Intellectual property and the professionals

Scientific lecturing and the industrial revolution

Alan Q. Morton and Jane A. Wess, Public and Private Science: The King George III Colletion, (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Science Museum, 1993), pp. x + 710

Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xxxiv + 453     

Skeletal biology in the twentieth century: From Piltdown to the present

Spencer, Frank. The Piltdown Papers 1908–1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 282 pp. including references and name and subject indices. $65.00 cloth

Spencer, Frank. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xxvi + 272 pp. including references and name and subject indices. $24.95 cloth

I?can, Mehmet ?a?ar, and Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, eds. Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1989. xv + 315 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.50 cloth.     

Ieme van der Poel. Une Révolution de la pensée: maoïsme et féminisme á travers ‘Tel Quel,’ ‘Les Temps modemes,’ et ‘Esprit.’

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Claire Addison. Where Flaubert Lies: Chronology, mythology and history. Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv + 393 pp.

Dennis Porter. Rousseau's Legacy. Emergence and Eclipse of the Writer in France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 306 pp. $39.95.     

The caste system of India on the skids: Totaled by democracy and a dynamic economy?

Anand Chakravarti. Contradiction and Change: Emerging Patterns of Authority in a Rajasthan Village. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xii + 234 pp. Tables, diagrams, maps, appendixes, references, and index. $9.00.

D. B. Miller. From Hierarchy to Stratification: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality in a North Indian Village. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xviii + 229 pp. Diagrams, illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, and index. $9.75.     

Fourierism's Feminine Defender and Colonial Pioneer: Clarisse Vigoureux

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Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal and Carlos Feal. Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxii + 341 pp. $19.95 pb.

Michael Lucey. Gide's Bent: Sexuality Politics Writing. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 238 pp.

Larry J. Simon ed. Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J. (Volume I: Proceedings from Kalamazoo). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xxvi + 373 pp.

Martha T. Halsey. From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Recent Plays of Buero Vallejo (from La Fundación to Música Cercana). (Ottawa Hispanic Studies, 17) Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1994. 312 pp.

Pier Massimo Forni. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xiv + 155 pp. $29.95.     

Super Vivencia Del Mito Azteca En El Méjico Contemporáneo de La Región Más Transparente

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Diana Knight. Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 287 pp. $78.

John R. Rosenberg. The Black Butterfly: Concepts of Spanish Romanticism. University of Mississippi Romance Monographs, 1998. 180 pp.     

Short notices

AGERON, C.‐R. and MICHEL, M. (eds), L'Ere des décolonisations, Karthala, 1996, 516 pp., 170F., ISBN 2 86537 579 X

BRIAN, E. and DEMEULENAERE‐DOUYERE, C. (eds), Histoire et mémoire de l'Académie des sciences. Guide de Recherches, TEC & DOC Lavoisier, 1996, 449 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 7430 0148

CORRÉARD, M.‐H. (ed.), The Pocket Oxford‐Hachette French Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1996, 784 pp., £7.99, ISBN 0 19 864534 1

CORRÉARD, M.‐H. and O'NEILL, M. (eds), Oxford Starter Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1997, 400 pp., £6.99, ISBN 0 19 864527 9

DURAND, P., Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé, Gallimard, 1998, 252 pp., 54F., ISBN 2 07 038939 1 (collection ‘Folio')

HAFEN, L. (ed.), French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West, (Selected with an Introduction by Janet Lecompte) University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 333 pp., £13.95, ISBN 0 8032 7302 9

SOULEZ‐LARIVIÈRE,, D. Grand Soir pour la justice, Seuil, 1997, 175 pp., 110F., ISBN 2 02 032215 3

STEINBERG, P., Chroniques d'ailleurs, Ramsay, 1996, 190 pp., 92F., ISBN 2 84114 133 0     

The First two Language Academies in Spanish America

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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.     

Book reviews

The New South Pacific. By R. G. Crocombe. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 130 pp. $A4–50.

Lae Village and City. By Ian Willis. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1974. 173 pp. $10.80.

Fijian Way of Life. By Kingslev Roth. Second Edition with a new Introduction by G. B. Milner. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1973. XXXIX, 176 pp. $6.00.

Contention and Dispute: Aspects of Law and Social Control in Melanesia. Edited by A. L. Epstein. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. 354 pp. $11.95.

A new system of slavery: the export of Indian labour overseas 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. London, New York, Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1974. xvi, 432.     

The anthropological study of Theravada Buddhism

Richard F. Gombrich. Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. viii + 366 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £4.00 (U.K.).

E. Michael Mendelson. Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. 389 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $19.50.

Melford E. Spiro. Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. iv + 507 pp. Appendix, references, and index. $17.95.

S.J. Tambiah. Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North‐East Thailand. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, Number 2. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975 (First paperback edition), xi + 388 pp. Illustrations, maps, diagrams, tables, bibliography, and index. $6.95 paper.     

The Red Book of Appin: Medicine as Magic and Magic as Medicine

Folk Traditions and Folk Medicine in Scotland: The Writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan. Edinburgh: Canongate Academic, 1994. 317pp. Hdbk. ISBN 1 898410 01 1. £20. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett.

Counsel from the Ancients: A Study of Badaga Proverbs, Prayers, Omens and Curses. By Paul Hockings. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. 796pp. ISBN 3 11 011374 0. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts of Person and Society. By Carol Trosset. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 183pp. ISBN 0 8165 1378 3. Reviewed by Tecwyn Vaughan Jones.

The Arabian Nights: A Companion. By Robert Irwin. Allen Lane: Penguin Press, 1994. 344pp. ISBN 0 713 99105 4. £20.00. Reviewed by Gwendolyn Leick.

The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music that Shaped their Lives. By Ivan M. Tribe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 361pp. Illus. ISBN 0 252 01978 4 (hdbk) / 0 252 06308 2 (pbk). Reviewed by Steve Roud.

Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music. By John Wright. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 273pp. Illus. ISBN 0 252 02024 3. Reviewed by Steve Roud.

Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout and Showman. By Darlis A. Miller. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. 363pp. Illus. ISBN 0 98263 1449 X. Reviewed by Steve Roud.

Victorian Village Life. By Neil Philip. Oxfordshire: Albion Press, 1993. 160pp. Illus. ISBN 1 871927 05 6. £9.99. Reviewed by George Monger.

The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis. Edited by Brian Short. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 239pp. B/W illus. ISBN 0 521 40537 9 (hdbk) / 0 521 40567 X (pbk). Reviewed by George Monger.

Countrywomen on the Land: Memories of Rural Life in the 1920s and 30s. By G.K. Nelson. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1992. 182pp. B/W illus. ISBN 0 7509 0181 0. £14.99. Reviewed by George Monger.

Chronicles of Alston. By Joan Rockwell. London: Janus Publishing, 1993. 189pp. ISBN 1 8576 024 8. £11.95. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

The Yorkshire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore. By Arnold Kellett Smith. Settle: Otley, 1994. ISBN 1 85825 016 1 (pbk) / 1 85625 017 X (hdbk). Reviewed by G.M. Awbery.

Maya Textiles of Guatemala. By Margot Blum Schevill. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. 295pp. Colour and b/w illus. ISBN 0 292 75143 5. Reviewed by C. Stevens.

Superstitions: Folk Magic in Hull's Fishing Community. By Alec Gill. Beverley: Hutton Press, 1993. 174pp. Illus. Pbk. ISBN 1 872167 56 x. £7.50. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Burmese Puppets. By Noel F. Singer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.126pp. 16 colour illus, 42 b/w illus. ISBN 0 19588589 9. Reviewed by George Monger.

The Maiden Who Rose from the Sea and other Finnish Folktales. Edited and translated by Helena Henderson. Enfield: Hisarlik Press, 1992. 192pp. ISBN 1 87431201 X. £14.95. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Folklore of Somerset. By Alan Holt. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1992. 180pp. Illus. ISBN 0 7059 0221 3. £7.99. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Hausa Folktales from the Niger. Translated and edited by Robert S. Glew and Chaibou Babalé. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1993. 136pp. ISBN 0 89680 176 4. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Arthur: Y Casgliad Arthuraidd—Catalog/The Arthurian Collection—A Catalogue. Gwasanaeth Llyfrgell a Gwybodaeth/Library and Information Service. Cyngor Sir Clwyd/Clwyd County Council, 1994. 190pp. ISBN 1859910025. £15.95. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Medieval Balladry and the Courtly Tradition: Literature of Revolt and Assimilation. By Gwendolyn A. Morgan. American University Studies Series 4, Vol. 160. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. 148pp. Reviewed by Kaye McAlpine.

Treasures of the National Library of Ireland. Edited by Noel Kissane. Published by the Boyne Valley Honey Company, 1994. 242pp. ISBN 0 951782 34 7 (pbk)/ 0 951782 35 5 (hdbk). £9.95 (pbk), £25.00 (hdbk). Irish edition Seoda i Leabharlann Náisiúnta nah Éireann. Pbk £9.95. Reviewed by John Hutchings.

Legends Told in Canada. Edited by Edith Fowke. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1994. 96pp. Illus. Hdbk. ISBN 0 88854 410 3. C$19.95. Reviewed by Jill Clayton.

Folk Law: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex non Scripta . Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes. New York: Garland, 1994. 1037pp. 2 vols. Hdbk. ISBN 0 8153 1314 4. US$150. Reviewed by Jill Clayton.

The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928–58. By Duncan Williamson. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1994. 276pp. ISBN 0 86241 444 X. £13.99. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children. By Duncan Williamson. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN 0 86241 4 57 1. £3.50. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

The Broonie, Silkies and Fairies. By Duncan Williamson. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN 0 86241 456 3. £3.50. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

The Well at the World's End: Folk Tales of Scotland. By Norah and William Montgomerie. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN 0 86241 462 8. £3.50. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

The Rebirth of Witchcraft. By Doreen Valiente. London: Robert Hale, 1989. 236pp. Illus. ISBN 0790-3715-5. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present. By Doreen Valiente. London: Robert Hale, 1994. 377pp. Illus. Pbk. ISBN 0790 5350 9. £7.99. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400–1700. By Ronald Hutton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 366pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Hdbk. ISBN 0 19 820363 2. £17.95. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett.

The Things That Were Said Of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People. By Tom Lowenstein. Told by Asatchaq. Translated by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein. The University of California Press, 1992. 262pp. 5 photographs and 2 maps. ISBN 0-520-06569-7. Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Dragons, Devils and Demons (Traditional Sussex Tales II). Edited by Tony Wales. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Cassettes obtainable from Elixis Enterprises, Glistar Studios, PO Box 110, Horsham, W. Sussex RH12 1ZS. £5.95 ea/£10.95 pair (plus 95p postage). Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.     

Book Reviews

The Cinema of Eisenstein. By David Bordwell (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) xvii + 316 pp. $65.00 doth $29.95 paper.

On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent and the Limits of Society. By A. John Simmons (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) ix + 293 pp. n.p.g.

Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. By Richard Yeo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xii + 280 pp. $54.95 cloth.

Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Philosophy of Meaning. By D. T. Goldberg (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993) 313 pp. n.p.g.

The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo‐American Tradition of Rule of Law. Edited and with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1993) 335 pp. £35.00

Refaire la République: André Tardieu, une dérive réactionaire (1876–1945). By François Monnet (Paris: Fayard, 1993) 638 pp. FF190 paper.

Ethics With Aristotle. By Sarah Broadie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) xiii + 462 pp. £17.95 paper.

Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner. By Paul Johnston (London: Routledge, 1993) x + 253 pp. n.p.g.

History after Lacan. By Teresa Brennan (London and New York: Routledge, 1993) xvi + 239 pp. £10.99 paper.

Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics. By Penny A. Weiss (New York: New York University Press, 1993) 250 pps. $40.00 cloth.

Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo‐British Identity, 1689‐c. 1830. By Colin Kidd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) 322 + xiii pp. £35.00 $64.95 cloth.

The American Research University. In Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 122:4 (Fall 1993) 252 pp. $7.95.

Hebrew and the Bible in America: The First Two Centuries. Edited by Shalom Goldman (Brandeis University Press and Dartmouth College: University Press of New England, 1993) xxx + 259 pp. n.p.g.

The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558–1572. By Wallace T. MacCaffrey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, reprinted 1993) xiv + 501 pp. paper, n.p.g.

Reality, Representation and Projection. Edited by John Haldane and Crispin Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) xii + 404 pp. cloth, n.p.g.

Von der Theologie der Befreiung zur Philosophie der Freiheit: Hegel und die Religion. By Wolfgang Bialas (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag, 1993 168 pp.

A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War and Justice in Hugo Grotius. Edited by Yasuaki Onuma (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) xvii + 421 pp. £45.00.

Heidegger im Kontext. Gesamtüberblick zum NS‐Engagement der Universitätsphilosophen. By George Leaman (Hamburg: Argument, 1993) 160 pp. DM 15.50 paper.

Two Texts on Human Nature. By Francis Hutcheson, edited by Thomas Mautner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp., 194 + xiv £30.00 cloth.

From Freud's Consulting Room: The Unconscious in a Scientific Age. By Judith M. Hughes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) 235 pp. $27.95 cloth.

Marketing Modernism in Fin‐de‐Siècle Europe. By Robert Jensen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) vii + 367 pp. $29.95/£19.95 cloth.

Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity. By David G. Horn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) 189 pp. £37.50/ $14.95 cloth £11.95/paper.

Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium. By Patrick J. Geary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xiv + 248 pp. $29.95 cloth.

History Continues. By Georges Duby, trans, by Arthur Goldhammer, with a forward by John W. Boldwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) £19.95/$28.75 H.B.

Imagination and Depth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason . By Bernard D. Freydberg (New York: Peter Lang, 1994) 123 pp. $37.95 cloth.

Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy. By Robert Bonfil, trans, by Anthony Oldcorn (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994) xiii + 230 pp. $30.00 cloth.

Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. By Richard S. Wortman, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xiii + 469 pp. $49.50, £35.00 cloth.

Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799. By Friedrich Gilly, introduction by Neumeyer, trans. by David Britt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 228 pp. $39.95 cloth $24.95 paper.

Désordres du jeu. Poétiques ludiques, Recherches et rencontres. By Publications de la Faculté des lettres de Genève, vol. 6. Edited by Jacques Berchtold, Christopher Lucken, and Stefan Schoettke (Geneva: Droz, 1994) 260 pp.

The Elect Nation: The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494–1545. By Lorenzo Polizzotto (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 488 pp. £50.00 cloth.

Ramon Llull ou . . . les premiers jalons d'une Europe tolérante. By Gabriel Fragnière (Brussels: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, 1994) 92 pp. n.p.g.

Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais. By Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1993 & 1994) 229 pp. $37.50 cloth $18.95 paper.

Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism beyond Postmodernism. By Murray E. G. Smith (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1994) 272 pp. $55.00/£36.00 cloth $24.95/ £16.00 paper.

An Economic History of Medieval Europe. By Norman J. G. Pounds, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Longman House, 1994) xvi + 536 pp. $29.95/£16.99 paper.

Locke's Philosophy: Content and Context. Edited by G. A. J. Rogers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 257 pp. £30.00 cloth.

The Culture of the English People, Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution. By N. J. G. Pounds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xviii + 477 pp. $69.95/£50.00 cloth $22.95/£17.95 paper.

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre. By David Duff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xii + 276 pp. £35.00/$54.95 cloth.

Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED. By John Willinsky (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) ix + 258 pp. $22.95 cloth.

Self‐Motion: From Aristotle to Newton. By Mary Louise Gill and James G. Lennox (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xxi + 367 pp. $45.00/£36.50 cloth.

Honor. By Frank Henderson Stewart (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994) xiii + 175 pp. £9.50/$ 13.75 cloth.

Conflict and Cohesion in Western European Social Democratic Parties. Edited by David S. Bell and Eric Shaw (London: Pinter Publishers, 1994) 202 pp. $49.00 cloth.

Communism: The Vanished Specter. By Richard Pipes (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) 84 pp. £14.50.

The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority. By John Patrick Diggins (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 515 pp. £23.95/$29.95 cloth.

Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. By Elliot R. Wolfson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 452 pp. $49.50.

Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. By Saul Dubow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) xxi + 320 pp. £40.00/$64.95 cloth £15.95/$21.95 paper.

The Barbed‐Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II. By Ron Robin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) x + 217 pp. $29.95

Soldier Heroes, British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of Masculinity. By Graham Dawson (London: Routledge, 1995) 290 pp. £14.95 paper.

Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780–1930. By Carolyn Steedman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) xi + 254 pp. $29.95.

Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth‐Century Germany. By Fania Oz‐Salzberger (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) ix + 356 pp. £35.00.

The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment. By Rose‐Mary Sargent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 335 pp. $65.00/£51.95 cloth $26.00/£20.75 paper.

La Modernité By Alexis Nouss, (Paris: PUF, 1995) 128 pp. paper, n.p.g.     

Book reviews

Gramsci and the Italian State. By Richard Bellamy and Darrow Schecter (Manchester and New York Manchester University Press, 1993), xvi + 203 pp.

Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572–1588. By Wallace MacCaffrey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), x + 530 pp.

Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588–1603. By Wallace MacCaffrey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), xvi + 592 pp.

Figures on the Horizon. Edited by Jerrold Seigel (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1993), xix + 278 pp. £29.50, $53.00 cloth.

Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties. Edited by Richard Rand (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), xii + 218 pp., £27.00 cloth, £11.95 paper.

The Origins of French Art Criticism from the Anden Régime to the Restoration. By Richard Wrigley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), xii + 427 pp.

The Madness of Kings: Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations. By Vivian Green (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), xiii + 322 pp., $35.00 cloth.

The Conservative Imagination. By Philip Thody (London: Pinter, 1993), xi + 179 pp., cloth.

The Longman Companion to Cold War and Détente 1941–91. By John W. Young (London and New York: Longman Higher Educational, 1993), 360 pp., £11.99 paper.

The Colloquy of Montbéliard: Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century. By Jill Raitt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), xiv + 226 pp., £40.00

Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism. By Robert Wuthnow (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993; first published, 1989), 739 pp., $29.95 paper.

Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary. By Sarah B. Pomeroy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), xii + 388 pp., $50.00

The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader. Edited by Richard Wolin (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993), xx + 315 pp., $16.95 paper.

Biblical Theocracy: A Vision of the Biblical Foundations for a Christian Political Philosophy. By Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong: Philopsychy Press, 1993), 193 pp., HK $35.00, US $4.50 paper.

Considerations sur la France. By Joseph De Maistre, trans, and edited by Richard A. LeBrun; introduction by Isaiah Berlin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xlii + 132 pp., £30.00/$49.95 cloth, £12.95/$16.95 paper.

Machiavellian Rhetoric. By Victoria Kahn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xv + 314 pp., $29.95, £23.50 cloth.

Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre et les Annales d'Histoire Economique et Sociale: Correspondance, vol. 1, 1928–1933. Edited by Bertrand Müller (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1994), lx + 551pp., FF240.

Kant's Transcendental Psychology. By Patricia Kitcher (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 296 pp.

The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic. By Patricia Mainardi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), ix + 210 pp., $18.95/£12.95 paper.

Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethics. By Georgios Anagnostopoulos (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), xiii + 468 pp., $50.00 cloth.

A Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities. By Charles Loyseau, edited and trans, by Howell A. Lloyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xlviii + 255 pp., $59.95 and £40.00 cloth, $22.95 and £14.95 paper.

The Philosophy of Childhood. By Gareth B. Matthews (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), 136 pp., $18.95 cloth.

Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought. Edited by Theodore Kisiel and John van Buren (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), 480 + ix pp., $74.50 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia. By Stephen Botterill, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), x + 269 pp., £37.50 and $59.95.

The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Edited by Keith McLachlan, SOAS Geopolitics Series 2 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, ix + 150 pp., $49.95 cloth.

New French Thought: Political Philosophy. Edited by Mark Lilla (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) 239 pp., $45.00 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean. By Irad Malkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xvii + 278 pp., £37.50 and $59.95 cloth.

The Interpretation of Order: A Study in the Poetics of Homeric Repetition. By Ahuvia Kahane (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), xi + 190 pp., £25.00 cloth.

History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor. By Frank R. Ankersmit (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), vii + 244 pp., $40.00 cloth.

Anglo‐Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. By Julian Moynahan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xiii + 288 pp., $24.95 cloth.

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes. Edited by Noel Malcolm, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), Vol. 1: 1622–1659, lxxv + 511 pp., £60.00 doth; Vol. 2: 1660–1679, xv + 495 pp., £60.00 cloth.

Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian. By Shadi Bartsch, Revealing Antiquity 6. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), vi + 309 pp., $37.50 cloth.

Divine Power: The Medieval Power Distinction up to its Adoption by Albert, Bonaventure, and Aquinas. By Lawrence Moonan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), xii + 396 pp., £40.00 cloth.

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918–1922. By Vladimir N. Brovkin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xiii + 455 pp., $43.50 and £55.00 cloth.

The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age. Edited by Gerard Chaliand (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), xliii + 1072 pp., 8 maps, $75.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment. By Jack R. Censer (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), xi + 263 pp., £40.00 cloth.

Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), 238 pp., 6 illus., $40.00 cloth.

The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting. By Mark A. Cheetham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 194 pp., 16 illus., £11.95, $17.95 paper.

Ambrose of Milan. By Neil B. McLynn (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), xii + 406 pp., $45.00 cloth.

Understanding the Infinite. By Shaughan Lavine (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), ix + 371 pp., $39.95 cloth.

Historia and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought from Antiquity to the Modern Age. By Peter G. Bietenholz (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994), xii + 434 pp., 9 illus., $91.50 cloth, NLG 160.00.

The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. By Otto of Freising, trans, and edited by Charles Mierow (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1994), 366 pp., $16.95 paper.

In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life. By Robert Kegan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), viii + 396 pp., $29.95 cloth.

Tudor Political Culture. Edited by Dale Hoak (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xxiii +310 pp., £45.00

Reconstructing the Subject: Modernist Painting in Western Germany, 1945–1950. By Yule F. Heibel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 207 pp., $45.00, £33.50 cloth.

The Uses of the University, 4th ed. By Clark Kerr (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), xv + 220 pp., $15.95 paper.

The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. By John Dupré (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 308 pp., paper.

The Stop. By David Appelbaum (Albany: State University of New York Press, New York, 1995), xi + 154 pp., $14.95 paper.

Walter Benjamin's Passages. By Pierre Missac, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholson (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), 233 pp., $25.00 cloth.

Spinoza: The Enduring Questions. Edited by Graeme Hunter. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), xviii +182 pp., North American $70.00, Europe $78.00, UK £45.50 cloth.

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva. By Robert M. Kingdon (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), ix + 214 pp., $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Falsehood Disguised: Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld. By Richard G. Hodgson. (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1995), xiii + 175 pp., £28.50.

Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities. By Peter Levine (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), xxi + 279 pp., $18.95 cloth.

Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays. By Herman von Helmholtz, ed. David Cahan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), xviii + 418 pp., $52.00 cloth, $17.00 paper.     

“Swarming the Church”

Vision Narratives of Women in Prison. By Carol Burke. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1993. 192pp. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. ISBN 0 87049 727 8. $26.95. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett.

Navajo Folk Tales. By Franc Johnson Newcomb. 2nd edn. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. 203pp. ISBN 0 8263 1231 4. Reviewed by Donald Tayler.

Sons of Scotia, Raise Your Voice: Early 19th Century Broadsides from a Collection in Edinburgh University Library. Selected and edited by Peter B. Freshwater. Edinburgh: Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1991. 142pp. ISBN 0 905152 04 2. Reviewed by Steve Roud.

My Life with Punch. By Joe Beeby. Compiled and edited by G. Felix. London: G. Felix, 1993. 65pp. Illus. Obtainable from G. Felix, 111 Raglan Court, Empire Way, Wembley Park, Middlesex HA9 0RG. £6.49 inclusive of postage and packing. ISBN 0 9521371 0 0. Reviewed by Roy Judge.

Das Huhn mit dem Gipsbein: Neueste sagnhafte Geschichten von Heute. By Rolf Wilhelm Brednich. Beck'sche Reihe 1001. Munchen: Beck, 1993. 186pp. DM9.80. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

The Evil Eye: A Casebook. Edited by Alan Dundes. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. 318pp. ISBN 0 299 13334 6. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Tarot the Complete Guide. By Cynthia Giles. London: Robert Hale, 1992. 234pp. Illus. £10.99. ISBN 0 7090 5095 X. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Chronicles of King Arthur. By Andrea Hopkins. London: Collins and Brown, 1993. £19.99. ISBN 1 85585 172 5. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

From Ritual to Romance. By Jessie L. Weston. MYTHOS: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0 691 02107 4. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Indexes Motifs Narratifs dans les Romans Arthurian Français en Vers (XIIe-XIIIe Siècles). By Anita Guerreau-Jalabert. Publications Romanes et Françaises, no. 202. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 1992. 501pp. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Culhwch and Olwen: An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale. Edited by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans. University of Wales Press, 1992. ISBN 0 7083 1127 X. £25.00. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Aspects of British Calendar Customs. Edited by Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood. The Folklore Society Mistletoe Series, no. 22. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. 108pp. Illus. ISBN 1 85075 243 5. £11.95. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Boundaries and Thresholds: Papers from a Colloquium of the Katharine Briggs Club. Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Stroud, Glos.: The Thimble Press, 1993. 104pp. £12.00. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. By Lawrence Shick. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. 448pp. ISBN 0 87975 693 5. £10.95. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Gothick Guides, Aylesbury, Bucks: Shire Publications Ltd, 1989, 1992. Gothick Cornwall. By Jennifer Westwood. 70pp. £3.95. Gothick Norfolk. By Jennifer Westwood. 48pp. £2.50. Gothick Hertfordshire. By Jennifer Westwood. 52pp. £3.95. Gothick Northamptonshire. By Jack Gould. 64pp. £3.95. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Contemporary Legend: A Folklore Bibliography. Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993. 340pp. ISBN 0 8240 6103 9. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Telling Reality: Folklore Studies in Memory of Bengt Holbek. Edited by Michael Chesnutt. Copenhagen Folklore Studies 1/NIF Publications, no. 26. Copenhagen and Turku, 1993. 294 pp. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Proverbs are Never out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age. By Wolfgang Meider. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii + 284pp. Bibliography. Index. Illus. £25.00 hb. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Vampire: The Encyclopedia. By Matthew Bunson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. 303pp. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. £9.95. ISBN 0 500 27748 6. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

African Folktales in the New World. Edited by William Bascom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.243pp. £28.50 hb, £12.99 p b (distributed in UK and Eire by the Open University Press). Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

The Red Swan: Myths and Tales of the American Indians. Edited by John Bierhorst. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 386pp. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

American Indian's Kitchen Table Stories. By Keith Cunningham. Little Rock, Arkansas: August House, 1992. 240pp. $25.95 US hb, $14.95 US pb. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

Public Folklore. Edited by R. Baron and N. Spitzer. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. £34.95 hb, £14.95 pb. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

Der Rattenhund: Sagen der Gegenwart. By Helmut Fischer. Beitrage zur rheinischen Volkskunde, no. 6. Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1991. 184pp. Notes. Bibliography. List of key terms. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa. By Mischa Titiev. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 277pp. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

Ácoma: Pueblo in the Sky. By Ward Alan Minge. 2nd edn. Published for Pueblo of Ácoma by University of New Mexico Press, 1991. 245pp. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

The Ballad and Oral Literature. Edited by Joseph Harris. Harvard English Studies, no. 17. Cambridge (Mass.) and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. viii+317 pp. £25.95 hb, £11.95 pb. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative: The English Language Tradition. By Clodagh Brennan Harvey. University of California Publications: Folklore and Mythology Studies, no. 35. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. viii+130 pp. Map. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

The Folklore of American Holidays: A Compilation of More Than 500 Beliefs, Legends, Superstitions, Proverbs, Riddles, Poems, Songs, Dances, Games, Plays, Pageants, Fairs, Foods, and Processions Associated with Over 120 American Calendar Customs and Festivals. 2nd edn. Edited by Henning Cohen and Tristam Potter Coffin. Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc., 1991. $85.00. ISBN 0 8103 7602 4. Reviewed by Philip Hiscock.

The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer in Alberta. By Mark Jaroslav Bandera. Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, no. 1. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1991. 62pp. 23 figs. 4 b/w photographs. Reviewed by George Monger.     

Book Reviews

‘WE GATHER TOGETHER’: FOOD AND FESTIVAL IN AMERICAN LIFE. Edited by THEODORE H. HUMPHREY and LIN T. HUMPHREY. Utah State University Press, 1991. 289pp. $17.95 paper, ISBN 0-87421-155-7. Reviewed by Jennifer Chandler.

SPOKEN IN JEST. Edited by Gillian Bennett. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1992. ISBN 1850752575. 296pp., 3 plates, 22 figures. £25 (cloth). Reviewed by Susan Storrier.

WEDDING CAKES AND CULTURAL HISTORY by SIMON CHARSLEY. Routledge, London, 1992. 162pp. 4 illustrations. ISBN 0-415-02648-2 (hbk); 0-415-02649-0 (pbk). Reviewed by George Monger.

NORSE MYTHS. By R. I. PAGE. London: British Museum Press, 1990. 80pp. £5.95. ISBN 0 7141 2062 6. Reviewed by Carolyne Larrington.

DIE MAUS IM JUMBO-JET: NEUE SAGENHAFTE GESCHICHTEN VON HEUTE. By ROLF WILHELM BREDNICH, Beck'sche Reihe 435. München: Beck, 1991. 143 pp. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

THE RISE OF MAGIC IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE by VALERIE J. FLINT. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. 452 pp. ISBN 0-19-820093-5. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

INTERNATIONAL PROVERB SCHOLARSHIP: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. SUPPLEMENT I (1800–1981). WOLFGANG MIEDER. Garland Publishing Inc., New York and London, 1990. 436 pp. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS. Ed. JOHN SIMPSON and JENNIFER SPEAKE. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York (2nd ed.), 1992. 316 pp. ISBN 0-19-866177-0. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN PROVERBS. Ed. WOLFGANG MIEDER, S. A. KINGSBURY and K. B. HARDER. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992. 710 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0-19-505399-0. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

ETHNIC MUSIC ON RECORDS. By RICHARD K. SPOTTSWOOD. University of Illinois Press, 1990. Volumes 1-7. Pp. 4,347. Illustrated. ISBN 0-252-01718-8 (set). Reviewed by Gordon Ashman.

DUNBAR THE MAKAR. By PRISCILLA BAWCUTT. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992. 196pp. £50. ISBN 0-19-812963-7. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

SIGNS FROM THE ANCESTORS by M. JANE YOUNG, 1990. Reviewed by Donald Taylor.

THE NIGHTWAY by JAMES C FARIS, 1990. Reviewed by Donald Taylor.

FORMS OF DEFORMITY. By LYNN HOLDEN. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 131. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991. 370pp. Appendix and bibliography. ISBN 1-85074-327-X. £40. Reviewed by Jennifer Chandler.

CITY, MARRIAGE, TOURNAMENT ARTS OF RULE IN LATE MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND. By LOUISE OLGA FRADENBURG. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 390pp, ill. ISBN 0-299-12954-3. Reviewed by Sandra Billington.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. By GARETH WILLIAMS. Writers of Wales Series, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1991. 93pp. £3.50. Reviewed by Trefor M. Owen.     

Book Reviews

John W. Baldwin. Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii + 359 pp.

Daniel J. Sherman. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xvii + 414 pp.

C. Brian Morris. Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico García Lorca. Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. xiv + 486 pp. $39.95.

Ramón F. Llorens and Jesús Pérez Magallón, eds. Luz vital. Estudios de cultura hispánica en memoria de Victor Ouimette. McGill University and Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, 1999. 227 pp.

Robert Vilain. The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. xii + 376 pp. $85.00.

Janet Pérez. Camilo José Cela Revisited: The Later Novels. New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000. 189 pp.

Catherine G. Bellver. Absence and Presence: Spanish Women Poets of the Twenties and Thirties. Bucknell University Press, 2001. x + 294 pp. $46.50.

Allen Thiher. Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel From Balzac to Proust. Columbia and London: Universiry of Missouri Press, 2001. 215 pp. $37.50.

Michael R. Finn. Proust: The Body and Literary Form. Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 210 pp.

Melveena McKendrick. Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity. London: Tamesis, 2000. 230 pp. $75.00.

Willard Bohn. Modern Visual Poetry. University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, 2001. 321 pp. $47.50     

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Hittinger, John P. Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 250 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-7391-0411-X- Publication Date: December 2002

UNITED STATES: Politics and Public Policy: Baum, Matthew A. Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 344 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-691-11586-9 Publication Date: November 2003

Peters, Shawn Francis. The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 216 pp., $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-1272-6 cloth ISBN 0-7006-1273-4 paper Publication Date: October 2003

Cromartie, Michael, ed. A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 272 pp., $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-7425-3100-7 cloth ISBN 0-7425-3101-5 paper Publication Date: September 2003

Greenstein, Fred I., ed. The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 336 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-7845-4 cloth ISBN 0-8018-7846-2 paper Publication Date: September 2003

Sidney, Mara S. Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 200 pp., $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-1275-0 cloth ISBN 0-7006-1276-9 paper Publication Date: September 2003

Bimber, Bruce, and Richard Davis. Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections. New York: Oxford University Press. 240 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-19-515155-0 Publication Date: August 2003

Mossberger, Karen, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Mary Stansbury. Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 208 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-87840-999-8 Publication Date: August 2003

Pestritto, Ronald J., and Thomas G. West, eds. The American Founding and the Social Compact. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 296 pp., $25.95, ISBN 0-7391-0665-1 Publication Date: August 2003

Maltz, Earl M., ed. Rehnquist Justice: Understanding the Court Dynamic. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 352 pp., $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-1243-2 cloth ISBN 0-7006-1244-0 paper Publication Date: May 2003

Fenno, Richard F. Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 272 pp., $18.00, ISBN 0-226-24131-9 Publication Date: April 2003

Mangum, Garth L., Stephen L. Mangum, and Andrew M. Summ. The Persistence of Poverty in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 160 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-8018-7130-1 Publication Date: April 2003

Cobb, Roger W., and David M. Primo. The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 208 pp., $42.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-7198-3 cloth ISBN 0-8157-7199-1 paper Publication Date: January 2003

Foreign Policy and National Security: Cohen-Tanugi, Laurent. An Alliance at Risk: The United States and Europe since September 11. Trans. George A. Holoch, Jr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 168 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-8018-7841-1 Publication Date: September 2003

Buckley, Roger. The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945. New York: Cambridge University Press. 268 pp., $23.00, ISBN 0-521-00725-9 Publication Date: May 2002

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: McPherson, Alan L. Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 272 pp., $39.95 cloth, ISBN 0-674-01184-8 Publication Date: December 2003

Dominguez, Jorge I., and Chappell Lawson, eds. Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press 363 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-8047-4974-4 Publication Date: November 2003

Nylen, William R. Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 256 pp., $45.00, ISBN 1-4039-6306-1 Publication Date: October 2003

Frühling, Hugo, and Joseph S. Tulchin, eds., with Heather A. Golding. Crime and Violence in Latin America: Citizen Security, Democracy, and the State. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 256 pp., $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-7383-5 cloth ISBN 0-8018-7384-3 paper Publication Date: April 2003

Lopez, Juan J. Democracy Delayed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 272 pp., $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-7046-1 Publication Date: December 2002

EUROPE/COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES: Cogan, Charles. French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with la Grande Nation. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press. 364 pp., $37.50 cloth, $17.50 paper ISBN 1-929223-53-6 cloth ISBN 1-929223-52-8 paper Publication Date: December 2003

Revel, Jean-Francois. Anti-Americanism. San Francisco: Encounter Books. 176 pp., $25.95, ISBN 1-893554-85-6 Publication Date: October 2003

Judge, David, and David Earnshaw. The European Parliament. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 320 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-333-59873-3 cloth ISBN 0-333-59874-1 paper Publication Date: September 2003

Bastow, Steve, and James Martin. Third Way Discourse: European Ideologies in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 224 pp., $67.50 cloth, $22.50 paper ISBN 0-7486-1560-1 cloth ISBN 0-7486-1561-X paper Publication Date: June 2003

Thomas, Raju C., ed. Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 368 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 0-7391-0517-5 cloth ISBN 0-7391-0757-7 paper Publication Date: February 2003

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: Kim, Samuel S., ed. Korea's Democratization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 290 pp., $70.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-521-82321-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-53022-9 paper Publication Date: May 2003

Haggard, Stephan, Wonhyuk Lim, and Euysung Kim, eds. Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea: Reforming the Chaebol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 364 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-521-82363-3 Publication Date: March 2003

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LAW, AND ORGANIZATIONS: Feste, Karen A. Intervention: Shaping the Global Order. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 304 pp., $64.95, ISBN 0-275-95942-2 Publication Date: September 2003

Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press. 420 pp., $27.50, ISBN 0-520-23550-9 Publication Date: April 2003

COMPARATIVE POLITICS: Tummala, Krishna K., ed. Comparative Bureaucratic Systems. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 484 pp., $90.00, ISBN 0-7391-0627-9 Publication Date: July 2003

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY: Craiutu, Aurelian. Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 356 pp., $26.95, ISBN 0-7391-0658-9 Publication Date: September 2003

Herring, David J. The Public Family: Exploring Its Role in Democratic Societies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 272 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-8229-4223-2 Publication Date: September 2003

Ollman, Bertell. Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 256 pp., $39.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-252-02832-5 cloth ISBN 0-252-07118-2 paper Publication Date: September 2003

Hough, Richard Lee. The Nation-States: Concert or Chaos. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 138 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-7618-2621-1 Publication Date: July 2003

Merelman, Richard M. Pluralism at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 336 pp., $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper ISBN 0-299-18410-2 cloth ISBN 0-299-18414-5 paper Publication Date: June 2003

Flathman, Richard. Freedom and Its Conditions: Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance. New York: Routledge. 193 pp., $75.00 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-415-94561-5 cloth ISBN 0-415-94562-3 paper Publication Date: May 2003     

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.     

The Images of Arabs and Jews as a factor in British policy towards Palestine

Moshe Davis and Ben‐Arieh Yehoshua, eds., With Eyes Toward Zion, (Volume III, Western Societies and the Holy Land), New York, Praeger, 1991, 304 pp., $55.00.

Sergio I. Minerbi, The Vatican and Zionism, Conflict in the Holy Land 1895–1925, translated from Hebrew by Arnold Schwartz (Studies in Jewish History Series) (Mus.), New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, 272 pp., $30.00.

Ephraim Even, The Schism in the 1922 Zionist Movement: Why Jabotinsky Established the New Zionist Organization (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Rubin Mass Ltd., 1992, 243 pp.

I. Alfassi, ed., Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization): Collection of Archival Sources and Documents, April 1937‐April 1941, Tel Aviv. Vol. I, 1990, 472 pp.; Vol. II, 1992, 472 pp.

Abraham S. Hyman, The Undefeated, Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 1993,486 pp., $24.95.

Yemima Rosenthal, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Volume 6, 1951, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1991, 916 pp. and Yehoshua Freundlich, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Volume 7, 1952, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1992, 774 pp.

Nitza Ben‐Dov, Notes on Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Contents in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon, New York, E.J. Brill, 1993, 168 pp., $57.25.

Morris, Benny. Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, xxii+470 pp.

Laurence J. Silberstein, ed., New Perspectives on Israeli History, New York, New York University Press, 1991, ix+281 pp.

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