Book reviewed in this article:AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Diamond Ring: Business, Politics and Precious Stones in South Africa, 1867–1947. By Colin Newbury.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Rand At War, 1899–1902: The Witwatersrand and the Anglo‐Boer War. By Diana Cammack.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Hedge of Wild Almonds: South Africa, the ‘Pro‐Boers’ and the Quaker Conscience, 1890–1910. By Hope Hay Hewison.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power. By Robert I. Rotberg, with the collaboration of Miles F. ShoreAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: A History of Islamic Societies. By Ira ML Lapidus.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism. By Muhammad Y. Muslih.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948: A Study in Contemporary Humanitarian Knight‐Errantry. By Amitzur Ilan.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Palestine and the Arab‐Israeli Conflict. By Charles D. Smith.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al‐Hajj Amin Al‐Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement. By Philip Mattar.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The New Cambridge History of India. General editor Gordon Johnson, Associate editors C. A. Bayly and John F. RichardsAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Europe Reconsidered. Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal. By Tapan Raychaudhuri.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope. By Judith M. BrownAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Edited by Denis SinorAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Central Asia: 120 Years of Russian Rule. Edited by E. Allworth.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Origins of Chinese Communism. By Arif DirlikAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Thought of Mao Tse‐tung. By Stuart Schram.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The War in Indo‐China 1945–54. By Jacques Dalloz. Dublin: Gill and MacmillanAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War. By John Merrill.AFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Britain's Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868–1912. By Olive ChecklandAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Foreign Employees in Nineteenth Century Japan. Edited by Edward R. Beauchamp and Akira IriyeAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Marius B. JansenAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Rise of Modern Japan. By W. G. BeasleyAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940. By Robert AldrichAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Oxford History of Australia. Volume 3: 1860–1900: Glad, Confident Morning. By Beverley KingstonAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Enemy Aliens: Internment and the Homefront Experience in Australia, 1914–1920. By Gerhard FischerAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Ideal Society and its Enemies: The Foundations of Modern New Zealand Society, 1850–1900. By Miles FairburnAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: The Fifth Wind: New Zealand and the Legacy of a Turbulent Past. By Robert MacdonaldAFRICA. ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA: Social Welfare 1850–1950: Australia, Argentina and Canada Compared. Edited by D. C. M. Platt.Ancient and Medieval: Herodotus. By John GouldAncient and Medieval: The Macedonian State: The Origins, Institutions and History. By N. G. L. HammondAncient and Medieval: History of Old Age: From Antiquity to the Renaissance. By George Minois. Translated by Sarah Hanbury TenisonAncient and Medieval: Research on Roman Britain 1960–89. Edited by Malcolm ToddAncient and Medieval: The Ending of Roman Britain. By A. S. Esmonde ClearyAncient and Medieval: Rodulfus Glaber Opera. Edited by John France, Neithard Bulst and Paul Reynolds. Translated by John FranceAncient and Medieval: Unification and Conquest: a Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. By Pauline StaffordAncient and Medieval: Anglo‐Norman Studies, Volume XI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1988. Edited by R. Allen BrownAncient and Medieval: The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval HistoryAncient and Medieval: England and Her Neighbours. 1066–1453: Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais. Edited by Michael Jones and Malcolm ValeAncient and Medieval: Irish Society, Anglo‐Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Interactions in Ireland in the Late Twelfth Century. By Marie Therese FlanaganAncient and Medieval: Medieval Frontier Societies. Edited by Robert Bartlett and Angus MacKayAncient and Medieval: The World Before Columbus, 1100–1492. By Edward BurmanAncient and Medieval: The Medieval Traveller. By Norbert Ohler. Translated by Caroline HillierAncient and Medieval: The Medieval Woman. By Edith Ennen. Translated by E. JephcottAncient and Medieval: Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages. By Richard Barber and Juliet BarkerAncient and Medieval: The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy: Structures of Political Rule. By Giovanni Tabacco. Translated by Rosalind Brown JensenAncient and Medieval: The Arpads and the Comneni; Political Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th Century. By Ferenc MakkAncient and Medieval: The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians. By William Chester JordanAncient and Medieval: Clement VI: The Pontificate and Ideas of an A vignon Pope. By Diana WoodAncient and Medieval: Church and Society in Late Medieval England. By R. N. SwansonAncient and Medieval: A Marginal Economy? East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages. By Mark BaileyAncient and Medieval: The Receivers' Accounts of the City of Exeter 1304–1353. Edited and translated with an introduction by Margery M. Rowe and John M. Draisey. Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record SocietyAncient and Medieval: Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, Volume 2. Edited by John and Winifred Mac‐QueenAncient and Medieval: Kingship, Law and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V. By Edward PowellAncient and Medieval: English Justices of the Peace, 1461–1509. By J. R. LanderAncient and Medieval: Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State. By James S. Grubb.Early Modern: Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300–1600. By Paul F. GrendlerEarly Modern: Urban Life in the Renaissance. Edited by Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F. E. WeissmanEarly Modern: Venetian Vernacular Architecture. Traditional Housing in the Venetian Lagoon. By Richard GoyEarly Modern: Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject. By Salvatore Settis. Translated by Ellen BianchiniEarly Modern: Thomas Müntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation. By Tom ScottEarly Modern: The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg. 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Edited by Ivar Oxaal, Michael Pollak and Gerhard BotzLate Modern: Decadence and Innovation: Austro‐Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century. Edited by Robert B. PynsentLate Modern: Ireland after the Union: Proceedings of the Second Joint Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy, London, 1986. With an Introduction by Lord BlakeLate Modern: The Roman Catholic Church and the Home Rule Movement in Ireland, 1870–1874. By Emmet LarkinLate Modern: Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870–1921. By John KendleLate Modern: Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe. By Mary Lee Nolan and Sidney NolanLate Modern: Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By David NichollsLate Modern: Energy and Entropy. Edited by Patrick BrantlingerLate Modern: The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800–1929. By Ornella MoscucciLate Modern: Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth‐Century Political Thought and Practice. Edited by Richard BellamyLate Modern: The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists: Selected Studies. By Peter P. NicholsonLate Modern: Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law and Society in the Fin de Siècle. By Ruth HarrisLate Modern: Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France. By Richard D. SonnLate Modern: La Grande Guerre au jour le jour. By Pierre MiquelLate Modern: A quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840–1940. By Gary CrossLate Modern: Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic. By Jo Burr MargadantLate Modern: The Bergsonian Controversy in France. By R. C. GroginLate Modern: Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime. By Dominic LievenLate Modern: Civil Rights in Imperial Russia. Edited by Olga Crisp and Linda EdmondsonLate Modern: Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872–1886. By Caroline CahmLate Modern: Rosa Luxemburg: A Life for the International. By Richard AbrahamLate Modern: 1905 in St Petersburg: Labor, Society and Revolution. By Gerald D. SurhLate Modern: War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism. By R. Craig NationLate Modern: Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask. By Ronald W. ClarkLate Modern: The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. By Avner OfferLate Modern: Beyond Suffrage: Feminists in War and Peace, 1914–28. By Johanna AlbertiLate Modern: Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917–1930. By Mark von HagenLate Modern: Fascists and Conservatives: The Radical Right and the Establishment in Twentieth‐Century Europe. Edited by Martin BlinkhornLate Modern: The Working Class and Politics in Europe and America, 1929–1945. Edited by Stephen Salter and John StevensonLate Modern: Reinhold Maier (1889–1971): Eine politische Biographic. 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