Books in Summary

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

Books in Summary

China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past. By Paul A. Cohen
About Psychology: Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy. Edited by Darryl B. Hill and Michael J. Kral
Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. By Ira Katznelson
Wissenspopularisierung: Konzepte Der Wissensverbreitung im Wandel. Edited by Carsten Kretschmann
Klio Macht Karriere: Die Institutionalisierung der Geschichtswissenschaft in Frankreich und den USA in der Zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Gabriele Lingelbach
Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective. Conceptualizations, Terminology, Approaches and Fundamental Issues. By Dan Michman
The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages. By Max Weber. Translated by Lutz Kaelber
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. By Avihu Zakai     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

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

Books in Summary

Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Jacob J. Climo and Maria G. Cattell
Hegel's History of Philosophy: New Interpretations. Edited by David A. Duquette
Identities: Time, Difference and Boundaries. By Heidrun Friese
Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography. By Uta Gerhardt
Rezeption im Zeitalter der Konfrontation: Französische Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichte in Deutschland, 1920–1940. By Steffen Kaudelka
Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. By Jessica Riskin
Geschichte der Deutschen Kulturgeschichtsschreibung. By Hans Schleier
El conocimiento hitórico y el lenguaje. By Daniel E. Zalazar     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
England's Empty Throne. Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation 1399–1422. By Paul Strohm.
The Wars of the Roses. Politics and the Constitution in England, c. 1437–1509. By Christine Carpenter.
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson.
Dismembering the Body Politic. Partisan Politics in England's Towns 1650–1730. By Paul Halliday.
Gentleman Radical. A Life of John Home Tooke 1736–1812. By Christina and David Bewley.
A War of Ideas. British Attitudes to the Wars against Revolutionary France, 1792–1802. By Emma Vincent Macleod.
Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. By Don Herzog.
Re-Reading the Constitution. New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by James Vernon.
Reform and Respectability. The Making of a Middle-Class Liberalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester , By Michael Turner.
Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832. By Nancy D. LoPatin.
The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862–1902. Edited by Angus Hawkins and John Powell.
Liberal by Principle. The Politics of John Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley, 1843–1902. Edited by John Powell.
The Women's Suffrage Movement. New Feminist Perspectives. Edited by Maroula Joannou and June Purvis.
Suffrage and Power. The Women's Movement 1918–1928. By Cheryl Law.
The Politics of the British Constitution. By Michael Foley.     

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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Bicameralisme. Edited by H. W. Blom, W. P. Blockmans, and H. de Schepper
History of the justices if the Peace. By Sir Thomas Skyrme
The Manufacture of Scottish History. Edited by I. Donnachie and C. Whatley
Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals fiom the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688- 1689.
The Revolution of 1688-89. Changing Perspectives. Edited by Lois G. Schwoerer.
Britons. Forging the Nation 1707- 183 7. By Linda Colley
Pitt the Elder. By Jeremy Black. (British Lives.)
Law, Politics and the Church of England. The Career ofStephen Lushington, 1782-1873.
The House Of Lirds in British Politics and Society 1815-1911. By E.A. Smith
The letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho 1885–1917. Edited by Jane Ridley and Clayre Percy.
TJ.: A Life of Doctor Thomasjones, C.H. By E.L. Ellis
'His Majesty's Loyal Opposition': The Unionist Party in Opposition, 1905191.5.
British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and ConJict, 1915–1918.
Anthony Eden: A Political Biography 193 1-1 957. By Victor Rothwell
Third Party Politics Since 1945: Liberals, Alliance and Liberal Democrats. By John Stevenson
Parliaments and Pressure Politics. Edited by Michael Rush.
The British General Election of 1992. By David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue. Artifice and Design : Art and Technology in Human Experience . by Barry Allen . Between Mass Death and Individual Loss : The Place of the Dead in Twentieth ‐Century Germany . Edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann. Reading Primary Sources : The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth‐and Twentieth ‐Century History . Edited by Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann. In the Light of Medieval Spain : Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past . Edited by Simon R. Doubleday and David Coleman. Diasporas . by Stéphane Dufoix . Was Ist Geschichte ? Aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen von Geschichtsphilosophie und Geschichtswissenschaft . Edited by Wolfgang Eichhorn and Wolfgang Küttler. Past in the Making : Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989. Edited by Michal Kope?ek. Time and History : The Variety of Cultures . Edited by Jörn Rüsen.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism . By Aryeh Botwinick. The Future of Memory . Edited by Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby, and Antony Rowland. Nationalizing the Past : Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe . Edited by Chris Lorenz and Stefan Berger. History and Neorealism . Edited by Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance, and Zara Steiner. Vico and Naples : The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory . By Barbara Ann Naddeo. Populäre Geschichtsschreibung: Historiker, Verleger und die Deutsche Offentlichkeit (1848–1900). By Martin Nissen. Apologia and Criticism : Historians and the History of Spain , 1500–2000. By Gonzalo Pasamar. Atlas of European Historiography : The Making of a Profession 1800–2005. Edited by Haria Porciana and Lutz Raphael.     

Memories of Trauma: Problems of Interpretation

Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century. Edited By Michael S. Roth and Charles G. Salas     

Books in Summary

Herderon Nationality, Humanity, and History. By F. M. Barnard.
Voegelin, Schelling, and the Philosophy of Historical Existence. By Jerry Day.
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945. By Julie Des Jardins.
Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then. Edited by Prasenjit Duara.
Southern Histories: Public, Person, and Sacred. By David Goldfield.
Philosophy of History: a Guide for Students. By M. C. Lemon.
Western Civilization and World History. By Peter N. Stearns.
The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500–1730. By Daniel Woolf.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Memory in Mind and Culture . Edited by Pascal Boyer and James V. Wertsch. Imprisoned by History : Aspects of Historicized Life . By Martin L. Davies. Medievalisms in the Pöstcolonial World : The Idea of “the Middle Ages ”outside Europe . Edited by Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul. The Super ‐Enlightenment : Daring to Know Too Much . Edited by Dan Edelstein. Cultural Mobility : A Manifesto . Edited by Stephen Greenblatt. Pragmatism as Transition : Historicity and Hope in James , Dewey , and Rorty . By Colin Koopman. Ecriture de l 'histoire et regard rétrospectif : Clio et Epiméthée . By Fiona McIntosh‐Varjabédian. Multidirectional Memory : Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization . By Michael Rothberg.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

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

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. By Isaiah Berlin. Edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer. Truth in History. By Oscar Handlin. Shrinking History; On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory. By David E. Stannard. Humanity in Warfare. By Geoffrey Best. Martin of Tours: Parish Priest, Mystic, and Exorcist. By Christopher Donaldson. Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Edited by Edward Jones. The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History. By G. W. S. Barrow. A History of Medieval Ireland. By A. J. Otway-Ruthven, with an introduction by Kathleen Hughes. Second edition. Tudor Mercenaries and Auxiliaries, 1485-1547. By Gilbert John Millar. Cromwellian Scotland, 1651-1660. By F. D. Dow. The Lancashire Gentry and the Great Rebellion 1640-1660. By B. G. Black wood. Queen Anne. By Edward Gregg. Queen Anne. By Edward Gregg. The British Atlantic Empire before the American Revolution. Edited by Peter Marshall and Glyn Williams. Paternalism in Early Victorian England. By David Roberts. Lloyd George's Secretariat. By John Turner. Haldane: An Army Reformer. By Edward M Spiers. Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison. By Kenneth and Jane Morgan. Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. By Bernard Wasserstein. The Churchill Coalition, 1940-1945. By J.M. Lee. The Early Life of Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1893. By Jack D. Ellis. The Students of Paris and the Revolution of 1848. By John G. Gallaher. Elie Halévy: An Intellectual Biography. By Myrna Chase. Dilemmas of Italian Socialism: The Politics of Filippo Turati. By Spencer DiScala. Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck. Geoff Eley. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 387. $30.00.) The Enigma War. By Józef Garliski. The Western Alliance: Eropean-American Relations since 1945. By Alfred Grosser, with translation by Michael Shaw. Revolutions and Revolutionaries. By A. J. P. Taylor. A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism. By Andrzej Walicki. The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change, 1917-1923. By Robert Service. Shang Civilization. by Kwang-chih Chang. “Myne Own Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virgmia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. By T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes. Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution. By Alice Hanson Jones. The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives. Edited by William M. Fowler, Jr., and Wallace Coyle. The Press and the American Revolution. Edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. By Pauline Maier. Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800. By John K. Alexander. Rocks and Shoals: Order and Discipline in the Old Navy, 1800-1861. By James E. Valle. The Imperiled Union: Essays in the Background of the Civil War. By Kenneth Stampp. Francis Preston Blair. By Elbert B. Smith. The Rise of American Naval Power, 1776-1918. By Harold and Margaret Sprout. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy. By Paolo E. Coletta. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930. Edited by Martin V. Melosi. Small Business in American Life. Edited by Stuart W. Bruchey. Years of Estrangement: American Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941. By Thomas R. Maddux. Dilemma in China: America's Policy Debate, 1945. By Kenneth S. Chern. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System. By Frank J. Donner. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1945-1962: Perón to Frondizi. By Robert A. Potash. São Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937. By Joseph L. Love.     

Short Notices

The Transformation of the Year One Thousand: The Village of Lournand from Antiquity to Feudalism . By Guy Bois, translated by Jean Birrell.
The Origins of Somerset . By Michael Costen.
Wessex to AD 1000 . By Barry Cunliffe.
Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders . By Heinrich Fichtenau.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 5. Edited by William Filmer-Sankey and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, James Campbell and David Brown
Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus'Life of Bishop Wilfrid, An Early English Saint's Life . By William Trent Foley.
Legitimation und Funktion des Herrschers: Vom Ägyptischen Pharao zum neuzeitlichen Diktator . Edited by Rolf Gundlach and Hermann Weber.
The High Crosses of Ireland : An Iconographical and Photographic Survey. By Peter Harbison.
England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton Symposium . Edited by Carola Hicks.
The Medieval Church: A Brief History . By Joseph H. Lynch.
Maritime Celts, Frisians and Saxons: Papers presented to a Conference at Oxford in November 1988 . Edited by Sean MGrail.
Rechtsarchäologie Europas . By Witold Maisel. Translated by Ruth Poninska-Maisel.
From Roman Basilica to Medieval Market: Archaeology in Action in the City of London . Edited by Gustav Milne.
English Heritage Book of Roman York . By Patrick Ottaway.
The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century. By Gerd Tellenbach, translated by Timothy Reuter.
The Vikings . By Else Roesdahl, translated by Susan M. Margeson and Kirsten Williams.
The Early Germans . By Malcolm Todd.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Introducción a la historia teorica (Introduction to Theoretical History ). By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. Introduced and edited by Pedro Piedras Monroy. Seeing Things Their Way : Intellectual History and the Return of Religion . Edited by Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory. Gatekeepers of the Arab Past : Historians and History Writing in Twentieth ‐Century Egypt . By Yoav Di‐Capua. The Historians ' Paradox : The Study of History in Our Time . By Peter Charles Hoffer. At the Limits of History : Essays on Theory and Practice . By Keith Jenkins. Recasting the Past : History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa . Edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola. Recent Themes in American Religious History : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Randall J. Stephens. Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Donald A. Yerxa.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book reviewed in this issue: Nation and History : Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War . Edited by Peter Brock, John D. Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel. War of No Pity : The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma . by Christopher Herbert. Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology . Edited by Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen and Kurt Villads Jensen with Janne Malkki and Katja Ritari. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment . by Peter Hanns Reill. History and Nation . Edited by Julia Rudolph. Women's History in Global Perspective , Volumes 1–3. Edited by Bonnie G. Smith. Haunted by Empire : Geographies of Intimacy in North American History . Edited by Ann Laura Stoler. Writing Early Modern History . Edited by Garthine Walker.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Houses of Parliament. History, Art, Architecture. Edited by Christine Riding and Jacqueline Riding.
Kingdoms in Crisis. Ireland in the 1640s. Essays in Honour of Dónal Cregan. Edited by Micheál Ó Siochrú.
Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650–1729) and the Constitution in Church and State. By Philip O'Regan.
Beaufort. The Duke and his Duchess, 1657–1715. By Molly McClain.
England in the 1670s. 'This Masquerading Age'. By John Spurr.
Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by Sean J. Connolly.
Studies in Irish Legal History. By W. N. Osborough.
Revolution, Religion, and National Identity. Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745–1795. By Peter M. Doll.
The History of Suffrage, 1760–1867. Edited by Anna Clark and Sarah Richardson.
British Electoral Facts, 1832-–1999. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.
Voting in Britain. A History of the Parliamentary Franchise. By John Hostettler and Brian P. Block.
Liberalism in West Cornwall. The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Edited with an introduction by Edwin Jaggard.
The Labour Party and Taxation. Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Richard Whiting.
Stanley Baldwin. Conservative Leadership and National Values. By Philip Williamson.
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee. The Headlam Diaries, 1935–1951. Edited by Stuart Ball.
British Elections and Parties Review. Volume 10. Edited by Philip Cowley, David Denver, Andrew Russell and Lisa Harrison.
Scotland Decides. The Devolution Issue and the Scottish Referendum. By David Denver, James Mitchell, Charles Pattie and Hugh Bochel.
Scottish Government and Politics. An Introduction. By Peter Lynch.     

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