Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this article What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? By Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn Jr. Reflections on History and Historians. By Theodore S. Hamerow. Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History. By John McDonald and G. D. Snooks. Anatomy of a Crusade: 1213–1221. By James M. Powell. Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier. The Middle Ages Series.] By James William Brodman. Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and. the Image, 1100–1500. By Lynette R. Muir. Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the History of Tudor Government and Administration. Edited by Christopher Coleman and David Starkey. Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560–1640. By A. L. Beier. The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London. By Harold J. Cook. Schemes & Undertakings: A Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century. By Clayton Roberts. Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London. By Paul S. Seaver. The English Atlantic, 1675–1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community. By Ian K. Steele. Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. By Robert C. Ritchie. Lord Grenville: 1759–1834. By Peter Jupp. A Mid-Victorian Feminist, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. By Sheila R. Herstein. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760–1930. By Gail Malmgreen The Transformation of Britain, 1830–1939. Vol. 5 of The Making of Britain, 1066–1939. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft.] By G. E. Mingay. Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica. By Bernard Semmel. Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England. By George L. Bernstein. Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1929–1941. By Daniel Silverfarb. The d'Aligres de la Rivière: Servants of the Bourbon State in the Seventeenth Century. By D. J. Sturdy. Mortal Politics in Eighteenth-Century France. By George Armstrong Kelly. France 1789–1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution. By D. M. G. Sutherland. Society, Theory and the French Revolution: Studies in the Revolutionary Imaginary. By Brian C. J. Singer. Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832. By François Delaporte. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The Great War and the French People. By Jean-Jacques Becker. Town and Country under Fascism: The Transformation of Brescia, 1915–1926. By Alice A. Kelikian. Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma. By Robert Asprey. American Money and the Weimar Republic: Economics and Politics on the Eve of the Great Depression. By William C. McNeil. Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany. By Allan Merson. Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna. By Edward Timms. Poland, the United States, and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919–1933. By Neal Pease. Industrialization and Social Inequality in 19th-Century Europe. By Hartmut Kaelble. Translated by Bruce Little. Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambou. By Steven L. Hoch. Russia Against Japan, 1904–1905: A New Look at the Russo-Japanese War. By J. N. Westwood. Liberty and Power, 1600–1760. Vol. 1 of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present.] By Oscar and Lilian Handlin. Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. By James A. Ramage. Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America. By Dale T. Knoble. Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861–1890. By Joe M. Richardson. Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston. The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism. By Richard Drinnon. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. By Michael S. Sherry. Agricultural Legacies: Essays in Honor of Gilbert C. Fite. Edited by R. Alton Lee. Divided Counsel: The Anglo-American Response to Communist Victory in China. By Edwin W. Martin. Essays on the Mexican War. Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, No. 20.] Edited by Douglas W. Richmond. Populism In the Mountain West. By Robert W. Larson. American Frontier and Western Issues: A Historiographical Review. Edited by Roger L. Nichols. Trails South: The Wagon Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region. By C. Robert Haywood. Wolf and the Winds. By Frank Bird Linderman. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. By Robert Hughes. To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550–1888. By Katia M. de Queirós Mattoso. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. By Robert Edgar Conrad. Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904–1981. By Michael L. Conniff.