Review article: The dangers of polemic: Is ritual still an interesting topic of historical study?

Philippe Buc, The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory.
Gerd Althoff, Spielregeln der Politik im Mittelalter: Kommunikation in Frieden und Fehde.
Frans Theuws and Janet L. Nelson (eds). Rituals of Power from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.
Joëlle Rollo-Koster (ed), Medieval and Early Modern Rituals: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen). Teil II: Laon–Paderborn
Ross Brann, Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain
Constance Brittain Bouchard (ed.), The Cartulary of Monitier-en-Der, 666–1129
Martina Giese (ed.), Die Annales Quedlinburgenses
Helena Hamerow and Arthur MacGregor (eds), Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain. Essays in Honour of Rosemary Cramp
Matthias Hardt, Gold und Herrschaft. Die Schätze europäischer Könige und Fürsten im ersten Jahrtausend
Michael W. Herren and Shirley Ann Brown, Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century
Susan Irvine (ed.), MS E
Michael Kulikowski, Late Roman Spain and its Cities
Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950–1100
Aliki Pantos and Sarah Semple (eds), Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe
Victoria Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis (eds), Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages Laura Gowing, Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth‐Century England Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France Susan Broomhall, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth‐Century France     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Isabel Alfonso, Hugh Kennedy and Julio Escalona (ed.), Building Legitimacy: Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimation in Medieval Societies.
Gerd Althoff, Die Macht der Rituale: Symbolik und Herrschaft im Mittelalter.
Gerd Althoff, Translated by Christopher Carroll, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe.
Translated by Prescott N. Dunbar, Graham A. Loud, The History of the Normans by Amatus of Montecassino.
Robert F. Berkhofer III, The Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France.
N.J. Higham and D.H. Hill (eds), Edward the Elder 899–924.
Graham Keevil, The Tower of London Moat. Archaeological Excavations 1995–9.
Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer, Gesta Principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles.
Michael Lapidge (ed.), Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain.
John Naylor, An Archaeology of Trade in Middle Saxon England.
Elizabeth M. Tyler (ed.), Treasure in the Medieval West.
Peter Worm, Karolingische Rekognitionszeichen: Die Kanzlerzeile und ihre graphische Ausgestaltung auf den Herrscherurkunden des achten und neunten Jahrhunderts.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Bernard S. Bachrach, Early Carolingian Warfare. Prelude to Empire
Warren Brown, Unjust Seizure: Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
James McKinnon, The Advent Project. The Later–Seventh–Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper
Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Walter Pohl, Die Germanen (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, vol. 57)
Birgit Sawyer, The Viking–Age Rune–Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia
Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg (eds), Literary Appropriations of the Anglo–Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
Seiichi Suzuki, The Quoit Brooch Style and Anglo–Saxon Settlement: A Casting and Recasting of Cultural Identity Symbols
Steven Vanderputten, En heilig volk is geboren. Opkomst en ondergang van een christelijke staatsideologie uit de vroege Middeleeuwen (c. 750–900)     

Collecte Essays

Naidu, M. V., contributing ed. Perspectives on Human Security: National Sovereignty arid Humanitarian Intervention. Brandon: Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, 2001. Pp. xviii, 232. $39.95 (CDN), paper.

McCarthy, Patrick, ed. France - Germany in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 202. $45.00 (US).

James, Patrick and David Goetze, eds. Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xi, 273. $69.95 (US).

Conway, Martin and José Gotovitch, eds. Europe in Exile: European Exile Communities in Britain, 1940–lQ45. New York: Berghahn, 2001. Pp. vi, 281. $69.95 (US) doth; $25.00 (US), paper.

O'Brien, Patrick, Derek Keene, Marjolein 'T Hart, and Herman van der Wee, eds. Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 361. $64.95 (US)

Wells, Mark K., ed. Air Power: Promise and Reality. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2000. Pp. xv, 339. $39.95 (US), paper.

Hefner, Robert W., ed. The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 319. $27.95 (US), paper.

Larres, Klaus, and Ann Lane, eds. The Cold War: The Essential Readings, ed. adviser Robert MacMahon. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. viii, 256. $29.95 (US). paper.

Doerries, Reinhard R., ed. Diplomaten und Agenten: Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen. Heidelberg: Universitátsverlag C. Winter, 2001. Pp. 229. €38.00.

Geyer, Martin H. and Johannes Paulmann, eds. The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 471. £65.00.     

Book reviews

Boods reviewed:
Gerd Althoff, Inszenierte Herrschaft. Geschichtsschreibung und politisches Handeln im Mittelalter.
R. Bartlett (ed.), Geoffrey of Burton, Life and Miracles of St Modwenna .
Brian Croke, Count Marcellinus and his Chronicle.
Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards (eds), Cultures in Contact: Scandinavian Settlement in England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
Dominique Iogna-Prat. Translated by Graham Robert Edwards, Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000–1150).
Ludger Körntgen, Königsherrschaft und Gottes Gnade: Zu Kontext und Funktion sakraler Vorstellungen in Historiographie und Bildzeugnissen der ottonisch-frühsalischen Zeit.
Adam J. Kosto, Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200.
Hugh Magennis (ed.), The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt: An Edition of the Old English text with Modern English Parallel-Text Translation.
Lionel Mary and Michel Sot (eds), Le discours d'éloge entre Antiquité et Moyen Age. 'Textes Images et Monuments de I'Antiquité au Haut Moyen Age'. Université Paris X Nanterre CNRS.
Stephen C. McCluskey, Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe.
Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.
Walter Pohl. Stuttgart, Die Völkerwanderung: Eroberung und Integration.
Adriaan Verhulst, The Carolingian Economy.
Duncan Wu (ed.), Old and Middle English Poetry.     

Book Reviews

Henry Bernstein and Tom Brass (eds), Agrarian Questions Max Spoor (ed.), The ‘Market Panacea’. Agrarian Transformation in Developing Countries and Former Socialist Economies Obadiah Mailafia, Europe and Economic Reform in Africa. Structural Adjustment and Economic Diplomacy Meine Pieter van Dijk and Sandro Sideri (eds), Multilateralism versus Regionalism: Trade Issues after the Uruguay Round Richard Grabowski and Michael P. Shields, Development Economics James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz, The Process of Economic Development John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis (eds), The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development Mats Lundahl and Benno J. Ndulu (eds), New Directions in Development Economics. Growth, Environmental Concerns, and Government in the 1990s Adrian Leftwich (ed.), Democracy and Development: Theory and Practice Patricia L. McCarney (ed.), The Changing Nature of Local Government in Developing Countries Michael Kaufman and Haroldo Dilla Alfonso (eds), Community Power and Grassroots Democracy Kim Scipes, KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980–1994 Isa Baud and Ines Smyth (eds), Searching for Security: Women's Responses to Economic Transformations Miriam Goheen, Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields Ann Daniya Usher, Dams as Aid: A Political Anatomy of Nordic Development Thinking Idris S. Kikula, Policy Implications on Environment. The Case of Villagization in Tanzania Kenneth King, Jua Kali Kenya: Change and Development in an Informal Economy 1970–1995 Jürgen Rüland (ed.), The Dynamics of Metropolitan Management in Southeast Asia H. S. Geyer and T. M. Kontuly (eds), Differential Urbanization. Integrating Spatial Models Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies. Social Science from the Bottom Up Parviz Daneshvar, Revolution in Iran     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: Stuart C. Aitken & Leo E. Zonn (eds.) Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film. Edward Bergman, Gunther Maier and Franz Tödtling (Eds.) Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation and Local Development in Industrialised Countries. Alastair Bonnett , Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation L. Martell . Ecology and Society. an introduction     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Miquel Barceló and François Sigaut (eds), The Making of Feudal Agricultures? P.S. Barnwell and Marco Mostert (eds), Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages Giselle de Nie, Word, Image and Experience: Dynamics of Miracle and Self‐Perception in Sixth‐Century Gaul Miriam Gill and Jane Hawkes (eds), Images of Salvation: The Story of the Bible through Medieval Art Sonja Marzinzik, Early Anglo‐Saxon Belt Buckles (Late Fifth to Early Eighth Centuries A.D.): Their Classification and Context     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
A. Stewart Fotheringham and Michael Wegener (eds.), Spatial Models and GIS: New Potential and New Models
Aura Reggiani (ed.), Spatial Economic Science: New Frontiers in Theory and Methodology
Jean-Claude Thill (ed.), Geographic Information Systems in Transportation Research
Barbara Dluhosch, Industrial Location and Economic Integration: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in the New Europe
Jean-Marie Huriot and Jacques-François Thisse, Economics of Cities: Theoretical Perspectives
Manfred M. Fischer and Yee Leung (eds.), GeoComputational Modelling: Techniques and Applications
Eduardo A. Haddad, Regional Inequality and Structural Changes: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience
Manfred M. Fischer, Luis Suarez-Villa, and Michael Steiner (eds.), Innovation, Networks and Localities
Marjolein C.J. Caniëls, Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth: Regional Growth Differentials across Europe
Martin van der Velde and Henk van Houtum (eds.), Borders, Regions, and People
Peter W. J. Batey and Peter Friedrich (eds.), Regional Competition
John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer, Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area
Philip Hanson and Michael Bradshaw (eds.), Regional Economic Change in Russia
Gred Hise and William Deverell, Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region     

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Books reviewed:
Guyda Armstrong and Ian N. Wood, (eds) Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals.
Pierre Bonnerue, (ed) Benedict of Aniane. Concordia regularum.
Constance Brittain Bouchard, 'Strong of Body, Brave and Noble': Chivalry and Society in Medieval France.
André Debord, Aristocratie et pouvoir: le rôle du château dans la France médiévale.
H. Conrad-O'Briain, A.M. D'Arcy and J. Scattergood.(eds), Text and Gloss. Studies in Insular Learning and Literature Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer.
Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser, (eds) Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages. Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting.
Hans-Werner Goetz, Moderne Mediävistik. Stand und Perspektiven der Mittelalterforschung.
Heinrich Götz, Lateinisch-althochdeutsch-neuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch.
Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley 400–1000.
Bernhard Jussen, Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice: Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages.
Jeremy K. Knight, The End of Antiquity. Archaeology, Society and Religion, AD 235–700.
Richard Reece, The Later Roman Empire. An Archaeology, AD 150–600.
Ellen Swift, The End of the Western Roman Empire. An Archaeological Investigation.
Isabel Moreira, Dreams, Visions and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul.
J.M.H. Smith, (ed) Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West. Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough.
Benedicta Ward, High King Of Heaven: Aspects of Early English Spirituality.
Ann Williams, Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, c. 500–1066.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ronaldo Munck, Contemporary Latin America Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalene León, Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America Annelies Zoomers and Gemma van der Haar (eds), Current Land Policy in Latin America: Regulating Land Tenure under Neo‐liberalism Annelies Zoomers (ed.), Land and Sustainable Livelihood in Latin America Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds), Civil Society: History and Possibilities Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty (eds), Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India Ha‐Joon Chang, Globalization, Economic Development and the Role of the State Yilmaz Akyüz (ed.), Developing Countries and World Trade: Performance and Prospects George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order Paul Kennedy, Dirk Messner and Franz Nuscheler (eds), Global Trends and Global Governance Paulette Goudge, The Whiteness of Power: Racism in Third World Development and Aid John Clark (ed.), Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action Julian Le Grand, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens Richard Robison and Vedi R. Hadiz, Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets Sara Oldfield (ed.), The Trade in Wildlife: Regulation for Conservation Patricia L. Howard (ed.), Women & Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court, Machiko Nissanke and Beatrice Weder (eds), Asia and Africa in the Global Economy Jane I. Guyer, Marginal Gains. Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa Amanda Hammar, Brian Raftopoulos and Stig Jensen (eds), Zimbabwe's Unfinished Business: Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis D. John Shaw, Sir Hans Singer: The Life and Work of a Development Economist     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Mark Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security Jude Howell and Jenny Pearce, Civil Society and Development. A Critical Exploration Klaas van Walraven, Dreams of Power: The Role of the Organization of African Unity in the Politics of Africa, 1963–1993 E. Wayne Nafziger, Frances Stewart and Raimo Väyrynen, (eds) War, Hunger, and Displacement. The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies. Volume 1: Analysis, Volume 2: Case Studies John M. Hobson, The State and International Relations Jorge Larraine, Identity and Modernity in Latin America Anil Hira, Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National and Organizational Case Studies Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti and Marta Mercado, Women and Power. Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty Anjan K. Datta (ed.), Planning and Management of Water Resources. Lessons from Two Decades of Early Implementation Projects, Bangladesh S. Mahendra Dev, Piush Antony, V. Gayathri and R. P. Mamgain, (eds) Social and Economic Security in India Nira Ramachandran and Lionel Massun (eds), Coming to Grips with Rural Child Work: A Food Security Approach Cecile Jackson (ed.), Men at Work. Labour, Masculinities, Development Paul Rivlin, Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World S. Griffith–Jones, M. F. Montes and A. Nasution (eds), Short–Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises     

Book Reviews

King, Anthony D. (ed.), Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis Cohen, Michael A.; Ruble, Blair A.; Tulchin, Joseph S. and Garland, Allison M. (eds), Preparing for the Urban Future. Global Pressures and Local Forces Schlyter, Ann (ed.), A Place to Live: Gender Research on Housing in Africa Simon, Julian L. (ed.), The State of Humanity Bennett, Jon Meeting Needs: NGO Coordination in Practice Potter, David (ed.), NGOs and Environmental Policies: Asia and Africa van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe and Long, Ann (eds), Born From Within: Practice and Perspectives of Endogenous Rural Development Wolf, Diane L. (ed.), Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork Sparr, Pamela (ed.), Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment Keddie, Nikki R. Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution Garnaut, Ross; Grilli, Enzo and Riedel, Jim (eds), Sustaining Export-Oriented Development. Ideas from East Asia Schulte Nordhold, Nico and Visser, Leontine (eds), Social Science in Southeast Asia: From Particularism to Universalism Apter, David E. and Saich, Tony Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic     

Book reviews

Barlow, Frank, (ed) The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy Bishop of Amiens Benericetti, Ruggero, Il Cristo nei Sermoni di S. Pier Crisologo Blackburn, Mark A.S. and Dumville, David N., (eds.) Kings, Currency and Alliances: History of Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century Bolòs, Jordi and Hurtado, Victor, Atles del Comtat de Besalú (785–988) Bolòs, Jordi and Busqueta, Joan J., (eds) Territori i Societat a l'Edat Mitjana. Història, Arqueologia, Documentació II: Almenar, 1147–1997, 850 anys de la Carta de Poblament Borge, Ignacio Álvarez, Comunidades locales y transformaciones sociales en la Alta Edad Media. Hampshire (Wessex) y el sur de Castilla, un estudio comparativo Borgolte, Michael, Sozialgeschichte des Mittelalters. Eine Bilanz nach der deutschen Einheit Brubaker, Leslie, Vision and Meaning in Ninth‐century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus Carver, Martin, Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? Clanchy, M.T., Abelard: a Medieval Life Davis, R.H.C. and Chibnall, Marjorie, (eds) The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers Dodwell, C.R., Anglo‐Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage Everson, Paul, and Stocker, David, Corpus of Anglo‐Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume 5: Lincolnshire Freedman, Paul, Images of the Medieval Peasant Goetz, H.‐W. and Sauerwein, F. (eds) Volkskultur und Elitenkultur im frühen Mittelater: das Beispiel der Heiligenviten Guido, Margaret, The Glass Beads of Anglo‐Saxon England c. AD 400–700 Hawkes, Jane and Mills, Susan,(eds) Northumbria's Golden Age Hill, Joyce and Swan, Mary, (eds) The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe Hooke, Della, Warwickshire Anglo‐Saxon Charter‐Bounds Howe, John, Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh‐century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons Jestice, Phyllis G., Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century McGrail, Seán, Ancient Boats in North‐West Europe. The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500 Magennis, Hugh, Anglo‐Saxon Appetites. Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature Müller‐Wille, Michael, (ed) Rom und Byzanz im Norden. Mission und Glaubenswechsel im Ostseeraum während des 8.–14. Jahrhunderts, Band II, Internationale Fachkonferenz der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Verbindung mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Kiel, 18.–25. September 1994 Neville, Jennifer, Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry Pörnbacher, Mechthild, (ed.) Walahfrid Strabo Zwei Legenden Potter, T.W., and King, A.C., Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato Saenger, Paul, Space between Words: the Origins of Silent Reading Schneidmüller, Bernd and Weinfurter, Stefan, (eds.) Otto III. Heinrich II. Eine Wende? Toswell,M.J., and Tyler, E.M., (eds.) Studies in English Language and Literature. ‘Doubt wisely’: Papers iin Honour of E.G. Stanley Van Houts, Elisabeth, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200 Van Houts, Elisabeth M.C., (ed) The Gesta Normannorum ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, Volume II, Books V–VIII Wright, Roger, Early Ibero‐Romance     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: David Mosse, Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice Jeff Haynes, Politics in the Developing World: A Concise Introduction James Petras, The New Development Politics: The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements Goran Hyden, Julius Court and Kenneth Mease, Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from 16 Developing Countries David Held and Anthony McGrew (eds), Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance Bjørn Lomborg (ed.), Global Crises, Global Solutions Uma S. Kambhampati, Development and the Developing World Sanjeev Prakash and Per Selle (eds), Investigating Social Capital: Comparative Perspectives in Civil Society, Participation and Governance Manoranjan Mohanty (ed.), Class, Caste, Gender: Readings in Indian Government and Politics K. Sivaramakrishnan and Arun Agrawal (eds), Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India Aihwa Ong, Buddha is Hiding Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand, The Thaksinization of Thailand Pansak Vinyaratn, 21^st Century Thailand: Facing the Challenge, Economic Policy and Strategy Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, Thaksi: The Business of Politics in Thailand Bade Onimode et al., African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21^st Century: Looking Back to Move Forward (Essays in Honour of Adebayo Adedeji at Seventy) Christine J. Walley, Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park Christian A. Kull, Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar David Edmunds and Eva Wollenberg (eds), Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg (eds), Modernity and Technology     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Tjitske Akkerman and Siep Stuurman (eds), Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History from the Middle Ages to the Present Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720 Lilian R. Furst (ed.), Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling (eds), The Task of Healing: Medicine, Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450–1800 Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (eds), Women, Science and Medicine 1500–1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society Brean S. Hammond, Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670–1740: ‘Hackney for Bread’ Paula McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678–1730 Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North‐East England 1718–1800 Ulla Wikander, Von der Magd zur Angestellten: Macht, Geschlecht und Arbeitsteilung 1789–1950 Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800 Shani D'Cruze, Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women Elizabeth A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya‐Vanderbeck (eds), A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History Krassimira Daskalova (ed.), From the Shadow of History: Women in Bulgarian Society and Culture Sabrina P. Ramet (ed.), Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States Miriam B. Peskowitz, Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History Miriam B. Peskowitz and Laura Levitt (eds), Judaism Since Gender Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 Consuelo Lopez Springfield (ed.), Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century Paula L. Aymer, Uprooted Women: Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean Belinda Edmondson, Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative Alison Bashford, Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913–1997 Rosemary Pringle, Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (eds), The Oral History Reader Mary Chamberlain and Paul Thompson (eds), Narrative and Genre     

Review article: What’s new in early medieval burial archaeology?

Books reviewed in this article:
John Hines, Karen Høilund Nielsen and Frank Siegmund (eds), The Pace of Change. Studies in Early–Medieval Chronology.
Catherine E. Karkov, Kelley M. Wickham–Crowley and Bailey K. Young (eds), Spaces of the Living and the Dead: An Archaeological Dialogue.
Sam Lucy, The Early Anglo–Saxon Cemeteries of East Yorkshire. An Analysis and Reinterpretation.
Elizabeth O'Brien, Post–Roman Britain to Anglo–Saxon England: Burial Practices Reviewed.
Nick Stoodley, The Spindle and the Spear. A Critical Enquiry into the Construction and Meaning of Gender in the Early Anglo–Saxon Burial Rite.