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Book reviewed in this article: P. R. Ackroyd and C. R. Evans (Eds): The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vloume I, From the Beginnings to Jerome. T. E. Pollard : Johannine Christology and the Early Church (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, No. 13). James A. Brundage : Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader. Rufus B. Spain : At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865–1900. Hans Mol : Religion in Australia. A Sociological Investigation. G. J. Cuming (Ed.): The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith (Studies in Church History, Vol VI).     

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Book reviewed in this article: K. A. Kitchen : Ancient Orient and Old Testament Fazlur Rahman : Islam. ‘History of Religion’series E. Garth Moore : An Introduction to English Canon Law G. H. W. Parker : The Morning Star. Wycliffe and the Dawn of the Reformation Peter Gay : A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America Owen Chadwick : The Victorian Church, Part 1     

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Book reviews in this Article: S. G. F. BRANDON: History, Time and Deity; A Historical and Comparative Study of the Conception of Time in Religious Thought and Practice. ARNOLD EHRHARDT: The Framework of the New Testament Stories. EUGENIO GARIN: Italian Humanism. Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance. HERMANN BUCK: Die Anfänge der Konstanzer Reformationsprozesse. G. E. DUFFIELD (Ed.): John Calvin. (Courtenay Studies in Reformation Theology I.) ALICE CLARE CARTER: The English Reformed Church in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century. J. BARRETT: That Better Country. The Religious Aspect of Life in Eastern Australia, 1835-1850. P. A. M. TAYLOR: Expectations Westward: The Mormons and the Emigration of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century. PATRICK FORD: Cardinal Moran and the A.L.P. A Study in the Encounter between Moran and Socialism 1890-1907. LEONARD SWIDLER and ELWYN SMITH (Eds.): Journal of Ecumenical Studies, PETER WEIDKUHN: Aggressivität, Ritus, Säkularisierung (Basler Beiträge zur Geographie und Ethnologie,     

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Books reviewed: John Barton (ed.), The Biblical World. Stephen Hunt (ed.), Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco. Gervase of Tilbury , Otia Imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor. Rachel Fulton , From Judgement to Passion. Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200. Malcolm Lambert , Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation. Carter Lindberg (ed.), The Reformation Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Modern Period. Helen Parish and William G. Naphy (eds), Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe. Peter Matheson , The Imaginative World of the Reformation. Bernard Joassart , Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Bernard Joassart , Friedrich von Hügel, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Iain M. Mackenzie , God's Order and Natural Law: The Work of the Laudian Divines. Stephan Greenblatt , Hamlet in Purgatory. Hanne Sanders (ed.), Between God and the Devil, Religious and Magical World‐Views in the Nordic Countries 1500–1800. John K. Nelson : A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishoners in Anglican, Virginia, 1690–1776. John Allen Macaulay , Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution. Loretta M. Long , The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration. Linda C. Raeder , John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity. Ralph Waller , John Wesley: A Personal Portrait.. Richard P. Heitzenrater , The Elusive Mr. Wesley. Michael Goldsmith and Doug Munro ,The Accidental Missionary. Tales of Elekana. Allan K. Davidson (ed.), Tongan Anglicans 1902–2002. From the Church of England Mission in Tonga to the Tongan Anglican Church. Lynne Hume : Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians. Heather McDonald , Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nationalism in Ireland. By D. George Boyce Mortmain Legislation and the English Church 1279–1500. By Sandra Raban Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England. By J.S. Roskell. Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century. By Nigel Saul. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Edited and introduced by G.R. Elton. Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics. By Peter Holmes. Scotland under Morton 1572–80. By George R. Hewitt Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I. By Linda Levy Peck. The Private Journals of the Long Parliament 3 January to 5 March 1642. Edited by Willson H. Coates, Anne Steele Young and Vernon F. Snow. Reactions to the English Civil War 1642–1649. Edited by John Morrill The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E.S. de Beer. Estate Management in Eighteenth-Century England: The Building of the Leveson-Gower Fortune. By J.R. Wordie. The Devonshire Diary: William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire, Memoranda on State Affairs 1759–1762. Edited by Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer. Wars and Revolutions: Britain 1760–1815. By Ian R. Christie. Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume. Edited with an introduction and notes by David R. Raynor. Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters and Straights. By John A. Phillips. The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793–1815. By J.E. Cookson. For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796–1821. By J. Ann Hone. Nineteenth-Century Parliamentary Elections in East Yorkshire. By John Markham. The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Movement 1832–1842. By James Epstein. The Red Earl: The Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer 1835–1910. Volume I: 1835–1885. Edited by Peter Gordon. Peel, Priests and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 2841–1846. By Donal A. Kerr. Lord Reading: Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, 1860–1935. By Denis Judd. G.P. Gooch: A Study in History and Politics. By Frank Eyck. De Valera and the Ulster Question 1927–1973. By John Bowman. The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics. By Vernon Bogdanor. The Almanac of British Politics. By Robert Waller.     

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Book reviewed in this article The Historian invites scholars who wish to prepare book reviews for the journal to write to Dr. Phillip D. Thomas Medieval Medicus A Social History of Anglo Norman Medicine By Edward J. Kealey. The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism. By Jeremy Cohen. The Knights Templar. By Stephen Howarth. Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages. By Glending Olson. A History of Venice. By John Julius Norwich. Bury St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis: 1290-1539. By Robert S. Gottfried. English Lordship in Ireland, 1318-1361. By Robin Frame. The Outbreak of the English Civil War. By Anthony Fletcher. A Woman to Deliver Her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. By James K. Hopkins. For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London, 1796-1821. By J. Ann Hone. Madhouse, Mad-Doctors and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era. Edited by Andrew Scull. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. By Roger Smith. Gladstone: Church, State, and Tractarianism. By Perry Butler. Davitt and Irish Revolution. By T. W. Moody. Toward A Programme of Imperial Life: The British Empire at the Turn of the Century. (Contirbutions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 9.) By H. John Field. Alanbrooke. By David Fraser. G.P.Gooch: A Study in History and Politics. By Frank Eyck. The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France, 1589-1661. By Richard Bonney. The Philosophes and Post-Revolutionary France. By John Lough. The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education.By John Hubbel Weiss. France in Greece during World War I: A Study in the Politics of Power. By Alexander S. Mitrakos. The Reluctant Ally: France and Atlantic Security. By Michael M. Harrison. Mussolini. By Denis Mack Smith. Windthorst: A Political Biography. By Margaret Lavinia Anderson. Zabern 1913: Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany. By David Schoenbaum. Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914. By Ronals N. Stromberg. Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. By Elisabeth Young-Bruchi. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West. By George Makdisi. The Politics of Eastern Cape Separatism, 1820-1854. By Basil A. LeCordeur. The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty. By Albert Chan, S.J. China: A Political History, 1917-1980. By Richard C. Thornton. Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. (Education and Society Series. Edited by Paul R. Hanna.) The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. By Rhys Isaac. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. [The Oxford History of the United States. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. Vol. 2.] By Robert Middlekauff. The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857. [Columbia History of Urban Life series. Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson.] By Edward K. Spann. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. By James Oakes. Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. By Wilson Jeremiah Moses. A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Clarence E. Walker. The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate. By Allan G. Bogue. The Imperiled Union, 1861-1865, vol.1, The Deep Waters of the Proud. By William C. Davis. Army Generals and Reconstructions: Louisiana, 1862-1877. By Joseph G. Dawson III. The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy. By Brian W. Dippie. Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880-1920. By Dominick Cavallo. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. [Environmental History Series, number 3.] By Abraham Hoffman. John W. Foster: Politics and Diplomacy in the Imperial Era, 1873-1917. By Michael J. Devine. European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I. By Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice. Edited, with an introduction, by Ellis W. Hawley. Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience. By Daniel Schaffer. Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. The Brandeis Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court. By Bruce Allen Murphy. The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976. By Stephen G. Rabe.     

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Book reviewed in this article: D. E. Luscombe : The School of Peter Abelard, The Influence of Abelard's Thought in the Early Scholastic Period. J. A. Watt : The Church and the Two Nations in Medieval Ireland. Marvin A. Breslow : A Mirror of England: English Puritan Views of Foreign Nations. 1618–1640. Charles H. O'Brein : Ideas of Religious Toleration at the Time of Joseph II: A Study of the Enlightenment among Catholics in Austria. Ian Breward : Godless Schools? A Study in Protestant Reactions to the Education Act of 1877. Harold E. Fey (Ed.): The Ecumenical Advance: A History of the Ecumenical Movement, Vol. II, 1948–1968.     

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Books reviewed: William Baird , History of New Testament Research. Volume Two: From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann. Clinton Bennett , In Search of Jesus: Insider and Outsider Images. Anthony J. Blasi , Jean Duhaime , and Paul ‐André Turcotte (eds), Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches. Sara S. Poor , Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority. Fergus Kerr , After Aquinas. Versions of Thomism. Elizabeth Vandiver , Ralph Keen , and Thomas D. Frazel , Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther. James Veazie Skalnik , Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume LX. Philip O’Regan , Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650–1729) and the Constitution in Church and State. David L. Graizbord , Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580–1700. Eric Lund (ed.), Documents from the History of Lutheranism 1517–1750. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Richard C. Foltz , Frederick M. Denny , and Aziz Baharuddin (eds), Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust. Victoria Nelson : The Secret Life of Puppets. Ronald M. Davidson (ed), Indian Esoteric Buddhism, A Social History of the Tantric Movement. Ian J. Shaw , High Calvinists in Action: Calvinism and the City, Manchester and London 1810–1860. Paul Shore , The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Late Baroque Prague. Deryck W. Lovegrove (ed), The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism. Sheryl A. Kujawa ‐Holbrook (ed), Freedom is a Dream: A Documentary History of Women in the Episcopal Church. Clifford Putney , Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. Neil L. Whitehead , Dark Shamans — Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Moss Roberts , Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way: Laozi. W. H. Mc Leod , Who is a Sikh? The Problem of Sikh Identity. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Gareth Jones (ed), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology.     

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Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and political development 1822–1875. By Sione Latukefu. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. xi, 302 pp. Bibliography. Appendices. Glossary. $A7–95.     

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Books reviewed: Arnold Hermann , To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides: The Origins of Philosophy. G. R. Evans (ed.), The First Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Elizabeth A. Castelli , Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion). Frederick B. Davis , The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri (eds), Women and Faith. Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Anthony Kenny , A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume Two: Medieval Philo‐sophy. Joshua Trachtenberg , Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Charles Christopher Mierow , trans., Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. Dianne Hall , Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140–1540. Matthew Levering , Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Maribel Fierro (ed.), Judíos y Musulmanes en al‐Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales. Alessandro Barbero , Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Anne Winston ‐Allen , Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Theresa Coletti , Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. Anneke B. Mulder ‐Bakker , Lives of the Anchoresses. The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Virginia Nixon , Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. Eamon Duffy , Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Robert Frykenberg (ed.) and Alain Low , assoc. (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross‐Cultural Communication since 1500. Alister E. McGrath , The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation, 2d ed. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Bernard Joassart , Érudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Presentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. Michiel Wielema , The March of the Libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750). William Gibson , Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761. Paul E. Kerry , Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. John Harvey (ed.). Edmund Jones, The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Roger Lee Brown (ed.), The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–1849. R. Tudor Jones , Congregationalism in Wales. R. Tudor Jones , Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales 1890–1914. Raymond Brady Williams , Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration. Lawrence Rigel and Rosita Rosenberg , Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years. Daniel Carey (ed.), Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Maria Hsia Chang , Falun Gong: The End of Days. Heinz Halm , Shi ‘ism. Adrian Hastings , Alistair Mason , and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Alister E. McGrath , Theology: The Basics. Margaret Miles , The Word Made Flesh. A History of Christian Thought. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Jack Goody , Islam in Europe. Robert Haight , Christian Community in History: Vol. 1, Historical Ecclesiology. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie (eds), History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Jorgen Nielson , Muslims in Western Europe. John David Dawson , Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Nils Holger Petersen , Mette Birkedal Bruun , Jeremy Llewellyn , and Eyolf Østrem (eds), The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919–1933. By Frank Costigliola St. Martin and His Hagiographer: History and Miracle in Sulpicius Severus. By Claire Stancliffe St. James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela. By R. A. Fletcher The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. By Guido Ruggiero Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200–1800. By Thomas A. Green Robin Hood: An Historical Enquiry. By John Bellamy Policing Victorian London: Political Policing, Public Order, and the London Metropolitan Police Force. By Phillip Thurmond Smith From Irving to Olivier: A Social History of the Acting Profession in England 1880–1983. By Michael Sanderson Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh. By Richard B. Sher Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1832–1885. By K. Theodore Hoppen KingGeorge V. By Kenneth Rose Colbert. By Inès Murat Church, State, and Society Under the Bourbon Kings of France. Edited by Richard M. Golden Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade During the Eighteenth Century. By Steven Laurence Kaplan Populist Religion and Left-wing Politics in France, 1830–1852. By Edward Berenson Victors and Vanquished: The German Influence on Army and Church in France after 1870. By Allan Mitchell Cavour. By Denis Mack Smith Church, Politics, and Society in Spain, 1750–1874. [Harvard Historical Monographs.] By William J. Callahan Economy and Foreign Policy: The Struggle of the Great Powers for Hegemony in the Danube Valley, 1919–1939. By György Ránki Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt The French Revolution in Germany; Occupation and Resistance in the Rhineland, 1792–1802 by T. C. W. Blanning The Alternative Culture: Socialist Labor in Imperial Germany. By Vernon L. Lidtke Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1897–1914. By Roger Fletcher Communism in Germany Under the Weimar Republic. By Ben Fowkes Germany and Republican China. By William C. Kirby A Refuge From Darkness. Wilfrid Israel and the Rescue of the Jews. By Naomi Shepherd The Nuremberg Trial. By Ann Tusa and John Tusa Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839–1939. By Margaret Forster Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584–1606. By David Beers Quinn Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut. By Jackson Turner Main Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. By Neil Longley York An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution. [Perspectives on the American Revolution Series.] Edited by Ronald Hoffman, Thad W. Tate and Peter J. Albert To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783. By E. Wayne Carp The Last Rising: The Newport Insurrection of 1839. By David J. V. Jones The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828–1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease Boston 1700–1980: The Evolution of Urban Politics. Edited by Ronald P. Formisano and Constance K. Burns The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815–1860. By Henry C. Binford Shaky Palaces: Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston's Suburbanization. [Columbia History of Urban Life Series.] By Matthew Edel, Elliott D. Sclar, and Daniel Luria Martin Van Buren and the American Political System. By Donald B. Cole The Presidency of Martin Van Buren. By Major L. Wilson Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century. By Barbara Jean Fields The Confederate Governors. Edited with an introduction by W. Buck Yearns Massachusetts in the Gilded Age: Selected Essays. Edited by Jack Tager and John W. Ifkovic Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco. By Robert M. Senkewicz, S.J. Tribal Dispossession and the Ottawa Indian University Fraud. By William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner As Long as the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake River Reservation. By Martha C. Knack and Omer C. Stewart The First World War. By Keith Robbins Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905. By Geoffrey C. Ward The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights. By Robert Fredrick Burk In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982. [Contemporary American History Series.] By Steven F. Lawson Caring for the Retarded in America: A History. [Contributions in Medical History, Number 16.] By Peter L. Tyor and Leland V. Bell Walking to Work: Tramps in America, 1790–1935. Edited by Eric H. Monkkonen America's Business. By James Oliver Robertson In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. By David A. Hollinger Man, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885–1911. By Clifton B. Kroeber     

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

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Books reviewed: Stan ‐Michel Pellistrandi , Gesche Landais , and Christine Pellistrandi (eds), Le Nain de Tillemont et l’historiagraphie de l’Antiquité romaine. Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann (eds), The Jesus Movement. A Social History of its First Century. Kathleen Kamerick , Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500. Michael P. Carroll , Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. John Wilkinson , Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Tomaz Mastnak , Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Sharon Farmer , Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor. John W. O'Malley , Trent and all That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Karin J. Mac Hardy , War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interactions. Jeffrey R. Watt , Choosing Death. Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Felicity Heal , Reformation in Britain and Ireland. David Boyd Haycock , William Stukeley. Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England. Francis Harris , Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. Robert Hymes , Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Anthony O'Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion, and Politics. Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History. Pat Jalland , Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918. Colin Holden (ed.), People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne's Culture: Papers to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847–1997. Kenneth P. Serbin , Secret Dialogues: Church‐State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Yamaji Aizan , Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. Thich Nhat Hanh , compiled by Jack Lawlor , Friends on the Path — Living Spiritual Communities. Armand L. Mauss , All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Perceptions of Race and Lineage. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton (eds), Women and Twentieth‐Century Protestantism. Anthony O'Mahony and Atuallah Siddiqui (eds), Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future.     

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Book reviews in this Article: Martin Noth : The Laws in the Pentateuch and Other Studies W. Ullmann : The Relevance of Medieval Ecclesiastical History: An Inaugral Lecture. Margaret Aston : Thomas Arundel: A Study of Church Life in the Reign of Richard II. Robert M. Kingdon : Genea and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564–1572. John F. H. New : Anglican and Puritan. The Basis of their Opposition, 1558–1640. G. F. Trevallyn Jones : Saw-pit Wharton. The Political Career from 1640 to 1691 of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton. E. G. W. Bill (Ed.): Anglican Initiatives in Christian University Unity. Lectures delivered in Lambeth Palace Library 1966 John Mc Manners John M. Ward : Empire in the Antipodes. The British in Australasia: 1840–1860.     

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Book reviewed in this article: History and Imagination: Essays in Honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper. Edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones Studies in Irish History Presented to R. Dudley Edwards. Edited by Art Cosgrove and Donal McCartney. Dublin: University College. (Distributed in Great Britain by Colin Smythe Ltd., Gerrards Cross.)1979. [ix], 253 pp. IR £12.00. Ireland under the Union: Varieties of Tension. Essays in Honour of T. W. Moody. Edited by F. S. L. Lyons and R. A. J. Hawkins. Plantation to Partition: Essays in Ulster History in Honour of J. L. McCracken. Edited by Peter Roebuck Documents Illustrating the Crisis of 1297-98 in England. Edited by Michael Prestwich. The Crown and Local Communities in England and France in the Fifteenth Century. Edited by J. R. L. Highfield and Robin Jeffs. The Public Career of Sir Thomas More. By J. A. Guy. Brighton The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I: An Institutional Study. By Michael A. R. Graves. Cambridge Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I: Volume I: 1558–1581. Edited by T. E. Hartley. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy 1572–1588. By Wallace T. MacCaffrey. Commonwealth to Protectorate. By Austin Woolrych. The Declaration of Rights 1689. By Lois G. Schwoerer. London Politics 1713–1717: Minutes of a Whig Club 1714–1717, edited by H. Horwitz The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems. By J. C. D. Clark. The Parliamentary Agents: A History. By D. L. Rydz. Holland House. By Leslie Mitchell. Gladstone: Church, State and Tractarianism. A Study of His Religious Ideas and Attitudes 1809–1859. By Perry Butler. Lord Ripon 1827–1909: A Political Biography. By Anthony Denholm. Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life. By R. F. Foster. Edward Carson. By A. T. Q. Stewart. Property and Politics 1870–1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England. By Avner Offer. The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics 1870–1914. By D. W. Bebbington. Anthony Eden: A Biography. By David Carlton.     

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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History: Providence island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. The New Rural History: A Subject Whose Time Has Come Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930. Africa and the Middle East The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. The Americas: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. The George R. “Bob” Caron Story—Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay: Fire of a Thousand Suns. Science and Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison. The Scottish High Church Tradition in America: An Essay in Scotch-Irish Ethnoreligious History. The Abolitionists & The South, 1831-1865. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994. The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II. Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side. Rural Guatemala: 1760-1940. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. “Lest We Forget:” A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland. The Sixties and the End of Modern America. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt. Asia and the Pacific China in World History. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. The Cambridge History of China. Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III:4, Ideologies of the Raj. The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. A History of Brunei. Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution. Europe: Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule. Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England. Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage. Asquith As War Leader. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune. A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Charlotte Brontë. A Passionate Life. Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England. Captain James Cook: A Biography. Poland Since 1944: A Portrait of Years. Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. New French Thought: Political Philosophy. The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500. Gladstone 1875-1898. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494-1545. Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London, 1850-1915. Who Are The Macedonians? Exile and Destruction. The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Economic Structures of Antiquity. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle. London at War, 1939-1945. kathinka Zitz-Halein and Female Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany. General, Comparative, Historiographical The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. The pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim states and the Pacific Islands.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Henry V: The Practice of Kingship. Edited by G. L. Harriss. Union to Reform: A History of the Parliamentary Representation of Wales 1536 to 1832. By Arnold J. James and John E. Thomas. The Parliament of England 1559–1581. By G. R. Elton. The Stuart Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Second Edition. Edited and introduced by J. P. Kenyon. Peers, Politics and Power: The House of Lords 1603–1911. Edited by Clyve Jones and David Lewis Jones. Politics and Ideology in England 1603–1640. By J. P. Sommerville. Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660. By G. E. Aylmer. England's Rise to Greatness 1660–1763. Edited by Stephen B. Baxter. A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, 1688–1715. By Gary Stuart De Krey. Virtue, Comtnerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefy in the Eighteenth Century. By J. G. A. Pocock. The London Diaries of William Nicolson Bishop of Carlisle 1702–1718. Edited by Clyve Jones and Geoffrey Holmes. Memoirs of King George 11. By Horace Walpole. Gladstone 1809–1874. By H. C. G. Matthew. The Harlot and the Statesman: The Story of Elizabeth Armitstead and Charles James Fox. By I. M. Davis. Political Communications: The General Election of 1983. Edited by Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Philosophy and the Historical Understanding. By W. B. Gallie. The Third Dimension: Studies in Literary History. By Robert E. Spiller. George of Bohemia: King of Heretics. By Frederick G. Heymann. The Politics of Discretion: Pufendorf and the Acceptance of Natural Law. By Leonard Krieger. DNVP: Right-Wing Oposition in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1924. By Lewis Hertzman. Kurt Schumacher: A Study in Personality and Political Behavior. By Lewis J. Edinger. France, Germany, and the New Europe, 1945–1963. By F. Roy Willis. The Spread of Italian Humanism. By Roberto Weiss. Literature and the Pastoral. For interpretation the many work of Eugenio Garin are incomparable. Things Seen. By Victor Hugo. Selected, translated, and edited by David Kimber, with an Introduction by Janna Richardson. A Medieval Oxfordshire Village: Cuxham, 1240 to 1400. By P. D. A. Harvey. Edward III and the Scots: The Formative Years of a Military Career, 1327–1335. By Ranald Nicholson. The English reformation. BY A. G. Dickens. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558–1641. By Lawrence Stone. The Office of Speaker. By Philip Laundy. Wellington and His Friends, Letters of the First Duke selected and edited by the 7th Duke of Wellington. Before the Socialists: Studies In London and Politics, 1861–1881. By Royden Harrison. The Origins of the Labour Party, 1880–1900. By Henry Pelling. Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s. By Peter Stansky. The Golden Age of Wireless. By Asa Briggs. Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a puritan Town, 1630–1649. By Darrett B. Rutman. As a highly interpretive, analytical study of unusual focus, Winthrop's Boston is an imaginative and valuable book. The Theatre in Colonial America. By Hugh F. Rankin. Colonials and Partriots: Historic Places Commemorating Our FOrebears, 1700–1783. By Frank B. Sarles, Jr. and Charles E. Shedd. Edited by John Porter Bloom and Robert M. Utley. The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution. By H. Trevor Colbourn. East Florida as a British Province, 1763–1784. By Charles Lock Mowat. Slaery and Jeffersonian Virginia. By Robert McColley. Theodore Sedgwick, Federalist: A Political Portrait. By Richard E. Welch The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway, Kept on the Expedition of Western Exploration, 1803–1806. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Milo M. Quaife. Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier. By Walter Brownlow Posey. The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815–1828. By George Dangerfield. Jacksonian Democracy and the Historians. By Alfred A. Cave. Freedom and Franchise: The Political Career of B. Gratz Brown. By Norma L. Peterson. The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists. Edited (with an Introduction) by Martin Duberman. After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina during Reconstruction, 1861–1877. By Joel Williamson. The Southern States Since the War, 1870–1871. By Robert Somers. Guide to Florida. By “Rambler.” Edited with an Introduction by Rembert W. Patrick. The Deep South in Transformation. Edited by Robert B. Highsaw. Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826–1876. By James D. Norris. Boss Twed's New York. By Seymour J. Mandelbaum. Governor Theodore Rooseelt: The Albany Apprenticeship, 1898–1990. By G. Wallace Chessman. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890–1920. By Aileen S. Kraditor. Community Planning in the 1920's: The Contribution of the Regional Planning Association of America. By Roy Lubove. Where the Light Falls: A Portrait of Edwin Arlington Robinson. By Chard Powers Smith. Central America. By Mario Rodriguez. The Caste War of Yucatan. By Nelson Reed. Foreword by Howard F. Cline. The Cuban Revolution and Latin America. By Boris Goldenberg. A History of Medieval Islam. By J. J. Saunders. Muslim Civilization in India. By S. M. Ikram. Edited by Ainslie T. Embree. India Under Morely and Minto: Politics Behind Revolution, Repression and Reforms. By M. N. Das. Mao and the Chinese Revolution. By Jerome Ch'ên. An Instance of Treason, Ozaki Hotsumi and The Sorge Spy Ring. By Chalmers Johnson. The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847. By Stephen H. Roberts. French at Kilwa Island. By G. S. P. Freeman-Granville. Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy. By Charles A. Beard. Public Opinion. By Walter Lippmann. The Rise of the Spanish American Empire. By Salvador de Madariaga. The Mind of Germany: The Education of a Nation. By Hans Kohn. Midwestern Progressive olitics: A Historical Study of its Origins and Development, 1870–1958. By Russell B. Nye. The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy to the Farewell Address. By Felix Gilbert. Medieval England, as Viewed by Contemporaries. By W. O. Hassall. An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World. By Harry Elmer Barnes. Three volumes. Third editiion, revised. Based on the 1941 edition of Reynal and Hitchock. The Greeks Overseas. By John Boardman. The Histories. By Tecitus. A New Translation by Kenneth Wellesley. The Vikings. By Joannes Bronstad. Translated by Kalle Skov. London Life in the Eighteenth Century. By M. Dorothy George. London Life in the Eighteenth Century. By M. Dorothy George. The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. By Guenter Lewy. The English Revolution, 1688–1689. By G. M. Trevelyan. Medieval Europe: A Short History. By C. Werren Hollister. The Reform of Parliament. By Benard Crick. The Life of Washington. By Mason L. Weems. Edited by Marcus Cunliffe. Philosophy of History. By Alan and Barbara Donagan. Understanding the American Past: American History and its Interpreters. By Edward N. Saventh.