Reviews and Short Notices

THE AMERICAS: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MIND IN A CIVILIZATION OF MACHINES: ESSAYS BY PERRY MILLER. Edited by J. Crowell and S. J. Searl THE AMERICAS: SETTLING WITH THE INDIANS: THE MEETING OF ENGLISH AND INDIAN CULTURES IN AMERICA, 1580–1640. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman THE AMERICAS: THE CHESAPEAKE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: ESSAYS ON ANGLO‐AMERICAN SOCIETY. Edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman THE AMERICAS: LAW AND SOCIETY IN PURITAN MASSACHUSETTS: ESSEX COUNTY, 1629–1692. By David Thomas Konig THE AMERICAS: THE WORLD OF JOHN CLEAVELAND: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY NEW ENGLAND. By Christopher M. Jedrey. THE AMERICAS: GEORGE BERKELEY IN AMERICA. By Edwin S. Gaustad THE AMERICAS: THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY AND COLONIAL MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE: FROM TOBACCO TO GRAIN. By Paul G. E. Clemens THE AMERICAS: THE URBAN CRUCIBLE: SOCIAL CHANGE, POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Gary B. Nash THE AMERICAS: IN A DEFIANT STANCE: THE CONDITIONS OF LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY, THE IRISH COMPARISON, AND THE COMING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By John Phillip Reid THE AMERICAS: JAMES WILSON: SCOTTISH INTELLECTUAL AND AMERICAN STATESMAN. By Geoffrey Seed THE AMERICAS: THE EDUCATION OF JOHN RANDOLPH. By Robert Dawidoff THE AMERICAS: LA FRANCE ET L'ESPRIT DE 76: COLLOQUE DU BICENTENAIRE DE L'INDÉPENDANCE DES ETATS‐UNIS. Edited by Daniel Royot THE AMERICAS: LAFAYETTE IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: SELECTED LETTERS AND PAPERS, 1776–1790, VOL. 11: APRIL 10, 1778–MARCH 20, 1780. Edited by Stanley Idzerda THE AMERICAS: INVENTING AMERICA: JEFFERSON'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. By Garry Wills THE AMERICAS: DISCOVERING AMERICA 1700–1875. By Henry Savage, Jr. THE AMERICAS: THOSE TREMENDOUS MOUNTAINS: THE STORY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. By David Freeman Hawke THE AMERICAS: WOMEN AND MEN ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL. By John Mack Faragher THE AMERICAS: ETHNICITY ON THE GREAT PLAINS. Edited by Frederick C. Luebke THE AMERICAS: THE ROAD: INDIAN TRIBES AND POLITICAL LIBERTY. By Russel Lawrence Barsh and James Youngblood Henderson THE COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1824–1977. Edited by Robert M. Kvasnicka and Herman J. Viola THE AMERICAS: THE ALCOHOLIC REPUBLIC: AN AMERICAN TRADITION. By W. J. Rorabaugh THE AMERICAS: BALTIMORE: THE BUILDING OF AN AMERICAN CITY. By Sherry H. Olson. THE AMERICAS: BALTIMORE IN THE NATION, 1789–1860. By Gary Lawson Browne THE AMERICAS: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP IN MARYLAND, 1790–1840: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POWER IN SOCIETY. By Whitman H. Ridgway THE AMERICAS: THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WHIGS. By Daniel Walker Howe THE AMERICAS: PARTIES AND POLITICAL CONSCIENCE: AMERICAN DILEMMAS, 1840–1850. By William R Brock THE AMERICAS: THE SLAVERY OF SEX: FEMINIST‐ABOLITIONISTS IN AMERICA. By Blanche Glassman Hersh THE AMERICAS: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. Edited by David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman THE AMERICAS: THE IDEA OF A SOUTHERN NATION: SOUTHERN NATIONALISTS AND SOUTHERN NATIONALISM. 1830–1460. By John McCardell THE AMERICAS: THE CONFEDERATE NATION: 1861–1865. By Emory M. Thomas THE AMERICAS: THE IMPERILED UNION: ESSAYS ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE CIVIL WAR. By Kenneth M. Stampp THE AMERICAS: NEW MASTERS: NORTHERN PLANTERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, By Lawrence N. Powell THE AMERICAS: RETREAT FROM RECONSTRUCTION, 1869–1879. By William Gillette THE AMERICAS: THE LOS ANGELES BARRIO 1850–1890: A SOCIAL HISTORY. By Richard Griswold DelCastillo THE AMERICAS: THE BLIND BOSS AND HIS CITY: CHRISTOPHER AUGUSTINE BUCKLEY AND NINETEENTH‐CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO. By William A. Bullough THE AMERICAS: A CITY AND ITS UNIVERSITIES: PUBLIC POLICY IN CHICAGO, 1892–1919. By Steven J. Diner THE AMERICAS: THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN MODERN AMERICA, 1860–1920. Edited by Alexandra Oleson and John Voss THE AMERICAS: REFORMER IN THE MARKET PLACE: EDWARD W. BOK AND THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL . By Salme Harju Steinberg THE AMERICAS: WAGE‐EARNING WOMEN: INDUSTRIAL WORK AND FAMILY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900–1930. By Leslie Woodcock Tentler THE AMERICAS: CREATING THE WELFARE STATE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TWENTIETH‐CENTURY REFORM. By Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid THE AMERICAS: THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS: ROOSEVELT, WILSON, ROOSEVELT, JOHNSON. By John Morton Blum THE AMERICAS: THE PULSE OF POLITICS: ELECTING PRESIDENTS IN THE MEDIA AGE. By James David Barber THE AMERICAS: PREJUDICE AND THE OLD POLITICS: THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1928. By Allan J. Lichtman THE AMERICAS: HENRY CABOT LODGE AND THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. By William C. Widenor THE AMERICAS: HERBERT HOOVER: THE GREAT WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH 1914–1923. Edited by Lawrence E. Gelfand THE AMERICAS: HITLER VS. ROOSEVELT: THE UNDECLARED NAVAL WAR. By Thomas A. Bailey and Paul B. Ryan. London: Collier Macmillan THE AMERICAS: THE SEVENTY‐SIXTH CONGRESS AND WORLD WAR II, 1939–1940. By David L. Porter THE AMERICAS: FOREIGN POLICY BY CONGRESS. By Thomas M. Franck and Edward Weisband THE AMERICAS: SEARCH FOR SECURITY: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1939–1949. By Aaron David Miller THE AMERICAS: OIL, WAR, AND AMERICAN SECURITY: THE SEARCH FOR A NATIONAL POLICY ON FOREIGN OIL, 1941–1947. By Michael B. Stoff THE AMERICAS: UNCERTAIN YEARS: CHINESE‐AMERICAN RELATIONS 1947–50. Edited by Dorothy Borg and Waldo Heinrichs THE AMERICAS: GOOD NEIGHBOR DIPLOMACY: UNITED STATES POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA, 1933–1945. By Irwin F. Gellman THE AMERICAS: BAY OF PIGS: THE UNTOLD STORY. By Peter Wyden THE AMERICAS: LATIN AMERICA IN CARICATURE. By John J. Johnson THE AMERICAS: THE CENTRALIST TRADITION OF LATIN AMERICA. By Claudio Véliz THE AMERICAS: ESSAYS IN POPULATION HISTORY: MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA, VOL. III. By Sherburne F. Cook and Woodrow Borah THE AMERICAS: FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS IN EARLY BOURBON MEXICO 1700–1760. By Charles F. Nunn THE AMERICAS: THE BLACK JACOBINS: TOUSSAINT DOUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION. By L. R. James THE AMERICAS: EMANCIPATION, SUGAR, AND FEDERALISM; BARBADOS AND THE WEST INDIES, 1833–1876. By Claude Levy THE AMERICAS: THE FALL OF THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT IN PERU. By Timothy E. Anna THE AMERICAS: THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO, 1821–1861: A HISTORY OF CONSTANT MISUNDERSTANDING. By Nancy Nichols Barker THE AMERICAS: THE PATRIMONIAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE BRAZILIAN BUREAUCRATIC STATE. By Fernando Uricoechea THE AMERICAS: ELITES, MASSES AND MODERNIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA, 1850–1930. Edited by Virginia Bernhard THE AMERICAS: COFFEE IN COLOMBIA, 1850–1970: AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY. By Marco Palacios THE AMERICAS: CAUDILLO AND PEASANT IN THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. Edited by D. A. Brading THE AMERICAS: EVITA PERON: THE MYTHS OF A WOMAN. By J. M. Taylor THE AMERICAS: THE ARMY AND POLITICS IN ARGENTINA 1945–1962: PERON TO FRONDIZI. By Robert A. Potash ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE IONIANS AND HELLENISM: A STUDY OF THE CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT OF EARLY GREEK INHABITANTS OF ASIA MINOR. By C. J. Emlyn‐Jones POMPEY. By Peter Greenhalgh ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: ROME: PROFILE OF A CITY, 312–1303. By Richard Krautheimer ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE. By Robert Browning ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: BYZANTIUM: THE EMPIRE OF NEW ROME. By Cyril Mango ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: BYZANTIUM AND THE RISE OF RUSSIA: A STUDY OF BYZANTINO‐RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. By John Meyendorff ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: AUTHORITY AND POWER: STUDIES ON MEDIEVAL LAW AND GOVERNMENT PRESENTED TO WALTER ULLMANN ON HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY. Edited by Brian Tierney and Peter Linehan. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: NAMES, WORDS AND GRAVES: EARLY MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT. Edited by P. H. Sawyer ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: SCANDINAVIAN YORK AND DUBLIN: THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF TWO RELATED VIKING KINGDOMS, VOL. II. By Alfred P. Smyth ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE CONQUEST OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. By G. J. Marcus ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE SHIP IN THE MEDIEVAL ECONOMY 600–1600. By Richard W. Unger ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: LA GUERRE AU MOYEN AGE. By Philippe Contamine ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE CHRONICLE OF BATTLE ABBEY. Edited and translated by Eleanor Searle ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: CAPETIAN FRANCE, 987–1328. By Elizabeth M. Hallam ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: PHILIPPE LE BEL. By Jean Favier ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE REIGN OF PHILIP THE FAIR. By Joseph R. Strayer ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: CURIA AND CORTES IN LEON AND CASTILE, 1072–1295. By Evelyn S. Procter ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: ENRIQUE IV AND THE CRISIS OF FIFTEENTH‐CENTURY CASTILE, 1425–1480. By William B. Phillips, Jr. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: CHAUCER'S KNIGHT: THE PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL MERCENARY. By Terry Jones EARLY MODERN: PHILOSOPHY AND THE STATE IN FRANCE: THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT. By Nannerl O. Keohane EARLY MODERN: REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE. By J. Russell Major EARLY MODERN: SIEGE WARFARE: THE FORTRESS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD, 1494–1660. By Christopher Duffy EARLY MODERN: THE FORTIFICATION OF MALTA BY THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN, 1530–1798. By Alison Hoppen EARLY MODERN: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOURCES OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1500–1800. VOLUME I: WESTERN EUROPE. By Charles Wilson and Geoffrey Parker EARLY MODERN: LITERACY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER: READING AND WRITING IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND. By David Cressy EARLY MODERN: ASTROLOGY AND THE POPULAR PRESS: ENGLISH ALMANACS 1500–1800. By Bernard Capp EARLY MODERN: OF PRELATES AND PRINCES: A STUDY OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POSITION OF THE TUDOR EPISCOPATE. By Felicity Heal EARLY MODERN: THE PUBLIC CAREER OF SIR THOMAS MORE. By J. A. Guy EARLY MODERN: THE MID‐TUDOR POLITY c . 1540–1560. Edited by Jennifer Loach and Robert Titter EARLY MODERN: THE CAMBRIDGE CONNECTION AND THEUNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH ELIZABETHAN SETTLEMENT OF 1559. By Winthrop S. Hudson EARLY MODERN: ARCHBISHOP GRINDAL, 1519–1583: THE STRUGGLE FOR A REFORMED CHURCH. By Patrick Collinson EARLY MODERN: THE SECOND BOOK OF DISCIPLINE. Edited by James Kirk EARLY MODERN: PRESBYTERIES AND PROFITS: CALVINISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN SCOTLAND, 1560–1707. By Gordon Marshall EARLY MODERN: THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND: THEIR ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By FIances J. Shaw EARLY MODERN: SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY NORWICH: POLITICS, RELIGION, AND GOVERNMENT 1620–1690. By John T. Evans EARLY MODERN: PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR, 1642: MR. JUSTICE MALET AND THE KENTISH PETITIONS. By T. P. S. Woods EARLY MODERN: LIBERTÉ, EGALITE, FRATERNITE, JUSTICE!: LA VIE ET L'OEUVRE DE RICHARD OVERTON, NIVELEUR. By Marie Gimelfarb‐Brack EARLY MODERN: UNFIT FOR MODEST EARS: A STUDY OF PORNOGRAPHIC, OBSCENE AND BAWDY WORKS WRITTEN OR PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY. By Roger Thompson EARLY MODERN: CHURCH AND STATE IN SCOTLAND 1660–1681. By Julia Buckroyd EARLY MODERN: THE ARMY, JAMES II AND THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION. By John Childs EARLY MODERN: THE TRIUMPHS OF PROVIDENCE: THE ASSASSINATION PLOT OF 1696. By Jane Garrett EARLY MODERN: THE JACOBITE RISINGS IN BRITAIN 1687–1746. By Bruce Lenman EARLY MODERN: THE STRUGGLE FOR BALTIC MARKETS: POWERS IN CONFLICT, 1558–4618. By Artur Attman. EARLY MODERN: ROME AND THE COUNTER‐REFORMATION IN SCANDINAVIA, VOL. II: 1583–1622. By Oskar Garstein EARLY MODERN: A PALACE FOR A KING: THE BUEN RETIRO AND THE COURT OF PHILIP IV. By Jonathan Brown and J. H. Elliott EARLY MODERN: SPAIN IN THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1665–1700. By Henry Kamen EARLY MODERN: WAR AND RURAL LIFE IN THE EARLY MODERN LOW COUNTRIES. By Myron P. Gutmann EARLY MODERN: THE FAILURE OF LOUIS XIVS DUTCH WAR. By Carl J. Eckberg EARLY MODERN: NEGOTIATOR OUT OF SEASON: THE CAREER OF WILLIAM EGON VON FÜRSTENBERG, 1629 TO 1704. By John T. O'Connor EARLY MODERN: STAAT UND STÄNDEGESELLSCHAFT IN SCHWEDEN ZUR ZEIT DES ÜBERGANGES VOM ABSOLUTISMUS ZUM STANDEPARLAMENTARISMUS, 1718–1720. By Werner Buchholz EARLY MODERN: THE POLICE OF PARIS 1718–1789. By Alan Williams EARLY MODERN: WOMAN AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY FRANCE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOHN STEPHENSON SPINK. Edited by Eva Jacobs, W. H. Barber, Jean H. Bloch, F. W. Leaky and Eileen Le Breton EARLY MODERN: THE BUSINESS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: A PUBLISHING HISTORY OF THE ENCYCLOPÉDIE , 1775–1800. By Robert Darnton EARLY MODERN: THE FRENCH SLAVE TRADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN OLD REGIME BUSINESS. By R. L. Stein EARLY MODERN: INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE AND THE AMSTERDAM CAPITAL MARKET. 1740–1815. By James C. Riley EARLY MODERN: BUBONIC PLAGUE IN EARLY MODERN RUSSIA: PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN DISASSTER. By John T. Alexander EARLY MODERN: REICH AND NATION: THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE AS IDEA AND REALITY, 1763–1806. By John G. Gagliardo EARLY MODERN: BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE RHINELAND, 1789–1834. By Jeffry M. Diefendorf EARLY MODERN: TERRA E NOBILTÀ: I BORGHESE, SECOLI XVIII E XIX. By Guido Pescosolido LATE MODERN: THE RURAL WORLD 1780–1850: SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE. By Pamela Horn LATE MODERN: FLORA TRISTANS LONDON JOURNAL, 1840: A SURVEY OF LONDON LIFE IN THE 1830s. Translated by Dennis Palmer and Giselle Pincett LATE MODERN: CHARTISM. BY ÉVA H. Haraszti, translated by Sandór Simon LATE MODERN: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE VICTORIAN SUNDAY. By John Wigley LATE MODERN: HER MAJESTY S INSPECTORATE OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND AND WALES 1860–1870. By J. E. Dunford LATE MODERN: VICTORIAN EDUCATION AND THE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD. By Joan N. Burstyn LATE MODERN: PROSTITUTION AND VICTORIAN SOCIAL REFORM. By Paul McHugh LATE MODERN: THE ECONOMIST IN PARLIAMENT, 1780–1868. By Frank Whitson Fetter LATE MODERN: CAMBRIDGE BEFORE DARWIN: THE IDEAL OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION, 1800–60. By Martha McMackin Garland LATE MODERN: COLOUR, CLASS AND THE VICTORIANS: ENGLISH ATTITUDES TO THE NEGRO IN THEMID‐NINETEENTH CENTURY. By Douglas A. Lorimer LATE MODERN: THE OPTIMISTS: THEMES AND PERSONALITIES IN VICTORIAN LIBERALISM. By Ian Bradley LATE MODERN: BRITISH COALMINERS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A SOCIAL HISTORY. By John Benson LATE MODERN: MASTERS, UNIONS AND MEN: WORK CONTROL IN BUILDING AND THE RISE OF LABOUR, 1830–1914. By Richard Price LATE MODERN: THE RAILWAY WORKERS 1840–1970. By Frank McKenna LATE MODERN: DEBTORS TO THEIR PROFESSION: A HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTE OF BANKERS 1879–1979. By Edwin Green LATE MODERN: THE EARLY SCOTTISH LIMITED COMPANIES 1856–1895. By Peter L. Payne LATE MODERN: COLVILLES AND THE SCOTTISH STEEL INDUSTRY. By Peter L. Payne CAPITALISMO INDUSTRIALE E MOVIMENTO OPERAIO A LIVORNO E ALL'ISOLA D'ELBA (1880–1913). By Ugo Spadoni LATE MODERN: TEXTILARBEITERSCHAFT IN DER INDUSTRIALISIERUNG: SOZIALE LAGE UND MOBILITÄTT IN WÜRTTEMBERG (19 JAHRHUNDERT). By Peter Borscheid LATE MODERN: THE PEASANTS OF MARLHES: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY ORGANISATION IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY FRANCE. By James R. Lehning LATE MODERN: THE MAKING OF FRENCHMEN: CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN FRANCE, 1679–1979. Edited by Donald N. Baker and Patrick J. Harrigan LATE MODERN: MOBILITY, ELITES, AND EDUCATION IN FRENCH SOCIETY OF THE SECOND EMPIRE. By Patrick J. Harrigan LATE MODERN: THE GERMAN INFLUENCE IN FRANCE AFTER 1870: THE FORMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. By Allan Mitchell LATE MODERN: THE SURVIVAL OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE: RADETZKY. THE IMPERIAL ARMY AND THE CLASS WAR, 1848. By Alan Sked LATE MODERN: DIE HABSBURGERMONARCHIE 1848–1918, BD III: DIE VÖLKER DES REICHES. Edited by Adam Wandruszka and Peter Urbanitsch