Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this article Rome and the Friendly King: The Character of the Client Kingship. By David C. Braund. A History of the Ostrogoths. By Thomas S. Burns. Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000. By Roger Collins. The Age of Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the Papacy, and the Normans in the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries. By H. E. J. Cowdrey. Capetian France, 987–1328. By Elizabeth M. Hallam. Renaissances before the Renaissance: Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Edited by Warren Treadgold. The Military Organization of a Renaissance State—Venice c. 1400–1617. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History]. By M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale. The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance. By John Kenyon. The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685. By Robin Clifton. The Last Stuarts: British Royalty in Exile. By James Lees-Milne. The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell. By Iain Finlayson. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. By Dorothy Thompson. Prince Albert: A Biography. By Robert Rhodes James. Gladstone: Volume I, 1809–1865. By Richard Shannon. Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts. By Peter Stansky. Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780–1914. Edited by Samuel Clark and James S. Donnelly, Jr. For the Sake of Example, Capital Courts Martial 1914–1918, The Truth. By Arthur Babington. Anglo-American Relations and Colonialism in East Asia, 1941–1945. By John J. Sbrega. The French Revolution in Miniature. Section Droits-de-l'Homme, 1789–1795. By Morris Slavin. The Fashoda Incident of 1898: Encounter on the Nile. By Darrell Bates. Liberty and Utility: The French Idéologues and the Transformation of Liberalism. By Cheryl B. Welch France and the Origins of the First World War. Making of the Twentieth Century Series.] By John F. V. Keiger. Land and Society in Golden Age Castile. By David E. Vassberg. The Spanish Civil War. By Anthony Beevor. The Making of a State: Württemberg, 1593–1793. By James Allen Vann. Hitler and the Final Solution. By Gerald Fleming. Political Repression in 19th Century Europe. By Robert J. Goldstein. Europe Transformed, 1878–1919. By Norman stone. The Resistance in Austria, 1938–1945. By Radomir Luza. The Falcon and the Eagle: Montenegro and Austria-Hungary, 1908–1914. By John D. Treadway. The Guarantee of Belgian Independence and Neutrality in European Diplomacy, 1830's-1930's. By Daniel H. Thomas. History of the Balkans. Volume I, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Volume II, Twentieth Century. By Barbara Jelavich. The Lust for Power: Nationalism, Slovakia, and the Communists, 1918–1948. By Yeshayahu A. Jelinek. Feminism in Russia, 1900–1917. By Linda Edmondson. The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from Antiquity to the Present. By Witold Rodzinski. Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937–1949. By Lloyd E. Eastman. Discovering History in China American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past. By Paul A. Cohen. George Washington: A Biography. By John R. Alden. Brigham Young: American Moses. By Leonard J. Arrington. The Black Press in the South, 1865–1979. Edited by Henry Lewis Suggs. The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869–1879. By Michael Perman. Chants Democratic. By Sean Wilentz. Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century. By Roy V. Scott. Sergeant York: An American Hero. By David D. Lee. American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character. By Rupert Wilkinson. Women and the American Experience. By Nancy Woloch. Without God, Without Creek The Origins of Unbelief in America. By James Turner. Making Something of Ourselves: On Culture and Politics in the United States. By Richard M. Merelman. JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. By Herbert S. Parmet. The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History. By Manfred Jonas. Dogs of the Conquest. By John G. Varner and Jeannette J. Varner. Modern Latin America. Oxford University Latin America Series.] By Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith.