BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Karen L. King : What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; pp. xii + 343. Michael Frassetto , ed.: The Year 1000: Religious and Social Responses to the Turning of the First Millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xi + 278. K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn : Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner : Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002; pp. xi + 321. Patricia Londoño ‐Vega : Religion, Culture and Society in Colombia. Medellín and Antioquia, 1850–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; pp. xiii + 402. Colin Holden : Church in a Landscape. Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Group, 2002; pp. xix + 324. Jeffrey J. Kripal : Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xviii + 412. William James , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Centenary ed. (First published New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902) London and New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. lxiii + 415.     

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Israel Bartal : The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772–1881, trans. Chaya Naor . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 [2002]; pp. vi + 203. Jay R. Berkowitz : Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004; pp. 333. George Bernard : The King's Reformation. Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005; pp. xii + 736. Madeleine Biardeau : Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess. Trans. Alf Hiltebeitel , James Walker , and Marie ‐Louise Reiniche . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. 358. 108 halftones, 10 figures, 3 maps. T. Patrick Burke : The Major Religions: An Introduction with Texts, 2d ed. Malden, Oxford, and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2004 [1996]; pp. xix + 380. Lorne L. Dawson , ed.: Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader. Malden, MA, Oxford, and Melbourne: Blackwell Publishing, 2003; pp. 312. Carl W. Ernst : Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Ian Forrest : The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005; pp. vii + 277. Ian Hunter , John Christian Anderson , and Cary J. Nederman , eds: Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Catholic Christendom, 300–1700. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2005; pp. xii + 205. Marion Maddox : God Under Howard: The Rise of The Religious Right in Australian Politics. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005; pp. 386. Arthur F. Marotti : Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti‐Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2005; pp. xii + 307. Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless , eds: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003; pp. 224. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby , eds: Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. 307. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby , ed.: The Hindu World. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. pp. 657. Karla Poewe : New Religions and the Nazis. New York and London: Routledge, 2006; pp. xii + 218. Adam Possamai : Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyperreal Testament. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005; pp. 176. Janine Tasca Sawada : Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth‐Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, 2004: pp. 432. Stefanie B. Siegmund : The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006; pp. xxii + 624, 2 maps, 9 figures. Anna M. Silvas : The Asketikon of St Basil the Great, Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; pp. xx + 517, 1 map, 7 appendices. Michael Strmiska (ed.): Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC‐CLIO, 2005; pp. ix + 382. Robert A. F. Thurman and the AIBS team , trans.: The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara). New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and Columbia University's Centre for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, 2004. pp. 368. Claire Walker : Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. xii + 247. R. Willis and P. Curry : Astrology, Science, and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004; pp. v + 170. John Witte , Jr . and Robert Kingdon : Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin's Geneva: Volume 1: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage. Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Cambridge: William B. Eeardmans Publishing Company, 2005; pp. xxxii + 512.     

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R. Horsley , ed.: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 1, Christian Origins. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005. Irfan Shahîd : Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Vol. 2, Part 1: Toponomy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002; pp. xxxvi + 469, 15 maps, 8 plates. Daniel Hobbins : The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Ernan Mc Mullin , ed.: The Church and Galileo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. pp. xii + 408. Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands , eds.: Scottish Christianity in the Modern World. Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000. pp. 323. Adrian Burdon : Authority and Order: John Wesley and his Preachers. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. pp. vi + 117. Max Charlesworth , Françoise Dussart and Howard Morphy , eds.: Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. pp. xiv + 324. André Möller : Ramadan in Java: The Joy and Jihad of Ritual Fasting. Lun University: Lund, Sweden, 2005. pp. 451. John Clifford Holt : The Buddhist Viṣnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. pp. 441. Kristi L. Wiley : Historical Dictionary of Jainism. Lanham, ML: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004. pp. 287. Iqbal Singh , S. Radhakrishan , and Arvind Sharma , with an introduction by Matthew T. Kapstein : The Buddhism Omnibus — Comprising Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada and The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. xxii + 818. Aline H. Kalbian : Sexing the Church: Gender, Power, and Ethics in Contemporary Catholicism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. pp. x + 169. Dianne Kirby , ed.: Religion and the Cold War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. pp. 245. Nils Holger Petersen , Claus Clüver , and Nicholas Bell , eds.: Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and Their Representations in the Arts, 1000–2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodpi, 2004. pp. xvi + 490. Craig Wright : The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology and Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard (eds.): Mystics: Presence and Aporia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Frances S. Adeney : Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003; pp. xi + 226. John Moorhead : Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World, Harlow Essex, Pearson Education, 1999.     

Patients and practitioners: Three hundred years of Western medicine

Ludmerer, Kenneth M. Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education. New York: Basic Books, 1985. xv + 346 pp. $21.95 cloth.

Morantz‐Sanchez, Regina Markell. Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xii + 464 pp. $24.95 cloth.

Porter, Roy, ed. Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre‐Industrial Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 356 pp. $49.50 cloth.     

The ambiguity of reason

Levine, Donald N. The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 248 pp. including figures, appendix, references, and index. $25.00 cloth.

Overing, Joanna, ed. Reason and Morality. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985. viii + 277 pp. including figures, chapter references and notes, name indèx, and subject index. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Sperber, Dan. On Anthropological Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. viii + 107 pp. including notes, references, and index. $24.95 cloth; $8.95 paper.     

Humanized nature and objective spirit

Valeri, Valerio, (Paula Wissing, transl.) Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xxviii + 446 pp. including notes with references, plates, and index. $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Heesterman, J. C. The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 255 pp. including notes with references and index. $32.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Charlesworth, Max, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, and Kenneth Mad‐dock, eds. Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology. Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xii + 458 pp. including chapter references and index. $35.00 cloth.     

Human teeth and fossils from the perspective of two manuals

Day, Michael H. Guide to Fossil Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. vi + 432 pp. including maps, tables, photographs, chapter references, glossary, and index. $37.50 cloth.

Hillson, Simon. Teeth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. v + 376 pp. including tables, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and index. $44.50 cloth.     

Religion and society in central Africa and East Asia

MacGaffey, Wyatt. Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. xi + 295 pp. including photographs, references, index, and glossary. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.

DeVos, George A., and Takao Sofue, eds. Religion and Family in East Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. ix + 267 pp. including chapter references and index. No price.     

Things Japanese: Something old,something new

Bernstein, Gail Lee. Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983. xvii + 199 pp. including maps, photographs. $15.00 cloth.

Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. xi + 315 pp. including notes, references, glossary, index. $18.95 cloth.

Smith, Robert J. Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xii + 176 pp. including notes, bibliography, author ₍and subject indices. $19.95 cloth.

Smith, Robert J., and Ella Lury Wiswell. The Women of Suye Mura. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xxxvii + 293 pp. including maps, photographs, glossary, index. $7.50 paper.     

Archeology and the heritage of man the hunter

Bailey, Geoff, ed. Hunter‐Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: a European Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. viii + 247 pp. including index and composite bibliography. $49.50 cloth.

Price, T. Douglas, and James A. Brown, eds. Prehistoric Hunter‐Gatherers: The Emergence of Cultural Complexity. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. xviii + 450 pp. including chapter references and index. $60.00 cloth.

Schrire, Carmel, ed. Past and Present in Hunter‐Gatherer Studies. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 298 pp. including chapter references and index. $33.00 cloth.     

Religion,society, and culture

Morris, Brian. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ix + 369 pp. including chapter notes and references, selected bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Webster, Graham. Celtic Religion in Roman Britain. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1987. 205 pp. including chapter notes and references, photographs and illustrations, abbreviations, classical sources, selected bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth.

Weller, Robert P. Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. viii + 215 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $22.50 cloth.     

Tragic Elements in Calderón's La Dama Duende

Abstract

Ricardo Landeira. El género policíaco en la literatura española del siglo XIX. Universidad de Alicante, 2001. 142 pp.

Armine Kotin Mortimer and Katherine Kolb, eds. Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii + 316 pp. $39.95.

Madeleine Dobie. Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism. Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 234 pp. $49.50.

Daniel Murphy. Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001. 263 pp. $43.50.

Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxii + 367 pp. $59.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.     

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.     

Anthropology in the middle east

Canfield, Robert L., ed. Turko‐Persia in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv + 256 pp. including references and index. $54.50 cloth.

Caton, Steven C. "Peaks of Yemen I Summon”: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemen Tribe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xv + 351 pp. including notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $34.95.

Khoury, Philip S. and Joseph Kostiner, eds. Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 xv + 351 pp. including collected references and index. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

Cross‐genre talk: Expanding the ground

Clark, Herbert H. Arenas of Language Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992. xviii + 419 pp. including notes, references, and index. $47.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Tannen, Deborah, ed. Gender and Conversational Interaction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiv + 327 pp. including notes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Burke, Peter. The Art of Conversation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. viii + 178 pp. including notes, references, and index. $39.95 cloth, $13.95 paper.     

Marxism in archaeology: Real or spurious?

Spriggs, Matthew, ed. Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. viii + 158 pp. including photographs, individual bibliographies, index. $39.50 cloth.

Miller, Daniel, and Christopher Tilley, eds. Ideology, Power and Prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. viii + 157 pp. including photographs, individual bibiographies, index. $39.50 cloth.     

Justice,aggression, and theatre: Contradictions and conflict in the modern world

Cohen, Ronald L. ed. Justice: Views from the Social Sciences. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1986. xii + 283 pp. including chapter references and subject and author indices. $32.50 cloth.

Gilmore, David D. Aggression and Community: Paradoxes of Andalusian Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. xvi + 218 pp. including map, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $24.50 cloth.

Wagner‐Pacifici, Robin Erica. The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xi + 360 pp. including appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Gorecki, Jan. Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. x + 165 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50 paper.     

The First two Language Academies in Spanish America

Abstract

Jeffrey Mehlman. Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France. Cambridge University Press, 1995. 262 pp.

Lewis C. Seifert. Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias. (Cambridge Studies in French 55). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 276 pp.

“Cher, très cher, admirable et charmant ami …” Correspondance Georges Perec &; Jacques Lederer. Jacques Lederer, preface. Paris: Flammarion, 1997. 617 pp.

Timothy Unwin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxiii + 281 pp. $59.95.

Sarah Kay. The Chansons de geste in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 273 pp. $65.

Carrol F. Coates, ed. Repression and Expression: Literary and Social Coding in Nineteenth-Century France. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. xv + 342 pp.

Charlotte Stern. The Medieval Theater in Castile. Binghamton, New York: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 156, 1996. 321 pp.

José Belmonte Serrano, Origen y proceso de la narrativa de José Luis Castillo-Puche. Murcia: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 1997. 247 pp.

Brad Epps. Significant Violence. Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan Goytisolo, 1970-1990. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. xii + 513 pp. $82.00.

Francisco Javier, Díez de Revenga, and Mariano de Paco, eds. En círculos de lumbre. Estudios sobre Gerardo Diego. Murcia: CajaMurcia, Obra Cultural, 1997. 509 pp.

Charles F. Fraker. The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. ix + 235 pp.

John A. Scott. Dante's Political Purgatory. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 295 pp.

Amoldo Carlos Vento. La Generación Hijo Pródigo: Renovación y Modernidad. Lanham: University Press of America, 1996. 301 pp.     

The peoples of Africa

Nurse, G. T., J. S. Weiner, and Trefor Jenkins. The Peoples of Southern Africa and Their Affinities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. vi + 409 pp. including tables, bibliography, glossary, author index, and subject index.

Cavalli‐Sforza, Luigi Luca, ed. African Pygmies. Orlando: Academic Press, 1986. ix + 461 pp. including tables, bibliography, and index.     

REVIEWS

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