Richard Nixon and the Failed War Against the Trading World

Books reviewed:
Foreign Relations of the United States , 1969 – 1976, vol. 3: Foreign Economic Policy , 1969 – 1972; International Monetary Policy , 1969 – 1972.     

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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Predestination, Policy and Polemic: Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War. By Peter White
The Diary of Sir Richard Hutton 1614–1639. Edited by W. R. Prest
Stilling the Grumbling Hive. The Response to Social and Economic Problems in England 1689–1750. Edited by Lee Davison, Tim Hitchcock, Tim Keirn and Robert B. Shoemaker
Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution 1773–1776. By P. D. G. Thomas
The Letter-Journal of George Canning 1793–1795. Edited by Peter Jupp
The Protestant Crusade in Great Britain 1829–1860. By John Wolffe
The Town Plans of the 1832 Reform Act.
The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858–1865. Edited by T. A. Jenkins
Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860–1880. By Eugenio F. Biagini
A Moralist In and Out of Parliament … John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865–1868. By Bruce L. Kinzer, Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson
The Age of Disraeli 1868–1881: The Rise of Tory Demorcacy. By Richard Shannon
Strategie del Conservatorismo Britannico nella Crisi del Liberalismo. 'National Party of Common Sense' (1885–1892). By Fulvio Cammarano
The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party. By Lewis Minkin     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
M ichael P. C arroll The Cult of the Virgin Mary
S hery L. R eamies : The Legenda Aurea: A Reexamination of its Paradoxical History
J ohanna B roda , D aviad C arrasco and E duardo M atos M octezuma : The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery in the Aztec World
P eter L ake and M aria D owling (eds): Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England
P atrick C ollinson : The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559–1625, being the Ford Lectures for 1979
D avid H empton : Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850
R obert C olls : The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield; Work, culture and Portest, 1790–1850
D eborah M. V alaence : Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England
J ohn H osie : Challenge: The Marists in Colonial Australia
S tuart P iggin : Faith of Steel: A History of theChristian Churches in Illawarra, Australia
L ogie B arrow : Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850–1910
M arie P eters : Christchurch-St Michael's: A Study in Anglicanism in New Zealand 1851–1972
R obert E. S ullivan and J ames M. O'T oole (eds): Catholic Boston: Studies in Religion and Community, 1870–1970
M argaret H ope B acon : Let This Life Speak- The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury
J ohn F. P ollard : The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929–32: A Study in Conflict
J ames B entley : Martin Niemöller
A ndrew M ichael M anis : Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Black and White Baptists and Civil Rights, 1947–1957     

Reviews

Book review in this Article
E rnest L. M artin : The Birth of Christ Recalculated.
H. M. T eepl E: The Noah's Ark Nonsense.
R. M. O gilvi E: The Library of Lactantius.
A lan Y oung : William Cumin: Border Politics and the Bishopric of Durham, 1141–1144
R oy M artin H aines : The Church and Politics in Fourteenth-Century England: The Career of Adam Orleton, c. 1275–1345
R obert S auzet : Contre-Réforme et reforme catholique en Bas-Languedoc: Le diocèse de Nimes au XVIIe siècle
H. C. P orter : The Inconstant Savage: England and the North American Indian, 1500–1660.
M artin K ing W hyte : The Status of Women in Pre-Industrial Societies.
O wen C hadwick : The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century.
G eoffrey S tephens : The Hutchins School: Macquarie Street Years, 1846–1965.
W illiam N icolle O ats : The Rose and the Waratah: The Friends'School, Hobart. Formation and Development, 1832–1945.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America.
The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937.
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.
Peter Lombard.
Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929–1987.
A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present.
Carthage, A History.
From Civilization to Segregation: Social ldeals and Social Control in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1934
The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee.
Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, His Second Lqe, 1862–1891.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536–1588. By Ciaran Brady.
Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. By Michael P. Zuckert.
Lords of the Ascendancy. The Irish House of Lords and its Members 1600–1800. By Francis G. James.
Oliver Cromwell. By Peter Gaunt.
British Parliamentary Lists, 1660–1800. A Register. Edited by G. M. Ditchfield, David Hayton and Clyve Jones.
The Suffolk Poll Book 1710. (Raymonds Original Poll Books.) Exeter: S. A. and M. J. Raymond.
The Suffolk Poll Book 1790. (Raymonds Original Poll Books.) Exeter: S. A. and M. J. Raymond.
Lords of Parliament. Studies, 1714–1914. Edited by R. W. Davis.
The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785. By Kathleen Wilson.
British 'Non-Elite' MPs, 1715–1820. By Ian R. Christie.
The Patriot Opposition to Walpole. Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725–1742. By Christine Gerrard.
The Birth of Romantic Radicalism: War, Popular Politics and English Radical Reformism 1800–15. By Peter Spence.
Henry Brougham and his World: A Biography. By Trowbridge H. Ford.
Modern Wales. Politics, Places and People. By Kenneth O. Morgan.
The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830–1886. By T. A. Jenkins.
A Selection from the Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) between September 1869 and March 1878. Edited by John Vincent.
The Age of Upheaval. Edwardian Politics 1899–1914. By David Brooks.
A Lonely Grave: The Life and Death of William Redmond. By Terence Denman.
Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940–1941. By Sheila Lawlor.
England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in the 1940s. By Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo.     

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:
'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:
From Reformation to Improvement. Public Welfare in Early Modern England. By Paul Slack.
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1585–1597. By Paul E.J. Hammer.
The Stuart Parliaments 1603–1689 . By David L. Smith.
World Enough and Time. The Life of Andrew Marv dl. By Nicholas Murray.
The Age of Faction. Court Politics, 1660–1102. By Alan Marshall.
Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England . By Melinda Zook.
Eighteenth Scotland. New Perspectives . Edited by T.M. Devine and J.R. Young
Unionist-Nationalism. Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–60 . By Graeme Morton.
An Appetite for Power. A History of the Conservative Party Since 1830 . By John Ramsden.
Gladstone. Heroic Minister 1865–1898 . By Richard Shannon.
Salisbury. Victorian Titan . By Andrew Roberts.
The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878–1948 . By John Macnicol.
Churchill. His Radical Decade . By Malcolm Hill.
Bonar Law . By R.J.Q. Adams. London: John Murray.
The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage, Popular Conservatism, 1919–1929 . By Neal McCrillis.
Labour in Crisis. The Second Labour Government 1929–1931 . By Neil Riddell.
Thatcherism and British Politics 1975–1999 . By Brendan Evans.
British Parliamentary Election Results 1983–1997 . Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher
Governing Scotland: Problems and Prospects. The Economic Impact of the Scottish Parliament . Edited by John McCarthy and David Newlands     

Reviews

Reviews in this article
M alcolm B arber : The Trial of the Templars.
R obert K olb : Nikolaus von Amsdorf (1483–1565): Popular in the Preservation of Luther's Legacy
M urray T olmie : The Triumph of the Saints: The Separate Churches of London 1616–1649.
J ohn H. P ruett : The Parish Clergy Under the Later Stuarts: The Leicestershire Experience.
A nthony R hodes : The Vatican in the Age of the Dictators, 1922–1945.
M ichael C harles H ogan : The Catholic Campaign for State Aid: A Study of a Pressure Group Campaign in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, 1950–1972
V assilis G. V itsaxis : Hindu Epics, Myths and Legends in Popular illustrations.
W. O wen C ole and P iara S ingh S ambhi : The Sikhs. Their Religious Beliefs and Practices.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Nigel Baker and Richard Holt, Urban Growth and the Medieval Church: Gloucester and Worcester.
Ann Christys, Christians in al-Andalus (711–1000).
Nicholas Everett, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568–774.
Guy Halsall, Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450–900.
Richard J. Kelly, The Blickling Homilies: Edition and Translation.
Penny MacGeorge, Late Roman Warlords.
Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art.     

The United States and the Final Years of White Rule in Zimbabwe

Books reviewed in this article:
Gerald Horne, From the Barrel of a Gem: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe 1965–1980
Andrew DeRoche, Black, White, and Chrome: The United States and Zimbabwe, 1953–1998     

German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781–1801 by Freerick C. Beiser and German Philosophy, 1760–1860: THE LEGACY OF IDEALISM by Terry Pinkard

G erman I dealism : T he S truggle A gainst S ubjectivism , 1781–1801.
G erman P hilosophy , 1760–1860: THE LEGACY OF IDEALISM. By Terry Pinkard.     

History of Russian-U.S. Relations, 1867–1921

Books reviewed in this article:
Norman E. Saul, Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867–1914
Norman E. Saul, War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921     

New Interpretations of Early Modern England

Reformation and Revolution 1558–1660. By Robert Ashton. (The Paladin History of England.) London: Granada. 1984. xx, 503 pp. £18.00.
Authority and Conflict: England 1603–1658. By Derek Hirst. (The New History of England, Volume 4.) London: Edward Arnold. 1986. viii, 390 pp. Hardback £27.50; paperback £9.95.
The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529–1660. By Alan G.R. Smith. (Foundations of Modern Britain.) London: Longman. 1984. xiii, 479 pp. Paperback £8.50.     

"The Big and the Small of it" Perspectives in Latin American-U.S.Relations

Linda B. Hall. OIL, banks, and Politics: The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917–1924
Thomas F. O'brien. The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945     

Ostpolitik or Westpolitik? British Foreign Policy, 1968–75

Works reviewed:
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume I: Britain and the Soviet Union, 1968–1972
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume II: The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1972–1975     

Before History Had an End: Soviet-American Relations, 1941–1947

Edward M. Bennett. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939–1945 .
James L. Gormly. From Potsdam to the Cold War: Big Three Diplomacy, 1945–1947 .     

A Review, Comparison, and Evaluation of Some State & Local Data Handbooks

Bureau of the Census, 1972 Census of Governments
Bureau of the Census, Local Government Finances in Selected Metropolitan Areas and Large Counties: 1974–75
Bureau of the Census, City Government Finances in 1974–75
International City Management Association, The Municipal Year-book, 1977
Paul Albright, ed., The Book of the States, 1976–77