Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article An Interpretation of Universal History. By Jose Ortega Y Gasset. Translated by Mildred Adams. (New York: W. W. Norton, Inc., 1973. Pp. 302. $8.95.) The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought. By Robert Nisbet. A History of the Alans in the West; From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity through the Early Middle Ages. By Bernard S. Bachrach. The Jews in the Roman World. By Michael Grant. Wool, Cloth, and Gold: The Struggle for Bullion in Anglo-Burgundian Trade, 1340-1478. By John H. A. Munro. From Revolution to Revolution: England, 1688-1776. By John Carswell. Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum. By David E. Underdown. This Sun of York: A Biography of Edward IV. By Mary Clive. Ireland in the Empire, 1688-1770. A History of Ireland from the Williamite Wars to the Eve of the American Revolution. Harvard Historical Monographs, No. 68. By Francis Godwin James. The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867-1945, and the Making of the New Ireland. Edited by F. X. Martin and F. J. Byrne. After the Forty-Five: The Economic Impact on the Scottish Highlands. By A. J. Youngson. Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian. By John Clive. Lloyd George: Family Letters, 1885-1936. Edited by Kenneth O. Morgan. Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign; Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia. By William E. Wright. The Assassination of Henry IV: The Tyrannicide Problem & The Consolidation of the French Absolute Monarchy in the Early 17th Century. By Roland Mousnier. Lafayette in the French Revolution: From the October Days through the Federation. By Louis Gottschalk and Margaret Maddox. The Scourge of the Eagle: Napoleon and the Liberal Opposition. By Louis de Villefosse and Janine Bouissounouse. Economics and Empire, 1830-1914. By D. K. Fieldhouse. The Sword and the Scepter: The Problem of Militarism in Germany. Volume IV, The Reign of German Militarism and the Disaster of 1918. By Gerhard Ritter. Sociology and Estrangement: Three Sociologists of Imperial Germany. By Arthur Mitzman. The Red Rising in Bavaria. By Richard Grunberger. Stalin: The Man and His Era. By Adam B. Ulam. Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War. By Thomas G. Paterson. Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922. By Michael Llewellyn Smith. A History of Modern Norway, 1814-1972. By T. K. Derry. A Thousand Miles Away: A History of North Queensland to 1920. By G. C. Bolton. Latin America and British Trade, 1806-1914. By D.C.M. Platt. Pan-Africanism: Evolution, Progress and Prospects. By Adekunle Ajala. Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China. By John W. Dardess. The Mexican Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1910-1929. By Robert E. Quirk. Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808. By Kenneth R. Maxwell. The Decline of American Gentility. By Stow Persons. The Jew in Early American Wit and Graphic Humor. By Rudolf Glanz. The Politics of a Literary Man: William Gilmore Simms. By Jon L. Wakelyn. A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution. By Harold M. Hyman. Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868. By Michael Perman. From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks, 1861-1865. By Louis S. Gerteis. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction. By Keith N. Polakoff. Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback. By James Haskins. Hippocrates in a Red Vest: The Biography of a Frontier Doctor. By Barron B. Beshoar. Hiram Martin Chittenden: His Public Career. By Gordon B. Dodds. The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866-1890. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform. By John D. Buenker. Victor Berger and the Promise of Constructive Socialism, 1910-1920. By Sally M. Miller. Colonel House in Paris: A Study of American Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. By Inga Kioto. Patrick J. Hurley and American foreign Policy. By Russell D. Buhite. Toward a National Power Policy: The New Deal and the Electric Utility Industry, 1933-1941. By Philip J. Funigiello. The American Way of Violence. By Alphonso Pinkney. The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War. By Robert James Maddox. California — Where the Twain Did Meet. By Anne Loftis. Longtime Californ’A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown. By Victor G. and Brett de Bary Nee. To Save a Nation: American Countersubversives, the New Deal, and the Coming of World War II. By Geoffrey S. Smith. Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism. By Alonzo L. Hamby. Readings on La Raza: The Twentieth Century. Edited by Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Rivera. The Department of Labor. Number 37 of the Praeger Library of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies]. By Jonathan Grossman.