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Stephen F. Knott (1996) Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. x, 258. $27.50. Mark Roskill (1997) The Languages of Landscape. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 289. $65.00 Luisa Passerini (1996) Autobiography of a Generation. Italy, 1968. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, pp. xiv, 166. $25.00 Dagmar Kift (1996) The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. x, 244. $57.95 Peter Fritzsche (1996) Reading Berlin 1900. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, pp. vi, 308. £26.50. $39.95 Eduardo Cadava (1997) Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 224. $29.95 Michael Bentley (ed.) (1997) Companion to Historiography. London and New York: Routledge, pp. xvii, 997. £85.00. $130.00 Alfred W. Crosby (1997) The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250–1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 245. $24.95. Robin Blackburn (1997) The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800. London and New York: Verso, pp. v, 602. $35.00 (cloth), $22.00 (paper). Greg Dening (1996) Performances. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. xvi, 296. $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Geoffrey H. Hartman (1996) The Longest Shadow. In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington Indiana Press: distributed in the UK by Open University Press, pp 179. £23.50, $29.95.