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, Book Review Editor, The Historian, Department of History, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67208, indicating degrees received, areas of specialization, and publications. Imperialism in the Ancient World. Edited by P.D.A. Garnsey and C.R. Whittaker. Sparta's Bitter Victories: Politics and Diplomacy in the Corinthian War. By Charles D. Hamilton. History in Ovid. By Ronald Syme. The Roman Republic, Fontana History of the Ancient World.] By Michael H. Crawford. The Tudor Coinage. By C. E. Challis. Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558. By Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. Parliaments and English Politics, 1621-1629. By Conrad Russell. Scottish National Consciousness in the Age of James VI: The Apocalypse, the Union and the Shaping of Scotland's Public Culture. By Arthur H. Williamson. Popular Disturbances in Scotland, 1780-1815. By Kenneth J. Logue. The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century. By Eric Pawson. Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe. Pre-Industrial Europe, 1350-1850, edited by Geoffrey Parker, no. 2.] By Michael R. Weisser. Crime and Police in England, 1700-1900. By J. J. Tobias. A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. By Michael Ignatieff. Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England. By Andrew T. Scull. Urban Poverty in Britain, 1830-1914. By James H. Treble. Independent Collier: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered. Edited by Royden Harrison. The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon. By Charles Chenevix Trench. Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878. By Richard Millman. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. xv, 613. $49.95.) Anatomy of a Power Elite: The Provincial Governors of Early Modem France. By Robert R. Harding. The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440-1770. The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History, no. 10.] By C.R. Boxer. The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century. By James Casey. The Coming of the Spanish Civil War: Reform, Reaction, and Revolution in the Second Republic, 1931-1936. By Paul Preston. Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany. By Richard Kieckhefer. The German Churches under Hitler: Background, Struggle, and Epilogue. By Ernst Christian Helmreich. Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics. By William Carr. The Secretary: Martin Bormann, the Man Who Manipulated Hitler. By Jochen von Lang. Translated by Christa Armstrong and Peter White. The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. By Frank G. Weber. Operation Sunrise, the Secret Surrender. By Bradley F. Smith and Elena Agarossi. Russia's Crimean War. By John Shelton Curtiss. The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet: War and Politics, February 1917-April 1918. By Evan Mawdsley. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941-1945. By Vojtech Mastny. The Meek and the Mighty: The Emergence of the Evangelical Movement in Russia. By Hans Brandenburg. A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. By T. K. Derry. Trade without Rulers: Pre-Colonial Economic Development in South-Eastern Nigeria. By David Northrup. Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652-1853. By Sarasin Viraphol. New Directions in American Intellectual History. Edited by John Higham and Paul K. Conkin. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. By Sarah N. Randolph. The Revolutionary War in the South: Power, Conflict, and Leadership. By E. Robert Higgins. With the British Army in Philadelphia, 1777-1778. By John W. Jackson. Patterns of Antislavery among American Unitarians, 1831-1860. By Douglas C. Stange. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism. By Paul D. Escott. Senator William J. Stone and the Politics of Compromise. By Ruth Warner Towne. America's Ascent: The United States Becomes a Great Power, 1880-1914. By John M. Dobson. Charting the Future: The Supreme Court Responds to a Changing Society, 1890-1920. By John Semonche. Paul S. Reituch: Open Door Diplomat in Action. By Noel H. Pugach. Testing the Roosevelt Coalition: Connecticut Society and Politics in the Era of World War II By John W. Jeffries. The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the “Good Neighbor”: The United States and Argentina, 1941-1945. By Randall Bennett Woods. Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II. By W.J. Holmes. Andrew D. White–Educator, Historian, Diplomat. By Glenn C. Altschuler. The Jews in America: The Roots and Destiny of American Jews. By Max I. Dimont. Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915. By Steven Hertzberg. Brooklyn USA: The Fourth Largest City in America. Edited by Rita Seiden Miller. Oil and Nationalism in Argentina: A History. By Carl E. Solberg.