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AbstractBook reviewed in this articleThe Gracchi By David Stockton.Roman Portraits: The Flavian‐Trajanic Period. By William C. McDermott and Anne E. Orentzel.Vox Populi: Violence and Popular Involvement in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D. By Timothy E. Gregory.Louir IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership. By William Chester Jordan.Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450‐1521. [Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, number 3,] By John W. O'Malley.The English Clergy: The Emergence and Consolidation of a Profession, 1558‐1642. By Rosemary O'Day.Agriculture and Society in Seventeenth Century Scotland. By Ian Whyte.Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth Century London: John Cast and His Times, By I. J. Protheroe.Power and Authority in the Victorian City. By Derek Fraser.The Sweated Trades: Outwork in Nineteenth Century Britain. By Duncan Bythell.Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890‐1939. [The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in the Hilary Term of 1978. J By F. S. L. Lyons.The Edwardian Age: Conflict and Stability, 1900‐191‐t. [Problems in Focus series.] Edited by Alan O'Day.Tariff Reform in British Politics, 1903‐1913. By Alan Sykes.Consensus and Disunity: The Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918‐1922, By Kenneth O. Morgan.Sir Winston Churchill, [Twayne's English Authors series.] By Manfred Weidhorn.British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Vol. 1. By F.H. Hensley with E.E. Thomas, C.F.G. Ransom, and R.C. Knight.Deception in World War II By Charles Cruickshank.Britain and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo‐French Retatiotis, 1940‐42. By R. T. Thomas.Britain since 1945: A Political History. By David Childs.Sir Norman Angell. [Twayne's World Leaders Series, ed. Arthur W. Brown.] By Albert Marrin.Philippe, Duke of Orléans; Regent of France, 1715‐1723. By J. H. Shennan.The Police of Paris: 1718‐1789. By Alan Williams.Napoleon and Clio: Historical Writing, Teaching, and Thinking during the First Empire. By June K. Burton.Contemporary France: Politics and Society since 1945. By D. L. Hanley, A.P. Kerr, and N. H. Waites.Italy, the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy before the First World War. By R. J. B. Bosworth.Germany and the United States: A “Special Relationship?” [American Foreign Policy Library series.] By Hans W. Gatzke.Christian Bernstorff and Prussia: Diplomary and Reform Conservatism, 1818‐1832, By Lawrence Baack.Hugo Hasse: Democrat and Revolutionary. By Kenneth R. Calkins.Nuremberg: A Nation on Trial. By Werner Maser.Citizens for the Fatherland: Education, Educators, and Pedagogical Ideals in Eighteenth Century Russia. [East European Monographs, no. 43.] By J.L. Black, with a translation by Elizabeth Gorky of Book on the Duties of Man and Citizen.Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s. By Abbott Gleason.Sweden: A Political and Cultural History. By Eric Elstob.Black Africa and de Gaulle. By Dorothy Shipley White.The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development, 1635‐1790. By Bruce C. Daniels.Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution. By Burton Spivak.The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. By William M. Fowler, Jr.Africans and Creeks: From the Colonial Period to the Civil War. By Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.The Residency of Andrew Johnson. [American Presidency Series.] By Albert Caslel.Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth‐Century Philadelphia. By Roger Lane.The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Whirl) Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic (1890‐1920). By Walter Karp.The Education of Black Philadelphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900‐1950. By Vincent P. Franklin.Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times. By Carleton Mabee.The American Woman in Transition: The Urban Influence, 1870‐1920. [Contributions in Women's Studies, number 6.] By Margaret Gibbons Wilson.The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History. By Gerda Lerner.World War I and the Origins of Civil Liberties in the United States. By Paul L. Murphy.One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States since 1938. By Richard Polenberg.The Threat of Peace: James F. Byrnes and the Council of Foreign Ministers, 1945‐1946. By Patricia Dawson Ward.Landlord William Scully. By Homer E. Socolofsky.The Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1824‐1977, Edited by Robert M. Kvasnicka and Herman J. Viola. Foreword by Philleo Nash.Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes. By Nellie Snyder Yost.The Upper Canada Trade, 1834‐1872: A Study of Buchanans’Business. By Douglas McCalla.Philippe Bunau‐Varilla: The Man behind the Panama Canal By Gustave Anguizola.