Book reviewed in this article:The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long‐Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350–1750. Edited by James D. TracyThe Impact of Humanism on Western Europe. Edited by Anthony Goodman and Angus MackayReformation and Revolt in the Low Countries. By Alastair DukeFrontiers of Heresy: The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily. By William MonterLiberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516–1700. By Helen NaderA General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538–1840. By Ann KussmaulLondon and the English Economy. By F. J. Fisher. Edited by P. J. Corfield and N. B. HarteIn Defence of the Church Catholic: The Life of Stephen Gardiner. By Glyn RedworthThe Parliaments of Elizabethan England. Edited by D. M. Dean and N. L. JonesGreat Britain's Solomon: James VI and I in his Three Kingdoms. By Maurice Lee JrPrelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I. By Kenneth FinchamA World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Derek MassarellaThe British Republic, 1649–1660. By Ronald HuttonA Nation of Change and Novelty: Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth‐century England. By Christopher HillLiterature and the English Civil War. Edited by T. Healy and J. SawdayBefore Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow. Edited by Mordechai FeingoldJohn Bunyan and his England, 1628–1688. Edited by Anne Laurence, W. R. Owens and Stuart SimSeventeenth‐Century Europe, 1598–1700. By Thomas MunckHistory of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France. By Yves‐Marie Bercé. Translated by Amanda WhitmoreAtheism in France, 1650–1729, Volume 1:The Orthodox Sources of DisbeliefBy Alan Charles KorsThe Reign of Louis XIV: Essays in Celebration of Andrew Lossky. Edited by Paul SonninoThe Lords' Jews: Magnate‐Jewish Relations in the Polish‐Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Eighteenth Century. By M. J. RosmanEl Reclutamiento Militar por Quintas en la España del Siglo XVIII: Origenes del Servicio Militar Obligatorio. By Cristina Borreguero BeltránCulloden and the 45. By Jeremy BlackBritish Politics and the American Revolution. By Keith PerryHoly Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period. By Leigh Eric SchmidtRegents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth‐Century