Reviews and Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article THE AMERICANS: Geographical Inquiry and American Historical Problems. By Carville Earle. THE AMERICANS: Nene College, Northampton THE AMERICANS: Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. Edited by William Cronon, George Miles and Jay Gitlin. New York and London: Norton THE AMERICANS: The ‘True Professional IdeaV in America: A History.’ By Bruce A. Kimball. THE AMERICANS: The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health. By John Duffy. THE AMERICANS: Colonial America: A History, 1607–1760. By Richard Middleton. Oxford: Blackwell THE AMERICANS: The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815. By Richard White THE AMERICANS: Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City 1664–1730. By Joyce D. Goodfriend THE AMERICANS: Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690–1790. By Alison Gilbert Olson THE AMERICANS: Llachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin THE AMERICANS: Distant Friends: The United States and Russia, 1763–1867. By Norman E. Saul. THE AMERICANS: The Queen's University, Belfast THE AMERICANS: The Radicalism of the American Revolution. By Gordon S. Wood. New York THE AMERICANS: Lancaster University THE AMERICANS: ‘This Popular Engine’: New England Newspapers during the American Revolution, 1775–1789. By Carol Sue Humphrey THE AMERICANS: New York in the Age of the Constitution, 1775–1800. Edited by Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak THE AMERICANS: The Great Thirst: Californium and Water, 1770s‐1990s. By Norris Hundley. THE AMERICANS: Keele University THE AMERICANS: The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Volume II. Edited by William S. Dudley. Washington DC: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy THE AMERICANS: Boston's Lower Criminal Courts, 1814–1850. By Theodore Ferdinand. THE AMERICANS: Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard's Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth‐century America. By Carolyn C. Cooper THE AMERICANS: The Queen's University of Belfast THE AMERICANS: Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. By Robert V. Remini. New York and London THE AMERICANS: The American Political Nation, 1838–1893. By Joel H. Silbey THE AMERICANS: Founding the Far West: California, Oregon and Nevada, 1840–1890. By David Alan Johnson THE AMERICANS: Society and Culture in the Slave South. Edited by J. William Harris. London: Routledge THE AMERICANS: Lowick, Cumbria THE AMERICANS: Agriculture, Geology, and Society in Antebellum South Carolina: The Private Diary of Edmund Ruffin, 1843. Edited by William M. Mathew THE AMERICANS: Isaac Mayer Wise: Shaping American Judaism. By Sefton D. Temkin. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization THE AMERICANS: The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War. By Bruce S. Levine THE AMERICANS: Lowick, Cumbria THE AMERICANS: The Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont. Edited by Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence THE AMERICANS: Working People of Holyoke: Class and Ethnicity in a Massachusetts Mill Town, 1850–1960. By William F. Hartford THE AMERICANS: To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. By Stephen W. Sears. New York: Ticknor & Fields THE AMERICANS: Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. By Craig L. Symonds. New York and London: Norton, 1992 THE AMERICANS: Andrew Johnson. A Biography. By Hans L. Trefousse. New York and London: Norton. 1992 THE AMERICANS: The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. By Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar THE AMERICANS: Glasgow University THE AMERICANS: Discourse and Culture: The Creation of America, 1870–1920. By Alun Munslow THE AMERICANS: The Rise and Fall of the Saturday Globe. By Ralph Frasca THE AMERICANS: The Girl Question'in Education: Vocational Education for Women in the Progressive Era. By Jane Bernard Powers. Basingstoke and Bristol Pa THE AMERICANS: The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in US History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s. By Martin J. Sklar THE AMERICANS: Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution 1910–1924. By Gregg Andrews THE AMERICANS: Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace. By Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt. Translated by Herbert H. Rowen THE AMERICANS: St Catharine's College, Cambridge THE AMERICANS: General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman. By Ed Cray. London and New York THE AMERICANS: A New Deal for the American People. By Roger Biles THE AMERICANS: Keele University D. K. ADAMS THE AMERICANS: Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo‐Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise THE AMERICANS: of the UAW. By Steve Babson THE AMERICANS: The ClO's Left‐led Unions. Edited by Steve Rosswurm THE AMERICANS: American Labour and Consensus Capitalism, 1935–1990. By Patrick Renshaw THE AMERICANS: Thames Valley University, London THE AMERICANS: Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938–1963. By Linda Reed THE AMERICANS: Thames Valley University, London THE AMERICANS: The United States and World War II. By Robert James Maddox THE AMERICANS: San Francisco THE AMERICANS: Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy. By Barry H. Steiner. University Press of Kansas. 1991. xvi + 367pp. $40.00. Seapower in the Nuclear Age: The United States Navy and NA TO 1949‐80. By Joel J. Sokolsky. London: Routledge. 1991. xv + 221pp. n.p. THE AMERICANS: The Special Relationship: A Political History of Anglo‐American Relations since 1945. By C.J. Bartlett THE AMERICANS: The Passionate Attachment: America's involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present. By George W. Ball and Douglas B. Ball THE AMERICANS: Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China. By Robert P. Newman THE AMERICANS: Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. By John D'Emilio THE AMERICANS: America in the Modern World: The Transcendence of United States Hegemony. By Steven Burman THE AMERICANS: Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974. By John M. Blum THE AMERICANS: Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965. By Yuen Foong Khong THE AMERICANS: Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth‐century Montreal. By Louise Dechene. Translated by Liana Vardi THE AMERICANS: Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People. By Ramon Eduardo Ruiz THE AMERICANS: The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. By James Lockhart THE AMERICANS: A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner ‐ A Sea Atlas and Sailing Directions of the Pacific Coast of the Americas 1682. Edited by Derek Howse and Norman J. W. Thrower THE AMERICANS: Slaves and Slavery: The English Colonial Experience. By James Walvin. THE AMERICANS: Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. Edited by Barbara Solow THE AMERICANS: West London Institute of Higher Education THE AMERICANS: The Bahamas in Slavery and Freedom. By Howard Johnson THE AMERICANS: The ‘Nazi Menace’ in Argentina 1931–1947. By Ronald C. Newton MEDIEVAL: Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century. By Norman F. Cantor MEDIEVAL: Medieval Thought: An Introduction. By B. B. Price MEDIEVAL: The Medieval Church: A Brief History. By Joseph Lynch MEDIEVAL: Moorish Spain. By Richard Fletcher MEDIEVAL: St Dunstan: His Life, Times and Cult. Edited by Nigel Ramsay, Margaret Sparks and Tim Tatton‐Brown MEDIEVAL: Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages. By Aaron Gurevich MEDIEVAL: Kilmarnock MEDIEVAL: Medieval Flanders. By David Nicholas MEDIEVAL: The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000–1500. By R MEDIEVAL: Christ's College, Cambridge R. B. DOBSON MEDIEVAL: The Image of Aristocracy in Britain 1000–1300. By David Crouch MEDIEVAL: North‐east England in the Middle Ages. By Richard Lomas MEDIEVAL: The Norman Kingdom of Sicily. By Donald Matthew MEDIEVAL: Scotland and its Neighbours in the Middle Ages. By G. w. S. Barrow MEDIEVAL: Warfare in the Latin East 1192–1291. By Christopher Marshall MEDIEVAL: Hertford College, Oxford C. J. TYERMAN MEDIEVAL: A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, C.1422‐C.1485. By Eric Acheson MEDIEVAL: Gonviiie and Caius College, Cambridge MEDIEVAL: City, Marriage, Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland. By Louise Fradenburg. MEDIEVAL: The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change before the Reformation. By John Stephens Early Modern: From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d'Otranto. By David Gentilcore Early Modern: The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. By Valerie.I Early Modern: The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe. By Brian M. Downing Early Modern: La Repubblica di Venezia nelVeta moderna: dal 1517 alia fine delta Repubblica. By Gaetano Cozzi, Michael Knapton and Giovanni Scarabello Early Modern: Political Protest and Prophecy under Henry VIII. By Sharon L Boydell and Brewer Early Modern: Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588–1603. By Wallace T MacCaffrey. Early Modern: Predestination, Policy and Polemic: Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War. By Peter White Early Modern: The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. By C John Sommerville. Early Modern: Cromwell. By Bernard Cottret Early Modern: Sevenoaks, Kent Early Modern: Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randall Mac Donnell, Marquis of Antrim, 1609–1683. By Jane H. Ohlmeyer. Early Modern: The Fabrication of Louis XIV. By Peter Burke Early Modern: Stewards, Lords and People: The Estate Steward and his World in Later Stuart England. By D Early Modern: The Great Fire of Warwick 1694. Edited by Michael Farr Early Modern: Saint David's University College, Lampeter Early Modern: Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c.1660–1725. By Robert B Early Modern: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837. By Linda Colley Early Modern: Four Cheshire Townships in the Eighteenth Century: Arley, Appleton, Stockton Heath and Great Budworth. By Charles Foster Early Modern: An American Quaker in the British Isles: The Travel Journals ofJabez Maude Fisher, 1775–1779. 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Philadelphia Late Modern: Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. By Olwen H. Hufton Late Modern: Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780–1850. By J.R. Dinwiddy, with an introduction by H.T. Dickinson Late Modern: Reform or Revolution? A Diary of Reform in England, 1830‐32. By E. A. Smith. Stroud Late Modern: The Great Reform Bill in the Boroughs: English Electoral Behaviour 1818–1841. By John A. Phillips Late Modern: Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R. K. Webb. Edited by R.W. Davis and R.J. Helmstadter Late Modern: Men versus the State: Herbert Spencer and Late Victorian Individualism. By M. W. Taylor Late Modern: The Decline of Industrial Britain, 1870–1980. By Michael Dintenfass Late Modern: Ireland's Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology. Edited by Sein Hutton and Paul Stewart Late Modern: Trinity College, Dublin Late Modern: Ireland 1828–1923: From Ascendancy to Democracy. By D. George Boyce. 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By Bernard P. Bellon Late Modern: The British in Germany 1918–1930: The Reluctant Occupiers. By David G. Williamson Late Modern: How the War was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front 1917–1918. By Tim Travers Late Modern: The Development of the Welfare State 1939‐51: Guide to Documents in the Public Record Office. By Andrew Land, Rodney Lowe and Noel Whiteside Late Modern: Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Volume II: The Pacific War 1942–1945. By A. J. Marder, M. Jacobsen and J. Horsfield Late Modern: King's College, London Late Modern: Labour Governments and Private Industry: The Experience of 1945–1951. Edited by Helen Mercer, Neil Rollings and Jim Tomlinson Late Modern: The British Economy since 1945. By Alec Cairncross Late Modern: Le Rigime de Vichy et lets Francois. Edited by Jean‐Pierre Azema and Francois Bdarida Late Modern: The Longman Companion to Cold War and Detente 1941‐91. By John W. Young Late Modern: Suez. By Keith Kyle Late Modern: The Queen's University of Belfast Late Modern: Power, Competition and the State, Volume III: The End of the Post‐war Era: Britain since 1974. By Keith Middlemas