Tangentopoli or the democratization of corruption: Considerations on the end of Italy's first republic

Emilio Sereni (1997) History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape, translated and Introduction by R. Burr Litchfield. Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Italian History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), pp. i‐xliv, 1–369, ISBN 0–691012164 hardback; ISBN 0–691012156 paperback.

Peter Brand and Lino Pertile (eds) (1996) The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1–701.

Bruno Bongiovanni and Nicola Tranfaglia (eds) (1996) Dizionario storico dell'Italia unita (Rome‐Bari: Laterza), pp. 1–1031, 95,000 lire, ISBN 88–420–5081–4.

Giuseppe Maranini (1995) Storia del potere in Italia 1848–1967, prefazione di Angelo Panebianco, 2nd edn (Milan: Corbaccio), pp. 1–530; Mariuccia Salvati (1997) Riflessioni sul Leadership nella storia dell'Italia contemporoneo (Rome‐Bari: Laterza), pp. 1–156.

Domenico Del Rio (1996) I Gesuiti e l'Italia. Storia di passioni, di trionfi e di amarezze (Milan: Corbaccio), pp. 1–522, ISBN 88–7972–111–9 hardback.

Anna Foa (1998) Giordano Bruno (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–107, 16,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06604–7.

Roland Sarti (1997) Mazzini. A Life for the Religion of Politics (Westport, Conn.: Praeger), pp. 1–249, ISBN 0–275–95080–8 hardback.

Jonathan Dunnage (1997) The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism: a Case Study of the Province of Bologna, 1897–1925 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger), pp. i‐xvi, 1–198, $57.95, ISBN 0–275–95286–1 hardback.

Jane Slaughter (1997) Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945 (Denver, Colo: Arden Press) pp. i‐xx, 1–171, $32.00, ISBN 0–912869–13–5 hardback.

Gabriele Turi (ed.) (1997) Storia dell'editoria nell'ltalia contemporanea (Florence: Giunti Gruppo Editoriale), pp. 1–503, 48,000 lire, ISBN 88–09–21236–3.

Carlo Guarnieri and Patrizia Pederzoli (1997) La democrazia giudiziaria (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–186, 18,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–05706–4 paperback.

Alessandro Brogi (1996) L'ltalia e l'egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo (Scandicci (Florence): La Nuova Italia. Editrice), pp. 1–425 pages (including appendix of documents, bibliography, and index of names), 40,000 lire, ISBN 88–221–1752–2.     

Economic despondency and social division: A political review of the year, 1996

Verschave, F. X., La Françafrique. Le plus long scandale de la république (Stock 1998). 379 pp. 130F ISBN 2 234 04948 2

Gourévitch, J.‐P., L'Afrique, le fric la France. L'aide, la dette, l'immigration, l'avenir: vérités et mensonges (Le pré aux Clercs, 1997) 372 pp., 110F. ISBN 2 84228 022 9     

Review of Books

MICHAEL BENTLEY, ed. Companion to Historiography. London and New York: Roudedge, 1997. Pp. xvii,997. $150.00 (us). Reviewed by Simon Hornblower

JEREMY BLACK. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. 267. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John A. Agnew

GANG DENG. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 BC–1900AD. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 218. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen

RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN, ed. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 372. $49.95 (us); Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 493. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Dennis R. Papazian

ANTONIO SANTOSUOSSO. Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167 BC. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. x, 277. $22.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Hodgkinson

THOMAS T. ALLSEN. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 137. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Ruth I. Meserve

HUGH KENNEDY. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xvi, 342. £15.99. Reviewed by Maya Shatzmiller

MICHAEL COSTEN. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York; St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 229. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by James A. Brundage

JAMES L. GILLESPIE, ed. The Age of Richard II. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 256. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Tuck

S. A. M. ADSHEAD. Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800: The Rise of Consumerism. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Craig Cluna

J. J. CLARKE. Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter between Asian and Western Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 273. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Tsin

P. E. H. HAIR. Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450–1700. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xx, 324. $94.95 (us). Reviewed byNorman R. Bennett

GODFREY GOODWIN. The Janissaries. London: Saqi Books, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 288. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan

JOHN M. HEADLEY. Church, Empire, and World: The Quest for Universal Order, 1520–1640. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. x, 322. $89.98 (us); JOHN M. HEADLEY. Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 399. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by William Mccuaig

DAVID MCDOWALL. A Modern History of the Kurds. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xii, 480. $17.95 (us) paper. Reviewed by Kemal H. Karpat

GLYNDWR WILLIAMS. The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570– 1750. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 300. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell

RONALD G. ASCH. The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618–48. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Heinz Duchhardt

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630–1730. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 273. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy

GRETE KLINGENSTEIN and FRANZ A. J. SZABO, eds. Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711–1704: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung. Graz: Andreas Schnider Verlagsatelier, 1996. Pp. iv, 499. $46.00 (us). Reviewed by P. G. M. Dickson

THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN. Aryans And British India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 260. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick

MATTHEW H. EDNEY. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 458. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers

ORVILLE T. MURPHY. The Diplomatic Retreat of France and Public Opinion on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1783–1789. Washington: Cadiolic University of America Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 193. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Marsha Frey

J. E. COOKSON. The British Armed Nation, 1793–1815. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vi, 286. $121.50 (CDN). Reviewed by H. T. Dickinson

ANTHONY S. BENNELL. The Making of Arthur Wellesley. London: Sangam Books, 1997. Pp. viii, 235. £17.95. Reviewed by Enid M. Fuhr

DAVID CURTIS SKAGGS and GERARD T. ALTOFF. A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812–1813. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by E. Jane Errington

ZEYNEP ÇELIK. Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 236. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by John Ruedy

PETER YOUNG and PETER JESSER. The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 391. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor

JOST DÜLFFER, MARTIN KRÖGER, and ROLF-HARALD WIPPICH. Vermiedene Kriege. Deeskalation von Konflikten der Großmächte zwischen Krimkrieg uni Erstem Weltkrieg, 1856–1914. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. Pp. vi, 716. DM 98, paper. Reviewed by Ivo N. Lambi

PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xiii, 391. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Robert D. Cuff

THOMAS FISCHER. Die verlorenen Dekaden: ←Entwicklung nach außen→ und ausländische Geschäfte in Kolumbien, 1870–1914. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 472. $76.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by JÜRgen Buchenau

FREDERICK F. ANSCOMBE. The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 270. $17.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Caesar E. Farah

LEILA J. RUPP. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 325. $19.95 (us)> paper. Reviewed by Harriet Hyman Alonso

IAN ROBERT DOWBIGGIN. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 245. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Angus Mclaren

MYUNG-KEUN CHOI. Changes in Korean Society between 1884–1910 as a Result of the Introduction of Christianity. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xx, 321. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by James H. Grayson

ALEX MCKAY. Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre, 1904–1947. Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 293. £65.00. Reviewed by Ian Copland

WILLIAM N. TILCHIN. Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 302. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Collin

SAMUEL HYNES. The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York and London: Allen Lane and Penguin, 1997. Pp. xvi, 318. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Jacek Wi?niewski

STEPHEN GARTON. The Cost of War: Australians Return. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 298. $53.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Christina Twomey

WILLIAM ALLISON. American Diplomats in Russia: Case Studies in Orphan Diplomacy, 1916–1919. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 190. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Betty M. Unterberger

T. HUNT TOOLEY. National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918–1922. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 320. $56.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Krüger

DAVID CHUTER. Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919– 2001. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xi, 356. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite

G. F. KRIVOSHEEV, ed. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, trans. Christine Barnard. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1997. Pp. xiv, 290. £21.95. Reviewed by Steven Rosefielde

RAYMOND PEARSON. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 194. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Graeme Gill

WARREN F. KUEHL and LYNNE K. DUNN. Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Mations, 1920–1939. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 306. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by George Egerton

ALEKSANDR M. NEKRICH. Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations, 1922–1941, ed. and trans. Gregory L. Freeze. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 308. $35.00 (us); DIANE P. KOENKER and RONALD D. BACHMAN, eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997. Pp. xxv, 808. $59.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Haslam

D. A. Low. Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Ambiguity, 1929– 1942. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 358. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh

CHARLES REARICK. The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 321. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Judith Devlin

DEREK H. ALDCROFT. Studies in the Interwar European Economy. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. ix, 229. $72.95 (us). Reviewed by Sidney Pollard

PATRICIA CLAVIN. The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France, and the United States, 1931–36. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré

BENJAMIN WELLES. Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 437. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Warren F. Kimball

TOM BUCHANAN. Britain and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 241. $64.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Richards

DENNIS J. DUNN. Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. xii, 349. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by David Mayers

BARBARA REARDEN FARNHAM. Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 313. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Randall Schweller

DAVID DAY, ed. Brave New World: Dr H. V. Evatt and Australian Foreign Policy, 1941–1949. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. x, 182. $22.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Roger Dingman

HORSTJ. P. BERGMEIER and RAINER E. LOTZ. Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 368. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Edwin Herzstein

CHARLES L. ROBERTSON. International Politics since World War II: A Short History. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xiv, 383. $62.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Keith L. Nelson

YEZID SAYIGH and Avi SHLAIM, eds. The Cold War and the Middle East. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 303. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry

PETER LOWE. Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China, and Korea, 1948–1953. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 288. £45.00. Reviewed by Roger Buckley

NEIL CAPLAN. Futile Diplomacy: Volume III: The United Nations, the Great Powers, and Middle East Peacemaking, 1948–1954. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxvi, 390. $59.50 (us); Volume IV: Operation Alpha and the Failure of Anglo-American Coercive Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1954–1956. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxi,414. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benny Morris

ONN WINCKLER. Population Growth and Migration in Jordan, 1950–1994. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 138. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by Allan Findlay

MICHAEL D. GAMBONE. Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953–1961. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Immerman

N. PIERS LUDLOW. Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 282. $64.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell

KENDRICK OLIVER. Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961–63. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 252. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Jeffrey W. Knopf

TIMOTHY P. MAGA. Hands across the Sea? US-Japan Relations, 1961–1981. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 183. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart

HOUMAN A. SADRI. Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and Iran. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xv, 147. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Odd Arne Westad

DUNCAN L. CLARKE, DANIEL B. O'CONNOR, and JASON D. ELLIS. Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and US Foreign Policy. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiv, 211. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ted Galen Carpenter

CHARLES S. MAIER. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 440. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Geoff Eley

FERGUS CARR, ed. Europe: The Cold Divide. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard Falk

KARL VON VORYS. American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. viii, 379. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley

ALAN COLLINS. The Security Dilemma and the End of the Cold War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 243. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by William C. Wohlforth

MICHAEL LIBAL. Limits of Persuasion: Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1991– 1992. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 206. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Hanns W. Maull

JOHN W. GARVER. Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization. Seatde: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 193. $18.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Peter Van Ness

ROBERT JERVIS. System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 309. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Harlan Wilson

MICHAEL W. DOYLE. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism. New York: W. W. Norton &; Company, 1997. Pp. 557. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson     

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.     

Book reviews

AFFERGAN, F., La pluralite des mondes. Vers une autre anthropologie, Albin Michel, 1997, 288 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 22609 4067

BERNARD‐GRIFFITHS, S. (ed.), Cahier romantique no. 3: Variétés sur Michelet, Nizet, 1998, 200 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 910875 06 7

BOUVET, L., DELORS, J., KLUXEN‐PYTA, D., LAMERS, K. and ROVAN, J., France‐Allemagne: le bond en avant, Odile Jacob, 1998, 208 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 7381 0580 7

CHOLVY, G., Être chrétien en France au XIX^e siècle 1790–1914, Seuil, 1997, 178 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 02 022836 X

DEMOLINS, E., A, quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo‐Saxons?, Anthropos, 1998, 302 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 7178 3653 5

DIXON, W.W., The films of Jean‐Luc Godard, State University of New York Press, 1997, 290 pp., £10.49, ISBN 0 7914 3286 6

DUBOIS, L. (ed.), Albert Camus entre la Misère et le Soleil, Editions du Pont‐Neuf, 1997, 321 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 910351 14 9

EVANS, M. and LUNN, K., (eds), War and Memory in the Twentieth Century, Berg, 1997, 272 pp; price not indicated, ISBN 1 85973 199 6

FOUCAULT, M. (Edited by Paul Rabinów and translated by Robert Hurley et al.), Ethics: the Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 1, Penguin, 1997, 334 pp., £25.00, ISBN 0 713 99163 1

GIOLITTO, P., Histoire de la Milice, Perrin, 1997, 575 pp., 159F., ISBN 2 262 01250 4

HOLMES D. and INGRAM R., François Truffaut, Manchester University Press, 1998, 225 pp., £36.00 hbk, ISBN 0 7190 4553 3 £8.99 pbk, 0 7190 4554 1

KOK ESCALLE, M.‐C. (ed.), Paris: De l'image à la mémoire. Représentations artistiques, littéraires, socio‐politiques, Rodopi, 1997, 229 pp., price not indicated ISBN 90 420 0049 X

LE CACHEUX, J. (ed.), Europe, la nouvelle vague: perspectives économiques de l'élargissement, Presses de Sciences Po, 1996, 372 pp., 95F., ISBN 2 7246 0704 X

LENEVEU C. and VAKALOULIS M. (eds), Faire mouvement. Novembre‐décembre 1995, PUF, 1998, 314 pp., 138F., ISBN 2 13 0494889

LEP APE P., André Gide le messager, Seuil, 1997. 508 pp. 132F., ISBN 2 02 025247 3

MACMASTER, N., Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France 1900–1962, Macmillan, 1997, £40.50 hbk, 0 333 64466 2 £16.65 pbk, 0 333 68700 0

MANO, J.‐L. and BIRENBAUM, G., La défaite impossible. Enquête sur les secrets d'une élection, Ramsay, 1997, 356 pp., 109F., ISBN 2 84114 303 1

MAURY, R., Albine, le dernier amour de Napoléon, (Préface de François de Montholon‐Candé) Calmann‐Lévy, 1998, 378 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7021 2851 3

MAYOL, P., Les Enfants de la liberté. Études sur l'autonomie sociale et culturelle des jeunes en France 1970–1996, L'Harmattan, 1997, 286 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7384 5677 4

PITTE, J.‐R., La France, Nathan, 1997, 192 pp., 69F., ISBN 2 09 190226 8

POIRRIER, P., La, Naissance, des politiques culturelles et les Rencontres d'Avignon 1964–1970, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 1997, 570 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 909 717 30 5

REARICK, C., The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars, Yale University Press, 1997, 321 pp., £25, ISBN 0 300 06433 0

REVEL, J.‐F., Le voleur dans la maison vide, Plon, 1997, 649 pp., 149 F., ISBN 2 259 18022 1

STEEGMULLER, F., Cocteau, A Biography, (translated by M. Jossua) Buchet/Chastel, 1997, 409 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 7020 1624 3

TODD, E., L'Illusion économique: essai sur la stagnation des sociétés développées, Gallimard, 1998, 321 pp., 115F., ISBN 2 07 074885 5

ZAMPONI, F., Les, RG, à, l'écoute de la France. Police et politique de 1981 à 1997, La Découverte, 1998, 300 pp., 135F., ISBN 2 7071 2821 X     

Review Article: British Foreign Policy from Salisbury to Blair

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

REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS

Book reviewed in this article: Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems, edited by John, Pickles / STEPHEN DIDUNYK L'eau de neige: le tiède et le frais, by Xavier de Planhol /j.h. galloway Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, par A.M. Galperin, V.S. Zaytsev et Y.A. Norvatov; Biogéographie des milieux aquatiques, par Gabriel Rougerie / jean-marie M. dubois Visualization in Modern Cartography, edited by Alan MacEachren and D.R. Fraser Taylor/BARRY BRADLEY Development, Geography, and Economic Theory, by Paul Krugman / trevor barnes Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems edited by john pickles L'eau de neige:le tiéde et le frais by xavier de planhol, Editions Fayard Par A.M. Galperin, V.S. Zaytsev et Y.A. Norvatov Balkema Biogéographie des milieux aquatiques par Gabriel rougerie, Armand Colin Visualization in Modern Cartography edited by alan maceachren and d.r. fraser taylor Cartographer to the New Zealand Historical Atlas Project Development, Geography, and Economic Theory by paul krugman The Canadian Geographer On Line /Le Géographe canadien « en ligne » The Canadian Geographer home page is shown below:/La page d'accueil du Géographe Canadien apparaît ci-dessous: THE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER LE GÉOGRAPHE CANADIEN Journal of the Canadian Association of Geographers Revue de l'Association canadienne des géographes Editors / Rédacteurs: Barry Boots and/et Houston Saunderson Department of Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Choose one of the following hyperlinks (highlighted) / Choisissez l'un des hyperliens qui suivent: 1. Abstracts of articles recently published / Résumé's de publications récentes 2. Abstracts of current issue [41 (1), 19971 / Résumés de publications courantes [41 (1), 1997] 3. Abstracts of next issue / Résumés de publications prochaines 4. Abstracts of articles forthcoming/ Résumés d'articles à paraître 5. Editorial Advisory Board / Le comité de rédaction 6. List of officers 1996–1997 / Liste des administrateurs 1996–1997     

‘… This strange eventful history …’: France and the Second World War

Direction des Archives de France, La Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Guide des sources conservées en France 1939–1945 (Archives nationales, 1994), 1217pp., 350F., ISBN 2 86000 235 9

Burrin, P., La France à l'heure allemande 1940–1944 (Seuil, 1995), 559pp., 160F., ISBN 2 02 018322 6     

Book reviews

Emilio Franzina (1995) Gli italiani al nuovo mondo; L'emigrazione italiana in America 1492‐1942 (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore), pp. 1‐644. 65,000 lire, ISBN 88‐04‐35977‐3.

Marta Petrusewicz (1996) Latifundium. Moral Economy and Material Life in a European Periphery, translated by Judith C. Green (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), pp. i‐xx, 1‐289, ISBN 047‐2103423 hardback.

H. James Burgwyn (1997) Italian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918‐1940 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger), pp. i‐xx, 1‐246, ISBN 0‐275‐94877‐3 hardback.

Lutz Klinkhammer (1997) Stragi naziste in Italia. La guerra contro i civili (1943‐44), translated by Suzanne Meyer (Rome: Donzelli), pp. i‐xii, 1‐165, 18,000 lire; Paolo Pezzino (1997) Anatomia di un massacro. Controversia sopra una strage tedesca (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1‐243, 26,000 lire, paperback.

Mabel Berezin (1997) Making the Fascist Self: the Political Culture of Interwar Italy (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press), pp. 1‐267, ISBN 0‐8014‐8420‐9 paperback; Simonetta Falasca‐Zamponi (1997) Fascist Spectacle: the Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Berkeley and London: University of California Press), pp. 1‐314, $40.00, ISBN 0‐520‐20623‐1 hardback.

David Ward (1996) Antifascisms: Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943‐46. Benedetto Croce and the Liberals, Carlo Levi and the ‘Actionists’ (Madison, NJ: Farteigh‐Dickinson University Press), pp. 1‐244, ISBN 0‐8363‐3676‐4.

David Forgacs and Robert Lumley (eds) (1996) Italian Cultural Studies: an Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 1‐368, $19.95, ISBN 0‐19‐871509‐9 paperback.

Maurizio Degl'lnnocenti (1995) La società unificata, Associazone, sindacato, partito sotto il fasdsmo (Manduria: Piero Lacaita Editore), pp. 1‐216, 25,000 lire, paperback.

Nello Ajello (1997) Illungo addio, intellettuali e PCI dal 1958 al 1991 (Rome‐Bari: Laterza), pp. 1‐425, 35,000 lire, ISBN 88‐420‐5323‐6.

Tom Behan (1997) The Camorra (London and New York: Routledge), pp. i‐vii, 1 ‐225, ISBN 0‐415‐09987‐0 hardback.

Sandro Setta (1995) La Destra ndl'Italia del dopoguerra (Bari: Laterza), pp. i‐xi, 1‐242, 35,000 lire, ISBN 88‐420‐4591‐8.

Manuela Gieri (1995) Contemporary Italian Filmmaking: Strategies of Subversion ‐Pirandello, Fellini, Scola and the Directors of the New Generation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 1‐301, ISBN 0‐8020‐0556‐X hardback; ISBN 0‐8020‐6979‐7 paperback.     

Book reviews

Ken Alder. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. xvi+476.

Robert Kanigel. The One Best Way: Frederick Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (New York: Viking, 1997), pp. 675.

Robert P. Crease. Making Physics. A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972 (University of Chicago Press, 1999).     

Major accessions to repositories in 2003 relating to imperial and commonwealth history

The World Upside Down: Cross‐Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth‐Century Peru by Susan Elizabeth Ramirez. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 234, maps, figures and tables. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8047–2416–4.

The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xxi + 400, maps. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–47072–2.

Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and its Invaders by Richard Hall. London: HarperCollins, 1996. Pp.xxv + 575, maps, illustrations. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–00–215971–6.

John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier by. Russell Snapp. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp.238, eight halftone illustrations, maps. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8071–2024–3.

Political Partisanship in the American Middle Colonies, 1700–1776 by Benjamin H. Newcomb. Baton Route and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Pp.xiv + 258, tables. $37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8071–1875–3.

Forming American Politics: Ideals. Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania by Alan Tully. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1994. Pp.xvi + 556. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8018–4831–8.

The Devious Dr Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin's Years in London by David T. Morgan. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1996. Pp.xi + 273. $34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–86554–525–1.

Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey: Royal Soldier, Family Patriarch by Paul David Nelson. London: Associated University Presses, and Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. Pp.253. £29.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8386–3673‐X.

Malta, Britain, and the European Powers, 1793–1815 by Desmond Gregory. London: Associated University Presses, and Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. Pp.353. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8386–3590–3.

The Business of Abolishing the Slave Trade 1783–1807 by Judith Jennings. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xii + 157. £29.50 (hardback); £15.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4697–0; 0–7146–4235–5.

Romanticism, Race and Imperial Culture, 1780–1834 edited by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp.vii + 352. £33.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–253–33212–5.

Aryans and British India by Thomas R. Trautmann. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 260, illustrations, maps. £24.95; $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–520–20546–4.

Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843 by Matthew H. Edney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp.xx + 458, illustrations, maps, tables. £27.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–226–18487–0.

Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War by Howard Jones. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 300. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8032–7597–8.

The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788–1996 by Mark McKenna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 334. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–57258–4.

Transformationen der europäischen Expansion vom16. bis zum 20. Jah hundert edited by Andreas Eckert and Jürgen Müller. Loccumer Protokolle 26/96. Loccum: Evangelische Akademie, 1997. Pp.iv + 212. DEM 12.00 (paperback). ISBN 3–8172–2696–9.

De Stille Macht: Het Europese Binnenlands Bestuur op Java en Madoera, 1808–1942 by H.W. van den Doel. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1995. Pp.578, photographs, illustrations. No price indicated. ISBN 90–351–1405–1.

The Afrikaners: An Historical Interpretation by G.H.L. Le May. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp.viii + 279. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–631–18204–7.

The Jameson Raid: A Centennial Retrospective. Consultant academic editor: Jane Carruthers. Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 264, 184 illustrations. No price indicated. Presentation De Luxe, ISBN 0–909079–54–4, and Standard, ISBN 0–909079–53–6.

Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1888–1947 by Jon Lunn. London and Oxford: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, 1997. Pp.xi + 194, maps. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–653–173.

Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans 1860–1960 by Apollos O. Nwauwa. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xx + 245. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7146–4668–7.

The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict by Dagmar Kift, translated by Roy Kift. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.244. £35 00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–47472–8.

Nationalism and Independence: Selected Irish Papers by Nicholas Mansergh, edited by Diana Mansergh. Cork: Cork University Press, 1997. Pp.xvii + 264. £45.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–85918–105–8; 1–85918–106–6.

British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume I: Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice 1925–1945 edited by S.R. Ashton and S.E. Stockwell. London: HMSO, 1996.

Part I, Metropolitan Reorganisation, Defence and International Relations, Political Change and Constitutional Reform. Pp.cvii + 403. £70.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–11–290 544–4.

Part II, Economic Policy, Social Policies and Colonial Research. Pp.xxi + 403. £70.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–11–290551‐X.

A Country of Limitations: Canada and the World in 1939 edited by Norman Hillmer, Robert Bothwell, Roger Sarty, and Claude Beauregard. Ottawa: Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, 1996. Pp.295. No price indicated (paperback). ISBN 0–660–59970–8.

Attlee by Robert Pearce. London and New York: Longman, 1997. Pp.vii + 206. £39.99 (hardback); £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–25691–7; 0–582–256690–9.

Business, Government, and the End of Empire: Malaya, 1942–1957 by Nicholas J. White. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xxii + 331, tables, figures, maps, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 983–56–0008–2.

Hong Kong: The Road to 1997 by Roger Buckley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xviii + 232, map. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–47008–0; 0–521–46979–1.

Hong Kong: An Appointment with China by Steve Tsang. London: I.B. Tauris. Pp.xiii + 274. £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–86064–311–6.     

Recent publications

Bilan économique et sociale de la France La Documentation française, 1997, 156pp., 75F., ISBN 2 11 00 3901 9

CROZET Y. et al., Les grandes questions de l'économie française, Nathan, 1997, 352pp., 125 F., ISBN 2 09 190367 1

DELBO, C., Convoy to Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance, Northwestern University Press, 1997, 220pp., £23.50, ISBN 1 55553 313 2

DOLAMORE, S. M., French Autobiographical Writing 1900–1950, Grant and Cutler, 1997, 425pp., £32.50, ISBN 0 7293 0396 9

FRAISSE, R. et FOUCAULD, J.‐B., de (eds), La France en prospectives, Odile Jacob, 1996 402pp., 140F., ISBN 2 7381 0426 6

HAALAND MATLARY, J., Energy Policy in the European Union, Macmillan, 1997, 174pp., £12.99 pbk, ISBN 0 333 64349 6

MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGÈRES, Cent ans de cinéma français. Brève histoire du cinéma français 1960–1990, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, 1996 207pp., 55F., ISBN 2 9111 2735 8

POMIER, N. (ed.), French Correspondence, Oxford University Press, 1997, 158pp., £4.99, ISBN 0 19 860010 0

ROBERTS, J. M., The French Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1997, 180pp., £8.99, ISBN 0 19 289292 4

SCHOR, R., La France dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Nathan, 1997, Collection 128 128pp., 49FF., ISBN 2 09 190381 7

Tableaux de l'Économie Française 1997–1998, INSEE, 1997, 200pp., 79 F.     

Back to the future? France's African adventure revisited

Valette, J., La France et l'Afrique: t.1 L'Afrique subsaharienne de 1914 à 1960 (SEDES, 1994), 316pp., 110F., ISBN 2 7181 3767 3

Valette, J., La France et l'Afrique: t.2 L'Afrique française du Nord, 1914–1962 (SEDES, 1994), 515pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7181 3607 3     

Review Article: The Ways of the World

S. E. FINER. The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume I: Ancient Monarchies and Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 610; Volume II: The Intermediate Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 613–1,061; Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 1,065–1,701. $270.00 (CDN), for the three volumes. Reviewed by A. P. Thornton     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Early Elizabethan Polity. William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558–1569. By Stephen Alford. Jacobean Gentleman. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. Princeton: Princeton University Press. British Identities before Nationalism. Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. By Colin Kidd. The English Revolution. Politics, Events, Ideas. By Perez Zagorin. Protestantism and National Identity. Britain and Ireland c. 1650‐c. 1850. Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Tory and Whig. The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, M.P. for Seaford, 1716–53. Edited by Stephen Taylor and Clyve Jones. Edmund Burke. Volume 1: 1730–1784. By F. P. Lock. Britannia's Glories. The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain. By Philip Woodfine. John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare. Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth‐Century Ireland. By Ann C. Kavanaugh. George IV. By E. A. Smith. Britain and the American Revolution. Edited by H. T. Dickinson. Unionist Scotland 1800–1997. Edited by Catriona M. M. MacDonald. British Politics on the Eve of Reform. The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–30. By Peter Jupp. Parliamentary Constituencies and their Registers since J 832. A List of Constituencies and their Registers from the Great Reform Act with the British Library's Holdings of Electoral Registers together with the Library's Holdings of Burgess Rolls, Poll Books and Other Registers. By Richard H. A. Cheffins. The Boundary Commissions. Redrawing the UK's Map of Parliamentary Constituencies. By D. J. Rossiter, R. J. Johnston and C. J. Pattie. Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846–1946. By Anthony Howe. Managing the South African War, 1899–1902. Politicians v. Generals. By Keith Terrance Surridge. Opinion Polls. History, Theory and Practice. By Nick Moon. Anthony Crosland. A New Biography. By Kevin Jefferys. Devolution in the United Kingdom. By Vernon Bogdanor. Britain Votes. 6: British Parliamentary Election Results 1997. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.     

Book reviews

ATTARD‐MARANINCHI, M.‐F., Le Panier, village corse à Marseille, Autrement, 1997, 157 pp., 89 F., ISSN 0336 5816

CAYROL, R., Médias et démocratie: la derive, Presses de Sciences Po, 1997, 115 pp., 75F., ISBN 2 7246 0710 4

CLERC, D., Dictionnaire des questions économiques et sociales, Editions de l'Atelier, 1997, 315 pp., 85F., ISBN 2 7082 3284 3

C?URÉ, S. et al. (eds), Marcel Cachin: Carnets 1906–1947: Volume IV 1935–47, CNRS, 1997, 1190 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 271 05124 X

COOPER, F., Decolonisation and African Society. The Labour Question in French and British Africa, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 677 pp., £55 hbk, ISBN 0 521 56251 1; £19.95 pbk, ISBN 0 521 56600 2

DEBRAY, R., Transmettre, Odile Jacob, 1997, 204 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 7381 0461 4

ELKABBACH, J.‐P., 29 mois et quelques jours, Grasset, 1997, 346 pp., 126F., ISBN 2 246 54341 X

ESTABLET, R., Comment peut‐on être Français? 90 ouvriers turcs racontent, Fayard, 1997, 242 pp., 100F, ISBN 2 213 59962 9

FAURÉ, C. (ed.), Encyclopédic politique et historique des femmes, PUF, 1997, 885 pp., 498F., ISBN 213 048 316X

FILLIEULE, O., Stratégies de la rue, Presses de Sciences Po, 1997, 435 pp., 265F., ISBN 2 7246 0707 4

GAFAITI, H., Les Femmes dans le roman algérien: histoire, discours et texte, L'Harmattan, 1996, 350 pp., 180F., ISBN 2 384 4039 8

GEISSER, V., Ethnicité républicaine. Les élites d'origine maghrébine dans le système politique français, Presses de Sciences Po, 1997, 261 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 7246 0732 5

GRANGE, J., La Philosophie d'Auguste Comte, PUF, 1996, 447 pp., 198F., ISBN 2 1304 7277X

HAUT CONSEIL DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, Etat de la Francophonie dans le monde: données 1995–1996 et 5 études inédites, La Documentation française, 1997, 629 pp., 150F., ISBN 2 11 003683 4

INSEE, La France et ses régions: Edition 1997, INSEE, 1997, 226 pp., 89F., ISBN 2 11 066 505 X

KALYVAS, S., The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe, Cornell University Press, 1996, 300 pp., £15.95, ISBN 0 8014 3241 3

KNIGHT, D., Barthes and Utopia. Space, Travel, Writing, Clarendon Press, 1997, 287 pp., £35, ISBN 0 19 81 5889 0

KOFMAN, S., Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, University of Nebraska Press, 1996, 85 pp., £11, ISBN 0 8032 7780 6

LEVY, S. (ed.), Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality, Keele University Press, 1996, 173 pp., £35, ISBN 1 8533 1 170 7

LLOYD, M. and THACKER, A. (eds), The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and Humanities, Macmillan, 1997, 186 pp., £42.50 hbk, ISBN 0 333 63126; £15.99 pbk, ISBN 0 333 68432 X

LYNCH, F. M. B. France, and the International Economy, Routledge, 1997, 227pp., £45, ISBN 0 415 142 199

MINISTERE DE LA JUSTICE, Les archives contemporaines de l'administration centrale. Guide de recherches, La Documentation française, 1997, 312 pp., 300F., ISBN 2 11090 299 X

MUXEL, A., Individu et mémoire familiale, Nathan, 1996, 226 pp., 139F., ISBN 2 09 190420 1

NEBOIT‐GUILHOT, R. and DAVY L. (eds), Les Français dans leur environnement, Nathan, 1996, 382 pp., 199F., ISBN 2 09 190369 8

REYNOLDS, S., France between the Wars: Gender and Politics, Routledge, 1996, 280 pp., £16.99, ISBN 0 415 12737 8

RITCHIE, A.C., Media French. A Guide to Contemporary French Idiom, with English Translations, University of Wales Press, 1997, 268 pp., £20, ISBN 0 7083 1399 X

RONCAYOLO, M., Les grammaires d'une ville. Essai sur la genèse des structures urbaines à Marseille, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1996, 508 pp., 380F., ISBN 2 7132 1195 6

ROUGELET, P.R.G., La machine à scandales, Albin Michel, 1997, 261 pp., 98F., ISBN 2 226 09274 9

SHERINGHAM, M. (ed.), Parisian Fields, Reaktion Books, 1996, 200 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 948462 85 X

SHLAPENTOKH, D., The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life, 1865–1905, Praeger, 1996, 202 pp., £46.50, ISBN 0 275 95573 7

The French Revolution and the Russian Anti‐Democratic Tradition. A, Case, of False Consciousness, Transaction Publishers, 1997, 324 pp., £20.95, ISBN 1 56000 244 1

TERRIER, D., Les deux âges de la proto‐industrie: les tis‐serands du Cambrésis et du Saint‐Qucntinois, 1730–1880, Editions de I'EHESS, 1996, 311 pp., 150F., ISBN 2 7132 1203 0

TOPPIA, J.‐M., Function politique et délit d'ingérence, L'Aube, 1996, 381 pp., no price indicated ISBN 2 87678 270 7

TREMOIS, C.‐M., Les Enfants de la liberté. Le jeune cinéma français des années 90, Seuil, 1997, 282 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 02 032309 5

TUCK, P., The French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb. The French Threat to Siamese Independence, 1858–1907, White Lotus, distributed by Liverpool University Press, 1995 434 pp., £24.95, ISBN 1 879155 44 3

VANDERVORT, B., Victor Griffuelhes and French Syndicalism, 1895–1922, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, 278 pp., $50, ISBN 0 8071 2045 6     

Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought

BLANCHOT, M. Awaiting Oblivion translated with an introduction by John Gregg University of Nebraska Press, 1997 85 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 0 8032 1257 7

CENDRON, J.‐P. Le Monde de la protection sociale Nathan, 1996 189 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 09 190135 0

CHAVANCE, B. Marx et le capitalisme Nathan, 1996 191 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 09 190100 0

MARCEL, B. and TAIEB, J. Le Chômage aujourd'hui Nathan, 1997 (2nd edition) 190 pp., ISBN 2 09 190140 0

La ville des sciences sociales Enquête, 4, 1996, pp. 1–280 Parenthçses, ISSN 1245 2084     

Wanting and Knowing Best: Motive and Method in Australia's Governance of PNG, 1966–69*

Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm, Identity and Development in Vanuatu. By William F. Miles. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 271pp, refs, tables, figs, photos, bibliog., index. ISBN 0824820487.

An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A.B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition, 1909–1913. Edited and annotated by Robert L. Welsch. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Vol. 1: xxi, 632pp, field diaries, maps, photos, illus., notes, index. Vol. 2: 287pp, apps, biographical refs, tables, bibliog. ISBN 0824816447. $US125.

Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary. By David Lipset. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii, 335pp, plates, figs, maps, gloss., notes, refs, index. ISBN 0521564344 (hb), 0521564352 (pb). $A36.95 (pb).

Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State. Edited by Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv, 343pp. ISBN 0804728518.

Pete Ellis: An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880–1923. By Dirk A. Ballendorf and Merrill L. Bartlett. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1997. 200pp, notes, bibliog., index, photos, maps. ISBN 1557500606. $US26.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: M. G. Wiltshire : Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of Gautama the Buddha (Religion and Reason 30, gen. ed. J. Waardenburg) P. G. Griffiths , N. Hakamaya , J. P. Keenan and P. L. Swanson (eds and trans): The Realm of A wakening: A Translation of and Study of the Tenth Chapter of Asan̊ga's Mahay anasan̊graha. Graeme Clarke , Brian Croke , Alanna Emmett Nobbs and Raoul Mortley (eds): Reading the Past in Late Antiquity. Alister E. Mc Grath : Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Ian Tyrrell : Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. Patricia Grimshaw : Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii Mary Zwiep : Pilgrim Path. The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii John P. Maguire : Prologue: A History of the Catholic Church as Seen from Townsville 1863–1983. W. J. Lawton : The Better Time to Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885 to 1914. Madeleine Sophie Mc Grath : These Women? Women Religious in the History of Australia: The Sisters of Mercy Parramatta 1888–1988.