REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES: THE AMERICAS

Book reviewed in this article: AMERICA BC: ANCIENT SETTLERS IN THE NEW WORLD. By Barry Fell. PHILADELPHIA AND THE CHINA TRADE, 1682–1846: COMMERCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ATTITUDINAL EFFECTS. By Jonathan Goldstein. WILLIAM PENN'S LEGACY: POLITICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN PROVINCIAL PENNSYLVANIA, 1726–1755. By Alan Tully. THE EMPIRE OF REASON: HOW EUROPE IMAGINED AND AMERICA REALIZED THE ENLIGHTENMENT. By Henry Steele Commager. THE IDEA OF AMERICA: A REASSESSMENT OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT. Edited by E. M. Adams. AMERICA: THE NEW IMPERIALISM: FROM WHITE SETTLEMENT TO WORLD HEGEMONY By V. G. Kiernan. THE MAKING OF AMERICAN POLITICS, 1750–1850. By M. J. Heale. IN THE MATTER OF COLOR: RACE AND THE AMERICAN LEGAL PROCESS: THE COLONIAL PERIOD. By A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. THE SOURCES OF ANTISLAVERY CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AMERICA, 1760–1848. By William M. THE WRITS OF ASSISTANCE CASE. By M. H. Smith. JONATHAN BOUCHER, LOYALIST IN EXILE. By Anne Y. Zimmer. Detroit: LIBERTY AND EMPIRE: BRITISH RADICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN PROBLEM, 1777: THE YEAR OF THE HANGMAN. By John S. Pancake. Alabama: DOCUMENTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1770–1783 (COLONIAL SERIES). Edited by K. G. Davies. BISHOPS BY BALLOT: AN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY ECCLESIASTICAL REVOLUTION. By Frederick V. Mills WASHINGTON: A BIOGRAPHY By Noemie Emery. THE YOUNG HAMILTON: A BIOGRAPHY. By James Thomas Flexner. FREEMASONRY IN FEDERALIST CONNECTICUT, 1789–1835. By Dorothy Ann Lipson. ANTHONY MERRY REDIVIVVS: A REAPPRAISAL OF THE BRITISH MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES 1803–1806 By Malcolm Lester. Howard Jones's TO THE WEBSTER‐ASHBURTON TREATY: A STUDY IN ANGLO‐AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1783–1843 THE PROCESS OF GOVERNMENT UNDER JEFFERSON. By Noble E. AMERICANS AND GERMAN SCHOLARSHIP 1770–1870. By Carl Diehl. THE GENTLEMEN THEOLOGIANS: AMERICAN THEOLOGY IN SOUTHERN CULTURE 1795–1860. By E. Brooks Holifield. A SACRED CIRCLE: THE DILEMMA OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN THE OLD SOUTH, 1840–1860. By Drew Gilpin Faust. CHARIOT OF FIRE: RELIGION AND THE BEECHER FAMILY. By Marie Caskey. THE MARBLE MAN: ROBERT E. LEE AND HIS IMAGE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY By Thomas L. Connelly. LINCOLN AND THE ECONOMICS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. By G. S. Boritt. WITH MALITE TOWARD NONE: THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Stephen B. Oates. THE POLITICAL CRISIS OF THE 1850s. By Michael F. Holt. DIVISION AND REUNION: AMERICA 1848–1877. By Ludwell H. Johnson. AMERICAN APOCALYPSE: YANKEE PROTESTANTS AND THE CIVIL WAR, 1860–1869. By James H. Morehead. THE BLACK FAMILY IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM, 1750–1925. By Herbert G. Glltman. COMPETITION AND COERCION: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, 1865–1914. By Robert Higgs. RACE RELATIONS IN THE URBAN SOUTH, 1865–1890. By Howard N. Rabinowitz. BLACK GEORGIA IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900–1920. By John Dittmer. ALONG THE COLOR LINE: EXPLORATIONS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE. By August Meier and Elliott Rudwick. ABOVE THE BATTLE: WAR‐MAKING IN AMERICA FROM APPOMATTOX TO VERSAILLES. By Thomas C. Leonard. FEMINISM AND SUFFRAGE: THE EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN AMERICA, 1848–1869. By Ellen Carol DuBois. AN AMERICAN ANARCHIST: THE LIFE OF VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. By Paul Avrich. Gabriel Kolko has made several studies of American business corporations and of foreign policy. His MAIN CURRENTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY WORK WITHOUT SALVATION: AMERICA'S INTELLECTUALS AND INDUSTRIAL ALIENATION, 1880–1910. By James B. Gilbert. YEARS OF DECISION: AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1890s. By R. Hal Williams. REFORM AND REGULATION: AMERICAN POLITICS, 1900–1916. By Lewis L. Gould. DEMOCRATIC PROMISE: THE POPULIST MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. By Lawrence Goodwyn. GRASS‐ROOTS SOCIALISM: RADICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE SOUTH‐WEST, 1895–1943. By James R. Green. NORWAY TO AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE MIGRATION. By Ingrid Semmingsen. AN ITALIAN PASSAGE: IMMIGRANTS TO THREE AMERICAN CITIES, 1890–1930. By John W. Briggs. NEIGHBOURS IN CONFLICT: THE IRISH, GERMANS, JEWS AND ITALIANS OF NEW YORK CITY, 1929–1941. By Ronald H. Bayor. AMERICA'S ASCENT: THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A GREAT POWER, 1880–1914. By John M. Dobson. THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By Rachel West, O.S.F. ALEXANDER GUMBERG AND SOVIET‐AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1917–1933. By James K. Libby. THE DECISION TO DIVIDE GERMANY: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN TRANSITION. By John H. Backer. CRISIS ON THE LEFT. COLD WAR POLITICS AND AMERICAN LIBERALS. By Mary Sperling McAuliffe. THE GREAT FEAR: THE ANTI‐COMMUNIST PURGE UNDER TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER. By David Caute. CLASS, RACE, AND WORKER INSURGENCY: THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK WORKERS. By James A, Geschwender. THE MAKING OF URBAN HISTORY: HISTORIOGRAPHY THROUGH ORAL HISTORY. By Bruce M. Stave. LANGUE ET RELIGION: HISTOIRE DES CONFLITS ANGLO‐FRANCAIS EN ONTARIO. By Robert Choquette. OUT OF THE SHADOWS: CANADA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By W. A. B. Douglas and B. Greenhorn. THE CARIBBEAN: THE GENESIS OF A FRAGMENTED NATIONALISM. By Franklin W. Knight. THE FORMATION OF A COLONIAL SOCIETY: BELIZE, FROM CONQUEST TO CROWN COLONY. By O. Nigel Bolland. ECONOCIDE: BRITISH SLAVERY IN THE ERA OF ABOLITION. By Seymour Drescher. THIS GILDED AFRICAN: TOUSSAINTLOUVERTURE. By Wenda Parkinson. A HISTORY OF MEXICO. By Samuel H. Mayo. PERU: A SHORT HISTORY. By David P. Werlich. RED GOLD: THK CONOUEST OF THE BRAZILIAN INDIANS. By John Hemming. THE FRONTIER IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY. By Alistair Hennessy. LAND AND LABOUR IN LATIN AMERICA. Edited by Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rut‐ledge. THE MERCHANTS OF BUENOS AIRES 17791810 By Susan M. Socolow. BOLIVAR. By Donald Worcester. THE CADIZ EXPERIMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA, 1808–1826. By Mario Rodriguez. CHURCH AND STATE IN INDEPENDENT MEXICO: A STUDY OF THE PATRONAGE DEBATE 1821–1857. By Michael P. Costeloe. PARAGUAY AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE: THE POSTWAR DECADE, 1869–1878. By Harrii Gaylord Warren. COFFEE AND CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA 1886–1910. By Charles W. Bergquist. Durham N. C AGRARIAN RADICALISM IN VERACRUZ, 1920–38. By Heather Fowler Salamini. THE PANAMA CANAL: THE CRISIS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. By Walter LaFeber. THE LATIN AMERICAN POLICY OF WARREN G. HARDING. By Kenneth J. Grieb. NEIGHBORS: LIVING THE REVOLUTION. AN ORAL HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY CUBA. By Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon. THE POLITICS OF LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT. By Gary W. Wynia.