Besprechungen ‐ Reviews

Deissmann, Adolf: Forschungen und Funde im Serai. Mit einem Verzeichnis der nichtislamischen Handschriften im Topkapu Serai zu Istanbul. — Berlin, Leipzig 1933. X+144S.

Dzikowski, Mikolaj: Zbior kartograficzny Uniwersy‐teckiej bibljoteki publicznej w Wilnie (= Kartographische Sammlung der öffentlichen Universitätsbibliothek in Wilno). S. A. aus dem Sammelband “Bibljoteki Wilenskia”. Jahrbuch VIII des “Ateneum Wilenskiego”. Wilno 1932, 29 pp.

Katalog wystawy zbioröw kartograficznych Bibljoteki Narodowej w Warszawie. — Warszawa 1934.— Catalogue de l'exposition des collections cartographiques de la .Bibliothèque Nationale à Varsovie, Varsovie 1934. 113 pp.

Catalogus Mapparum geographicarum ad his‐toriam pertinentium, quae curante collegio historico‐geographorum adiuvantibus viris con‐gressui ordinando in polytechnico Varsoviensi exponuntur. — Varsovie 1933. XV+296 pp.

Fischer, Josephus: De Cl. Ptolemaei vita operibus Geographia praesentim eiusque fatis. — Leiden‐Leipzig 1932. XVI+607 pp. 4°.

Almagia, Roberto: II planisfero di Arnoldo de Arnoldi (1600). — Publicazioni dell’ Istituto di Geografia della R. Universita di Roma. Serie B. Num. 2. Roma 1934. 13 pp.+1 Tab. 4°.

Buczek, Karol: Beauplaniana. — S.A. aus “Wiado‐mosci sluzby geograficznej”. Nr. 1, 1934, 36 pp.

Otani, Ryökichi: Tadataka Inö, the Japanese Land‐surveyor. — Tokyo 1932. V+IV +358 pp.

Kordt, V. Materijali do istorii kartografii Ukraini. Cordt, B. Monumenta cartographica Ucrainae. Vol. I. Kiev 1931. 34 pp. + 41 Tab. 2°.

Svambera, V. & Salamon, B.: Monumenta Cartographica Bohemiae. I. Feuilles 1 et la. — Carte de la Bohême de 1518 par Nicolaus Claudianus. Texte par Iv. Honl et K. Kuchaf. — Praha 1930. 2 Tab. 2°.

Feuille 2e. — Une Carte de la Bohême de la 2e moitié du XVIe siècle du type Criginger. — Praha 1930. 1 Tab. 2°. Texte par K. Kuchaf. Praha 1932. 31 pp. (französisch) + 26 pp. (tschechisch).

II. Mappa geographica regni Bohemiae ... XXV sec‐tionibus exhibita à Joh. Cristoph: Müller, S. C. M. Capitan: et Ingen: A. C. MDCCXX. — Regni Bohemiae... conspectus Generaiis... à Joh: Christoph: Müller... — Gallice et bohemice praefatus est Dr. K. Kuchaf. — Praha 1934. 1 p. (französisch) + 7 pp. (8° tschechisch), 26 Tab. 2°.

Sindik, Ilija: Les cartes anciennes de pays Jugo‐slaves. — Atlas de la Société de Géographie de Beograd. Fase. 6: I. Tabula Peutingeriana et les types de cartes médiévales. 1931. 8 Tab. Fase. 8: II. Les Cartes de la période de Renaissance. 1932. 8 Tab. 4°.

Karpinski, Louis C: Bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan 1804—1880 with a series of over one hundred reproductions of maps constituting an historical atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan. Including discussions of Michigan maps and map‐makers, by William Lee Jenks. — Lancing 1931. 539 pp., XXXVI + 86 Tab.

Newton, Arthur Percival: The great age of discovery. — London 1932. XI + 230 pp., 30 Tab.

Fournier, P.: Voyages et découvertes scientifiques des missionares naturalistes français à travers le monde pendant cinq siècles, XVe a XXe siècles. — Paris 1932. 108+258 pp.

Berg, Leo S. Uroven Kaspijskogo morja za istoriieskoe vremja. — Niveau de la mer Caspienne dans les temps historiques. — Aus: Problemy fiziîeskoj geografii, Leningrad. 1. 1934, p. 11–64.

Schulze, Berthold: Erläuterungen zur Brandenburgischen Kreiskarte von 1815. Einzelschriften der Historischen Kommission für die Provinz Brandenburg und die Reichshauptstadt Berlin, 6. — Berlin 1933, VI+98 pp.

Adolf Schück. Historisk Atlas. Skolupplaga. Stockholm, 1934. 32 pp. 4°.     

War memorials and the commemoration of the Israeli war of independence, 1948–1956

Gershon Greenberg, The Holy Land in American Religious Thought, 1620–1948: The Symbiosis of American Religious Approaches to Scripture's Sacred Territory, Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1994.

Steven Beller, Herzl, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991, 161 pp.

Theodor Herzl: Briefe und Tagebucher, Briefe 1895–1898, Vol. 4, 1990, and Briefe 1898–1900, Vol. 5, 1991, Barbara Schäfer et al, eds., Frankfurt/M., Propyläen Verlag.

Jacques Kornberg, Theodar Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1993, 272 pp., $24.95.

Michael Berkowitz, Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, £29.95.

Laura Zittrain-Eisenberg, My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900–1948, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1994, 211 pp., $29.95.

Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al‐Hajj Amin al‐Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, New York, Columbia University Press (Revised Edition), 1991.

Hava Eshkoli (Wagman), Silence: Mapai and the Holocaust — 1939–1942, Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 1994.

Yechiam Weitz, Aware but Helpless: Mapai and the Hobcaust — 1943–1945, Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 1994.

Jehuda Reinharz, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. xii, 498 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations, £32.50.

Dov Gavish, Land and Map: The Survey of Palestine, 1920–1948 (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 1991, 297 pp.

David H. Shpiro, From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years 1933–1945, New York, Pergamon Press, 1994, xxxvi + 208 pp.

Asher Susser, On Both Banks of the Jordan: A Political Biography of Wasfi al‐Tall, Frank Cass, London, 1994.

Samuel Heilman, Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra‐Orthodox Jewry. New York, Schocken Books, 1992, xxxi, 394 pp., $27.50.

Yosef Gorny, The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity, New York, New York University Press, 1994, xii+279 pp.     

Book reviews

MIDDLE EAST AND FAR EAST, Allan S. Walker, M.D., Ch.M., F.R.A.C.P. Published by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Obtainable at all booksellers, price 35/‐.

UNESCO, HUMANISM AND EDUCATION IN EAST AND WEST — Published in 1953 by the United Nations. 224 pages.

THE ALTERNATIVE (a dynamic approach to our relations with Asia). By John Burton, B.A., B.Ec., Ph.D., Sydney. Morgans Publications, 1954. PP. 116.

TING HSIEN — A North China Rural Community: By Sidney D. Gamble (Institute of Pacific Relations, New York, 1954). U.S. $6.50.

ZWISCHEN BEFREIUNG UND FREIHEIT. DER SONDERFALL OSTERREICH, by Karl Gruber. Verlag Ullstein. Wien, 1953.

AMERICAN ECONOMIC POLICY TOWARDS THE PHILIPPINES: By Shirley Jenkins — With an introduction by Claude A. Buss. Published under the auspices of the American Institute of Pacific Relations by Stanford University Press, California, 1954. P. 181.

THE ORIGINS OF PRUSSIA: By F. L. Carsten—Clarendon Press. Oxford, 1954. 309 pp., 1 map. (55/6 sterling).     

Seutter,Probst and lotten an eighteenth‐century map publishing house in Germany

Decorative printed maps of the 15Th to 18Th centuries. A revised edition of Old decorative maps and charts by A. L. Humphreys. By R. A. Skelton. London‐New York. 1952. 80 p. 84 plates, of which 12 in colours.

“The World Encompassed”—Catalogue Of An exhibition of the history of maps, held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October‐November, 1952. Published by the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 1952. 60 plates.

Union Géographique Internationale. Rapport de la Commission pour la Bibliographie des cartes Anciennes. Fasc. I. Rapport au XVIIe Congrès International, Washington 1952 par R. Almagià. Contributions pour un Catalogue des Cartes Manuscrites 1200–1500 éditées par M. Destombes. 1952. 63 p. Fasc. II. Catalogue des cartes Gravées au XVe siècle par Marcel Destombes. Mesnil. 1952. 95 p.

The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode Island. Report to the Corporation of Brown University, July 1, 1951. Providence. 1951. 74 p.

Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600–1850. An Essay on the cultural, artistic and scientific influence exercised by the Hollanders in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by C. R. Boxer. The Hague. 2nd edit. 1950. 198 p., 17 pl.

The Vienna‐Klosterneuburg Map Corpus of the Fifteenth Century. A Study of the transition from medieval to modern science. By Dana Bennet Durand. Leiden 1952. XVI ‐ 510 p. 5 figs. 23 plates.

R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica Vaticana. Vol. III. Le pitture murali della Galleria delle carte geografiche. Città del Vaticano. Biblioteca Apos‐tolica Vaticana. 1952. In folio. VIII ‐ 90 pp. LIV plates.

Il Padre Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718) nel Terzo Centenario della Nascita (= Father Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718) in the Third Centenary of his Birth). Roma. 1951–1952. 525 pp., 40 plates.

Bo Bramsen. Gamle Danmarks Kort. An historical review with bibliographic comments for the epoch 1570–1770. Copenhagen. 1952. 159 p. Ills.

Etude historique sur les ingénieurs hydrographes et le service hydrographique de la marine (1814‐1914) par M. Maurice Rollet de L'Isle. Annales hydrographiques. 1950. 4e ser. T.I. (bis). Paris. 1951. 378 p. XXII Pls.

A List of Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era. By George H. Beans. Tall Tree Library Publication no. 23; Jenkiniown, Pa., 1951.     

The Vinland Map,R. A. Skelton and Josef Fischer

Philipp Apian, 24 Bairische Landtafeln von 1568. Facsimile edition in colour offset. Munich, 1966 DM 380..

Journals and other documents on the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. Transl. &; ed. by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York, The Heritage Press (1963).

Bo Bramsen, Gamle Danmarkskort. En historisk oversigt med bibliografiske noter for perioden 1570–1770. K?benhavn, Gr?nholt Pedersen forlag, 1965. pp. 160 c 100 maps. D.kr. 85. (Danish)

Karl Heinz Burmeister, Sebastian Münster, eine Bibliographie. Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler Verlag. 1964. pp. 143, 22 ill., DM 93.60.

Itinerarium orbis Christian!. Der älteste Reise‐atlas der Welt. Facsimile, publ. by Schuler Verlags‐gesellschaft, Stuttgart. 1965. Introd. by A. Fauser and T. Seifert. 267 maps and views. 20 x 27 cm. DM 30.—

The Fry &; Jefferson Map of Virginia and Maryland. Facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings with an index. Published for the Harry demons Publication Fund of the University of Virginia. Charlottes‐ville, the University Press of Virginia, 1966. pp. 48; 2 x 4 reproductions, each 40 x 63 cm. In jacket, 35 x 24 cm. Printed in 500 copies.

Karol Buczek: The History of Polish Cartography from the 15th to the 18th Century. Translated by Andrzej Potocki. Cracow and Warsaw. 1966. 135 pages text, 60 plates, 1 table.

Sebastian Münster: Mappa Europae. Facsimile. Edited by Klaus Stopp. Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler Verlag, 1965, pp. 21, 24 sheets, 2 folded maps. DM 36.‐.

G. R. Crone, Maps and their makers. London, Hutchinson University Library, 1966, pp. xiv + 192. Illustrated. 11/6 paperback.

L. A. Goldenberg, Semen Uljanovi? Remezov, Siberian cartographer and geographer, 1642‐after 1720. Nauka, Moskva, 1965. pp. 260, ill, 3 folded reproduction. 20 x 13 cm. Russian. 3 Rbl.

Francesco Bonasera, Forma veteris urbis Ferrariae. Comune di Ferrara, Centro di studi sul rina‐scimento Ferrarese. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1965. pp. 105, xxvi ill. 31 x 21 cm. 6000 Lire.

The History of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer and his “Spieghel der Zeevaerdt”; (in colour facsimile). By Dr. C. Koeman, Lecturer in History of Cartography, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Lausanne, Sequoia S.A., 1964. Facsimile, 12in. x 16Jin. (305 mm. x413 mm.) in case; Introduction, 8 3/4 in. x 11 in. (123 mm. x 800 mm.); 72 pp., 25 pls. price £40.     

Book reviews

ESSAYS ON SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: By Karl Mannheim—Edited by Paul Kecskemeti, Routledge and Kegan Paid, 1953. 319 pages.

ISRAEL BETWEEN EAST AND WEST—A study in human relations: By Raphael Patai. The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 5713–1953. 24 pages, illustrated.

THE NEMESIS OF POWER—The German Army in Politics, 1918–1945, by John W. Wheeler‐Bennett. London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 829 pp.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND ITS BACKGROUND—Economic and political group organisation. By Rudolph Schlesinger. (Routledge and Kegan Paul) London, 1953. pp. 402. Price, 30s. (stg.)

MOTURIKI—A pilot project in community development, By Howard Hoyden. Published under the auspices of the South Pacific Commission. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1954. 42s.

THE HISTORIAN'S CRAFT: Marc Bloch. Manchester University Press, 1954. Pp. xxi Plus 197. 12/6.     

Reviews

COSTA RICA. A Study in Economic Development. By Stacy May (Director), Just Faaland, Albert P. Koch, Howard L. Parsons, and Clarence Senior. The Twentieth Century Fund, New York. Published in Great Britain by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1952. Two end‐maps, nine appendices and 52 tables. Pp. xiv and 374. Price $3.

FRIENDS and NEIGHBOURS—Australia and the World. By the Rt. Hon. R. G. Casey, C.H., D.S.O., M.C., M.P. Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1954 Pp. 166.

IRAQ 1900 TO 1950—A Political, Social and Economic Study, by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, issued under the auspices of the R.I.I.A., Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1953. Pp. 436. Price 57/.

THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA. By A. G. L. Shaw. Faber and Faber, London, 1955. Pp. 308. Map, illustrations. 15/‐stg.

ECONOMIC PLANNING UNDER FREE ENTERPRISE, by Henry Grayson. Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C., 1954. Pp. x plus 134.     

Book Reviews

IN SARA'S TENTS. By WALTER STARKIE, Litt.D. London, 1953. Pp. 339. 25s. net. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THE SHEPHERDS' PLAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON. Coloquio de pastores del hijo prodigo. GEORGE C. BARKER. University of California Press, 1953. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA. By DAVID THOMSON. Turnstile Press. London. 1954. Pp. ix + 214. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE PERSONNEL OF FAIRYLAND. By K. M. BRIGGS, M.A., D. Phil. (Oxon.). Pp. 228. Oxford. 1953. 93. 6d. Reviewed by M. A. Murray.

BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN RELIGION. By S. H. HOOKE. Hutchinson's University Library, London. 1953. Pp. xii + 128. 8s. 6d. Reviewed by S. G. F. Brandon.

THE BIBLE. Historical Social and Literary Aspects of the Old and New Testaments. Published by The Times. 1954. Pp. 32, with illustrations, 1s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.     

Current Books

TOLD IN THE MARKET PLACE. By C. G. CAMPBELL. Ernest Benn. Pp. 207. 1954. 10s. 6d. Reviewed by A. S. T.

ENGLISH FOLK SONG, SOME CONCLUSIONS. By CECIL J. SHARP. 3rd Edition. Methuen. London. 1954. Reviewed by V. A.

AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION. By GEOFFREY PARRINDER. Hutch inson's University Library, London. 1954. Pp. 156. Map. 8s. 6d. Reviewed by Edwin W. Smith

WAYS OF MAMMALS IN FACT AND FANCY. By CLIFFORD B. MOORE. Ronald Press. New York, 15s.net. Reviewed by L. R. Brightwall.

GREEK PROVERBS. A collection of proverbs and proverbial phrases which are not listed by the ancient and Byzantine paroemiographers. By REINHOLD STROMBERG. Göteborgs kungl. Vetenstaps-och. Vitterhets-Samhälles Handliugar, Sjätte Följden, Ser. A, Band 4, No. 8. Göteborg, 1954. Kr. 15. Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

SCOTLAND'S DANCES. By H. A. THURSTON. London, 1954. Pp. 160. 11s. 6d. Reviewed by V. A.

THE WORD ON THE BRAZOS. By J. MASON BREWER. Foreword by J. FRANK DOBIE. Illustrations by RALPH WHITE, JR. Pp. xv, 109. Austin. University of Texas Press. 1953. $3.50. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

CHIEFS AND GODS : RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ELEMENTS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN BANTU KINGSHIP. By OLAF PETTERSSON. With map. Pp. 405. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

LES COSTUMES DES POPULATIONS BRETONNES. By R.-Y. CRESTON. Avec préface de P.-R. GIOT. 2 vols. Pp. 66, 120; maps 21, 66. Numerous other illustrations. Rennes, 1953–4. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE UNWRITTEN LAW IN ALBANIA. By the late MARGARET HASLUCK. Edited by J. H. HUTTON. Cambridge University Press. Pp. xv, 285. With a map. 30s. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.     

La revolution aujourd'hui

Paolo Viola, Il crollo dell ‘antico regime. Politica e antipolitica nella Francia della Rivoluzione, Rome, Donzelli, 1993, 221 p., ISBN 88–7989–008–5.

Paolo Viola, E’ legale perché lo voglio io. Attualità della Rivoluzione francese, Rome‐Bari, Laterza, 1994, 162 pages, ISBN 88–420–4388–5     

Book reviews

Luciano Guerci and Giuseppe Ricuperati (eds) 1998 Il coraggio della ragione. Franco Venturi intellettuale e storico cosmopolita (Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi promosso da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Accademia delle Scienze, Deputazione Subalpina di Storia Patria, Torino, 12–14 dicembre 1996) (Turin: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi), pp. 1–497, ISBN 88–430–1129–4.

Stefano Levati ( 1997) La nobiltà del lavoro. Negozianti e banchieri a Milano tra Ancien Regime e Restaurazione (Milan: Franco Angeli), pp. 1–320, 40,000 lire.

Guido Formigoni (1998) L'Italia dei cattolici: Fede e nazione dal Risorgimento alla Repubblica (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–176, 22,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06314–5 paperback.

Albert Schram ( 1997) Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century, ’Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1–164, Bibliography and Index, $59.95, ISBN 0–521–57159–6 hardback.

Catherine Brice (1989) Monumentanté publique et politique à Rome. Le Vittoriano (Rome: École Française de Rome), pp. 1–439.

Hans Woller ( 1997) I conti con il fascismo: L'epurazione in Italia 1943–1948 (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–603, 50,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06198–3 paperback.

Maria Stone ( 1998) The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), pp. 1–334, ISBN 0–691–05999–3 paperback.

Angelo Ventrone (1996) La cittadinanza repubblicana. Forma‐partito e identità nazionale alle origini della democrazia italiana (1943–1948) (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–305, 38,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–05508–8 paperback.

R. J. B. Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani (eds) (1999) kalian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation (Houndmills and New York: Macmillan/St Martin's Press), pp. 1–245, ISBN 0–312–21717.

Ernesto Galli della Loggia (1998) L'identità italiana (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–171, 18,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–066 12–8 paperback.

Aldino Monti (1998) I braccianti (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–161, 18,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06582–2 paperback.

Giuliana Gemelli (ed.) (1998) Scuole di management Orìgini e primi sviluppi delle business schools in Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–543, ISBN 88–15–06297–1 paperback.

Valeria Fargion (1997) Geografia della cittadinanza sociale in Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–351, 42,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06127–4 paperback.

Umberto Gentiloni Silveri (1998) L'Italia e la nuova frontiera: Stati Uniti e centrosinistra 1958–1965 (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–343, 45,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06282–3 paperback.     

The 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography,Moscow, Russia, 10–15 July 2011

Introduction to the History of Science. Volume III. Science and Learning in the Fourteenth Century. By George Sarton. Baltimore 1947. In 2 parts: XXXV + XI + 2155 PP.

W. W. Hyde. Ancient Greek Mariners. New York. 1947. XII+360. 5 maps.

Some American Contributions to the Art of Navigation 1519–1802. By Lawrence C. Wroth. Providence. 1947. 41 p.

Marcel Destombes. La Mappemonde de Petrus Plancius. Grav´e Par Josua van den Ende 1604, D'apràs L'unique Exemplaire de la Bibliothàque Nationale de Paris. Publication de la Société de Géographie de Hanoi. Tonkin. 1944. 52 p. XIII tab. Folio.

Ermano Armao. Vincenzo Coronelli. Cenni sull'Uomo e la sua vita‐‐‐catalogo ragionato delle sue opere —— Lettere — Fonti bibliografiche —— Indici. Biblicteca di bibliografia italiana diretta da Albano Sorbelli. XVII. Firenze. 1944. XI + 326. Fig.

El Rio Del Espi'Ritu Santo. An Essay on the Cartography or the Gulf Coast and the Adjacent Territory during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Jean Delanglez, S. J. Edited by Th. J. Me. Mahon. U. S. Catholic Historical Society, Monograph Series. XXI. New York. 1945. XIII+182 p. Facs.

Gamla Kartor. Varlden— Norden — Västkusten — Göteborg. Sjöfartsmuseet 4–30 Maj 1948. Göteborg. 1948. (Lund) 91 p. 12 Tab.

L'Africa Dalle Origini alla meta del Secolo XIX. Mostra Bibliografica. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze. Firenze. 1948. 81 p.

Catalogue of Maps in the Essex Record Office, 1566 —1875. Edited, for the Records Committee by F. G. Emmison. Essex County Council, Chelmsford. 1947, 106 p., 30 pl. Facs.

The John Carter Brown Library. Annual Report 1946–1947. Providence. 1947. 63 P.     

A Selection of Books on Zionism and the Land of Israel, 1989

Barnet Litvinoff, ed., Selected Letters of Weizmann, Am Oved and Yad Chaim Weizmann, 463 pp.

Meir Miber‐Maiberg, In the Shadow of the Citadel: The Stand of Safed, Milo Publishers, 379 pp.

Eliahu Eilat, Through the Mists of Time: Memoirs, Yad Yitzhak Ben‐Zvi, Jerusalem, 233 pp.

Hagit Lavsky, ed., Jerusalem in Zionist Consciousness and Deed, Shazar Center and the Center for the Study of Zionism and the Yishuv, 464 pp.

Twenty Years in Jerusalem — 1967–1987, a collection of articles edited by Professor Joshua Prawer and Ora Achimeir, Defense Ministry Publishing House and the Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 267 pp.     

The Letter of Toledo

FOLKLORE STUDIES. SUPPLEMENT NO. I. Ethnographische Beiträge aus der Ch'inghai Provinz, China. Zusammengesteilt von Ch'inghai Missionaren anlässlich des 75-jährigen Jubiläums der Gesellschaft des Göttlichen Wortes. 1a. 8vo Peking, 1952. pp. [3], 354 + 5 plates. Reviewed by A. D. W.

LAS DANZAS POPULARES ARGENTINAS. Vol. I, Buenos Aires, 1952. By CARLOS VEGAS. Pp. 780. Reviewed by V. A.

LES GEANTS PROCESSIONELS DE WALLONIE. By RENÉ MEURANT. Brussels, 1953. Pp. 62. Reviewed by V. A.

KEPHALONITIKA GNOMIKA, (Kεφaλoνirικa Γνwμικá). Proverbs from Kephalonia. By DIM S. LOUKATOS, Pp. 224; with a map. Athens, 1953. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN GREEK STORY-MOTIVES. By PHOTEINE P. BOURBOULIS ; published as a supplement (parártima) to Elleniká, Periodikón, SyngrammaHetaireías Makedonikón Spoudón, Thessalonike, 1953, pp. 106. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

LEGENDS OF THE BAIT AL-KRETLIYA as told by SHEIKH SULAIMAN AL-KRETLI and put into English by R. G. “ JOHN ” GAYER-ANDERSON PASHA illustrated by Abd al-Aziz Abdu of Cairo. Luzac and Co. N.D. Reviewed by Raglan.

ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN : Observing the Past. By I. NOËL-HUME. London, Foyles Handbooks, 1953. Sm. 8vo, 120 pp. 2/6d. Reviewed by L. V. Grinsell.     

George Washington's America: A Biography through His Maps. By Barnet Schecter

The Library of Congress. The Services and Collections of the Map Division. By Walter W. Ristow. Washington, D.C. 1951. 22 p. Ill.

Paolo Revelli. Il Genovese. Genova. 1951. 273 p. Tabs.

Ermanno Armao. In giro per il Mar Egeo con Vincenzo Coronelli. Note di topologia, toponomastica E storia medieval. Florence. VIII + 426 p. Ill. 1951.

G. V. Yanikov. Velikaya Severnaya Ekspeditsiya (= The Great Northern Expedition). Moskva. 164 p. Maps.

A. V. Efimov. Iz istorii velikikh Russkikh geograficheskikh otkrytiy (= From the history of the great Russian geographical discoveries). Moskva. 1949. 150 p. Illustr. By the same author: Iz istorii velikikh Russkikh geograficheskikh otkrytiy v Severnom Ledovitom i Tikhom okeanakh XVII—pervaya polovina XVIII v. (= Great Russian geographical discoveries on the Northern and Pacific Oceans in the 17th and the first half of the 18th century). Moskva 1950. 318 p. Maps.

Kniga Bol'shomu Chertezhu. Podgotovka k pechati i redakciya K. N. Serbinoy. Moskva‐Leningrad. 1950. 229 p.     

Book reviews

THE MIND OF EAST ASIA, Lily Abegg. (338 pp. with Index). Translated from the German. Thames and Hudson; London, New York.

BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES: Problems in Co‐operation. A joint report prepared by Henry L. Roberts and Paul A. Wilson. London. Royal Institute of International Affairs. Pp. 224. Price 8/6 sterling. 1953.

D?R LAUTLOSE AUFSTAND. BERICHT VEBER DIE WIDER‐STANDSBEWEGUNG DES DEUTSCHEN VOLKES 1933–1945. Herausgegeben von Guenther Weissenborn. Rowohlt Verlag Hamburg. Pp. 348.

“EASTERN AND WESTERN WORLD”: Selected Readings with a foreword by S. Hofstra. Issued under the auspices of the Netherlands Foundation for International Co‐operation and published by W. Van Hoeve Ltd., The Hague, Bandung. 1953. Pp. 181.

NATIONALISM AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION. By Karl W. Deutsch. John Wiley & Sons, N. Y. viii and 292.

BURMA UNDER THE JAPANESE: By Thakin Nu. Pictures and Portraits, Edited and translated with Introduction by J. S. Furnivall. Macmillan, London. 1954. Pp. xxviii and 132. Price 12s 6d.

COMMODITY TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT—Report of a Committee appointed by the Secretary‐General, United Nations, Published by the United Nations, 1953.     

Chronicle

Concepts in the history of cartography, a review and a perspective. By M. J. Blakemore and J. B. Harley. Cartographica, volume 17, number 4, winter 1980, monograph 26. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. Pp. 120.

Understanding maps: a systematic history of their use and development. By A. G. Hodgkiss. Folkestone: Dawson, 1981. Pp. 209.

La carte, image des civilizations. By George Kish. Paris: Seuil. Pp. 287.

Cartes et figures de la terre. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980. Pp. 480.

The mapmakers. Byjohn Noble Wilford. London: Junction Books, 1981. Pp. xi+169.

Papers of the Nordenskiöld seminar on the history of cartography and the maintenance of cartographic archives, Espoo (Finland), September 12–15, 1979. Edited by Kerkko Hakulinen and Arvo Peltonen. Helsinki: Nordenskiöld‐samfundet, 1981. Pp. 246.

Looking at old maps. By John Booth. Westbury, Wiltshire: Cambridge House Books, 1979. Pp. xiii + 167.

The map librarian in the modem world: essays in honour of Walter W. Ristow. Edited by Helen Wallis and Lothar Zögner. Presented by the IFLA Section of Geography and Map Libraries. München, New York, London, Paris: K. G. Saur, 1979. Pp. 295.

Somerset maps: Day &; Masters 1782, Greenwood 1822. Introduction by J. B. Harley and R. W. Dunning. Taunton: Somerset Record Society, 1981. Pp. 37 with facsimiles in 15 sheets.

The ‘Rhinebeck’ panorama of London. Introduction by Ralph Hyde. London: London Topographical Society, Publication No. 125, 1981. Pp. 6, pl. 4.

A history of the Ordnance Survey. Edited by W. A. Seymour. Folkestone: Dawson, 1980. Pp. 359.

Wall‐maps of the 16th and 17th centuries. 3: The world map of 1611 by Pieter van den Keere. Edited by Gunther Schilder and James Welu. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1980. Pp. 25, pl. 12.

Johann Baptista Homann, die Homännischen Erben, Matthäus Seutter und ihre Landkarten. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kartographie. By C. Sandler. Amsterdam: Meridian Publishing, 1979. Pp. 152.

Alte Pläne von Stadt und Festung Saarlouis. By Fritz Hellwig. Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1980. Pp. xxxix + 120.

Monumenta cartografica. Dudavar Eröditési Térképe 1749. Budapest: Zrinye Katonai Kiadó, 1980. Pp. 10.

Atlanti Napoletani del diciannovesimo secolo. By Vladimiro Valerio. Naples: Luigi Regina, 1980. Pp. 114.

Chung‐kuo ti‐t'u‐hsueh shih [History of cartography of China]. By Ch'en Cheng‐siang. Hong Kong: Shang‐wu Yin‐shu Kuan, 1979. Pp. 96.

Indianische Karlen Nordamerikas: Beiträge zur historischen Kartographie vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. By Rainer Vollmar. Berlin: Deitrich Reimer Verlag, 1981. Pp. 179.

Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress. Plans of North American cities and towns produced by the Sanbom Map Company. A checklist compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section, Geography and Map Division. Washington: Library of Congress, 1981. Pp. xiv + 773.

The cartography of Northern Virginia: facsimile reproductions of maps dating from 1608 to 1915. Selected and introduced by Richard W. Stephenson. Fairfax County, Virginia: Office of Comprehensive Planning, 1981. Pp. 144.

The Northpart of America. By Coolie Verner and Basil Stuart‐Stubbs. Toronto: Academic Press Canada Limited, 1979. Pp. xi + 292.

The maps of Canada: a guide to official Canadian maps, charts, atlases and gazetteers. By N. L. Nicholson and L. M. Sebert. Folkestone: Dawson; Hamden, Conn. : Archon, 1981. Pp. x + 251.

Das Geheimnis des Drachenschwanzes. Die Kenntnis Amerikas vor Kolumbus. By Paul Gallez. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1980. Pp. 184.     

The Challenge of Modernity. Essays on Grazia Deledda

Sam Rohdie (1995) The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bloomington and Indianapolis: British Film Institute and Indiana University Press), pp. i‐x, 1‐230, $15.95, ISBN 0‐85170‐518‐9 paperback; Patrick Rumble ( 1996) Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's ‘Trilogy of Life’ (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press), pp. i‐ix, l‐207,$50,hardback, $ 17.95, paperback; Maurizio Viano (1993) A Certain Realism. Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press), pp. i‐xix, 1‐368, $40, hardback, $ 19.95, paperback.

Daniela Luigia Caglioti (1996) Associazionismo e sociabilità d'élite a Napoli nel XIX secolo (Naples: Liguori Editore), pp. 1‐169, 24,000 lire, ISBN 88‐207‐2637‐8 paperback.

Simone Neri Serneri (1995) Classe, partito, nazione. Alle origini della democrazia italiana, 1919‐1948 (Manduria: Piero Lacaita Editore), pp. 1‐298,25,000 lire, paperback.

Roberto Romani (1994) L'economia politica del Risorgimento italiano (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri), pp. 1‐248, ISBN 88‐339‐0856‐9 paperback.

Alberto M. Banti (1996) Storia della borghesia italiano: l'età liberait (Rome: Donzelli), pp. i‐xvii, 1‐395, 50,000 lire, ISBN 88‐7989‐170‐7 hardback.

Alexander J. De Grand ( 1995) Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The ‘Fascist’ Style of Rule (London and New York; Routledge), pp. 1‐102, $ 10.95, ISBN 0‐415‐10598‐6 paperback; Richard Bessel (ed.) (1996) Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Comparisons and Contrasts (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1‐242, $54.95, ISBN 0‐521‐47129‐X hardback, $ 18.95, ISBN 0‐521‐47711‐5 paperback.

Enzo Collotti and Lutz Klinkhammer (1996) Il fascismo e l'Italia in guerra: Una conversazione fra storia e storiografia (Rome: Edizioni Ediesse), pp. 1‐202,20,000 lire, ISBN 88‐230‐0217‐6.

Michele Sarfatti ( 1994) Mussolini contro gli ebrei: Cronaca dell'elaborazione delle leggi del 1938 (Turin: Silvio Zamorani editore), pp. 1‐199,30,000 lire, ISBN 88‐7158‐033‐8 paperback.

Carl Ipsen (1996) Dictating Demography, the Problem of Population in Fascist Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. i‐xvii, 1‐281, $54.95 ISBN 0‐521‐554527 hardback.

Stephen Gundle ( 1995) I comunisti italiani tra Hollywood e Mosco. La sfida della cultura di massa (1943‐1991) (Florence: Giunti), pp. i‐xii, 1‐572, ISBN 88‐09‐20642‐8 paperback.

Carl Levy (ed.) (1996) Italian Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Oxford and Dulles, Va.: Berg), pp. i‐xvi, 1‐197, $39, ISBN 1‐85973‐131‐7 hardback, $ 16.50, ISBN 1‐85973‐156‐2 paperback.

David I. Kertzer (1996) Politics and Symbols. The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press), pp. 1‐224, $25, ISBN 0‐300‐06612‐0 hardback.

Pier Paolo Giglioli, Sandra Cavicchioli and Giolo Fele ( 1997) Rituali di degradazione: Anatomia del processo Cusani (Bologna: II Mulino), pp. 1‐243,28,000 lire, ISBN 88‐15‐05713‐7.

Mario Baldassarri and Franco Modigliani (eds) (1995) The Italian Economy. What Next? (New York: St Martin's Press), pp. 1‐200, $69.95, ISBN 0‐312‐12475‐9 hardback.

Piergiorgio Corbetta and Arturo M. L. Parisi (eds) (1997) Cavalieri e fanti: Proposte e proponenti nelle elezioni del 1994 e del 1996 (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1‐421; Piergiorgio Corbetta and Arturo M. L Parisi (eds) (1997) A domanda risponde: Il cambiamento nel voto degli italiani nelle elezioni del 1994 e del 1996 (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1‐410.     

Adowa and the historiography of Italian colonialism

Report on the Convegno internazionale di studi nel centenario della battaglia di Adua, Piacenza, 10–12 April 1996, now published as, Angeld Del Boca (ed.), Adua. Le ragioni di una sconfitta, Laterza, Rome ‐ Bari, 1997, 468 pp., ISBN 88–420–5196–9, 45,000 Lire.