Book reviews

Eid und Herrschaft. Untersuchungen zum Herrscherethos Karls des Groβen . Vorträge und Forschungen. Sonderband 39. By Matthias Becher. Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus . Translated with an introduction and commentary by H. W. Bird Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire . By John Blair. Stroud and Dover, The‘chronicle'of Hydatius and the‘Consularia Constantinopolitana ‘. Two contemporary accounts of the final years of the Roman Empire. Edited with and English translation by R. W. Burgess. Philologische Studien zur Chronik des Hydatius von Chaves (Palingenesia xlvii). By Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann. The Later Roman Empire, AD 284–430. By Averil Cameron. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395–600 . By Averil Cameron. L’Économie médiévale . By P. Contamine, M. Bompaire, S. Lebecq and J.-L. Sarrazin. Civitas to Kingdom, British Political Continuity 300–800. By K. R. Dark. Discovery by Design. The Identification of Secular Elite Settlements in Western Britain AD 400–700. By K. R. Dark. Saint Patric's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age . Translations and commentaries by Liam de Paor. Les fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental (III^c-XIII^c siècle): Actes du colloque, Rome 1988, Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, 149. Rome: 1991. 551 pp. 525 F. ISSN 0223 5099; ISBN 2 7283 0228 2. Die Begegnung des Westens mit dem Osten. Kongreβakten des 4. Symposions des Mediävistenverbandes in Köln 1991 aus Anlaβ des 1000. Todesjahres der Kaiserin Theophanu . Edited by Odilo Engels and Peter Schreiner. A History of English Field-Names . By John Field. Manuscrits hagiographiques et travail des hagiographes . Edited by M. Heinzelmann. Animals in Early Medieval Art. By Carola Hicks. The Book of Letters of Saint Parick the Beshop. By D. R. Howlett. Die Stadtkirche St Laurentius in Winterthur: Ergebnisse der Archäologischen und Historischen Forschungen . By Carola Jäggi, H-R. Meier, Renata Windler and Martin Illi. Caesarius of Arles. The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul . By William E. Klingshirn. Fernhandel und Geldwirtschaft: Beiträge zum deutschen Münzwesen in Sächsischer und Salischer Zeit. Ergebnisse des Dannenberg-Kolloquiums 1990. Edited by Bernd Kluge. The Picts and the Scots. By Lloyd and Jenny Laing. Cnut: The Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century. By M. K. Lawson. Benedictine Maledictions. Liturgical Cursing in romanesque France. By Lester K. Little. Ship of the Port of London: First of Eleventh centuries AD . By Peter marsden. The Clash of Gods. A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. By Thomas F. Mathews. Thrymsas and sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford. By D. M. Mctcalf. Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science . Translated Texts for Historians, 16. Translated with notes and introduction by N. P. Milner. Eutropius: Breviarium . Translated Texts for Historians 14. Translated with an introduction and commentary by H. W. Bird. Cultural Interplay in the Eight Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of the sciptorium at Echternach . By Nancy Netzer. Römer und Alamannen im Breisgau: Studien zur Besiedlungsgeschichte in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter . Edited by H. Nuber, K. Schmid, H. Steuer and T. Zotz. Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain . By Elisabeth Okasha. Un historien et son Église au X siècle, Flodoard de Reims . By Michel Sot. The Age of Migration Ideas. Early Medieval Art in Northern Britain and Ireland. Edited by R. M. Spearman and J. Higgitt. Rural Aspects of Early Medieval Northwest Europe . By Adrian Verhulst. Études sur le Grand Domaine Carolingien . By Jean-Pierre Devroey. Signs and Wonders: Saints, Miracles and Prayers from the 4th Century to the 14th . By Benedicta Ward. Anglo-Saxon Paganism By David Wilson. The Uley Shrines . By Ann Woodward and Peter Leach. The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature. By Charles D. Wright.     

Shorter notices

Monique Pelletier. Tours et contours de la terre: itinéraires d'une femme au coeur de la cartographie. Edited by Catherine Hofmann and Danielle Lecoq. Paris: Press de l'école nationale des ponts et chaussés, 1999. ISBN 2 85978 316 4. Pp. 303, illus. [Press de l'école nationale des ponts et chaussés, 28 Rue des Saints‐Pères, 75007 Paris.]

Historical Atlas of South‐west England. Edited by Roger J. P. Kain and William Ravenhill. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999. ISBN 0 85989 434 7. Pp xxii, 564, illus., col. plates. STG£65.00 (cloth, in slipcase). [University of Exeter Press, Reed Hall, Streatham Drive, Exeter EX4 4QR.]

DK Atlas of World History. Edited by Jeremy Black. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999. ISBN 0 7513 0719 X. Pp. 352, illus., col. plates. STG£29.99 (cloth).

DK World Atlas: Millennium Edition. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999. ISBN 0 7513 0718 1. Pp. 492, illus., +CD‐ROM. STG£75.00 (slipcase).

Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography. John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles. By Jill Shefrin. ISBN 0 966084 1 0. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 1999. Pp. 40, illus., col. plates, bibl. (Paper). [Cotsen Occasional Press, 10650 Holman Ave., Unit 207, Los Angeles, CA 90024.]     

Book reviews

Carolingian Renewal: Sources and Heritage. By D. A. Bullough.
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe . By Valerie I. J. Flint.
Dark Age Naval Power . By John Haywood.
Goths and Romans 332–489. By P. J. Heather.
The Goths in the Fourth Century . By Peter Heather and John Matthews
The External School in Carolingian Society . By M. M. Hildebrandt.
Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for her Son , by Dhuoda.
Wulfstan of Winchester: The Life of St æthelwold . Edited by Michael Lapidge and Michael Winterbottom.
The End of Ancient Christianity. By Robert Markus.
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse . By Averil Cameron. Berkeley
The Annals of St-Bertin (Ninth-century Histories, volume I). Translated and annotated by Janet L. Nelson
Ireland and Northern France AD 600–810. Edited by Jean-Michel Picard
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600–900. Edited by L. Webster and J. Backhouse     

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The Anatomy of a Little War. A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair (568–586) . By Bernard S. Bachrach. Intinerant Kingship and Roual Monastesries in Early Medieval Germany c. 936–1075. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought). By John W. Bernhardt. Abü Ma‘?’ar, the Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, Together with the Medieval Latin Translation of Adelard of Bath . Edited and translated by Ch. Burnett, K. Yamamoto and M. Yano. Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry . By Peter Clemoes. The Chronicle of Marcellinus, Translation and Commentary . By Brain Croke. Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c. 650-c. 850. By Catherine Cubitt. English Carolin Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A. D. 950–1030 . By David N. Dumville. Studien zum Polyptychon von Saint-German-des-Prés . By Konrad Elmhäuser and Andreas Hedwig. Das Polyptychon von Saint-German-des-Prés: Studienausgabe . By Konrad Elmhäuser and Andreas Hedwig. Viking Age Ringed Pins from Dublin . By Thomas Fanning. Settlement and Social Organization. The Merovingian Region of Metz . By Guy Halsall. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIIe-Xe siècle). Essai d'anthropologie sociale . By Régine Le Jan. Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, AD 481–751 . By Yitzhak Hen. The English conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century. N. J. Higman. Das römische Erbe und das Merowingerreich . By Reinhold Kaiser Die Entstehung des Deutschen Reiches . By Joachim Ehlers Königtum und Königsherrschaft im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert . By Egon Boshof Die Regularis Concordia und ihre altenglische Interlinearversion. Mit Einleitung und Kommentar , edited by Lucia Kornexl. Zur päpstlichen Urkundensprache im frühen Mittelalter: Die päpstlichen Privilegien 896- 1046 . By Hans-Henning Kortüm. Miracles and the Venerable Bede . By W. D. MCready. Both One and Many: Essay on Change and Variety in Late Norse Heathenism . By John MKinnell, Fiefs and Vassals. The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted . S. Reynolds. Danish Medieval History: New Currents . Edited by Niels Skyum-Nielsen and Niels Lund. The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales . By Robin Chapman Stacey. Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint , Edited by Clare Stancliffe and Eric Cambridge. In the Foreground Beowulf . By Eric Gerald Stanley.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Historiographie de l'antiquité et transferts culturels : Les histoires anciennes dans l 'Europe des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles . Edited by Chryssanthi Avlami and Jaime Alvar. What Is Migration History ? By Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder. Historical Reenactment : From Realism to the Affective Turn . Edited by Iain McCalman and Paul A. Pickering. When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology . By Hermann Rebel . Virginia Woolf , Modernity and History : Constellations with Walter Benjamin . By Angeliki Spiropoulou. Public Forgetting : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again . By Bradford Vivian. Constructing the Past : Writing Irish History , 1600–1800. Edited By Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest.     

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Amicitiae und Pacta. Bündnis, Einung, Politik und Gebetsgedenken im beginnenden 10. Jahrhundert . By Gerd Althoff. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. Edited by Emilie Amt. Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West. By Bernard S. Bachrach. The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator . Translated with notes and introduction by S. J. Barnish The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis) . Translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis Victor of Vita: History of the Vandal Persecution . Translated with notes and introduction by John Moorhead The Last Christology of the West. Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul 785–820. By John C. Cavadini. Three South Etrurian Churches: Santa Cornelia, Santa Rurina and San Liberato (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 4). Edited by Neil Christie. San Vincenzo al Volturno 1: The 1980–86 Excavations Part 1 (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 7). Edited by Richard Hodges. Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain . By Roger Collins Early Anglo-Saxon Shields . By Tania Dickinson and Heinrich Harke. Saint Patrick, A. D. 493–1993. By David N. Dumville Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus. Kaiserliche Rompolitik und sach-sische Historiographie . By Knut Görich. The Early State and The Towns: Forms of Integration in Lombard Italy AD 568–774. By Dick Harrison. Norse and Later Settlement and Subsistence in the North Atlantic. Edited by Christopher D. Morris and D. James Rackham. The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney and the North Atlantic . Edited by Colleen E. Batey, Judith Jesch and Christopher D. Morris. An Anglo-Saxon Watermill at Tamworth. Excavations in the Bolebridge Street area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, in 1971 and 1978. By Philip Rahtz and Robert Meeson. Éducation et culture dans l'occident médiéval . By Pierre Riche. Tintagel, Arthur and Archaeology . By Charles Thomas The Caliphate in the West . By David J. Wasserstein Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry 750–1150 . By Jan M. Ziolkowski.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Iran Between Two Revolutions , By Ervand Abrahamian Mollā Sadrā Sh?rāz?: Le Livre des pénétrations métaphysiques (Kitāb al-Mashāir). Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Corbin Le livre du licite et de l'illicite (Kitāb al-halāl wa-l-harām , Book XIV of Al-Gazāl?'s Ihyā Ulūm ad-D?n). Introduction, translation and notes by Régis Morelon Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought. By Fuad Baali Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam. Edited by Katherine P. Ewing The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. By Gordon Darnell Newby Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. by Barbara J. Callaway Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society. By Hisham Sharabi The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser Christians and Muslims Together: An Exploration by Presbyterians. Edited by Byron L Ägypten unter Mubarak: Identität und nationales Interesse. by Gudrun Krämer Towards Understanding the Qur⁾ān. Vol. 1, Sura 1–3. English version of Sayyid Abul A⁽la Mawdudi's Tafhim al-Qur⁽ān, translated and edited by Zafar Ishaq Ansari Middle East Contemporary Survey. Vol. IX. Edited by Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked. The Sufi Path of Knowledge : Ibn al-⁽Arab?'s Metaphysics of Imagination. By William C. Chittick Colonising Egypt. By Timothy Mitchell Past-Revolutionary Iran. Edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manouchehr Parvin Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. By M. E. Combs-Schilling Islam: The Straight Path. By John L. Esposito Islam, Politics, and Social Movements. Edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. By Lila Abu-Lughod     

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.     

Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793–1860: An Illustrated and Comparative Study. By Edward V. Thompson

Mapamundi. The Catalan Atlas of the year 1375. Edited with commentary by Georges Grosjean. Dietikon‐Zurich : Urs Graf Verlag, 1978. Colour facsimile on 6 panels. Pp. 93.

Vesconte Maggiolo: Atlante nautico del 1512 (Der Seeatlas vom Jahre 1512). Edited with commentary by Georges Grosjean. Dietikon‐Zurich : Urs Graf Verlag, 1979. Colour facsimile. Pp. 88.

La géographie de la renaissance (1420–1620). By Numa Broc. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980. (Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques: Mémoires de la Section de Géographie, no. 9). Pp. 252.

Wall‐maps of the 16th and 17th centuries. A series of full‐size facsimiles of wall‐maps published in the Low Countries. Edited by Günther Schilder. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1977‐. 1: The world map of 1624 by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Jodocus Hondius (1977). Pp. 17, pl. A‐U. 2: The world map of 1669 by Jodocus Hondius the elder and Nicolaas Visscher (1978). Pp. 35, pl. 20.

The compleat plattmaker. Essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Norman]. W. Thrower. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. 241.

County atlases of the British Isles 1579–1810. A bibliography compiled by ?R. A. Skelton. Folkestone: Dawson, 1978. Pp. viii+262.

Christopher Saxton and Tudor map‐making. By Sarah Tyacke and John Huddy. London: The British Library, 1980. Pp.64.

The A to Z of Elizabethan London. Compiled by Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor. Introductory notes by John Fisher. Lympne: Harry Margary, in association with the Guildhall Library, London, 1979. Pp. 62.

Plan of the parish of St. Marylebone in the county of Middlesex, by Peter Potter, c. 1832. London: Westminster City Libraries in association with the St. Marylebone Society, 1979. Pp. 2, 6 sheets.

Yorkshire maps and map‐makers. By Arthur Raistrick. Clapham, North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books, 1979. Pp. 72.

Ireland from maps. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 1980. Pp. 20, 16 sheets.

Abriss der Kartographie des Fürstentums Kalmbach‐Bayreuth. By Hans Vollet. Kulmbach: Stadtarchiv, 1977. Pp. 175. (Die Plassenburg. Schriften für Heimatforschung und Kulturpflege in Ostfranken, vol. 38).

Die Pläne von Berlin von den Anfängen bis 1950. By Paul Clauswitz and Lothar Zögner in collaboration with Elke Günther and Gudrun K. Zögner. Berlin: Verlag Richard Seitz, 1977. Pp. 241.

Romancero del topónimo fueguino. By Juan E. Belza. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones historicas Tierra del Fuego, 1978. Pp. 239.

[Agrave] la découvert de la terre. Dix siécles de cartographie. Trèsors du Départment des Cartes et Plans (mai‐juillet 1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1979. Pp. xvi + 122. Ill.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Revolution: A History of the ldea. Edited by David Close and Carl Bridge. Nero: The End of a Dynasty. By Miriam Griffin. Women in Roman Law and society. By Jane F. Gardner. The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation. By Arthur Ferrill. The Romans in Central Europe. By Herbert Schutz. German Knighthood, 1050–1300. By Benjamin Arnold. The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror: Intellect and Force an the Middle Ages. Edited by Robert I. Burns, S.J. Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. By Martha C. Howell. Saint Jerome in the Renaissance. By Eugene F. Rice Jr. Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. By Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Translated by Lydia Cochrane. Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427. By David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Statesmen and Politicians of the Stuart Age. Edited by Timothy Eustace. Carlyle and the Burden of History. By John D. Rosenberg. Léger Félicité Sonthonax. The Lost Sentinel of the Republic. By Robert Louis Stein. Napoleon And Iberia: The Twin Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida, 1810. By Donald D. Horward. The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century. By John M. Merriman. The German Empire, 1871–1918. By Hans-Ulrich Wehler. Translated by Kim Traynor. Liberal Democrats in the Weimar Republic: The History of the German Democratic Party and the German State Party. By Bruce B. Frye. The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938–1939: The Path to Ruin. By Williamson Murray. Modern India The Origins of an Asian Democracy. By Judith M. Brown. The Soong Dynasty. By Sterling Seagrave. 1676: The End of American Independence. By Stephen Saunders Webb. Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay. By Jonathan M. Chu. The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ War, 2757–2762. By Richard Middleton. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War. By Fred Anderson. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748–1783. By Jack D. Marietta. The French Enlightenment in America: Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers. By Paul Merrill Spurlin. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780–1782. By John S. Pancake. The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present Perspectives. Edited by Steven R. Boyd. Tecumseh's Last Stand. By John Sugden. Samuel Slater and the origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790–1860. By Barbara M. Tucker. North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800–1860. By Jane Turner Censer. The Line of Duty: Maverick Congressmen and the Development of American Political Culture, 1836–1860. By Johanna Nicol Shields. Those Who Stayed Behind Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England. By Hal S. Barron. George Washington Williams: A Biography. By John Hope Franklin. Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization. By Betty Fladeland. Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1838–1893. By Michael C. Coleman. The Web of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, & Education. Edited by Walter J. Fraser Jr., R. Frank Saunders Jr. and Jon L. Wakelyn. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale smith. By Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1864–1900. By William R. Brock. The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil. By Terry P. Wilson Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century, 1870–1914. Vol. 2. By Claude Welch. The American Churches in World War 1. By John F. Piper Jr. Hoover, Blacks, & Lily-Whites: A Study of Southern Strategies. By Donald J. Lisio. Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. By K. Austin Kerr. Propaganda in an Open Society: The Roosevelt Administration and the Media, 193–1941. By Richard W. Steele. Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan. By Kim McQuaid. Triumph and Disaster 1945–1964. [Vol. 3 of The Years of MacArthur.] By D. Clayton James. The United States and Mexico. By Josefina Zoraida Vázquez and Lorenzo Meyer.     

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Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland: Monuments, Cosmology and the Past. By N. B. Aitchison. Cadbury Castle, Somerset: The Early Medieval Archaeology By Leslie Alcock, with S. J. Stevenson and C. R. Musson. The Medieval Landscape of Wessex . Edited by Michael Aston and Carenza Lewis. Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian . By Bernhard Bischoff and Michael Lapidge. The English nobility under Edward the Confessor . By Peter A. Clarke. The Old English Lives of St Margaret . By Mary Clayton and Hugh Magennis. The Martyrs of Cordoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion . By Jessica A. Coope. Scotland in Dark Age Europe . Edited by Barbara E. Crawford. The politics of dreaming in the Carolingian Empire . By Paul Edward Dutton. The Early Medieval Bible . Edited by Richard Gameson. The Viking-Age Gold and Silver of Scotland AD 850–1100 . By James Graham-Campbell. Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature , 800–1300. By D. H. Green. Sidonius Apollinarus and the Fall of Rome , AD 407–485. By Jill Harries. Karl Martell in seiner Zeit . Beihefte der Francia, Band 37. Edited by J. Jarnut, U. Nonn and M. Richter. Manor, Vill and Hundred: The Development of Rural Institutions in Early Medieval Hampshire . By Eric Klingelhofer. Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh century. Decoding Virgi-lius Maro Grammaticus . By Vivien Law. Medieval Boat and Ship Timbers from Dublin. Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962–81. Series B, Volume 3. By Sean MGrail. Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation . Edited by Rosamond MKitterick. Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France . By Megan MLaughlin. Early Irish Contract Law . By Neil MLeod. Theodoric in Italy . By John Moorhead. Ausgewählte Probleme europäischer Landnahmen des Früh-und Hochmit-telalters. Methodische Grundlagendiskussion im Grenzbereich zwischen Archäologie und Geschichte. The Book of Kells: Proceedings of a Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, 6–9 September 1992 . Edited by Felicity O'Mahony. The Poetic Art of Aldhelm . By Andy Orchard. Politik und Heiligenverehrung im Hochmittelalter . Edited by Jürgen Peter-sohn Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianisation of Marriage during the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods . By P. L. Reynolds. The Formation of the Medieval West: Studies in the Oral Culture of the Barbarians . By Michael Richter. Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict . Medieval Iberian Peninsula Texts and Studies 10. By Norman Roth. The Reign of Cnut, King of England, Denmark and Norway . Edited by Alexander R. Rumble. The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic forms before A. D. 1000. By Robert D. Stevick. Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul. By Raymond Van Dam.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I. By Michael C. C. Adams John Bull and the Bear: British Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union 1941-1945. By P. M. H. Bell The Rise of Richelieu. By Joseph Bergin Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Search for Stability. By D. George Boyce The Habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815-1918. By F. R. Bridge Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City. By Robert C. Davis The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution. By Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel. Translated by Claudia Miéville Jewish Politics in Vienna, 1918-1938. By Harriet Pass Freidertreich The Causes of the English Civil War. By Ann Hughes The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 19004950. By Konrad H. Jarausch Chinese Boycotts Versus Japanese Bombs: The Failure of China's “Revolutionary Diplomacy,” 1931-32. By Donald A. Jordan From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy. By Ellen E. Kittell The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age. By Joseph M. Levine Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan. By Michael Lewis A Climate for Appeasement. By Terrance L. Lewis Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England. By Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy Cicero: The Senior Statesman. By Thomas N. Mitchell Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class, Leeds, 1820-50. By R. J. Morris Himmler. By Peter Padfield Politics, Shipping and the Repeal of the Navigation Laws. By Sarah Palmer Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom, 1814-1870. By Michael Stephen Partridge Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire. By S. J. Payling English Politics in the Thirteenth Century. By Michael Prestwich Women, Equality, and the French Revolution. By Candice E. Proctor The Restoration. By Paul Seaward Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. By Dennis E. Showalter The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Edited by Denis Sinor Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity. By Richard B. Speed m Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in The Edwardian Stately Press, 1903-1913. By James D. Startt Sir Francis Drake. By John Sugden State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt. By Ehud R. Toledano Holland Under Hapsburg Rule, 1506-1566: The Formation of a Body Politic. By James D. Tracy Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action. By William Blake Tyrrell and Frieda S. Brown Paul Leroy-Beaulieu and Established Liberalism in France. By Dan Warshaw War From the Top: German and British Military Decision Making during World War II. By Alan F. Wilt The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolutbn. Edited by Alan Wood Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: The Post-War Coalition, 1918-1922. By Chris Wrigley Breaking the Iron Bonds; Indian Control of Energy Development. By Marjane Ambler The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. Edited by Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923. By Eric Arnesen The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930. By Paula Baker A New Deal for the American People. By Roger Biles Virginia's Viceroy, Their Majesties’Governor General: Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham. By Warren M. Billings Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. By Robert M. Bliss Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek. By William Y. Chalfant The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston Amateurs, to Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812. By John R. Elting The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of fudge John J. Parker. By Kenneth W. Goings A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720. By Larry Gragg Thomas O. hirkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California. By Harlan Hague and David J. Langum The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall. By Harold Paulk Henderson Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch. By Janet Sharp Hermann Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. By Joan Hoff To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991. By Stephen Howarth Abe Fortas: A Biography. By Laura Kalman A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. By Nicolas Kanellos The American Whig: William Livingston of New York. By Milton M. Klein James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Gary R. Kremer Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865. By Jeffrey N. Lash To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal. By Richard C. Lindberg Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath. By Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Soderlund The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. By Mark E. Neely, Jr Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier. By Earl P. Olmstead Major Robert Farmar of Mobile. By Robert R. Rea An American Illiad: The Story of the Civil War. By Charles P. Roland Creating a Dignified Past: Museums and the Colonial Revival. Edited by Geoffrey L. Rossano Roosevelt: The Party Leader, 1932-1945. By Sean J. Savage Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. By Virginia Scharff Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. By Dorothy Schneider and Carl J. Schneider Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1989. By Steven Seidman Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748. By Carl E. Swanson Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Edited by Wiliam Jeffrey Welsh and David Curtis Skagss Mosby's Rangers. By Jeffry D. Wert     

Book reviews

Mayles BayléArchitecture Normande au Moyen Age. Actes du Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (28 September–2 October 1994). Regards sur l'art de bâtir and Les étapes de la creation. Matthias Becher Rex, Dux und Gens. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung des sächsischen Herzogtums im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert . Edited by John J. Contreni and Pádraig P. Ó Néill. Glossae Divinae Historiae. The Biblical Glosses of John Scottus Eriugena. Christian Coppens, Albert Derolez and Hubert Heymans Codex Eyckensis. An Insular Gospel Book from the Abbey of Aldeneik. A Facsimile with an Introduction. Stephanie CouéHagiographie im Kontext. Schreibanlaß und Funktion von Bischofsviten aus dem 11. und vom Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts. Alice L. Harting-Corrêa Walahfrid Strabo, ‘Libellus de Exordiis et Incrementis Quarandum in Observationibus Ecclesiasticis Rerum.’ A Translation and Liturgical Commentary.. Rijcklof Hofman The Sankt Gall Priscian Commentary. Part 1. Vol. 1. Introduction; Books 1-5. Vol. 2. Translation and Commentary; Indices. Edited by Richard A. Jackson Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages. Vol. I.. Jenny Jochens Old Norse Images of Women.. Mayke de Jong In Samuel’s Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West.. Felice Lifshitz The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria. Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics 684–1090.. Edited by R. McKitterick The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume II, c.700–c.900. Edited by Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault Edward Gibbon and Empire. Inge B. Milfull The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church. A Study and Edition of the ‘Durham Hymnal.’ DáibhíÓ Cróinín Early Medieval Ireland 400–1200. Carol Braun Pasternack The Textuality of Old English Poetry. Edited by Erich Poppe and Bianca Ross The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography. Susan A. Rabe Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier. The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert. Pierre RichéDictionnaire des Francs. Les carolingiens. Jonathan Riley-Smith The First Crusaders, 1095–1131. Edited by Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, with Malcolm Godden Alfred the Wise. Studies in Honour of Janet Bately.. Pauline Stafford Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women’s Power in Eleventh Century England. Kees Veelenturf Dia Brátha. Eschatological Theophanies and Irish High Crosses.     

French cultural history from theory to practice

Rioux, J.‐P. and Sirinelli, J.‐F. (eds), Pour une histoire culturelle (Seuil, 1997), 456 pp., 185F., ISBN 2 02 025470 0

Rioux, J.‐P. and Sirinelli, J.‐F. (eds), Histoire culturelle de la France, vol 3, Baecque, A. de and Mélonio, F., Lumières et libertés: les dix‐huitième et dix‐neuvième siècles (Seuil, 1998), 390 pp., 340F., ISBN 2 02 019793 6

Rioux, J.‐P. and Sirinelli, J.‐F. (eds), Histoire culturelle de la France, vol. 4, Rioux, J.‐P. and Sirinelli, J.‐F, Le temps des masses: le vingtième siècle (Seuil, 1998), 404 pp., 340F., ISBN 2 02 013537 X     

REVIEWS

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

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Enlightenment . Edited by Hans Erich Bödeker, Clorinda Donato, and Peter Hanns Reill. The Annales School : An Intellectual History . By André Burguière. A History of Histories : Epics , Chronicles , Romances , and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century . By John Burrow. Liberalism and Hegemony : Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution . Edited by Jean‐François Constant and Michel Ducharme. Der Fortchrittsglaube : Geschichte einer Europaïschen Idee . By Bedrich Loewenstein. Il Reich di Bismarck : Storia e storiografia . By Anna Maria Voci. Contested Histories in Public Space : Memory , Race , and Nation . Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer. The Purpose of the Past : Reflections on the Uses of History . By Gordon Wood.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Land Transformed, 1800–1891. Vol 2 of The Historical Atlas of Canada, edited R. LOUIS GENTILCORE (GEOFFREY J. MATTHEWS, Cartographer) A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian Past, edited by MICHAEL P. CONZEN, THOMAS A. RUNMEY, and GRAEME WYNN. Continental America, 1800–1867. Vol. 2 of The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, by DONALD W. MEINIG. Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on European Coastal Lowlands, edited by MICHAEL J. TOOLEY and SASKIA JELGERSMA. The Geography of Death: Mortality Atlas of British Columbia, 1985–1989, Edited by LESLIE T. FOSTER and MICHAEL C.R. EDGELL. Teaching Geography in Higher Education: A Manual of Good Practice, JOHN R. GOLD, ALAN JENKINS, ROGER LEE, JANICE MONK, JUDITH RILEY, IFAN SHEPHERD, and DAVID UNWIN. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning, by JOHN SEWELL, with a foreword by Jane Jacobs. Géographie et ethnographie en Grèce ancienne, par CHRISTIAN JACOB, Armand Colin, Paris L'Empire des Cartes: Approche théorique de la cartographie à travers l'histoire par CHRISTIAN JACOB, Albin Michel Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by L. ANDERS SANDBERG. The First Immigrants from Asia: A Population History of the North American Indians, by A.J. JAFFE.     

Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this article Rome and the Friendly King: The Character of the Client Kingship. By David C. Braund. A History of the Ostrogoths. By Thomas S. Burns. Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000. By Roger Collins. The Age of Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the Papacy, and the Normans in the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries. By H. E. J. Cowdrey. Capetian France, 987–1328. By Elizabeth M. Hallam. Renaissances before the Renaissance: Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Edited by Warren Treadgold. The Military Organization of a Renaissance State—Venice c. 1400–1617. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History]. By M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale. The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance. By John Kenyon. The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685. By Robin Clifton. The Last Stuarts: British Royalty in Exile. By James Lees-Milne. The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell. By Iain Finlayson. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. By Dorothy Thompson. Prince Albert: A Biography. By Robert Rhodes James. Gladstone: Volume I, 1809–1865. By Richard Shannon. Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts. By Peter Stansky. Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780–1914. Edited by Samuel Clark and James S. Donnelly, Jr. For the Sake of Example, Capital Courts Martial 1914–1918, The Truth. By Arthur Babington. Anglo-American Relations and Colonialism in East Asia, 1941–1945. By John J. Sbrega. The French Revolution in Miniature. Section Droits-de-l'Homme, 1789–1795. By Morris Slavin. The Fashoda Incident of 1898: Encounter on the Nile. By Darrell Bates. Liberty and Utility: The French Idéologues and the Transformation of Liberalism. By Cheryl B. Welch France and the Origins of the First World War. [Making of the Twentieth Century Series.] By John F. V. Keiger. Land and Society in Golden Age Castile. By David E. Vassberg. The Spanish Civil War. By Anthony Beevor. The Making of a State: Württemberg, 1593–1793. By James Allen Vann. Hitler and the Final Solution. By Gerald Fleming. Political Repression in 19th Century Europe. By Robert J. Goldstein. Europe Transformed, 1878–1919. By Norman stone. The Resistance in Austria, 1938–1945. By Radomir Luza. The Falcon and the Eagle: Montenegro and Austria-Hungary, 1908–1914. By John D. Treadway. The Guarantee of Belgian Independence and Neutrality in European Diplomacy, 1830's-1930's. By Daniel H. Thomas. History of the Balkans. Volume I, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Volume II, Twentieth Century. By Barbara Jelavich. The Lust for Power: Nationalism, Slovakia, and the Communists, 1918–1948. By Yeshayahu A. Jelinek. Feminism in Russia, 1900–1917. By Linda Edmondson. The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from Antiquity to the Present. By Witold Rodzinski. Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937–1949. By Lloyd E. Eastman. Discovering History in China American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past. By Paul A. Cohen. George Washington: A Biography. By John R. Alden. Brigham Young: American Moses. By Leonard J. Arrington. The Black Press in the South, 1865–1979. Edited by Henry Lewis Suggs. The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869–1879. By Michael Perman. Chants Democratic. By Sean Wilentz. Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century. By Roy V. Scott. Sergeant York: An American Hero. By David D. Lee. American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character. By Rupert Wilkinson. Women and the American Experience. By Nancy Woloch. Without God, Without Creek The Origins of Unbelief in America. By James Turner. Making Something of Ourselves: On Culture and Politics in the United States. By Richard M. Merelman. JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. By Herbert S. Parmet. The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History. By Manfred Jonas. Dogs of the Conquest. By John G. Varner and Jeannette J. Varner. Modern Latin America. [Oxford University Latin America Series.] By Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article The Historian invites scholars who wish to prepare book reviews for the journal to write to Dr. Phillip D. Thomas Medieval Medicus A Social History of Anglo Norman Medicine By Edward J. Kealey. The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism. By Jeremy Cohen. The Knights Templar. By Stephen Howarth. Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages. By Glending Olson. A History of Venice. By John Julius Norwich. Bury St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis: 1290-1539. By Robert S. Gottfried. English Lordship in Ireland, 1318-1361. By Robin Frame. The Outbreak of the English Civil War. By Anthony Fletcher. A Woman to Deliver Her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. By James K. Hopkins. For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London, 1796-1821. By J. Ann Hone. Madhouse, Mad-Doctors and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era. Edited by Andrew Scull. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. By Roger Smith. Gladstone: Church, State, and Tractarianism. By Perry Butler. Davitt and Irish Revolution. By T. W. Moody. Toward A Programme of Imperial Life: The British Empire at the Turn of the Century. (Contirbutions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 9.) By H. John Field. Alanbrooke. By David Fraser. G.P.Gooch: A Study in History and Politics. By Frank Eyck. The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France, 1589-1661. By Richard Bonney. The Philosophes and Post-Revolutionary France. By John Lough. The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education.By John Hubbel Weiss. France in Greece during World War I: A Study in the Politics of Power. By Alexander S. Mitrakos. The Reluctant Ally: France and Atlantic Security. By Michael M. Harrison. Mussolini. By Denis Mack Smith. Windthorst: A Political Biography. By Margaret Lavinia Anderson. Zabern 1913: Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany. By David Schoenbaum. Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914. By Ronals N. Stromberg. Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. By Elisabeth Young-Bruchi. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West. By George Makdisi. The Politics of Eastern Cape Separatism, 1820-1854. By Basil A. LeCordeur. The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty. By Albert Chan, S.J. China: A Political History, 1917-1980. By Richard C. Thornton. Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. (Education and Society Series. Edited by Paul R. Hanna.) The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. By Rhys Isaac. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. [The Oxford History of the United States. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. Vol. 2.] By Robert Middlekauff. The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857. [Columbia History of Urban Life series. Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson.] By Edward K. Spann. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. By James Oakes. Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. By Wilson Jeremiah Moses. A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Clarence E. Walker. The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate. By Allan G. Bogue. The Imperiled Union, 1861-1865, vol.1, The Deep Waters of the Proud. By William C. Davis. Army Generals and Reconstructions: Louisiana, 1862-1877. By Joseph G. Dawson III. The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy. By Brian W. Dippie. Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880-1920. By Dominick Cavallo. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. [Environmental History Series, number 3.] By Abraham Hoffman. John W. Foster: Politics and Diplomacy in the Imperial Era, 1873-1917. By Michael J. Devine. European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I. By Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice. Edited, with an introduction, by Ellis W. Hawley. Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience. By Daniel Schaffer. Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. The Brandeis Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court. By Bruce Allen Murphy. The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976. By Stephen G. Rabe.