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The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting. By Marc J. Gotlieb (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996) 255 pages, $45.00, £33.50 cloth.
Charles Darwin's The ...Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays. By David Amigoni and Jeff Wallace (eds.) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995) xii + 211 pp., £35.00 cloth, £12.99 paper.
Gestalt Psychology in German Culture 1890-1967. Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. By Mitchell G. Ash (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) xii + 513 pp., £35.00/$54.95 cloth.
The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics. By Jerry A. Fodor (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994) 125 pp., $19.95 cloth.
Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture. By Laura Doyle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) 268 pp., £30.00 cloth, £14.99 paper.
Mapping the Renaissance World: The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery. By Frank Lestringant, translated by David Fausset, with a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) 197 pp., $38.00 cloth.
Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report. By Joel Beinin and Joe Stork (eds.) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) x + 395 pp., $50.00/£40.00 cloth, $20.00/£15.95 paper.
Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897-1918. By John W. Boyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 736 pp., $43.25/£29.95.
The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th-18th Centuries. The Individual in Political Theory and Practice. By Janet Coleman (ed.) (Oxford: European Science Foundation and Clarendon Press, 1996) xxxvi + 395 pp., £50.00 cloth.
Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829. By Ellen Donkin (London: Routledge, 1996), History/Gender Studies, xiii + 240 pp.
Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's
The Second Sex. By Eva Lundgren-Gothlin, translated by Linda Schenck (London: Athlone, 1996), xii + 329 pp., £16.95 paper, £45.00 cloth.
Youth and Authority: Formative Experiences in England 1560-1640. By Paul Griffiths (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom. By John Hills (ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xxv + 394 pp., £50.00/$69.95 cloth, £16.96/$27.95 paper.
Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford. By Henry Harris (ed.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) xii + 170 pp., £16.99 cloth.
La France du XVIe siècle, 1483-1598. By Arlette Jouanna (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, "Collection Premier Cycle," 1996) xx + 688 pp., 149FF.
Conceptual Foundations for Multidisciplinary Thinking. By Stephen Jay Kline (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). xviii + 338 pp., $45.00/ £30.00 cloth.
Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration. By Russell King, John Connell and Paul White (eds.) (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) xvii + 284 pp.
Italian Journalism: A Critical Anthology. By Robert Lumley (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) 133 pp., £14.99.
Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought. By Ann Moss (Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 1996) 338 pp., £40.00 cloth.
The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy and the American Future. By Joshua Mitchell (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 273 pp., $34.95/£27.95 cloth.
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain: Essays in Memory of John Clive. By Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler (eds.) (London/New York: Routledge, 1994) v + 260 pp., £40.00 cloth.
Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. By Annabel Patterson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) xviii + 339 pp., £34.50/$49.50 cloth, £13.50/$19.50 paper.
The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti. By Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 596 pp.
Emerson: The Mind on Fire. By Robert D. Richardson Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) xiii + 671 pp., n.p.g.
Erasmus on Women. By Erika Rummel (ed.) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) 251 pp.
The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art. By Mary D. Sheriff (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.) 353 pp., $40.00 cloth.
Russian Literature 1988-94: The End of an Era. By N. N. Shneidman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 245 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought. By Ruth Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 484 pp.
Bulgaria in a Time of Change: Economic and Political Dimensions. By Iliana Zloch-Christy (ed.) (Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1996) 221 pp., £35.00 cloth.
La Régression Démocratique. By Alain-Gérard Slama (Paris: Fayard, 1995) 285 pp., 120.00FF, paper.
Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot. By Julia Simon (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995) xii + 236 pp., $19.95 paper.
Cassell Guide to Literature in French. By Valerie Worth-Stylianou (ed.) (London/New York: Cassell, 1996) 274 pp., $24.95.
The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers, and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-1576. By James B. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xvi + 349 pp., £45.00/ $69.96.
The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States. By Mark Webber (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996) 366 pp., £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper.
The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel. By Nachman Ben-Yehuda (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) xxi + 401 pp., $54.00/£20.50 cloth.
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. By Seyla Benhabib (ed.) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 373 pp., $59.50/£35.00 cloth, $19.95/£16.95 paper.
The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer. By Noel D. Cary (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) xi + 355 pp., $49.95 cloth.
The Aldo Moro Murder Case. By Richard Drake (Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, 1995) xi + 318 pp., $45.00 cloth.
An Unnecessary Man: The Life of Apollon Grigor'ev. By Wayne Dowler (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995) 286 pp. $55.00/£42.90/ $66.00 Europe.
The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. By Linda Gregerson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 280 pp., £35.00/$49.95 cloth.
Kant, Critique and Politics. By Kimberly Hutchings (London/New York: Routledge, 1996) xi + 219 pp., £37.50 cloth, £12.99 paper.
Fra Angélico: Dissemblance and Figuration. By Georges Didi-Huberman, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) xiv + 274 pp., n.p.g.
Existence et démocratie. By Robert Misrahi (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995) 247 pp., 145 FF.
Le Processus de Paix au Moyen-Orient. By Maurice Konopnicki and Simon Petermann (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995) 127 pp., n.p.g.
Privatizing Russia. By Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995) ix+ 165 pp., $18.95.
