Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this article The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought. By J. A. Burrow. Florence, Rome and the Origins of the Renaissance. By George Holmes. Erasmus and the Jews. By Shimon Markish. Translated by Anthony Olcott. Reform in the Provinces: The Government of Stuart England. By Anthony Fletcher. Crime and the Courts in England, 1660 1800. By J. M. Beattie. Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America, 1769–1782. By John Sainsbury. Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700–1850: A Study in Local Administration. By Margaret DeLacy. Gladstone, 1809–1874. By H. C. G. Matthew. Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? By Richard Symonds. Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics. By David Dutton. Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate, 1844–1944. By Peter J. Bowler. The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea. By Ronald W. Clark. T. H. Huxley's Place in Natural Science. By Mario A. di Gregorio. Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology. By William B. Provine. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800–1919. [Short Oxford History of the Modern World Series. Edited by J. M. Roberts.] By Robert Gildea. Decisive Years in France: 1840–1847. By David H. Pinkney. Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I. By Kathryn E. Amdur. Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany. Edited by Peter D. Stachura. Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942–1945. By Earl R. Beck. The Challenge of the Third Reich: The Adam von Trott Memorial Lectures. Edited by Hedley Bull. From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German Past. By Geoff Eley. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and The Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. By Vera Schwarcz. China's Continuous Revolution: The Post-Liberation Epoch, 1949–1981. By Lowell Dittmer. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction. By Bernard Bailyn. Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. By Bernard Bailyn. Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. By Forrest McDonald. Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity. Edited by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein and Edward C. Carter II. The Art of Prophesying, New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief. By Teresa Toulouse. Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation. By H. Larry Ingle. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. [Southern Biography Series. Edited by William J. Cooper, Jr.] By Noble E. Cunningham Jr. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States’Rights, and the Nullification Crisis. By Richard E. Ellis. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. By Marcus Rediker. America's First Battles, 1776–1965. Edited by Charles E. Heller and William A. Stofft. General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior. By James I. Robertson Jr. Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant. By Ruth Currie-McDaniel. Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham. Edited by John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen. Honor and Violence in the Old South. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown. The Presidency of James K. Polk. [American Presidency Series.] By Paul H. Bergeron. New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time. By Thomas Bender. American Immigrant Leaders, 1800–1910: Marginality and Identity. By Victor R. Greene. America's Weather Warriors, 1814–1985. By Charles C. Bates and John F. Fuller. The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United Stetes. By John H. Ehrenreich. Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics. By Susan Ware. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940. [Working Class in American History Series.] By Susan Porter Benson. City in the Woods: The Life and Design of an American Camp Meeting on Martha's Vineyard. By Ellen Weiss. Mission on Taylor Street: The Founding and Early Years of The Dayton Brethren in Christ Mission. By Paul Boyer. Creeks and Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muskogulge People. [Indians of the Southeast Series. Edited by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green.] By J. Leitch Wright Jr. Science Encounters the Indian, 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology. By Robert E. Bieder. A History of the Navajos: The Reservation Years. By Garrick Bailey and Roberta Glenn Bailey. Closing the Frontier: Radical Response in Oklahoma, 1889–1923. By John Thompson. Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America. By David P. Peeler. Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler. By Steve Jefferys. Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian Foreign Policy. By Frederick S. Calhoun. Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. By Arthur Walworth. Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945–46. By Hugh Thomas. An Ordinary Relationship: American Opposition to Republican Revolution in China. By Daniel M. Crane and Thomas A. Breslin. The United States’Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940–1950. By Gary R. Hess.