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Al‐Ghazāli, The Incoherence of the Philosophers. A parallel English‐Arabic text translated, introduced, and annotated by Michael E. Marmura (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1997) xxxi + 260 pp. Economic Systems and State Finance. Edited By Richard Bonney (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) x + 652 pp. £60.00 cloth. The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science. By Ann Blair (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) xiv + 382 pp. $45.00 cloth. Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the Essais. By David Quint (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) xvii + 172 pp. $35.00 cloth. Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914. By Jon Lawrence (Cambridge University Press, 1998) xiii + 289 pp. £40.00, $64.95 cloth. Religion in the Age of Decline: Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, 1870–1920. By S.J.D. Green (Cambridge, NJ: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xv + 426 pp. $69.95, £45.00 cloth. International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Eric Voegelin. Edited by Stephen A. McKnight and Geoffrey Price (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997) ix + 220 pp. £31.95 cloth. The Russian Empire and the World, 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment. By John P. LeDonne (New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1997) xix + 394 pp. £40.00 cloth. Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World: A Study in Republicanism and Caesarism. By Peter Baehr (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1998) viii + 359 pp. $39.95. Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution. Edited by Ian Gentles, John Morrill, and Blair Worden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) xi + 343 pp. £40.00, $69.95 cloth. A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920–1960. By Jennifer Platt (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 333 pp. $40.00 paper, $64.95 cloth. Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. By Lars‐Erik Cederman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) xiv + 258 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity and Empire in Ancient Rome. By Thomas N. Habinek (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) ix + 234 pp. $39.50, £27.50 cloth. The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth‐Century Family Saga. By Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997) viii + 407 pp. $29.95, £23.95 paper.