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A review of the book "Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism & Nazism Compared," by Michael Geyer, and Sheila Fitzpatrick is presented.

The article reviews the books "On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941," by Steven Trout and "The 'Good War' in American Memory," by John Bodnar.

A review of the book "Natural Experiments of History," edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson is presented.

A review of the book "The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature & the French Revolution," by Dan Edelstein is presented.

A review of the book "Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery," by Seymour Drescher is presented.

The article reviews the books "Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist," by Jon Elster, and "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville and the Modern Prospect," by Paul A. Rahe.

The article reviews the books "The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal," by Julie Greene, and "Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal," by Alexander Missal.

The article reviews the book "The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present," by Jan de Vries.

The article reviews the book “Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination," by Paul Freedman.

The article reviews the books "Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s, by Lillian M. Li, and "Tears From Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China," by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley.

This article reviews the books "Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire," by Durba Ghosh and "Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire," by Mrinalini Sinha.

This article reviews the books "The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America," by Allan M. Brandt and "Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950-1990," by Pamela E. Pennock.

This article reviews the book "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World," by Gregory Clark.

This article reviews the book "The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940," by John Carson.

This article reviews the books "Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors," by Charles Maier and "Empire and Superempire. Britain, America and the World," by Bernard Porter.

This article reviews the books "Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age," by Harold J. Cook and "Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age," by Anne Goldgar.

This article reviews the book "Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752," by Jonathan I. Israel.

The article reviews the book "Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965," by Mark Moyar.

The article reviews the books "Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England," by Linda Levy Peck, "Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain," by Maxine Berg and "The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730," by Robert Markley.

The article reviews the book "Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History," by Mary P. Ryan.

The article reviews the books "L'École des Annales: Une histoire intellectuelle," by André Burguière and "Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970," by Jonathan Dewald.

The article reviews the book "The Cambridge History of Science: Early Modern Science," Volume 3, edited by Katherine Park and Lorraine Daston.

This article reviews the books "Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation," edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart; "The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict & Cold War Crisis," edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall; and "Slavery & South Asian History," by Indrani Chatterjee & Richard M. Eaton.

The article presents a series of book reviews of works concerning military history, including "Crucible of War," by Fred Anderson, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, and "After the Glory: The Struggle of Black Civil War Veterans," by Donald R. Shaffer.

The article reviews the book "Memorias del mestizaje: Cultura política en Centroamérica de 1920 al presente," edited by Darío A. Euraque, Jeffrey L. Gould, and Charles R. Hale.

Reviews several books. "Models: The Third Dimension of Science," edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Nick Hopwood; "Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650)," edited by Mark Crane, Richard Rasiwell and Margaret Reeves; "The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America," edited by Robert D. Johnston.

Reviews several books on history. "A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life From Racine to the Revolution," by Gregory Brown; "Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India," by Michael Katten; "Community and Public Culture: The Marwaris in Calcutta 1897-1997," by Anne Hardgrove.

Reviews several books on Russian history. "History of the Russian State," by Nikolai Karamzin; "Totalitarianism," by Hannah Arendt; "The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History," by Andreas Kappeler.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Of Revelation and Revolution,' by Jean and John Comaroff.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Of Revelation and Revolution,' by Jean and John Comaroff.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Of Revelation and Revolution,' by Jean and John Comaroff.

A review of several books is presented including "Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J. M. Beattie," edited by Greg T. Smith, Allyson N. May, and Simon Devereaux; "Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge," edited by Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin; and "The Sixth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand," edited by Richard Hodges and William Bowden, as part of the Transformation of the Roman World series.

A review of several books is presented including "Centuries of Childhood," by Philippe Aries, "The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350," by James A. Schultz, and "Chinese Views of Childhood," by Anne Behnke Kinney.

Reviews the eighteen-volume series, `Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement,' edited by David J. Garrow.

Reviews the book 'The Closing of the American Mind,' by Allan Bloom.

Reviews the book 'That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession,' by Peter Novick.

Reviews the books 'Erderly Tortenete [History of Transylvania],' edited by Bela Kopeczi, assisted by Gabor Barta, vol. 1, 'A Kezdetektol 1606-ig [From Beginnings to 1606], edited by Laszlo Makkai and Andras Mocsy, vol. 2, '1606-tol 1830-ig [1606-1830],' edited by Laszlo Makkai and Zoltan Szasz, vol. 3, '1830-tol napjainkig [1830 to the Present],' edited by Zoltan Szasz.

Reviews the book 'Gesellschaft und Politik in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone: Die Region Ansbach und Furth,' by Hans Woller.

Reviews several books on the historiography of American involvement in the Vietnam war. 'An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy,' by R.B. Smith; 'How America Became Involved in Vietnam,' by George McT. Kahin; 'Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience,' by Gabriel Kolko.

Presents several books on history. 'The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth-Century World Politics,' edited by Tariq Ali; 'Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, 1982,' edited by E.P. Fitzgerald; 'NATO and the Mediterranean,' edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan et al.

Presents several books on world history that appeared in April 1985 issue of 'The American Historical Review.' 'Movement and Institution,' by Francesco Alberon and translated by Patricia C. Arden Delmoro; 'Time Machines: The World of Living History,' by Jay Anderson; 'The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819,' edited by Jacques A. Barbier and Allan J. Kuethe.

Presents several books on world history that appeared in April 1985 issue of the journal 'The American Historical Review.' 'Religion and Rural Revolt,' edited by Janos M. Bak and Gerhard Benecke; 'Statemaking and Social Movements: Essays in History and Theory,' edited by Charles Bright and Susan Harding; Intervention in World Politics,' edited by Hedley Bull.

Reviews the book 'Thoreau's Seasons,' by Richard Lebeaux.

Reviews several books on the history of international relations in Europe during the 1920s. 'Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade After World War I,' by Charles S. Maier; 'The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan,' by Stephen Schuker; 'Reconstructing Europe After the Great War,' by Dan P. Silverman.

Reviews the book 'Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages,' by Bruce E. Gelsinger.

Presents several books on history submitted for review in the December 1, 1981 issue of 'The American Historical Review.' 'Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution,' edited by Paul Bairoch and Maurice Levy-Leboyer; 'Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America,' edited by Wilfrid Prest.

Presents several books on history submitted for review in the October 1981 issue of the journal 'The American Historical Review.' 'Nouvelles etudes d'histoire, publiees a l'occasion du XV congres international des sciences historiques, Bucharest, 1980,' edited by Stefan Pascu et al; 'Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe Since 1500,' edited by V.A.C. Gatrell et al.