Reviews and Short Notices: General

Hearth and Home: A History of Material Culture . By Norman J. G. Pounds. Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View . By D. C. M. Platt. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History . Edited by Donald Worster. Cultures in Conflict: Encounters between European and Non‐European Cultures, 1492–1800 . By Urs Bitterli. A Treatise on Social Theory , Volume 2: Substantive Social Theory . By W. G. Runciman. Les Révolutions françaises: les phénomènes révolutionnaires en France du Moyen Age à nos jours . Edited by Frédéric Bluche and Stéphane Rials. Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two centuries look back on the French Revolution . By E. J. Hobsbawm. Il Rinascimento nell'Ottocento in Italia e Germania: Die Renaissance im 19. Jahrhundert in Italien und Deutschland . Edited by August Buck and Cesare Vasolí. Time's Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New . By Leonard Krieger. Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought . By Gregory Claeys. The Genesis of Marxism: Four Lectures . By R. N. Berki. Friedrich Engels: His Life and Thought . By Terrell Carver. Hume . By Nicholas Phillipson. Arnold Toynbee: A Life . By William H. McNeill. The Future of the Past . By C. Vann Woodward. History and Ethnicity . Edited by Elizabeth Tonkin, Maryon McDonald and Malcolm Chapman. The Making of an Historian: The Collected Essays of J. H. Plumb , Volume 1. Hemel Hempstead: Rethinking Historicism . By Marjorie Levinson, Marilyn Butler, Jerome McGann and Paul Hamilton. The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century . By Michael Walzer. A European Past: Memoirs, 1905–1945 . By Felix Gilbert. Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection . By Raymond Aron. Intellectuals . By Paul Johnson. The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History . Edited by Richard J. Evans. From Medieval Group Litigation to the Modern Class Action . By Stephen C. Yeazell. Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past . Edited by David W. Galenson. Historical Studies in International Corporate Business . Edited by Alice Teichova, Maurice Lévy‐Leboyer and Helga Nussbaum. Death, Ritual, and Bereavement . Edited by Ralph Houlbrooke. Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society . By Roderick Phillips. The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry . Volume III: The Asylum and its Psychiatry . Edited by W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd. The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz . By Azar Gat. Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture, 900–1900 . By Wolfgang Braunfels. Translated by Kenneth J. Northcott. The English Town . By Mark Girouard. A History of Laxton, England's Last Open‐Field Village . By J. V. Beckett. The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex , Volume 9: Hampstead and Paddington Parishes . Edited by T. F. T. Baker. The Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire , Volume 4: The City of Gloucester . Edited by N. M. Herbert. The Victoria History of the County of Yorkshire: East Riding , Volume 6: The Borough and Liberties of Beverley . Edited by K. J. Allison. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely , Volume 9: The Hundreds of Chesterton, Northstowe and Papworth . Edited by A. P. M. Wright and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria History of the County of Sussex , Volume 6, Part 3: Bramber Rape (North‐Eastern Part ). Edited by T. P. Hudson. Famine: The Irish Experience, 900–1900: Subsistence Crises and Famines in Ireland . Edited by E. Margaret Crawford. A Short History of Finland . By Fred Singleton.