Book reviews

Classical Persian Music: An Introduction. By Ella Zonis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. xv + 233 pp. $16.50.

Sasanian Remains from Qasr‐i Abu Nasr: Seals, Sealings, and Coins. Edited by Richard N. Frye. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 132 pp + 26 pp. of plates. $12.50.

The School Principal. By Jalal Al‐e Ahmad. Translated by John K. Newton, with an introduction and notes by Michael C. Hillmann. Minneapolis, Minn.: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1974. 144 pp. $5.00.     

Book reviews

A Modern Peraian Prose Reader. Edited by H. Kamshad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. viii + 249pp. $9–50.     

The continuities of counter‐memory: French republicanism and the revolutionary tradition

Although republicanism in France was discredited in 1815, being associated with dictatorship and terror, it provided the foundations for the political consensus of the late 1870s. Republican ideas survived through the creation of a collective ‘counter‐memory’ by a persecuted minority of republicans in the early nineteenth century; this tradition kept republicanism alive and available for later generations to adopt it more widely. This paper examines ways in which this counter‐memory was developed, from historical writings to popular customs, and how it was able to become part of the political mainstream once again.     

Impact of Modification on Ground Motion Characteristics and Geotechnical Seismic Analyses for a California Site

The impact of different modification techniques on ground motion characteristics and results of seismic geotechnical analyses is investigated for a site in California. Twenty-eight motions were selected and scaled and also modified using both time domain (TD) and frequency domain (FD) techniques. PGV and PGD of the TD-modified motions are found to be larger than their FD-modified counterparts, but slightly less than the scaled ground motion characteristics. Cyclic stress ratios and amplification factors are similar for all sets of motions. Newmark-type slope displacements caused by the scaled and modified ground motions are similar (within 25%) for a variety of sliding masses.