Reviews and Short Notices: General

Book reviewed in this article: The Origins of Writing , Edited by Wayne Senner Edward Gibbon: Luminous Historian, 1772–1794 . By Patricia B. Craddock Toynbee: Reappraisals . Edited by C. T. McIntire and Marvin Perry E. P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives . Edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland A. J. P. Taylor: Letters to Eva, 1969–83 . Edited by Eva Haraszti Taylor The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929–1989 . By Peter Burke Ideologies and Mentalities . By Michel Vovelle The Records of the Nation: The Public Record Office, 1838–1988. The British Record Society 1888–1988 . Edited by C. H. Martin and Peter Spufford Hugo Grotius and International Relations . Edited by Hedley Bull The Art of War in the Western World . By Archer Jones Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas and Institutions of Warfare 1445–1871 . Edited by John A. Lynn The Patterns of War through the Eighteenth Century . By Larry H. Addington The Limitations of Military Power: Essays Presented to Professor Norman Gibbs on his Eightieth Birthday . Edited by John B. Hattendorf and Malcolm H. Murfett The British Way in Warfare, 1688–2000 . By David French Companion to the History of Modern Science . Edited by R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie and M. J. S. Hodge A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day . By Angus McLaren History of Syphilis . By Claude Quétel. Translated by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike The History of the Family . By James Casey Road to Divorce: England, 1530–1987 . By Lawrence Stone Monastic Studies . Edited by Judith Loades The Politics of Demonology: The European Witcheraze and the Mass Production of Deviance . By Jon Oplinger A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present . By Rondo Cameron The Coin Atlas: The World of Coinage from its Origins to the Present Day . By Joe Cribb Work in Towns, 850–1850 . Edited by Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene Agrarian Society in History: Essays in Honour of Magnus Mörner . Edited by Mats Lundahl and Thommy Svensson The Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914 . By Michael Reed The North of England: A History from Roman Times to the Present . By Frank Musgrove A Regional History of England: The South East from AD 1000 . By Peter Brandon and ‘Banquetting Stuffe’ and The Appetite and the Eye . Both edited by C. Anne Wilson Business History: Concepts and Measurement . Edited by Charles Harvey Farming: Sources for Local Historians . By Peter Edwards Domesday York . By D. M. Palliser Hanbury: Settlement and Society in a Woodland Landscape . By Christopher Dyer The Priory of Cartmel . By J. C. Dickinson The Suppression of the Religious Houses in Bristol . By J. H. Bettey A Social History of Yoxall in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . Edited by D. Stuart The Tudor and Stuart Town, 1530–7688 . Edited by Jonathan Barry The Eighteenth Century Town, 1688–1820 . Edited by Peter Borsay ‘Distinguishing Men's Trades’: Occupational Sources and Debates for Pre‐Census England . By P. Glennie ‘The Business of Improvement’: Agriculture and Scientific Culture in Britain, c.1770‐c.1870 . By S. Wilmot The Agricultural Revolution . By J. V. Beckett East Riding Chapels and Meeting Houses . By David and Susan Neave ‘One of the most useful charities in the City’: York Dispensary, 1788–1988 . By K. A. Webb Church and Chapel in the North Midlands . By K. D. M. Snell The Religious Census of Sussex, 1850 . Edited by J. A. Vickers Mutual Aid in the Victorian Countryside: Friendly Societies in the Rural East Riding, 1830–1914 . By David Neave