Reviews and Short Notices

Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation‐State. By Basil Davidson Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Afrikaners of South Africa. By Vernon February Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Irish in Southern Africa 1795–1910 (Southern African‐Irish Studies, Volume 2). Edited by D. P. McCracken Africa, Asia and Australasia: Occasional Papers on the Irish in South Africa. By Donald H. Akenson Africa, Asia and Australasia: Threads of Solidarity. Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980. By Iris Berger Africa, Asia and Australasia: Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970–1990. By Wilmot G. James Africa, Asia and Australasia: Peasants, Traders and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870–1939. By Elizabeth Schmidt Africa, Asia and Australasia: Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante. By Ivor Wilks Africa, Asia and Australasia: Being Maasai. Edited by Thomas Spear and Richard Waller Africa, Asia and Australasia: Strategies of Slaves and Women: Life Stories from East/Central Africa. By Marcia Wright Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550–1750: The impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society. By Robin Law Africa, Asia and Australasia: Frontline Nationalism in Angola and Mozambique. By David Birmingham Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources. By M. F. Köprülü; ed. and trans. G. Leiser Africa, Asia and Australasia: Egyptian Society under Ottoman Rule, 1517–1798. By Michael Winter Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire. By Alan Palmer Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Making of Modern Turkey. By Feroz Ahmad Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. By Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise Africa, Asia and Australasia: Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870–1918. By Derek J. Penslar Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Emergence of the Arab National Movements. By Eliezer Tauber Africa, Asia and Australasia: A Garland of Legends: Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt. By Sidney Sugarman Africa, Asia and Australasia: Ibn Saud: Founder of a Kingdom. By Leslie McLoughlin Africa, Asia and Australasia: State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. By Roger Owen Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Making of the Arab‐Israel Conflict 1947–1951. By Ilan Pappé Africa, Asia and Australasia: Jordan, the United States and the Middle East Peace Process, 1974–91. By Madiha Rashid Al Madfai Africa, Asia and Australasia: Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640. By James C. Boyajian Africa, Asia and Australasia: Affectionately Rachel: Letters from India 1860–1884. Edited by Barbara Mitchell Tull Africa, Asia and Australasia: Alien Homage: Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore. By E. P. Thompson Africa, Asia and Australasia: Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920–47, Volume II: 1934–41. By Bhagwan Josh Africa, Asia and Australasia: Historical Dictionary of Indonesia. By Robert Cribb Africa, Asia and Australasia: Community, Trade, and Networks: Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Century. By Hugh R. Clark Africa, Asia and Australasia: Liu Tsung‐yüan and Intellectual Change in Tang China, 773–819. By Jo‐shui Chen Africa, Asia and Australasia: Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy. By Hoyt Cleveland Tillman Africa, Asia and Australasia: Policing and Punishment in China. By Michael Dutton Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Cambridge History of China, Volume XV: The People's Republic Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution 1966–1982. Edited by Denis Twitchett and John King Fairbank Africa, Asia and Australasia: American Views of China: American Images of China Then and Now. Edited by Jonathan Goldstein, Jerry Israel and Hilary Conroy Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. Edited by Richard Bowring and Peter Kornicki Africa, Asia and Australasia: The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth‐century Japan. By J. F. Moran Africa, Asia and Australasia: Japan's Struggle with Internationalism: Japan, China and the League of Nations 1931–1933. By Ian Nish Africa, Asia and Australasia: A History of the Korean People in Modern Times, 1800 to the Present. By Robert T. Oliver Africa, Asia and Australasia: Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea 1950–1953. By D. Clayton James with Anne Sharp Wells Africa, Asia and Australasia: Giap: The Victor in Vietnam. By Peter Macdonald Africa, Asia and Australasia: Women at Work in Australia: From the Gold Rushes to World War II. By Raelene Frances and Bruce Scrate Medieval: Histoire Militaire de la France, Volume I: Des Origines à 1715. Edited by Philippe Contamine Medieval: Peasants in the Middle Ages. By Werner Rösener. Translated by Alexander Stützer Medieval: Angelic Monks and Earthly Men: Monasticism and its Meaning to Medieval Society. By Ludo J. R. Milis Medieval: Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson. Edited by Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward Medieval: Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians. By Julia M. H. Smith Medieval: The Annals of Fulda. Edited by Timothy Reuter Medieval: Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages. By Jeffrey Richards Medieval: Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. By Frances Beer Medieval: Anglo‐Norman Warfare: Studies in Late Anglo‐Saxon and Anglo‐Norman Military Organization and Warfare. Edited by Matthew Strickland Medieval: Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary, Volume 1. Edited by D. H. B. Chesshyre, Chester Herald, and Thomas Woodcock Medieval: The Development of Welsh Heraldry, Volume 1. By Michael Powell Siddons Medieval: The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century. By Peter Thorau Medieval: Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. By Nancy G. Siraisi Medieval: The Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages. By Marie‐Christine Pouchelle Medieval: Thirteenth Century England IV: Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1991. Edited by P. R. Coss and S. D. Lloyd Medieval: Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages. By James M. Blythe Medieval: The History of the University of Oxford, Volume II: Late Medieval Oxford. Edited by J.J. Catto and T.A.R. Evans Medieval: Before the Black Death: Studies in the ‘Crisis’ of the Early Fourteenth Century. Edited by Bruce M. S. Campbell Medieval: The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750. Edited by James D. Tracy Medieval: Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context. Edited by Barbara Hanawalt Medieval: Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth‐Century Texts. By Paul Strohm, with an appendix by A. J. Prescott Medieval: War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages. Edited by Anthony Tuck and Anthony Goodman Medieval: The Bailiffs' Minute Book of Dunwich, 1404–1430. Edited by Mark Bailey. Prepared from a transcription by Richard Allnut Medieval: Clerical Poll Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1377–1381. Edited by A. K. McHardy Medieval: The Townshends and their World: Gentry, Law and Land in Norfolk c. 1450–1551. By C. E. Moreton Medieval: A State of Deference. Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries. By Susan Mosher Stuard Medieval: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580. By Eamon Duffy Early Modern: The Tudor Nobility. Edited by G. W. Bernard Early Modern: A History of Cambridge University Press, Volume I: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534–1698. By David McKitterick Early Modern: The Estates of the English Crown, 1558–1640. By R. W. Hoyle Early Modern: Southampton Probate Inventories 1447–1575, 2 vols. Edited by Edward Roberts and Karen Parker Early Modern: War and Society in Habsburg Spain. By I. A. A. Thompson Early Modern: The Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry and Holy War in the Sixteenth‐Century Adriatic. By Catherine Wendy Bracewell Early Modern: War and Peace in the Baltic 1560–1790. By Stewart P. Oakley Early Modern: Court, Country and Culture: Essays on Early Modern British History in Honor of Perez Zagorin. Edited by Bounelyn Young Kunze and Dwight D. Brautigam Early Modern: From Counter‐Reformation to Glorious Revolution. By Hugh Trevor‐Roper Early Modern: Charles II. By John Miller Early Modern: Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650–1850. Edited by Michael Duffy Early Modern: The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century. 2 vols. By James Oldham Early Modern: The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685–1787: The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration. By Geoffrey Adams Early Modern: Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution. By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Early Modern: Diderot: A Critical Biography. By P. N. Furbank Early Modern: Charles James Fox. By L. G. Mitchell Late Modern: The Development of the French Economy, 1750–1914. By Colin Heywood Late Modern: ‘The Labyrinth of Flames’: Work and Social Conflict in Early Industrial Merthyr Tydfil. By Chris Evans Late Modern: Culture and Revolution: Cultural Ramifications of the French Revolution. Edited by George Levitine Late Modern: British Strategy in the Napoleonic War 1803–1815. By Christopher D. Hall Late Modern: Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo‐Russian Invasion of Naples, 1805–1806. By William Henry Flayhart III Late Modern: One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo. By Alan Schom Late Modern: Revolution, Economics and Religion: Christian Political Economy 1798–1833. By A.M.C. Waterman Late Modern: The Last of the Prince Bishops: William Van Mildert and the High Church Movement of the Early Nineteenth Century. By E. A. Varley Late Modern: Die politischen Parteien in Griechenland, 1821–1936. 2 vols. By Gunnar Hering Late Modern: Russian Peasants and Tsarist Legislation on the Eve of Reform: Interaction between Peasants and Officialdom, 1825–1855. By David Moon Late Modern: The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth‐Century Europe. Edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein Late Modern: Popular Politics, Riot and Labour: Essays in Liverpool History, 1790–1940. Edited by John Belchem Late Modern: Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century Married Life. By A. James Hammerton Late Modern: Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System, 1834–1884. By Felix Driver Late Modern: The Training of Teachers, 1847–1947: A History of the Church Colleges at Cheltenham. By Charles More Late Modern: The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns. By Stephen Kern Late Modern: Victorian Village: The Diaries of the Reverend John Coker Egerton, Curate and Rector of Burwash, East Sussex 1857–1888. Edited by Roger Wells Late Modern: Women and Children First: International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870–1945. Edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks and Hilary Marland Late Modern: The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. By Alain Corbin. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Late Modern: Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880–1930. Edited by Colin G. Pooley Late Modern: Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880–1939. By Steven Fielding Late Modern: Lloyd George. By Chris Wrigley Late Modern: The Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho 1885–1917. Edited by Jane Ridley and Clayre Percy Late Modern: ‘His Majesty's Loyal Opposition’: The Unionist Party in Opposition 1905–1915. By David Dutton Late Modern: People and Society in Scotland, Volume III: 1914–1990. Edited by T. Dickson and J. H. Treble Late Modern: The Vanished Battalion: One of the Greatest Mysteries of the First World War Finally Solved. By Nigel McCrery Late Modern: British and French Writers of the First World War: Comparative Studies in Cultural History. By Frank Field Late Modern: William Camrose: Giant of Fleet Street. By Lord Hartwell Late Modern: National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and Empire 1926–1932. By Philip Williamson Late Modern: Antisemitism in France: A Political History from Léon Blum to the Present. By Pierre Birnbaum Late Modern: The Stigma of Names: Antisemitism in German Daily Life, 1812–1933. By Dietz Bering. Translated by Neville Plaice Late Modern: The Jew's Body. By Sander Gilman Late Modern: Political Leaders in Weimar Germany: A Biographical Study. By Peter D. Stachura Late Modern: The Arts of the Third Reich. By Peter Adam Late Modern: Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. By Christopher Duffy Late Modern: Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: History Writing and the Second World War 1945–1990. By R. J. B. Bosworth Late Modern: The West German Economy, 1945–1955. By Alan Kramer Late Modern: Germany: The Tides of Power. By Michael Balfour Late Modern: The Stalin Phenomenon. By Giuseppe Boffa Late Modern: The Post‐Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the USSR. Edited by Alexander J. Motyl Late Modern: Third Party Politics Since 1945: Liberals, Alliance and Liberal Democrats. By John Stevenson