BOOK REVIEWS

Arabic and Islamic Themes: Historical, Educational and Literary Studies. By A. L. Tibawi.
Kahlil Gibran: His Life and World. By Jean Gibran and Kahlil Gibran.
The Classical Heritage In Islam. By Franz Rosenthal.
Islamic Historiography: The Histories of Mas'ūdi. By Tarif Khalidi.
Islamic History A. D. 600–750 (A. H. 132): A New Interpretation. By M. A. Shaban.
The 'Abbāsid Revolution. By M. A. Shaban.
A History of Islamic Sicily. By Aziz Ahmad.
The Zirids of Granada. By Andrew Handler.
The Arabs and Mediaeval Europe. By Norman Daniel.
A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730. Edited by M. A. Cook.
Gurtaf Raquette and Qasim Akhun's Letters to Kamil Effendi. Ethnological and Folkloristic Materials from Southern Sinkiang. Edited and translated with explanatory notse by Gunner Jarring.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Historians and Nationalism : East ‐Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century . By Monika Báar. French Historians 1900–2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth ‐Century France . Edited by Philip Daileader and Philip Whalen. A Passion for History : Conversations with Denis Crouzet . By Natalie Zemon Davis. Work in a Modern Society : The German Historical Experiences in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Jürgen Kocka. Pasados en conflicto : Representación, mito y memoria . Edited by María Inés Mudrovcic. Writing Ancient History : An Introduction to Classical Historiography . By Luke Pitcher. History , Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America : From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan . By Reba N. Soffer. Performing the Past : Memory , History, and Identity in Modern Europe . Edited by Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree, and Jay M. Winter.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry . By Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
The Islamic Near East and North Africa: An Annotated Guide to Books in English for Non-Specialists . By David W. Littlefield.
The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay . By Abdallah Laroui
Islamic History: A New Interpretation (AD. 750–1055), Volume II. By M. A. Shaban
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Volume I: Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280–1808 . By Stanford J. Shaw
Islam: Faith and Practice . By Manazir Ahsan.
Bilal (Peace Be Upon Him) In Hadith . Compiled by M. A. Qazi     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Isaiah Berlin : The Journey of a Jewish Liberal . By Arie Dubnov. Remembering Katyn . By Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, et al. Thucydides and Herodotus . Edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner. Tolstoy on War : Narrative Art and Historical Truth in “War and Peace .” Edited by Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin. The Oxford History of Historical Writing , Vol . 3: 1400–1800. Edited by Jose Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf. Courtly Encounters : Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia . By Sanjay Subrahmanyam. British Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History . Edited by Donald A. Yerxa. Jews : The Making of a Diaspora People . By Irving M. Zeitlin.     

The Rise and Fall of the Post-War Settlement

The People's Peace: British History, 1945–1989. By Kenneth O. Morgan.
Power, Competition and the State : Vol. 2, Threats to the Postwar Settlement: Britain, 1961–74. By Keith Middlemas.
Power, Competition and the State: Vol. 3, The End of the Postwar Era. By Keith Middlemas.
Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective. By R. M. Punnett.
British Politics Since 1945: The Rise and Fall of Consensus. By David Dutton.
UK Political Parties Since 1945. Edited by Anthony Seldon.
British History, 1945–1987: An Annotated Bibliography. By Peter Catterall.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this articles. Storia universale e patologia dello spirito : saggio su croce . By Domenico Conte Europe (in Theory ). By Roberto M. Dainotto. Numbered Days : Diaries and e olocaust . By Alexandra Garbarini. The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self : An Intellectual History of Personal Identity . By Raymond martin and John Barresi. The Uses of History : From Athens to Auschwitz . By Christian Meier. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. The Endurance of Nationalism : Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas . By Aviel Roshwald. The Natural Origins of Economics . By Margaret Schabas. Practicing History : New Directions in Historical Writing After the Linguistic Turn . By Gabrielle M. Spiegel.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550–1653. By Robert Brenner.
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England. By Linda Levy Peck.
Civil War and Restoration in Three Stuart Kingdoms. The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim, 1609–83. By Jane H. Ohlmeyer.
Justice Upon Petition. The House Of Lords and the Reformation of Justice 1621–1675. By James S. Hart.
Proceedings in Parliament, 1628: vol. V, Lords Proceedings in 1628; vol. VI, Appendices and Index. Edited by Mary Freer Keeler, Maija Jansson Cole, and William B. Bidwell.
Not Peace but a Sword: The Political Theology offhe English Revolution. By Stephen Baskerville.
Politics Under the Later Stuarts. Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660–1715. By Tim Harris.(Studies in Modem History.)
The Making of a Great Power: Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain, 1660–1722. By Geoffrey Holmes.(Foundations of Modern Britain.)
The Age of Oligarchy: Pre-Industrial Britain, 1722–1783. By Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi.(Foundations of Modern Britain.)
The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. By R. O. Bucholz.
A Patriot Press. National Politics and the London Press in the 1740s. By Robert Harris.(Oxford Historical Monographs.)
The Insatiable Earl. A Life Of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. By N. A. M.Rodger.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Why Concepts Matter : Translating Social and Political Thought . Edited by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter. The Historical Novel in Nineteenth ‐Century Europe : Representations of Reality in History and Fiction . By Brian Hamnett. Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause : A Journey from Language to Experience . By Peter Icke. Making History : The Historian and Uses of the Past . By Jorma Kalela. The Reformation of Feeling : Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany . By Susan C. Karant‐Nunn. History in the Plural : An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck . By Niklas Olsen. Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece . By Charles Stewart. The Holocaust and Historical Methodology . Edited by Dan Stone.     

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond. Edited by H. S. Cobb. London: House of Lords Record Office A History of the County of Chester: Volume II (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Edited by B. E. Harris. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000–1306. By G. W. S. Barrow. (The New History of Scotland, Volume 2.) London: Edward Arnold. 1981 Robert Winchelsey and the Crown 1294–1313: A Study in the Defence of Ecclesiastical Liberty. By Jeffrey H. Denton. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third series, Volume 14.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press John Russell, First Earl of Bedford: One of the King's Men. By Diane Willen. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 23; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd The Lisle Letters. Edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. By Brendan Bradshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press King Charles I. By Pauline Gregg. London: Dent Denzil Holles 1598–1680: A Study of his Political Career. By Patricia Crawford. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 16; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 1. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761: A Supplement. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 3. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E. S. de Beer. (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.) Volume VI: Letters Nos. 2119–2664. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England. Edited by John Cannon. London: Edward Arnold Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760–1801. By R. B. McDowell. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor: Paul Langford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Volume II: Party, Parliament and the American Crisis 1766–1774. Edited by Paul Langford The English Administrative System 1780–1870. By Sir Norman Chester. Oxford: Clarendon Press Order and Equipoise: The Peerage and the House of Lords 1783–1806. By Michael W. McCahill. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 11; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd. Castlereagh. By Wendy Hinde. London: Collins The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. By Geoffrey B. A. M. Finlayson. London: Eyre Methuen British Interparty Conferences: A Study of the Procedure of Conciliation in British Politics 1867–1921. By John D. Fair. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance 1872–1895. By A. E. Dingle. London: Croom Helm Joseph Chamberlain: A Political Study. By Richard Jay. Oxford: Clarendon Press Colne Valley: Radicalism to Socialism. The Portrait of a Northern Constituency in the Formative Years of the Labour Party 1890–1910. By David Clark. London: Longman The People's Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics. By Bruce K. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935. By Tom Stannage. London: Croom Helm The Commons in Perspective. By Philip Norton. Oxford: Martin Robertson Works of Art in the House of Lords. Edited by Maurice Bond. London: H. M. S. O.     

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Life in Ontario, A Social History, by G. P. de T. G lazebrook
Essays on Mid-Canada
The International Megalopolis, edited by M ason W ade
Human Migration. A Guide to Migration Literature in English, 1955–1962, by J. J. M angalam
Australia's Corner of the World, by T. L. M c K night
The Camel in Australia, by T. L. McKnight
West Africa, by W. B. M organ and J. C. P ugh
African Boundary Problems, edited by Carl G osta W idstrand
An Historical Geography of Russia, by W. H. P arker     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue. Narratives Unbound : Historical Studies in Post ‐Communist Eastern Europe. Edited by Sorin Antohi, Balázs Trencsényi, and Péter Apor. Disputed Histories : Imagining New Zealand's Past. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney. Creative Pasts : Historical Memory and Identity in Western India , 1700–1960. By Prachi Deshpande. Lost Worlds : The Emergence of French Social History , 1815–1970. By Jonathan Dewald. Memory Against Culture : Arguments and Reminders. By Johannes Fabian. Ethnography as Commentary : Writing from the Virtual Archive. By Johannes Fabian. Viêt Nam : Borderless Histories. Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid. Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West. Edited by E. M. Tyler and R. Balzaretti. Les songes de Clio: fiction et histoire sous l'ancien régime. Compiled and edited by Sabrina Vervacke, Éric Van der Schueren, and Thierry Belleguic.     

Reviews

Book review in this Article
R. A. T omlinson : Greek Sanctuaries.
R upert F urneaux : The Roman Siege of Jerusalem.
B ernhard G rimm : Untersuchungen zur sozialen Stellung der frühen Christen in der römischen Gesellschaft.
J ane I. S mith : An Historical and Semantic Study of the term Islam as seen in a Sequence of Quran Commentaries.
H arry W. H azard (ed.): The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, volume III of Kenneth M. Setton (ed.).
R. J. M orris : Cholera, 1832: the Social Response to an Epidemic.
J udy B irmingham and C arol L iston : Old Sydney Burial Ground 1974.
A lan R oberts and E lizabeth M alcolm : Hunter Baillie: a History of the Presbyterian Church in Annandale.
B ruce M ansfield with F ay R ichardson : Knox: a History of Knox Grammar School, 1924–1974.
J ohn S. D unne : The Way of All the Earth: an Encounter with Eastern Religions.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe . By W. Montgomery Watt
Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World . By Wilson B. Bishai
Islamic Civilisation: 950–1150 . Ed. D. S. Richards
Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri, III. Language and Literature . By Nabia Abbott
An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry . Selected and edited by Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar
Muslim Spain: Its History and Culture. By Anwar G. Chejne
Morocco Under Colonial Rule: French Administration of Tribal Areas, 1912–1956. By Robin Bidwell
La Personnalité et le Devenir Arabo-Islamiques. By Hichem Djalt
Islam and the Confluence of Religions in Uganda, 1840–1966. By Noel King, Abdu Kasozi, Arye Oded
Islam and Social Order in Mauritania; A Case Study from the Nineteenth Century. By C. C. Stewart with E. K. Stewart
Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People. By Robert A. Fernea and Georg Gerster
Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics. By Majid Khadduri
The Fall of Jerusalem. By Abdullah Schleifer
Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Vol. 2: Farah and South-western Afghanistan. Edited by Ludwig W. Adamec     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Historiographie de l'antiquité et transferts culturels : Les histoires anciennes dans l 'Europe des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles . Edited by Chryssanthi Avlami and Jaime Alvar. What Is Migration History ? By Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder. Historical Reenactment : From Realism to the Affective Turn . Edited by Iain McCalman and Paul A. Pickering. When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology . By Hermann Rebel . Virginia Woolf , Modernity and History : Constellations with Walter Benjamin . By Angeliki Spiropoulou. Public Forgetting : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again . By Bradford Vivian. Constructing the Past : Writing Irish History , 1600–1800. Edited By Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest.     

Book Reviews

Twelftree, Graham H. Jesus the Exorcist: A Contribution to the Study of the Historical Jesus
Gamble, Harry Y. Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts
Monson, C. A. Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent
Harrisville, Roy A. and Sundberg, Walter The Bible in Modern Culture: Theology and Historical-Critical Method from Spinoza to Käsemann
Offutt, William M. Jr. Of 'Good Laws' and 'Good Men': Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680–1710
Piggin, Stuart Evangelical Christianity in Australia: Spirit, Word and World     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Band XVII A 1: Materialien zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte , Teil 1. By Rudolf Sellheim.
Louis Massignon (1883–1962): Christian Ecumenist, Prophet of Inter-Religious Reconciliation . By Gidio Bassetti-Sani, O. F. M. Edited and translated by Allan Harris
Pluralism and Party Transformation in Lebanon: Al-Kata'ib 1936–1970 . By John P. Entelis.
The Holy War . Edited by Thomas Patrick Murphy
Islam, Tha Religion of Peace . By K. G. Saiyidain
Millenium and Charisma among Pathans . By Akbar S. Ahmad
The Arab Left . By Tareq Y. Ismael
Historical Gazetteer of Iran. Vol. I: Tehran ad Northwestern Iran . Ed. by Ludwig W. Adamec
Historical and Polltical Gazetteer of Afghanistan . Vol. 3: Herst and Northwestern Afghanistan. Ed. by Ludwig W     

Books in Summary

Books reviewed:
Pictures of Innocence: the History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood . By Anne Higonnet
Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy . By John Inglis
In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture . By Michael Kammen
A Romantic Historiosophy: The Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche . By Arthur McCalla
Michelet: La Magistrature de l'histoire . By Olivier Remaud
A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing . Edited by D. R. Woolf     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Sublime Historical Experience . By Frank Ankersmit La Escritura De La Memoria : De Los Positivismos A Los Postmodernismos . By Jaume Aurell The Tragedy of Finitude : Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life . By Jos de Mul The Invention of The Eyewitness : Witnessing & Testimony in Early Modern France . By Andrea Frisch Looking Backward and Looking Forward : Perspectives on Social Science History . Edited by Harvey J. Graff, Leslie Page Moch, and Philip McMichael The Strangeness of Gods : Historical Perspectives on The Interpretation of Athenian Religion . By S. C. Humphreys La Storia : Teoria E Metodi . By Marcello Mustè The Philosophy of History: A re ‐Examination . Edited by William Sweet     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Whispering City : Rome and Its Histories . By R. J. B. Bosworth. History in the Discursive Condition : Reconsidering the Tools of Thought . By Elizabeth Ermarth. The Enlightenment of Sympathy : Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today . By Michael L. Frazer. Nation and History : Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post ‐Zionism . By Yoav Gelber. Themes in Modern European History : Social Movement and Cultural Current . Edited by Vandana Joshi. Liberalism , Imperialism , and the Historical Imagination : Nineteenth ‐Century Visions of a Greater Britain . By Theodore Koditschek. A história na América Latina : Ensaio de crítica historiográfica . By Jurandir Malerba. A Global History of History . By Daniel Woolf.