Book reviewed in this article:NEGROES AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION: The Problem of Economic Recovery. By R. Wolters.THE BLACKS IN CANADA: A History. By Robin W. Winks.THE CORRESPONDENCE OF EDMUND BURKE, VOLUME IX: Part One, May 1796– July 1797. Edited by R. B. McDowell. Part Two, Additional and Undated Letters. Edited by John A. Woods.KOTOKU SHUSUI: Portrait of Japanese Radical. By F. G. Notehelfer.THE HIMALAYA BORDERLAND. By Ram Rahul.THE KUOMINTANG‐COMMUNIST STRUGGLE IN CHINA, 1922–1949. By Chung‐gi Kwei.THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE PACIFIC 1909–1922: By W. R. Braisted.AMERICA'S ASIA: Dissenting Essays on Asian‐American Relations. Edited by Edward Friedman and Mark Selden.PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY. By C. Pateman.THE DEMOCRATIC CITIZEN: Social Science and Democratic Theory in the 20th Century. By D. F. Thompson.CONSENT AND CONSENSUS. By P. H. Partridge.RUSSIAN PEASANT ORGANIZATION BEFORE COLLECTIVISATION: A Study of Commune and Gathering 1925–1930. By D. J. Male.SOVIET POWER AND EUROPE, 1945–70. By Thomas W. Wolfe.MEDIEVAL STATECRAFT AND THE PERSPECTIVES OF HISTORY: Essays by Joseph R. Strayer.THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By P. D. G. Thomas.POLITICIANS AT WAR JULY 1914 TO MAY 1915: A prologue to the triumph of Lloyd George. By Cameron Hazlehurst.COLONIAL ISSUES IN BRITISH POLITICS, 1945–1961: from ‘Colonial Development’ to ‘Wind of Change’. By David Goldsworthy.WARS, PLOTS AND SCANDALS IN POST‐WAR FRANCE. By Philip M. WilliamsITALY FROM THE RISORGIMENTO TO FASCISM: An inquiry into the origins of the Totalitarian State. Edited by A. William Salomone.CONSCRIPTION: The Australian Debate, 1901–1970. Edited and introduced by J. M. Main.THE PUBLIC LANDS OF AUSTRALIA FELIX: Settlement and Land Appraisal in Victoria 1834–91 with special reference to the Western Plains. By J. M. Powell.THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA: A Collective Portrait 1903–1970. By Eddy Neumann.THE RUSH TO BE RICH: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1883–1889. By Geoffrey Serle.NEITHER TOLERATION NOR FAVOUR: The Australian Chapter of Jewish Emancipation. By Israel Getzler.THE PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1856–1965. By G. N. Hawker.AMERICAN FINANCI