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Book reviewed in this articleThe Historian invites scholars who wish to prepare book reviews for the journal to write to Dr. Phillip D. ThomasMedieval Medicus A Social History of Anglo Norman Medicine By Edward J. Kealey.The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti‐Judaism. By Jeremy Cohen.The Knights Templar. By Stephen Howarth.Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages. By Glending Olson.A History of Venice. By John Julius Norwich.Bury St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis: 1290‐1539. By Robert S. Gottfried.English Lordship in Ireland, 1318‐1361. By Robin Frame.The Outbreak of the English Civil War. By Anthony Fletcher.A Woman to Deliver Her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. By James K. Hopkins.For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London, 1796‐1821. By J. Ann Hone.Madhouse, Mad‐Doctors and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era. Edited by Andrew Scull.Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. By Roger Smith.Gladstone: Church, State, and Tractarianism. By Perry Butler.Davitt and Irish Revolution. By T. W. Moody.Toward A Programme of Imperial Life: The British Empire at the Turn of the Century. (Contirbutions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 9.) By H. John Field.Alanbrooke. By David Fraser.G.P.Gooch: A Study in History and Politics. By Frank Eyck.The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France, 1589‐1661. By Richard Bonney.The Philosophes and Post‐Revolutionary France. By John Lough.The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education.By John Hubbel Weiss.France in Greece during World War I: A Study in the Politics of Power. By Alexander S. Mitrakos.The Reluctant Ally: France and Atlantic Security. By Michael M. Harrison.Mussolini. By Denis Mack Smith.Windthorst: A Political Biography. By Margaret Lavinia Anderson.Zabern 1913: Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany. By David Schoenbaum.Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914. By Ronals N. Stromberg.Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. By Elisabeth Young‐Bruchi.The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West. By George Makdisi.The Politics of Eastern Cape Separatism, 1820‐1854. By Basil A. LeCordeur.The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty. By Albert Chan, S.J.China: A Political History, 1917‐1980. By Richard C. Thornton.Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945‐1952. (Education and Society Series. Edited by Paul R. Hanna.)The Transformation of Virginia, 1740‐1790. By Rhys Isaac.The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763‐1789. [The Oxford History of the United States. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. Vol. 2.] By Robert Middlekauff.The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840‐1857. [Columbia History of Urban Life series. Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson.] By Edward K. Spann.The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. By James Oakes.Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. By Wilson Jeremiah Moses.A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Clarence E. Walker.The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate. By Allan G. Bogue.The Imperiled Union, 1861‐1865, vol.1, The Deep Waters of the Proud. By William C. Davis.Army Generals and Reconstructions: Louisiana, 1862‐1877. By Joseph G. Dawson III.The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy. By Brian W. Dippie.Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880‐1920. By Dominick Cavallo.Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley‐Los Angeles Water Controversy. [Environmental History Series, number 3.] By Abraham Hoffman.John W. Foster: Politics and Diplomacy in the Imperial Era, 1873‐1917. By Michael J. Devine.European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I. By Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts.Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice. Edited, with an introduction, by Ellis W. Hawley.Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience. By Daniel Schaffer.Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier.The Brandeis Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court. By Bruce Allen Murphy.The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919‐1976. By Stephen G. Rabe.