BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article: Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women. Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague. Susan Dwyer Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. Franca Pieroni Bortolotti, Sul movimento politico delle donne. Scritti inediti. Alison Prentice, Paula Bourne, Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Beth Light, Wendy Mitchinson and Naomi Black, Canadian Women: A History. Patricia Hollis, Ladies Elect, Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Ann Morley with Liz Stanley, The Life and Death of Emily Wilding Davison. A Biographical Detective Story, with Gertrude Colmore's The Life of Emily Davison’. Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (ed.) Le moyen age Erika Uitz, Die Frau in der mittelalterlichen Stadt [Woman in the medieval city Gerald Beyreuther, Barbara Pätzold and Erika Uitz (eds) Fürstinnen und Städterinnen. Frauen im Mittelalter [Noblewomen and Townswomen. Women in the Middle Ages] Emilie Amt (ed.) Women's Lives in Medieval Europe. A Sourcebook Autumn Stanley, Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes Towards a Revised History of Technology Constance Wall Holt, Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Wales and Women of Welsh Descent in America Marcia J. Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon Kimberly Marshall (ed.) Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions Paola Corti (ed.) Annali dell'lstituto Alcide Cervi [Annals of the Alcide Cervi Institute] Margherita Pelaja, Matrimonio e sessualità a Roma nell'Ottocento [Marriage and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Rome] Silvia Franchini, Elites ed educazione femminile nell'Italia dell'Ottocento: L'Istituto della SS. Annunziata di Firenze [Elites and female education in nineteenth-century Italy: The Institute of St Annunziata in Florence] Barbara Kanner, Women in English Social History 1800–1914: A Guide to Research in Three Volumes Jane Lewis, Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England Emily Groszos Ooms, Women and Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Mmotoky Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936 Giuliana Bruno, Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari Anne Friedberg, Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern Ellen Wiley Todd, The‘New Woman’Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street Julie Wheelwright, The Fatal Lover. Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France 1917–1927 Susan Kingsley Kent, Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain     

Reviews

H enri D esroche : The Sociology of Hope.
D aniel W. P atterson : The Shaker Spiritual.
I iro K ajanto : Classical and Christian; Studies in the Latin Epitaphs of Medieval and Renaissance Rome.
M ark R. C ohen : Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews ca. 1065–1126.
J effrey R ichards : Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great.
P aul L awrence R ose : Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser.
P aul L awrence R ose (ed.): Jean Bodin: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics.
J oyce O ldham A ppleby : Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England.
J. A. S harpe : Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York (Borthwick Papers, No. 58).
K enneth M. B oyd : Scottish Church Attitudes to Sex, Marriage and the Family, 1850–1914.
P aul M c H ugh : Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform.
E dmund C ampion : John Henry Newman: Friends, Allies, Bishops, Catholics.
N. M errill D istad : Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) Shepherdstown
A lan D. G ilbert : The Making of Post-Christian Britain: A History of the Secularization of Modern Society.
A nn -M ari J ordens : The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sydney.
B rian K ennedy : Silver, Sin, and Sixpenny Ale: A Social History of Broken Hill, 1883–1921.
I an B reward : Grace and Truth: A History of the Theological Hall, Knox College, Dunedin 1876–1975.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Lin Foxhall and John Salmon (eds), When Men Were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity Emily A. Hemelrijk, Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna Bella Vivante (ed.), Women's Role in Ancient Civilisations Susan Kingsley Kent, Gender and Power in Britain, 1640–1990 Martha C. Howell, The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300–1550 Julie Hardwick, The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France Tim Stretton, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England Mary E. Giles (ed.), Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World Deborah Simonton, A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the Present Pamela Sharpe (ed.), Women's Work: The English Experience, 1650–1914 Jane Long, Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth‐Century Northumberland Carol Mattingly, Well‐Tempered Women: Nineteenth‐Century Temperance Rhetoric Faith Wigzell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 Marjorie Theobald, Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth‐Century Australia Jane Martin, Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England Paula M. Krebs, Gender, Race and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War Natalia Pushkareva, Women in Russian History from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917 Sue Bridger (ed.), Women and Political Change: Perspectives from East‐Central Europe Claudia Nelson and Ann Sumner Holmes (eds), Maternal Instincts: Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain 1875–1925 Kathleen Kiernan, Hilary Land and Jane Lewis, Lone Motherhood in Twentieth‐Century Britain: From Footnote to Front Page Judith Tydor Baumel, Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust Julia Hell, Post‐Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany Norbert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer (eds), Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States Emiko Ochiai, The Japanese Family System in Transition Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition Becky Conekin, Frank Mort and Chris Waters (eds), Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain 1945–1964 Celia Briar, Working for Women? Gendered Work and Welfare Policies in Twentieth‐Century Britain Victoria de Grazia (ed.) with Ellen Furlough, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective Christopher Breward, The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860–1914 Irene Cieraad (ed.), At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this articles: Irving M. Zeitlin : Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present. C. H. Berman : Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians: A Study of Forty-three Monasteries. Elisja Schulte van Kessel (ed.): Women and Men in Spiritual Culture, XIV-XVII Centuries: A Meeting of South and North. Manfred Welti : Breve Storia delta Riforma Italiana, trans, by Armido Rizzi. A. G. Dickens and John M. Tonkin with Kenneth Powell : The Reformation in Historical Thought. Cambridge, Mass. Odile Martin : La Conversion Protestante à Lyon (1659-1687). Edward Berenson : Populist Religion and Left-wing Politics in France, 1830-1852: Princeton N. Keith Clifford : The Resistance to Church Union in Canada, 1904-1939. Gilmer W. Blackburn : Education in the Third Reich: A Study of Race and History in Nazi Textbooks. Hilary Rubinstein , Chosen: The Jews in Australia.     

Book Reviews

Sin and Society in the Seventeenth Century. By John Addy Schooling German Girls and Women: Secondary and Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century. By James C. Albisetti Cultures in Conflict: Encounters between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800. By Urs Bitterli The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272-1461. By A. L. Brown Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History. By John Clive Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement and the Manipulation of the Press. By Richard Cockett The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621-1624. By Thomas Cogswell. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, edited by Anthony Fletcher, John Guy, and John Morrill From Divine Cosmos to Sovereign State: An Intellectual History of Consciousness and the Idea of Order in Renaissance England. By Stephen L. Collins Stalin and the Kirov Murder. By Robert Conquest Service in the Roman Army. By Roy W. Davies. Edited by David Breeze and Valerie A. Maxfield The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia & the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42. By David Day In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past. By Richard J. Evans Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation. By Ute Frevert From Domestic Manufacture to Industrial Revolution: The Case of the Rhineland Textile Districts. By Herbert Kisch Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s-1830s. By Zenon E. Kohut The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism. By John M. MacKenzie Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800. By Christine MacLeod Against Fascism and War: Ruptures and Continuities in British Communist Politics, 1935-41. By Kevin Morgan Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People. By Josiah Ober Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self-Government, 1861-1900. By Thomas S. Pearson Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. By-Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany. By Thomas Robisheaux Russian Teachers and Peasant Revolution: The Politics of Education in 1905. By Scott J. Seregny Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. By Daniel J. Sherman Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. By Helen F. Siu The Habsburg Empire and the Sea: Austrian Naval Policy, 1797-1866. By Lawrence Sondhaus Louis XTV and the Origins of the Dutch War. By Paul Sonnino For Whom Do I Toil? Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian fewry. By Michael Stanislawski Venice and the Renaissance. By Manfredo Tafuri. Translated by Jessica Levine The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation. By Karel van Wolferen The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776: The First Crisis. By Franco Venturi. Translated by R. Burr Litchfield Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927. By C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How History of the Goths. By Herwig Wolfram. Translated from the second German edition by Thomas J. Dunlap Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. By E. A. Wrigley The Sixth Great Power: A History of One of the Greatest of All Banking Families, the House of Barings, 1726-1929. By Philip Ziegler Russia Looks at America: The View to 1917. By Robert V. Allen Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1949. By A. J. Bacevich A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies. By Randall H. Balmer In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People. By John F. Bauman and Thomas H. Coode Colonial Latin America. By Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. By Mark C. Carries     

BOOK REVIEWS

Barbara Watterson, Women in Ancient Egypt Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Arthur F. Kinney (eds) Women in the Renaissance: Selections from English Literary Renaissance Heather Dubrow, A Happier Eden: The Politics of Marriage in the Stuart Epithalamium Constance Jordan, Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models Karen Newman, Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama Maryanne Cline Horowitz (ed.) Race, Gender and Rank: Early Modem Ideas of Humanity Margaret Brabant (ed.) Politics, Gender & Genre: the Political Thought of Christine de Pizan Pamela Joseph Benson, The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: the Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England Jacques Gélls, History of Childbirth. Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe Margaret Felling and Richard M. Smith (eds) Life, Death, and the Elderly. Historical Perspectives Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss (eds) Women, Texts and Histories 1575–1760 Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman (eds) Women, Writing, History 1640–1740 Lucia Zedner, Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England Alan Duben and Cem Behar, Istanbul Households. Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880–1940 Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia Eve Levin, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900–1700 Nancy Leys Stepan, The Hour of Eugenics': Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Ava Baron (ed.) Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor Nancy F. Gabin, Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935–1975 Barbara Melosh, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theatre Sandra Schackel, Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920–1940 Alison Light, Forever England. Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Antonia Lant, Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema Peter Burke (ed.) Mew Perspectives on Historical Writing     

Gender and the Family in Pre‐industrial Europe

P. Fleming, Family and Household in Medieval England A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe N. J. Menuge (ed.), Medieval Women and the Law P. Skinner, Women in Medieval Italian Society, 500–1200 F. A. Underhill, For Her Good Estates: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this articles:
I rving M. Z eitlin : Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present.
C. H. B erman : Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians: A Study of Forty-three Monasteries.
E lisja S chulte van K essel (ed.): Women and Men in Spiritual Culture, XIV-XVII Centuries: A Meeting of South and North.
M anfred W elti : Breve Storia delta Riforma Italiana, trans, by Armido Rizzi.
A. G. D ickens and J ohn M. T onkin with K enneth P owell : The Reformation in Historical Thought. Cambridge, Mass.
O dile M artin : La Conversion Protestante à Lyon (1659-1687).
E dward B erenson : Populist Religion and Left-wing Politics in France, 1830-1852: Princeton
N. K eith C lifford : The Resistance to Church Union in Canada, 1904-1939.
G ilmer W. B lackburn : Education in the Third Reich: A Study of Race and History in Nazi Textbooks.
H ilary R ubinstein , Chosen: The Jews in Australia.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitely (eds) Reader in Gender Archaeology Robert B. Shoemaker Gender in English Society, 1650–1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent (eds) Gender and History in Western Europe Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.) Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms Leah Leneman Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684–1830 David Peterson del Mar What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives K. D. Reynolds Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain Clare Midgley Gender and Imperialism Antoinette Burton At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in late-Victorian Britain Indira Chowdhury The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal Urvashi Butalia The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India Indira Ghose Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch African Women: A Modern History Gwendolyn Mikell (ed.) African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa Carolina Maria de Jesus I'm Going to Have a Little House: the Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Carolina Maria de Jesus Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus Benedita da Silva Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman's Story of Politics and Love as Told to Medea Benjamin and Maisa Mendonça Robert M. Levine The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940–1942 Penny Summerfield, Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War Linda K. Schott Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II Begona Aretxaga Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland Leonie Sandercock (ed.) Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History     

Book Reviews

The World of the Phoenicians. The awakening of the Greek Historical Spirit. Imprisonment in Medieval England. Elizabeth and the English Reformation. A History of the Franciscan Order: From its Origins to the Year 1517. Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty. Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation. Florence in Transition. Volume II, Studies in the Rise of the Territorial State. The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume III, The Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution 1559–1610. The Aberdeen Coalition, 1852-1855: A Study in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Party Politics. Britain and the Congo Question, 1885-1913. The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume XII, The Shifting Balance of World Forces, 1898-1945. The German Conception of History. The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present. The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1931-45. A Cultural History of Tibet. Panditji, A Portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru. The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann. English Edition. Series A, Letters. Volume I, Summer 1885 - 29 October 1902.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Tjitske Akkerman and Siep Stuurman (eds), Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History from the Middle Ages to the Present Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720 Lilian R. Furst (ed.), Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling (eds), The Task of Healing: Medicine, Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450–1800 Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (eds), Women, Science and Medicine 1500–1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society Brean S. Hammond, Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670–1740: ‘Hackney for Bread’ Paula McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678–1730 Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North‐East England 1718–1800 Ulla Wikander, Von der Magd zur Angestellten: Macht, Geschlecht und Arbeitsteilung 1789–1950 Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800 Shani D'Cruze, Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women Elizabeth A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya‐Vanderbeck (eds), A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History Krassimira Daskalova (ed.), From the Shadow of History: Women in Bulgarian Society and Culture Sabrina P. Ramet (ed.), Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States Miriam B. Peskowitz, Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History Miriam B. Peskowitz and Laura Levitt (eds), Judaism Since Gender Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 Consuelo Lopez Springfield (ed.), Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century Paula L. Aymer, Uprooted Women: Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean Belinda Edmondson, Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative Alison Bashford, Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913–1997 Rosemary Pringle, Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (eds), The Oral History Reader Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson (eds), Narrative and Genre     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Hildegard Adam, Das Zollwesen im fränkischen Reich und das spätkarolingische Wirtschaftsleben.
Antti Arjava, Women and Law in Late Antiquity.
George Broderick, Placenames of the Isle of Man, Volume Three, Sheading of Ayre (Kirk Andreas, Kirk Bride and Kirk Christ Lezayre).
Sandra Bruni (ed), Alcuino: De Orthographia.
Ursula Dronke (ed), The Poetic Edda, Volume II: Mythological Poetry.
Rosamond Faith, The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship.
Scott Gwara (ed), Anglo-Saxon Conversations: The Colloquies of Ælfric Bata.
John Hines (ed), The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Century. An Ethnographic Perspective.
Eric John, Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England.
A. Nørgård Jørgensen and Birthe L. Clausen, Military Aspects of Scandianavian Society in a European Perspective, AD 1–1300. PNM Studies in Archaeology and History, no. 2.
Vivien Law, Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages.
Brian Murdoch, The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry.
Richard North, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature.
Cassandra Potts, Monastic Revival and Regional Identity in Early Normandy.
Przemyslaw Urbanczyk (ed), Origins of Central Europe.
Jonathan M. Wooding, Communications and Commerce along the Western Sealanes AD 400–800
K.R. Dark (ed), External Contacts and the Economy of Late Roman and Post-Roman Britain.     

Book Reviews

The Uses of History: Essays in Intellectual and Social History. The Meaning of Democracy As Used in European Ideologies from the French to the Russian Revolution. The Concept of Representation. The Greeks. The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome. Britain in the Roman Empire. Byzantiurn: The Imperial Centuries, A.D. 610-1071. The Medieval Town. The Office of Ambassador in the Middle Ages. Heresy in the Later Middle Ages. Paris and Oxford Universities In the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Enterprise & Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630. The Down of British to the East Indies: As Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company,1599-1603 The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Volume IV, 1694-1709. Edmund Burke. The Practical Imagination. Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815-1908. An Expanding Society: Britain, 1810-1900. The Chamberlains. Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918. Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and Counter-Revolution at Versailles, 1918-1919. The Works of Jacques-Auguste de Thou. The Blood and Iron Chancellor: A Documentary-Biography of Otto von Bismarck. Germany without Bismarck: The Crisis of Government in the Second Reich, 1890-1900. The German Revolution of 1918: A Study of German Socialism in War and Revolt. The Nuremberg Party Rallies: 1923-39. The Fall and Rise of Modern Italy. Italy from Liberalism to Fascism, 1870-1925. The Origins of the Pact of Steel. Poland's Politics: Idealism us. Realism. The Land and Government of Muscouy: A Sixteenth-Century Account. Lenin: The Man, the Theorist, the Leader: Politics and the Military in Jordan: A Study of the Arab Legion, 1921-1957 The Chinese Communist Regime: Documents and Commentary. Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807. The American Revolution and the British Press, 1775-1783. The National Waterway: A History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1769-1965. Patriotism Limited, 1862-1865. Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Grover Cleveland. Presidential Vetoes, 1792-1945. King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925. The Negro's Image in the South: The Anatomy of White Supremacy. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Volume II, 1981-1884; Life of George Bent Written from His Letters. Charles Evans Hughes. Politics and Reform in New York, 1905-1910. The Pendergast Machine. Daily Lift in Early Canada. Mexico: The Struggle for Modernity. Church Wealth in Mexico: A Study of the ‘Juzgndo de Capellaanfas’ in the Archbishopric of Mexico, 1800-1856. The Twilight Struggle: The Alliance for Progress and the Politics of Development in Latin America.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Anne K. Mellor, Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830 Hilda Smith (ed.), Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition Rachel Weil, Political Passions, Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680–1714 Karin Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia Larry E. Tise (ed.), Benjamin Franklin and Women Barbara Kanner, Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers, a Reference Guide and Reader R. N. Swanson (ed.), Gender and Christian Religion, Studies in Church History Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru Sudhir Chandra, Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights Ruth Roach Pierson and Nupur Chaudhuri with the assistance of Beth McAuley (eds), Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race Julia Bush, Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power Julia Clancy‐Smith and Frances Gouda (eds), Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism Alan Kidd and David Nicholls (eds), Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle‐Class Identity in Britain, 1800–1940 Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867 Shawn Michelle Smith, American Archives: Gender, Race and Class in Visual Culture Linda Mizejewski, Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Deborah Cherry, Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850–1900 Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe (eds) Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature Paul Robinson, Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860–1914 Claire A. Cullerton, Working‐Class Culture, Women and Britain, 1914–1921 Claire Langhamer, Women's Leisure in England 1920–1960 Lesley A. Hall, Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Contemporary European History, Vol. 10 (3), November 2001, Theme Issue: Gender and War in Europe c. 1918–1949 Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer–Schoffman (eds), When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940–1956 Bonnie S. Anderson, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement 1830–1860 Jo Fox, Filming Women in the Third Reich Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy Jocelyn Wogan–Browne, Saints’ Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150–1300: Virginity and its Authorisations Susan Migden Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America Federico Garza Carvajal, Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucía and México, 1561–1699 Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Gender, Religion and the Prehistory of Indian Nationalism Marion W. Gray, Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment Jean H. Quataert, Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813–1916 Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide (eds), Singlewomen in the European Past 1250–1800 Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink, Katherine Holden, The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy, 1830–1960 Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century Mary A. Procida, Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883–1947 Joy Dixon, Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England Catriona M. Parratt, ‘More Than Mere Amusement’: Working–Class Women's Leisure in England, 1750–1914 Nancy A. Hewitt, Southern Discomfort: Women‘s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s Emily K. Abel, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940 Sandra Lee Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880–1930 Margarete Sandelowski, Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I. By Michael C. C. Adams John Bull and the Bear: British Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union 1941-1945. By P. M. H. Bell The Rise of Richelieu. By Joseph Bergin Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Search for Stability. By D. George Boyce The Habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815-1918. By F. R. Bridge Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City. By Robert C. Davis The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution. By Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel. Translated by Claudia Miéville Jewish Politics in Vienna, 1918-1938. By Harriet Pass Freidertreich The Causes of the English Civil War. By Ann Hughes The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 19004950. By Konrad H. Jarausch Chinese Boycotts Versus Japanese Bombs: The Failure of China's “Revolutionary Diplomacy,” 1931-32. By Donald A. Jordan From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy. By Ellen E. Kittell The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age. By Joseph M. Levine Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan. By Michael Lewis A Climate for Appeasement. By Terrance L. Lewis Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England. By Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy Cicero: The Senior Statesman. By Thomas N. Mitchell Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class, Leeds, 1820-50. By R. J. Morris Himmler. By Peter Padfield Politics, Shipping and the Repeal of the Navigation Laws. By Sarah Palmer Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom, 1814-1870. By Michael Stephen Partridge Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire. By S. J. Payling English Politics in the Thirteenth Century. By Michael Prestwich Women, Equality, and the French Revolution. By Candice E. Proctor The Restoration. 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By Chris Wrigley Breaking the Iron Bonds; Indian Control of Energy Development. By Marjane Ambler The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. Edited by Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923. By Eric Arnesen The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930. By Paula Baker A New Deal for the American People. By Roger Biles Virginia's Viceroy, Their Majesties’Governor General: Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham. By Warren M. Billings Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. By Robert M. Bliss Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek. By William Y. Chalfant The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston Amateurs, to Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812. By John R. Elting The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of fudge John J. Parker. By Kenneth W. Goings A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720. By Larry Gragg Thomas O. hirkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California. By Harlan Hague and David J. Langum The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall. By Harold Paulk Henderson Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch. By Janet Sharp Hermann Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. By Joan Hoff To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991. By Stephen Howarth Abe Fortas: A Biography. By Laura Kalman A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. By Nicolas Kanellos The American Whig: William Livingston of New York. By Milton M. Klein James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Gary R. Kremer Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865. By Jeffrey N. Lash To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal. By Richard C. Lindberg Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath. By Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Soderlund The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. By Mark E. Neely, Jr Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier. By Earl P. Olmstead Major Robert Farmar of Mobile. By Robert R. Rea An American Illiad: The Story of the Civil War. By Charles P. Roland Creating a Dignified Past: Museums and the Colonial Revival. Edited by Geoffrey L. Rossano Roosevelt: The Party Leader, 1932-1945. By Sean J. Savage Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. By Virginia Scharff Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. By Dorothy Schneider and Carl J. Schneider Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1989. By Steven Seidman Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748. By Carl E. Swanson Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Edited by Wiliam Jeffrey Welsh and David Curtis Skagss Mosby's Rangers. By Jeffry D. Wert     

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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. By Janet L. Abu-Lughod Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations, Saint Chamond, 1815-1914. By Elinor Accampo To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon. By Jay W. Baird Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. By Keith Michael Baker State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis. By Andrew E. Barshay Hirohito: Behind the Myth. By Edward Behr Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers, 1903-1945. By Bernard P. Bellon Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century. By Christopher F. Black London and the Reformation. By Susan Brigden Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope. By Judith M. Brown History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History. Edited by Averil Cameron Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe. By Piero Camporesi. Translated by David Gentilcore. Preface by Roy Porter Lewis Namier. By Linda Colley The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5. By R. M. Connaughton Famine: The Irish Experience 900-1900. Edited by E. Margaret Crawford Standards of Living in the Later Middle Age: Social Change in England c. 1200–1520. By Christopher Dyer Narsus, Hammer of the Goths: The Life and Times ofNarsus the Eunuch. By Lawrence Herbert Fauber Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. By Sabrina Flanagan Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. By Carlo Ginzburg Herodotus. By John Gould Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918. By Bruce I. Gudmundsson Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception. By Aron Gurevich. Translated by Janos M. Bak and Paul A. Hollingsworth. Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. By Leo de Hartog Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. By Ronald Hutton Leopold von Ranke and the Shaping of the Historical Tradition. Edited by Georg G. Iggers and James M. Powell Peace, War, and Trade along the Great Wall: Nomadic-Chinese Interaction through Two Millennia. By Sechin Jagchid and Van Jay Symons The Peasantry in the French Revolution. By P. M. Jones State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany. By Marjorie Lamberti The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By David Lieberman Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871. Edited by John A. Lynn Population and Politics since 1850. By William McNeill Michelet, Historian: Rebirth and Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century France. By Arthur Mitzman Toward the Century of Words: Johann Cotta and the Politics of the Public Realm in Germany, 1795-1832. By Daniel Moran Kingship, Law, and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V. By Edward Powell The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. By Thomas Richards The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler. By Geoffrey Roberts Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution. By Warren Roberts Guderian's XlXth Panzer Corps and the Battle of France: Breakthrough in the Ardennes, May 1940. By Florian K. Rothbrust Chinese Attitudes toward Nuclear Weapons: China and the United States during the Korean War. By Mark A. Ryan The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia. By Theo J. Schulte Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833. By Susan Staves Berlin: From Symbol of Confrontation to Keystone of Stability. By James S. Sutterlin and David Klein John of Wales: A Study of the Works and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar. By Jenny Swanson The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy: Structures of Political Rule. By Giovanni Tabacco. 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Jean Froissart and the Fabric of History. From Spear to Flintlock A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangtze Region, 1840–1840. France and Decolonisation, 1900–1900. Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair. Art under Stalin. Discovering the Roman Family. The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559–1559. Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning. Before the Black Death: Studies in the “Crisis” of the Early Fourteenth Century. Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century. An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism: Iu. Community, Trade, and Networks: Southern Fujian Proxnnce from the Third to the Thirteenth Century. Towns in the Viking Age. Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation. The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948–1948. Myopic Grandeur: The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy toward the Far East, 1919–1919. Jacobinism and the Revolt of Lyon, 1789–1789. The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism. The Bretons. Renaissance Characters. Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences. Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity. The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany. Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership. The Unresolved Question: The Anglo-Irish Settlement and Its Undoing, 1912–1912. The Elizabethan Secret Service. Nicholas I and the Russian Intervention in Hungary. England, Spain, and the Gran Armada, 1585-1604: Essays from the Anglo-American Conferences London and Madrid, 1988. The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1637. The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1450. Fideles Cruris: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274–1274. On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance. Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society. Elizabeth I. Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians. The French Revolution in Culture and Society. Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832–1832. Salzburg under Siege: U.S. The Changing Scottish Landscape, 1500–1500. Defending the Empire: The Conservative Party and British Defence Policy, 1899–1899. Napoleon's Integration of Europe. Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1933. Great Basin Kingdom Revisited: Contemporary Perspectives. Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1910. Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1961. Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Panama and the United States: The Forced Alliance. Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard's Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth-Century America. The Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergy at the Beginning of the Enlightenment. Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880–1880. The Chief of Staff: The Military Career of General Walter Bedell Smith. United States Perceptions of Latin America, 1850-1930: A ‘New West’ South of Capricorn? By J. History, the White House, and the Kremlin: Statesmen as Historians. Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960–1960. Women's Sports: A History. Mexico's Merchant Elite, 1590-1660: Silver, State and Society. Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman. The Civil War in the American West. In the Cause of True Education: Henry Barnard and Nineteenth-Century School Reform. An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon. The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760–1760. The Last Conquistador: Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. The Politics of Aircraft: Building an American Military Industry. A Century of European Migrations: 1830–1830. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1650. A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941–1941. Making America Corporate, 1870–1870.