REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Early Elizabethan Polity. William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558–1569. By Stephen Alford. Jacobean Gentleman. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. Princeton: Princeton University Press. British Identities before Nationalism. Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. By Colin Kidd. The English Revolution. Politics, Events, Ideas. By Perez Zagorin. Protestantism and National Identity. Britain and Ireland c. 1650‐c. 1850. Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Tory and Whig. The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, M.P. for Seaford, 1716–53. Edited by Stephen Taylor and Clyve Jones. Edmund Burke. Volume 1: 1730–1784. By F. P. Lock. Britannia's Glories. The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain. By Philip Woodfine. John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare. Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth‐Century Ireland. By Ann C. Kavanaugh. George IV. By E. A. Smith. Britain and the American Revolution. Edited by H. T. Dickinson. Unionist Scotland 1800–1997. Edited by Catriona M. M. MacDonald. British Politics on the Eve of Reform. The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–30. By Peter Jupp. Parliamentary Constituencies and their Registers since J 832. A List of Constituencies and their Registers from the Great Reform Act with the British Library's Holdings of Electoral Registers together with the Library's Holdings of Burgess Rolls, Poll Books and Other Registers. By Richard H. A. Cheffins. The Boundary Commissions. Redrawing the UK's Map of Parliamentary Constituencies. By D. J. Rossiter, R. J. Johnston and C. J. Pattie. Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846–1946. By Anthony Howe. Managing the South African War, 1899–1902. Politicians v. Generals. By Keith Terrance Surridge. Opinion Polls. History, Theory and Practice. By Nick Moon. Anthony Crosland. A New Biography. By Kevin Jefferys. Devolution in the United Kingdom. By Vernon Bogdanor. Britain Votes. 6: British Parliamentary Election Results 1997. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.