Book Reviews

Gerda Lerner. The Female Experience: An American Documentary. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Pp. 509. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $7.95; Caroline Bird. Enterprising Women. New York: Mentor Books, 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95; Anne F. Scott and Andrew M. Scott. One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975. Pp. xiii, 173. Paper, $3.25. Review by Sally G. Allen of Hampshire College. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. Edited and with an introduction by Henry Collins. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. 1976. Pp. 309. Paper, $2.50; Robert Douglas Mead, ed. Colonial American Literature: From Wilderness to Independence. New York: Mentor Books. 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95. Review by Robert K. Peters of Texas A&M University. Harry P. Owens, ed. Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Pp. xii, 188. Cloth, $8.50; paper, $3.50. Review by William F. Mugleston of Albany Junior College. Carl N. Degler. The Age of the Economic Revolution, 1876-1900. 2nd edition. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1977. Paper, $4.50; Walter T. K. Nugent. From Centennial to World War: American Society, 1876-1917. Indianapolois: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Paper, $3.95. Review by H. Roger Grant of The University of Akron. The Staff, Social Sciences 1, University of Chicago, eds. The People Shall Judge. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1949, 1976. Pp. xiv, 244; vii, 452. Paper, $5.95 per vol. Review by Noel C. Eggleston of Radford College. Kenneth M. Roemer. The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976. $10.00; Paul Kagan. New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. Paper, $5.95. Review by Richard D. Schubart of Phillips Exeter Academy. A. J. P. Taylor, Essays in English History. New York: Penguin Books in assocation with Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Pp. 335. Paper, $2.95. Review by Raymond G. Herbert of Thomas More College. Richard Graham and Peter H. Smith, eds. New Approaches to Latin American History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 275. $8.75. Review by Robert N. Seidel of Empire State College, Rochester Center.