Reviews

Georges Dumezil : From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus, translated (from the French) by Derek Coltman. Georges Dumezil : The Destiny of a King, trans. Alf Hiltebeitel. Derek Wilson : A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. John Tonkin : The Church and Secular Order in Reformation Thought. Geoffrey Moorhouse: The Missionaries. Abraham J. Karp (ed.): The Jewish Experience in America: Selected Studies from the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society. New York, K'TAV, 1969. James Grant: Perspective of a Century: a Volume for the Centenary of Trinity College, Melbourne, 1872-1972. Sydney E. Ahlstrom: A Religious History of the American People.     

Book Reviews

The Greeks and the Persians From the Sixth to the Fourth Centuries. Essays in Modern History. Selected from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on the Occasion of its Centenary. The New Nationalism. Europe Overseas: Phases of Imperialism. Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany, 1914-1935. The German Officer Corps, 1890-1914. Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf – die Geschichte der SS. Reichsführer … Briefe an und von Himmler. The Italian Campaign, 1943-45: A Political and Military Reassessment. Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-67. The Parlement of Paris. Daily Life at Versailles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Rise of the Cistercian Strict Observance in Seventeenth Century France. The Royal Provincial Intendants: A Governing Elite in Eighteenth-Century France. Dilemma of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization. The Making of Early England. The Early Christian in Britain. Hubert Walter, Lord of Canterbury and Lord of England. Edward I A Medieval Society: The West Midlands at the End of the Thirteenth Century. The First Earl of Shaftesbury. Politics of Colonial Policy: The Board of Trade in Colonial Policy, 1696-1720. English Historians on the French Revolution. The History of the Royal Commonwealth Society, 1868-1968. Pacific Circle: Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. American Imperialism: A Speculative Essay. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. John Cotton on the Churches of New England. Benjamin Franklin Georgia and State Rights. Mission San Fernando. California: An Interpretive History. August Belmont: A Political Biography. The Great Rapprochement: England and the United Slates, 1895-1914. A Diplomat Looks Back. The Landing at Veracruz: 1914. The Mooney Case. Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932-1938. The Forgotten Farmers: The Story of Sharecroppers in the New Deal. The Hawks of World War II. Eisenhower. The President Nobody Knew. Sam Johnson's Boy: A Close-up of the President from Texas. To Heal and to Build: The Programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson. British Honduras: Colonial Dead End, 1859-1900. Cuba: The Making of a Revolution. Daily Life in Colonial Peru, 1710-1820. Crown and Clergy in Colonial Mexico, 1759-1821: The Crisis of Ecclesiastical Privilege. Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850-1914. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, 1796-1798. Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima History in Communist China. The Fortunate Slave; an Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century. African Zion: The Attempt to Establish a Jewish Colony in the East Africa Protectorate, 1903-1905.     

Reviews

Book review in this Article
B. W. J ones and R. D. M ilns (eds): The Use of Documentary Evidence in the Study of Roman Imperial History (Sources in Ancient History).
H arro H öpfl : The Christian Polity of John Calvin.
W alter K laassen (ed.): Anabaptism in Outline: Selected Primary Sources.
N orman M acdougall (ed.): Church, Politics and Society.
H arold P erkins : The Convict Priests.
J ames W aldersee : A Grain of Mustard Seed: The Society for the Propagation of the Faith and Australia, 1837–1977.
D onal A. K err : Peel, Priests and Politics.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Shaping Melbourne's Future: Town Planning, the State, and Civil Society Reef, Range and Red Dust: The Adventure Atlas of Queensland David Wadley (General Editor) and W. (Bill) King (Cartographic Editor) Agriculture, Environment and Society: Contemporary Issues for Australia Geoffrey Lawrence, Frank Vanclay and Brian Furze (eds) Trans-Tasman Migration: trends, causes and consequences Gordon A. Carmichael (ed). Metropolis 2000. Planning, Poverty and Politics Thomas Angotti An Introduction to Political Geography John Rennie Short The Geography of Contemporary China: the impact of Deng Xiaoping's decade T. Cannon and A. Jenkins (eds) The Changing Geography of China F. Leeming     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Manfred M. Fischer and Arthur Getis (eds.), Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis: Spatial Statistics, Behavioural Modelling, and Computational Intelligence Lars Lundqvist, Lars-Göran Mattson, and Tschangho John Kim (eds.), Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment: Advances in Spatial Systems Modelling Piet Rietveld and Frank Bruinsma, Is Transport Infrastructure Effective? Russell W. Cooper, Coordination Games: Complementarities and Macroeconomics Philip W. Porter and Eric S. Sheppard, A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development Mary Douglas and Steven Ney, Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences Robert A. Dodgshon, Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change     

ACADEMICIAN N. I. VAVILOV AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE USSR

Academician N. I. Vavilov (1887-1943) served as president of the Geographical Society of the USSR from 1931 to 1940. A distinguished plant breeder, geneticist, explorer for wild ancestors of cultivated plants, and geographer, he traveled widely and reported regularly to the Society on his explorations and discoveries. Together with Yu. N. Shokal'skiy, then the honorary president, he brought many new initiatives to the activities of the Society. They arranged for the transfer of the Society from the People's Comissariat of Education of the RSFSR to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The First All-Union Congress of Geographers of the USSR was held in 1933, participation in international congresses was arranged, international co-operation was sponsored, membership was increased sharply, sections and commissions were established or revived, a series of public lectures was organized, a lecture hall was opened, and the scientific archives were enriched. Vavilov was especially interested in the work of the Section on History of Geographical Knowledge and participated actively in special issues of Izvestiya of the Society and in commemorative meetings at the Society devoted to individual geographers who had made particularly significant contributions to geographical knowledge (translated by Chauncy D. Harris, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1583).     

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 Reviews in this Article: Jim Obelkevich, Lyndal Roper, Raphael Samuel, eds, Disciplines of Faith: Studies in Religion, Politics and Patriarchy. John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Susan Mosher Stuard, ed, Women in Medieval History and Historiography. Bronislaw Geremek, The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris, transl. Jean Birrell. Sara Mendelson, The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Alice Browne, The Eighteenth Century Feminist Mind. Helen Callaway, Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria. Claudia Knapman, White Women in Fiji 1835-1930: The Ruin of Empire?…. Marilyn Lake, The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915-38. Susan M. Reverby, Ordered to Care: the Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945. Linda Gordon, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence. Helena Whitbread, ed, I Know My Own Heart. The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840 Zuzanna Shonfield, The Precariously Privileged. A Professional Family in Victorian London. Tierl Thompson, ed, Dear Girl. The Diaries and Letters of Two Working Women 1897-1917. Yamila Azize, La Mujer en la Lucha (The Woman in Struggle) (2nd revised ed.).     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Tiberius. By Robin Seager. The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance. By Peter Partner. Universities in Politics: Case Studies from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Edited, with an introduction by John W. Baldwin and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century. By Ruth Pike. Roger of Salisbury, Viceroy of England. By Edward J. Kealey. The Loyal Consbiracy: The Lords Appellant under Richard II . By Anthony Goodman The Baroniul Plan of Reform, 1258-1263. By R. F. Treharne. Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell. By G. R. Elton. The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812. Volume VIII, 1911-1912. Edited by A. Aspinall. Socialism in Britain From the Zndustrial Revolution lo llre Present Day. By Thomas L. Jarman. The Gladstones: A Family Biography, 1764-1821. By S. G. Checkland. The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). By Richard Brett-Smith. Napoleon. By Andre Castelot. Weimar Germany. By John R. P. McKenzie. The Legacy of the German Refugee Intellectuals. Edited, with a preface, by Robert Boyers. The Jewish Bund in Russia From Its Origins to 1905. By Henry J. Tobias. Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected Works by the Activist-Founder of World Anarchism. Edited, translated, and with an introduction, by Sam Dolgoff. Witness to Revolution: Letters from Russia, 1916-1919. By Edward T. Heald. Edited by James B. Gibney. War and Revolution: Excerpts from the Letters and Diaries of the Countess Poutiatine. Translated and edited by George Alexander Lensen. The Republic of Armenia. Volume I, The First Year, 1918-1919. By Richard G. Hovannisian. The Cambridge History of Islam. Volume I, The Central Islamic Lands; Volume 11, The Further Islamic Lands, Zslaniic Society and Civilization. Edited by P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, and Bernard Lewis. The Histoiy of West Africa. Volume I. By J. F. Ade Ajayi and Michael Crowdcr. Sir George Sansom urid japan, A Memoir. By Katherine Sansom. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. By John Toland. Marquette's Explorations: The Narratives Reexamined. By Raphael N. Hamilton, S. J. “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle. By James A. Henretta. George Washington: Soldier and Man. By North Callahan. Politics Without Parties: Massachusetts, 1780-1791. By Van Beck Hall. The Guarantee Clause of the U. S. Constitution. By William M. Wiecek. Free Negroes in the District of Columbia: 1790-1846. By Letitia Woods Brown. With an Introduction by Richard C. Wade. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material. By Henry Irving Tragle. Abolitionism: A New Perspective. By Gerald Sorin. Nightfall at Nauvoo. By Samuel W. Taylor. George Peabody: A Biography. By Franklin Parker. Josiah Royce: An Intellectual Biography. By Bruce Kuklick. Teamster Rebellion. By Farrell Dobbs. American Business & Foreign Policy, 1920-1933. By Joan Hoff Wilson. A Secret War. Americian in China, 1944-1945. By Oliver J. Caldwell. Cold War and Counter Revolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy. By Richard J. Walton. A Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain. By Peter Gerhard. Man, State, and Society in Latin American History. Edited by Sheldon B. Liss and Peggy K. Liss. Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation. By Shirley Brice Heath. Revolutionaty Struggle, 19474958. [Volume I of the Selected Works of Fidel Castro]. Edited, with an introduction, by Rolando E. Bonachea and Nelson P. Valdés.     

Book reviews

François Bougard, La justice dans le royaume d'Italie de la fin du VIIIe siècle au débutdu XIe siècle.
Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (eds), Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe.
Philippe Depreux, Prosopographie de l'entourage de Louis le Pieux (781–840).
Gunnar Karlsson, Iceland's 1100 Years. The History of a Marginal Society.
Adam J. Kosto, Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200.
Ralph W. Mathisen (ed), Law, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity.
Marco Mostert, 754: Bonifatius bij Dokkum vermoord.
Isabelle Réal, Vies des saints, vie de famille. Représentation et système de laparenté dans le Royaume mérovingien (481-751) d'après les sourceshagiographiques.
Translated and introduced by Hans van Rij, Alpertus van Metz, Gebeurtenissen van deze tijd. Een fragment over bisschop Diederik I van Metz. De mirakelen van de heilige Walburga in Tiel.
Adriaan Verhulst, The Carolingian Economy.
Ian W. Walker, Mercia and the Making of England.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America.
The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937.
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.
Peter Lombard.
Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929–1987.
A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present.
Carthage, A History.
From Civilization to Segregation: Social ldeals and Social Control in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1934
The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee.
Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, His Second Lqe, 1862–1891.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Bicameralisme. Edited by H. W. Blom, W. P. Blockmans, and H. de Schepper
History of the justices if the Peace. By Sir Thomas Skyrme
The Manufacture of Scottish History. Edited by I. Donnachie and C. Whatley
Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals fiom the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688- 1689.
The Revolution of 1688-89. Changing Perspectives. Edited by Lois G. Schwoerer.
Britons. Forging the Nation 1707- 183 7. By Linda Colley
Pitt the Elder. By Jeremy Black. (British Lives.)
Law, Politics and the Church of England. The Career ofStephen Lushington, 1782-1873.
The House Of Lirds in British Politics and Society 1815-1911. By E.A. Smith
The letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho 1885–1917. Edited by Jane Ridley and Clayre Percy.
TJ.: A Life of Doctor Thomasjones, C.H. By E.L. Ellis
'His Majesty's Loyal Opposition': The Unionist Party in Opposition, 1905191.5.
British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and ConJict, 1915–1918.
Anthony Eden: A Political Biography 193 1-1 957. By Victor Rothwell
Third Party Politics Since 1945: Liberals, Alliance and Liberal Democrats. By John Stevenson
Parliaments and Pressure Politics. Edited by Michael Rush.
The British General Election of 1992. By David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh.     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Modern Arabic Biography of Muammad: A Critical Study of Muammad usayn Haykal's ayt Muammad . By Antonia Wessels. Leiden: E. J. Brill
Islamic Rationalism: The Ethics of'Abd al-Jabbar. By George F. Hourani
Le Thème de i'Aliénation dans le Roman Maghrébin d'Expression Française de 1952 à 1956. By Isaac Yetiv
The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. Ed. by N. S. Doniach
Islamic Education: Its Traditions and Modernization into the Arab National Systems. By A. L. Tibawi. London
God and Man in Contemporary Christian Thought
God and Man in Contemporary Islamic Thought Jordan: A Study in Political Development, 1921-1965
The Broken Sword of Justice: America, Israel and the Palestinian Tragedy
Arab Culture and Society in Change Compiled by John J. Donohue, Maurice P. Martin, Joseph P. O'Kane, and Joseph L. Ryan     

125 Years of the Geographical Society USSR

A brief review of the history of the Geographical Society USSR and of its contributions to various branches of geography. A book-length account of the history of the society appeared in Leningrad in 1970 under the title Geograficheskoye obshchestvo za 125 let [The Geographical Society Over the Last 125 Years], Leningrad: Nauka, 1970.     

Conferences

Conferences reviewed:
Open Society and Open Minds: The BASS 'Science and Society' Festival, 3-7 September 2001
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Narrative-Based Medicine, Homerton College, Cambridge, 3-4 September 2001     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Prompey, The Republican Prince. By Peter A. L. Greenhalgh. The Anglo-Saxons. By James Campbell, Eric John and Patrick Wormold. The Italian Crusades: The Papal-Angevin Alliance and the Crusades against Christian Lay Powers, 1254-1343. By Norman Housley. Land and Society in Early Scotland. By Robert A. Dodgshon. Influence in Early Stuart Elections, 1604-1640. By John K. Gurenfelder. Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655. By David S. Katz. The Making of an English Revolutionary: The Early Parliamentary Career of John Pym. By William W. MacDonald. The Outbreak of the English Civil War. Anthony Fletcher. Commonwealth to Protectorate. By Austin Woolrych. Fisher Row: Fisherman, Bargemen, and Canal Boatmen in Oxford, 1500-1900. By Mary Prior. The Impact of English Towns, 1700-1800. By P. J. Corfield. The British Labour Movement, 1700-1951. By Kenneth D. Brown. Women in Protest, 1800-1850. By Malcolm I. Thomis and Jennifer Grimmett. Riotous Victorians. By Donald C. Richter. The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939. By Martin Pugh. A History of British Industrial Relations, 1875-1914. Edited by C. J. Wrigley. Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy-Strategic Illusions, 1936-1941. By Arthur J. Marder. New Alliances, 1940-41. By Roy Douglas. Dear Dirty Dublin: A City in Distress. By Joseph V. O'Brien. Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France. By Susanna Barrows. Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century. By John Michael Montias. West Germany: A Contemporary History. By Michael Balfour. The German Army 1933-45. By Albert Seaton. The German Social Democrats in Opposition, 1949-1960: The Case against Rearmament. By Gordon D. Drummond. East Central European Society and War in the Pre-Revolutionary Eighteenth Century.Edited by Gunther Rothenberg, Bela k. Kiraly, and Peter F. Sugar. War and Society in Eastern Europe, vol.7, Army, Aristocracy, Monarchy: Essays on War, Society, and Government in Austria, 1618-1780. By Thomas M. Barker. Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations. By John R. Lampe and Marvin R. Jackson. The Evolution of Social Insurance, 1881-1918: Studies of Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria, and Switzerland. Edited by Peter A. Kohler and Hans F. Zacher in collaboration with Martin Partington. A History of European Integration, vol. 1, 1945-1947, The Formation of the European Unity Movement. By Walter Lipgens with contributions by Wilfried Loth and Alan Milward. Translated from the German by P. S. Falla and A. J. Ryder. The History of Marxism, vol. 1, Marxism in Marx's Day. Edited by Eric J. Hobsbawm. Han Civilization. By Zhongshu Wang. Translated by K. C. Chang and collaborators. Eighth Voyage of the Dragon: A History of China's Quest for Sea Power. By Bruce Swanson. Citizens in Arms: The Army and Militia in American Society to the War of 1812. By Lawrence Delbert Cress. The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality. [New York University Series in Education and Socialization in American History.] By Peter Dobkin Hall. Out To Work: A Histoy of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. By Alice Kessler Harris. Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton: Sex and Class in Victorian America. By Altina Waller. The Structure of Nineteenth-Century Cities. Edited by James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley. War and American Thought: From the Revolution to the Monroe Doctrine. By Reginald C. Stuart. Region, Race and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward. Edited by J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson. Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre. By Zeese Papnikolas. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts, and the Legend. By Glenn Shirley. Knights of the Green Cloth: The Sagta of Frontier Gamblers. By Robert K. DeArment. The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform. By Judith Walzer Leavitt. To the Lesser Heights of Morningside: A Memoir. By Rexford Guy Tugwell. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughfin, and the Great Depression. By Alan Brinkley. Governor Philip F. La Follette, the Wisconsin Progressives, and the New Deal. By John E. Miller. The New Deal Lawyers. By Peter H. Irons. American Intervention in Greece, 1943-1949. By Lawrence S. Wittner. The Chiefs of Naval Operations. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert William Love, Jr. Marshall: Hero for Our Times. By Leonard Mosley.     

Factoring Mary Poovey's A History of the Modern Fact

Book reviewed in this article:
Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed:
Porter and Sheppard, A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development