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AbstractBook Reviewed in this article:The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading. By Jonathan Riley‐Smith.The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton, c. 1176–1239. By Ralph Turner.Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe. By R. W. Southern.Crown and Nobility, 1271–1461. By Anthony Tuck.The Royal Household and the King's Affinity: Service, Politics and Finance in England, 1360–1413. By Chris Given‐Wilson.Doctors and Medicine in Medieval England, 1340–1530. By Robert S. Gottfried.Renaissance Reviuals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576–1980. By Wendy Griswold.The Quakers and the English Revolution. By Barry bay.Let Your Words Be Few. Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth‐Century Quakers. By Richard Bauman.A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King: Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, 1652–1722. Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d‘Orléans. Trans. and introduced by Elborg Forster.The French Army and Politics, 1870–1970. By Alistair Horne.The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War. By Martin Gilbert.Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe. By John Gillingham.The Wedemeyer Mission: American Politics and Foreign Policy during the Cold War. By William Stueck.Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870–1920. By James T. Kloppenberg.China Through the Ages: History of a Civilization. By Franz Michael.The Bakufu in Japanese History. Edited by Jeffrey P. Mass and William B. Hauser.The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. By James Axtell.Colonial Augusta: “Key to the Indian Country.” Edited by Edward J. Cashin.The Southern Indians and Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1816. By Florette Henri.Smugglers & Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution. By John W. Tyler.Joel Barlow: A Connecticut Yankee in an Age of Revolution. By Samuel Bernstein.George Washington and the American Military Tradition. By Don Higginbotham.A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. By Henry Mayer.Loosening the Bonds: Mid‐Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850. By Joan M. Jensen.Zachary Taylor: soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. [Southern Biography Series.] By K. Jack Bauer.Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes. By Thelma S. Guild and Harvey L. Carter.Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856–1905. By Barbara M. Brenzel.Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country, 1786–1846. By James R. Gibson.New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish.Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862–1882. By Gerald David Jaynes.John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. [Southern Biography Series.] By Robert E. May.Into The Wilderness With The Army of The Potomac. By Robert Garth Smith.Chinese in the Post‐Civil War South: A People Without A History. By Lucy M. Cohen.The “Spider Web.” Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant. By Margaret Susan Thompson.Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865–1917. By Charles J. Rooney Jr.When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self‐Reconstruction in the South, 1865–1867. By Dan T. Carter (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1865. Pp. xiii, 285. $12.95.)Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey. By Carlos A. Schwantes.The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870–1900. [Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.] By John C. Teaford.Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth‐Century City, Philadelphia, 1800–1854. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement.Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860–1900. By Roger Lane.The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. By Maury Klein.The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940. By Daniel Horowitz.Spirit of Vengeance: Nativism and Louisiana Justice, 1921–1924. By John V. Baiamonte Jr.Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee. By Robert J. Norrell.The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball. By Janet Bruce.Hard Times & New Deal in Kentucky: 1929–1939. By George T. Blakey.Bluegrass: A History. By Neil V. Rosenberg.Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1950. By Robert A. Pollard.Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948–1968. By Thomas J. Noer.Social Change in the United States, 1945–1983. By William Issel.By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. By Paul Boyer.Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, The United States, and the Modern Historical Experience. By Gabriel Kolko.