Book reviews

The World on Paper. By David R. Olson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xix + 319 pp. £17.95/$24.95 cloth.

Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. By Sharon Achinstein (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) xv + 272 pp. £27.50/$35.00 cloth.

The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. By Rodney Stark (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) xiv + 246 pp. £16.95/$24.95 cloth.

The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation. By Christopher J. Berry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xiv + 271 pp. £45.00/$69.95 cloth, £17.95/$24.95 paper.

Will to Live: One Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust. By Adam Starkopf (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995) 242 pp. $14.95 paper.

Meditations of a Holocaust Traveler. By Gerald E. Markle (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), 185 pp. $12.95 paper.

Nazism and German Society. 1933–1945. Edited by David C. Crew (London: Routledge, 1994) xii + 316 pp. £11.99 paper.

Women in Ancient Greece. By Sue Blundell (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) 224 pp. $19.95 paper.

The Dear Purchase: A Theme in German Modernism. By J. P. Stern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 445 pp. $64.95 cloth.

An Introduction to Political Ideas. Edited by Peter M. R. Stirk and David Weigall (London: Pinter Press, 1995) xv + 385 pp. £14.99 paper.

André Malraux: Politics and the Temptation of Myth. By Gino Raymond, Avery Series in Philosophy (Aldershot: Avebury, Ashgate, 1995) vi + 212 pp. $59.95 paper.

Collingwood Studies, Volume 1: The Life and Thought of R. G. Collingwood. Edited by David Boucher (Swansea: R. G. Collingwood Society, 1994) xiii + 211 pp. paper.

Perversion and Utopia: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. By Joel Whitebook (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995) 350 pp. $29.95 cloth.

A Vindication of the Rights of Men with a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Sylvana Tomaselli, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) £8.95/$ 10.95 paper, £25.00/$44.95 cloth.

Utopias of British Enlightenment. By Gregory Claeys, History of Political Thought, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xli +305 pp. $19.95 paper.

Baroque Personae. Edited by Rosario Villari, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 357 pp. £37.95/ $54.75 cloth.

The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Boll: Social Conscience and Literary Achievement. Edited by Michael Butler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xv + 280 pp. £37.50/$59.95 cloth.

La Rochefoucauld and the Language of Unmasking in Seventeenth‐Century France. By Henry C. Clark, Histoire des idees et critique littéraire, vol. 336 (Genève: Droz, 1994), 232 pp. paper.

Jane Austen and the Representation of Regency England. By Roger Sales (London: Routledge, 1996) xxii + 283 pp. £13.99 paper.

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. By R. J. Crampton (London: Routledge, 1994), xx + 475 pp. £14.99 paper.

What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth‐Century Answers and Twentieth‐Century Questions. Edited by James Schmidt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) xiii + 563 pp. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. By Joan Wallach Scott (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) 256 pp. $27.95 paper.

Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge. By Henry Plotkin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1994) xviii + 269 pp. $26.95 cloth.

Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche. Edited by Michael S. Roth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994) xv + 535 pp. $16.95 paper.

Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition. By Larry Scanlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xii+ 378 pp. £40.00/$64.95 cloth

Retreat from the Modern: Humanism, Postmodernism and the Flight from Modernist Culture. By N. J. Rengger (London: Bowerdean, 1996) vi+ 122 pp. $14.95 paper.

Nature, Justice and Rights in Aristotle's Politics. By Fred D. Miller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) xvii + 424 pp. 40.00 cloth.

Hauptsache Europa: Perspectiven für das Europäischen Parlament. By Peter Schönberger (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994), Dokumente und Schriften der Europäischen Akademie Otzenhausen, vol. 72, 130 pp. DM 88.00/AS 687/ sFF 88.00 paper.

A Proper Dyaloge betwene a Gentillman and an Husbandman. Edited by Douglas H. Parker (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) ix + 291 pp. £33.75/$55.00 cloth.

The Genesis of the French Revolution: A Global‐Historical Interpretation. By Bailey Stone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 268 pp. $49.95/ £37.50 cloth $14.95/£11.95 paper.

Britain in the European Union Today. By Colin Pilkington (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995) 260 pp. £35.00 cloth £9.99 paper.

Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence. By Cornelis Augustijn, translated by J. C. Grayson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991)x + 239 pp. £13.00/$19.95 paper.

Jean‐Jacques Rousseau: Music, Illusion and Desire. By Michael O'Dea (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995) viii + 284 pp. $59.95 cloth.

The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics. Edited and translated by Frederick C. Beiser, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) £37.50/$54.95 cloth, £13.95/$18.95 paper.

Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920. Edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) x + 206 pp. $69.95 cloth.

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. By Jeremy Bentham, edited by J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart, with a new introduction by F. Rosen (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) cxii + 343 pp. £17.99/$32.00 paper.

Community and Consent: The Secular Political Theory of Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor Pacis. By Cary J. Nederman (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 1995) 161 pp. $22.95 paper, $57.50 cloth.

Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition. By Clare Cavanagh (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) xii + 365 pp. $39.50 cloth.

God and Government in an “Age of Reason.” By David Nicholls (London: Routledge) 1995, xi + 278 pp. £45.00 cloth.

Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution. By Katerina Clark (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) xii + 377 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Histoire du suicide: la société occidentale face à la mort volontaire. By Georges Minois (Paris: Fayard, 1995) 421 pp. FF 150.00 paper.

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment. By Lorraine Daston (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) xviii + 432 pp. $19.95 paper.

Daedalus (Winter, 1996) “Social Suffering.” Edited by V. Das, A. Kleinman, and M. Lock 283 pp. $7.95 (Canada)/ $10.35 (U.S.) paper.

Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930. By Irina Livezeanu (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) 340 pp. £35.50/$45.00 (U.S.)/ $49.50 (foreign) cloth.

The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, vol. 2, 1914–1919. Edited by Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant, translated by Peter T. Hoffer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) xlvi +397 pp. $45.00 cloth.

Biologists Under Hitler. By Ute Deichmann, translated by Thomas Dunlap (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) xviii + 468 pp. $45.00 cloth.

The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the British Conservative Party, 1880–1914. By E. H. H. Green (London: Routledge, 1995) xiv + 412 pp., £50.00 cloth.

Marx: Later Political Writings. Edited by Terrell Carver, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xxxiii + 260 pp. £a27.95/$24.95 cloth £9.95/$ 12.95 paper.

A Small City in France: A Socialist Mayor Confronts Neofascism. By Françoise Gaspard, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge‐Harvard University Press, 1995) xi + 194 pp. $32.50 cloth $15.95 paper.

Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts. By Pierre A. Walker (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995) xxiv+ 230 pp. $28.50 cloth.

The Glory of van Gogh: An Anthropology of Admiration. By Nathalie Heinich, translated by Paul Leduc Browne (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 218 pp. $29.95 paper.

Poor Women and Children in the European Past. Edited by John Henderson and Richard Wall (London: Routledge, 1994) xiii + 347 pp. £45.00 cloth.

Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History and Musical Genre. By Jeffrey Kallberg Convergences (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) xiii + 301 pp. $45.00 cloth.

After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. By Anatoly M. Khazanov (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995) xxi + 311 pp. $24.95 cloth.

Reflections on Violence. By John Keane (London: Verso, 1996) 200 pp. £16.95 paper.

Fortuna, Money, and the Sublunar World: Twelfth‐century Ethical Poetics and the Satirical Poetry of the Carmina Burana. By Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Bibliotheca Histories 9. (Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1995) 188 pp. paper.

La Pensée politique de Raymond Aron. By Stephane Launay, Recherches politiques (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995) x + 243 pp. 158 FF paper.

Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader. By Rosalind Minsky (London: Routledge, 1996) xv + 317 pp. $69.95 cloth/$27.75 paper.

Un ?Intellectuel? avant la lettre: le journaliste Pierre Bayle (1647–1706). L'actualité religieuse dans les Nouvelles de la République des Lettres (1684–1687). By Hubert Bost. Etudes de l'Institut Pierre Bayle, Nijmegen (Amsterdam and Maarssen: APA—Holland University Press, 1994) xii + 584 pp. 150 cloth.