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ANCIENT: Edessa ‘the Blessed City’. By J. B. Segal ANCIENT: Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of st. Augustine. By R. A. Markus ANCIENT: Bread and the Liturgy: The Symbolism of Early Christian and Byzantine Bread Stamps. By George Galavaris MEDIEVAL: Life in Anglo‐Saxon England. By R. I. Page MEDIEVAL: The Entry of the Slavs into Christendom. By A. P. Vlasto MEDIEVAL: It is a pleasure to welcome a new edition of Cecily Clark's edition of the Peterborough Chronicle, 1070–1154 MEDIEVAL: The Age of Chivalry. Manners and Morals 1000–1450. By C. T. Wood MEDIEVAL: The Knight and Chivalry. By Richard Barber MEDIEVAL: Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli Sociorum s. Francisci. The Writings of leo, Rufino and Angelo Companions of st. Francis. Edited and translated by Rosalind B. Brooke MEDIEVAL: Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia. By Thomas F. Glick MEDIEVAL: English Historical Documents: vol. iv, 1327–1485. Edited by A. R. Myers MEDIEVAL: Bernardo Giustiniani. A Venetian of the Quattrocento. By Patricia H. Labalme MEDIEVAL: The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity. By Roberto Weiss MEDIEVAL: The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380–1580. By D. S. Chambers MEDIEVAL: The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance. By Robert S. Lopez MEDIEVAL: Geoffrey Trease's the Condottieri EARLY MODERN: The Foundations of the Modern World 1300–1775. By L. Gottschalk, L. C. Mackinney and E. H. Pritchard EARLY MODERN: Monastic Iconography in France from the Renaissance to the Revolution. By Joan Evans EARLY MODERN: Tudor Royal Proclamations. Edited by Paul L. Hughes and James F. Larkin EARLY MODERN: Theatre of the World. By Frances A. Yates EARLY MODERN: La Plume, la Faucille et le Marteau: Institutions et Societe en France du Moyen age a la Revolution. By Roland Mousnier EARLY MODERN: The French Nobility in Crisis, 1560–1640. By Davis Bitton EARLY MODERN: Les Oeconomies Royales de Sully, Volume 1, 1572–1594. Edited by David Buisseret and Bernard Barbiche EARLY MODERN: Change in the Provinces: The Seventeenth Century. By Alan Everitt EARLY MODERN: Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy. Protestant Scholasticism and Humanism in Seventeenth‐Century France. By Brian C. Armstrong EARLY MODERN: God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. By Christopher Hill EARLY MODERN: Donald Veall takes a good subject in the Popular Movement for law Reform, 1640–1660 EARLY MODERN: Michael Landon also begins his the triumph of the Lawyers: Their Role in English Politics, 1678–1689 EARLY MODERN: Robert Harley, Puritan Politician. By Angus McInnes EARLY MODERN: New Cambridge Modern History Volume vi: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia 1688–1715/25. Edited by J. S. Bromley EARLY MODERN: The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Edited with an Introduction by W. E. Minchinton EARLY MODERN: Britain After the Glorious Revolution 1689–1715. By Geoffrey Holmes and others THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: The Ancien Régime in Europe: Government and Society in the Major States 1648–1789. By E. N. Williams THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Anglo‐American Political Relations, 1675–1775. Edited by Alison Gilbert Olson and Richard Maxwell Brown THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Muscovite and Mandarin. Russia's Trade with China and its Setting, 1727–1805. By C. M. Foust THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Philosopher king. the humanist pope benedict xiv. By Renée Haynes THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: The British Empire Before the American Revolution. vol. xv. A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the History of the British Empire, 1748–1776. By Lawrence Henry Gipson THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: In his study of Shipping and the American war 1775–83 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: The Parkers at Saltram, 1769–89. Everyday life in an Eighteenth‐Century House. By Ronald Fletcher THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: The French Revolution. By François Furot and Denis Richot THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Biography is not a medium much used by present teachers of modern European history and Madame Roland and the age of Revolution by Gita May THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Napoleon and Paris. By Maurice Guerrini. Translated by Margery Weiner THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Power in the Industrial Revolution. By Richard L. Hills THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: The Textile Industry. By W. English THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Systèmes Agraires et Progrès Agricole: l'Assolement Triennal en Russie aux xviii e ‐xix e Siecles. By M. Confino THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The First Industrial Nation. An Economic History of Britain 1700–1914. By Peter Mathias THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Foreign Ministers of Alexander I: Political Attitudes and the Conduct of Russian Diplomacy 1801–1825. By Patricia K. Grimsted THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Bureaucracy and Church Reform. the Organizational Response of the Church of England to Social Change 1800–1965. By Kenneth A. Thompson THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Father of Racist Ideology. The Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau. By Michael D. Biddiss THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Marx Before Marxism. By David McLellan THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Baines's Account of the Woollen Manufacture of England. With a new Introduction by K. G. Ponting THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Victorian Crisis of Faith: Six Lectures. Edited by Anthony Symondson THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Popular Movements, C. 1830–1850. Edited by J. T. Ward THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Pauper Press. A Study of Working‐Class Radicalism of the 1830s. By Patricia Hollis THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The war of the Unstamped. The Movement to Repeal the British Newspaper Tax, 1830–1836. By J. H. Wiener THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Free Trade: Theory and Practice from Adam Smith to Keynes. By N. McCord THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Dietary Surveys of Dr. Edward Smith. By T. C. Barker, D. J. Oddy and John Yudkin THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Red Shirt and the Cross of Savoy: The Story of Italy's Risorgimento (1748‐1871). By George Martin THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Social Foundations of German Unification 1858–1871, Ideas and Institutions. By Theodore S. Hamerow THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Victorian Underworld. By Kellow Chesney THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Cosmopolitanism and the National State. By Friedrich Meinecke; translated by Robert B. Kimber THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Administration of Imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office. By Robert V. Kubicek THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Sir John Brunner: Radical Plutocrat, 1842–1919. By Stephen E. Koss THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. vol. 4. 1917: Year of Decision; vol. 5. 1918–1919: Victory and Aftermath. By Arthur J. Marder THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Russian Search for Peace February‐October 1917. By R. A. Wade THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Making of the Soviet State Apparatus. By Olga A. Narkiewicz THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Politics of Decontrol of Industry: Britain and the United States. By Susan Armitage THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: British Social Policy 1914–1939. By Bentley B. Gilbert THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Diplomatic Diaries of Oliver Harvey, 1937–1940. Edited by John Harey THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: American Aid to France 1938–40. By John McVickar Haight THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Resistance Versus Vichy. By Peter Novick THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: De Gaulle's Foreign Policy 1944–1946. By A. W. De Porte THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Europe Since Hitler. By Walter Laqueur THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The European Renaissance Since 1945. By Maurice Crouzet THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: France since 1918. By Herbert Tint THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Wars, Plots and Scandals in Post‐War France. By Philip M. Williams THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: French Politicians and Elections 1951–1969. By Philip M. Williams AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: A History of the Upper Guinea Coast 1545 to 1800. By Walter Rodney AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast 1600–1720. By Kwame Yeboa Daaku AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Province of Freedom: A History of Sierra Leone 1787–1870. By John Peterson AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: West African Countries and Peoples. By James Africanus Horton with an introduction by George Shepperson AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Pre‐Colonial African Trade. Essays on Trade in Central and Eastern Africa Before 1900. Edited by Richard Gray and David Birmingham AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Colonialism in Africa 1870–1960. vol. i: The History and Politics of Colonialism 1870–1914. Edited by L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Reluctant Rebellion. The 1906–1908 Disturbances in Natal. By Shula Marks AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Administration of Nigeria: Men, Methods and Myths. By I. F. Nicolson AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Studies in the Social History of Modern Egypt. By Gabriel Baer AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: A Modern History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine. By A. L. Tibawi AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Society of the Muslim Brothers. By Richard P. Mitchell AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Jews in Nineteenth‐Century Egypt. By Jacob M. Landau AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: On the Frontiers of Islam: The Sudan Under Turco‐Egyptian Rule 1822–1845. By Richard Hill AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Letters of Sir William Jones. Edited by Garland Cannon AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Trade and Empire in Western India 1784–1806. By Pamela Nightingale AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Lord Northbrook's Indian Administration, 1872–1876. By Edward C. Moulton AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Curzon in India. Vol. 1, Achievement. Vol. 2, Frustration. By David Dilks AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Transfer of Power 1942–7, Vol. i. The Cripps Mission, January‐April 1942, edited by N. Mansergh, assisted by E. W. R. Lumby AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Rajahs and Rebels. The Ibans of Sarawak Under Brooke Rule, 1841–1941. By Robert Pringle AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Malay States, 1877–1895. Political Change and Social Policy. By Philip Loh AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Viet‐Nam and The West. By Ralph Smith AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Laos. Buffer State or Battleground. By Hugh Toye AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The New Generation in Meiji Japan: Problems of Cultural Identity, 1885–1895. By Kenneth B. Pyle AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Great Britain and Japan 1911–15: A Study of British Far Eastern Policy. By Peter Lowe AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: British Policy in China 1895–1902. By L. K. Young AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Rise of Modern China. By Immanuel C. Y. Hsü AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Dragon Wakes: China and The West 1793–1911. By Christopher Hibbert AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Shadow of The Land: A Study of British Policy and Racial Conflict in New Zealand, 1832–52. By Ian Wards AFRICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Colonies into Commonwealth. By W. D. McIntyre GENERAL: The Nature of History. By Arthur Marwick GENERAL: The Death of The Past. By J. H. Plumb GENERAL: History: An Introduction for The Intending Student. Edited by Harold Perkin GENERAL: The Young Historian. By N. H. Brasher GENERAL: New Movements in The Study and Teaching of History. Edited by Martin Ballard GENERAL: The Responsibility of Power. Historical Essays in Honor of Hajo Holborn. Edited by Leonard Krieger and Fritz Stern GENERAL: The Secret Archives of the Vatican. By Maria Luisa Ambrosini, with Mary Willis GENERAL: National Maritime Museum. Catalogue of the Library: Vol. 2, Parts 1 and 2, Biography GENERAL: The Emergence of the Super‐Powers. A Short Comparative History of the U.S.A. and The U.S.S.R. By Paul Dukes GENERAL: Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969. By G. R. Elton GENERAL: The Conquest of Violence: Order and Liberty in Britain. By T. A. Critchley GENERAL: Britain and her Army 1509–1970. A Military, Political and Social Survey. By Correlli Barnett GENERAL: Children in English Society, Vol. 1. From Tudor Times to The Eighteenth Century. by Ivy Pinchbeck and Margaret Hewitt GENERAL: The Rural Landscape of the Welsh Borderland: A Study in Historical Geography. By Dorothy Sylvester GENERAL: The Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden. General editor: F. H. W. Sheppard GENERAL: City Fathers. By Colin and Rose Bell