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Romania in Transition. Edited by Lavinia Stan (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1997) xviii + 218 pp. £39.50 cloth.
Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists. Edited by Michael Gagarin and Paul ...Woodruff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) lvi + 324 pp. $59.95/£40.00 cloth, $18.95/£14.95 paper.
Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes. Edited by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge. Vol. 3 of A History of Women in the West, general editors, Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993) x + 595 pp. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.
The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey. By Victor Perera (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) 282 pp. n.p.g.
Open the Social Sciences. Edited by Immanuel Wallerstein et al. Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996) 105 pp. £8.95 paper, £25.00 cloth.
Music & Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe: A Source Book. By Enrico Fubini, translated by Wolfgang Freis, Lisa Gasbarrone, Michael Louis Leone, translation edited by Bonnie J. Blackburn (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994) x + 421 pp. £43.95, $63.25 cloth £16.75/$24.25 paper.
La Modernité. By Alexis Nouss (Paris: PUF, collection "Que sais-je?", 1995) 128 pp. n.p.g.
Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival. Seven Sacred Plays. By Antonia Pulci, annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996), xxx + 281 pp. $33.00 cloth/$15.00 paper.
The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800. By J. G. A. Pocock, Gordon J. Schochet, and Lois G. Schwoerer (Cambridge University Press, 1996) x + 373 pp. £40.00/$59.95 cloth, £14.95 paper.
Heidegger and French Philosophy: Humanism, Antihumanism and Being. By Tom Rockmore (London: Routledge, 1995) xx + 250 pp. £40.00 cloth, £14.99 paper.
One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century. By Nancy Lyman Roelker (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) xiii + 543 pp. $65.00/£50.00 cloth.
The Rabin Memoirs. By Yitzhak Rabin, with an afterword by Yoram Peri (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) 435 pp. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.
On Voluntary Servitude. False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology. By Michael Rosen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) xi + 289 pp. $35.00 cloth.
Dante: Monarchy. Edited and translated by Prue Shaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xlviii + 121 pp. £30.00/$39.95 cloth, £10.95/$14.95 paper.
Liberalism after Communism. By Jerzy Szacki, translated by Chester P. Kistel (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1995) VII + 216 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.99 paper.
Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations. By John Stokes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xiv + 216 pp. £30.00/$49.95 cloth.
Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition. History of Anthropology Series. Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) 349 pp. £25.00 doth.
The Life of a Painter. By Gino Severini, translated by Jennifer Franchina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 310 pp. n.p.g.
James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare. By Robert Spoo (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) xii + 195 pp.
Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England. By Dennis Todd (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 339 + xvii pp. £41.50 doth/£14.25 paper.
Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present: A Reader. Edited by Stuart Woolf (London and New York: Routledge, 1996) vi + 215 pp. £11.99 paper.
In Defense of Decadent Europe. By Raymond Aron, translated by Stephen Cox, with a new introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson (New Brunswick/London: Transaction Press, 1996) $24.95 paper.
Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage. (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives). By Lee Ann Banaszak (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) xiii + 291 pp. $49.50/£40.00 cloth, $19.95/£15.95 paper.
Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530. By Miriam Usher Chrisman. Studies in German Histories (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996) xiii + 208 pp. $60.00 cloth.
Nicholas of Cusa: The Catholic Concordance. Edited by Paul. E. Sigmund (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xlvii + 326 pp. £16.95/$24.95 paper.
Towards a New Europe: Stops and Starts in Regional Integration. Edited by Gerald Schneider, Patricia A. Weitsman, and Thomas Bernauer (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996) xiv + 224 pp. n.p.g.
Irish Politics Today. 3rd edition. By Neil Collins and Terry Cradden (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997) x + 165 pp. £35.00 doth/ £9.99 paper.
Paradoxes of Peace. By Alice Holmes Cooper (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996) 331 pp. $52.50 cloth.
Modernism and Revolution: Russian Literature in Transition. By Victor Erlich (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994) $45.00 cloth.
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance. By Bruce Fink (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995/1997) xvii + 219 pp. $35.00 cloth/$ 15.95 paper.
The European Economy Between the Wars. By Charles H. Feinstein, Peter Temin and Gianni Toniolo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) xi + 233 pp. £14.99 paper.
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. By Sheldon Garon (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) xvii + 311 pp. $24.95/£19.95 cloth.
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England. By Richard Helgerson (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995) xi + 350 pp. £12.75/$18.25 paper.
The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536. By Michael Bush (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) xviii + 436 pp., £55.00 cloth.
A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. By Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox (New York: St. Martins Press, 1996) 120 pp. $45.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.
Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe. By Peter J. Humphreys (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) ix + 349 pp. £45.00 cloth, £17.99 paper.
Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors. By Amy Knight (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) xiii + 318 pp. $24.95/£16.95 cloth.
The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600. Edited by Julius Kirshner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 212 pp. $27.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.
Aristocracy, Antiquity & History: Classicism in Political Thought. By Andreas A. M. Kinneging. (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Publishers, 1997) xii + 348 pp. n.p.g.
The Great Powers, Imperialism, and the German Problem, 1865-1925. By John Lowe (London and New York: Routledge, 1994) x + 257 pp. £10.99 paper.
Environment and the Nation State: The Netherlands, the European Union and Acid Rain. Issues in Environmental Politics. By Duncan Liefferink (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996) xiv + 225 pp. £40.00 cloth.
Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation. By Christopher Murray (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997) x + 278 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.99 paper.
To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America. By Steven Cassedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xxiii + 197 pp. $29.95/£25.00 cloth.
The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia 1863-1917. By Bruce F. Adams (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996) viii + 237 pp. $32.00 cloth.
The East in the West. By Jack Goody (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) x + 295 pp. £37.50/$54.95 cloth, £13.95/$18.95 paper.
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present. Edited by Jerry Z. Muller (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) xvi + 450 pp. n.p.g.
Enlightenment and Religion. Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Edited by Knud Haakonssen, Ideas in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xi + 348 pp. £40.00/ $59.95 cloth.
Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England. By Eric John (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) xii + 204 pp. £35.00 cloth/£12.99 paper.
On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World. By Peter Stansky (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) x + 289 pp. $27.95 cloth.
