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Book reviewed in this article: AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: CHRONOLOGY OF AFRICAN HISTORY. By G. S. P. Freeman‐Grenville. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE TRADE MAKERS: ELDER DEMPSTER IN WEST AFRICA, 1852–1972. BY P. N. Davies. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE SEGU TUKULOR EMPIRE. By B. O. Oloruntimehin. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE IBO PEOPLE AND THE EUROPEANS: THE GENESIS OF A RELATIONSHIP—TO 1906. By Elizabeth Isichei. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: DEPENDENCE AND OPPORTUNITY: POLITICAL CHANGE IN AHAFO. By John Dunn and A. F. Robertson. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: CLONIALISM IN AFRICA 1870–1960, VOL. 5: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO COLONIALISM IN SUB‐SAHARAN AFRICA. By Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE HISTORY OF BLACK AFRICA. By Endre Sik. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE OTHER LIVINGSTONE. By Judith Listowel. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: STANLEY: AN ADVENTURER EXPLORED. By Richard Hall. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: BOTSWANA: A SHORT POLITICAL HISTORY. By Anthony Sillery AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: MOZAMBIQUE: THE AFRICANIZATION OF A EUROPEAN INSTITUTION, THE ZAMBEZI PRAZOS, 1750–1902. By Allen F. Isaacman. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: CATHOLICS, PEASANTS AND CHEWA RESISTANCE IN NYASALAND, 1889–1939. By Ian Linden AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: MALAWI: THE HISTORY OF THE NATION. By Bridglal Pachai. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: A HISTORY OF THE BEMBA: POLITICAL GROWTH AND CHANGE IN NORTH‐EASTERN ZAMBIA BEFORE 1900. By Andrew D. Roberts. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: RAILWAYS AND THE COPPER MINES OF KATANGA. By S. E. Katzenellenbogen. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE ECONOMICS OF COLONIALISM: BRITAIN AND KENYA, 1870–1930. By Richard D. Wolff. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: KENYATTA AND THE POLITICS OF KENYA. By Guy Arnold. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: LA TRAITE DES ESCLAVES VERS LES MASCAREIGNES AU XVIII E SIÉCLE. By J.‐M. Filliot. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: BEN‐CURION, STATE‐BUILDER: PRINCIPLES AND PRAGMATISM, 1948–1963. By Avraham Avi‐hai. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ITS SUCCESSORS. By Peter Mansfield. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: SURVIVAL OR HEGEMONY? THE FOUNDATIONS OF ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY. By Samuel J. Roberts. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: EUROPE LEAVES THE MIDDLE EAST, 1936–1954. By Howard M. Sachar. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: IMPERIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE FERTILE CRESCENT. By Richard Allen. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: HISTORY OF BOMBAY 1661–1708. By M. D. David. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: BRITAIN AND INDIA: THE INTERACTION OF TWO PEOPLES. By M. E. Chamberlain. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE: A STUDY OF BRITISH‐INDIAN RELATIONS FROM AKBAR TO CURZON. By Peter Mudford. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE ELDEST BROTHER: THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY, 1760–1842. By Iris Butler. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE JAMMU FOX: A BIOGRAPHY OF MAHARAJA GULAB SINGH OF KASHMIR, 1792–1857. By Bawa Satinder Singh. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF INDIA 1834–1947. By B. B. Misra. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: PALACES OF THE RAJ: MAGNIFICENCE AND MISERY OF THE LORD SAHIBS. By Mark Bence‐Jones. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: A NEW SYSTEM OF SLAVERY: THE EXPORT OF INDIAN LABOUR OVERSEAS, 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE CRISIS OF INDIAN UNITY 1917–1940. By R. J. Moore. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: INDIA'S REVOLUTION: GANDHI AND THE QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT. By Francis G. Hutchins. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: GOKHALE, GANDHI AND THE NEHRUS: STUDIES IN INDIAN NATIONALISM. BY B. R. Nanda. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: HISTORY OF CEYLON, VOL. III: FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO 1948. Edited by K. M. de Silva. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: POLITICS IN SRI LANKA, 1947–1973. By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: A HISTORY OF EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS. By Guilford A. Dudley. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: HALF THE WORLD: THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF CHINA AND JAPAN. Edited by Arnold Toynbee. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: PERSPECTIVES ON THE T'ANG. Edited by Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE FIRST CHINESE EMBASSY TO THE WEST: THE JOURNALS OF KUO SUNG‐T'AO, LIU HSI‐HUNG AND CHANG TE‐YI. Edited by J. D. Frodsham. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: HSI‐LIANG AND THE CHINESE NATIONAL REVOLUTION. By Roger V. Des Forges. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: FRONTIER DEFENSE AND THE OPEN DOOR: MANCHURIA IN CHINESE‐AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1895–1911. By Michael H. Hunt. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE DAMNED INHERITANCE: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE MANCHURIAN CRISES 1924–1935. By George Alexander Lensen. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1921–1949. By Jacques Guillermaz. Translated by Anne Destenay. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: TO PHOENIX SEAT: AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY OF MAOISM AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST QUEST FOR A PARADISE ON EARTH. By Leslie R. Marchant. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: JAPAN: ITS HISTORY AND CULTURE. By W. Scott Morton. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: TREASURES AMONG MEN: THE FUDAI DAIMYO IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN. By Harold Bolitho. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: PEARL HARBOR AS HISTORY: JAPANESE‐AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1931–1941. Edited by Dorothy Borg, Shumpei Okamoto and Dale K. A. Finlayson. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: JAPAN'S FIRST STUDENT RADICALS. By Henry DeWitt Smith, II. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE PHILIPPINES. By Keith Lightfoot. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: A DRAGON DEFIANT: A SHORT HISTORY OF VIETNAM. By Joseph Buttinger. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: FIRE IN THE LAKE: THE VIETNAMESE AND THE AMERICANS IN VIETNAM. By Frances FitzGerald. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: SOUTH‐EAST ASIA 1930–1970: THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM. By Fred R. von der Mehden. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE SIX YEARS WAR: A CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE 1939–45 WAR. By Gavin Long. AFRICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: MAKERS OF FORTUNE: A COLONIAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND ITS FALL. By R. C. J. Stone. MEDIEVAL: THE ROYAL TOUCH. By Marc Bloch. MEDIEVAL: MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND STUDIES. By C. R. Cheney. MEDIEVAL: Irene Gladwin's THE SHERIFF: THE MAN AND HIS OFFICE MEDIEVAL: THE ANGLO‐SAXON AGE c. 400–1042. By D. J. V. Fisher. MEDIEVAL: THE HIDATION OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE. By C. Hart. MEDIEVAL: THE ANGLO‐SAXON CEMETERIES OF CAISTOR‐BY NORWICH AND MARKSHALL, NORFOLK. By J. N. L. Myres and Barbara Green. MEDIEVAL: Mountains of literature have been devoted to the history of England, France and Italy in the post‐Roman period; but surprisingly little has been written about the history of Spain in the fifth and following centuries, except by Spaniards, and for the most part Spanish writing about this period is of very poor quality. So there was a splendid opening for Professor Harold Livermore to describe this epoch for us in THE ORIGINS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL MEDIEVAL: GERMANY UNDER THE SALIAN AND HOHENSTAUFEN EMPERORS. By Karl Hampe. MEDIEVAL: LIFE OF MERLIN, BY GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH: THE VITA MERLINI . Edited by Basil Clarke. MEDIEVAL: MYTH AND SCIENCE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY: A STUDY OF BERNARD SILVESTER. By Brian Stock. MEDIEVAL: A COMPANION TO THE STUDY OF ST. ANSELM. By Jasper Hopkins. MEDIEVAL: THE CHRONICLE OF ERNOUL AND THE CONTINUATIONS OF WILLIAM OF TYRE. By M. R. Morgan. MEDIEVAL: RENAISSANCE EUROPE, 1300–1517. By Ernst Breisach. MEDIEVAL: VIE RELIGIEUSE ET RÉFORME ECCLÉSIASTIQUE DANS LE DIOCÈSE DE GENÈVE (1378–1450), vol. 1. By Louis Binz. MEDIEVAL: THE PURCHASE OF PARADISE: THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF ARISTOCRATIC BENEVOLENCE, 1307–1485. By Joel T. Rosenthal. MEDIEVAL: WILLIAM WORCESTRE ITINERARIES . Edited by John H. Harvey. MEDIEVAL: ENGLISH TIN PRODUCTION AND TRADE BEFORE 1550. By John Hatcher. EARLY MODERN: CONGO TO CAPE: EARLY PORTUGUESE EXPLORERS. By Eric Axelson. EARLY MODERN: EASTWARD TO EMPIRE EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST ON THE RUSSIAN OPEN FRONTIER, to 1750. By George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce. EARLY MODERN: The best account of Leo X's pontificate is in many ways still the well‐documented story in Pastor. To this Professor Bonner Mitchell in his ROME IN THE HIGH RENAIS‐SANCE: THE AGE OF LEO x EARLY MODERN: MYSTICISM AND DISSENT: RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROTEST IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By Steven E. Ozment. EARLY MODERN: FAMILY, LINEAGE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: A STUDY OF SOCIETY, POLITICS AND MENTALITY in the durham region, 1500–1640. By Mervyn James. EARLY MODERN: THE REFORMATION OF IMAGES: DESTRUCTION OF ART IN ENGLAND, 1535–1660. By John Phillips. EARLY MODERN: RELIGION, ORDER, AND LAW: A STUDY IN PRE‐REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND. By David Little. EARLY MODERN: THE ROUEN CAMPAIGN 1590–1592: POLITICS, WARFARE AND THE EARLY‐MODERN STATE. By Howell A. Lloyd. EARLY MODERN: LES COLBERT AVANT COLBERT. By Jean‐Louis Bourgeon. EARLY MODERN: HENRY III AND THE JESUIT POLITICIANS. By A. Lynn Martin. EARLY MODERN: OLDENBARNEVELT. By Jan den Tex. EARLY MODERN: CARRACKS, CARAVANS AND COMPANIES: THE STRUCTURAL CRISIS IN THE EUROPEAN‐ASIAN TRADE IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY. By Niels Steensgaard. EARLY MODERN: CRISTOFANO AND THE PLAGUE: A STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE AGE OF GALILEO. By Carlo M. Cipolla. EARLY MODERN: STUART ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS, VOLUME I: ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS OF KING JAMES I, 1603–1625. Edited by James F. Larkin and Paul L. Hughes. EARLY MODERN: THE SCOTTISH REVOLUTION 1637–44: THE TRIUMPH OF THE COVENANTERS. By David Stevenson. EARLY MODERN: DISCORD IN ZION: THE PURITAN DIVINES AND THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. By Tai Liu. EARLY MODERN: CHERITON 1644: THE CAMPAIGN AND THE BATTLE. By John Adair. EARLY MODERN: THE RUMP PARLIAMENT. By Blair Worden. EARLY MODERN: GILBERT SHELDON, ARCHITECT OF ANGLICAN SURVIVAL, 1640–1675. By Victor D. Sutch. EARLY MODERN: CHARLES II. By Maurice Ashley. EARLY MODERN: SOPHIE, ELECTRESS OF HANOVER: A PERSONAL PORTRAIT. By Maria Kroll. EARLY MODERN: THE TRIAL OF DOCTOR SACHEVERELL. By Geoffrey Holmes. EARLY MODERN: LORD HERVEY, EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY COURTIER. By Robert Halsband. EARLY MODERN: American historians of the Revolutionary period are developing an increasing interest in the rejected minority of 1776‐those American colonists who could not accept the decision to go for independence and became the empire loyalists of the late eighteenth century. Mary Beth Norton's study, THE BRITISH AMERICANS: THE LOYALIST EXILES IN ENGLAND, 1774–1789 EARLY MODERN: PITT THE YOUNGER by Derek Jarrett EARLY MODERN: Dr. J. Q. C. Mackrell, in THE ATTACK ON ‘FEUDALISM’ IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY FRANCE EARLY MODERN: REFORM AND REVOLUTION IN MAINZ, 1743–1803. By T. C. W. Blanning. EARLY MODERN: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN RUSSIA. Edited by John G. Garrard. EARLY MODERN: THE EMANCIPATION OF THE RUSSIAN NOBILITY, 1762–1785. By Robert E. Jones. EARLY MODERN: RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By A. Lentin. EARLY MODERN: THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF ROUSSEAU AND BURKE. By David Cameron. LATE MODERN: THE TRANSPORT REVOLUTION FROM 1770. By Philip S. Bagwell. LATE MODERN: THE METHODIST REVOLUTION. By Bernard Semmel. LATE MODERN: CLASS STRUCXLE AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EARLY INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM IN THREE ENGLISH TOWNS. By John Foster. LATE MODERN: JOHN DALTON: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS OF HIS LIFE AND SCIENCE. By Arnold Thackray. LATE MODERN: NINETEENTH‐CENTURY SOCIETY: ESSAYS IN THE USE OF QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL DATA. Edited by E. A. Wrigley. LATE MODERN: MONETARY AND FINANCIAL POLICY: GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY BRITAIN. By Frank W. Fetter and Derek Gregory. LATE MODERN: VICTORIAN LANCASHIRE. Edited by S. Peter Bell. LATE MODERN: SELF‐HELP: VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By P. H. J. H. Gosden. LATE MODERN: RADICAL ARTISAN: WILLIAM JAMES LINTON, 1812–97. By F. B. Smith. LATE MODERN: JOHN RUSKIN, OR THE AMBIGUITIES OF ABUNDANCE: A STUDY IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRITICISM. By James Clark Sherburne. LATE MODERN: MARX AND MILL: TWO VIEWS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AND SOCIAL HARMONY. BY Graeme Duncan. LATE MODERN: ENGLAND'S MISSION: THE IMPERIAL IDEA IN THE AGE OF GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI 1868–1880. By C. C. Eldridge. LATE MODERN: THE GOVERNING PASSION: CABINET GOVERNMENT AND PARTY POLITICS IN BRITAIN, 1885–86. By A. B. Cooke and John Vincent. LATE MODERN: FRENCH REVOLUTION DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: 1792–95, edited by John Hardman LATE MODERN: THE JOURNALISTS AND THE JULY REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. By Daniel L. Rader. LATE MODERN: ARMY AND REVOLUTION: FRANCE 1815–1848. By Douglas Porch. LATE MODERN: THE ABSOLUTE BOURGEOIS: ARTISTS AND POLITICS IN FRANCE 1848–1851. By T. J. Clark. LATE MODERN: THE IMAGE OF THE PEOPLE: GUSTAVE COURBET AND THE 1848 REVOLUTION. By T. J. Clark. LATE MODERN: 1848: THE REVOLUTIONARY TIDE IN EUROPE. By Peter N. Stearns. LATE MODERN: DIE POLNISCHE REVOLUTION 1846: ZWISCHEN NATIONALEM BEFREIUNGSKAMPF DES LANDADELS UND ANTIFEUDALER BAUERNERHEBUNG. By Arnon Gill. LATE MODERN: DIE HABSBURGERMONARCHLE 1848–1918, BAND I: DIE WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ENTWICRLUNG. Edited by Alois Brusatti. LATE MODERN: PARTEIEN UND REICHSTAGSWÄHLEN IN UNGRAN, 1848 bis 1892. By Adalbert Toth. LATE MODERN: ÖSTERREICH‐UNGARN UND DER FRANZÖSISCH‐PREUSSISCHE KRIEG 1870–1871. By István Diószegi. LATE MODERN: FREE TRADE AND FRUSTRATION: ANGLO‐AUSTRIAN NEGOTIATIONS, 1860–70. By Karl F. Helleiner. LATE MODERN: DIONYSIAN ART AND POPULIST POLITICS IN AUSTRIA. By William J. McGrath. LATE MODERN: THE END OF AUSTRIA‐HUNGARY. By Leo Valiani. LATE MODERN: THE SHORT‐WAR ILLUSION: GERMAN POLICY, STRATEGY AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, AUGUST‐DECEMBER 1914. By L. L. Farrar, Jr. LATE MODERN: DOCUMENTS ON BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY, 1919–1939. Edited by W. N. Medlicott, Douglas Dakin and M. E. Lambert. LATE MODERN: LEON TROTSKY AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC ISOLATION. By Richard B. Day. LATE MODERN: QUISLING: THE CAREER AND POLITICAL IDEAS OF VIDKUN QUISLING, 1887–1945. By Paul M. Hayes. LATE MODERN: VICHY FRANCE: OLD GUARD AND NEW ORDER, 1940–1944. By Robert O. Paxton. LATE MODERN: HUNGARY: A CENTURY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. By I. T. Berend and G. Ránki. LATE MODERN: EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION 1815–1970. By Sidney Pollard. LATE MODERN: EDUCATLON AND ENMITY: THE CONTROL OF SCHOOLING IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1920–1950. By Donald Harman Akenson. LATE MODERN: BRITISH POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 1951–1970: a study of an affluent society, By Mary Proudfoot. LATE MODERN: THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY 1918–1970. By T. F. Lindsay and Michael Harrington. LATE MODERN: THE HISTORY OF BRITISH STEEL. By John Vaizey.