Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Medieval Concepts of the Past. Ritual, Memory and Historiography. Edited by Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried and Patrick J. Geary.
Filattiera-Sorano: L'insediamento di età romana e tardoantica. Scavi 1986–1995. Edited by Enrico Giannichedda.
S. Antonino. Un insediamento fortificato nella Liguria bizantina. Edited by Tiziano Mannoni and Giovanni Murialdo.
Das Empfangszeremoniell bei mittelalterlichen Papst-Kaiser-Treffen. By Achim Thomas Hack.
A Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages. Slaves and their Families in Early Medieval Bavaria. By Carl I. Hammer.
Ludwig der Deutsche. By Wilfried Hartmann.
The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature. An Anthology of Criticism. Edited by Jonathan M. Wooding.     

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.     

Living with the past: the historic environment

Book revieved in this article:
Living with the past: the historic environment DAVID BAKER
Watching the seaside. Essays on maritime anthropology A. H. J. PRINS
Yorktown's captive fleet JOHN O. SANDS
Merchant Sailing ships 1815–1850-Supremacy of sail, DAVID R. MAcGREGOR
A history of naval architecture JOHN FINCHAM     

Reviews

British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650–1859, DAVID J. HEPPER
'De Zeehond', een Groninger Tjalk Gebouwd in 1878, Vergaan in 1886 (in Dutch with an English summary) R. OOSTING and K. VLIERMAN
Archeologia Subacquea, Studi, Ricerche e Documenti, 1 PIER0 GIANFROTTA and PAOLA PELAGATTI (Eds)
I Vikingernes Kelvand (in Danish) SOREN VADSTRUP
Medieval Boat and Ship Timbers from Dublin, SEAN MCGRAIL
Tall Ships, Two Rivers, A. OSLER and A. BARROW
The Wreck Diver's Guide to Sailing Ship Artifacts of the 19th Century, DAVID LEIGH STONE
Sail's Last Century-The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830–1930 (no 8 in Conway's 'History of the BASIL GREENHILL Ship' series)
The History of the French Frigate 1650–1850 JEAN BOUDRIOT, trans. DAVID H. ROBERTS
The first Frigates: Nine-Pounder and Twelve-Pounder Frigates 1748–1815 ROBERT GARDINER
Mersey Flats and Flatmen MICHAEL STAMMERS
Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly, RICHARD LARN     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
A Gallo-Roman Trading Vessel from Guernsey: The Excavation and Recovery of a Third Century Shipwreck, MARGARET RULE and JASON MONAGHAN
The Piraeus, ROBERT GARLAND
The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650–1840 ROBERT GARDINER (Ed.)
Catching the Tide—The Status and Future of Maritime Collections in North East Museums ALISON GALE
The Advent of Steam—The Merchant Steamship before 1900 BASIL GREENHILL (Ed.)
The Tudor Navy. An Administrative Political and Military History DAVID LOADES
Arte de Fabncar Reales
The Studland Bay Wreck—A Spanish Shipwreck off the Dorset Coast LILIAN LADLE     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000–1650 (History of the Ship Series). RICHARD W. UNGER (Ed.)
The Årby Boat. CARL OLOF CEDERLUND (Ed.)
Medieval Ships and Shipping (No. 3 in The Archaeology of Medieval Britain series). GILLIAN HUTCHINSON
Crossroads in Ancient Shipbuilding: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 1991 (Oxbow Monograph 40). C. WESTERDAHL (Ed.)
Archaeonautica 11: L'épave D'Omonville-la-rouge (Manche) (pp 31–129). J. GUESNON
Zes Vatem Rundvlees mit het Scheepswrak Scheurrak S01 . J. T. ZEILER     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in This Article:
Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948.
State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise.
Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Charles Butterworth.
The Encyclopædia of Islam.
The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations.
Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization.
Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640.
Domains of Fear and Desire.
Islam, Democracy, the State and the West: A Round Table with Dr.     asan Turābī.
The Arab World: Society, Culture and State.
Islamic Resurgence: Challenges, Directions and Future Perspectives. A Round Table with Kurshid Ahmad.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Reform and Revival: English Government in Ireland 1470–1534. By Steven G. Ellis.
Anti-Calvinists.: The Rise of English Arminianism 1590–1640. By Nicholas Tyacke.
Archbishop William Laud. By Charles Carlton.
Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660. By Ann Hughes.
Soldiers and Statesmen: The General Council of the Army and its Debates, 1647–1648. By Austin Woolrych.
London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis. By Tim Harris.
John Locke's Liberalism. By Ruth W. Grant.
The Political Philosophy of Edmund Burke. By Iain Hampsher-Monk.
Liberal Anglican Politics: Whiggery, Religion and Reform 1830–1841. By Richard Brent.
Peel and the Victorians. By Donald Read.
Politics and the Churches in Great Britain 1869 to 1921. By G. I. T. Machin.
Corruption in British Politics 1895–1930. By G. R. Searle.
Éamon de Valera. By Owen Dudley Edwards.
Road to Victory: Winston S. Churchill 1941–1945. By Martin Gilbert.
The First Thatcher Government 1979–83: Contemporary Conservatism and Economic Change. By Martin Holmes.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article:
The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic.
Jordan in the 1967 War.
Generals In Politics: Pakistan, 1958–1982.
The Middle East Remembered.
Middle East and Islam; A Bibliographical Introduction Supplement 1977–1983.
Kitāb Tathqīf al-Ta'f bi'l-Mu     tala     al-Sarīf par Taqī al-Dīn 'Abd al-Ra     mān b. Mu     ibb al-Dīn Mu     ammad al-mad al-     alabī appelé Ibn Nāir al-ayš.
Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (3rd Century A. H./9th Century A. D.5th Century A. H./llth Century A. D.)
Iraq After the Muslim Conquest.
Mysticism and Dissent. Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Inn.
Religious Ecstasy.
Eschatological Themes in the Qu'n.
How to Understand Islam.
Dynamics of Urban Life in Pre-Mughal India.
Agricultural, Industrial and Urban Dynamism under the Sultsas of Delhi 1206–1555.
Islam: Politics and Religion in the Muslim World.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Tudor Ireland: Crown, Community and the Conflict of Cultures 1470–1603. By Steven G. Ellis.
The Reign of Elizabeth I . Edited by Christopher Haigh.
The Road to Revolution: Scotland under Charles I, 1625–37. By Maurice Lee, jr.
Dangerous Positions: Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the 'Answer to the XIX Propositions'. By Michael Mendle.
The Jewish Community in British Politics. By Geoffrey Alderman.
The Cross of Saint Patrick: The Catholic Unionist Tradition in Ireland. By John Biggs-Davison and George Chowdharay-Best.
English Society 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Regime. (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics). By J. C. D. Clark.
Goodwin Wharton. By J. Kent Clark.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue. By John Robertson.
Lord Grenville 1759–1834. By Peter Jupp.
Henry Brougham: His Public Career 1778–1868. By Robert Stewart.
The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics. By Bruce L. Kinzer.
'Orator Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism. By John Belchem.
Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O'Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy 1820–30. By Fergus O'Ferrall.
Gladstone, Politics and Religion: A Collection of Founder's Day Lectures Delivered at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 1967–83. Edited by Peter J. Jagger.
The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone. By Marvin Swartz.
Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics. By David Dutton.
The First Labour Party 1906–14. Edited by K. D. Brown.
Victor Grayson: Labour's Lost Leader. By David Clark.
Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912–1916. By John Grigg.
The Changing Constitution: Edited by Jeffrey Jowell and Dawn Oliver.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Royal Mace in the House of Commons. By Peter Thorne.
The Mental World of the Jacobean Court. Edited by Linda Levy Peck.
Prelate as Pastor. By Kenneth Fincham.
An Uncounselled King. Charles I and the Scottish Troubles, 1637–1641. By Peter Donald.
English Conservatism Since the Restoration: An Introduction and Anthology. By Robert Eccleshall.
Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677–1683. By Jonathan Scott.
Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680–1730. By David Lemmings.
Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth Century England. By Jeremy Black.
'Organise !Organise! Organise!': A Study of Reform Agitations in Wales, 1840–1886. By Ryland Wallace.
Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850–1930. By Stefan Collini.
A Different World for Women. The Life of Millicent Garret Fawcett. By David Rubinstein.
Lloyd George. By Stephen Constantine.
Herbert Samuel: A Political Life. By Bernard Wasserstein.
Private Members' Bills. By David Marsh and Melvyn Read.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Mystical Teachings of al-Shādhill: Including His Life Prayers, Letters, and Followers. A Translation from the Arabic of Ibn al-Sabbagh's Durrat al-Asrar wa Tuhfat al-Abrar by Elmer H. Douglas. Edited with an Introduction and a Bibliography by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabī.
Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals of the Heart. Translated and Annotated by Bruce B.
Traditional Islam in the Modern World. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Islam: An Introduction. By Annemarie Schimmel.
Al-Damurdāshl's Chronicle of Egypt. 1685–1755: al-Durra al-musana fī akhbār al-kināna. Translated and annotated by Daniel Crecelius and 'bd al-Wahhāb Bakr.
The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Shi ' as. By Joyce N. Wiley.
Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini. By H. E. Chehabi.
Iran's First Revolution: Shi ' ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1906. By Mangol Bayat.
Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution. By David Menashri.
The Modern Uzbeks from the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History. By Edward A.
Religion, Learning and Science in the ' Abbasid Period. Edited by M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham and R. B. Serjeant.
The Ismā ' ilīs: Their history and doctrines. By Farhad Daftary.
' Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ' bbāsid Age. By Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Images of Paradise in Islamic Art. Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs. By Zeynep çelik.
Islamic Art. By Barbara Brend.
Turkish Nationalism in the Young Turk Era. By Masam Arai.
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. By Robert Olson.
Islam and the Economic Challenge. By Muhammad Umer Chapra.
Palestinian Universities Under Occupation. By Anthony Thrall Sullivan.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families iri Sussex 1280–1400 . By Nigcl Saul.
Parliament and the Crown in the Reign of Mary Tudor . By Jennifer Loach.
Mary Stewart, Queen in Three Kingdoms . Edited by Michael Lynch
The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626–1628 . By Richard Cust.
Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 . By W. A. Speck.
A Kingdom without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688 . Edited by Robert Beddard.
A Parliamentary History of the Glorious Revolution . Edited by David Lcwis Jones.
War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough . By D. W. Jones.
Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of state and Premier Minister . By Brian W. Hill.
London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole. A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press . By Michael Harris.
Lord Bute: Essays in Reinterpretation . Edited by Karl W. Schweizer.
Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801–1900 Edited by Petcr Cockton.
Patronage and Principle: A Political History of Modern Scotland . By Michael Fry.
Party and Politics, 1830–1852 . By Robert Stewart.
Later Victorian Britain 1867–1900 . Edited by T. R. Gourvish and Alan O'Day.
Florence Arnold-Forster's Irish Journal . Edited by T. W. Moody and R. A. J. Hawkins
The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice 1868–1918 . By Michael Bentley.
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln . By Bernard Wasserstein.
The House of Lords . By Donald Shell.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue:
Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape . Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan (eds)
Beyond the Regulation Approach. Putting the Capitalist Economies in Their Place . Bob Jessop and Sum Ngai-Ling.
Migration in the New Europe: East–West Revisited. Agata Gorny and Paolo Ruspini.
Presenting America's World: Strategies of Innocence in National Geographic Magazine 1888—1945. Tamar Y. Rothenberg.
Talking About Sydney: Population, Community, and Culture in Contemporary Sydney . Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Caroline Butler-Bowden.
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things. Scott Lash and Celia Lury.
Race and the Crisis of Humanism. Kay Anderson.
The Power of Place: Existential Crises and Place Security in the Context of Pregnancy. Margareta Rämgård.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
'Observations, Rules and Orders of the House of Commons': An Early Procedural Collection. Edited by W. R. McKay.
Clerks in the House of Commons 1363–1989: A Biographical List. By W. R. McKay.
English Politics in the Thirteenth Century. By Michael Prestwich.
The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272–1461. By A. L. Brown.
Mary Tudor: A Life. By David Loades.
Elizabeth I. By Christopher Haigh.
The Writings of William Walwyn. Edited by Jack R. McMichael and Barbara Taft.
The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661–1667. By Paul Seaward.
Letters of George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1698–1732 . Edited by Daniel Szechi.
An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750. By George R. Boyer.
Government and Expertise: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 1860–1919. Edited by Roy MacLeod.
Katharine Atholl 1874–1960: Against the Tide . By S. J. Hetherington.
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. By David Cannadine.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Shipwreck Index of the British Isles: Volume 1 — Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset (Edition limited to 1000 of 10-volume series) RICHARD & BRIDGET LARN
Old Ironsides—The Rise, Decline & Resurrection of the USS Constitution THOMAS C. GILLMER; illustrations WILLIAM GILKERSON
The Sailing Navy List: all the Ships of the Royal Navy Built, Purchased and Captured, 1688–1860 DAVID LYON
Captain Cook's Endeavour (Conway's Anatomy of the Ship series) KARL HEINZ MARQUARDT
Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500–1860 JAN GLETE
Östersjöns Sjunkna Skepp. En Marinarkeologisk Tidsresa JOHAN RÖNNBY and JONATHAN ADAMS
Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models RON MCCARTHY
The Foundry: Excavations on Poole Waterfront 1986/7 DAVID R. WATKINS
Versunken in der Ostsee—Schiffe und Schätze auf dem Meeresgrund GÜNTER LANITZKI     

Reviews

Vikingetidens segling och navigating (Sailing and navigation during the Viking era), SIBYLLA HAASUM
Full fathom five: Wrecks of the Spanish Armada, COLIN MARTIN
Bateaux des cotes de France, FRANCOIS BEAUDOUIN
Vintage boats, JOHN LEWIS
Dictionary of tools used in the wood-working and allied trades c. 1700-1970 R. A. SALAMAN
Archeologia subaquea, RUGGERO BATTAGLIA
Hala Sultan Tekke The Cape Kiti Survey: an underwater archaeological survey
Underwater medicine S. MILES and D. E. MacKAY
Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology, J. E. DORAN and F. R. HODSON     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Understanding the Cultural Landscape . Wallach, Bret.
City of Flows. Modernity, Nature and the City . Kaika, Maria.
Talking About Sydney: Population, Community, and Culture in Contemporary Sydney . Freestone, Robert; Randolph, Bill; Butler-Bowden, Caroline and Randolph, W. (eds).
Territory. A Short Introduction . Delaney, David .
Worlds of Food: Place, Power and Provenance in the Food Chain . Morgan, Kevin; Marsden, Terry and Murdoch, Jonathan .
Urban Geography: A Global Perspective. Pacione, Michael.
For Space . Massey, Doreen.
Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains . Conte, Christopher A.
After the Three Italies. Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change . Dunford, Michael and Greco ,
Approaches to Human Geography . Aitken, Stuart and Valentine, Gill (eds).
Space Odysseys: Spatiality and Social Relations in the 21st Century. Bcerenholdt, Jörgen Ole and Simonsen, Kirsten (eds).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo. By Arlene Elowe Macleod.
The Patriarchal Paradox. Women Politicians in Turkey. By Yesim Arat.
The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century. By Resat Kasaba
Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics. By John P. Entelis
Pakistan: Transition from Military to Civilian Rule. By Golam W. Choudhury.
Religion and Property in Northern Nigeria. By Lissi Rasmussen.
Domestic Life in Palestine. By Mary Eliza Rogers.
Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales. By Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana.
Islam: The Way of Submission. By Solomon Nigosian.
The Essential Teachings of Islam: Daily Readings from the Sacred Texts. Edited by Kerry Brown and Martin Palmer.
Islam: State and Society. Edited by Klaus Ferdinand and Mehdi Mozaffari.
Islam and World Peace: explanations of a Sufi. By M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.
Our Philosophy. By Allama Muhammed Baqir As-Sadr. Trans, by Shams C.
A Muslim Philosopher on the Soul and Its Fate: Al-'Āmirīs Kitāb al-Amad. 'lā l-abad. Introduction, translation, and notes by Everett K. Rowson.
Islam, Guerilla War, And Revolution-A Study in Comparative Social History. By Haim Gerber.