Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Engineering in the Ancint Worfd. By J. G. Landels. The Most Mysterious Manusmp: The Voynich “Roger Bacon” Cipher Manucnipt. Edited by Robert S. Brumbaugh. War and Society in Europe, 1618-1648. By J.V. Polisensky and Frederick Snider. Scottish Society in the Ftftcenth Century. Edited by Jennifer M. Brown. Neither Fire Nor Steel: Sir Christopher Hatton. By Alice Gilmore Vines. Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century. By A. D. Harvey. Social Policy, 1830-1924: Individuulism, Colhctivism, and the Origins ofthe Weljare Skate. The Fabians. By Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie. Inride Asquithi Cabinet. Edited by Edward David. Britain and the Oripns of the First World War. By Zara Steiner. The Agrarian History of Enghnd and Wah, vol. 8, 1914-1939. By Edith H. Whetham. A Lijic of Contra An Autobiography. By Diana Mitford Mosley. Political Change in France uncier Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624-1661. By Richard Bonney. The Response ofthe Royal Amy to the Frmh Revolution: The Role and Development of the Line Amy, 1787-1793. By Samuel F. Scott. Chateaubriund, vol. 1, The Longcd-for Tempests, 1768-93. By George D. Painter. The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Lcft in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851. By John M. Merriman. Florence and the Medici: The Patern of Control. By J.R. Hale. Early Economic Thought in Spin, I 177-1 740. By Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson. From Impotence to Authority: The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencies. By Mark A. Burkholder and D. S. Chandler. Socicty and Politics in Wilhelmine Gmnany. Edited by Richard J. Evans. Jewish Activism in Impend Germany: The Struggle for Civil Equality. By Marjorie Lamberti. The German Amy, 1933-1945: Its Political and Militory Failure. By Mathew Cooper. In the Year ofMunich. By Roy Douglas. Prince Eugene of Savoy. Men in Office Series.] By Derek McKay. The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle. By Albert Seaton. Lcon Tmfsky. Modem Masters Series.] By Irving Howe. Philip Mironov and tht Russian Ciuil War. By Sergei Starikov and Roy Medvedev. The Catholic Church and the Soviet Government, 1939-1949. Soviet-Ammican Rivalry. By Thomas B. Larson. Women in Russia. Edited by Dorothy Atkinson, Alexander Dallin, and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus. The Pacific War: Worfd War 11 and the Japanese, 1931-1945. By Saburo Ienaga. Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial, I664-1773. By Sung Bok Kim. Thomas McKean: Tht Shaping of an American Republicanism. By G. S. Rowe. Rockdale: The Growth of an American Villuge in the Early Industrial Revolution. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. The Rise and Fall ofthe Plantation South. By Raimondo Luraghi. Beverb Tucker: Heart over Head in the Old South. By Robert J. Brugger. Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeaf in Stauq. By Nathan Irvin Huggins. “Dear Master” Letters of a Slave Family. Edited by Randall M. Miller. The Scalawag in Alabama Politics. By Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Schooling for the Nm Slavq: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915. By Donald Spivey. Protest, Politirs, and Prosperity: Black Americans and White Institutions, 1940-75. By Dorothy. G@eld. By Allan Peskin. The Master Architects: Building the Unitcd States Foreign Seruice, 1890-1913. By Richard Hume Werking. A Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service. By Martin Weil. The Decision to Divide Germany: Ammican Foreign Policy in Transition. By John H. Backer. Mobilizing Women for War: Cennan and American Propaganda, 1939-1945. By LeilaJ. Rupp. R. E. Olds : Auto Industty Pioneer. By George S. May. John L. Lewis : A Biography. By Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine. Robert S. Kerr: The Senate Years. By Anne Hodges Morgan. The Ages ofAmerican Law. By Grant Gilmore. American Reformers, 1815-1860. By Ronald G. Walters. The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-class Rcfonn, Chicago, 1880-1930. By Thomas Lee Philpott. Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941. By William E. Akin. Amenca S Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbuty. By Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill. The Peopk and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781. By John Leddy Phelan. Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932-52. By Paul W. Drake.