Book reviewed in this article:GENERAL: ON HISTORY AND OTHER ESSAYS. By Michael Oakeshott.GENERAL: THE NEW HISTORY: THE 1980s AND BEYOND. Edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg.GENERAL: MAKING HISTORIES: STUDIES IN HISTORY‐WRITING AND POLITICS. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz and David Sutton.GENERAL: HISTORY AND CLASS: ESSENTIAL READINGS IN THEORY AND INTERPRETATION. By R.S. Neale.GENERAL: THE RISE OF HISTORICAL WRITING AMONG THE ARABS. By A.A. Duri, edited and translated by Lawrence I. Conrad.GENERAL: REVOLUTION IN TIME: CLOCKS AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD By David S. Landes.GENERAL: THE EUROPEAN HERITAGE: AN OUTLINE OF WESTERN CULTURE. By A.G. Lehmann.GENERAL: DISPUTES AND SEITLEMENTS: LAW AND HUMAN RELATIONS IN THE WEST. Edited by John Bossy.GENERAL: FAMILY FORMS IN HISTORIC EUROPE. Edited by Richard Wall in collaboration with Jean Robin and Peter Laslett.GENERAL: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN EUROPE. By Jack Goody.GENERAL: SAINTS AND THEIR CULTS: STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS SOCIOLOGY. FOLKLORE AND HISTORY. Edited by Stephen Wilson.GENERAL: THE HOLY GREYHOUND: GUINEFORT. HEALER OF CHILDREN SINCE THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. By J.C. Schmitt, translated by Martin Thom.GENERAL: VISIONS OF THE PAST. By Christopher Taylor and Richard Muir.GENERAL: THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITAIN. Edited by Kenneth O.GENERAL: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF England. By Asa Briggs.GENERAL: THE COMMON PEOPLE: A HISTORY FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE PRESENT. By J.F.C. Harrison.GENERAL: THE BRITISH POLITICAL TRADITION, VOLUME 1: THE RISE OF COLLECTIVISM; VOLUME II: THE IDEOLOGICAL HERITAGE. By W.H. Greenleaf.GENERAL: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH TOWNS: 2000 YEARS OF EVOLUTION. By David w. Lloyd.GENERAL: SOUTHAMPTON SOUHCES: 1086–1900. By T.B. James.GENERAL: THE ENGLISH ALEHOUSE: A SOCIAL HISTORY 1200–1830. By Peter Clark.GENERAL: THE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. VOLUME XII. Edited by D.A. Crowley.GENERAL: LAND, FAMILY AND INHERITANCE IN TRANSITION: KIBWORTH HARCOURT 1280–1700. By Cicely Howell.GENERAL: THE COURTS OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO 1971. By Kenneth Emsley and C.M. Fraser.GENERAL: STUDIES IN MODERN KENTISH HISTORY PRESENTED TO FELIX HULL AND ELIZABETH MELLING. Edited by Alec Detsicas and Nigel Yates.GENERAL: UNBUILT OXFORD. By Howard Colvin.GENERAL: ENGLISH LITERATURE IN HISTORY 1730–80: AN EQUAL WIDE SURVEY. By John Barrell.GENERAL: ENGLISH LITERATURE IN HISTORY 1780–1830 PASTORAL AND POLITICS. By Roger Sales.GENERAL: WELSH SOCIETY AND NATIONHOOD: HISTOKICAL ESSAYS PRESENTED TO GLANMOR WILLIAMS. Edited by R.R. Davies, Ralph A. Griffiths, Ieuan Gwynedd Jones and Kenneth O. Morgan.GENERAL: SHETLAND AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD 1469–1969. Edited by Donald J. Withrington.GENERAL: HISTOIRE DU HAVRE ET DE L'ESTUAIRE DE LA SEINE. Edited by André Corvisier.GENERAL: A HISTORY OF VENICE. By John Julius Norwich.GENERAL: SCIENCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 1700–1900. By Colin A. Russell.GENERAL: THE PURSUIT OF URBAN HISTORY. Edited by Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe.GENERAL: SEX AND CLASS IN WOMEN'S HISTORY. Edited by Judith L. Newton, Mary P. Ryan, Judith R. Walkowitz.GENERAL: WOMEN, THE FAMILY AND FREEDOM: THE DEBATE IN DOCUMENTS. VOLUME ONE: 1750–1880; VOLUME TWO: 1880–1950. Edited by Susan G. Bell and Karen M. Offen.GENERAL: THE LEGACY OF JEWISH MIGRATION: 1881 AND ITS IMPACR. Edited by David Berger.GENERAL: INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL STATISTICS: THE AMERICAS AND AUSTRALASIA. Edited by B.R. Mitchell.GENERAL: THE PURSUIT OF POWER: TECHNOLOGY, ARMED FORCE AND SOCIETY SINCE AD 1000. By William H. McNeill.GENERAL: THE SEVEN AGES OF THE BRITISH ARMY. By Field Marshal Lord Carver.GENERAL: MILITARY DECEPTION AND STRATEGIC SURPRISE. Edited by John Gooch and Amos Perlmutter.GENERAL: THE IMPERIAL IMAGINATION: MAGIC AND MYTH IN KIPLING'S INDIA. By Lewis D. Wurgraft.GENERAL: ALLIES: AMERICA, EUROPE AND JAPAN SINCE THE WAR. By Richard J. Barnet.GENERAL: PROPAGANDA, POLITICS AND FILM, 1918–1945. Edited by Nicholas Pronay and D.W. Spring.GENERAL: BROADCASTING AND SOCIETY 1918–1939. By Mark Pegg.GENERAL: HUMPHREY JENNINGS: FILM MAKER, PAINTER. POET. Edited by Mary–Lou Jennings.GENERAL: SAILOR–SCHOLAR: ADMIRAL SIR HERBERT RICHMOND. 1871–1946. By Barry D. Hunt.GENERAL: THE AUTOMOBILE REVOLUTION: THE IMPACT OF AN INDUSTRY. By Jean‐Pierre Barou, Jean‐Jacques Chanaron, Patrick Fridenson and James M. Laux, translated and edited by James M. Laux.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE GREEK WORLD 479–323 BC. By Simon Hornblower.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: CITY OF SOKRATES: AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL ATHENS. By J.W. Roberts.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE ROMANS. By Karl Christ, translated by Christopher Holme.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: JULIUS CAESAR: THE PURSUIT OF POWER. By Ernle Bradford.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: CAESAR AUGUSTUS: SEVEN ASPECTS. Edited by Fergus Millar and Erich Segal.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: A NEW SONG: CELIBATE WOMEN IN THE FIRST THREE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES. By JoAnn McNamara.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Edited by David L. Wagner.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: LAW AND REVOLUTION: THE FORMATION OF THE WESTERN LEGAL TRADITION. By Harold J. Berman.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN: UNITY IN DIVERSITY, 400–1000. By Roger Collins.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: KIRCHENREFORM UND HOCHMITTELALTER. 1046–1215. By Hermann Jakobs.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: RUPERT OF DEUTZ. By John H. Van Engen.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: VITA PERFECTA: THE IDEAL OF SAINTHOOD IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. By Michael Goodich.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS IN THE CRUSADER KINGDOM OF VALENCIA. By Robert I. Burns.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: MEDIEVAL BRITAIN FROM THE AIR. By Colin Platt.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: DOMESDAY BOOK: DORSET. Edited by Caroline and Frank Thorne; ESSEX. Edited by Alexander Rumble; KENT. Edited by Philip Morgan.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: FEUDAL ASSESSMENTS AND THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY UNDER HENRY II AND HIS SONS By Thomas K. Keefe.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE WHILTON DISPUTE, 1264–1380: A SOCIAL‐LEGAL STUDY OF DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. By Robert c. Palmer.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE WESTMINSTER CHRONICLE 1381–1394. Edited and translated by L.C. Hector and Barbara F.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: THE IMPEACHMENT OF MICHAEL DE LA POLE EARL OF SUFFOLK IN 1386 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REIGN OF RICHARD II. By J.S. Roskell.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: WYCLIF'S WICKET. By Lewis Lupton.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: IRLAND IM MIITELALTER: KULTUR UND GESCHICHTE. By Michael Richter.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: DOCUMENTS ON THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND BEFORE THE KING'S COUNCIL Edited by G.O. Sayles.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: ENGLAND AND IRELAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOCELYN OTWAYRUTHVEN. Edited by James Lydon.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: ENGLISH LORDSHIP IN IRELAND, 1318–1361. By Robin Frame.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: DANTE'S ITALY AND OTHER ESSAYS. By Charles T. Davis.ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL: DIE SCHLACHT BEI TANNENBERG 1410, BAND I: EINFUHRUNG UND QUELLENLAGE. By Sven Ekdahl.EARLY MODERN: THE PRINTING REVOLUTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE. By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.EARLY MODERN: FROM GRAVEN IMAGES: PATTERNS OF MODERN MATERIALISM. By Chandra Mukerji.EARLY MODERN: THE MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF A RENAISSANCE STATE: VENICE c1400–1617. By M.E. Mallett and J.R. Hale.EARLY MODERN: THE REFORMATION OF THE HERETICS: THE WALDENSES OF THE ALPS 1480–1580. By E.EARLY MODERN: ANNALI DELLISTITUTO STORICO ITALO‐GERMANICO IN TRENTO/JAHRBUCH DES ITALIENISCH‐DEUTSCHEN HISTORISCHEN INSTITUTS IN TRIENT VIII (1982). Edited by P. Prodi.EARLY MODERN: CITIZEN MACHIAVELLI. By Mark Hulliung.EARLY MODERN: THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE. By Natalie Zemon Davis.EARLY MODERN: SPANISH CAPTIVES IN NORTH AFRICA IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE. By Ellen G. Friedman.EARLY MODERN: BIOGRAPHICAL TRUTH: THE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL PERSONS IN TUDOR‐STUART WRITING. By Judith H. Anderson.EARLY MODERN: THE DISCOVERY OF HEBREW IN TUDOR ENGLAND: A THIRD LANGUAGE. By G. Lloyd Jones.EARLY MODERN: THE REFORMATION AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. By J.J. Scarisbrick.EARLY MODERN: PROTESTANT REFORMERS IN ELIZABETHAN OXFORD. By C.M. Dent.EARLY MODERN: RICHARD HOOKER AND THE POLITICN: REFORMATION AND REVOLUTION 1558–1660. By Robert Ashton.EARLY MODERN: ENGLAND'S SEA EMPIRE. 1550–1642. By D.B. Quinn and A.N. Ryan.EARLY MODERN: AFTER THE ARMADA: ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND AND THE STRUGGLE FOR WESTERN EUROPE 1588–1595. By R.B. Wernham.EARLY MODERN: BEFORE THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: ESSAYS ON EARLY STUAKT POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT. Edited by Howard Tomlinson.EARLY MODERN: JAMES I AND THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE: JONSON. SHAKESPEARE, DONNE AND TLLELR CONTEMPORARIES. By Jonathan Goldberg.EARLY MODERN: CAESAR'S DUE: LOYALTY AND KING CHARLES 1642–1646. By Joyce Lee Malcolm.EARLY MODERN: CLARENDON AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. By R.W. Harris.EARLY MODERN: ELUSIVE SETTLEMENT: ENGLAND'S REVOLUTIONARY YEARS 1637–1701. By Barry Williams.EARLY MODERN: PIETY AND POLITICS: RELIGION AND THE RISE OF ABSOLUTISM IN ENGLAND, WÜRTTEMBERG AND PRUSSIA. By Mary Fulbrook.EARLY MODERN: CHARLES GRAVIER. COMTE DE VERGENNES: FRENCH DIPLOMACY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1719 TO 1787. By Orville T. Murphy.EARLY MODERN: THE FALL OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY, 1787–1792. By Michel Vovelle.EARLY MODERN: THE THERMIDOREAN REGIME AND THE DIRECTORY, 1794–1799. By Denis Woronoff.EARLY MODERN: BEYOND THE TERROR: ESSAYS IN FRENCH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY. 1794–1815. Edited by Gwynne Lewis and Colin Lucas.EARLY MODERN: CHOUANNERIE AND COUNTER‐REVOLUTION: PUISAYE. THE PRINCES AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN THE 1790s. By Maurice Hutt.EARLY MODERN: THE YOUNGER PIT. VOLUME 2: THE RELUCTANT TRANSITION. By John Ehrman.EARLY MODERN: FOR KING. CONSTITUTION AND COUNTRY: THE ENGLISH LOYALISTS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Robert R. Dozier.LATE MODERN: THE FORGING OF THE MODERN STATE: EARLY INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN 1783–1870. By Eric J. Evans.LATE MODERN: ROMANTIC NATIONALISM IN EUROPE. Edited by J.C. Eade.LATE MODERN: METTERNICH'S GERMAN POLICY, VOLUME II: THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA, 1814–3815. By Enno E. Kraehe.LATE MODERN: THE PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISTS: THEMES IN EARLY NINETEENTH‐CENTURY BRITISH BIOLOGY. By Philip F. Rehbock.LATE MODERN: THE BREADSTEALERS: THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CORN LAWS, 1838–1846. By Norman Longmate.LATE MODERN: DOWN POORHOUSE LANE: THE DIARY OF A ROCHDALE WORKHOUSE. By John Cole.LATE MODERN: STEPHENSONS' BRITAIN. By Derrick Beckett.LATE MODERN: THE DIARIES OF HANNAH CULLWICK. VICTORIAN MAIDSERVANT. Edited and with an Introduction by Liz Stanley.LATE MODERN: THE PENNY CAPITALISTS: A STUDY OF NINETEENTII‐CENTUKY WORKING‐CLASS ENTREPRENEURS. By John Benson.LATE MODERN: THE ROTTEN ROW: THE HISTORY OF THE GLASGOW ROYAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL, 1834–1984. By Derek A. Dow.LATE MODERN: THE SURPRISER: THE LIFE OF ROWLAND. LORD HILL. By Gordon L.LATE MODERN: RADICAL GENERAL: SIR GEORGE DE LACY EVANS 1787–1870. By Edward M. Spiers.LATE MODERN: GREAT BRITAIN AND THE HOLY SEE 1746–1870. By Matthias Buschkühl.LATE MODERN: ENGLAND AGAINST THE PAPACY 1858–1861: TORIES, LIBERALS. AND THE OVERTHROW OF PAPAL TEMPORAL POWER DURING THE ITALIAN RISORGIMENTO. By C.T. McIntire.LATE MODERN: BRITISH ECONOMISTS AND THE EMPIRE. By John Cunningham Wood.LATE MODERN: THAT NOBLE SCIENCE OF POLITICS: A STUDY OF NINETEENTH‐CENTURY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. By Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow.LATE MODERN: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MODERN FRANCE. By FranGois Caron, translated by Barbara Bray.LATE MODERN: THE THIRD REPUBLIC FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE GREAT WAR. 1871–1914. By Jean Marie Mayeur and Madeleine Rebérioux, translated by J.R. Foster.LATE MODERN: AGRANDE ÉCOLEFOR THEGRAND CORPS:THE RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING OFTHE FRENCH ADMINISTRATIVE ELITE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By Thomas R. Osborne.LATE MODERN: BRIEFE UND DOKUMENTE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER ÖSTERREICHISCH‐UNGARISCHEN MONARCHIE UNTER BESONDERER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG DES BÖHMISCH‐MÄHRISCHEN RAUMES. TEIL 1. DER VEKFASSUNGSTKEUE GKOSSGRUNDBESITZ ixxo‐1999. By Ernst Rutkowski.LATE MODERN: TSAR NICHOLAS I AND THE JEWS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH SOCIETY IN RUSSIA. 1825–1855. By Michael Stanislawski.LATE MODERN: STUDIES IN FREE RUSSIA. By Franco Venturi, translated by Fausta Segre Walsby and Margaret O'Dell.LATE MODERN: THE PARISH CLERGY IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY RUSSIA: CRISIS. REFORM. COUNTER‐REFORM. By Gregory L. Freeze.LATE MODERN: WILL‐O'‐THE WISP: PETER THE PAINTER AND THE ANTI‐TSARIST TERRORISTS IN BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA. By F.G. Clarke.LATE MODERN: THE LIFE OF ARTHUR RANSOME. By Hugh Brogan.LATE MODERN: STATES OF MIND: A STUDY OF ANGLO‐IRISH CONFLICT 1780–1980. By Oliver MacDonagh.LATE MODERN: THE PARTITION OF IRELAND 1911–1925. By Michael Laffan.LATE MODERN: BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1914–23. By Sheila Lawlor.LATE MODERN: IRISH PEASANTS: VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL UNREST, 1780–1914. Edited by Samuel Clark and James S. Donnelly, Jr.LATE MODERN: INDEPENDENT IRELAND. By Ronan Fanning.LATE MODERN: NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE 1920. By David Harkness.LATE MODERN: JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: HOPES BETRAYED, 1883–1920. By Robert Skidelsky.LATE MODERN: THE CULTURE OFTIME AND SPACE, 1880–1918. By Stephen Kern.LATE MODERN: OCTOBRISTS TO BOLSHEVIKS: IMPERIAL RUSSIA 1905–1917. Edited by Martin McCauley. assisted by Peter Waldron.LATE MODERN: THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By Keith Robbins.LATE MODERN: THE GREAT WAR AT SEA 1914–1918. By Richard Hough.LATE MODERN: BRITISH LABOUR IM ERSTEN WELTKRIEG: DIE AUSNAHMESITUATION DES KRIEGES 1914–1918 ALS PROBLEM UND CHANCE DER BRITISCHEN ARBEITERBEWEGUNG. By Rudolf Klepsch.LATE MODERN: BYNG OF VIMY: GENERAL AND GOVERNOR GENERAL. By Jeffrey Williams.LATE MODERN: F.E. SMITH: FIRST EARL OF BIRKENHEAD. By John Campbell.LATE MODERN: GILBERT MURRAY: A LIFE. By Francis West.LATE MODERN: THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA: VOLUME II, FROM VERSAILLES TO LONDON, 1919–1920. By Richard G. Hovannisian.LATE MODERN: KRONSTADT 1917–1921: THE FATE OF A SOVIET DEMOCRACY. By Israel Getzler.LATE MODERN: THE FIRST YUGOSLAVIA: SEARCH FOR A VIABLE POLITICAL SYSTEM. By Alex N. Dragnich.LATE MODERN: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICS OF EASTERN EUROPE. By Jürgen Tampke.LATE MODERN: THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR I: THE CLASS WAR AmER THE GREAT WAR: THE RISE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE, 1918–1921. Edited by IVO Banac.LATE MODERN: ECONOMY AND FOREIGN POLICY: THE STRUGGLE OF THE GREAT POWERS FOR HEGEMONY IN THE DANUBE VALLEY 1919–1939. By Gyorgy Ranki.LATE MODERN: THE CULT OF POWER: DICTATORS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Edited by Joseph Held.LATE MODERN: FASCISM. By Noël O'Sullivan.LATE MODERN: EVOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN IDEA 1914–1932. By Carl H. Pegg.LATE MODERN: IDEOLOGIE DES DEUTSCHEN WEGES: DIE DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTE IN DER HISTORIOGRAPHIE ZWISCHEN KAISERREICH UND NATIONALSOZIALISMUS. By Bernd Faulenbach.LATE MODERN: THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CRISIS. By David Abraham.LATE MODERN: PARLAMENTARISCHE WAHLEN UND WAHLSYSTEM IN DER WEIMARER REPUBLIK: WAHLGESETZGEBUNG UND WAHLREFORM IM REICH UND IN DEN LÄNDERN. By Eberhard Schanbacher.LATE MODERN: BEATING THE FASCISTS? THE GERMAN COMMUNISTS AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE 1929–1933. By Eve Rosenhaft.LATE MODERN: LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?DER STURMERIN THE WEIMAK REPUBLIC By Dennis E. Showalter.LATE MODERN: EXPLAINING HITLER'S GERMANY: HISTORIANS AND THE THIRD REICH. By John Hiden and John Farquharson.LATE MODERN: THE NAZI MACHTERGREIFUNG. Edited by Peter D. Stachura.LATE MODERN: THE NAZI PARTY: A SOCIAL PROFILE OF MEMBERS AND LEADERS, 1919–1945. By Michael Kater.LATE MODERN: NAZI PROPAGANDA: THE POWER AND THE LIMITATIONS. Edited by David Welch.LATE MODERN: THE FASCIST CHALLENGE AND THE POLICY OF APPEASEMENT. Edited by W.J. Mommsen and L. Kettenacker.LATE MODERN: DEFENCE OR IMPERIALISM? AN ASPECT OF STALIN'S MILITARY AND FOREIGN POLICY 1933–1941. By Carl O. Nordling.LATE MODERN: DER WESTEN UND DIE SOWJETUNION: EINSTELLUNGEN UND POLITIK GEGENÜBER DER UDSSR IN EUROPA UND IN DEN USA SELT 1917. Edited by Gottfried Niedhart.LATE MODERN: SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY 1930–33: THE IMPACT OF THE DEPRESSION. By Jonathan Haslam.LATE MODERN: COVENANTS WITHOUT THE SWORD: PUBLIC OPINION AND BRITISH DEFENCE POLICY 1931–1935. By Patrick Kyba.LATE MODERN: THE WELSH NATIONALIST PAKTY 1925–1945: A CALL TO NATIONHOOD. By D. Hywel Davies.LATE MODERN: SCANDINAVIA OF WAR: IRELAND. ULSTER AND THE PRICE OF NEUTRALITY 1939–45. By Robert Fisk.LATE MODERN: IL MOUVEMENT REPUBLICAIN POPULAIRE: PARTITO DELLA IV REPUBBLICA. By Maria Grazia Maiorini.LATE MODERN: LEADERSHIP IN THE BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE: A STUDY OF SIR PERCIVAL WATERHOUSE AND THE CREATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE SELECTION BOARD. By R.A. Chapman.LATE MODERN: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRITISH WELFARE STATE: A HISTORY OF SOCIAL POLICY SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. By Derek Fraser.LATE MODERN: THE EDUCATION SYSTEM SINCE 1944. By Peter Gosden.LATE MODERN: ERNEST BEVIN: FOREIGN SECRETARY 1945–1951. By Alan Bullock.LATE MODERN: LIBERAL PARTY POLITICS. Edited by Vernon Bogdanor.LATE MODERN: UNDERMINING CAPITALISM: STATE OWNERSHIP AND THE DIALECTIC OF CONTROL IN THE BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY. By Joel Krie