REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: On the Laws and Governance of England. By Sir John Fortescue. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Edited by John Guy. Andrew Fletcher. Political Works. Edited by John Robertson. Politics in Eighteenth-Century Wales. By Peter D.G. Thomas. The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party, 1768–- 1773. By W.M. Elofson. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics. Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party 1846–1922. By Corinne Comstock Weston. From Salisbury to Major. Continuity and Change in Conservative Politics. By Brendan Evans and Andrew Taylor. British Business and Protection, 1903–32. By Andrew Marrison. Sir Edward Carson. A Dream too Far. By John Hostettler. Callaghan: A Life. By Kenneth O. Morgan. A Partnership for Good? Scottish Politics and the Union since 1880. By Richard J. Finlay.     

Reviews Of Books

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.     

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

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.     

REVIEWS

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     

REVIEWS

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     

REVIEWS

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.     

Appeasement Revisited

R. A. C. PARKER. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. v, 388. £35.00;

GAINES POST, JR. Dilemmas of Appeasement: British Deterrence and Defense, 1934–1937. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. $48.50 (US);

R. J. Q. ADAMS. British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–39. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xii, 192. £40.00;

MICHAEL J. COHEN and MARTIN KOLINSKY, eds. Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s: Security Problems, 1935–1939. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xvii, 231. $40.00;

BENNY MORRIS. The Roots of Appeasement: The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany during the 1930s. London: Frank Cass, 1992. Pp. 212. $40.00 (US);

GERARD J. DE GROOT. Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair. New York: New York University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 266. $35.00 (US);

CLEMENT LEIBOVITZ. The Chamberlain-Hitler Deal. Edmonton, Alberta: Les Éditions Duval Inc., 1993. Pp. viii, 544. No Price Available.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this articles: The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Appraisals. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction. By Luther H. Martin. The, Age of Exubrance, 1500–1700. [Vol. 3 of The Making of Britain, 1066–1939. Edited By Andrew Wheatcroft.] By Michael Reed. Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530–1790. By R. Burr Litchfield Court and Country: Studies in Tudor Social History. By A. L. Rowse. Deliver us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660–1663. By Richard L. Greaves. Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783–1815. By Colin G. Calloway. John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism, 1832–1847. By Stewart Angas Weaver. The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South. By John Pemble. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860–1914. By Susan Kingsley Kent. Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860–1912. By Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback. English Laundresses: A Social History, 1850–1930. By Patricia E. Malcolmson. Aneurin Bevan and The Mirage of British Socialism. By John Campbell. Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940–1941, By Robin Higham. The Other Desert War: British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940–1943. By John W. Gordon. The Vision of Anglo-America: The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943–1946. By Henry Butterfield Ryan. Setting the Mould: The United States and Britain, 1945–1950. By Robin Edmonds. Philosophers and Pamphleteers: Political Theorists of the Enlightenment. By Maurice Cranston. Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France. Edited by Jack R. Censer and Jeremy D. Popkin. The Canada Merchants, 1713–1763. By J. F. Bosher. The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll. By James C. Riley. Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World. By Jonathan Beecher. The French Generation of 1820. By Alan B. Spitzer. France, 1815–1914: The Bourgeois Century. By Roger Magraw. Workers on Strike. France, 1871–1890. By Michelle Perrot. Translated by Chris Turner. Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment. By Philip G. Nord. Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe. By Otto Mayr. Democracy Italian Style. By Joseph La Palombara. The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780–1840. [Studies in Jewish History. Edited by Jehuda Reinharz.] By David Sorkin. Jews in the German Economy: The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820–1935. By W. E. Mosse. Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During World War I. By Frederick C. Luebke. Under the Shadow of War: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Marxists, 1918–1939. By Larry Ceplair. The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich. By Ian Kershaw. Odessa: A History, 1794–1914. By Patricia Herlihy. Alexander Kerensky. The First Love of the Revolution. By Richard Abraham. The Birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the Eve of the “Second Revolution.” By Michal Reiman. Translated by George Saunders. Religions of China: The World as a Living System. By Daniel L. Overmeyer. Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism. By Jeffery A. Smith. Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics. By Frederick J. Blue. The Anglo-American Crisis of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Times and America, 1850–1862. By Martin Crawford. The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison. [American Presidency Series.] By Homer E. Socolofsky and Allan B. Spetter. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Michael H. Hunt. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America. By Cindy Sondik Aron. Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman. By Joyce Antler. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War. By L. F. Haber. FDR's Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the TVA. By Roy Talbert Jr. George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959. By Forrest C. Pogue. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. By Michael J. Hogan. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies. By Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black. Independent: A Biography of Lewis W. Douglas. By Robert Paul Browder and Thomas G. Smith. Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South. By Michal R. Belknap. Women and American Foreign Policy: Lobbyists, Critics and Insiders. Edited by Edward P. Crapol. Arrogant Diplomacy: US. Policy toward Colombia, 1903–1922. By Richard L. Lael.     

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

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.     

Historians,the War of American Independence,and the Persistence of the Exceptionalist Ideal

Prince Kaunitz and the Balance of Power; Franz A.J. Szabo

The American Revolution in an International Perspective: Views from Bicentennial Symposia; Lawrence S. Kaplan

The Reign of Sir Edward Grey as British Foreign Secretary F.H. HINSLEY, ed. British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Grey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1977. Pp. 702; ZARA S. STEINER. Britain and the Origins of the First World War. New York: St Martins Press 1977. Pp. 305.; Samuel R. Williamson, Jr     

REVIEWS

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.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: Historical Sociology. By Philip Abrams The Concept of Class: An Historical Introduction. By Peter Calvert. Late Roman Fortifications. By Stephen Johnson. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. By Wayne A. Meeks. Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations Under Early Hapsburg Absolutism, 1511–1636. By Hermann Rebel. Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480–1599. By Miriam Usher Chrisman. Luther's Last Battles: Politics and Polemics 1531–46. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr. European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Woodruff D. Smith. Social Protest, Violence and Terror in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe. Edited by W. Mommsen and G. Hirschfeld. Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England. Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights. By John A. Phillips. Slavery and British Society 1776–1846. Edited, with an introduction, by James Walvin. Peasants and Power: The Whiteboy Movements and their Control in Pre-Famine Ireland. By Michael Beames. De Valera and the Ulster Question, 1917–1973. By John Bowman. The Wildness Pleases. The Origins of Romanticism. By Christopher Thacker. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900. By Peter J. Bowler. The Chouans: The Social Origins of Popular Counter-Revolution in Upper Brittany, 1770–1796. By Donald Sutherland. Ideology and Experience: Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair. By Stephen Wilson. Karamanlis: The Restorer of Greek Democracy. By C. M. Woodhouse. Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich. By Joseph W. Bendersky. French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914–1918 / 1940–1944. By Richard Cobb. Zionism: The Formative Years. By David Vital. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. By Yisrael Gutman. Translated from the Hebrew by Ina Friedman. Kronstadt, 1917–1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy. By Israel Getzler. Soviet Policy in East Asia. Edited by Donald S. Zagoria. The Practice of Piety: The Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England. By Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe. War, Politics, & Revolution in Provincial Massachusetts. By William Pencak. Early Maryland in a Wider World. Edited by David B. Quinn. Abraham Clark and the Quest for Equality in the Revolutionary Era, 1774–1794. By Ruth Bogin. Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening of the Far Northwest, 1821–1852. By Theodore J. Karamanski. John Dickenson: Conservative Revolutionary. By Milton E. Flower. Ambivalent Conspirators: John Brown, The Secret Six, and A Theory of Slave Violence. By Jeffrey Rossbach. The Imperiled Union: 1861–1865. Volume II: Stand in the Day of Battle. By William C. Davis. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880–1920. By David L. Carlton. Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell: Napoleon of the Southwest. By Lawrence R. Murphy. Custer Victorious: The Civil War Rattles of General George Armstrong Custer. By Gregory J. W. Urwin. Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma. By William W. Savage, Jr. George Gauld: Surveyor and Cartographer of the Gulf Coast. By John D. Ware, Revised and completed by Robert R. Rea. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World. By Mott T. Greene. A Patron for Pure Science: The National Science Foundation's Formative Years, 1945–57. By J. Merton England. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections. Edited by Donald A. Krueckeberg. The Air-Line to Seattle: Studies in Literary and Historical Writing about America. By Kenneth S. Lynn. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. By Michael H. Hunt. HAP: The Story of the US. Air Force and the Man Who Built It, General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. By Thomas M. Coffey. The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs. By Robert Dallek F. D. R.: An Intimate History. By Nathan Miller. Oklahoma Politics: A History. By James R. Scales and Danney Goble. Counting Sheep: From Open Range to Agribusiness on the Columbia Plateau. BY Alexander Campbell McGregor. The Cattle Guard: Its History and Lore. By James F. Hoy. The Code of the West. By Bruce A. Rosenberg.     

Review Articles

The United States Foreign Service. MARTIN WEIL. A Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service. New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1978. Pp. 313; RICHARD HUME WERKING. The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service, 1890–1913. Lexington: The United Press of Kentucky 1977. Pp. xvi, 330; RACHEL WEST. The Department of State on the Eve of the First World War. Athens: The University of Georgia Press 1978. Pp. viii, 183. Reviewed by F.M. Carroll

Friends in Need, Allies in Competition. PETER LOWE. Great Britain and the Origins of the Pacific War: a Study of British Policy in East Asia, 1937–1941. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1977. Pp. 318; JAMES R. LEUTZE. Bargaining for Supremacy: Anglo-American Naval Collaboration, 1937–1941. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1977. Pp. 328; WILLIAM ROGER LOUIS. Imperialism at Bay 1941–1945: The United States and the Decolonisation of the British Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1977. Pp. 595; CHRISTOPHER THORNE. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945. London: Hamish Hamilton 1978. Pp. xxii, 772. Reviewed by T.B. Millar     

Book Notes

Books reviewed in this article: Donald L. Alexander (Ed.), Telecommunications Policy: Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number? John J. Audley, Green Politics and Global Trade: NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics. William I. Bacchus, The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive, and International Affairs Funding. Arnold Birenbaum, Managed Care: Made in America. Thomas A. Birkland, After Disaster; Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events. James Bowman and Donald Menzel (Eds.), Teaching Ethics and Values in Public Administration Programs. Robert J. Duffy, Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. Marianne Githens and Dorothy McBride Stetson (Eds.), Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Christopher Howard, The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States Joan Johnson-Freese and Roger Handberg, Space, The Dormant Frontier: Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, The Changing Federal Role in U.S. Health Care Policy. Yong S. Lee (Ed.), Technology Transfer and Public Policy. James Midgley, Social Welfare in Global Context. Nancy C. Roberts and Paula J. King, Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurs hip and Innovation. Denise Scheberle, Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation. David E. Wildasin (Ed.), Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations.     

Book Reviews

BRIAN BOND. British Military Policy between the Two World Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. XVI, 419. £16.00. Reviewed by Paul Kennedy

Washington Despatches, 1941–1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy, edited by H.G. Nicholas, with an introduction by Isaiah Berlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Pp. XVIII, 700. $40.00 (US), £20.00. Reviewed by David Reynolds

MARK C. WHEELER. Britain and the War for Yugoslavia, 1940–1943. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. 342 (East European Monographs, No. LXIV). SI8.50 (US). Reviewed by John O. Iatrides

PATRICIA JALLAND. The Liberals and Ireland. The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914. Hassocks, Sussex, 1980. Pp. 250. £20.00. Reviewed by John Kendle

BRIAN JENKINS. Britain and the War for the Union. Volume II. Montreal: McGill- Queen's University Press, 1980. Pp. IX, 480. $26.50 (US). Reviewed by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.

GEOFFREY ELLIS. Napoleon's Continental Blockade: The Case of Alsace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. 355. $65.75. (CAN.) Reviewed by Richard Glover

R.D. THORPE. The Uncrowned Prime Ministers. London: Darkhorse Publishing, 1980. Pp. XV, 263. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by J.O. Stubbs

DAVID DILKS, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. I. 1906–1939. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 213. £10. Reviewed by Trevor Burridge

DAVID DILKS, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. II. After 1939. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 198. £10. Reviewed by Ray Jones

CLAIRE HIRSCHFIELD. The Diplomacy of Partition: Britain, trance and the Creation of Nigeria, 1890–1898. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Pp. 234, Fl. 90. Reviewed by A.S. Kanya-Forstner

PHILIP M. TAYLOR. The Projection of Britain: British Overseas Publicity and Propaganda 1919–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xv, 363. £25.00. Reviewed by Keith Robbins

NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY. The Keyes Papers, Vol. III, 1939–1945, ed. Paul Halpern. London: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. 398. $;37.50 (Can.). Reviewed by Donald M. Schurman

JOHN TURNER. Lloyd George's Secretariat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp.vm, 254 £15. Reviewed by Patricia Jalland

JAMES NEIDPATH. The Singapore Naval Base and the Defence of Britain's Eastern Empire, 1919–1941. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp.XVII, 296. £22.50. Reviewed by C.C. Ong

ELEANOR M. GATES. End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939–40. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. XVIII, 630. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by P.M.H. Bell

F.H. HINSLEY ET AL. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Vol. I, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. 616. $29.95 (US); Vol. H, ibid., 1981. Pp. 690. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by D.C. Watt

E. MARY SMALLWOOD. The Jews under Roman Rule: A Study in Political Relations. From Pompey to Diocletian. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. Pp. XIV, 595. 96 guilders. Reviewed by Jacob Neusner     

Review Article: British Foreign Policy from Salisbury to Blair

JOHN W. YOUNG. Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 250. $19.95 (us), paper; DOUGLAS NEWTON. British Policy and the Weimar Republic, 1918–1919. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 481. $135.00 (CDN); RICHARD S. GRAYSON. Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe; British Foreign Policy, 1924–29. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 318. $49.50 (us); DAVID DUTTON. Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 576. $40.50 (CDN), paper; PETER JONES. America and the British Labour Party: The ‘Special Relationship’at Work. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. 252. $59.50 (us).     

REVIEWS

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Meaning of History. By Henri Marrou. Freedom in the Modern World. By Herbert J. Muller. The Shape of Medieval History: Studies in Modes of Perception. By William J. Brandt. They Saw it Happen in Europe, 1450–1600. By C. R. N. Routh. John the Fearless: The Growth of Burgundian Power. By Richard Vaughan. Reformation Europe, 1517–1559. By G. R. Elton. 1066: The Story of a Year. By Denis Butler. The Norman Conquest and the Common Law. By George W. Keeton. Origins of the Common Law. By Arthur R. Hogue. The Justicarship in England, 1066–1232. By Francis West. The Wars of the Roses. By J. R. Lander. Education and Society in Tudor England. By Joan Simon. Two Tudor Conspiracies. By D. M. Loades. The Growth of Responsible Government in Stuart England. By Clayton Roberts. The Corresopndence of Henry Oldenburg. Edited and translated by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall with the collaboration of Eberhard Reichmann. The Stuart Constitution, 1603–1688, Documents and Commentary. Edited By J. P. Kenyon. Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village. By A. C. Chibnall. The Bradlaugh Case: A Study in Late Victorian Opinion and Politics. By Walter L. Arnstein. The Age of Keynes. By Robert Lekachman. Scotland: James V to James VII. By Gordon Donaldson. The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603–1923. By J. C. Beckett. Daniel O'Connell and the Repeal Year. By Lawrence J. McCaffrey Plans for Political Reform in Imperial Russia, 1730–1905. By Marc Raeff. Stankevich and His Moscow Circle, 1830–1840. By Edward J. Brown. Russia and the Balkan Alliance of 1912. By Edward C. Thaden. Comintern and Peasant in East Europe 1919–1930. By George Jackson A Short History of Sweden. By Stewart Oakley. Seenteenth Century France. By G. R. R. Treasure. Louis XIV. By Vincent Buranelli. Empress Maria Theresa, the Earlier Years, 1717–1757 By Robert Pick. The Third Reich and the Arab East. By Lukasz Hirszowicz. Deutschlands Araberpolitik im iweiten Weltkrieg. By Heinz Tillmann. Napoleon III and the German Crisis, 1865–1866. By E. Ann Pottinger. Islam in the Modern National State. By Erwin I. J. Rosenthal. The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857. By J. A. B. Palmer. British Policy in India, 1858–1905. By Sarvepalli Gopal. Yoshitsune: A Fifteenth-Century Japanese Chronicle. Translated, with an Introduction, by Helen Craig McCullough. Chinese Intellectuals and the West, 1972-1949. By Y. C. Wang. A Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin, 1719–1722. By John Bell. Edited, with an Introduction, by J. L. Stevenson. The French in the Mississippi Valley. Edited by John Francis McDermott. Americana-Austriaca: Festschrift des Amerika-Instituts der Universität Innsbruck anläBlich seines zehnjährigen Bestehens. Edited By Klaus Lanzinger. Slavery and Methodism: A Chapter in American Morality 1780–1845. By Donald G. Mathews. The Prisoners of Algiers: An Account of the Forgotten American-Algerian, War, 1785–1797. By H. G. Barnby. A Shower of Stars: The Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine. By John J. Pullen. Bankers and Cattlemen. By Gene M. Gressley. Ray Stannard Baker: The Mind and Thought of a Progressive. By Robert C. Bannister The New York City Sketches of Stephen Crane and Related Pieces. Edited by R. W. Stallman and E. R. Hagemann. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Volume I, 1856–1880. Edited by Arthur S. Link. Politics Is Adjourned: Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress, 1916–1918. By Seward W. Livermore. Letters On The League of Nations: From the Files of Raymond B. Fosdick. By Raymond B. Fosdick. The Uncertain Giant: 1921–1941: American Foreign Policy between the Wars. By Selig Adler. High Dams and Slack Waters: TV A Rebuilds a River. By Wilmon Henry Droze. The Formative Year of Social Security. By Arthur J. Altmeyer. The Petitioners: The Story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. By Loren Miller. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN: A Study in Command. By E. P. Forrestel, with an Introduction by E. M. Eller. The United States and Latin American Wars, 1932–1942. By Bryce Wood. Mexican Marxist: Vicente Lombardo Toledano. By Robert Paul Million. Actión Democratica: Evolution of a Modern Political Party in Venezuela. By John D. Martz. A History of Modern Brazil, 1889–1964. By José Maria Bello. Translated by James L. Taylor How to Study History. By Norman F. Cantor and Richard I. Schneider The Sense of the Past, Thirteen Studies in the Theory and Practice of History. By C. V. Wedgwood. The Structure of European History. Volume I, Ancient Civilization: 4000 B. C.-400 A. D. Volume II, Medieval Society: 400–1450. Volume III, Early Modern Europe: 1450–1650. Volume IV, The Fulfillment and Collapse of the Old Regime: 1650–1815. Volume V, The Making of the Modern World: 1815–1914. Volume VI, The Twentieth Century: 1914 to the Present. Edited, with introductions, by Norman F. Cantor and Michael S. Werthman. Continuity and Change in Latin America. Edited, with an introduction, by John J. Johnson. The Professions in America. Edited, with an introduction, by Kenneth S. Lynn The Popular Arts. By Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel. The Colonizer and the Colonized. By Albert Memmi. Voices in the Classroom: Public Schools and Public Attitudes. By Peter Schrag. Science and Culture. Edited, with an introduction, by Gerald Holton. The Case for Liberty. By Helen Hill Miller. A History of the Bible. By Fred Gladstone Bratton. Utopias and Utopian Thought. A Timely Appraisal. Edited by Frank E. Manuel. Political Ideology. Why the American Common Man Believes What He Does. By Robert Lane. Studies on Asia 1966. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert K. Sakai. Life in the Middle Ages. Selected, translated, and annotated by G. G. Coulton. Emerging Medieval Europe: A.D. 400–1000. By Archibald R. Lewis. Joan of Arc. By Jules Michelet. Translated, with an introduction, by Albert Guerard. The English Tradition: Modern Studies in English History. Volume I, to 1714. Volume II, since 1714. Edited by Norman F. Cantor and Michael S. Werthman. Three Pillars of Zen. Teaching Practice Enlightenment. Compiled and Edited by Philip Kapleau. A New Europe? A Timely Appraisal. Edited by Stephen R. Graubard. World in Crisis: Readings in International Relations. Edited by Frederick l Hartmann. Diary of the Sinai Campaign. By Moshe Dayan. Theological Highlights of Vatican II. By Joseph Ratzinger. Sino-Soviet Relations, 1964–1965. Edited, with an introduction, by William E. Griffith. The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: 1511–1957. Edited by John Bastin. No Peace for Asia. By Harold R. Isaacs. The Woman in America. By Robert Jay Lifton. Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind. By Roy Harvey Pearce. Essays in American Diplomacy. Edited, with an introduction, by Armin Rappaport. The Character of American History. By W. R. Brock. The Church and the City. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert D. Cross. The Storyo f Tobacco in America. By Joseph C. Robert. Absentee Ownership: The Case of America. By Thorstein Veblen. The Great Awakening. Edited by Alan Heimert and Perry Miller. The Sevdenteenth Century: 1600–1715. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew Lossky. Provincial America, 1600–1763. Edited by Bradley Chapin. Navaho Witchcraft. By Clyde Kluckhohn. The Negro and the American Revolution. By Benjamin Quarles. The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735–1785. By Brooke Hindle. The Supreme Court: Law and Discretion. Edited by Wallace Mendelson. Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court. Edited by Harold L. Nelson. Expansion and Reform, 1815–1850. Edited by Charles M. Wiltse. The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861–1870. Edited, with an Introduction, by Harold M. Hyman. The South and the Sectional Image: The Sectional Theme Since Reconstruction. Edited by Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. The Urban Community: Housing and Planning in the Progressive Era. By Roy Lubove. The Populist Mind. Edited, with an introduction, by Norman Pollack. Lester Ward and the Welfare State. Edited, with an introduction, by Henry Steele Commager. The Progressives. Edited by Carl Resek. The Writings of Theodore Roosevelt. Edited by William H. Harbaugh. The Responsibilities of Power: 1900–1929. Edited, with an introduction, by George Harmon Knowles. The Contemporary University: U. S. A. Edited, with an introduction by Robert S. Morison. The New Student Left. Edited, with an introduction, by Mitchell Cohen and Dennis Hale. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal. By Howard Zinn. American Consul in a Cretan War. By William J. Stillman. With an introduction and notes by George Georgiades Arnakis. Notes on the State of Virginia. By Thomas Jefferson. Edited, with an introduction, by William Peden. They Closed their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951–1964. By Bob Smith. Guide to the Wisconsin State Archives. Edited, with an introduction, by David J. Delgado.