BOOK REVIEWS

The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I. By Michael C. C. Adams John Bull and the Bear: British Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union 1941-1945. By P. M. H. Bell The Rise of Richelieu. By Joseph Bergin Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Search for Stability. By D. George Boyce The Habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815-1918. By F. R. Bridge Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City. By Robert C. Davis The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution. By Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel. Translated by Claudia Miéville Jewish Politics in Vienna, 1918-1938. By Harriet Pass Freidertreich The Causes of the English Civil War. By Ann Hughes The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 19004950. By Konrad H. Jarausch Chinese Boycotts Versus Japanese Bombs: The Failure of China's “Revolutionary Diplomacy,” 1931-32. By Donald A. Jordan From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy. By Ellen E. Kittell The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age. By Joseph M. Levine Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan. By Michael Lewis A Climate for Appeasement. By Terrance L. Lewis Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England. By Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy Cicero: The Senior Statesman. By Thomas N. Mitchell Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class, Leeds, 1820-50. By R. J. Morris Himmler. By Peter Padfield Politics, Shipping and the Repeal of the Navigation Laws. By Sarah Palmer Military Planning for the Defense of the United Kingdom, 1814-1870. By Michael Stephen Partridge Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire. By S. J. Payling English Politics in the Thirteenth Century. By Michael Prestwich Women, Equality, and the French Revolution. By Candice E. Proctor The Restoration. By Paul Seaward Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. By Dennis E. Showalter The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Edited by Denis Sinor Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity. By Richard B. Speed m Journalists for Empire: The Imperial Debate in The Edwardian Stately Press, 1903-1913. By James D. Startt Sir Francis Drake. By John Sugden State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt. By Ehud R. Toledano Holland Under Hapsburg Rule, 1506-1566: The Formation of a Body Politic. By James D. Tracy Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action. By William Blake Tyrrell and Frieda S. Brown Paul Leroy-Beaulieu and Established Liberalism in France. By Dan Warshaw War From the Top: German and British Military Decision Making during World War II. By Alan F. Wilt The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolutbn. Edited by Alan Wood Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: The Post-War Coalition, 1918-1922. By Chris Wrigley Breaking the Iron Bonds; Indian Control of Energy Development. By Marjane Ambler The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. Edited by Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923. By Eric Arnesen The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930. By Paula Baker A New Deal for the American People. By Roger Biles Virginia's Viceroy, Their Majesties’Governor General: Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham. By Warren M. Billings Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. By Robert M. Bliss Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek. By William Y. Chalfant The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Joe P. Dunn and Howard L. Preston Amateurs, to Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812. By John R. Elting The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of fudge John J. Parker. By Kenneth W. Goings A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720. By Larry Gragg Thomas O. hirkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California. By Harlan Hague and David J. Langum The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall. By Harold Paulk Henderson Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch. By Janet Sharp Hermann Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. By Joan Hoff To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991. By Stephen Howarth Abe Fortas: A Biography. By Laura Kalman A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. By Nicolas Kanellos The American Whig: William Livingston of New York. By Milton M. Klein James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Gary R. Kremer Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865. By Jeffrey N. Lash To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal. By Richard C. Lindberg Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath. By Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Soderlund The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. By Mark E. Neely, Jr Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier. By Earl P. Olmstead Major Robert Farmar of Mobile. By Robert R. Rea An American Illiad: The Story of the Civil War. By Charles P. Roland Creating a Dignified Past: Museums and the Colonial Revival. Edited by Geoffrey L. Rossano Roosevelt: The Party Leader, 1932-1945. By Sean J. Savage Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. By Virginia Scharff Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. By Dorothy Schneider and Carl J. Schneider Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1989. By Steven Seidman Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748. By Carl E. Swanson Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie. Edited by Wiliam Jeffrey Welsh and David Curtis Skagss Mosby's Rangers. By Jeffry D. Wert