Marriage and the English Reformation. By Eric Josef Carlson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. ix+276. ISBN 0-631-16864-8. £45.00

Gender, sex and subordination in England, 1550–1800. By Anthony Fletcher. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii+442. ISBN 0-300-06531-0. £19.95.

Domestic dangers: women, words, and sex in early modern London. By Laura Gowing. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 301. ISBN 0-19-820517-1. £35.00.

The prospect before her: a history of women in western Europe, Volume one, 1500–1800. By Olwen Hufton. London: HarperCollins, 1995. Pp. xiv+654. ISBN 0-00255120-9. £25.00.

Sex and subjection: attitudes to women in early modern society. By Margaret R. Sommerville. London: Edward Arnold, 1995. Pp. 287. ISBN 0-340-64574-1. £14.99.

Thomas Müntzer: apocalyptic mystic and revolutionary. By Hans-Jürgen Goertz. Translated by Jocelyn Jacquiery and edited by Peter Matheson. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993. Pp. xxii+230. £22.50.

The Reformation: roots and ramifications. By Heiko A. Oberman. Translated by Andrew C. Gow. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994. Pp. xvi+232. £14.95.

Calvin's Old Testament commentaries. By T. H. L. Parker. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1986 (reprinted 1993). Pp. viii+240. £13.95.

Calvin's New Testament commentaries. By T. H. L. Parker. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993. Pp. x+258. £13.95.

At the close of five hundred years of European expansion in Asia, a new Zeitgeist has arisen: ‘Asian values’. The idea has been given wide international exposure, especially by intellectuals in the United States. It has formed the basis of a grand historical narrative in which they can locate themselves in the aftermath of the cold war. The rise of the west, it is argued, was marked by a succession of conflicts: the wars of princes, the wars of nations and, in the twentieth century, the wars of ideas. In the great struggle of our age, liberal democracy vanquished communism. However, it has not triumphed in the extra-European world. To explain this, the new meta-histories turn to the cultures that define civilizations. Old arguments about the cultural conditions for democracy have been given new focus. The great struggles of the twenty-first century will not be about ideology, but culture. The old cold warrior, Samuel Huntington, calls the new cold war ‘the clash of civilizations’. Huntington has a number of civilizations in mind, but he is quite clear where the most deadly challenge lies. ‘Islam’, he writes, ‘has bloody borders.’

The Anglo-Dutch wars of the seventeenth-century. By J. R. Jones. London: Longman, 1996. Pp. 242. ISBN 0-582-05631-4. £42.00.

Oliver Cromwell. By Peter Gaunt. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Pp. 263. ISBN 0-631-18356-6. £25.00.

Cromwellian foreign policy. By Timothy Venning. London and New York: St Martin's Press and Macmillan, 1995. Pp. 324. ISBN 0-333-63388-1. £47.50.

Protestantism and patriotism: ideologies and the making of English foreign policy, 1650–1668. By Steven C. A. Pincus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 512. ISBN 0-521-43487-4. £45.00.

William III and the godly revolution. By Tony Claydon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 288. ISBN 0-521-47329-2. £35.00.

A miracle mirrored: the Dutch republic in European perspective. Edited by Karel Davids and Jan Lucassen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 559. ISBN 0-521-46247-9. £55.00.

Flesh and stone. The body and the city in western civilization. By Richard Sennett. London: Faber & Faber, 1994. Pp. 431. ISBN 0-571-17390-X. £25.00

Renaissance warrior and patron. The reign of Francis I. By R. J. Knecht. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv+612. ISBN 0-521-41796-1. £45.00.

The early modern city 1450–1750. By Christopher R. Friedrichs. London: Longman, 1995. Pp. ix+381. ISBN 0-582-01321-6. £14.99.

The court artist. On the ancestry of the modern artist. By Martin Warnke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xx+299. ISBN 0-521-36375-6. £35.00.

Renaissance and revolution. Humanists, scholars, craftsmen & natural philosophers in early modern Europe. Edited by J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv+291. ISBN 0-521-43427-0. £37.50.

The revolution in provincial France. Aquitaine, 1789–1799. By A. Forrest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vi+377. £45.

Fair shares for all. Jacobin egalitarianism in practice. By J.-P. Gross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv+255. £30.

Europe under Napoleon, 1799–1815. By M. Broers. London: Edward Arnold, 1996. Pp. xii+291. £15.99.

Counter-revolution: the second Civil War and its origins, 1646–48. By Robert Ashton. London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi+521. £35.

Sir Matthew Hale 1609–76. By Alan Cromartie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x+264. £40.

The old service: royalist regimental colonels and the English Civil War, 1642–46. By P. R. Newman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+324. £40.

Constitutional royalism and the search for settlement, c. 1640–1649. By David L. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi+371. £35.

Loyalty and locality: popular allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War. By Mark Stoyle. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi+330. £30.

Absolute monarchy and the Stuart constitution. By Glenn Burgess. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. ix+229. £25.00.

Henry Parker and the English civil war. By Michael Mendle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xix+204. £35.00.

Classical humanism and English political thought, 1550–1640. By Markku Peltonen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+356. £35.00.

Republicanism, liberty, and commercial society, 1649–1776. Ed. David Wootton. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. ix+497. £40.00.

Negotiators of change. Historical perspectives on native American women. By Nancy Shoemaker. New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 1 + 236. £13.99

Deadly medicine. Indians and alcohol in early America. By P. C. Mancall. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 268. $29.95

The American Revolution in Indian country. By C. G. Calloway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. vii + 327. £40.00

Women's work, men's work. The informal slave economies of lowcountry Georgia. By Betty Wood. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 247. $45.00

Power and everyday life. The lives of working women in nineteenth-century Brazil. By Maria O. Silva Dias. Oxford: Polity Press, 1995. Pp. v + 221. £12.95

Revolution and political conflict in the French navy, 1789–1794. By William S. Cormack. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 343. £40.00.

The family romance of the French revolution. By Lynn Hunt. London: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 213. £19.99.

The French idea of freedom: the old regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789. Edited by Dale Van Kley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. 436. £35.00.

A rhetoric of bourgeois revolution: the Abbé Sieyes and What is the third estate ? By William H. Sewell, Jr. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994. Pp. 221. £10.95.

The genesis of the French revolution: a global-historical interpretation. By Bailey Stone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 268. £12.95.

The new regime: transformations of the French civic order, 1789–1820s. By Isser Woloch. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1994. Pp. 536. £27.50.

Louis XV and the parlement of Paris, 1737–1755. By J. M. Rogister. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxv+288. ISBN 0-521-40395-2. £37.50, hbk.

Politics and the parlement of Paris under Louis XV, 1754–1774. By Julian Swann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. x+390. ISBN 0-521-48362-X. £45, hbk, £19.95, pbk.

Revolt in prerevolutionary France. The Prince de Conti's conspiracy against Louis XV, 1755–1757. By John D. Woodbridge. Baltimore and London: the John's Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii+242. ISBN 0-801-84945-4. £33, hbk.

French politics, 1774–1789. By John Hardman. London and New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. x+283. ISBN 0-582-23649-5. £15.99, pbk.

Preserving the monarchy. The comte de Vergennes, 1774–1787. By M. Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi+256. ISBN 0-521-46566-4. £35, hbk.

Nicholas II. Emperor of all the Russias. By D. Lieven. London: Pimlico, 1995. Pp. 292. ISBN 0-719-54994-9. £10.00.

The Russian Revolution, 1917–1921: a short history. By J. D. White. London: Edward Arnold, 1994. Pp. 312. ISBN 0-340-53910-0. £12.99.

The origins of the Russian civil war. By G. Swain. London: Longman, 1995. Pp. 296. ISBN 0-582-05968-2. £13.99.

Behind the front lines of the civil war: political parties and social movements in Russia, 1918–1922. By V. N. Brovkin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 455. ISBN 0-691-03278-5. £40.00.

America's secret war against Bolshevism: U.S. intervention in the Russian civil war, 1917–1920. By D. S. Foglesong. Chapel Hill and London: North Carolina University Press, 1995. Pp. 386. ISBN 0-807-82228-0. $45–00.

Zionist culture and West European Jewry before the First World War. By Michael Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii+255. ISBN 0-521-42072-5. £29.95.

The kibbutz movement. A history. Volume I. Origins and growth, 1909–1939. By Henry Near. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii+431. ISBN 0-197-10069-4. £55.00.

The road to power: Herut party in Israel. By Yonathan Shapiro. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. vi+208. ISBN 0-794-06067. $12.95.

The partition of Palestine, decision crossroads in the Zionist movement. By Itzhak Galnoor. New York: State University of New York Press, 1991. Pp. ix+379. ISBN 0-791-42193-7. $21.95.

Genealogies of conflict: class, identity and state in Palestine/Israel and South Africa. By Ran Greenstein. Hanover, NH and London: Wesleyan University Press and University Press of New England, 1995. ISBN 0-819-55288-7. $27.25.

Lincoln and his party in the secession crisis. By David M. Potter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press [reissue], 1996. Pp. vii+408. £15.95.

Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum republic. Volume I: Commerce and compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. vii+520. £40.00.

In the master's eye. Representations of women, blacks, and poor whites in antebellum southern literature. By Susan J. Tracy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Pp. vii+307. £40.00.

April '65. Confederate covert action in the American Civil War. By William A. Tidwell. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+264. $30.00.

The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic rim. By R. E. May, ed. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1995. Pp. ix+169. £11.95.

Japan through American eyes: the journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859–1866. Edited and annotated by F. G. Notehelfer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. 652. £39.00.

Sabotaging the shogun: Western diplomats open Japan, 1859–69. By John McMaster. New York: Vantage Press, 1992. Pp. 201. $16.95.

Japan and the world since 1868. By Michael A. Barnhart. London: Edward Arnold, 1995. Pp. 198. £40.00 hbk: £13.99 pbk.

The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895–1910. By Peter Duus. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. 480. £37.50.

Race and migration in Imperial Japan. By Michael Weiner. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 278. £37.50.

Voluntary death in Japan. By Maurice Pinguet. Oxford: Polity Press, 1993. Pp. 365. £45.00.

Shōwa: the Japan of Hirohito. Edited by Carol Gluck and Stephen R. Graubard. London and New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. Pp. 315. £8.95.

Arming Japan: defence production, alliance politics, and the postwar search for autonomy. By Michael J. Green. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. 206. £30.00.

The technological transformation of Japan: from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 304. £35.00.

The emptiness of Japanese affluence. By Gavan McCormack. Armonk, New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. 311. £16.95.

The French Republic, 1879–1992. By Maurice Agulhon. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Pp. 500. £45.00.

The republic of De Gaulle, 1958–1969. By Serge Berstein. Translated by Peter Morris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 281. £30.00.

Louis Loucheur and the shaping of modern France, 1916–1931. By Stephen D. Carls. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. 416. £42.75.

The French secret services. By Martyn Cornick and Peter Morris. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1993. Pp. 136. £31.50.

De Gaulle and twentieth-century France. Edited by Hugh Gough and John Horne. London: Edward Arnold, 1994. Pp. 192. £13.99 pbk.

The Little Entente and Europe (1920–1929). By Magda Ádám. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1993. Pp. 330. $40.00.

The economy and polity in early twentieth century Hungary. The role of the National Association of Industrialists. By George Deák. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 209. $32.00.

Stefan Stambolov and the emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870–1895. By Duncan M. Perry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 308. £37.95.

Hungarians and their neighbors in modern times, 1867–1950. Ed. Ferenc Glatz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $42.00.

The Czech fascist movement, 1922–1942. By David D. Kelly. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 243.

Italy in the Cold War. Politics, culture & society, 1948–1958. Edited by Christopher Duggan and Christopher Wagstaff. Oxford/Washington DC: Berg. 1995. Pp. xi+228, index. £34.95

War in Italy 1943–1945. A brutal story. By Richard Lamb. London: Penguin Books. 1995 (1993). Pp. viii+335, maps and index. £7.99

Italy and the wider world, 1860–1960. By R. J. B. Bosworth. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. Pp. x+252, index. £40.00

‘America is the strongest and most prosperous nation on earth,’ Nately informed him with lofty fervor and dignity. ‘And the American fighting man is second to none.’ ‘Exactly,’ agreed the old man pleasantly, with a hint of taunting amusement. ‘Italy, on the other hand, is one of the least prosperous nations on earth. And the Italian fighting man is probably second to all. And that's exactly why my country is doing so well in this war while your country is doing so poorly [[ctdot ]] You see, Italy is really a very poor and weak country, and that's what makes us so strong’.