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Book reviwed in this article Past Meets Present: Essays about Historic Interpretation and Public Audiences. Edited by Jo Blatti. Selvages and Biases: The Fabric of History in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. Morbid Appearances: The Anatomy of Pathology in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Russell C. Maulitz. Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence and Culture. [Sport and History Series.] By Michael B. Poliakoff. Poets and Emperors: Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry. By Peter Godman. The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850–1150. By Charles M. Radding. Henry the Lion: A Biography. By Karl Jordan. Translated by P. S. Falla. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. By Morris Rossabi. The Kingdom of Armenia. By M. Chahin. Politics and Society in Reformation Europe: Essays for Sir Geoffrey Elton on his Sixty Fifth Birthday. Edited by E. I. Kouri and Tom Scott. Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Edited by G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter. The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Stuart Woolf. Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770–1860. By Catharina Lis. The Forced Loan and English Politics, 1626–1628. By Richard Cust. Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1867–1875. By J. P. Parry. The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740–1830. By Gerald Newman. Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain. By Angus Hawkins. Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire. By John Charmley. The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Essays in Memory of Stephen Koss. Edited by J. M. W. Bean. The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution: The Middle Years. By Michael L. Kennedy. Joseph II: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741–1780. By Derek Beales. Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History. By Fritz Stern. The Holocaust in History. By Michael R. Marrus. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. By Joseph W. Esherick. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years: War in America. By Francis Jennings. The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution, 1767–1773. By Peter D. G. Thomas. The Forging of the Union, 1781–1789. [New American Nation Series.] By Richard B Morris. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. By Donald B. Smith. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763–1834. By Paul A. Gilje. The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791–1850. By Randolph A. Roth. Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. By Sterling Stuckey. The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1849–1861. By Mark W. Summers. American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History. By William G. Rothstein. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. By William Garrett Piston. Visions of Harmony: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Millenarianism. By Anne Taylor. Able-Bodied Womanhood, Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By Martha H. Verbrugge. Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. [Volume 40 of the Harvard Studies in Business History. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.] By Robert F. Dalzell Jr. The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840–1900. [Religion in North America Series.] By Colleen McDannell. The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904–1984. Edited by Ronald Lawson. The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire, 1906–1916. By James Wright. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. Edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet et al. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, The State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933. By Joyce Shaw Peterson. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877–1919. By Nell Irvin Painter. The Collapse of the Grand Alliance, 1945–48. By James L. Gormly. Mormons at the Missouri, 1846–1852: “And Should We Die.” By Richard E. Bennett. Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People Party in the Oklahoma Territory. By Worth Robert Miller. The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History. By John Moore. America Through Russian Eyes, 1874–1926. Edited and translated by Olga Peters Hasty and Susanne Fusso. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. By Stephen G. Rabe. Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. By Robert C. Williams. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1850. By Mary C. Karasch.     

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Book reviwed in this article The Impact of Illness on World Leaders. By Bert Edward Park. At the Nexus of Philosophy and History. Edited by Bernard P. Dauenhauer. Bede the Venerable. [Twayne's English Authors Series, No. 443.1 By George Hardin Brown. The Poor in the Middle Ages: An Essay in Social History. By Michel Mollat. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages: A Tribute to Charles Ross. Edited by Ralph A. Griffiths and James Sherborne. The Anglo-Russian Entente Cordiale of 1697–1698: Peter I and William III at Utrecht. By George Barany. Lancashire: A Social History, 1558–1939. By John K. Walton. Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660. By G. E. Aylmer. Solidarity or Survival?’American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830–1924. [Contributions in Labor Studies, No. 21] By A. T. Lane. Victorian Divorce. By Allen Horstman. Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890s. By David Rubinstein. Renaissance and Revolt: Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France. By J. H. M. Salmon. Damning the Innocent. A History of the Persecution of the Impotent in Pre-Revolutionary France. By Pierre Darmon. Translated by Paul Keegan. The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde. By Morns Slavin. Thiers, 1797–1877: A Political Life. By J. P. T. Bury and R. P. Tombs. The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century. By Judith Devlin. The Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle. By Charles Tilly. Christopher Columbus. By Gianni Granzotto. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Nietzsche: “The Last Antipolitical German.” By Peter Bergmann. German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History. Edited by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes. Breaking the Silence: The Story of Eduard Schulte. By Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman. German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach. By Andreas Dorpalen. The Dutch Gentry, 1500–1650: Family, Faith, and Fortune. By Sherrin D. Marshall. “Zolotoe Runo” and Russian Modernism. By William Richardson. The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. By Lynne Viola. Government and Bureaucracy in India, 1947–1976. By B. B. Misra. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic. By Maurice Meisner. Japan: The Dutch Experience. By Grant K. Goodman. Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan. By Yoshitake Oka. Translated by Andrew Fraser and Patricia Murray. Government From Reflection and Choice: Constitutional Essays on War, Foreign Relations, and Federalism. By Charles A. Lofgren. Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790–1795. By Wiley Sword. The Life and Times of Little Turtle: The First Sagamore of the Wabash. By Harvey Lewis Carter. The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780–1825. By Andrew R. L. Cayton. To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. By Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture. By David Brion Davis. The Money Game In Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times. By Clifford Browder. New York City Cartmen, 2667–1850. By Graham Russell Hodges. The Inland Empire, Unfolding Years, 1879–1929. By John Fahey. War, Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan: A Study of Intolerance in a Border City. By Shawn Lay. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century. By Louise Carroll Wade. A Response to Progressivism: The Democratic Party and New York Politics, 1902–1918. By Robert F. Wesser. From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910–1928. By Christine A. Lundardini. W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat. [Twayne's Twentieth-Century Biography Series, No. 3.1 By Manning Marable. Pershing: General of the Armies. By Donald Smythe. The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America. By Edward Abrahams. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. By David Garrow. The Cautious Diplomat: Charles E. Bohlen and the Soviet Union, 1929–1969. By T. Michael Ruddy. Big Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson. [Twayne's Twentieth-Century American Biography Series No. 1.] By Paul K. Conkin. Entrepreneurs of the Old West. By David Dary. The Character Factory: Baden-Powell and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement. By Michael Rosenthal. Gathering Rare Ores: The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisitions, 1943–1954. By Jonathan Helmreich. Irredeemable America. Edited by Imre Sutton.     

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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: The New Monarchy: England 1471–1534. By Anthony Goodman. Richard III: A Study of Service. By Rosemary Horrox. Tudor England. By John Guy. A Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lords in British Politics 1640–1784. Edited by Clyve Jones. By Force or by Drfault? The Revolution of 1688–89. Edited by Eveline Cruickshanks. Poll Books c. 1696–1872: A Directory to Holdings in Great Britain. By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. Electoral Registers since 1832; And Burgess Rolls. By Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers. Parliament, Politics and People: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Irish History. Edited by Gerard O'Brien. The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, 1742–1763. Edited with an introduction by J. C. D. Clark. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785–1865. By Boyd Hilton. Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity. By K. Theodore Hoppen. Before the Vote Was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage, 1864–1896. Edited by Jane Lewis. The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. By Gary W. Cox. The Revolution in Ireland 1879–1923. Edited by D. G. Boyce. Baldwin and the conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929–1931. By Stuart Ball.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Clio & The. Bitch Goddess: Quantification in American Political History. By Allan C. Bogue. From Graven Images: Patterns of Modem Materialism. By Chandra Mukerji. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. By B. G. Trigger, B. J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, and A. B. Lloyd. Greece: Old and New. Edited by Tom Winnifrith and Penelope Murray. Miracle in the Early Christian World A Study in Sociohistorical Method. By Howard Clark Kee. Feudal Assessments and the Political Community Under Henry II and His Sons. By Thomas K. Keefe. Feudalism to Capitalism: Peasant and Landlord in English Agrarian Development. By John E. Martin. Humanists and Holy Writ: Nm Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance. By Jerry H. Bentley. The Fall of the Florentine Republic, 1512–1530. By J. N. Stephens. Levant Trade in the Later Middle Ages. By Eliyahu Ashtor. Richard III: England's Black Legend. By Desmond Seward. Lancastrian Normandy, 1415–1450: The History of a Medieval Occupation. By C. T. Allmand. All the Queen's Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart's Scotland. By Gordon Donaldson. Clarendon and the English Revolution. By R. W. Harris. Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth. By Stewart J. Brown. Lord Aberdeen: A Political Biography. By Muriel E. Chamberlain. Just Before the Origin. By Alfred Langdon Brooks. Church, Politics, and Society: Scotland 1408–1929. Edited by Norman Macdougall. The Freedom Rod 1944–1945. By Richard Collier. The Pursuit of Urban History. Edited by Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe. From Philosophy to Sociology: The Evolution of French Liberalism, 1870–1914. By William Logue. The Making of French Absolutism. By David Parker. Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France. By Rosalind H. Williams. The Emperor and his Chancellor: A Study of the Imperial Chancellery under Gattinara. By John M. Headley. Germany in the Later Middle Ages. By F. R. H. DuBoulay. Popular Entertainment, Class, and Politics in Munich, 1900–1923. By Robert Eben Sackett. The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815. [Vol. 2 of Metternich's German Policy]. By Enno Kraehe. The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany 1919–1933. By Thomas Childers. Hitler's Luftwaffe in the Spanish Civil War. Germany, Russia, and the Balkans: Prelude to the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. By Marilynn Gimux Hitchens. A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary. By Ann Hibner Koblitz. Culture, Conflict, and Coexistence: American-Soviet Cultural Relations, 1917–1958. By J. D. Parks. The Latvian Impact on the Bolshevik Revolution: The First Phase, September 1917 to April 1918. By Andrew Ezergailis. Russia and the Origins of the First World War. By D.C. B. Lieven. Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake. By Edward Seidensticker. The Virginia Militia in the Seventeenth Century. By William L. Shea. Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic. By Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler and Robert L. Ivie. Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789–1839. By William G. McLoughlin. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. By Eric Foner. The Emergence of Giant Enterprise, 1860–1914: American Commercial Enterprise and Extractive Industries. [Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 54.] By David O. Whitten. Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and Tradition. By Dewey W. Grantham. The Formation of the Republican Party in New York: Politics and Conscience in the Antebellum North. By Hendrik Boraem V. Eight Hours for What We Will. Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920. Roy Rosenzweig. Generations: An American Family. By John Egerton. Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and their Forerunners, 1870–1920. By Donald I. Macleod. Dark Horse: A Biography of Wendell Willkie. By Steve Neal. Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918–1929. By Roger E. Bilstein. The Ninth State: New Hampshire's Formative Years. By Lynn Warren Turner. Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact. By the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, with an introduction by Charles C. Geisler. The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company. By H. Roger Grant. Winds of History: The German Years of Lucius DuBignon Clay. By John H. Backer. Morris Llewellyn Cooke: Progressive Engineer. By Jean Christie. Journey From Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit. By Catherine A. Barnes. Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR. By Nancy Weiss. In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. By William E. Leuchtenburg. The Uneasy State: The United States from 1915 to 1945. By Barry D. Karl.     

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The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: Re Stafin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. By Paul A. Cohen. Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life. By Judith Sealander. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By Michael A. Morrison. The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861. By Stephen B. Oates. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPhers The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Ferninism. By Janet Afary. Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times. By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. By Frederick Cooper. Religious Militancy and Self-Assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria. By Matthew Hassan Kukah and Toyin Falola. Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900. By B. Marie Perinbam. Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy toward Taiwan, 1950–1955. By Robert Accinelli. The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism. By Stanley Aronowitz. In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876–1930. By Jurgen Buchenau. Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost. Edited by Colin G. Calloway. A History of Chile, 1808–1994. By Simon Collier and William F. Sater. Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective. By Paul W. Drake. On Constitutional Ground. By John Hart Ely. Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule. By Emmett M. Essin. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790. By Joan R. Gundersen. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. By Paul Hendrickson. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830. By R. Douglas Hurt. Black Savannah: 1788–1864. By Whittington B. Johnson. The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend. By Donna J. Kessler. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. By Frieda Knobloch. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson. A History of the Confederate Navy. By Raymond Luraghi. “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Edited by Staughton Lynd. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928. By Matthew J. Mancini. Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. By Doug Owram. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. By Nell Irvin Painter. Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke. The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. By William H. Riker. Edited by Randall L. Calvert, John Mueller, and Rick K. Wilson. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff. Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue. Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876–1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood. State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Richard Zuczek. Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. By Nancy Abelmann. Empire & Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870. By C. A. Bayly. China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State. By Shaun Gerard Breslin. The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War. By Christopher Howe. Re-imaging Japanese Women. Edited, with an introduction, by Anne E. Imamura. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. By Xiaoyuan Liu. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937–1941. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Edited by Tu Weiming. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917. By Bruce F. Adams. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. By Dieter Arnold. Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British Fascism. By David Baker. Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914. By C. J. Bartlett. The Church for Others: Protestant Theology in Communist East Germany. By Gregory Baum. Europe under Napoleon, 1799–1815. By Michael Broers. Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47. Edited by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and David Howell. Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. Edited, with an introduction and chapter introductions, by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. By Edward ROSS Dickinson. The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in Central Europe. By Grzegorz Ekiert. Reinventing Germany: German Political Developments Since 1945. By Anthony Glees. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854–1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction, The Struggle for Modernity. Edited by Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790–1870. By David R. Green. The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688–89. Edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain. By Sybil M. Jack. A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000–1485. By Pamela Nightingale. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. By Henry Phillips. The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. Edited by Mark Pinson. Alfred Marshall's “Lectures to Women”: Some Economic Questions Directly Connected to the Welfare of the Laborer. Edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Eugenio Biagini, and Rita Mc Williams Tullberg. Medieval Society and the Manor Court. Edited by Zvi Razi and Richard Smith. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. By Eric Rentschler. Reforming the Russian Legal System. By Gordon B. Smith. King or Covenant? Voices from Civil War. By David Stevenson. Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834. By Charles Tilly. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560–1791. By Dale K. Van Kley. The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. By Geoffrey Wawro. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Edited by Paul G. Bahn. Fins de siècles: How Centuries End, 1400–2000. Edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman. Railways. [Studies in Transport History Series]. Volume I, edited by Terri Gourvish; volume II, edited by Geoffrey Channon. Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation. By R. C. Finucane.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone : 740–368–3642 Fax : 740–368–3643 Recent Prize ‐Winning Books in History : Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. Women of the Anti‐Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters. By Clare Taylor. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. Africa and the Middle East : Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Edited by Stanley Burstein. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000B.C.‐A.D. 400. By Christopher Ehret. The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Oazdaglis. By Jane Hathaway. God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam. By Peter Partner. The Americas : America Views the Holocaust, 1933–1945: A Brief Documentary History. By Robert H. Abzug. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. By Loren Baritz. The Roots of African‐American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities. By Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. By W. Jeffrey Bolster. The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. By Bruce Chadwick. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876–1926. By Steven Conn. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920. By Perry R. Duis. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson. By Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. By Lawrence Otis Graham. 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Book Reviews in this articles: The Classical Age of Greece. By N. G. L. Hammond. Early Rome and the Etruscans. By Robert M. Ogilvie. Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny. By Stanley F. Bonner. The Church in Italy in the Fifteenth Centnny: The Birkbeck Lectures, 1971. By Denys Hay. The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540–1605. By Paul F. Grendler. Life in Renaissance France. Edited and translated by Marian Rothstein. European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century. [Volume VIII of The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History.] Edited, with an introductory chapter, by David Spring. The Age of the Masses: Ideas and Society in Europe since 1870. By Michael D. Biddiss. English Politics and the American Revolution. By John Derry. Early Victorian Government 1830–1870. By Oliver MacDonagh. The Gentry: The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class. By Gordon E. Mingay. The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870–1914. Edited by Geoffrey Crossick. British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Grey. Edited by Francis H. Hinsley. Interwar Britain: A Social and Economic History. By Sean Glynn and John Oxborrow. Nationalism and Socialism in Twentieth-Century Ireland. By Erhard Rumpf and Anthony C. Hepburn. Foreword by Basil Chubb. France 1870–1914: Politics and Society. By Robert David Anderson. French Imperialism in the Middle East: The Failure of Policy in Syria and Lebanon, 1900–1914. By William I. Shorrock. The FLN in Algeria: Party Development in a Revolutionary Society. By Henry Jackson. Economic Interest, Militarism, and Foreign Policy: Essays on German History. By Eckart Kehr. Edited with an introduction by Gordon A. Craig. Translated by Grete Heinz. Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich. By Alan D. Beyerchen. Inside East Germany: The State that Came in from the Cold. By Jonathan Steele. Poland and the Coming of the Second World War. The Diplomatic Papers of A.J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., United States Ambassador to Poland, 1937–1939. Edited with an introduction by Philip V. Cannistraro, Edward D. Wynot, Jr., and Theodore P. Kovaleff. Orthodoxy and Nationality: Andreiu Saguna and the Rumanians of Transylvania, 1848–1873. By Keith Hitchins. Tradition versus Revolution: Russia and the Balkans in 1917. By Robert H. Johnston. The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938. By Alvin D. Coox, with a foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer. Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. Edited with an introduction by Robert C. Tucker. Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World. By Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. Egypt 1798–1952. By J.C.B. Richmond. Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa. By Frederick Cooper. The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays. Edited by Martin L. Kilson and Robert I. Rotberg. Japan in the Muromachi Age. Edited by John Whitney Hall and Toyoda Takeshi. Contemporary Australia. 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Book reviwed in this article What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? By Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn Jr. Reflections on History and Historians. By Theodore S. Hamerow. Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History. By John McDonald and G. D. Snooks. Anatomy of a Crusade: 1213–1221. By James M. Powell. Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier. [The Middle Ages Series.] By James William Brodman. Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and. the Image, 1100–1500. By Lynette R. Muir. Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the History of Tudor Government and Administration. Edited by Christopher Coleman and David Starkey. Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560–1640. By A. L. Beier. The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London. By Harold J. Cook. Schemes & Undertakings: A Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century. By Clayton Roberts. Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London. By Paul S. Seaver. The English Atlantic, 1675–1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community. By Ian K. Steele. Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. By Robert C. Ritchie. Lord Grenville: 1759–1834. By Peter Jupp. A Mid-Victorian Feminist, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. By Sheila R. Herstein. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760–1930. By Gail Malmgreen The Transformation of Britain, 1830–1939. [Vol. 5 of The Making of Britain, 1066–1939. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft.] By G. E. Mingay. Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica. By Bernard Semmel. Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England. By George L. Bernstein. Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1929–1941. By Daniel Silverfarb. The d'Aligres de la Rivière: Servants of the Bourbon State in the Seventeenth Century. By D. J. Sturdy. Mortal Politics in Eighteenth-Century France. By George Armstrong Kelly. France 1789–1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution. By D. M. G. Sutherland. Society, Theory and the French Revolution: Studies in the Revolutionary Imaginary. By Brian C. J. Singer. Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832. By François Delaporte. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The Great War and the French People. By Jean-Jacques Becker. Town and Country under Fascism: The Transformation of Brescia, 1915–1926. By Alice A. Kelikian. Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma. By Robert Asprey. American Money and the Weimar Republic: Economics and Politics on the Eve of the Great Depression. By William C. McNeil. Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany. By Allan Merson. Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna. By Edward Timms. Poland, the United States, and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919–1933. By Neal Pease. Industrialization and Social Inequality in 19th-Century Europe. By Hartmut Kaelble. Translated by Bruce Little. Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambou. By Steven L. Hoch. Russia Against Japan, 1904–1905: A New Look at the Russo-Japanese War. By J. N. Westwood. Liberty and Power, 1600–1760. [Vol. 1 of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present.] By Oscar and Lilian Handlin. Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. By James A. Ramage. Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America. By Dale T. Knoble. Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861–1890. By Joe M. Richardson. Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston. The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism. By Richard Drinnon. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. By Michael S. Sherry. Agricultural Legacies: Essays in Honor of Gilbert C. Fite. Edited by R. Alton Lee. Divided Counsel: The Anglo-American Response to Communist Victory in China. By Edwin W. Martin. Essays on the Mexican War. [Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, No. 20.] Edited by Douglas W. Richmond. Populism In the Mountain West. By Robert W. Larson. American Frontier and Western Issues: A Historiographical Review. Edited by Roger L. Nichols. Trails South: The Wagon Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region. By C. Robert Haywood. Wolf and the Winds. By Frank Bird Linderman. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. By Robert Hughes. To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550–1888. By Katia M. de Queirós Mattoso. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. By Robert Edgar Conrad. Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904–1981. By Michael L. Conniff.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Origins of France from Clovis to the Capetians, 500–1000. By Edward James. Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages. By Pauline Stafford. Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe, A.D. 700–1100. By P. H. Sawyer. The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By Brian Stock. The Industrialization of the Continental Powers, 1780–1914. By Clive Trebilcork. International Banking in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Karl Erich Born. Translated by Volker Berghahn. Variations in Business and Economic History: Essays in Honor of Donald L. Kemmerer. Research in Economic History, Supplement 2. Edited by Bruce R. Dalgaard and Richard K. Vedder. The Rise of the International Organisation: A Short History. By David Armstrong. Essays On World War I: Origins and Prisoners of War. Edited by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., and Peter Pastor. The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By Ian B. Cowan. English Radicals and Reformers, 1760–1848. By Edward Royle and James Walvin. A Great and Necessary Measure. George Grenville and the Genesis of the stamp A ct, 1763–1765. By John L. Bullion. Wars and Revolutions, Britain, 1760–1815. By Ian R. Christie. The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England. By T. W. Heyck. Patricians, Power, and Politics in Nineteenth Century Towns. Edited by David Cannadine. French War Aims Against Germany, 1914–1919. By D. Stevenson. De Gaulle. By Bernard Ledwidge. Essays on Culture and Society in Modern Germany. Edited by Gary D. Stark and Bede Karl Lackner. Secondary School Reform in Imperial Germany. By James C. Albisetti. Little Man, What Now? Der Stürmer in the Weimar Republic. By Dennis E. Showalter. Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia. By Barbara Alpern Engel. Vera Zasulich: A Biography. By Jay Bergman. Australia and Britain: Studies in a Changing Relationship. Edited by A. F. Madden and W. H. Morris-Jones with a Foreward by Sir Kenneth Wheare. Testing The Chains. Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. By Michael Craton. The Chia-ting Loyalists: Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. By Jerry Dennerline. Missionary Journalist in China: Young J. Allen and his Magazines, 1860–1883. By Adrian A. Bennett. Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China 1860–1936. By Sue Gronewald. No. 1 of Women & History, Spring 1982. China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World. By Ralph Thaxton. Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town. By James L. MrClain. General John Burgoyne. By Richard J. Hargrove, Jr. Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty. Edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District: The Trial of Rhoda Bement. By Glenn C. Altschuler and Jan M. Saltzgaber. Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607–1980. By David R. Goldfield. Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. By Lawrence J. Friedman. Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832. By Alison Goodyear Freehling. The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era. By Phyllis F. Field. The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. By Catherine Clinton. God and General Longstreet. The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind. By Thomas L. Connelly and Barbara L. Bellows. John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. By Richard M. McMuw. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia; A Splendid Failure. By Edmund L. Drago. Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa: 1877–1900. By Walter L. Williams. A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890–1965. By John A. Salmond. Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Edited by Elizabeth Jacoway and David R. Colburn (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. x, 324. $27.50.) The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830–1860. By Mary P. Ryan. Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920. By Mari Jo Buhle. Flawed Liberation: Socialism and Feminism. Edited, with an introduction and commentary, by Sally M. Miller. Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. By Bettina Aptheker. Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition, 1919–1921. By Alfred E. Cornebise. The Great Kansas Bond Scandal. By Robert Smith Bader. The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. By Margaret Walsh. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination From A Historian's Perspective. By Michael L. Kurtz. Tucson: Life and Times of an American City. By C. L. Sonnichsen. Albuquerque: A Narrative History. By Marc Simmons.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Past Recaptured. Great Historians and the History of History. By M. A. Fitzsimons. The Ideal City: Its Architectural Evolution in Europe. By Helen Rosenau. Third Edition. Roman Gaul: The Three Provinces, 58 B.C.-A.D. 260. By J. F. Drinkwater. Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe A.D. 400–700. By Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. City, Town, and Countyside in the Early Byzantine Era. [East European Monogaphs, CXX; Ryzantine Series, No. 1]. Edited by Robert L. Hohlfelder. Rupert of Deutz. By John H. Van Engen. The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under Queen Urraca, 1109–1126. By Bernard F. Reilly. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children from the Thirteenth Century. By Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by M. Thom. Seven-Headed Luther: Essays in Commemoration of a Quincentenary 1483–1983. Edited by Peter Newman Brooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.) Paolo Sarpi Between Renaissance and Enlightenment. By David Wootton. Maximilian I (1459–1519): An Analytical Biography. By Gerhard Benecke. Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. By Retha M. Warnicke. Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution: A Geography of the Yorkshire Woollen Industry. By Derek Gregory. Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. By J. A. W. Gunn. Britain, Europe and The World 1850–1982; Delusions of Grandeur. By Bernard Porter. Thomas Carlyle: A Biography. By Fred Kaplan. Man of Wars: William Howard Russell of The Times. By Alan Hankinson. Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz, and David Sutton, with a foreward by Mary Jo Maynes. The French Council of Commerce 1700–1715: A Study of Mercantilism after Colbert. By Thomas J. Schaeper. Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, France and Algeria 1784–1849. Politics, Power and the Good Society. By Antony Thrall Sullivan. The Well-ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600–1800. By Marc Raeff. Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism. By Peter D. Stachura. The Nazi Machtergrezfung. Edited by Peter D. Stachura. Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933–1945. By Ian Kershaw. Nazi Propaganda: The Power and the Limitations. Edited by David Welth. Explaining Hitler's Germany: Historians and the Third Reich. By John Hiden and John Farquharson. The Balkan City, 1400–1900. By Nikolai Todorov. Society in Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király. The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union: Economic Development in Austria-Hungary in the Nineteenth Century. By John Komlos. The Effects of World War I: The Class War after the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties an East Central Europe, 1918–1921. Warsaw Between the World Wars: Profile of the Capital City in a Developing Land, 1918–1939. By Edward D. Wynot, Jr. Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–1918. By S. A. Smith. The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550–1650. By I. Metin Kunt. The Afghan Connection: The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger. By George Pottinger. Peasant Movements in India, 1920–1950. By D. N. Dhanagare. Monopolists and Freebooters. The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941. Edited by James William Morley. The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960. Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: A Historical Analysis. By Richard C. Berner. Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade. Edited by Paul Edwards and James Walvin. Renato Beluche: Smuggler, Privateer, and Patriot. By Jane Lucas De Grummond. Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. The Games They Played: Sports in American History, 1845–1980. By Douglas A. Noverr and Lawrence Ziewacz. Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. By Leon Fink. The End of Arcadia: Gordon Browning and Tennessee Politics. By William R. Majors. American Profile, 1900–1909. By Edward Wagenknecht. Brandeis. By Lewis J. Paper. Crossroads of Decision: The State Department and Foreign Policy, 1933–1937. By Howard Jablon. G-Men: Homer's FBI in American Popular Culture. By Richard Gid Powers. The Limits of Liberalism. By Larry G. Gerber. Urban Workers and Labor Unions in Chile, 1902–1927. By Peter De Shazo.     

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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.