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AbstractBook review in this ArticleIn the Workshop of History. By François Furet. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum.The Structure of Mind in History: Five Major Figures in Psychohistory. By Philip Pomper.F. W. Maitland. By G. R. Elton.The Creation of the Roman Frontier. By Stephen L. Dyson.Diocletian and the Roman Recovery. By Stephen Williams.The Jews of Islam. By Bernard Lewis.Prostitution in Medieval Society: The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc. [Women in Culture and Society Series. Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson.] By Leah Lydia Otis.Russia and the Golden Horde; The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History. By Charles J. Halperin.The People's Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500–1598. By Lorna Jane Abray.The European Crisis of the 1590s. Essays in Comparative History. Edited by Peter Clark.Owen Roe O'Neill and the Struggle for Catholic Ireland. By Jerrold I. Casway.The Road to Revolution: Scotland under Charles 1, 1625–37. By Maurice Lee Jr.The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658–1667. By Ronald Hutton.Party and Management in Parliament: 1660–1784. Edited by Clyve Jones.The Lost Elementary Schools of Victorian England. By Phil Gardner.The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power. By A. P. Thornton. Second edition.In Defence of British India: Great Britain in the Middle East, 1775–1842. By Edward Ingram.The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918–22. By Keith Jeffery.British Food Policy During the First World War. By L. Margaret Barnett.Mountbatten: A Biography. By Philip Ziegler.The Decline of Power, 1915–1964. By Robert Blake.France in the Making, 843–1180. By Jean Dunbabin.Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France, 1400–1750. By Robert Muchembled. Translated by Lydia Cochrane.Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth‐Century France. State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc. By William Beik.At the Very Least She Pays the Kent: Women and German Industrialization, 1871–1914. By Barbara Franzoi.Armaments and Politics in France on the Eve of the First World War: The Introduction of Three‐Year Conscription. By Gerd Krumeich.The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862–1914. By Ivo Nikolai Lambi.Max Weber and German Politics, 1890–1920. By Wolfgang J. Mommsen. Translated by Michael S. Steinberg.German Nationalism and the European Response, 1890–1945. Edited by Carole Fink, Isabel V. Hull and MacGregor Knox.Students and National Socialism in Germany. By Geoffrey J. Giles.Education in the Third Reich: Race and History in Nazi Textbooks. By Gilmer W. Blackburn.The German Military in the Age of Total War. Edited by Wilhelm Deist.Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. Edited by Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez and Richard Stites.Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796–1889. By William T. Rowe.P'eng P'ai and the Hai‐lu‐feng Soviet. By Fernando Galbiati.Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. By Carol Cluck.Going to War with Japan, 1937–1941. By Jonathan G. Utley.Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. By Raymond F. Betts.Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820–1940. By Andrew Lees.A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution. By Jonathan R. Dull.The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View. By Richard K. Matthews.The Choctaw before Removal. Edited by Carolyn Keller Reeves.The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boom. By Michael A. Lofaro.Ar'nt I A Woman? Female slaves in the Plantation South. By Deborah Gray White.Shadow on the Church: Southwestern Evangelical Religion and the Issue of Slavery, 1783–1860. By David T. Bailey.Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America. By Thomas R. Hietala.Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873–78. By Annette Atkins.Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788–1890. By Steven J. Ross.Law, Alcohol, and Order: Perspectives on National Prohibition. [Contributions in American History, No. 110.] Edited by David E. Kyvig.The Development of Law in Frontier California: Civil Law and Society, 1850–1890. By Gordon Morris Bakken.Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History. Edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Stephen E. Maizlish.Foundations of American Foreign Policy: A Realist Appraisal from Franklin to McKinley. By Norman A. Graebner.