Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this article The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians, edited by John Cannon et al. Memphis Under the Ptolemies. By Dorothy J. Thompson. Septimius Severus: The African Emperor. By Anthony R. Birley. The Medieval Expansion of Europe. By J. R. S. Phillips. The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the Age of the Arteveldes, 1302-1390. By David Nicholas. The Warrior Queens. By Antonia Fraser. Predatory Kinship and the Creation of Norman Power, 840-1066. By Eleanor Searle. Men Raised from the Dust: Administrative Service and Upward Mobility in Angevin England. By Ralph V. Turner. Tudor England. By John Guy. Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790-1835. By Mark Harrison. Bonnie Prince Charlie. By Fitzroy Maclean. Daniel Defoe and Diplomacy. By William Roosen. 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement. By John Saville. Gladstone, Whiggery & the Liberal Party, 1874-1886. By T. A. Jenkins. Pay Up And Play The Game: Professional Sport In Britain, 1875-1914. By Wray Vemplow. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. By Modris Eksteins. Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914-16. By Peter Simkins. Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages. By Georges Vigarello. Translated from the French by Jean Birrell. Private Power and Centralization in France: The Notaires and the State. By Ezra N. Suleiman. Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848. By Lloyd S. Kramer. France 1943-1945. By Hilary Footitt and John Simmonds. Humanistic Historiography under the Sforzas: Politics and Propaganda in Fifteenth-Century Milan. By Gary Ianziti. The Changing Face of Empire: Charles V, Philip II and Habsburg Authority, 1551-1559. By M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado. The Politics of the Prussian Nobility: The Development of a Conservative Ideology, 1770-1848. By Robert M. Berdahl. Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben under Allied Authority, 1945-1951. By Raymond G. Stokes. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. By John T. Alexander. Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia. By Tim McDaniel. Parallels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in the Early Zionist Movement, 1892-1904. By Ehud Luz. Translated from the Hebrew by Lenn J. Schramm. Xiang Lake: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life. By R. Keith Schoppa. Shogunal Politics: Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule. By Kate Wildman Nakai. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. By Conrad Totman. The Magic Mirror: Law in American History. By Kermit L. Hall. The Great Challenge: The Myth of Laissez-Faire in the Early Republic. By Frank Bourgin. The World Turned Upside Down: The American Victory in the War of Independence. Contributions in Military Studies, No. 79.] Edited by John Ferling. Original Intent and the Framers’Constitution. By Leonard W. Levy. George Wythe Randolph and the Confederate Elite. By George Green Shackelford. Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation. By Richard Nelson Current. Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915. By Cathy L. McHugh. Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd L. Savitt and James Harvey Young. Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1896-1902. By Edward F. Haas. C. Vann Woodward, Southerner. By John Herbert Roper. American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941. By Daniel Nelson. What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining. By Keith Dix. Should America Go To War? The Debate Over Foreign Policy in Chicago, 1939-1941. By James C. Schneider. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. By Waldo Heinrichs. German Workers’Culture in the United States, 1850 to 1920. Edited by Hartmut Keil. Washington: A Centennial History. By Robert E. Ficken and Charles P. LeWarne. Porter Rockwell: A Biography. By Richard Lloyd Dewey. Custer's Seventh Cavalry Comes to Dakota: New Discoveries Reveal Custer's Tribulations Enroute to the Yellowstone Expedition. By Roger Darling. The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1935. By Robert A. Trennert Jr. Marxism and Democracy in Chile: From 1932 to the Fall of Allende. By Julio Faundez.