Book Reviews

Book review in this Article In the Light of History. By J. H. Plumb. “What Is the Good of History?” Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900–1945. Edited with an introduction, by Michael Kammen. An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians. By Roderick Floud. Revolutionaries. Contemporary Essays. By Eric] J. Hobsbawm. Business Enterprise and Economic Change: Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson. Edited by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. Origins of English Feudalism. By R. Allen Brown. English Diplomatic Administration, 1259–1339. By G. P. Cuttino. Gilles Aycelin: The Servant of Two Masters. By Jo Ann McNamara. William Dell, Master Puritan. By Eric C. Walker. Ralph Fitch, Elizabethan In the Indies. By Michael Edwardes. The Zulu War. By David Clammer. France and Britain in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule. Edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis. West African States and European Expansion: The Dahomey-Niger Hinterland, 1885–1898. By Boniface I. Obichere. Rulers of Empire: The French Colonial Service in Africa. By William B. Cohen. British Policy Towards West Africa: Select Documents, 1875–1914. With Statistical Appendices, 1800–1914. By C. W. Newbury. The Evolution of the Egyptian National Image: From Its Origins to Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid. By Charles Wendell. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement. By Jen Yu-wen, with the editorial assistance of Adrienne Suddard. Listening to Japan: A Japanese Anthology. Edited by Jackson H. Bailey. Brazil from Colony to World Power. By Donald E. Worcester. A History of Spain and Portugal. By Stanley G. Payne. The Jacobin Club of Marseilles, 1790–1794. By Michael L. Kennedy. The French Revolution of 1830. By David H. Pinkney. Napoleon III. By W. H. C. Smith. New French Imperialism, 1880–1910: The Third Republic and Colonial Expansion. By James J. Cooke. The Failure of Illiberalism: Essays of the Political Culture of Modern Germany. By Fritz Stern. The Evolulion of Hitler's Germany: The Ideology, The Personality, The Movement. By Horst von Maltitz. The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–1914. By Geoffrey A. Hosking. The Provisional Government. By Vladimir D. Nabokov. Edited by Andrew Field. With an introduction by Richard Pipes. Marlborough as Military Commander. By David Chandler. Alex: The Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis. By Nigel Nicolson. Wavell. The Viceroy's Journal. Edited by Penderel Moon. The Making of Modern English Society from 1830. By Janet Roebuck. The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy since the Industrial Revolution. By Derek Fraser. The Railway Interest. By Geoffrey Alderman. The Semblance of Peace: The Political Settlement After the Second World War. By Sir John Wheeler-Bennett and Anthony Nicholls. America: A Dutch Historian's Vision, From Afar and Near. By Johan Huizinga, translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Herbert H. Anglo-American Politics, 1660–1775: The Relationship Between Parties in England and Colonial America. By Alison Gilbert Olson. Colonial New Jersey: A History. By John E. Arms For Empire: A Military History Of The British Colonies In North America, 1607–1763. By Douglas Edward Leach. Whales and Destiny: The Rivalry between America, France, and Britain for Control of the Southern Whale Fishery, 1785–1825. By Edouard A. The Dorr Rebellion: A Study in American Radicalism: 1833–1849. By Marvin E. Disrupted Decades: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years. By Robert H. Stephen A. Douglas. By Robert W. Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868–1900. By David J. Marcus Garvey. Edited, with an introduction, by E. W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited, with an introduction, by W. Black New Orleans, 1860–1880. By John W. Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. By Walter B. Judge: The Life and Times of Leander Perez. By James Conaway. Working the Homestake. By Joseph H. Cash. Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend. By Duane A. Smith. Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870–1900. By Charles S. Peterson. The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1898–1918. By C. Roland The Diary of James A. Garfield. Vol. III: 1875–1877. Edited with an introduction by Harry James Brown and Frederick D. Williams. The Presidency of William Howard Taft. By Paolo E. Coletta. Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912–1932. By Craig Lloyd. Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration. By Donald R. McCoy and Richard T. Ruetten. United States-Spanish Relations, Wolfram and World War II. By James W. Cortada. The United States Postal Service. By Gerald Cullinan.