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Geoffrey Hawker, Who's Master, Who's Servant? Reforming Bureaucracy, Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1981, pp. 100. $12.95, $5.95 (paper).

Robert Catley and Bruce McFarlane Australian Capitalism in Boom and Depression: Options for the 1980's, Chippendale, Alternative Publishing Cooperative Ltd, 1981, pp. 249. $21.95, $9.95 (paper).

Robert Birrell and Tanya Birrell, An Issue of People: Population and Australian Society, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1981, pp. 277. $9.95.

Jim Kemeny, The Myth of Home Ownership; Private Versus Public Choices in Housing Tenures, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, pp. 173. 6.95 (paper—Routledge Direct Editions).

R.F. Henderson (ed), The Welfare Stakes: Strategies for Australian Social Policy. Melbourne; Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, 1981. $6.95.

Heather Radi, Peter Spearritt, Elizabeth Hinton Biographical Register of the New South Wales Parliament 1901–1970 Canberra, ANU Press, 1979, pp. 302. $24.95, $12.50 (paper).

R.L. Mathews (ed), Regional Disparities and Economic Development, Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations and the ANU Press, pp. 254, $12.00 (paper).

Grant Amyot, The Italian Communist Party, London, Croom Helm, 1981, pp. 252 212.95; Carl Boggs and David Plotke (eds), The Politics of Eurocommunism: Socialism in Transition, London, Mac‐millan, 1980, pp. 479. $13.95

J.A. Ballard (ed), Policy‐Making in a New State: Papua New Guinea 1972–77, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1981, pp. 331. $25.

Joseph Camilleri, Chinese Foreign Policy; The Maoist Era and its Aftermath, Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1980, pp. 311. 225.

L.J. Macfarlane, The Right to Strike, Harmond‐sworth, Penguin, 1981, pp. 201. $6.95.

Ian Bradley, Breaking the Mould? The Birth and Prospects of the Social Democratic Party, Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1981, pp. 172. 22.95 (paper).

Shirley Williams, Politics is for People, Harmond‐sworth, Penguin Books, 1981, pp. 230. $6.95.

V.L. Allen, The Militancy of British Miners, Bail‐don Green, Yorkshire, The Moor Press (distributed in Australia by Australian Studies Books), 1981, pp. 337. n.p.a.

Robert Behrens, The Conservative Party From Heath to Thatcher: Policies and Politics 1974–1979, Farnborough, Saxon House, 1980, pp. 139. $20.50.

Neill Nugent and Roger King (eds), The British Right: Conservative and Right Wing Politics in Britain, Farnborough, Saxon House, 1977, pp. 230. $31.00.

Ahmed Mohiddin, African Socialism in Two Countries, London, Croom Helm, 1981, pp. 231. 212.50.

Jan Jelmert Jorgenson, Uganda: A Modern History, London, Croom Helm, 1981, pp. 381. 213.95.

Mohammed Ayoob (ed), The Middle East in World Politics, London, Croom Helm, 1981, pp. 217. 210.95.

Aryeh Y. Yodfat and Yuval Arnon‐Ohanna, PLO Strategy and Tactics, London, Croom Helm, 1981, pp. 225.211.50.

David Lane, Leninism: a sociological interpretation, Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 150. 213.50, 24.50 (paper).

Donald C. Hodges, The Bureaucratization of Socialism, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1981, pp. 210. $15.00.

Marshall S. Shatz, Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980, pp. 214. $32.25.

Seweryn Bialer (ed), The Domestic Context of Soviet Foreign Policy, Boulder, Colorado & London, Westview/Croom Helm, 441 pp. 214.95.

Raymond Plant, Harry Lesser and Peter Taylor‐Gooby, Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provision, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, pp. 262. 8.95, 4.95 (paper).

William E. Connolly, Appearance and Reality in Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 218.15.00.

Jane J. Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy, New York, Basic Books, 1980, pp. 377. US$20.

William A. Galston, Justice and the Human Good, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 324. US$27.95.

Norma Grieve and Patricia Grimshaw (eds), Australian Women. Feminist Perspectives, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 333. $9.95 (paper).

Joni Lovenduski and Jill Hills (eds).Tfie Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, pp. 332. 6.95 (paper).

E.M. Ettorre, Lesbians, Women and Society, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, pp. 208. $13.95.

Jane Lewis, The Politics of Motherhood, Child and Maternal Welfare in England 1900–1939, London, Croom Helm 1980, pp. 235. $17.50.

Dale Spender, Man Made Language, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, pp. 250. 4.95 (paper).     

Lügen ist überhaupt das Kennzeichen unserer. Zeit Über einen unveröffentlichten Briefwechsel zwischen Max Born und Friedrich Herneck

The East Berlin marxist Friedrich Herneck and Max Born, Nobel Price winner in physics, exchanged more than 140 letters in the years between 1958 and 1970. In the beginning they discussed problems of the history of science, especially Born's personal memories of the development of physics in the 20th century. In later years they discussed political and social problems too. Only in these letters Born expressed clearly his attitude to communism and the social system of East Germany.     

Spatial restructuring of old industrial areas: Polish and former East German experiences

>This paper compares and contrasts the policy initiatives and the likely policy fortunes of two older, and heavily polluted, industrial regions — Upper Silesia in Poland and the Leipzig‐Halle district of the former East Germany. The involvement of local communities in the self‐regulation of structural planning is advocated in favour of state‐regulated planning, a version of which degraded these areas.     

Book reviews

The Portable Kristeva. Edited by Kelly Oliver New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), xxix + 410 pp., $21.00, £13.95 paper.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Edited by Timothy Unwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xxiii + 281 pp. £37.50, $59.95 cloth £13.95, $18.95 paper.

Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. By Roger V. Gould (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), viii + 253 pp. $40.95, £32.75 cloth $15.95, £12.75 paper.

The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society. By Derek Bok (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 493 pp. $35.00 cloth.

The Darwinian Paradigm: Essays on its History, Philosophy, and Religious Implications. By Michael Ruse (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), 299 pp. £11.99 paper.

Economic Laws and Economic History. By Charles P. Kindleberger (Cambrige: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xi + 191 pp. £14.95, $18.95 paper £32.50, $54.95 cloth.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of History. By Michael Stanford (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1998), viii + 292 pp. $54.95, £45.00 cloth $29.95, £14.99 paper.

The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain. By Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) xv + 276 pp. £45.00 cloth £20.50 paper.

The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel. By Patricia Ingham (London: Routledge, 1996), ix + 197 pp. n.p.g.

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit. By Leo Damrosch (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), xiv + 384 pp. $39.95, cloth.

Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars. By Arihiro Fukudo (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), xiii + 175 pp. £35.00.

Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals. By Creighton E. Gilbert (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), xiii + 316 pp., $85.00, £76.50.

Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social‐Scientific Thought. By Pat Duffy Hutcheon (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996), xvi + 504 pp. $55.00 cloth.

The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England. By M. Lindsay Kaplan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture, xii + 137 pp. £32.50, $49.9 cloth.

The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680–1780. By Margaret R. Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), xiii + 353 pp.n.p.g.

History Continues. By Georges Duby, translated by A. Goldhammer (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997), xvi + 149 pp. $14.95, £ 11.95 paper.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations. Edited by Daniel Breazeale, translated by R.J. Hollingdale (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997). xlvii + 276 pp. $49.95 cloth $15.95 paper.

Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought: From Augustine to Buridan. By Risto Saarinan (Leiden: Brill, 1994), viii + 207 pp. $77.25, £35.00 cloth.

Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989–1034. By Richard Landes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), Harvard Historical Studies, 117, xii + 404 pp. $55.00 cloth.

Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths. Edited by R. I. Page. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 239 pp. $50.00 cloth $17.95 paper.

Ideas and Policies Under Labour 1945–1951. By Martin Francis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), vi + 269 pp. £40.00 cloth.

Aesthetics: The Classic Readings. Edited by David E. Cooper (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), vi + 276 pp. $ 54.95 cloth $ 19.95 paper.

Adorno's Aesthetics of Music. By Max Paddison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xii + 378 pp. £15.95 paper.

Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. By Robert Chazan (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997), xiii + 189 pp. $35.00 cloth.

Umwelt‐Lesebuch: Green Issues in Contemporary German Writing. Edited by Axel Goodbody (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997), ix + 197 pp. £35.00, £9.99 paper.

Understanding Contemporary Germany. By Stuart Parkes (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), xxxii + 247 pp., £13.99 paper.

Cultural‐Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment. Edited by Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, Claus Offe, and Albrecht Wellmer (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 314 pp. n.p.g.

Reflections of Change: Children's Literature Since 1945. Edited by Sandra L. Beckett (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), xi + 203 £ 43.95 cloth.

The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait. By Edwin Hall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), xxi + 180 pp. $50.00.

Nineteenth‐Century Literary Realism: Through the Looking Glass. By Katherine Kearns (Cambridge University Press, 1996), X + 310 PP. £40.00, $59.95.

Socrates and Aristophanes. By Leo Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 332 pp. $15.95, £12.75 paper.

The Clock and the Mirror. Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine. By Nancy G. Siraisi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xiv + 361 pp. cloth $49.50, £37.50 cloth.

The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope. By Catherine Wilson (Princeton University Press, 1998), 280 pp., $18.95, £14.95 paper.

Intelligence de l'anticommunisme: Le Congrès pour la liberté de la culture à Paris (1950–1975). By Pierre Grémion (Paris: Fayard, 1995), 645 pp. 240 FF.

A City in Conflict: Troyes During the French Wars of Religion. By Penny Roberts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), Studies in Early Modern History, x + 228 pp., £40.00 cloth.

Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity. By Alison Weber (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), xi + 183 pp., $15.95 paper.

Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530. Edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xxv + 313 pp., $19.95, £13.95, paper.

The Commercialization of English Society, 1000–1500. 2nd ed. By Richard H. Britnell (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), Manchester Medieval Studies, xvi + 281 pp. $24.95, £35.00 cloth £12.00 paper.

Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. By Rogers Brubaker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 202 pp. n.p.g.     

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Butcher Boy Director, Neil Jordan Geffen Pictures, 1997     

The Essential Difference Between History and Science

My thesis is that there is a deep, intractable difference, not between history and science per se , but between paradigmatically central kinds of historical interpretations—call them humanistic historical interpretations —and theories of any sort that are characteristic of the physical sciences. The difference is that unlike theories in the physical sciences good humanistic historical interpretations (purport to) reveal subjectivity, agency, and meaning. I use the controversy provoked by Gordon Wood's recent reinterpretation of the American Revolution to illustrate and substantiate this thesis. I also use it to support the claim that unless one attends to the ways in which humanistic historical interpretations reveal subjectivity, agency, and meaning one has no hope whatsoever of getting the epistemology of historical studies right.