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Mind and World. By John McDowell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) 191 pp. n.p.g. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. By Albert Boime (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) The Princeton Series in Nineteenth‐Century Art, Culture and Society xv + 234 pp. $19.95, £14.95 paper. Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised. By Harvey Mitchell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 290 pp. $54.95, £35.00 cloth. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. By Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, 2d ed. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1996) (originally published 1982). 190pp., $12.95 paper. The European Commission: Leadership, Organisation and Culture in the EU Administration. By Michelle Cini (Manchester: Manchester University Press and St. Martin's Press, 1996) xii + 244 pp $24.95 cloth. The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations. By Barbara Abou‐El‐Haj (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xviii + 456 pp. £18.95 paperback. Between Tradition and Modernity: Haim Zhitlowski, Simon Dubnow, Ahad Ha‐Am, and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Identity. By David H. Weinberg (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1996), x + 385 pp., n.p.g. Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth‐century England. By Kevin Gilmartin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 21, pp. xiv and 274. $59.95/£35.00 cloth. Social Functions of Literature: Alexander Pushkin and Russian Culture. By Paul Debreczeny (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997) xvi + 282 pp. £30. Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860–1945 By Mike Hawkins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) x + 344 pp. £19.95/$27.95 paper, £45.00/$69.95 cloth. Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan, The Veiled Woman in Jung's Circle. By Claire Douglas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). 398 pp. $16.95, £11.95 paper. The Mammoth and the Mouse: Microhistory and Morphology. By Florike Egmond and Peter Mason. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). XIII + 245 pp. n.p.g. Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909–1936. By Bruce L. McCormack (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), xviii + 499 pp. £19.99 paper. Four Neglected Essays by Immanuel Kant. By Stephen Palmquist, (Hong Kong: Philopsychy Press, 1994), 121 pp. paper, n.p.g. The Tree of Philosophy. By Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong: Philopsychy Press, 1995) 210 pp. $35.00 HK cloth, $4.50 HK paper. Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry. By Theresa Tinkle (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996) Figurai, Reading Medieval Culture, 294 pp. $39.50, £35.00 cloth. Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany. By Dorothy F. Glass (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997), xvii + 145 pp $39.50/£35.00 cloth. Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and Feminist Theory: The Search for Critical Method. By Katherine Kearns (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xii + 171 pp. $54.95/£35.00 cloth $17.95/£12.95 paper. Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World. By Peter Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xiii + 91 pp. £6.95, $9.95 paper. Order in the Twilight. By Bernhard Waidenfels; translated and edited by David J. Parent (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1997), xxvi + 179 pp. $36.95/£34.95 cloth. Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck, 1800–1866. By Thomas Nipperdey. Translated by Daniel Nolan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 760 pp. $69.95 hardcover. Proudhon and His Age. By John Ehrenberg, (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996), ix + 184 p. $45.00 cloth. To Live Together: Shaping New Attitudes to Peace Through Education. Edited by Daniel S. Halpérin (Paris: UNESCO, 1997), Studies in Comparative Education, vii + 186 pp. n.p.g. paper. Trade Unions and Democratic Participation in Europe: A Scenario for the 21st Century. Edited by Gerard Kester and Henry Pinaud (Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1996), xiv + 296 pp. £40.00 cloth. Ontological Arguments and Belief in God. By Graham Oppy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xvii + 376 pp. £40.00, $59.95 cloth. Modernité et morale. By Charles Larmore (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1993) 257pp. 160 FF paper. Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought. By Annabel S. Brett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xii + 254 pp. $59.95/£35.00 cloth. Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge. By Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998) xviii + 373 pp. $49.50, £37.50 cloth. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. By Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Translated and Edited by Albert Rabil, Jr. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996) xxxii + 109 pp. $33.00/£26.50 cloth $10.00/£11.25 paper. The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785–1800. By Conor Cruise O'Brien (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), xvii + 367 pp. $29.95/£23.95 cloth. Women in Russia and Ukraine. Edited by Rosalind Marsh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xvii + 350pp. $69.95/£55.00 cloth $27.95/£19.95 paper. Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan. By Gilbert D. Chaitin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xii + 278 pp. $54.95/£35.00 cloth $17.95/ £12.95 paper. White Heat: People and Technology. By Carroll Pursell (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), 224 pp. $18.00 paper. Isaiah Berlin. By John Gray (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 189 pp. $ 13.95 paper. Tory Radicalism: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and the Transformation of Modern Britain, 1979–1997. By Earl A. Reitan (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) x + 222 pp. $23.95 paper. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. By Maria Tatar (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 213 pp. $14.95, £12.50 paper. Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Underde‐velopment in Rumania and Brazil. By Joseph L. Love (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996) xvi + 348 pp. £50.00 cloth, £16.95 paper. The Austro‐Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. By Geoffrey Wawro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) xiii + 313 pp. £40.00/$59.95 cloth. Harmonious Tensions: The Writings of Friedrich Schiller. By Steven D. Martinson (Newark: University of Delaware Press, London: Associated University Presses, 1996) 448 pp. $55.00. Early Modern Liberalism. By Annabel Patterson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) ix + 314 pp. $49.95/£35.00 cloth.