair. By Iain McLean. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xiv, 256 pp. £40.00 hardback; £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 1982 95308; 0 1982 95294. Die radikale Herausforderung. Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen laendlicher Tradition und industrieller Modeme (1846–1868). By Andreas Roedder. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2002. 574 pp. £64.80. ISBN 3486566555. The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868. From Gentlemen to Players. By Michael Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii, 249 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 1982 75773. The Lancashire Working Classes c.1880–1930. By Trevor Griffiths. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xi, 390 pp. £ 55.00. ISBN 0 1992 47382. Socialist Women. By June Hannam and Karen Hunt. London: Routledge. 2002. viii, 232 pp. £17.99. ISBN 0415266394.     

Book Reviews

Les évêques normands du XIe siêcle. Edited by Pierre Bouet and François Neveux. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen. 1995. 336 pp. 150 FF. ISBN 2 84133 021 4. The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Power, and Patronage in Ninth-Century England. By Michelle P. Brown. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture 1. London and Toronto: The British Library and Toronto University Press. 1996. 252 pp. £45. ISBN 0 7123 0486 X Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain. Edited by Barbara E. Crawford. Studies in the Early History of Britain series. London and New York: Leicester University Press. 1995. xv + 248pp. £45. ISBN 0 7185 1923 X Picts, Gaels and Scots. By Sally M. Foster. London: BT Batsford Ltd/Historic Scotland. 1996. 128pp. £15.99. ISBN 0 7134 7485 8 (cased) 0 7134 7486 6 (limp). Pre-Conquest Charter-Bounds of Devon and Cornwall. By Della Hooke. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 1994. 239 pp. £29.50. ISBN 0 85115 354 2. The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950–1200. By C. Stephen Jaeger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. xvi + 515 pp. $37.95. ISBN 0 8122 3246 1. On Original Sin and a Disputation with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God: Two Theological Treatises. Odo of Tournai. Edited by Irven M. Resnick. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1994. x + 150 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0 8122 3288 7. Engraved Gems of the Carolingian Renaissance. By Genevra Kornbluth. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xxv + 139 pp. 1 colour pl. (frontispiece), 220 illustrations. £35.95/$45. ISBN 0 271 01426 1. Pacifico di Verona. Il passato Carolingio nella costruzione della memoria urbana, con un nota di Stefano Zamponi. By Cristina La Rocca. Rome: Istituto storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, nuovi studi storici 31. 1995. ix + 266 pp. 26 plates. ISBN 0391-8475. Slavery in Early Medieval England: From the Reign of Alfred Until the Twelfth Century. By David Pelteret. Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 7. Woodbridge: Boydell. 1995. xvi + 375 pp. £45/$63. ISBN 0 85115 399 2. Studies in Medieval Language and Culture. By Michael Richter. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1995. 227 pp. £37.50. ISBN 1 85182 171 6. Gift and Exchange in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Corpus: A Contribution Towards the Representation of Wealth. By Nida Louise Surber-Meyer. Geneva: Editions Slatkine. 1994. 256 pp. ISBN 2 101302 0. Frauen, Heiligkeit und Macht: Lateinische Frauenviten aus dem 4. bis 7. Jahrhundert. By Susanne Wittern. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler. 1994. Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung 33. iv + 220 pp. DM 42. ISBN 3 476 00951 3. Der Ragyndrudis-Codex des Hl. Bonifatius. By Lutz E. von Padberg and Hans-Walter Stork. Paderborn: Bonifatius Druck. Buch Verlag, and Fulda: Verlag Parzeller. 1995. 134 pp with 30 illustrations. ISBN (Bonifatius Verlag) 3 87088 812 1 and ISBN (Parzeller Verlag) 3 7900 0238 0. The Ship as symbol in prehistoric and medieval Scandinavia. Edited by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and Birgitte Munch Thye. Studies in Archaeology and History. 1 Copenhagen, Publications from the National Museum. 1995. 196 pp with line drawings and photographs throughout (paperback). ISBN 87 89384 01 6. ISSN 0909 9506. Available direct from The National Museum, The Museum Shop, 12, Frederiksholms Kanal, DK-1220 Copenhagen K. The Germanization of early medieval Christianity. A sociohistorical approach to Religious transformation. By James C. Russell, Oxford. Oxford University Press 1994. xiii + 258 pp. £25. ISBN 0 19 507696 6.     

Reviews

Richard J. Goy, The House of Gold: Building a Palace in Medieval Venice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxiv + 304pp., 13 col., 100 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–521–40513–0. £60.

Paul Mattick Jr. (ed.), Eighteenth‐Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. viii + 256 pp. ISBN 0–521–43106–9. £30.

Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, Cambridge Mass. & London: MIT Press, 1994. xxx + 350 pp., 197 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–19342–6. £24.95.

Barry Cunliffe, Wessex to AD 1000, London & New York: Longman, 1993. 388 pp., 128 plates and figures. ISBN 0–582–49279. £16.99.

J. M. Fladmark (ed.), Cultural Tourism, London: Donhead, 1994. 413 pp. 86 b. & w. illns. ISBN 1–873394–15–2. £37.00.

John Dixon Hunt, Gardens and the Picturesque, Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, [1992], 1994. xviii + 388 pp., 127 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–08211‐X. £17.95. Venetia Murray, Castle Howard The Life and Times of a Stately Home, London: Viking, 1994. xx + 236 pp., 33 b. & w. illus. and 20 figs. ISBN 0–670–83379–7. £18.00.

Rosamond McKitterick (ed.), Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xv + 334 pp., 21 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0 521 40586 6. £14.95.

Alan R. H. Baker and Gideon Biger (eds.), Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 356 pp., 93 figs. ISBN 0–521–41032–0. £40.00.

Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine, Museum Basics, London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 319 pp., 6 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–05770–1. £19.99.

Martin Warnke, The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xx + 299 pp. ISBN 0–521–36375–6. £35.

David Dean, Museum Exhibition Theory and Practice, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. xii + 177 pp., 56 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–08016–9. £22.50.

Hanno‐Walter Kraft, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, London: Zwemmer and New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994. 706 pp., 207 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–302–00622–2. £25.00

James Strike, Architecture in Conservation: Managing Development at Historic Sites, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. x + 163 pp., 86 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–08130–0. £40.00.

Peter Walker & Melanie Simo, Invisible Gardens. The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT Press, 1994. xvi + 365 pp., 12 col. and 144 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–23177–8. £44.95.

John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1988] 1990. xvi + 351 pp., 204 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–521–39848–7. £22.95.

G. J. Ashworth & P. J. Larkham, (eds.), Building a New Heritage: Tourism, Culture and Identity in the New Europe, London: Routledge, 1994. xiii + 278 pp., 39 figs. ISBN 0–415–07931–4, £40.00.

W. J. T. Mitchell (ed.), Landscape and Power, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. vii + 248 pp., 72 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–226–53207–0. £ 11.25.     

Book reviews

Ian McLean, White Aborigines. Identity Politics in Australian Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x + 204 pp., 9 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–521–58416–7. £40.00.

Ákos Moravánszky, Competing Visions. Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867–1918, Cambridge, Mass. & London: MIT Press, 1998. xvi + 508 pp., 32 col. and 312 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–13334–2. £29.95.

Andrew Piersenné, Explaining Our World, London and New York: E. & F. N. Spon, 1999. xii + 252 pp., 50 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–419–21940–4. £45–00.

Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren and Donald V. L. Macleod (eds.), Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places, Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997. xii + 245 pp., 4 figs. ISBN 1–85973–905–9. £14.99.

Martin Cooper (ed.), Laser Cleaning in Conservation: An Introduction, Oxford: Butterworth‐Heinemann, 1998. xii + 98 pp, 43 col. and 11 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–7506–3117–1. £40.00.

Jon Lang, Madhavi Desai and Miki Desai, Architecture and Independence. The Search for Identity—India 1880 to 1980, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxii + 347 pp., c. 750 b. & w. illus. and figs. ISBN 0–19–563900–6. £20.00.     

“A Good Saxon Compound”

A Northern Thanatology: A Comprehensive Review of Illness, Death and Dying in the North West of England from the 1500s to the Present Time. By Christine Kenny with contributions from Bill Flynn and Joan Miller. Dinton, Wiltshire: Quay Books, 1998. xxii + 158pp. Pbk £11.99. ISBN 1 85642 096 5 Reviewed by Tony Walter.

A Thanatology of Wan Gender, War, Bereavement and Loss. By Christine Kenny with contributions from Liz Foster and Margaret Moore. Dinton, Wutshire: Quay Books, 1998. xvi + 208pp. Pbk £11.99. ISBN 1 85642 098 1 Reviewed by Tony Walter.

A Thanatology of the Child: Children and Young People's Perceptions, Experiences and Understanding of Life, Death and Bereavement. By Christine Kenny. Dinton, Wiltshire: Quay Books, 1998. Pbk £10.99. ISBN 1 85642 097 3 Reviewed by Tony Walter.

Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture By Simon J. Bronner. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998. $49.95. xv + 599pp. Illus. ISBN 0 87421 239 1 Reviewed by Eddie Cass.

“Songs beyond the Kalevala”: Transformations of Oral Poetry. Edited by Anna-Lena Siikala and Sinikka Vakimo. Studia Fennica Folkloristica, no. 2. Helsinki: SKS, 1994. 399pp. B /w illus. ISBN 951 717694 5 Reviewed by Jonathan Roper.

Mind and Form in Folklore: Selected Articles. By Matti Kuusi. Edited by Henno Ilomaki. Studia Fennica Folkloristica, no. 3. Helsinki: SKS, 1994. 199pp.l6 plates. ISBN 951 717 7976 Reviewed by Jonathan Roper

Proverbs of Ancient Sumen The World's Earliest Proverb Collections. By Bendt Alster. 2 vols. 548pp. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press. ISBN 1883053 20 x Reviewed by Gwendolyn Leick

Playing on the Motherground: Cultural Routines for Children's Development. By David F. Lancy. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1996. 240pp. £24.50. ISBN 157230142 2 Reviewed by Mavis Curtis.

Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities, and the Gaelic Renaissance. By Sharon Macdonald. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 297pp. Illus. pbk. £14.99. ISBN 1 85973 985 7 (Paper); 1 85973 980 6 (Cloth) Reviewed by Amy Hale.

National Redeemer: Owain Glyndwr in Welsh Tradition. By Elissa R. Henken. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. pbk. £19.95 250pp. ISBN 0 7083 1290 X Reviewed by Amy Hale.

The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America. By Daniel Wojcik. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 281pp. hdbk. $50.00/pbk. $18.95 Illus. ISBN O 8147 9283 9 Reviewed by Amy Hale.

Robin Hood: Die vielen Gesichter des edlen Raubers/The Many Faces of the Celebrated English Outlaw. Edited by Kevin Carpenter. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationsystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1995. 303pp. ISBN 3 8142 0528 6 Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

Words with Pictures: Welsh Images and Images of Wales in the Popular Press, 1640–1860. By Peter Lord. Aberystwyth: Plant, 1995. 167pp. £19.95. ISBN 0 9505188 2 4 Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr and Scandinavian Mythology. By John Lindow. F.F. Communications, no. 262. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1997. 210pp. ISSN 0014 5815/ISBN 95141 08094 Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

The Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook. Edited by Alan Dundes. Wisconsin and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 210pp. £13.50. ISBN 0 299 15074 7 Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Merkisdagar á; Mannsaevinni. By Árni Björnsson. Reykjavik: Mál og Menning, 1996. 487pp. Illus. ISBN 9979 31474 5 Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Theories of Myth: An Annotated Bibliography. By Thomas J. Sienkewicz. Magill Bibliographies. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1997. xi + 225pp. £30.40. ISBN 08108 3388 3 Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Scipio Storytelling: Talk in a Southern Indiana Community. By Margaret Read MacDonald. Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, Inc. 1996. 233pp. Illus. $34.00. ISBN 0 7618 0349 1 Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. By Jack Zipes. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.170pp. Pbk £13.99. ISBN 0 415 91850 2 Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

A Coven of Scholars: Margaret Murray and Her Working Methods. By Caroline Oates and Juliette Wood. Folklore Society Archive Series, no. 1, 1998. 101pp. £5.95. ISBN 0 903515 16 54 Reviewed by Ronald Hutton.

Sword Dancing in Europe: A History. By Stephen D. Corrsin. Tradition Series, no. 3. Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press for the Folklore Society, 1997. xii + 290pp. Illus. ISBN 1 874312 25 7. £25. Distributed by the Folklore Society (enquiries to the FLS). Reviewed by Roy Judge.

The Celtic Cross: An Illustrated History and Celebration. By Nigel Pennick. London: Blandford, 1997. Hdbk £16.99. Reviewed by Rosemary Power.

Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender in France. By Lewis C. Seifert. Cambridge Studies in French. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. £37.50. ISBN 0 521 55005 Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940–1945. By Kathleen Stokker. 1st pbk edn. Madison, Wisconsin and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. 273pp. ISBN 0 299 15444 0 Reviewed by Reimund Kvideland.

The Folklore of Tameside: Myths and Legends (inside, called The Folklore of Tameside: The Ashton and Longdendale Lordships). By John Walker and Michael Nevell. Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council with the Manchester University Archaeological Unit, 1998. ISBN 1871324211 Reviewed by Andrew F. Bennett.

Mortality. Edited by David Field, Glennys Howarth and Peter Jupp. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Carfax, three times a year. Institutions £108; individuals £38. ISSN 1357 6275 Reviewed by Valerie Clark.     

Book reviews

Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain edited by Susan Schroeder. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xxvi + 2000, maps. $45.00/£42.75 (hardback); $19.95/£18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8032–4266–2; 0–8032–9249‐X.

European and Native American Warfare, 1675–1815 by Armstrong Starkey. London: UCL Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 208. £40.00 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–85728–554–9; 1–85728–555–7.

Frontier Profit and Loss: The British Army and the Fur Traders, 1760–1764 by Walter S. Dunn, Jr. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 196, map. £47.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–313–30605–2.

British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800 by Colin Kidd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.viii + 302. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–62403–7.

Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650‐ c. 1850 edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xii + 317. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–62077–5.

Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735–1748 by Anthony W. Parker. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1997. Pp.xiii +182. £31.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8203–1915–5.

In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy by Richard Buel, Jr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 397. £25.00/$35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–300–07388–7.

Science and Exploration in the Pacific: European Voyages to the Southern Oceans in the Eighteenth Century edited by Margarette Lincoln. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1998. Pp.xix + 228, illus. £35.00/$63.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–85115–721–1.

Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands by Jane Samson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp.xiii + 240, maps. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8248–1927–6.

The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley, January to December 1803 edited by Anthony S. Bennell. Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing for the Army Records Society, 1998. Pp.xi + 458. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7509–2069–6.

Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 246, illustrations. $47.00/£37.50 (hardback); $18.00/£13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–520–21407–2 (paperback).

’Christen und Gewürze’: Konfrontation und Interaktion kolonialer und indigener Christentumsvarianten edited by Klaus Koschorke. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. Pp.298. DM 98 (paperback). ISBN 3–525–55960–7.

Religion in Victorian Britain, Volume V: Culture and Empire edited by John Wolffe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.viii + 359, illustrations. £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–5184–3.

Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion by H.L. Wesseling. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp.x + 212. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–313–30431–9.

The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession by Andrew Lambert. London: Chatham, 1998. Pp.256, illustrations. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–86176–086–8.

Sturm über dem Nil. Der Mahdi‐Aufstand: Aus den Anfängen des islamischen Fundamentalismus by Wilfried Westphal. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1998. Pp.419, 23 pictures, three maps. DM 48.00 (hardback). ISBN 3–7995–0092–8.

The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862–1902 edited by Angus Hawkins and John Powell. Camden Fifth Series Volume 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1997. Pp.xxii + 530. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0521–62328–6.

Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa by Stephen M. Miller. London, and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.viii + 279, maps. £39.50/$57.50 (hardback), £17.50/$26.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4904‐X; 0–7146–4460–9.

Francophone Sub‐Saharan Africa 1880–1995 by Patrick Manning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 247, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–64255–8; 0–521–64519–0.

Mau Mau From Below by Greet Kershaw. Oxford: James Currey, 1997. Pp.xxx + 354. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–731–0.

Mau Man and Kenya by Wunyabari O. Maloba. Oxford: James Currey, 1998. Pp.x + 228. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–745–0.

History of Central Africa: The Contemporary Years Since 1960 edited by David Birmingham and Phyllis M. Martin. London: Longman, 1998. Pp.vii + 314. £17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–27607–1.

Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power by Cyrus Ghani, London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp.xiv + 434. £29.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–86064–258–6.

A History of Laos by Martin Stuart‐Fox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xv + 253, maps. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–59235–6; 0–521–59746–3.

Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900–1949 by Robert Bickers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 276, tables, illustrations. £45.00 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–4697–1; 0–7190–5697–7.

Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore From First Settlement to Final British Withdrawal by Malcolm H. Murfett, John N. Miksic, Brian P. Farrell, and Chiang Ming Shun. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xviii + 398. £35.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–19–588482–5.     

Obituaries

Remaking Micronesia: discourses over development in a Pacific Territory, 1944–1982. By David Hanlon. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. xv, 240pp, photos, tables, notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 0824820118. $US34.95.

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. By Rod Edmond. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 307pp, illus., notes, maps, index. ISBN 052155054. $A75.00.

Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Edited by Aletta Biersack. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1995. xii, 440pp, tables, maps, figs, bibliog., index. ISBN 0472106015 (hb). $US59.50.

Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 305pp, index, maps, plates, bibliog., index. ISBN 0521586143. $A36.95.

Bwesou Eurijisi, le premier écrivain canaque. By Jean Guiart. Cahiers pour l'intelligence du temps présent 3. Nouméa, Le Rocher‐à‐la‐Voile, 1998. 154pp, map, illus., notes, bibliog.

Jules Calimbre, Chronique de trois générations, trois femmes et trois maisons. By Jean Guiart. Cahiers pour l'intelligence du temps présent 2. Nouméa, Le Rochcr‐à‐la‐Voile, 1998. 162pp, illus., notes, map, bibliog.

La Terre qui s'enfuit, Les pays canaques anciens, de La Foa à Moindou, Bourail el Kouaoua. By Jean Guiart. Cahiers pour servir à l'intelligence du temps présent 4. Nouméa, Le Rochcr‐à‐la‐Voile, 1998. 167pp, illus., map, bibliog.

Samoan Nursing: The Story of Women Developing a Profession. By Leslie Barclay, Jennifer Fenwick, Fa'amanatu Nielson, Barbara Postern‐Anderson, Pele Stowers and Jennifer Wilkinson. Sydney, Allen &; Unwin, 1998. xxvi, 146pp, map, chronology, glossary, index, list of contributers. ISBN 186448585X. $24.95.

Ono Ono Girl's Hula. By Carolyn Lei‐lanilau. Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xvi, 180pp. ISBN 0299156346. $A17.95 (paper) $A34.95 (cloth library edition).

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: Yukiyukite Shingun. By Jeffrey Ruoff and Kenneth Ruoff. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Flicks Books, 1998. Cinetek Series, vi, 58pp, cast list, notes, credits, index. ISBN 0948911050. £9.95.

The Last Colonies. By Robert Aldrich and John Connell. Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 285pp, notes, maps, tables, index. ISBN 052141461X. $59.95.

Papua New Guinea Records 1883–1942: Microfilm Collections. Compiled by Peter Nagle. Guide 4, Australian Archives, Canberra, 1998. 136pp. $A10.00.     

Leonardo Bruni and humanist historiography

Leonardo Bruni: History of the Florentine People. Edited by James Hankins, Volume 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001 and 2004), v–xxiv?+?520 pp. $29.95/£19.95/€27.70 cloth.

Leonardo Bruni: History of the Florentine People. Edited by James Hankins, Volume 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), xiii?+?584 pp. $29.95/£19.95/€27.70 cloth.     

Shorter notices

Monique Pelletier. Tours et contours de la terre: itinéraires d'une femme au coeur de la cartographie. Edited by Catherine Hofmann and Danielle Lecoq. Paris: Press de l'école nationale des ponts et chaussés, 1999. ISBN 2 85978 316 4. Pp. 303, illus. [Press de l'école nationale des ponts et chaussés, 28 Rue des Saints‐Pères, 75007 Paris.]

Historical Atlas of South‐west England. Edited by Roger J. P. Kain and William Ravenhill. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999. ISBN 0 85989 434 7. Pp xxii, 564, illus., col. plates. STG£65.00 (cloth, in slipcase). [University of Exeter Press, Reed Hall, Streatham Drive, Exeter EX4 4QR.]

DK Atlas of World History. Edited by Jeremy Black. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999. ISBN 0 7513 0719 X. Pp. 352, illus., col. plates. STG£29.99 (cloth).

DK World Atlas: Millennium Edition. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999. ISBN 0 7513 0718 1. Pp. 492, illus., +CD‐ROM. STG£75.00 (slipcase).

Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography. John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles. By Jill Shefrin. ISBN 0 966084 1 0. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 1999. Pp. 40, illus., col. plates, bibl. (Paper). [Cotsen Occasional Press, 10650 Holman Ave., Unit 207, Los Angeles, CA 90024.]     

Literacy,authorship, and belief in medieval and renaissance Europe

Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530. Edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xxv + 293 pp., £37.50/$59.95 cloth.

Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance. By Andrew Hadfield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xvii + 261 pp., £35.00/$59.59 cloth.

Early Cambridge Theatres: College, University, and Town Stages, 1464–1720. By Alan H. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xiv + 179 pp., £35.00/$59.95 cloth.     

Book reviews

The Solitary Self: Jean‐Jacques Rousseau in Exil and Adversity. By Maurice Cranston (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997) xii + 247 pp. $29.95 cloth.

The Self‐Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta‐Painting. By Victor I. Stoichita (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) xv + 345 pp. $85.00, £55.00 cloth.

The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. Edited by Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. Higgins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) ix + 403 pp. $18.95, £13.95 paper, $59.95, £40.00 cloth.

David Hume: Political Essays. Edited by Knud Haakonssen, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) lxvi + 346 pp. $49.95, £30.00 cloth, $15.95, £10.95 paper.

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason. By Thomas R. Flynn (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997) 340 + xvi pages. $18.95 paper.

Shaping World History: Breakthroughs in Ecology, Technology, Science, and Politics. By Mary Kilbourne Matossian (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997) 264 pp. $62.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Regards chrétiens sur Pislam . By Louis Gardet. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1986. 219 pp. Indices. 96 F. Traditional Islam in the Modern World . By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. London and New York: KPI Ltd., 1987. x plus 335 pp. n.p. Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology. By Merryl Wyn Davies. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. x plus 189 pp. Index. $52.50, hardcover. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion. William A. Graham. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 306 pp. Bibliography. Indices. $32.50. Medieval Persian Court Poetry . By Julie Scott Meisami. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiii plus 345 pp. $45.00. Textual Sources for the Study of Islam. Edited and translated by Andrew Rippin and Jan Knappert. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. xii plus 209 pp. Map. Glossary. Index. £6.75. In Quest of an Islamic Humanism: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Mohamed al-Nowaihi. Edited by A. H. Green. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1984. xxiv plus 217 pp. n.p. Philosophy of Islam. Ayatullah Dr. Muhammad Hosayni Behishti and Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Javad Bahonar. Salt Lake City: Islamic Publications, n.d. 580 pp. n.p. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. By David B. Burrell. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 130 pp. $15.95, hardcover; $8.95, paper. Averroes’ De Substantia Orbis: Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text with English Translation and Commentary. By Arthur Hyman. [Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi: Averroes Hebraicus, Medieval Academy Books No. 96.] Cambridge, Massachusetts and Jerusalem: Medieval Academy of America, 1986. 156 plus 74 pp. in Hebrew numerals. Two Critical Apparatus. Hebrew-Latin Glossary. Bibliography. Two Indices. $30.00. Eighteenth-Century Renewal And Reform In Islam. Edited by Nehemiah Levtzion and John O. Voll. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. Preface plus 200 pp. Glossary. Index. $24.95, Cloth. Zwischen Faktum and Fiktion: Eine Studie zum Umayyadenkalifen Sulaiman b. Abdalmalik and seinem Bild in den Quellen. By Reinhard Eisener. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. ix plus 296 pp. Appendix. Index. DM 68. Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society. Edited by G.H.A. Juynboll. [Papers on Islamic History; v.5.] Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. ix plus 292 pp. $20.00. Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. By Martin Kramer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. xi plus 250 pps. Index. $30.00. Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World. By C.A. Qadir. North Ryde, New South Wales: Croom Helm, 1988. viii plus 218 pages. Index. $67.50, cloth; Canada $94.50. Urdu Letters of irz Asadu'llh n lib. Translated and annotated by Daud Rahbar. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1987. xlv plus 628 pp. n.p. Imam Ali: Source of Light, Wisdom and Might. By Sulaymn Kattn, translated by I. K. Howard. London: Muhammadi Trust and New York: Methuen, 1986. x plus 148 pp. $25.00. Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900–1930. By Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. xviii plus 346 pp. $39.95. Tchad 1900-1902, une guerre franco-libyenne oublie? Une confrrie musulmane, la Sansiyya, face la France. By Jean-Louis Triaud. [Racines du présent series.] Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988. 203 plus xxxii pp. Photoreproductions of 38 archival letters in handwritten Arabic (with 105 pp. French translation). 3 maps. Bibliography. Index. n.p. Amal and the Shia: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon. By Augustus Richard Norton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. xxii plus 238 pp. $25.00, hardcover; $10.95, paperback. Passeé Turco-Tatar, Présent Sovietique: Études offertes Alexandre Bennigsen/Turco-Tatar Past Soviet Present: Studies presented to Alexandre Bennigsen. Edited by Ch. Lemercier-Quelquejay, G. Veinstein, and S.E. Wimbush. [Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, la Collection TLrcica, VI: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, la collection Civilisations et Sociétés, 74.] Louvain-Paris: Éditions Peeters and Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. ix plus 563 pp. Photograph. n.p. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. By Olivier Roy. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. vi plus 253 pp. $24.95. Khoumani, Islamic Fundamentalists and the Contributions of Islamic Sciences to Modern Civilization. By Antoine J. Abraham. [Anthroscience Monograph Series.] Notre Dame, Indiana: Foundations Press of Notre Dame, 1983. 39 pp. n.p. The Gulf Cooperation Council: Moderation and Stability in an Interdependent World. Edited by John A. Sandwick. Foreword by George McGovern. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1987. x plus 289 pp. Tables. Charts. Texts of documents. Bibliography. $15.95. The Powers in the Middle East: The Ultimate Strategic Arena. Edited by Bernard Reich. New York: Praeger, 1987. 351 pp. $45.00.     

Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women

The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century by James Muldoon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 239. £34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8122–3245–3.

The European Outthrust and Encounter. The First Phase c.1400‐c.1700: Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on His 85th Birthday edited by Cecil H. Clough and P.E.H. Hair. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp.348. £19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–85323–229–6.

The Story of the Voyage: Sea‐Narratives in Eighteenth‐Century England by Philip Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 244, illustrations. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–41301‐X.

Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741–1747. Vol. 1: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741–1742 edited by William Barr and Glyndwr Williams. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1994. Pp. xii + 333, maps. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–904180–36–0.

The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire by Nancy F. Koehn. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 239, map, illustrations. £24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8014–2699–5.

The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster by Melinda Elder. Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994. Pp. 232. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History by N.G. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 252, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–43236–7; 0–521–043820–9.

John Stuart Mill and India by Lynn Zastoupil. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 280. £30.00 (hardback) ISBN 0–8047–2256–0.

13 chapters of a History of Belize by Assad Shoman. Belize City: Angelus Press, 1994. Pp xviii + 344, tables, maps. US $12.50. ISBN 976–8052–19–8.

’The Killing Time’: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica by Gad Heuman. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xxii + 199, maps. £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–49400–8.

A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana 1875–1917 by K.O. Laurence. Kingston: Ian Randle; and London: James Currey, 1994. Pp ix + 648. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 978–8100–32‐X.

A History of Mozambique by Malyn Newitt. London: Hurst, 1995. Pp. xxii + 679, maps, index. £35.00 (hardback); £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 1–85065–171‐X; 1–85065–172–8.

Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850–1900 by Tim Youngs. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 235. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7190–3969‐X.

Journey to Livingstone: Exploration of an Imperial Myth by Timothy Holmes. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 366. £17.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–86241–402–4.

The Ilberts in India, 1882–1886: An Imperial Miniature by Mary Bennett. London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 76#fr1/2> Chartfield Avenue, London SW15 6HQ, 1995. Pp.xii + 204, illustrations. £9.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–907799–54‐X.

Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865–1915 by Antoinette Burton. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 391. $45.00 (hardback); $16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8078–2161–6; 0–8078–4471–3.

The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria 1880–1939 by Raelene Frances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 267. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40199–2.

Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932–1947 by Joya Chatterji. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 303, maps. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–41128–9.

The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere by Anthony Milner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii + 328, map. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–46565–6.

The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century by W. G. Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 472. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–37037‐X.

Malaysian Development: A Retrospective by Martin Rudner. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 406. $32.95 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–88629–221–2; 0–88629–220–4.

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929–1987 by D.K. Fieldhouse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xxviii + 832. £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–822625‐X.

British Documents on the End of Empire. Series A, Volume III: The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1951–57 edited by David Goldsworthy. London: HMSO, 1994.

Part I. International Relations. Pp.lxxxix + 422. £60.00. ISBN 0–11–290535–8.

Part II. Politics and Administration. Pp.xxvii + 410. £60.00. ISBN 0–11–290536–6.

Part III. Economic and Social Policies. Pp.xxviii + 422. £60.00. ISBN 0–11–290537–4.

A Republican Manifesto by John Hirst. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 144. £7.99. ISBN 0–19–553649–5.

The Muddle‐Headed Republic by Alan Atkinson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 141. £7.99. ISBN 0–19–553638‐X.     

Reviews

Excavations at Carthage: The British Mission, Volume II, 1: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Site and Finds Other Than Pottery H. R. HURST 335 pp., many illustrations Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1994, £75, ISBN 0-17-727003-4 Excavations at Carthage, The British Mission Volume II, 2: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Pottery (BA Monographs in Archaeology No. 5) M. G. FULFORD and D. P. S. PEACOCK with contributions from Henry Hurst, Kathryn Knowles and Jane Timby 124 pp., 39 line-drawings, 1 half-tone illustration British Academy and Oxford University Press, 1995, £30, ISBN 0-19-727004-2 Saint-Blaise/Bains des Dames 1: palynologie d'un site néolithique et histoire de la végetation des derniers 16,000 ans (Archéologie Neuchâteloise 18) PHILIPPE HADORN 121 pp.+ 50 pp., illustrated (colour plates) Musée Cantonal d'Archéologie, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1994, Sw.Fr. 70 The History of English Sea Ordnance 1523–1715, Volume I: 1523–1715, The Age of Evolution ADRIAN B. CARUANA 237 pp., illustrated Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, Sussex TN6 3QX, UK, 1994, £50 The Sea-Gunner (1691) JOHN SELLER 258 pp + xiv, 3 plates Facsimile reprint with an Introduction by Adrian B. Caruana Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, 1994, £37 (cloth bound), £60 (leather bound), ISBN 0-948864-25-7 or ISBN 0-948864-26-5 (respectively) Die Reise nach Batavia, Deutsche Abenteurer in Ostasien, 1609 bis 1695 PETER KIRSCH 440 PP. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg, 1994, D.mk.49.80 ISBN 3-8225-0297 La Grotte Cosquer—Peintures et Gravures de la Caverne engloutie JEAN CLOTTES and JEAN COURTIN 189 pp., illustrated Editions du Seuil. Paris. 1994, F.fr 390, ISBN 2-020-198207 La Grotte Cosquer: Plongée dans la Prehistoire HENRI COSQUER 119 pp., 119 photographs + 2 plans in colour (all) Solar, Spain, 1992, F.fr. 150, ISBN 2-263-01943-X A History of Working Watercraft of the Western World (2nd edition) THOMAS C. GILLMER 276 pp., illustrated International Marine, P.O. Box 220, Camden, Maine, 04843, USA, 1994. £17.95 or $25.95, ISBN 0-07-023616-X The New Maritime History of Devon vol. II—from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day M. DUFFY, S. FISHER, B. GREENHILL, D. STARKEY and JOYCE YOUINGS 272 pp., illustrated University of Exeter & Conway Maritime Press, London, 1994, £35, ISBN 0-85177-6337     

Reviews

Douglas Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins (with photographs by Louise Lawler), Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1993. xx + 348 pp., 110 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–03209–0. £24.95.

Clarissa Campbell Orr (ed.), Women in the Victorian Art World, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995. xiv + 208 pp., 1 fig., 29 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–7190–4123–6. £14.99.

Diana Ketcham, Le Désert de Retz, Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1994. vii + 135 pp., 99 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–11186–1. £35.95.

Anthony & Patricia Wylson, Theme Parks, Leisure Centres, Zoos and Aquaria, London: Longman, 1994. 183 pp., 107 figs., 109 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–582–099285. £60.00.

David Lambert, Peter Goodchild, & Judith Roberts, Researching a Garden's History: A Guide to Documentary and Published Sources, Reigate: Landscape Design Trust, in association with Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, 1995. 28 pp. 12 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–9518377–0–2. £6.00.

Mike Sixsmith (ed.), Touring Exhibitions: The Touring Exhibitions Group's Manual of Good Practice, Oxford: Butterworth‐Heinemann, 1995. xviii + 237 pp., ISBN 0–7506–2518‐x. £35.00.

Richard Harrison (ed.), Manual of Heritage Management, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann and the Association of Independent Museums, 1994. xiii + 425 pp. ISBN 0–7506–0822–6. £65.00.

J. M. Fladmark (ed.), Sharing the Earth : Local Identity in Global Culture, London: Donhead, 1995. xviii + 381 pp., 70 b. & w. illus. ISBN 1–873394–19–5. £37.00.

Gary Edson and David Dean, The Handbook for Museums, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. xvi + 302 pp. ISBN 0–415–09952–8. £27.50.

Michael Wheeler (ed.), Ruskin and Environment: The Storm‐Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995. x + 202 pp., 7 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–7190–4377–8. £40.00.

M. D. Anderson, History and Imagery in British Churches, London: John Murray, [1971], 1995. xxiv + 291 pp., 1 map, 18 figs., 93 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–7195–5414–4. £15.99.

Chris Brooks & Andrew Saint (eds.), The Victorian Church. Architecture and Society, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. xii + 228 pp., 82 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–7190–4020–5. £16.99.

M. Christine Boyer, The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments, Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 1994. xii + 560 pp., 65 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–02371–7. £34.95.

John Glasson, Kerry Godfrey, Brian Goodey, Helen Absalom, & Jan Van der Borg, Towards Visitor Impact Management, Aldershot: Avebury, 1995. xii + 189 pp. ISBN 1–85972–054–4. £35.00.

Ann Bermingham & John Brewer (eds.), The Consumption of Culture 1600–1800. Image, Object, Text, London & New York: Routledge, 1995. xvi + 548 pp., 111 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–12135–5. £120.00.

B. W. Clapp An Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution, London and New York: Longman, 1994. 268 pp., 2 maps, 12 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–582–22626–0. £12.99.

Eilean Hooper‐Greenhill, Museum, Media, Message, London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xvi + 299 pp., 23 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–11672–4. £40.00.

A. Davey, B. Heath, D. Hodges, M. Ketchin & R. Milne, The Care and Conservation of Georgian Houses: A Maintenance Manual for Edinburgh New Town, Oxford: Butterworth, 4th ed., 1995. xxviii + 291 pp., 100 b. & w. illus. and 100 figs. ISBN 0–7506–1860–4. £40.00.

Philip Rahtz, English Heritage Book of Glastonbury, London: Batsford & English Heritage, 1993. 144 pp., 97 figs., ISBN 0–7134–6865–3. £14.99.     

A scientific luther

Francis Bacon. By Perez Zagorin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) xvi + 286 pp. $29.95, £19.95

Francis Bacon: The History of the Reign of King Henry VII. Edited by Brian Vickers (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 1998) xlv + 284 pp. £40.00 cloth     

Book reviews

Empire and Order. The Concept of Empire, 800–1800 by James Muldoon. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.viii + 209. £42.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–65013–1.

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 239. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–59081–7; 0–521–78978–8.

England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy, 1490–1690 by David Loades. Harlow: Longman, 2000. Pp.xi + 277, maps. £50.00 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–35622–6; 0–582–35628–8.

Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages under James VI and I by Tristan Marshall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.viii + 211. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7190–5748–5.

Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800 by Eric Hinderaker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 and 2000. Pp.xii + 293. £45.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–56333‐X; 0–521–66345–8.

Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 by Timothy J. Shannon. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp.xv + 263. No price given (hardback). ISBN 0–8014–3657–5

An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp.xviii + 357, maps, tables, illus. $55.00/£41.00 (hardback); $22.50/£17.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–8122–3558–4; 0–8122–1732–2.

A Voyage round the World by George Forster, edited by Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof assisted by Jennifer Newell. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. 2 vols. Pp.xlvii + 860, illus., maps. ISBN 0–8248–2091–6.

General History of the Caribbean, Volume VI: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean edited by B.W. Higman. London and Oxford: Unesco Publishing/Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xxii + 948, illus. £45.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–72460–7; 0–333–72461–5.

The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism by Keith A. Sandiford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.221. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–64233–7.

History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770–1822 by Pier M. Larson. Portsmouth, NH, Oxford, and Cape Town: Heinemann, James Currey and David Philip. Pp.xxxii + 414, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–689–6; 0–85255–639‐X.

West Indians in West Africa, 1808–1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse by Nemata Amelia Blyden. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 258. $75.00/£50.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–58046–0461.

A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xiv + 320, maps, illus. £30.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–62359–6; 0–521–62577–7.

Ships, Furs, and Sandalwood: A Yankee Trader in Hawai'i, 1823–1825 by Charles H. Hammatt, edited by Sandra Wagner‐Wright. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. Pp.xxxii + 96. $39.00 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8248–2258–7 (pb).

Mission und Gewalt: Der Umgang christlicher Missionen mit Gewalt und die Ausbreitung des Christentums in Afrika und Asien in der Zeit von 1792 bis 1918/19 (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv, vol. 6) edited by Ulrich van der Heyden and Jürgen Becher. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp.557. DM 160,‐ (hardback). ISBN 3–515–07624–7.

Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism by Richard H. Grove. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.xiv + 540. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40385–5.

Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and South East Asia edited by Richard H. Grove, Vanita Damodaran, and Satpal Sangwan. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 1,036. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–195–63896–4.

Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400–1940 by Richard H. Grove. Knapwell: White Horse Press, 1997. Pp.237. No price given. ISBN 1–874267–18–9 (hb). 1–874267–19–7 (pb).

Weltmacht oder Untergang: Die Weltreichslehre im Zeitalter des Imperialismus by Sönke Neitzel. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000. Pp.453. DM 98,‐(paperback). ISBN 3–506–76102–1.

The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492–1962 by Arthur Charles Dayfoot. Kingston, Jamaica: University Press of the West Indies, 1999; Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Pp.xvii + 360, maps, illus. US$30.00 (paperback); US$49.95 (hardback). ISBN 976–640–061‐X (paperback); 0–8130–1626–6 (hardback).

Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809–1885 by Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. Madison and London: Associated University Presses, 1998. Pp.197. £27.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8386–3729–9.

Negotiating India in the Nineteenth‐Century Media edited by David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xi + 285. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–71146–7.

Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Reader edited by Catherine Hall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.x + 390, photographs. £47.00 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–5857–0; 0–7190–5858–9.

Indians in Britain: Anglo‐Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930 by Shompa Lahiri. London: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.xviii + 249. £42.50 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4986–4; 0–7146–8049–4.

Bausteine eines zukünftigen deutschen Mittelafrika: Deutscher Imperialismus und die portugiesischen Kolonien by Rolf Peter Tschapek. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp.475. DM 144,‐ (paperback). ISBN 3–515–07592–5.

The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959 by G.C. Peden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xiv + 581. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–820707–7.

Die deutsche Südsee 1884–1914: Ein Handbuch edited by Hermann Joseph Hiery. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2001. Pp.880. DM 198,‐ (hardback). ISBN 3–506–73912–3.

An Economic History of Malaysia, c. 1800–1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth by John H. Drabble. Basingstoke: Macmillan (in association with the Australian National University), Canberra, 2000. Pp.xxiii + 316. £19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–55300–4.

The Making of Modern Burma by Thant Myint‐U. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.284. £45.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–78021–7; 0–521–79914–7.

East African Doctors: A History of the Medical Profession by John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.336. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–63272–2.

India's Prisoner: A Biography of Edward John Thompson 1886–1946 by Mary Lago. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp.xi + 388, illus. $39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8262–1299–9.

Kuwait, 1950–1965: Britain, the al‐Sabah, and Oil by Simon C. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1999. Pp.167, map, illus. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–726197–3

The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast by Sarah Stockwell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp.ix + 265. £48.00. ISBN 0–19–820848–0.

Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia: Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941–68 by Karl Hack. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. Pp.xiv + 341. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7007–1303–4.

British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume 4: The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1957–64, Parts I and II, edited by Ronald Hyam and Wm. Roger Louis. London: The Stationery Office, 2000. Pp.cix + 825 (Part I); Pp.xxxvii + 811pp (Part II). £80.00 each (hardback). ISBN 011–290578–1 (Part I) and 011–290579‐X (Part II).

Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit edited by Steve Clark. London: Zed Books, 1999. Pp.viii + 264. £45.00 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–85649–627–9; 1–85649–628–7.     

British contributions to the study of Russian geography in the nineteenth century

Urban geography

Managing the City. Edited by Brian Robson, 22 x 14 cm, 220 pp, Croom Helm, London, 1987, hbk, ISBN 0–7099–4232‐X, £30.00.

Regenerating the Inner City: Glasgow's Experience. Edited by David Donnison and Alan Middleton, 21.6 x 13.5 cm; xvii + 322 pp, Routledge and Keagan Paul, London, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–7102–1117–1, £12.95.

Scotland

Rural Housing in Scotland. Edited by B. D. MacGregor, D. S. Robertson and M. Shucksmith, 22.7 x 15 cm, xii + 201 pp, Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–08–034529–8. £11.90.

A Pattern of Landownership in Scotland. By Robin Fraser Callander, 21 x 15 cm, 155 pp, Haughend Publications, Finzean, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–907184–13–8, £5.25 (post free from the publisher at Finzean, Aberdeenshire AB3 3PP).

History of Orkney. By William P. L. Thomson, 24 X 16 cm, xvi + 321 pp, The Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1987, hbk, ISBN 0–901824–82–8, £14.95.

The Roads of Fife. By Owen Silver, 23.5 x 15.5 cm, 197 pp, John Donald, Edinburgh, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–85976–160–6, £12.50.

Conservation

Birds, Bogs and Forestry: the Peat lands of Caithness and Sutherland: Edited by D. A. Ratcliffe and P. H. Oswald, 29x21 cm, 121 pp, Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1986, pbk, ISBN 08–6139–3775, £8.50

Angling and Wildlife in Fresh Waters. Edited by P. S. Maitland and A. K. Turner, 29 x 21 cm, 81 pp, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Abbots Ripton, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–904282–99–6, £8.00.

Farm Woodlands in Central Scotland. By A. V. Halhead, 29.5 X 21 cm, 32 pp, Countryside Commission for Scotland, Perth, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–902226–85–1, £3.00.

Alternative Manpower for the Scottish Countryside. By Centre for Leisure Research, Dunfermline College of Physical Education, 29.5 x 21 cm, 96 pp, Countryside Commission for Scotland, Perth, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–902226–86–6, £4.50.

Geography in Education

Foundations of Geography for GCSE. By D. C Money, 29 x 21 cm, 262 pp, Evans Brothers, London, 1987, pbk, ISBN 0–237–51006–5, £6.95.

World Contrasts. By Brian Nixon, 19.5 x 26.5 cm, 219 pp, Bell &; Hyman, London, 1986, pbk, ISBN 07135–265‐X, £5.95.

People making geography: Book 1. By Chris Queree and Jeff Serf, ISBN 0–582–20289–2. Countries of the world: Book 3 The Americas. By Keith Gillard, ISBN 0–582–21219–7. (Copymasters. 25x24 cm, looseleaf, Longman, Harlow, 1987.)     

The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity,Identity, Gender and Race, 1772–1914

In a Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 262, illus., maps. £19.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–0362–1.

Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth‐Century Montreal by Louise Dechêne, translated by Liana Vardi. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi + 428, map, tables. £52.25 (hardback); £21.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–7735–0658–6; 0–7735–0951–8.

While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women by Janice Potter‐MacKinnon. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 200. £29.70 (hardback). ISBN 0–7735–0962–3.

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492–1992: A Regional Geography by Bonham C. Richardson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. vi + 235, maps, tables. £30.00 (hardback); £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–35186–3; 0–521–35977–5.

Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Blacks and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786–1791 by Stephen J. Braidwood. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 324, maps. £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–85323–377–2.

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume I: From Early Times to c.1800 edited by Nicholas Tarling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 655, maps, illus. £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–35505–2.

India's Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes edited by Mushirul Hasan and Narayani Gupta. New Delhi: Manohar, 1993. Pp. vi + 412. Rs.400. ISBN 81–7304–007–9.

Welteroberung und Christentum: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der Neuzeit by Horst Gründer. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1994. Pp. 751, maps and illustrations. DM 128. ISBN 3–579–00136–1.

Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo‐British Identity, 1689‐c.1830 by Colin Kidd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 322. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–43484‐X.

Academe and Empire: Some Oversees Connections of Aberdeen University 1860–1970 by John D. Hargreaves. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 142. £8.95. ISBN 1–85752–220–6.

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904) by Julia A. Clancy‐Smith. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 370. $45.00. ISBN 0–520–08242–7.

Servants and Gentlewomen to the Golden Land: The Emigration of Single Women from Britain to Southern Africa, 1820–1939 by Cecillie Swaisland. Oxford: Berg Publishers/University of Natal Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 186, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85496–745–1; 0–85496–870–9.

God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster by Donald Harman Akenson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 404, maps. $32.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8014–2755‐X.

Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth 1758–1993. A Critical Bibliography of their Published Histories. Compiled and published by Roger Perkins, Newton Abbot, 1994. Pp. 806. £92.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–9506429–3–2. Available from Roger Perkins, PO Box 29, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 1XU.

The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860–1940 by David Omissi. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xx + 313. £45.00. ISBN 0–333–55049–8.

Public Health in British India: Anglo‐Indian Preventive Medicine 1859–1914 by Mark Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 324. £19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–46688–1.

Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913 by Jung‐Fang Tsai. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xvix + 375, maps. $52.00. ISBN 0–231–07932‐X.

European Imperialism, 1860–1914 by Andrew Porter. Basingstoke, London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xiii + 119, maps. £5.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–48104–6.

Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, 1890–1918 by Robert H. MacDonald. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. viii + 259. £22.75. ISBN 0–8020–2843–8.

The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump. Lincoln, Nebraska and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 178, maps. £23.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8032–2152–5.

A History of Ethiopia by Harold G. Marcus. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of Calfornia Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 261, maps. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–520–08121–8.

Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936, by Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 391. £45.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–37469–3; 0–521–44702‐X.

The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation edited by E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 628. $60.00 (hardback); $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–5886–8; 0–8020–6817–0.

Australian History in New South Wales 1888 to 1938 by Brian H. Fletcher. Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1993. Pp. vii + 228. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–86840–269–9.

Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend by Alistair Thomson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 282; photographs. £18.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–19553491–3.

Broken Promises: Popular Protest, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar, 1935–1946 by Vinita Damodaran. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 398, 5 maps, 3 figures, 18 tables, 3 appendices. £18.95. ISBN 0–19–562979–5.

Rajani Palme Dutt: A Study in British Stalinism by John Callaghan. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993. Pp. xi + 213. £19.99. ISBN 0–85315–7790.

Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain, 1815–1945 by Panikos Panayi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 170. £29.99 (hardback); £7.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–3697–6; 0–7190–3698–4.

Macmillan by John Turner. London: Longman, 1994. Pp. vii + 302. £24.99 (hardback); £10.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–21880–2; 0–582–55386–5.

The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan by Robert J. McMahon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 431, maps. £25.00. ISBN 0–231–08226–6.

The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1941–1950 by Daniel Silverfarb. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xii + 306, 2 maps. £34.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–62525–0.

The Wars of French Decolonization by Anthony Clayton. London: Longman, 1994. Pp. x + 234, maps. £32.00 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback) ISBN 0–582–09802–5; 0–582–09801–7.

Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government by Nicholas Thomas. Oxford: Polity Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 238. £45.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–7456–0871‐X; 0–7456–1215–6.