REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Surviving the Tudors. The ‘Wizard’ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537–1586. By Vincent P. Carey. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2002. 240 pp. £39.38. ISBN 1851825495. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. By Stephen Alford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiv, 233 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0521660556. Parliament at Work. Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England. Edited by Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2002. xiv, 190 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0851158749. Parliament, Politics and Elections, 1604–1648. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. (Camden Society, 5th Series, Volume XVII). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. 355pp. £45.00. ISBN 0521802148. Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. House of Commons and the Strafford Trial. Volume 3: 22 March –17 April 1641. Edited by Maija Jansson, assisted by Jennifer Klein Morrison, Alison Plant and Shawn Smith. (The Yale Center for Parliamentary History.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2001. xxxvii, 608 pp. £ 90.00. ISBN 1580460895. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724–1741. Literary and Political Events in Georgian England. Edited, with commentary by Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston. 2002. xxii, 167 pp. £64.95. ISBN 0773472339. Women, Privilege, and Power. British Politics, 1750 to the Present. Edited by Amanda Vickery. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. x, 413 pp. £60.00. ISBN 0804742847. George III. An Essay on Monarchy. By G. M. Ditchfield. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. xi, 233 pp. £45.00. ISBN 03339 1962 9. Grattan. A Life. By R. B. McDowell. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. 2001. viii, 271 pp. £27.56. ISBN 1901 866726. Revolution, Counter‐Revolution and Union. Ireland in the 1790s. Edited by Jim Smyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii, 245 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521661099. Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914. By Martin Daunton. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii, 438 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521803721. Rational Choice and British Politics. An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair. By Iain McLean. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xiv, 256 pp. £40.00 hardback; £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 1982 95308; 0 1982 95294. Die radikale Herausforderung. Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen laendlicher Tradition und industrieller Modeme (1846–1868). By Andreas Roedder. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2002. 574 pp. £64.80. ISBN 3486566555. The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868. From Gentlemen to Players. By Michael Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii, 249 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 1982 75773. The Lancashire Working Classes c.1880–1930. By Trevor Griffiths. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xi, 390 pp. £ 55.00. ISBN 0 1992 47382. Socialist Women. By June Hannam and Karen Hunt. London: Routledge. 2002. viii, 232 pp. £17.99. ISBN 0415266394.     

Matthew's Gladstone

The Gladstone Diaries. Vol. XII. 1887–1891. Edited by H.C.G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994. Ixxxvii, 535 pp. ℒ65.00. ISBN 0198204639.
The Gladstone Diaries. Vol. XIII. 1892–1896. Edited by H.C.G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994. ix, 486 pp. ℒ65.00. ISBN 0198204647.
The Gladstone Diaries. Vol. XIV. Index. Edited by H.C.G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994. xv, 862, pp. ℒ65.00. ISBN 0198204655.
Gladstone, 1875–1898. By H.C.G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. xi, 421 pp. ℒ25.00. ISBN 0198204051.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles). By Pierre Bauduin. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen. 2004. 462 pp. EUR 30.00. ISBN 2 84133 145 8. Das monastische Experiment: die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens. By Albrecht Diem. Vita Regularis 24. Münster: LIT Verlag. 2005. x + 465 pp. EUR 39.90. ISBN 3 8258 8556 9. Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. By W?adys?aw Duczko. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2004. xii + 290 pp. + 78 ill. (including maps). $184.00. ISBN 90 04 13874 9. Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age. By Paul Edward Dutton. The New Middle Ages. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 2005. xvi + 279 pp. + 34 b/w ill. £40. ISBN 1 4039 6223 5. Politics and History in the Tenth Century. The Work and World of Richer of Reims. By Jason Glenn. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series 60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xviii + 330 pp. + 10 plates. £50. ISBN 0 521 83487 2. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims 919–966. Edited and translated by Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 9. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. [2004]. xxxvi + 120 pp. £8.99. ISBN 1 55111 650 2. Liber Eliensis: The History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth. Translated by Janet Fairweather. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xliv + 575 pp. £30. ISBN 1 84383 015 9. La géographie du pouvoir dans l’Espagne Visigothique. By Céline Martin. La collection Temps, Espace et Société«Histoire et Civilisations». Lille: Press Universitaires du Septentrion. 2003. 408 pp. EUR 23.50. ISBN 2 85939 815 5. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry. Edited by Gale R. Owen‐Crocker. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2005. xii + 202 pp. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 84383 124 4. Die Inszenierung religiöser Konfrontationen. Theorie und Praxis der Missionspredigt im frühen Mittelalter. By Lutz E. von Padberg. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 51. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 2003. xii + 528 pp. EUR 184. ISBN 3 7772 0324 6. Power and Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia. By Alexandra Sanmark. Uppsala: Occasional Papers in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. 2004. 322 pp. ISBN 91 506 1739 7. Barbarians, Marauders and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare. By Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, and Cumnor Hill, Oxford: Westview. 2004. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0 8133 9153. Herrschaft und Repräsentation: Studien zur Hofkultur König Alfreds des Groβen. By Anton Scharer. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsband 36. Vienna and Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2000. 151 pp. DM 66 paperback. ISBN 3 7029 0445 X. Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas. By Michael P. Speidel. London and New York: Routledge. 2004. xiv + 313 pp. ISBN 0 415 31199 3. Charlemagne: Empire and Society. Edited by J. Story. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2005. xx + 330 pp. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 7190 7089 9. The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911–1154. By Nick Webber. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xi + 195 pp. £45. ISBN 1 84383 119 8.     

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian nation. By Russell McGregor

Imagining the Pacific. In the wake of the Cook voyages. By Bernard Smith. New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 1992. 262 pp, illus. (175 b/w, 40 colour), refs, bibliog., index. $US70.00. ISBN 0–300–05053–4.

History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edited by James G. Carrier. Berkeley, The University of California Press, 1992. ix, 257 pp, index. ISBN 0–520–07523–4. $US38.

Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. By Klaus Neumann. Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 10. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1992. xvi, 312 pp, maps, photos, notes, glossary, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–8248–1333–2.

Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Albert B. Robillard. London, Kegan Paul International, 1992. xv, 507 pp. ISBN 0–7103–0400–5.

Winds of Change: Rapidly Growing Religious Groups in the Pacific Islands. By Manfred Ernst. Suva, Pacific Conference of Churches, 1994. xvii, 357 pp, maps, tables, graphs, illus., notes, appendices, glossary, bibliog., index. ISBN 982–200–067–7. $F. 14.50.

A Short History of Papua New Guinea. By John Dademo Waiko. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1993. xi, 275 pp, maps, plates, index. ISBN 019–553–164–7. $A24.95.

Culture Contact in the Pacific. Edited by Max Quanchi and Ron Adams. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 186 pp, maps, diagrams, tables, illus., bibliogs, notes, appendices, index. ISBN 0–521–42284–1. $A24.95.

A Politics of Virtue: Hinduism, Sexuality and Countercolonial Discourse in Fiji. By John D. Kelly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi, 266pp, bibiog., index.

These Roots Remain: Food Habits in Islands of the Central and Eastern Pacific since Western Contact. By Nancy J. Pollock. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1992. xviii, 298 pp, index, bibliog., illus. $US 32.

In the Way: a study of Christian missionary endeavours. By Kenelm Burridge. Vancouver, UBC Press [1991]. xvi, 307 pp, appendix, index.     

Folk-Lore Miscellanea

Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship. By J. G. Frazer. London: Macmillan &; Co., Ltd. 1905. 8vo. xi. and 309 pp.

The Origin of Priesthood. By Gunnar Landtman. Skennes, Finland. 1905. 8vo. xi. and 207 pp. By F. Pollock.

The Mediaeval Stage. By E. K. Chambers. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 2 vols. 1903. By Oliver Elton.     

New approaches in French feminist history

Melzer, S.E. and Rabine, L.W., cds, Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1992) 296pp., £27.50, ISBN 0 19 506886 6

Grogan, S.K., French Socialism and Sexual Difference: Women and the New Society, 1803–44 (Macmillan, 1992), 249pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 333 52530 2     

Protestant perspectives — Presbyterians,patriots and unionists

From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660–1840 Jacqueline Hill, 1997 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp.444, ISBN 0.19.820635.5, £50.00 (hb)

The Politics of Irish Dissent 1650–1840 Kevin Herlihy (ed.), 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 126, ISBN 1.85182.301.8, £30.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85182.302.6, £11.95 (pb)

The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology Ian Mcbride, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 93, ISBN 1.85182.299.2, £14.95 (hb)     

“Swarming the Church”

Vision Narratives of Women in Prison. By Carol Burke. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1993. 192pp. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. ISBN 0 87049 727 8. $26.95. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett.

Navajo Folk Tales. By Franc Johnson Newcomb. 2nd edn. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. 203pp. ISBN 0 8263 1231 4. Reviewed by Donald Tayler.

Sons of Scotia, Raise Your Voice: Early 19th Century Broadsides from a Collection in Edinburgh University Library. Selected and edited by Peter B. Freshwater. Edinburgh: Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1991. 142pp. ISBN 0 905152 04 2. Reviewed by Steve Roud.

My Life with Punch. By Joe Beeby. Compiled and edited by G. Felix. London: G. Felix, 1993. 65pp. Illus. Obtainable from G. Felix, 111 Raglan Court, Empire Way, Wembley Park, Middlesex HA9 0RG. £6.49 inclusive of postage and packing. ISBN 0 9521371 0 0. Reviewed by Roy Judge.

Das Huhn mit dem Gipsbein: Neueste sagnhafte Geschichten von Heute. By Rolf Wilhelm Brednich. Beck'sche Reihe 1001. Munchen: Beck, 1993. 186pp. DM9.80. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

The Evil Eye: A Casebook. Edited by Alan Dundes. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. 318pp. ISBN 0 299 13334 6. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Tarot the Complete Guide. By Cynthia Giles. London: Robert Hale, 1992. 234pp. Illus. £10.99. ISBN 0 7090 5095 X. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Chronicles of King Arthur. By Andrea Hopkins. London: Collins and Brown, 1993. £19.99. ISBN 1 85585 172 5. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

From Ritual to Romance. By Jessie L. Weston. MYTHOS: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0 691 02107 4. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Indexes Motifs Narratifs dans les Romans Arthurian Français en Vers (XIIe-XIIIe Siècles). By Anita Guerreau-Jalabert. Publications Romanes et Françaises, no. 202. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 1992. 501pp. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Culhwch and Olwen: An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale. Edited by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans. University of Wales Press, 1992. ISBN 0 7083 1127 X. £25.00. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Aspects of British Calendar Customs. Edited by Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood. The Folklore Society Mistletoe Series, no. 22. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. 108pp. Illus. ISBN 1 85075 243 5. £11.95. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Boundaries and Thresholds: Papers from a Colloquium of the Katharine Briggs Club. Edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Stroud, Glos.: The Thimble Press, 1993. 104pp. £12.00. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. By Lawrence Shick. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. 448pp. ISBN 0 87975 693 5. £10.95. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Gothick Guides, Aylesbury, Bucks: Shire Publications Ltd, 1989, 1992. Gothick Cornwall. By Jennifer Westwood. 70pp. £3.95. Gothick Norfolk. By Jennifer Westwood. 48pp. £2.50. Gothick Hertfordshire. By Jennifer Westwood. 52pp. £3.95. Gothick Northamptonshire. By Jack Gould. 64pp. £3.95. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Contemporary Legend: A Folklore Bibliography. Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993. 340pp. ISBN 0 8240 6103 9. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Telling Reality: Folklore Studies in Memory of Bengt Holbek. Edited by Michael Chesnutt. Copenhagen Folklore Studies 1/NIF Publications, no. 26. Copenhagen and Turku, 1993. 294 pp. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Proverbs are Never out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age. By Wolfgang Meider. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii + 284pp. Bibliography. Index. Illus. £25.00 hb. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Vampire: The Encyclopedia. By Matthew Bunson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. 303pp. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. £9.95. ISBN 0 500 27748 6. Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

African Folktales in the New World. Edited by William Bascom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.243pp. £28.50 hb, £12.99 p b (distributed in UK and Eire by the Open University Press). Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

The Red Swan: Myths and Tales of the American Indians. Edited by John Bierhorst. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 386pp. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

American Indian's Kitchen Table Stories. By Keith Cunningham. Little Rock, Arkansas: August House, 1992. 240pp. $25.95 US hb, $14.95 US pb. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

Public Folklore. Edited by R. Baron and N. Spitzer. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. £34.95 hb, £14.95 pb. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

Der Rattenhund: Sagen der Gegenwart. By Helmut Fischer. Beitrage zur rheinischen Volkskunde, no. 6. Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1991. 184pp. Notes. Bibliography. List of key terms. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa. By Mischa Titiev. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 277pp. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

Ácoma: Pueblo in the Sky. By Ward Alan Minge. 2nd edn. Published for Pueblo of Ácoma by University of New Mexico Press, 1991. 245pp. Reviewed by Teri Brewer.

The Ballad and Oral Literature. Edited by Joseph Harris. Harvard English Studies, no. 17. Cambridge (Mass.) and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. viii+317 pp. £25.95 hb, £11.95 pb. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative: The English Language Tradition. By Clodagh Brennan Harvey. University of California Publications: Folklore and Mythology Studies, no. 35. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. viii+130 pp. Map. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen.

The Folklore of American Holidays: A Compilation of More Than 500 Beliefs, Legends, Superstitions, Proverbs, Riddles, Poems, Songs, Dances, Games, Plays, Pageants, Fairs, Foods, and Processions Associated with Over 120 American Calendar Customs and Festivals. 2nd edn. Edited by Henning Cohen and Tristam Potter Coffin. Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc., 1991. $85.00. ISBN 0 8103 7602 4. Reviewed by Philip Hiscock.

The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer in Alberta. By Mark Jaroslav Bandera. Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, no. 1. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1991. 62pp. 23 figs. 4 b/w photographs. Reviewed by George Monger.     

Reviews

Coasts and Seas of the United Kingdom—the JNCC Coastal Directories Project: Regional Report 12: Wales, Margam to Little Orme J. H. BARNES, C. F. ROBSON, S. S. KAZWOWSKA and J. P. DOODY (Eds) 239 pp., many B&W illustrations and maps Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Peterborough via Natural History Books Ltd, 2-3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5XN, UK. 1995. £75, ISBN 1-873701-86-1. (Set of 17 vols). ISBN 1 8737701-91-1 Arab Seafaring GEORGE F. HOURANI, revised and expanded by John Carswell 189 pp., maps, illustrations Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA. 1995, £14.95, ISBN 0-691-00032-8 Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from SHA 1995 Conference, Washington DC PAUL FORSYTHE JOHNSTON 186 pp., line illustrations Society for Historical Archaeology, PO Box 30446, Tucson, AZ 85751-0446, USA, 1995, US $20+p&p The Polyeric Quest—Renaissance & Baroque Theories about Ancient Men-of-war L. TH. LEHMANN 184 pp., 26 black-&-white illustrations Obtainable: L. Th. Lehmann, Keestraat 15B, 1012 BW Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1995, £20 or 35 Dfl. inc. postage. In Dutch as De queeste naar de multireme from De Bezige Bij, P.O.B. 75184, 1070 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dutch edition 45 Dfl., ISBN 90-9008462-2 Les Amphores en Gaule: production et circulation (Annales Littéraires de I'Université de Besançon 474) FANETTE LAUBENHEIMER (Ed.) 737 pp., illustrated Les Belles Lettres, 95 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, France, 1992, Fr.fr. 150, ISBN 2-251-60474-X The Heyday of Sail—Merchant Sailing Ship 1650-1830 (Conway's‘History of Ship’series) PHILIP BOSSCHEK 175 pp., numerous illustrations Conway Maritime Press, 33 John Street, London WCIN 2AT, UK. 1995, £28, ISBN 0-85177-562-4 The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia (Vol. 1 of PNM Studies in Archaeology of History) OLE CRUMLIN PEDERSEN and BIRGITTE THYE 196 pp., illustrated National Museum of Denmark, Department of Archaeology and Early History, 12, Frederiksholms Kanal, Copenhagen K, DK-1220, 1995, Dk.Kr.295, ISBN 87-893384-01-6, ISSN 0909-9506 Das Wrack der antike Schiffsfund von Mahdia (2 volumes) GISELA HELLEMPER SALIES (Ed.) 1127 pp., fully illustrated+32 colour plates Rheinland Verlag, Köln, 1994, N.P.G., ISBN 3-7927-1442-6 Archeologia Sottomarina alle Isole Eolie MENSUN BOUND 148 pp., 137 photographs, 61 plates Pungitopo Editrice, via Scaletta 2, 98060 Marina di Patti, Messina, Italy, 1992, It.L.30,000, ISBN 88-85328-39-3     

Book Reviews

Les évêques normands du XIe siêcle. Edited by Pierre Bouet and François Neveux. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen. 1995. 336 pp. 150 FF. ISBN 2 84133 021 4. The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Power, and Patronage in Ninth-Century England. By Michelle P. Brown. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture 1. London and Toronto: The British Library and Toronto University Press. 1996. 252 pp. £45. ISBN 0 7123 0486 X Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain. Edited by Barbara E. Crawford. Studies in the Early History of Britain series. London and New York: Leicester University Press. 1995. xv + 248pp. £45. ISBN 0 7185 1923 X Picts, Gaels and Scots. By Sally M. Foster. London: BT Batsford Ltd/Historic Scotland. 1996. 128pp. £15.99. ISBN 0 7134 7485 8 (cased) 0 7134 7486 6 (limp). Pre-Conquest Charter-Bounds of Devon and Cornwall. By Della Hooke. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 1994. 239 pp. £29.50. ISBN 0 85115 354 2. The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950–1200. By C. Stephen Jaeger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. xvi + 515 pp. $37.95. ISBN 0 8122 3246 1. On Original Sin and a Disputation with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God: Two Theological Treatises. Odo of Tournai. Edited by Irven M. Resnick. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1994. x + 150 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0 8122 3288 7. Engraved Gems of the Carolingian Renaissance. By Genevra Kornbluth. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xxv + 139 pp. 1 colour pl. (frontispiece), 220 illustrations. £35.95/$45. ISBN 0 271 01426 1. Pacifico di Verona. Il passato Carolingio nella costruzione della memoria urbana, con un nota di Stefano Zamponi. By Cristina La Rocca. Rome: Istituto storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, nuovi studi storici 31. 1995. ix + 266 pp. 26 plates. ISBN 0391-8475. Slavery in Early Medieval England: From the Reign of Alfred Until the Twelfth Century. By David Pelteret. Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 7. Woodbridge: Boydell. 1995. xvi + 375 pp. £45/$63. ISBN 0 85115 399 2. Studies in Medieval Language and Culture. By Michael Richter. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1995. 227 pp. £37.50. ISBN 1 85182 171 6. Gift and Exchange in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Corpus: A Contribution Towards the Representation of Wealth. By Nida Louise Surber-Meyer. Geneva: Editions Slatkine. 1994. 256 pp. ISBN 2 101302 0. Frauen, Heiligkeit und Macht: Lateinische Frauenviten aus dem 4. bis 7. Jahrhundert. By Susanne Wittern. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler. 1994. Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung 33. iv + 220 pp. DM 42. ISBN 3 476 00951 3. Der Ragyndrudis-Codex des Hl. Bonifatius. By Lutz E. von Padberg and Hans-Walter Stork. Paderborn: Bonifatius Druck. Buch Verlag, and Fulda: Verlag Parzeller. 1995. 134 pp with 30 illustrations. ISBN (Bonifatius Verlag) 3 87088 812 1 and ISBN (Parzeller Verlag) 3 7900 0238 0. The Ship as symbol in prehistoric and medieval Scandinavia. Edited by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and Birgitte Munch Thye. Studies in Archaeology and History. 1 Copenhagen, Publications from the National Museum. 1995. 196 pp with line drawings and photographs throughout (paperback). ISBN 87 89384 01 6. ISSN 0909 9506. Available direct from The National Museum, The Museum Shop, 12, Frederiksholms Kanal, DK-1220 Copenhagen K. The Germanization of early medieval Christianity. A sociohistorical approach to Religious transformation. By James C. Russell, Oxford. Oxford University Press 1994. xiii + 258 pp. £25. ISBN 0 19 507696 6.     

Texts and Contexts

The Pacific Way: A Memoir. By Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. xvi, 280 pp, maps, photos, index, gloss., apps. ISBN 0824818938. $US14.95 (paperback).

A Vision for Change: A. D. Patel and the Politics of Fiji. By Brij V. Lal. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University, 1998. xvii, 282 pp, map, photos, index, refs. ISBN 073152350. $A25 (paperback).

Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village. By Michael French Smith. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994. x, 278 pp, map, tables, photos, app., notes, gloss., bibliog, index. ISBN 0824815815.

Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji. By Martha Kaplan. Durham, Duke University Press, 1995. xviii, 226 pp, maps, bibliog., index. ISBN 0822315785.

Footsteps in the Sea: Christianity in Oceania to World War II. By John Garrett. Suva and Geneva, Institute of Pacific Studies in association with World Council of Churches, 1992. 514 pp, maps, plates, bibliog. ISBN 9820200687. $US13.95 pb.

Where Nets Were Cast Christianity in Oceania Since World War II. By John Garrett. Suva and Geneva, Institute of Pacific Studies in association with World Council of Churches, 1998. 499 pp, maps, plates, bibliog. ISBN 9820201217. $US13.95pb.

Double Ghosts. Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships. By David A. Chappell. Arrnonk, New York and London, M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xix, 231 pp, illus., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 1563249987.

Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. As told by Michael Kwa'ioloa to Ben Burt. London, British Museum Press, 1998. vi, 169pp. ISBN 0714125334.

The Cassowary's Revenge: the Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. By Donald Tuzin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiii, 256 pp, bibliog., index, plates, maps. ISBN 0226819515.

Political Decentralisation in a Mew State: The Experience of Provincial Government in Papua Mew Guinea. Edited by R. J. May and A. J. Regan with A. Ley. Bathurst, Crawford House Publishing, 1998. xii, 431pp (paper).

Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 367pp. ISBN 0226503046 (paper), 0226503038 (cloth).

Hannah Dudley: Hamari Maa. By Morven Sidal. Suva, Pacific Theological College [1998]. viii, 144 pp, appendix.

Great Powers and the Wider World. By John Dunbabin. London and New York, Longman, 1994. Two vols, 513 and 549pp respectively, indexes. £44 and £42 hardback; £17.99 and £16.99 paperback.

Trading Beyond the Mountains: the British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793–1843. By Richard Somerset Mackie. Vancouver, UBC Press, 1998. 444 pp, figs, maps, tables, bibliog., index. ISBN 0774805595. $29.95.

Beyond a Mountain Valley, The Simbu of Papua New Guinea. By Paula Brown. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1995. 296pp. ISBN 082481701X.     

Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment,Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774–1904

The English by Geoffrey Elton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xiii + 248, 37 plates, 8 figures. £19.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–631–17681–0.

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 by Linda Colley. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 429, illustrations. £19.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–300–05737–7.

Myths of the English edited by Roy Porter. Oxford: Polity Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 276. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7456–08442.

The Tudor Navy: An Administrative, Political and Military History by David Loades. (Studies in Naval History) Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992. Pp. x + 317, maps. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–85967–922–5.

The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568–1668 by R.A. Stradling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xx + 276, maps. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40534–3.

Parameters of British Naval Power 1650–1850 edited by Michael Duffy. Exeter Maritime Studies, Number Seven. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1992. Pp. vi + 144. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85989–385–5.

The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. London and New York: Longman, 1992. Pp. xiii + 320, maps, tables. £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–05068–5.

Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640 by James C. Boyajian. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 356, maps, tables. £40.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8018–4405–3.

A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415–1808 by A.J.R. Russell‐Wood. Manchester: Carcanet, 1992. Pp. xiv + 230, maps, tables, illustrations. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–85635–994–7.

The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. xx + 579, maps and illustrations. $40.00; £20. ISBN 0–300–05198–0.

The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 by Jack P. Greene. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp.xiv + 216, illustrations. $32.95. ISBN 0–8078–2097–0.

Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740–1800 by Alan L. Karras. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 231. $37.95. ISBN 0–8014–2691‐X.

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, Volume 1, From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery by Michael Craton and Gail Saunders. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 455, maps, illustrations. $60.00. ISBN 0–8203–1382–3.

Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups 1690 to 1790 by Alison Gilbert Olson. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 261. £31.95. ISBN 0–674–54318–1.

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 251. ISBN 0–691–05680–3.

Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780–1870 by Clare Midgley. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xii + 281, illustrations. £37.50. ISBN 0–415–06669–7.

Religion and Society in Post‐Emancipation Jamaica by Robert J. Stewart. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 254, maps and illustrations. $42.50 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–87049–749–9.

Poverty Abounding Charity Aplenty: The Charity Network in Colonial Victoria by R.A. Cage. Sydney: Hale &; Iremonger, 1992. Pp. 190. $A35 (hardback); $A17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–86806–437–8; 0–86806–438–6.

Muslims and Missionaries in Pre‐Mutiny India by Avril Ann Powell. London: Curzon Press, 1993. pp. ix + 339, maps. £30. ISBN 0–7007–021–5.

The Light of Nature and the Law of God: Antislavery in Ontario 1833–1877 by Allen P. Stouffer. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi + 273. $34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–7735–0918–6.

Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration 1818–1918 by Trevor H. Levere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 438, map, illustrations and photographs. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–41933–6.

The Voyages of the Discovery: The Illustrated History of Scott's Ship by Ann Savours. London: Virgin, 1992. Pp. xvi + 384, maps, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–852227–117–5.

People and Empires in African History; Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder edited by J.F. Ade Ajayi and J.D.Y. Peel. London: Longman, 1992. Pp. xxv + 254, maps. £36.00. ISBN 0–582–08997–2.

Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People by Noël Mostert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. Pp. xxix + 1,355, maps. £25 (hardback). ISBN 0–224–03325–5.

Occasional Papers on the Irish in South Africa by Donald H. Akenson. Grahams‐town: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Occasional Papers Series, 1991. Pp. 95, figures and tables. R22. ISBN 0–86810–202–5.

The Irish in Southern Africa 1795–1910 edited by Donal P. McCracken. Durban: University of Durban‐Westville, 1992. Pp. 290, maps, tables and illustrations.

Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980 by Iris Berger. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press; London: James Currey, 1992. Pp. xiv + 369. £35 (hardback); £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8525–5078–2; 0–8525–5077–4.

The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule by John Lamphear. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 308, maps. £ 40.00. ISBN 019–820226–1.

Strike Across the Empire: The Seamen's Strike of 1925 in Britain, South African and Australasia by Baruch Hirson and Lorraine Vivian. London: Clio Publications, 1992. Pp. v + 117. £5.0 (paperback). ISBN 1–897640–00–5.

National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and Empire, 1926–1932 by Philip Williamson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 569. £60. ISBN 0–521–36137–0.

Trade, Tariffs and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India 1919–1939 by Basudev Chatterji. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 521. Rs. 610; £25.00. ISBN 0–19–562815–2.

The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin by Al Gabay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 208. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–41494–6.

Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? by Audrey Oldfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 263. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–40380–4; 0–521–4361–7.

Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People by Judith Brett. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xi + 318. £14.99. ISBN 333–592–859.

L'Afrique noire française: l'heure des Indépendances edited by Charles‐Robert Ageron and Marc Michel. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1992. Pp. 728.

The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France, and Black Africa, 1939–1956 by John Kent. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 365. £45. ISBN 0–19–820302–0.

The Political Inheritance of Pakistan edited by D.A. Low. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. vii + 292. £45 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–524373.

Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century by Brij V. Lai. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. Pp. xxii + 404, maps, tables, illustrations. $38.00. ISBN 0–8248–1418–5.     

Reviews

The Irish Ringfort Matthew Stout, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 160, ISBN 1.8518.1200.X, £19.95 (hb)

A Shorter Illustrated History of Ulster Jonathan Bardon, 1996 Belfast, Blackstaff Press pp. 336, ISBN 0.8564.0586.8, £14.99 (pb)

Belfast Merchant Families in the Seventeenth Century Jean Agnew, 1996 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 256, ISBN 1.8518.2251.8, £25.00 (hb)

The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638–1651 Martyn Bennett, 1997 Oxford, Blackwell pp.472, ISBN 0.6311.9154.2, £55.00 (hb); ISBN 0.6311.91550, £15.99 (pb)

Parties, Patriots and Undertakers: Parliamentary Politics in early Hanoverian Ireland Patrick Mcnally, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp.240, ISBN 1.8518.2255.0, £30.00 (hb)

Edmund Burke: His Life and Legacy Ian Crowe (ed.), 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 228, ISBN 1.8518.2306.9, £35.00 (hb)

The Irish Charter Schools, 1730–1830 Kenneth Milne, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 450, ISBN 1.8518.2232.1, £35.00 (hb)

The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the Construction of Irish Identity 1760–1830 Kevin Whelan, 1996 Cork, Cork University Press pp. 240, ISBN 1.8591.8060.4, £14.95 (pb)

The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Short History and Genealogical Guide Jim Herlihy, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp.256, ISBN 1.8518.2337.9, £39.50 (hb); ISBN 1.8518.2337.9, £14.95 (pb)

Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo‐Irish Agreement Fergal Cochrane, 1997 Cork, Cork University Press pp.440, ISBN 1.8591.8138.4, £45 (hb); ISBN 1.8591.2, £17.95 (pb)

Bonfires on the Hillside: An Eyewitness Account of Political Upheaval in Northern Ireland James Kelly, 1995 Belfast, Fountain Publishing pp. 229, ISBN 0.9525.5650.2, £2.95 (pb)

The New York Irish Ronald H. Bayor & Timothy J. Meagher (eds), 1996 Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press pp.744, ISBN 0.8018.5199.8, £37.00 (hb); ISBN 0.8018.5764.3, £21.50 (pb)

The Irish Experience in New York City: A Select Bibliography Ann M. Shea & Marion R. Casey, 1995 New York, New York Irish History Roundtable pp. 130, ISBN 0.8156.8121.6, US$ 29.95 (hb)

Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition Nina Auerbach & David J. Skal (eds), 1997 New York, W.W. Norton pp. 492, ISBN 0.3939.7012.4, £6.95 (pb)

The Un‐Dead: The Legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula Peter Haining & Peter Tremayne, 1997 London, Constable pp. 199, ISBN 0.0947.5430.6, £16.95 (hb)

The Mammoth Book of Dracula Stephen Jones (ed.), 1997 London, Robinson Publishing pp. 512, ISBN 1.8548.7520.5, £6.99 (pb)

James Joyce: Ulysses Vincent Sherry, 1997 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp. 141, ISBN 0.5214.2075.X, £19.95 (hb); ISBN 0.5214.2136.5, £7.95 (pb)

The Word According to James Joyce: Reconstructing Representation Cordell D. K. Yee, 1997 Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University Press/ London, Associated University Press pp. 176, ISBN 8387.5330.2, £30.00 (hb)

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson, 1996 London, Bloomsbury pp. 872, ISBN 0.7475.2719.9, £25 (hb)

Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist Anthony Cronin, 1996 London, HarperCollins pp.645, ISBN 0.2461.3769.X, £25.00 (hb); ISNB 0.5860.9076.2, £8.99 (pb)

Beckett: The Irish Dimension Mary Junker, 1995 Dublin, Wolfhound pp. 190, ISBN 0.8632.7384.X, £27.50 (hb)

Thomas Kinsella Donatella Abbate Badin, 1996 New York, Twayne pp. 226, ISBN 0.8057.7047.X

Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo‐Irish Literature Augustine Martin (anthony Roche ed.), 1996 Dublin, University College Dublin Press pp. 259+xx, ISBN 1 9006.21 0 1.0, £25.95 (hb); ISBN 1.9006.2102.9, £15.95 (pb)

Twentieth‐Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation Christopher Murray, 1997 Manchester, Manchester University Press pp.288, ISBN 0.7190.4156.2, £35.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7190.4157.0, £12.99 (pb)

The Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874–1966 John D. Harrington, 1997 Lexington, Ky., University Press of Kentucky pp. 179, ISBN 0.8131.2033.0, US$ 27.95 (hb)

The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (Vol. 2, No. 2, 1996) Osilla Bertha (ed.), 1996 Debrecen, Kossuth Lajas University Press pp. 182, ISSN 1218.7364, US$ 15.00

Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert (Irish Music in the 20th Century) Axel Klein, 1996 Hildesheim, George Olms Verlag pp. 526, ISBN 3.4871.0196.3, with Music Examples, Bibliography, and Discography DM 98 (hb)

Here's Looking at You, Kid! Ireland goes to the pictures STEPHANIE MCBRIDE and RODDY FLYNN (eds), 1996 Dublin,Wolfhoundpp. 138, ISBN 0.8632.7556.7, £9.99 (pb)

Wilde Director, Brian Gilbert Screenplay by Julian Mitchell Samuelson/Polygram, 1997     

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Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid‐Nineteenth Century Canada edited by Allan Greer and Ian Radforth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 328. £36.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–5931–7; 0–8020–6871–5.

True Government by Choice Men? Inspection, Education, and State Formation in Canada West by Bruce Curtis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp.ix + 250. £36.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–5967–8; 0–8020–6894–4.

Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837–67 by Ged Martin. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995. Pp.xi + 388. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–52288–5.

Ex Uno Plures: Federal‐Provincial Relations in Canada, 1867–1896 by Garth Stevenson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1994. Pp.xi + 401. £38.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7735–0986–0.     

Reviews

The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800–1865 Brian Griffin, 1997 Dublin, Irish Academic Press pp. xi + 166, ISBN 0.7165.2670.0, £29.50 (hb)

The Hungry Stream: Essays on Emigration and Famine E. Margaret Crawford (ed.), 1997 Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University pp.215, ISBN 1.85589.677.1, £25 (hb); ISBN 0.85389.674.7, £9.50 (pb)

The Feminization of Famine Margaret Kelleher, 1997 Cork University Press pp.258, ISBN 1.85918.077.9, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85918.078.7, £16.95 (pb)

The Two Irelands, 1912–1939 David Fitzpatrick, 1998 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. xviii + 301, ISBN 0.19.289240.1, £8.99 (pb)

The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916–23 Peter Hart, 1998 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. xvi + 350, ISBN 0.19.820537.6, £40.00 (hb)

The Politics of Illusion: a Political History of the IRA Henry Patterson, 1997 London, Serif pp.320, ISBN 1.897959.31.1, £14.99 (pb)

Peace or War? Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland Chris GILligan & Jon Tonge (eds), 1997 Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing pp. 167, ISBN 1.85972.519.8, £35.00 (hb)

The Irish RMs: The Resident Magistrates in the British Administration of Ireland Penny Bonsall, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp.224, ISBN 1.85182.331.X, £30.00 (hb)

The Geopolitics of Anglo‐Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century G. R.Sloan, 1997 London, Leicester University Press pp.320, ISBN 0.718.51356.8, £45.00 (hb)

Hope Deferred: Experiences of an Irish Unionist Basil Mcivor, 1998 Dundonald, Blackstaff Press pp. 163, ISBN 0.85640.620.1, £12.99 (pb)

Who Are ‘The People'? Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland Peter Shirlow & Mark Mcgovern (eds), 1997 London, Pluto Press pp. 192, ISBN 0.7453.1213.6, £35.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.1208.X, £13.99 (pb)

Crisis and Decline: the Fate of the Southern Unionists R. B. Mcdowell, 1997 Dublin, Lilliput Press pp. x + 227, ISBN 1.8746.7592.9, £16.99 (hb)

Crime in Ireland 1945–95: Here be Dragons John Brewer, Bill Lockhart & Paula Rodgers, 1997 Oxford, Clarendon Press pp. 268, ISBN C.19.826570.0, £40.00 (hb)

Explorations in Law and History W. N. Osborough (ed.), 1995 Dublin, Irish Academic Press pp. 193, ISBN 0.7165.2451.0, £24.95 (hb)

Decadence and Danger: Writing, History and the fin de siècle Tracey Hill (ed.), 1997 Bath, Sulis Press pp.228, ISBN 0.9526.856.1.2, £35.00 (hb); ISBN 0.9526.856.2.0, £13.95 (pb)

Deeds Not Words: The Life and Work of Muriel Gahan Geraldine Mitchell, 1997 Dublin, Town House pp.224, ISBN 1.860589.046.2, £9.99 (pb)

In Search of Ireland: A Cultural Geography Brian Graham (ed.), 1997 London, Routledge pp. xiv + 240, ISBN 0.415.15007.8, £47.50 (hb); ISBN 0.415.15008.6, £15.99 (pb)

Space and Place: The Geographies of Literature Glenda Norquay & Gerry Smyth (eds), 1997 Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University Press pp.414, ISBN 0.9527.97802, £15.00 (pb)

Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland Rosemary Sales, 1997 London, Routledge pp.256, ISBN 0.415.13766.7, £14.99 (pb)

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland Anthony Bradley & Marianna Gialanella Vauuus (eds), 1997 Amherst, University of Massachusetts pp.336, ISBN 1.55849.130.9, US$50.00 (hb); ISBN 1.55849.131.7, US$16.95 (pb)

Irish Women in England: An Annotated Bibliography Clare Barrington, 1997 Dublin, Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin pp.72, ISBN 1.898473.80.3, £5.00 (pb)

Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl Andrew Hadfield, 1997 Oxford, Clarendon Press pp.240, ISBN 0.10.818345.3, £35.00 (hb)

Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity Willy Maley, 1997 Basingstoke, Macmillan pp.260, ISBN 0.3336.2942.6, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 0.3336.2943.4, £12.99 (pb)

Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain David J. Baker, 1997 Stanford, Stanford University Press, and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp.221, ISBN 0.8047.2997.2, US839.50, £30.00 (hb)

Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift 1667–1745 Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly & Ian Campbell Ross (eds), 1998 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp.208, ISBN 1.85182.317.4, £35.00, US$45.00 (hb)

Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writing: Language, History, Politics Brian Hollingworth, 1997 Basingstoke, Macmillan pp.256, ISBN 0.333.681.66.5, £40.00 (hb)

Verse in English from Eighteenth‐Century Ireland Andrew Carpenter, 1998 Cork, Cork University Press pp.640, ISBN 1.85912.103.1, £40.00, US$60.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85912.104.X, £15.95, US829.95 (pb)

Mrs S. C. Hall: A Literary Biography Maureen Keane, 1997 Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe pp. 260, ISBN 0.86140.394.0, £33.00 (hb)

Yeats's Political Identities: Selected Essays Jonathan Allison (ed.), 1996 Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press pp.352, ISBN 0.472.10445.4, US849.50 (hb)

Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space Nicholas Meihuizen, 1998 Amsterdam, Costerus New Series 116, Rodopi pp. 190, ISBN 90.420.0388.X, £19.50, US$34.00 (pb)

High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889–1939 Maria Dibattista & Lucy Mcdiarmid (eds), 1996 New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press pp.259, ISBN 0.19.508266.4, £37.50 (hb)

Louis MacNeice and his Influence Kathleen Devine & Alan J. Peacock (eds), 1998 Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe pp. 184, ISBN 0.86140.391.6, £27.50 (hb)

Samuel Beckett and Music Mary Bryden (ed.), 1998 Oxford, Clarendon Press pp.267, ISBN 0.19.818427.1, £40.00 (hb)

Talking of Joyce Umberto Eco & Liberato Santoro‐Brienza, 1998 Dublin, University College Dublin Press pp.86, ISBN 1.900621.13.4, £5.95 (pb)

The Boy in the Moon Kate O'riordan, 1997 London, Flamingo pp. 278, ISBN 0.00.225555.3, £12.99 (hb)

A Glassful of Letters Evelyn Conlon, 1998 Belfast, Blackstaff pp. 208, ISBN 0.85640.618.X, £7.99 (pb)

The Parchment Boat Moya Cannon, 1997 Oldcastle, The Gallery Press pp.45, ISBN 1.85235.202.7, £11.95 (hb); ISBN 1.85235.201.9, £5.95 (pb)

Thirst David Wheatley, 1997 Oldcastle, The Gallery Press pp.77, ISBN 1.85235.208.6, £12.95 (hb); ISBN 1.85235.207.8, £6.95 (pb)

Selected Poems Medbh Mcguckian, 1997 Oldcastle, The Gallery Press pp.94, ISBN 1.85235.204.3, £13.95 (hb); ISBN 1.85235.203.5, £7.95 (pb)

The Yellow Book Derek Mahon, 1997 Oldcastle, The Gallery Press pp.57, ISBN 1.85253.206.X, £12.95 (hb); ISBN 1.85253.205.1, £6.95 (pb)     

Reviews

The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church Kathleen Hughes & Ann Hamlin, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 134, ISBN 1.85182.194.5, £9.95 (pb)

In Search of Columba Lesley Whiteside, 1997 Blackrock, Dublin, Columba Press pp. 136, ISBN 1.8560.7180.4, £5.99 (pb)

A History of the Irish Working Class Peter Beresford Ellis, 1996 London, Pluto Press pp.378, ISBN 0.7453.1103.2, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.0009.X, £15.99 (pb)

The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland John McGurk, 1997 Manchester, Manchester University Press pp. xiii + 290, ISBN 0.7190.4959.8, £45.00 (hb)

Edmund Spenser: A View of the State of Ireland Andrew Hadfield & Willy Maley (eds), 1997 Oxford, Blackwell pp. xxvi +197, ISBN 0.63120.534.9, £35.00 (hb); ISBN 0.63120.535.7, £10.99 (pb)

Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685–1789 Murray Pittock, 1997 London, Macmillan pp.200, ISBN 0.333.65060.3, £42.50 (hb); ISBN 0.333.65061.1, £13.99 (pb)

Linen, Family and Community in Tullylish, County Down, 1690–1914 Marilyn Cohen, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 284, ISBN 1.85182.312.3, £45.00 (hb)

Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century Joep Leerssen, 1996 Cork, Cork University Press in association with Field Day pp. 320, ISBN 1.85918.111.2, £15.95 (pb)

The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism Emmet Larkin, reprint 1997 Washington, The Catholic University of America Press; Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 138, ISBN 1.85182305.0, £9.95 (pb)

The Kingdom of the Ryans: The Irish in Southwest New South Wales 1816–1890 Malcolm Campbell, 1997 Sydney, University of New South Wales Press pp.210, ISBN 0.86840.191.9, A$34.95 (pb)

’This Dreadful Visitation’: The Famine in Lurgan/Portadown Gerard Mac Atasney, with a foreword by Christine Kinealy, 1997 Belfast, Beyond the Pale Publications pp. 126, ISBN 1.900960.02.8, £6.95 (pb)

A Death‐dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland Christine Kinealy, 1997 London, Pluto Press pp.200, ISBN 0.7453.1075.3, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.1074.5, £12.99 (pb)

Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in Cumbria Donald M. MacRaild, 1998 Liverpool, Liverpool University Press pp.237, ISBN O.85323.652.6, £30.00 (hb); ISBN 0.85323.662.3, £12.95 (pb)

Guns and Chiffon: Women Revolutionaries and Kilmainham Gaol Sinead McCoole, 1996 Dublin, Kilmainham Gaol Museum pp. 70, ISBN 0.7076.3870.4, £5.00 (pb)

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: A Life Margaret Ward, 1997 Cork, Cork University Press pp.368, ISBN 1.85594.179.1, £45.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85594.187.2, £14.95 (pb)

’They Shall Grow Not Old’: Irish Soldiers and the Great War Myles Dungan, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp. 218, ISBN 1.85182.347.6, £17.95 (hb)

Rural Ireland, Real Ireland? Jacqueline Genet (ed.), 1996 Gerrard's Cross, Colin Smythe pp.245, ISBN 0.86140.385.1, £28.00 (hb)

Irish Playwrights, 1880–1995: A Resource and Production Sourcebook Beknice Schrank & William W. Demastes (eds), 1997 London, Greenwood Press pp.454, ISBN 0.313.28805.4, £75.95 (hb)

Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War Philip Hoare, 1977 London, Gerald Duckworth pp.256, ISBN 0.71562.737.6, £16.95 (hb); ISBN 0.71562.828.3, £11.95 (pb)

Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness Marjorie Howes, 1996 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp. 250, ISBN 0.521.56362.3, £35.00 (hb)

Yeats and Women Deirdre Toomey (ed.), 1997 Basingstoke, Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's Press pp.448, ISBN 0.333698.16.9, £19.50 (pb)

James Joyce, Ulysses , and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and ‘The Jew’ in Modernist Europe Neil R. Davison, 1996 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp.317, ISBN 0.521.55181.1, £35.00 (hb)

Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing Éibhear Walshe (ed.), 1997 Cork, Cork University Press pp.291, ISBN 1.85918.015.2, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 1.85918.014.0, £16.95 (pb)

Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader Anne Byrne & Madeleine Leonard (eds), 1997 Belfast, Beyond the Pale Publications pp. 573, ISBN 1.900960.03.6, £16.95 (pb)

Discrimination and the Irish Community in Britain Mary Hickman & Bronwen Walter, 1997 London, Commission for Racial Equality pp.312, ISBN 1.85442.200.6, £10.00 (pb)

Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena Hastings Donnan & Graham McFarlane (eds), 1997 Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies pp. 240, ISBN 0.85389.690.9, £9.95 (pb)

Was Ireland Conquered? International Law and the Irish Question Anthony Carty, 1996 London, Pluto Press pp. viii + 203, ISBN 0.7453.0325.0, £40.00 (hb); ISBN 0.7453.0722.1, £12.99 (pb)

Sacrifice of Fools Ian McDonald, 1997 London, Vista pp. 286, ISBN 0.575.60059.4, £5.99 (pb)

Enchanted Journeys: Fifty Years of Irish Writing for Children Robert Dunbar (ed.), 1997 Dublin, O'Brien Press pp. 192, ISBN 0.86278.531.6, £8.99 (hb)

Grace Notes Bernard Mac Laverty, 1997 London, Jonathan Cape pp.278, ISBN 0.224.04429.X, £14.99 (hb); ISBN 0099.77801.7, £5.99 (pb)

The Bridal Suite Matthew Sweeney, 1997 London, Jonathan Cape pp. 49, ISBN 0.224.04328.5, £7.00 (pb)

Verbum et Verbum Micheál Fanning, 1997 Knockeven, Salmon Publishing pp.78, ISBN 1.8976.48898, IR£5.99 (pb)

Mutabilitie Frank McGuinness, 1997 London, Faber & Faber pp. 101, ISBN 0.571.19342.0, £6.99 (pb)

The Boxer Director, Jim Sheridan Universal Studios Inc., 1997

The Butcher Boy Director, Neil Jordan Geffen Pictures, 1997     

The Reagan Doctrine in Perspective

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Gordon, Philip H. A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and the Gaullist Legacy Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 255 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-691-08647-8 Publication Date: May 1993

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Brzezinski, Zbigniew Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century New York: Collier 239 pp., $21.00 cloth, $10.00 paper ISBN 0-684-19630-1 cloth ISBN 0-02-008115-4 paper Publication Date: April 1993

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McCleary, Rachel M., ed. Seeking Justice: Ethics and International Affairs Boulder, CO: Westview 163 pp., $39.95 cloth, $12.95 paper ISBN 0-8133-8050-8 cloth ISBN 0-8133-8059-6 paper Publication Date: October 1992

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Barr, Nicholas The Economics of the Welfare State Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 495 pp., $59.50 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2206-4 cloth ISBN 0-8047-2205-6 paper Publication Date: September 1993

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The American Constitutional Order: History,Cases, and Philosophy

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Williams, Bernard Shame and Necessity Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 254 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0520-080467 Publication Date: 1993

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The following correspondence was written in response to Marshall L. DeRosa's article, “The Second Amendment and American Federalism: A View from the States,” published in the Spring 1993 (vol. 22, no. 2) issue of Perspectives on Political Science.