BOOK REVIEWS

Jean Froissart and the Fabric of History. From Spear to Flintlock A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangtze Region, 1840–1840. France and Decolonisation, 1900–1900. Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair. Art under Stalin. Discovering the Roman Family. The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559–1559. Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning. Before the Black Death: Studies in the “Crisis” of the Early Fourteenth Century. Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century. An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism: Iu. Community, Trade, and Networks: Southern Fujian Proxnnce from the Third to the Thirteenth Century. Towns in the Viking Age. Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation. The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948–1948. Myopic Grandeur: The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy toward the Far East, 1919–1919. Jacobinism and the Revolt of Lyon, 1789–1789. The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism. The Bretons. Renaissance Characters. Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences. Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity. The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany. Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership. The Unresolved Question: The Anglo-Irish Settlement and Its Undoing, 1912–1912. The Elizabethan Secret Service. Nicholas I and the Russian Intervention in Hungary. England, Spain, and the Gran Armada, 1585-1604: Essays from the Anglo-American Conferences London and Madrid, 1988. The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1637. The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1450. Fideles Cruris: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274–1274. On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance. Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society. Elizabeth I. Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians. The French Revolution in Culture and Society. Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832–1832. Salzburg under Siege: U.S. The Changing Scottish Landscape, 1500–1500. Defending the Empire: The Conservative Party and British Defence Policy, 1899–1899. Napoleon's Integration of Europe. Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1933. Great Basin Kingdom Revisited: Contemporary Perspectives. Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1910. Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1961. Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Panama and the United States: The Forced Alliance. Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard's Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth-Century America. The Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergy at the Beginning of the Enlightenment. Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880–1880. The Chief of Staff: The Military Career of General Walter Bedell Smith. United States Perceptions of Latin America, 1850-1930: A ‘New West’ South of Capricorn? By J. History, the White House, and the Kremlin: Statesmen as Historians. Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960–1960. Women's Sports: A History. Mexico's Merchant Elite, 1590-1660: Silver, State and Society. Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman. The Civil War in the American West. In the Cause of True Education: Henry Barnard and Nineteenth-Century School Reform. An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon. The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760–1760. The Last Conquistador: Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. The Politics of Aircraft: Building an American Military Industry. A Century of European Migrations: 1830–1830. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1650. A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941–1941. Making America Corporate, 1870–1870.