Reviews and Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: The Americas: Dictionary of Canadian Biography , Volume VI 1821 to 1835 . Edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. The Americas: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835 . By Stuart B. Schwartz. The Americas: Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800 . Edited by Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden. The Americas: Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut . By Jackson Turner Main. The Americas: The American Revolution . By Edward Countryman. The Americas: The American Revolution . By Michael Heale. The Americas: Franklin of Philadelphia . By Esmond Wright. The Americas: Saving the Revolution: the Federalist Papers and the American Founding . Edited by Charles R. Kesler. The Americas: A Machine That Would Go Of Itself: the Constitution in American culture . By Michael Kammen. The Americas: The American Constitution: the first two hundred years 1787–1987 . Edited by Joseph Smith. The Americas: The Whiskey Rebellion . By Thomas P. Slaughter. The Americas: The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 . By William E. Gienapp. The Americas: From Slave South to New South: public policy in nineteenth‐century Georgia . By Peter Wallenstein. The Americas: Judah P. Benjamin: the Jewish Confederate . By Eli N. Evans. The Americas: Embattled Courage: the experience of combat in the American Civil War . By Gerald F. Linderman. The Americas: Sheffield Steel and America: a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830–1930 . By Geoffrey Tweedale. The Americas: The Limits of Power: great fires and the process of city growth in America . By Christine Meisner Rosen. The Americas: Origins of the Federal Reserve System: money, class and corporate capitalism, 1890–1913 . By James Livingston. The Americas: The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and his legacy . By Stephen Fox. The Americas: Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era . By Kevin Starr. The Americas: From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society . By Neil A. Wynn. The Americas: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers , Volume III September 1920‐August 1921 , Volume IV 1 September 1921–2 September 1922 . Edited by Robert A. Hill. The Americas: Strength for the Fight: a history of black Americans in the military . By Bernard C. Nalty. The Americas: American Indian Policy and American Reform: case studies of the campaign to assimilate the American Indians . By Christine Bolt. The Americas: Harry Hopkins: ally of the poor and defender of democracy . By George McJimsey. The Americas: China Reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930s and 1940s . By Stephen R. Mackinnon and Oris Friesen. The Americas: Hollywood Goes to War: how politics, profits, and propaganda shaped World War II movies . By Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black. The Americas: America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945–1948 . By John Lamberton Harper. The Americas: No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States and the origins of North American Air Defence, 1945–58 . By Joseph T. Jockel. The Americas: Ideology and US Foreign Policy . By Michael H. Hunt. The Americas: Selvages and Biases: the fabric of history in American culture . By Michael Kammen. The Americas: The Legacy of Conquest: the unbroken past of the American West . By Patricia Nelson Limerick. Ancient and Medieval: The Rise of the Greeks . By Michael Grant. Ancient and Medieval: Personal Enmity in Roman Politics, 218–43 BC . By David F. Epstein. Ancient and Medieval: The History of Cartography , Volume 1 Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean . Edited by J.B. Harley and David Woodward. Ancient and Medieval: The South‐West to AD 1000 . By Malcolm Todd. Ancient and Medieval: Medieval Thought: the western intellectual tradition from antiquity to the thirteenth century . By Michael Haren. Ancient and Medieval: Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe . By Janet L. Nelson. Ancient and Medieval: Religion in the Medieval West . By Bernard Hamilton. Ancient and Medieval: The Gospels in the Schools c1100‐c1280 . By Beryl Smalley. Ancient and Medieval: The Preaching of the Friars: sermons diffused from Paris before 1300 . By D.L. d'Avary. Ancient and Medieval: Anglo‐Norman Studies , IX Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1986 . Edited by R. Allen Brown. Ancient and Medieval: The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086–1272 . By W.L. Warren. Ancient and Medieval: Castles in Wales and the Marches: essays in honour of D.J. Cathcart King . Edited by John R. Kenyon and Richard Avent. Ancient and Medieval: Saint Hugh of Lincoln . Edited by Henry Mayr‐Harting. Ancient and Medieval: Politics, Policy and Finance under Henry III 1216–1245 . By R.C. Stacey. Ancient and Medieval: Women in the Medieval English Countryside: gender and household in Brigstock before the Plague . By Judith M. Bennett. Ancient and Medieval: Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland . By Timothy O'Neill. Ancient and Medieval: The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis . By Joseph Canning. Ancient and Medieval: Pastor and Laity in the Theology of Jean Gerson . By D. Catherine Brown. Ancient and Medieval: Royal Intrigue: crisis at the court of Charles VI, 1392–1420 . By Richard C. Famiglietti. Ancient and Medieval: Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke . By Michael Bennett. Early Modern: Pienza: the creation of a Renaissance city . By Charles R. Mack. Early Modern: The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: essays on perception and communication . By Peter Burke. Early Modern: The Renaissance . By Peter Burke. London: Macmillan, Studies in European History. Early Modern: The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation . By Alister E. McGrath. Early Modern: The French Reformation . By Mark Greengrass. Early Modern: The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe . By Brian P. Levack. Early Modern: Highroad to the Stake . By Michael Kunze. Early Modern: Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: the witch in early modern Europe . Early Modern: The Languages of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe . Edited by Anthony Pagden. Early Modern: Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe . By Yves‐Marie Bercé, translated by Joseph Bergin. Early Modern: Renaissance and Revolt: the intellectual and social history of early modern France . By J.H.M. Salmon. Early Modern: The French Peasantry 1450–1660 . By Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, translated by A. Sheridan. Early Modern: History of Wales , Volume III Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales c1415–1642 . By Glanrnor Williams. Early Modern: Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth‐Century England . Edited by Peter Lake and Maria Dowling. Early Modern: Elizabethan Parliaments, 1559–1601 . By Michael A.R. Graves. Early Modern: A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation in Elizabethan England . By G.J.R. Parry. Early Modern: Court and Country: studies in Tudor social histoty . By A.L. Rowse. Early Modern: The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Henick, Milton, Marvell and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes . By Leah S. Marcus. Early Modern: Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in early Stuart England . By R.M. Smuts. Early Modern: Puritan London: a study of religion and society in the City parishes . By Tai Liu. Early Modern: The Private Journals of the Long Parliament, 7 March to 1 June 1642 . Edited by Vernon F. Snow and Anne Steele Young. Early Modern: Soldiers and Statesmen: the General Council of the Army and its debates, 1647–1648 . By Austin Woolrych. Early Modern: Blasphemy, Immorality, and Anarchy: the Ranters and the English Revolution . By Jerome Friedman. Early Modern: Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition . By Jean Hampton. Early Modern: Charles II, Royal Politician . By J.R. Jones. Early Modern: The Professions in Early Modern England . Edited by Wilfrid Prest. Beckenham. Early Modern: The Collapse of the Anglo‐French Alliance 1727–1731 . By Jeremy Black. Early Modern: The Rise of English Nationalism: a cultural history 1750–1830 . By Gerald Newman. Early Modern: The Townshend Duties Crisis: the second phase of the American Revolution 1767–1773 . By Peter D.G. Thomas. Early Modern: Disaffected Patriots: London supporters of Revolutionary America 1769–1782 . By John Sainsbury. Early Modern: Joseph II , Volume I In the Shadow of Maria Theresa 1741–1780 . By Derek Beales. Early Modern: Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685–1789 . By D. Carpanetto and G. Ricuperati. Early Modern: French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: a cultural history . By L.W.B. Brockliss. Early Modern: The Seven Years' War and the Old Regime in France: the economic and financial toll . By James C. Riley. Early Modern: Mortal Politics in Eighteenth‐Century France . By G.A. Kelly. Early Modern: The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: rural industry and the sexual division of labour in a French village, 1750–1850 . By Gay L. Gullickson. Early Modern: Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower: the British expeditions to the West Indies and the war against Revolutionary France . By Michael Duffy. Late Modern: The English Market Town: a social and economic history, 1750–1914 . By Jonathan Brown. Late Modern: Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760–1930 . Edited by Gail Malmgreen. Late Modern: Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: social criticism in Britain 1775–1830 . By William Stafford. Late Modern: Police and Protest in England and Ireland, 1780–1850 . By Stanley H. Palmer. Late Modern: Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class 1780–1850 . By Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall. Late Modern: France, 1789–1815: revolution and counter‐revolution . By D.M.G. Sutherland. Late Modern: Radical Underworld: prophets, revolutionaries and pornographers in London, 1795–1840 . By rain McCalman. Late Modern: The Animal Estate: the English and other creatures in the Victorian age . By Hariet Ritvo. Late Modern: Britain and the Crimea, 1855–56 . By J.B. Conacher. Late Modern: Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain, 1855–59 . By Angus Hawkins. Late Modern: Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860–1914 . By Susan Kingsley Kent. Princeton University Press. Late Modern: The Hereditary Bondsman: Daniel O'Connell, 1775–1829 . By Oliver Machnagh. Late Modern: The Young Ireland Movement . By Richard Davis. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan/NewJersey. Late Modern: Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858–1928 . By Tom Garvin. Late Modern: Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: the British House of Commons in 1886 . By W.C. Lubenow. Late Modern: The Revolution in Ireland 1879–1923 . Edited by D.G. Boyce. Late Modern: The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland, 1892–1920 . By Eunan O'Halpin. Late Modern: Edwardian Consenatism: five studies in adaptation . Edited by J.A. Thompson and Arthur Mejia. Late Modern: Hubertine Auclert: the French suffragette . By Steven C. Hause. Late Modern: The Women's Movement in the Church of England, 1850–1930 . By Brian Heeney. Late Modern: Ladies Elect: women in English local government 1865–1914 . By Patricia Hollis. Late Modern: Jews in the German Economy: the German‐Jewish economic elite 1820–1935 . By W.E. Mosse. Late Modern: Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany . By Jack Wertheimer. Late Modern: The Year of the Three Kaisers: Bismarck and the German succession, 1887–88 . By J. Alden Nichols. Univeristy of Illinois Press. Late Modern: East Central European Society and the Balkan Wars . Edited by Béla K. Király and Dimitrije Djodjevic. Late Modern: The Killing Ground: the British Army, the Western Front and the emergence of modern warfare, 1900–1918 . By Tim Travers. Late Modern: The Irish Question as a Problem in British Foreign Policy, 1914–18 . By Stephen Hartley. Late Modern: The Great War of Words: British, American and Canadian propaganda and fiction, 1914–1933 . By Peter Buitenhuis. Late Modern: Reformers and War: American progressive publicists and the First World War . By John A. Thompson. Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 300 pp. 25.00. German Atrocio or British Propaganda? The 70th Anniversary of a Scandal: German corpse utilization establishments in the First World War . By Shimon Rubinstein. Late Modern: War, Law and Labour the Munitions Acts, state regulation, and the unions 1915–1921 . By Gerry R. Rubin. Late Modern: The History of the British Coal Industry , Volume 3 1830–1913: Victorian preeminence . By Roy Church. Late Modern: The History of the British Coal Industry , Volume IV 1913–1946: the political economy of decline . By Barry Supple. Late Modern: The History of the British Coal Industry , Volume V 1946–1982: the nationalised industry . By W. Ashworth. Late Modern: Intelligentsia and Revolulion: Russian views of Bolshevism, 1917–22 . By Jane Burbank. Late Modern: Under the Shadow of War: fascism, anti‐fascism, and Marxists, 1918–1939 . By Larry Ceplair. Late Modern: American Money and the Weimar Republic: economics and politics on the eve of the Great Depression . By William C. McNeil. Late Modern: The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924–1936 . By Harold James. Late Modern: German Foreign Policy 1917–1933: continuity or break? By M. Lee and W. Michalka. Late Modern: Hitler and the Quest for World Dominion: Nazi ideology and foreign policy in the 1920s . By G. Stoakes. Late Modern: Poland, the United States and the Stablisation of Europe, 1919–1933 . By N. Pease. Late Modern: The German Unemployed: experiences and consequences of mass unemployment from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich . Edited by Richard J. Evans and Dick Geary. Late Modern: The Baltic States and Weimar Ostpolitik . By John Hiden. Late Modern: Fascism in Popuh Memory: the cultural experience of the Turin working class . By Luisa Passerini. Late Modern: The Battle for Britain's Gold Stondard in 1931 . By Diane K. Kunz. Late Modern: The Ideology of the British Right 1918–1939 . By G.C. Webber. Late Modern: A History of English Christianity, 1920–1985 . By Adrian Hastings. Late Modern: British Capitalism at the Crossroads, 1919–1932: a study in politics, economics and international relations . By Robert W.D. Boyce. Late Modern: Lancashire and Whitehall: the diary of Sir Raymond Street, 1931–1957 . Edited by Marguerite Dupree. Late Modern: Britain, America and Arms Control, 1921–37 . By Christopher Hall. Late Modern: British Seapower and Procurement between the Wars: a reappraisal of rearmament . By G.A.H. Gordon. Late Modern: The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: the A.J.P. Taylor debate after 25 years . Edited by Gordon Martel. Late Modern: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe . By P.M.H. Bell. Late Modern: Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War . By Owen Chadwick. Late Modern: Les Grandes Rafles. Juifs en France 1940–1944 . By Doris Bensimon. Late Modern: Hitler and the Final Solution . By Gerald Fleming. Late Modern: Aspects of the Third Reich . By H.W. Koch. Late Modern: British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War . By Martin Kitchen. Late Modern: Armed Truce: the beginnings of the Cold War 1945–46 . By Hugh Thomas. Late Modern: Setting the Mould: the United States and Britain 1945–1950 . By Robin Edmonds. Late Modern: The Special Relationship: Anglo‐American relations since 1945 . Edited by W. Roger Louis and Hedley Bull. Late Modern: US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940–1946 . By Alan P. Dobson. Late Modern: War and Social Change: British society in the Second World War . Edited by H. Smith. Late Modern: The Road to Victory: Winston S. Churchill 1941–1945 . By Martin Gilbert. Late Modern: Monty: the Field Marshal 1944–1976 . By Nigel Hamilton. London: Hamish Hamilton. Late Modern: The Price of War: British policy on German reparations 1941–1949 . By Alec Cairncross. Late Modern: Die Ruhrfrage 1945/46 und die Entstehung des Landes Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Britische, Französische und Amerikanische Akten (Quellen zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Reihe 4, Band 4 ). Edited by Rolf Steininger. Late Modern: The Collapse of the Grand Alliance 1945–1948 . By James L. Gormly. Late Modern: Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945–1955 . By Audrey Kurth Cronin. Late Modern: Confronting the German Question: Germans on the East‐West divide . By Renata Fritsch‐Bournazel, translated by Caroline Bray. Late Modern: Between East and West: Finland in international politics, 1944–1947 . By Tuomo Polvinen, edited and translated by D.G. Kirby and Peter Herring. Late Modern: Power, Competition and the State , Volume I Britain in Search of Balance, 1940–61 . By Keith Middlemas. Late Modern: The Origins of the Korean War . By Peter Lowe. Late Modern: British Railways 1948–73: a business history . By T.R. Gourvish. Late Modern: The Meaning of the Second World War . By Ernest Mandel. Late Modern: The Fourth Republic, 1944–58 . By Jean‐Pierre Rioux.