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Books reviewed in this article:The Americas:Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VI 1821 to 1835. Edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin.The Americas:Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835. By Stuart B. Schwartz.The Americas:Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden.The Americas:Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut. By Jackson Turner Main.The Americas:The American Revolution. By Edward Countryman.The Americas:The American Revolution. By Michael Heale.The Americas:Franklin of Philadelphia. By Esmond Wright.The Americas:Saving the Revolution: the Federalist Papers and the American Founding. Edited by Charles R. Kesler.The Americas:A Machine That Would Go Of Itself: the Constitution in American culture. By Michael Kammen.The Americas:The American Constitution: the first two hundred years 1787–1987. Edited by Joseph Smith.The Americas:The Whiskey Rebellion. By Thomas P. Slaughter.The Americas:The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856. By William E. Gienapp.The Americas:From Slave South to New South: public policy in nineteenth‐century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein.The Americas:Judah P. Benjamin: the Jewish Confederate. By Eli N. Evans.The Americas:Embattled Courage: the experience of combat in the American Civil War. By Gerald F. Linderman.The Americas:Sheffield Steel and America: a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830–1930. By Geoffrey Tweedale.The Americas:The Limits of Power: great fires and the process of city growth in America. By Christine Meisner Rosen.The Americas:Origins of the Federal Reserve System: money, class and corporate capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston.The Americas:The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and his legacy. By Stephen Fox.The Americas:Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. By Kevin Starr.The Americas:From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society. By Neil A. Wynn.The Americas:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume III September 1920‐August 1921, Volume IV 1 September 1921–2 September 1922. Edited by Robert A. Hill.The Americas:Strength for the Fight: a history of black Americans in the military. By Bernard C. Nalty.The Americas:American Indian Policy and American Reform: case studies of the campaign to assimilate the American Indians. By Christine Bolt.The Americas:Harry Hopkins: ally of the poor and defender of democracy. By George McJimsey.The Americas:China Reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By Stephen R. Mackinnon and Oris Friesen.The Americas:Hollywood Goes to War: how politics, profits, and propaganda shaped World War II movies. By Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black.The Americas:America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945–1948. By John Lamberton Harper.The Americas:No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States and the origins of North American Air Defence, 1945–58. By Joseph T. Jockel.The Americas:Ideology and US Foreign Policy. By Michael H. Hunt.The Americas:Selvages and Biases: the fabric of history in American culture. By Michael Kammen.The Americas:The Legacy of Conquest: the unbroken past of the American West. By Patricia Nelson Limerick.Ancient and Medieval:The Rise of the Greeks. By Michael Grant.Ancient and Medieval:Personal Enmity in Roman Politics, 218–43 BC. By David F. Epstein.Ancient and Medieval:The History of Cartography, Volume 1 Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Edited by J.B. Harley and David Woodward.Ancient and Medieval:The South‐West to AD 1000. By Malcolm Todd.Ancient and Medieval:Medieval Thought: the western intellectual tradition from antiquity to the thirteenth century. By Michael Haren.Ancient and Medieval:Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe. By Janet L. Nelson.Ancient and Medieval:Religion in the Medieval West. By Bernard Hamilton.Ancient and Medieval:The Gospels in the Schools c1100‐c1280. By Beryl Smalley.Ancient and Medieval:The Preaching of the Friars: sermons diffused from Paris before 1300. By D.L. d'Avary.Ancient and Medieval:Anglo‐Norman Studies, IX Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1986. Edited by R. Allen Brown.Ancient and Medieval:The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086–1272. By W.L. Warren.Ancient and Medieval:Castles in Wales and the Marches: essays in honour of D.J. Cathcart King. Edited by John R. Kenyon and Richard Avent.Ancient and Medieval:Saint Hugh of Lincoln. Edited by Henry Mayr‐Harting.Ancient and Medieval:Politics, Policy and Finance under Henry III 1216–1245. By R.C. Stacey.Ancient and Medieval:Women in the Medieval English Countryside: gender and household in Brigstock before the Plague. By Judith M. Bennett.Ancient and Medieval:Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland. By Timothy O'Neill.Ancient and Medieval:The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis. By Joseph Canning.Ancient and Medieval:Pastor and Laity in the Theology of Jean Gerson. By D. Catherine Brown.Ancient and Medieval:Royal Intrigue: crisis at the court of Charles VI, 1392–1420. By Richard C. Famiglietti.Ancient and Medieval:Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke. By Michael Bennett.Early Modern:Pienza: the creation of a Renaissance city. By Charles R. Mack.Early Modern:The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: essays on perception and communication. By Peter Burke.Early Modern:The Renaissance. By Peter Burke. London: Macmillan, Studies in European History.Early Modern:The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. By Alister E. McGrath.Early Modern:The French Reformation. By Mark Greengrass.Early Modern:The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe. By Brian P. Levack.Early Modern:Highroad to the Stake. By Michael Kunze.Early Modern:Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: the witch in early modern Europe.Early Modern:The Languages of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Anthony Pagden.Early Modern:Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe. By Yves‐Marie Bercé, translated by Joseph Bergin.Early Modern:Renaissance and Revolt: the intellectual and social history of early modern France. By J.H.M. Salmon.Early Modern:The French Peasantry 1450–1660. By Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, translated by A. Sheridan.Early Modern:History of Wales, Volume III Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales c1415–1642. By Glanrnor Williams.Early Modern:Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth‐Century England. Edited by Peter Lake and Maria Dowling.Early Modern:Elizabethan Parliaments, 1559–1601. By Michael A.R. Graves.Early Modern:A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation in Elizabethan England. By G.J.R. Parry.Early Modern:Court and Country: studies in Tudor social histoty. By A.L. Rowse.Early Modern:The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Henick, Milton, Marvell and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes. By Leah S. Marcus.Early Modern:Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in early Stuart England. By R.M. Smuts.Early Modern:Puritan London: a study of religion and society in the City parishes. By Tai Liu.Early Modern:The Private Journals of the Long Parliament, 7 March to 1 June 1642. Edited by Vernon F. Snow and Anne Steele Young.Early Modern:Soldiers and Statesmen: the General Council of the Army and its debates, 1647–1648. By Austin Woolrych.Early Modern:Blasphemy, Immorality, and Anarchy: the Ranters and the English Revolution. By Jerome Friedman.Early Modern:Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition. By Jean Hampton.Early Modern:Charles II, Royal Politician. By J.R. Jones.Early Modern:The Professions in Early Modern England. Edited by Wilfrid Prest. Beckenham.Early Modern:The Collapse of the Anglo‐French Alliance 1727–1731. By Jeremy Black.Early Modern:The Rise of English Nationalism: a cultural history 1750–1830. By Gerald Newman.Early Modern:The Townshend Duties Crisis: the second phase of the American Revolution 1767–1773. By Peter D.G. Thomas.Early Modern:Disaffected Patriots: London supporters of Revolutionary America 1769–1782. By John Sainsbury.Early Modern:Joseph II, Volume I In the Shadow of Maria Theresa 1741–1780. By Derek Beales.Early Modern:Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685–1789. By D. Carpanetto and G. Ricuperati.Early Modern:French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: a cultural history. By L.W.B. Brockliss.Early Modern:The Seven Years' War and the Old Regime in France: the economic and financial toll. By James C. Riley.Early Modern:Mortal Politics in Eighteenth‐Century France. By G.A. Kelly.Early Modern:The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: rural industry and the sexual division of labour in a French village, 1750–1850. By Gay L. Gullickson.Early Modern:Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower: the British expeditions to the West Indies and the war against Revolutionary France. By Michael Duffy.Late Modern:The English Market Town: a social and economic history, 1750–1914. By Jonathan Brown.Late Modern:Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760–1930. Edited by Gail Malmgreen.Late Modern:Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: social criticism in Britain 1775–1830. By William Stafford.Late Modern:Police and Protest in England and Ireland, 1780–1850. By Stanley H. Palmer.Late Modern:Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class 1780–1850. By Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall.Late Modern:France, 1789–1815: revolution and counter‐revolution. By D.M.G. Sutherland.Late Modern:Radical Underworld: prophets, revolutionaries and pornographers in London, 1795–1840. By rain McCalman.Late Modern:The Animal Estate: the English and other creatures in the Victorian age. By Hariet Ritvo.Late Modern:Britain and the Crimea, 1855–56. By J.B. Conacher.Late Modern:Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain, 1855–59. By Angus Hawkins.Late Modern:Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860–1914. By Susan Kingsley Kent. Princeton University Press.Late Modern:The Hereditary Bondsman: Daniel O'Connell, 1775–1829. By Oliver Machnagh.Late Modern:The Young Ireland Movement. By Richard Davis. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan/NewJersey.Late Modern:Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858–1928. By Tom Garvin.Late Modern:Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: the British House of Commons in 1886. By W.C. Lubenow.Late Modern:The Revolution in Ireland 1879–1923. Edited by D.G. Boyce.Late Modern:The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland, 1892–1920. By Eunan O'Halpin.Late Modern:Edwardian Consenatism: five studies in adaptation. Edited by J.A. Thompson and Arthur Mejia.Late Modern:Hubertine Auclert: the French suffragette. By Steven C. Hause.Late Modern:The Women's Movement in the Church of England, 1850–1930. By Brian Heeney.Late Modern:Ladies Elect: women in English local government 1865–1914. By Patricia Hollis.Late Modern:Jews in the German Economy: the German‐Jewish economic elite 1820–1935. By W.E. Mosse.Late Modern:Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany. By Jack Wertheimer.Late Modern:The Year of the Three Kaisers: Bismarck and the German succession, 1887–88. By J. Alden Nichols. Univeristy of Illinois Press.Late Modern:East Central European Society and the Balkan Wars. Edited by Béla K. Király and Dimitrije Djodjevic.Late Modern:The Killing Ground: the British Army, the Western Front and the emergence of modern warfare, 1900–1918. By Tim Travers.Late Modern:The Irish Question as a Problem in British Foreign Policy, 1914–18. By Stephen Hartley.Late Modern:The Great War of Words: British, American and Canadian propaganda and fiction, 1914–1933. By Peter Buitenhuis.Late Modern:Reformers and War: American progressive publicists and the First World War. By John A. Thompson. Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 300 pp. 25.00. German Atrocio or British Propaganda? The 70th Anniversary of a Scandal: German corpse utilization establishments in the First World War. By Shimon Rubinstein.Late Modern:War, Law and Labour the Munitions Acts, state regulation, and the unions 1915–1921. By Gerry R. Rubin.Late Modern:The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 3 1830–1913: Victorian preeminence. By Roy Church.Late Modern:The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume IV 1913–1946: the political economy of decline. By Barry Supple.Late Modern:The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume V 1946–1982: the nationalised industry. By W. Ashworth.Late Modern:Intelligentsia and Revolulion: Russian views of Bolshevism, 1917–22. By Jane Burbank.Late Modern:Under the Shadow of War: fascism, anti‐fascism, and Marxists, 1918–1939. By Larry Ceplair.Late Modern:American Money and the Weimar Republic: economics and politics on the eve of the Great Depression. By William C. McNeil.Late Modern:The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924–1936. By Harold James.Late Modern:German Foreign Policy 1917–1933: continuity or break? By M. Lee and W. Michalka.Late Modern:Hitler and the Quest for World Dominion: Nazi ideology and foreign policy in the 1920s. By G. Stoakes.Late Modern:Poland, the United States and the Stablisation of Europe, 1919–1933. By N. Pease.Late Modern:The German Unemployed: experiences and consequences of mass unemployment from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich. Edited by Richard J. Evans and Dick Geary.Late Modern:The Baltic States and Weimar Ostpolitik. By John Hiden.Late Modern:Fascism in Popuh Memory: the cultural experience of the Turin working class. By Luisa Passerini.Late Modern:The Battle for Britain's Gold Stondard in 1931. By Diane K. Kunz.Late Modern:The Ideology of the British Right 1918–1939. By G.C. Webber.Late Modern:A History of English Christianity, 1920–1985. By Adrian Hastings.Late Modern:British Capitalism at the Crossroads, 1919–1932: a study in politics, economics and international relations. By Robert W.D. Boyce.Late Modern:Lancashire and Whitehall: the diary of Sir Raymond Street, 1931–1957. Edited by Marguerite Dupree.Late Modern:Britain, America and Arms Control, 1921–37. By Christopher Hall.Late Modern:British Seapower and Procurement between the Wars: a reappraisal of rearmament. By G.A.H. Gordon.Late Modern:The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: the A.J.P. Taylor debate after 25 years. Edited by Gordon Martel.Late Modern:The Origins of the Second World War in Europe. By P.M.H. Bell.Late Modern:Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War. By Owen Chadwick.Late Modern:Les Grandes Rafles. Juifs en France 1940–1944. By Doris Bensimon.Late Modern:Hitler and the Final Solution. By Gerald Fleming.Late Modern:Aspects of the Third Reich. By H.W. Koch.Late Modern:British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War. By Martin Kitchen.Late Modern:Armed Truce: the beginnings of the Cold War 1945–46. By Hugh Thomas.Late Modern:Setting the Mould: the United States and Britain 1945–1950. By Robin Edmonds.Late Modern:The Special Relationship: Anglo‐American relations since 1945. Edited by W. Roger Louis and Hedley Bull.Late Modern:US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940–1946. By Alan P. Dobson.Late Modern:War and Social Change: British society in the Second World War. Edited by H. Smith.Late Modern:The Road to Victory: Winston S. Churchill 1941–1945. By Martin Gilbert.Late Modern:Monty: the Field Marshal 1944–1976. By Nigel Hamilton. London: Hamish Hamilton.Late Modern:The Price of War: British policy on German reparations 1941–1949. By Alec Cairncross.Late Modern:Die Ruhrfrage 1945/46 und die Entstehung des Landes Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Britische, Französische und Amerikanische Akten (Quellen zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Reihe 4, Band 4). Edited by Rolf Steininger.Late Modern:The Collapse of the Grand Alliance 1945–1948. By James L. Gormly.Late Modern:Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945–1955. By Audrey Kurth Cronin.Late Modern:Confronting the German Question: Germans on the East‐West divide. By Renata Fritsch‐Bournazel, translated by Caroline Bray.Late Modern:Between East and West: Finland in international politics, 1944–1947. By Tuomo Polvinen, edited and translated by D.G. Kirby and Peter Herring.Late Modern:Power, Competition and the State, Volume I Britain in Search of Balance, 1940–61. By Keith Middlemas.Late Modern:The Origins of the Korean War. By Peter Lowe.Late Modern:British Railways 1948–73: a business history. By T.R. Gourvish.Late Modern:The Meaning of the Second World War. By Ernest Mandel.Late Modern:The Fourth Republic, 1944–58. By Jean‐Pierre Rioux.