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).     

Recent Uses of Quantification in German History

Abstract

Peter H. Merkl, Political Violence Under the Swastika: 581 Early Nazis. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1975. Pp. xiv, 735. $32.50 clothbound; $10.00 paperbound.     

Anthropology and working class life

W. H. Form. Blue Collar Stratification: Auto Workers in Four Countries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. i‐xx + 335 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $17.00.

J. D. Edelstein and M. Warner. Comparative Union Democracy: Organization and Opposition in British and American Labor Unions. London: George Allen, Unwin, Ltd. 1976. i‐ix + 378 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

L. B. Rubin. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family. New York: Basic Books, 1976. i‐xiii +268 pp. Bibliography, and index. $11.95.     

Rom to Rom/Rom to Gaje

Rena C. Gropper. Gypsies in the City. Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1975. xi + 235 pp. Tables, figures, maps, illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibliography and index. $9.95

Farnham Rehfisch, ed. Gypsies, Tinkers and Other Travellers. London and New York: Academic Press, 1975. x + 303 pp. Figures, tables, glossary and index. $15.25.

Anne Sutherland. Gypsies: The Hidden Americans. New York: The Free Press, 1975. x + 330 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, glossary, bibliography and indices. $13.95.     

A Review of “Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson”

Howell, William G. Power Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 239. $45.00 hardbound, $19.95 softbound.

Lewis, David E. Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 224. $45.00 hardbound.

Rudalevige, Andrew. Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 274. $60.00 hardbound, $18.95 softbound.     

Ineffable landscapes

Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism. By Arthur Green (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) xi + 226 pp. $35 cloth.

Mystic Tales From the Zohar. Translated and edited by Aryeh Wineman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) 161 pp. $12.95 paper.

Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary. By Janet Gyatso (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) xxiii + 360 pp. $39.50 cloth.     

Athens: Citizenship and democracy

The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens. By Philip Brook Manville (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), xiv + 265 pp., $17.95/£14.95 paper.

Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War. By Barry S. Strauss (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), xv + 283 pp., $16.95/ £12.95 paper.     

Review Article: The Formation of Christendom.

JUDITH HERRIN. The Formation of Christendom. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 530. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by Christopher J. Wickman.     

REVIEW

Fetish Recognition Revolution By James T. Siegel Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press; 1997. Pp. x +275. Price $US 22.50     

Bad,bad multiculturalism!!

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? By Susan Moller Okin with respondents (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), vi?+?146 pp. $29.95 cloth; $12.95 paper.     

National Frontiers,Great World Frontiers,and the Shadow of Frederick Jackson Turner

WILLIAM H. MCNEILL. The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 79. $13.95 (US).     

Review Article: Globalization as Boon or Curse

TYLER COWEN. Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 179. 827.95 (US); PETER SINGER. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 235. $21.95 (US).     

THICK BEYOND DESCRIPTION ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURE AS TROPE

Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland. By Roy Wagner . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv + 238. Price: US$30. Symbols That Stand For Themselves. By Roy Wagner . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 150.     

Musorgsky: urtext of his intentions and work

Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue. By Richard Taruskin, Foreword by Caryl Emerson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; second printing, 1997) xxxiv + 415 pp. $19.95, £15.95 paper.     

Imagining Anthropology's History

Hager, Lori D., ed. Women in Human Evolution. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiii + 214 pp. including index. $69.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Morbeck, Mary Ellen, Alison Galloway and Adrienne Zihlman, eds. The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. xix + 332 pp. including literature cited and index. $60.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.     

Advancing the occult standard

History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly. By Laura Ackerman Smoller (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xii + 233 pp., $35.00 cloth.

The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Sourcebook. By Raphael Patai (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xv + 617 pp., $35.00/£29.95 cloth.

Access to Western Esotericism. By Antoine Faivre (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), x + 369 pp., $19.95 cloth.     

Norfolk Island: history,people, environment,language. By Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook. European Mythmaking in the Pacific. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992. xvi, 251 pp. ISBN 0–691–05680–3 How ‘Natives’ Think. About Captain Cook For Example. By Marshall Sahlins. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1995. 318 pp. ISBN 0–226–73368–8     

Anthropological perspectives on death and mourning

Loring M. Danforth with photography by Alexander Tsearas. The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. 1982. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 170 pages (text) with 31 photographs. $30.00 cloth, $12.50 paper.     

C.G. Jung's Visions

Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930–1934. By C.G. Jung. Ed. Claire Douglas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) 2 vols., xl + 1,458 pp. $125.00 cloth.     

On ideology and aesthetics

Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy. By Matthew Affron and Mark Antliff, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) ix + 283 pp. $59.50, £45.00 cloth, $19.95, £14.95 paper.