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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Lay Taxes in England and Wales 1188–1688. By M. Jurkowski, C. L. Smith and D. Crook.
Images of Rule. Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485–1649. By David Howarth.
Inventing a Republic. The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649–1653. By Sean Kelsey.
Tudor Government. Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth Century. By David Loades.
The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works. By Francis Bacon. Edited by Brian Vickers.
The English Levellers. Edited by Andrew Sharp.
Peerage Creations 1649–1800. A Chronological List of Creations in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. Compiled by J. C. Sainty.
Officials of the Royal Household, 1660–1837. Part 2: Departments of the Lord Steward and the Master of the Horse. Compiled by J. C. Sainty and R. O. Bucholz.
The Early Parties and Politics in Britain, 1688–1832. By Brian Hill.
Divided Loyalties, The Question of the Oath for Irish Catholics in the Eighteenth Century. By Patrick Fagan.
Maps of the Mediterranean Regions. Published in British Parliamentary Papers 1801–1921. By Susan Gole.
Print Politics. The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England. By Kevin Gilmartin.
Gladstone. Edited by Peter J. Jagger.
The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846–1886. By K. Theodore Hoppen.
Benjamin Disraeli Letters. Volume Six, 1852–1856. Edited by M. G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar and Ann P. Robson.
Irish Home Rule 1867–1921. By Alan O'Day.
Facing Fascism. The Conservative Party and the European Dictators, 1935–1940. By N. J. Crowson.     

Late Eighteenth-Century Irish Politics

Prelude to Union: Anglo-Irish Politics in the 1780s. By James Kelly. (Studies in Irish History.) Cork: Cork University Press. 1992. xi, 276 pp. ℒ32.00. ISBN 0902561626
The Men of No Property: Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century. By Jim Smyth. (Studies in Modern History.) London: Macmillan/Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1992. xi, 251 pp. Hardback ℒ40.00; paperback ℒ12.99. ISBN 033354613X.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Short Notices

Huns, Vandals and the Fall of the Roman Empire. By Thomas Hodgkin, with an introduction by Tim Newark. London: Greenhill Books. 1996. xxvii + 640 pp. £30. ISBN 1 85367 242 4.
The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades. By Ann Hyland. Stroud: Alan Sutton. 1994. xii + 204 pp. £19.99. ISBN 0 86299 983 9.
The Frankish World 750–900. By Janet L. Nelson. London and Rio Grand: Hambledon. 1996. xxxi + 256 pp. £37.50. ISBN 1 84285 105 8.
Agriculture in the Middle Ages: Technology, Practice and Representation. By Del Sweeney. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995. xii + 371 pp. $48.95. ISBN 0 8122 3282 8 hardback; $18.95. 0 8122 1511 7 paperback.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this articles:
Judith Herrin: The Formation of Christendom. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987; pp. x + 530.
David A. Weir: The Origins of the Federal Theology in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990; pp. xvii + 244.
Yosef Kaplan: From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro, trans. Raphael Loewe. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989; pp. xv + 531.
James Reimer: The Emanuel Hirsch and Paul Tillich Debate: A Study in the Political Ramifications of Theology (Toronto Studies in Theology, Volume 42). Lewiston, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989; pp. 384.
Curtis D. Johnson: Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York 1790-1860. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1989; pp. xiv + 214.
Patricia Grimshaw: Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, 1989; pp. 246.     

Editorial notes

The New Cambridge History of India: the Portuguese in India by M.N. Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xviii + 178; maps. £17.50.

Colonial Chesapeake Society edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp.x + 512. £29.50.

A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals by Michael H. Fisher. London: Sangam Books Ltd., 1988. Pp.x + 284; illus. £17.95.

Common Law Aboriginal Title by Kent McNeil. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xli + 357. £40.00

Colonialism and Resistance in Belize; Essays in Historical Sociology by O. Nigel Bolland. Belize: Cubola Productions, 1988. Pp. + 218; maps and illus. US$10.00.

Labour in the Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence edited by Malcolm Cross and Gad Heuman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean, 1988. Pp.xvii + 329; map. £10.95.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume V:1801 to 1820, edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp.xxv + 1044. £38.25; Volume VI, 1821 to 1835. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp.xxiv + 960. £42.50.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VII: 1836 to 1850 edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp.xxix + 1088. £45.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume VIII: 1851–60. Edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp.xxxvii + 1129. £40.00.

The Upper House in Colonial New Zealand. A Study of the Legislative Council of New Zealand in the period 1854–1887 begun by the late A.H. McLintock, Revised and completed by G.A. Wood. Government Printer, 1987. Pp.271. N.p.

Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica by Bernard Semmel. Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1986. Pp.xii + 239.

’Benefits Bestowed'? Education and British Imperialism edited by J. A. Mangan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.ix + 242; illus. £29.95.

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power by Robert I. Rotberg with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xix + 800; maps and illus. £25.00.

Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers edited with commentary by Arthur Davey. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series No.18, 1987. Pp.lxiv + 238; maps and illus. N.p.

The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa by Anne Phillips. London: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp.vii + 184. £25.00 hardback; £8.95 paperback.

Modern India, 1885–1947 by Sumit Sarkar (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xxv + 489. £35.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback.

Fabianism and Colonialism, the Life and Political Thought of Lord Sydney Olivier by Francis Lee. London: Defiant Books, 1988. Pp.v + 242.

Finance and Empire: Sir Charles Addis, 1861–1945 by R.A. Dayer. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xxi + 431; maps and illus. £35.00.

The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War: II, 1895–1918 by Frank H.H. King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxxv + 720; maps and illus. £60.00.

The Origins of the Boxer Uprising by Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp.xx + 451. N.p.

The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor by Kiyoko Takeda. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xvi + 183. £33.00.

The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire by Marc S. Gallicchio. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp.xvi + 188. US$25.00.

British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century by C.J. Bartlett. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 144. £20.00 hardback; £5.50 paperback.

British Imperial Policy and Decolonization 1938–64: Volume 2, 1951–64 by A.N. Porter and A.J. Stockwell (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xviii + 601 £45.00 hardback; £19.95 paperback.

Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View by D.C.M Platt. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 91. £24.50.     

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond. Edited by H. S. Cobb. London: House of Lords Record Office A History of the County of Chester: Volume II (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Edited by B. E. Harris. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000–1306. By G. W. S. Barrow. (The New History of Scotland, Volume 2.) London: Edward Arnold. 1981 Robert Winchelsey and the Crown 1294–1313: A Study in the Defence of Ecclesiastical Liberty. By Jeffrey H. Denton. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third series, Volume 14.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press John Russell, First Earl of Bedford: One of the King's Men. By Diane Willen. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 23; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd The Lisle Letters. Edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. By Brendan Bradshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press King Charles I. By Pauline Gregg. London: Dent Denzil Holles 1598–1680: A Study of his Political Career. By Patricia Crawford. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 16; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 1. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761: A Supplement. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 3. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E. S. de Beer. (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.) Volume VI: Letters Nos. 2119–2664. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England. Edited by John Cannon. London: Edward Arnold Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760–1801. By R. B. McDowell. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor: Paul Langford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Volume II: Party, Parliament and the American Crisis 1766–1774. Edited by Paul Langford The English Administrative System 1780–1870. By Sir Norman Chester. Oxford: Clarendon Press Order and Equipoise: The Peerage and the House of Lords 1783–1806. By Michael W. McCahill. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 11; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd. Castlereagh. By Wendy Hinde. London: Collins The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. By Geoffrey B. A. M. Finlayson. London: Eyre Methuen British Interparty Conferences: A Study of the Procedure of Conciliation in British Politics 1867–1921. By John D. Fair. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance 1872–1895. By A. E. Dingle. London: Croom Helm Joseph Chamberlain: A Political Study. By Richard Jay. Oxford: Clarendon Press Colne Valley: Radicalism to Socialism. The Portrait of a Northern Constituency in the Formative Years of the Labour Party 1890–1910. By David Clark. London: Longman The People's Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics. By Bruce K. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935. By Tom Stannage. London: Croom Helm The Commons in Perspective. By Philip Norton. Oxford: Martin Robertson Works of Art in the House of Lords. Edited by Maurice Bond. London: H. M. S. O.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Regards chrétiens sur Pislam . By Louis Gardet. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1986. 219 pp. Indices. 96 F. Traditional Islam in the Modern World . By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. London and New York: KPI Ltd., 1987. x plus 335 pp. n.p. Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology. By Merryl Wyn Davies. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. x plus 189 pp. Index. $52.50, hardcover. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion. William A. Graham. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 306 pp. Bibliography. Indices. $32.50. Medieval Persian Court Poetry . By Julie Scott Meisami. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiii plus 345 pp. $45.00. Textual Sources for the Study of Islam. Edited and translated by Andrew Rippin and Jan Knappert. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. xii plus 209 pp. Map. Glossary. Index. £6.75. In Quest of an Islamic Humanism: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Mohamed al-Nowaihi. Edited by A. H. Green. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1984. xxiv plus 217 pp. n.p. Philosophy of Islam. Ayatullah Dr. Muhammad Hosayni Behishti and Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Javad Bahonar. Salt Lake City: Islamic Publications, n.d. 580 pp. n.p. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. By David B. Burrell. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 130 pp. $15.95, hardcover; $8.95, paper. Averroes’ De Substantia Orbis: Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text with English Translation and Commentary. By Arthur Hyman. [Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi: Averroes Hebraicus, Medieval Academy Books No. 96.] Cambridge, Massachusetts and Jerusalem: Medieval Academy of America, 1986. 156 plus 74 pp. in Hebrew numerals. Two Critical Apparatus. Hebrew-Latin Glossary. Bibliography. Two Indices. $30.00. Eighteenth-Century Renewal And Reform In Islam. Edited by Nehemiah Levtzion and John O. Voll. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. Preface plus 200 pp. Glossary. Index. $24.95, Cloth. Zwischen Faktum and Fiktion: Eine Studie zum Umayyadenkalifen Sulaiman b. Abdalmalik and seinem Bild in den Quellen. By Reinhard Eisener. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. ix plus 296 pp. Appendix. Index. DM 68. Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society. Edited by G.H.A. Juynboll. [Papers on Islamic History; v.5.] Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. ix plus 292 pp. $20.00. Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. By Martin Kramer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. xi plus 250 pps. Index. $30.00. Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World. By C.A. Qadir. North Ryde, New South Wales: Croom Helm, 1988. viii plus 218 pages. Index. $67.50, cloth; Canada $94.50. Urdu Letters of irz Asadu'llh n lib. Translated and annotated by Daud Rahbar. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1987. xlv plus 628 pp. n.p. Imam Ali: Source of Light, Wisdom and Might. By Sulaymn Kattn, translated by I. K. Howard. London: Muhammadi Trust and New York: Methuen, 1986. x plus 148 pp. $25.00. Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900–1930. By Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. xviii plus 346 pp. $39.95. Tchad 1900-1902, une guerre franco-libyenne oublie? Une confrrie musulmane, la Sansiyya, face la France. By Jean-Louis Triaud. [Racines du présent series.] Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988. 203 plus xxxii pp. Photoreproductions of 38 archival letters in handwritten Arabic (with 105 pp. French translation). 3 maps. Bibliography. Index. n.p. Amal and the Shia: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon. By Augustus Richard Norton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. xxii plus 238 pp. $25.00, hardcover; $10.95, paperback. Passeé Turco-Tatar, Présent Sovietique: Études offertes Alexandre Bennigsen/Turco-Tatar Past Soviet Present: Studies presented to Alexandre Bennigsen. Edited by Ch. Lemercier-Quelquejay, G. Veinstein, and S.E. Wimbush. [Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, la Collection TLrcica, VI: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, la collection Civilisations et Sociétés, 74.] Louvain-Paris: Éditions Peeters and Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. ix plus 563 pp. Photograph. n.p. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. By Olivier Roy. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. vi plus 253 pp. $24.95. Khoumani, Islamic Fundamentalists and the Contributions of Islamic Sciences to Modern Civilization. By Antoine J. Abraham. [Anthroscience Monograph Series.] Notre Dame, Indiana: Foundations Press of Notre Dame, 1983. 39 pp. n.p. The Gulf Cooperation Council: Moderation and Stability in an Interdependent World. Edited by John A. Sandwick. Foreword by George McGovern. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1987. x plus 289 pp. Tables. Charts. Texts of documents. Bibliography. $15.95. The Powers in the Middle East: The Ultimate Strategic Arena. Edited by Bernard Reich. New York: Praeger, 1987. 351 pp. $45.00.     

Book Reviews

‘WE GATHER TOGETHER’: FOOD AND FESTIVAL IN AMERICAN LIFE. Edited by THEODORE H. HUMPHREY and LIN T. HUMPHREY. Utah State University Press, 1991. 289pp. $17.95 paper, ISBN 0-87421-155-7. Reviewed by Jennifer Chandler.

SPOKEN IN JEST. Edited by Gillian Bennett. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1992. ISBN 1850752575. 296pp., 3 plates, 22 figures. £25 (cloth). Reviewed by Susan Storrier.

WEDDING CAKES AND CULTURAL HISTORY by SIMON CHARSLEY. Routledge, London, 1992. 162pp. 4 illustrations. ISBN 0-415-02648-2 (hbk); 0-415-02649-0 (pbk). Reviewed by George Monger.

NORSE MYTHS. By R. I. PAGE. London: British Museum Press, 1990. 80pp. £5.95. ISBN 0 7141 2062 6. Reviewed by Carolyne Larrington.

DIE MAUS IM JUMBO-JET: NEUE SAGENHAFTE GESCHICHTEN VON HEUTE. By ROLF WILHELM BREDNICH, Beck'sche Reihe 435. München: Beck, 1991. 143 pp. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

THE RISE OF MAGIC IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE by VALERIE J. FLINT. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. 452 pp. ISBN 0-19-820093-5. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

INTERNATIONAL PROVERB SCHOLARSHIP: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. SUPPLEMENT I (1800–1981). WOLFGANG MIEDER. Garland Publishing Inc., New York and London, 1990. 436 pp. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS. Ed. JOHN SIMPSON and JENNIFER SPEAKE. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York (2nd ed.), 1992. 316 pp. ISBN 0-19-866177-0. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN PROVERBS. Ed. WOLFGANG MIEDER, S. A. KINGSBURY and K. B. HARDER. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992. 710 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0-19-505399-0. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

ETHNIC MUSIC ON RECORDS. By RICHARD K. SPOTTSWOOD. University of Illinois Press, 1990. Volumes 1-7. Pp. 4,347. Illustrated. ISBN 0-252-01718-8 (set). Reviewed by Gordon Ashman.

DUNBAR THE MAKAR. By PRISCILLA BAWCUTT. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992. 196pp. £50. ISBN 0-19-812963-7. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

SIGNS FROM THE ANCESTORS by M. JANE YOUNG, 1990. Reviewed by Donald Taylor.

THE NIGHTWAY by JAMES C FARIS, 1990. Reviewed by Donald Taylor.

FORMS OF DEFORMITY. By LYNN HOLDEN. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 131. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991. 370pp. Appendix and bibliography. ISBN 1-85074-327-X. £40. Reviewed by Jennifer Chandler.

CITY, MARRIAGE, TOURNAMENT ARTS OF RULE IN LATE MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND. By LOUISE OLGA FRADENBURG. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 390pp, ill. ISBN 0-299-12954-3. Reviewed by Sandra Billington.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. By GARETH WILLIAMS. Writers of Wales Series, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1991. 93pp. £3.50. Reviewed by Trefor M. Owen.     

Like an oasis in the desert: The Israel consulate in Munich, 1948–1953

Yosef Gorny, Zionism and the Arabs 1882–1948: A Study in Ideology Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, 342 pp., U.S. $67., U.K.£35.

Robert S. Wistrich, The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Littman Library, 1989, 696 pp.

Shabtai Teveth, Ben‐Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886–1948, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. 967 pages.

Jehuda Reinharz, Hashomer Hatzair in Germany, 1931–1939, Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim Publishing House, Ltd., 1987, 246 pp.

Benjamin Akzin: From Riga to Jerusalem — A Memoir (Hebrew), The Zionist Library, Jerusalem, 1989, 369 pp; Herzl Rosenblum, Drops from the Sea (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1987, 207 pp; Dr. Meir Kahan, Carry a Fire to Kindle (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1988, 221 pp.

Uri Bar‐Joseph, Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 1987, x+254pp.,£25.     

Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale as Anti-Märchen

The Threshold of Religion. By R. R. Ma rett. Methuen, 1909. Cr. 8vo, Pp. 194. By F. B. Jevons.

Psyche's Task, a Discourse concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions. By Professor J. G. Frazer, LL.D., Litt.D. Macmillan, 1909. 8vo, Pp. viii + 84. By W. Crooke.

Gaelic Fairy Tales. Edited By Winifred M. Parks. Glasgow: Sinclair, 1908. 8vo, pp. 48. Illus. By Eleanor Hull.

A Biblioographv of Congo Languages. By Frederick Starr. University of Chicago Press, 1908. 4to, pp. 97. By A. E. Scrivener.

Mittellungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten : Ergänzungsheft No. I. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse meiner ethnographischen Forschungsreise in den Südosten Deutsch -Ostafrikas. Von Dr. Karl Weule. Berlin : Mittler, 1908. Pp. x + 150. 63 plates and map. By N. W. Thomas.

The Nandi : their Language and Folklore. By A. C. Hollis. With Introduction By Sir Charles Eliot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 8vo, pp. xl + 328. By A. Werner.

Folk -Tales of Hindustan. By Shaikh Chilli. Allahabad: Indian Press, 1908. By M. Longworth Dames.

Ancient Tales and Folk - Lore of Japan. By Richard Gordon Smith. A. &; C. Black, 1908, 410, pp. xv + 361. 62 col. illus. By A. R. Wright.

The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom. By Basil Thomson. Heinemann, 1908. 8vo, pp. xx + 396. By W. H. R. Rivers.

The Origin of Terms of Human Relationship. By A. Lang. From the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. iii. Froude, 1909. pp. 20. By W. Crooke.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550–1653. By Robert Brenner.
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England. By Linda Levy Peck.
Civil War and Restoration in Three Stuart Kingdoms. The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim, 1609–83. By Jane H. Ohlmeyer.
Justice Upon Petition. The House Of Lords and the Reformation of Justice 1621–1675. By James S. Hart.
Proceedings in Parliament, 1628: vol. V, Lords Proceedings in 1628; vol. VI, Appendices and Index. Edited by Mary Freer Keeler, Maija Jansson Cole, and William B. Bidwell.
Not Peace but a Sword: The Political Theology offhe English Revolution. By Stephen Baskerville.
Politics Under the Later Stuarts. Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660–1715. By Tim Harris.(Studies in Modem History.)
The Making of a Great Power: Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain, 1660–1722. By Geoffrey Holmes.(Foundations of Modern Britain.)
The Age of Oligarchy: Pre-Industrial Britain, 1722–1783. By Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi.(Foundations of Modern Britain.)
The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. By R. O. Bucholz.
A Patriot Press. National Politics and the London Press in the 1740s. By Robert Harris.(Oxford Historical Monographs.)
The Insatiable Earl. A Life Of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. By N. A. M.Rodger.     

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THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA : A History of the Intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the Hunting Grounds of the Bushmen. By G. W. STOW, F.G.S. Edited by G. M. THEAL. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1905. Pp. xvi + 618, with as Plates and a Map. Price 21s. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.

ORIGINES ISLANDICAE, edited and translated by GUDBRAND VIGFUSSON and F. YORE POWELL. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1905. Reviewed by L. Winifred Faraday.

ENGLISH MEDICINE IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TIMES. By JOSEPH FRANK PAYNE. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1904. Reviewed by Bertram C. A. Windle.

JUL : ALLESÆLESTIDEN ; HEDENSK, KRISTEN JULEFEST. Vol. I. By H. F. Feilberg. Copenhagen : 1904. Reviewed by W. A. Craigie.

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE, Vol. XVII., Oct.–Dec, 1904. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.     

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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