Reviews and Short Notices

General: Constructing the Past: essays in historical methodology . Edited by Jacques le Goff and Pierre Nora . General: In the Workshop of History . By François Furet , translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. General: Patterns of Intention: on the historical explanation of pictures . By Michael Baxandall . General: Foundations of Modern Historical Thought: from Machiavelli to Vico . By Paul Avis . General: Vico . By Peter Burke . General: The Prince and the Pretender: a study in the writing of history . By A.J. Youngson . General: History and Criticism . By Dominick La Capra . General: Gibbon . By J.W. Burrow . General: Carlyle and the Burden of History . By John D. Rosenberg . General: Books, Collectors and Libraries: studies in the medieval heritage . By N.R. Ker , edited by Andrew G. Watson. General: Joseph Scaliger: a study in the history of classical scholarship . Vol I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis . By Anthony Grafton . General: Political Murder: from tyrannicide to terrorism . By Franklin L. Ford . General: Torture . By Edward Peters . General: An Introduction to European Legal History . By O.F. Robinson, T.D. Fergus and W.M. Gordon . General: Verdict According to Conscience: perspectives on the English criminal trial jury, 1200–1800 . By Thomas A. Green . General: Imprisonment in England and Wales . By Christopher Harding, Bill Hines, Richard Ireland and Philip Rawlings . General: Cannibalism and the Common Law . By A.W. Brian Simpson . General: Jesus through the Centuries: His place in the history of culture . By Jaroslav Pelikan . General: Historical Fundamentals and the Study of Religions . By Kurt Rudolph . General: The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam . By Bat Ye'or . General: Monks, Hermits and the Ascetic Tradition . Edited by W.J. Shells . General: Benedict's Disciples , Edited by D.H. Farmer . General: The Jesuits in England: from 1580 to the present day . By Francis Edwards . General: Roman Catholicism in England: from the Elizabethan Settlement to the Second Vatican Council . By Edward Norman . General: Huguenot Heritage: the history and contribution of the Huguenots in Britain . By Robin D. Gwynn . General: Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England . Vol II: Assaults . By Maurice Cowling . General: Religion, Rebellion, Revolution: an interdisciplinary and cross‐cultural collection of essays . Edited by Bruce Lincoln . General: Bread and Circuses: theories of mass culture as social decay . By Patrick Brantlinger . General: Cities Perceived: urban society in European and American thought, 1820–1940 . By Andrew Lees . General: Virtue, Commerce and History: essays on political thought and history, chiefly in the eighteenth century . By J.G.A. Pocock . General: The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought . By Jonathan Mendilow . General: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill . Vol XX: Essays on French History and Historians. Edited by John M. Robson . General: The Sinews of the Spirit: the ideal of Christian manliness in Victorian literature and religious thought . By Norman Vance . General: Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France, 1400–1750 . By Robert Muchembled , translated by Lydia Cochrane. General: Marx and the Disillusionment of Marxism . By Walter L. Adamson . General: Against Fragmentation: the origins of Marxism and the sociology of intellectuals . By Alvin W. Gouldner . General: Freud for Historians . By Peter Gay . General: Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: the politics of hysteria . By William J. McGrath . General: Georg Lukács and his Generation, 1900–1918 . By Mary Gluck . General: Berl: the biography of a socialist zionist: Berl Katznelson 1887–1944 . By Anita Shapira , translated by H. Galai. General: The Transformation of the Jews . Edited by Calvin Goldschneider and Alan S. Zuckerman . General: The History of Anti‐Semitism . Vol IV: Suicidal Europe, 1870–1933 . By Léon Poliakov . General: Revolution in Science . By I. Bernard Cohen . General: Patients and Practitioners: lay perceptions of medicine in pre‐industrial society . Edited by Roy Porter . General: William Hunter and the Eighteenth‐century Medical World . Edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter . General: In the Wake of Cook: exploration, science and empire, 1780–1801 . By David Mackay . General: The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: phrenology and the organisation of consent in nineteenth‐century Britain . By Roger Cooter . General: The Great Devonian Controversy: the shaping of scientific knowledge among gentlemanly specialists . By Martin J.S. Rudwick . General: The Making of Urban Europe: 1000–4950 . By Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees . General: Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: studies in urban history . By Richard J. Goy . General: Peter Laven General: The Brenner Debate: agrarian class structure and economic development in pre‐industrial Europe . Edited by T.H. Aston and C.H.E. Philpin . General: A History of Europe, 1648–1948: the arrival, the rise, the fall . By Paul Dukes . General: Royal Palaces of France . By Ian Dunlop . General: The Railway Station: a social history . By Jeffrey Richards and John M. MacKenzie . General: Absolutistischer Statt und Schulwirklichkeit in Brandenburg‐Preussen . By Wolfgang Neugebauer . General: Western Sexuality . Edited by Philippe Ariès and André Bejin . General: Images of Man and Death . By Philippe Ariès , translated by Janet Lloyd. General: All Manners of Food: eating and taste in England and France from the middle ages to the present . By Stephen Mennell . General: Old Age in Preindustrial Society . Edited by Peter N. Stearns . General: Early British Swimming 55BC‐AD 1719 . By Nicholas Orme . General: Proletarianization and Family History . Edited by David Levine . General: Marriage and Love in England 1300–1840 . By Alan Macfarlane . General: For Better, For Worse: British marriages, 1600 to the present . By John R. Gillis. General: Women and Work in Pre‐Industrial England . Edited by Lindsey Charles and Lorna Duffin . General: The Origins of Modern Feminism: women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780–1860 . By Jane Rendall . General: Fashion and Eroticism: ideals of feminine beauty from the Victorian era to the jazz age . By Valerie Steele . General: History from Below: studies in popular protest and popular ideology in honour of George Rudé . Edited by Frederick Krantz . General: Artisans, Peasants and Proletarians 1760–1860: essays presented to Gwyn A. Williams . Edited by Clive Emsley and James Walvin . General: The Salvation Army Farm Colonies . By Clark C. Spence . General: Working in Metal: management and labour in the metal industries of Europe and the USA, 1890–1914 . By Chris McGuffie . General: The Great Arch . By Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer . General: The English Landscape: past, present and future . Edited by S.R.J. Woodell . General: Robert Dunning General: Landscape and Community in England . By Alan Everitt . General: The Victoria County History of Essex . Vol VIII. Edited by W.R. Powell, Berryl A. Board and N. Knight . General: The Victoria County History of Middlesex . Vol VIII. Edited by T.F.T. Baker . General: The Victoria County History of Shropshire . Vol XI. Telford . Edited by G.C. Baugh . General: A History of Gonville and Caius College . By Christopher Brooke . General: The Games Ethic and Imperialism: aspects of the diffusion of an ideal . By J.A. Mangan . General: Imperialism and Popular Culture . Edited by John M. MacKenzie . General: Money, Finance and Empire, 1790–1960 . Edited by A.N. Porter and R.F. Holland . General: World Crisis and British Decline, 1929–56 . By Roy Douglas . General: The English‐Speaking Alliance: Britain, the United States, the Dominions and the Cold War, 1945–1951 . By Ritchie Ovendale . General: The Origins of War, from the Stone Age to Alexander the Great . By Arthur Ferrill . General: Soldiers: a history of men in battle . By John Keegan and Richard Holmes . General: Command in War . By Martin Van Creveld . General: Old Battles and New Defences: can we learn from military history? By Correlli Barnett, Shelford Bidwell, Brian Bond, John Harding and John Terraine . General: Soldiers of the Tsar: army and society in Russia, 1462–1874 . By John L.H. Keep . General: The First Vietnam War . By Peter M. Dunn . General: An International History of the Vietnam War . Vol II: The Struggle for South‐East Asia, 1961–65 . By R.B. Smith . General: Stand in the Storm: a history of the Atlantic slave trade . By Edward Reynolds . General: The United States and Africa: a history . By Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann . Ancient and Medieval: Pagan Rome and the Early Christians . By Stephen Benko . Ancient and Medieval: The English Settlements . By J.N.L. Myres . Ancient and Medieval: Who Was Saint Patrick? By E.A. Thompson . Ancient and Medieval: The Village and House in the Middle Ages . By Jean Chapelot and Robert Fossier , translated by Henry Cleere. Ancient and Medieval: Writing in Gold: Byzantine society and its icons . By Robin Cormack . Ancient and Medieval: The Governance of Anglo‐Saxon England 500–1086 . By H.R. Loyn . Ancient and Medieval: Domesday Book: a reassessment . Edited by Peter Sawyer . Ancient and Medieval: Magna Carta and Mediaeval Government . By J.C. Holt . Ancient and Medieval: Crown and Nobility 1272–1461 . By Anthony Tuck . Ancient and Medieval: Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300–1525 . By R.H. Britnell . Ancient and Medieval: Bishop Reginald Pecock and the Lancastrian Church . By Charles W. Brockwell, Jr . Ancient and Medieval: The Church in Pre‐Reformation Society: essays in honour of F.R.H. Du Boulay . Edited by Caroline M. Barron and Christopher Harper‐Bill . Ancient and Medieval: The Black Death: natural and human disaster in medieval Europe . By R.S. Gottfried . Ancient and Medieval: Russia and the Golden Horde . By Charles J. Halperin . Ancient and Medieval: Essays in later Medieval French History . By P.S. Lewis . Ancient and Medieval: The Burgundian Netherlands . By Walter Prevenier and Wim Blockmans , translated from French by Peter King and Yvette Mead. Ancient and Medieval: Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy . By Christiane Klapisch‐Zuber , translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Early Modern: Luther and Learning . Edited by Marilyn Harran . Early Modern: International Calvinism 1541–1715 . Edited by Menna Prestwich . Oxford University Press. 1985. x + 403 pp. £35.00. Early Modern: European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1500–1750 . By Jonathan I. Israel . Early Modern: Italian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property . By Barbara M. Hallman . Early Modern: Order and Disorder in Early Modern England . Edited by Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson . Early Modern: Treason in Tudor England: politics and paranoia . By Lacey Baldwin Smith . Early Modern: Leicester's Commonwealth: the copy of a letter written by a master of art of Cambridge (1584) and related documents . Edited by D.C. Peck . Early Modern: Authority and Conflict: England 1603–1658 . By Derek Hirst . Early Modern: Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form . By Martine Watson Brownley . Early Modern: Leviathan and the Air‐Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life . By Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer . Early Modern: Margaret Tudor: Queen of Scots . By Patricia Buchanan . Early Modern: The Thirty Years' War . By Geoffrey Parker . Early Modern: The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655–1667 . By Richard Krautheimer . Early Modern: The Making of Modern Europe 1648–1780 . By Geoffrey Treasure . Early Modern: Science and the Enlightenment . By Thomas L. Hankins . Early Modern: Society, Government and the Enlightenment: the experiences of eighteenth‐century France and Prussia . By C.B.A. Behrens . Early Modern: Russian Statecraft: the Politika of Iurii Krizhanich . Edited by John M. Letiche and Basil Dmytryshin . Early Modern: The Ukrainian Impact on Russian Culture . By David Saunders . Early Modern: English Society 1688–1832 . By J.C.D. Clark . Early Modern: Settecento Riformatore IV: La Caduta dell Antico Regime (1776–1789) . By Franco Venturi . Early Modern: Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France . By F.P. Lock . Early Modern: The Right‐Wing Press in the French Revolution: 1789–92 . By William James Murray . Early Modern: The Bayonets of the Republic: motivation and tactics in the army of revolutionary France, 1791–94 . By John A. Lynn . Late Modern: Napoleon 1812 . By Nigel Nicolson . Late Modern: Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799–1815 . Edited by Owen Connelly . Late Modern: An Economic History of Ulster, 1820–1940 . Edited by Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw . Late Modern: The Fenians in Context: Irish politics and society 1848–82 . By R.V. Comerford . Late Modern: Why the Crimean War? A cautionary tale . By Norman Rich . Late Modern: Napoleon III . By William H.C. Smith . Late Modern: Napoleon III and the Concert of Europe . By William C. Echard . Late Modern: The Road to Sedan: the French Army 1866–70 . By Richard Holmes . Late Modern: The German Empire 1871–1918 . By Hans‐Ulrich Wehler . Late Modern: Bismarck . By Bruce Waller . Late Modern: Bureaucracy, Education and Monopoly: civil service reforms in Prussia and England . By Hans‐Eberhard Mueller . Late Modern: The Gladstonian Turn of Mind: essays presented to J.B. Conacher . Edited by Bruce L. Kinzer . Late Modern: Victorian Prison Lives: English prison biography 1830–1914 . By Philip Priestley . Late Modern: Independent Women: work and community for single women 1850–1920 . By Martha Vicinus . Late Modern: Educating our Masters: influences on the growth of literacy in Victorian working‐class children . By Alec Ellis . Late Modern: Progress and Pessimism: religion, politics and history in late nineteenth‐century Britain . By Jeffrey P. Von Arx . Late Modern: A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889 . Vol II: 1911–1933 . By Hugh Armstrong Clegg . Late Modern: Home Fires and Foreign Fields: British social and military experience in the First World War . Edited by Peter H. Liddle . Late Modern: Red Petrograd: revolution in the factories 1917–18 . By S.A. Smith . Late Modern: Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism . By Michael Haynes . Late Modern: Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin . By Lawrence Badash . Late Modern: The Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany, 1924–1933: a study of the politics of economics in the great depression . By Harold James . Late Modern: Albert Speer: the end of a myth . By Matthias Schmidt . Late Modern: British Policy Towards Ireland, 1921–41 . By Paul Canning . Late Modern: Republicans and Imperialists: Anglo‐Irish relations in the 1930s . By Deirdre McMahon . Late Modern: Westminster, Whitehall and the Vatican: the role of Cardinal Hinsley 1935–43 . By Thomas Moloney . Late Modern: Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy 1945–51 . By Sir Alec Cairncross . Late Modern: British Macroeconomic Policy since 1940 . By J. Tomlinson . Late Modern: Policing Industrial Disputes: 1893 to 1985 . By Roger Geary . Late Modern: End of Empire . By Brian Lapping . Late Modern: European Decolonization 1918–1981: An Introductory Survey. By R.F. Holland . Late Modern: No Ordinary Press Baron: A Life of Walter Layton . By David Hubback . Late Modern: A Generation of Schooling: English Secondary Schools since 1944 . By H. Judge . Late Modern: From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School Story . By P.W. Musgrave . Late Modern: The British Board of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain, 1896–1950 . By James C. Robertson .