Book reviewed in this article:The Origins of Anglo‐American Radicalism. Edited by Margaret and James Jacob.Lordship to Patronage: Scotland 1603–1745. By Rosalind Mitchison.Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790–1810. By John Bohstedt.War without Victory: The Downfall of Pin, 1799–1802. By Piers Mackesy.The Transformation of English Provincial Towns 1600–1800. Edited by Peter Clark.Late Georgian and Regency England 1760–1837. By Robert A. Smith.Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth‐Century Britain: Reflections on the British Avoidance of Revolution. By Ian R. Christie.George Grenville: a Political Life. By Philip Lawson.The World We Have Lost ‐ Further Explored. By Peter Laslett.The French Revolution in Miniature: Section Droits‐de‐I'Homme, 1789‐1 795. By Morris Slavin.The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754‐1 757. Edited by Carol F. Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker.Madrid and the Spanish Economy 1560–1