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A review of the book "The Middleton Papers: The Financial Problems of a Yorkshire Recusant Family in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," which is part of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series Volume CLXI for the year 2009, edited by José Bosworth, Pat Hudson, Maureen Johnson and Denise Shillitoe is presented.

Reviews the book `The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, III: Papers from the Fourth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1988,' edited by Christopher Harper-Bill and Ruth Harvey.

Reviews the book "Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century," Part II, edited by Norman Davis.

Reviews the book "The Slovenes and Yugoslavism, 1890-1914," by Carole Rogel.

Reviews the book "Historical Studies, Vol IX," Edited by John G. Barry.

The article reviews the book "Little Malvern Letters, I: 1482–1737," edited by Aileen M. Hodgson and Michael Hodgetts, number 83 in the Catholic Record Society book series.

Reviews the book "The Tweedmakers: A History of the Scottish Fancy Woollen Industry 1600-1914," by Clifford Gulvin.

Reviews the book 'The Rural Settlements of Medieval England,' edited by Michael Aston, David Austin and Christopher Dyer.

The article reviews the book "Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church From Bede to Stigand," edited by Alexander R. Rumble, number 12 in the Manchester Society for Anglo-Saxon Studies book series.

Reviews the book "The Scottish Tradition," edited by G. W. S. Barrow.

Reviews the book "Fruhling im Mittelalter: John Wyclif und Sein Jahrhundert," by Manfred Vasold.

Reviews the book "The Ulster Question, 1603-1973," by T. W. Moody.

A review of the book "First of the Small Nations: The Beginnings of Irish Foreign Policy in Inter-War Europe, 1919-1932," by Gerard Keown, is presented.

A review of the book "Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939: Radicalism, Righteousness and Religion," by Peter Catterall, is presented.

A review of the book "Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China," by Yulian Wu, is presented.

Reviews the book "British Politics and Government 1951-1970: A Study of An Affluent Society," by Mary Proudfoot.

Reviews the book "Education and Enmity: The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland, 1920-1950," by Donald Harman Akenson.

Reviews the book "The Journalist and The July Revolution in France," by Daniel L. Rader.

Reviews the book "Birmingham 1939-1970," by Anthony Sutcliffe.

Reviews the book "The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, Church and Society From the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century," by G.W.S. Barrow.

Reviews the book 'Il Rinascimento nell'Ottocento in Italia e Germania: Die Renaissance im 19. Jahrhundert in Italien und Deutschland,' edited by August Buck and Cesare Vasoli.

Reviews the book "Umanesimo A Roma Nel Quattrocento," edited by P. Brezzi and M. de Panizza.

Reviews the book "Classical Influences on Western Thought A.D. 1650-1870," edited by R. R. Bolgar.

Books reviewed: Benjamin Arnold, Power and Property in Medieval Germany: Economic and Social Change c. 900–1300. P. J. P. Goldberg and Felicity Riddy (eds), Youth in the Middle Ages. Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux (eds), The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History. Proceedings of the Cerisy Colloquium (1999). Richard Huscroft, Ruling England, 1042–1217. J. Gillingham (ed), Anglo-Norman Studies, XXVI, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003. J. O. Prestwich, The Place of War in English History 1066–1214. Andrew Ayton and Sir Philip Preston Bart (eds), The Battle of Crécy, 1346. Adrian C. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century. Margaret L. Kekewich and Susan Rose (eds), Britain, France and the Empire, 1350–1500. Carol Neel (ed), Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household and Children. Michael Hicks, Edward IV. Catherine Emerson, Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography. A. J. Pollard, Imagining Robin Hood: The Late-Medieval Stories in Historical Context. F. W. Kent, Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Michael A. Mullett, Martin Luther. Meryl Parker (ed), All My Worldly Goods II: Wills and Probate Inventories of St. Stephen's Parish, St. Albans 1418–1700. Hans R. Guggisberg, Sebastian Castellio, 1515–1563: Humanist and Defender of Religious Toleration in a Confessional Age. Ronald K Rittgers The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Sarah Ferber, Demonic Possession in Early Modern France. Katherine Crawford, Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, ‘The Most Happy’. P. Collinson, J. Craig and B. Usher (eds), Conferences and Combination Lectures in the Elizabethan Church, 1582–1590. Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds), British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland. John Broad, Transforming English Rural Society: The Verneys and the Claydons, 1600–1820. J. Kent Clark, Whig's Progress: Tom Wharton between Revolutions. Ginny Gardner, The Scottish Exile Community in the Netherlands 1660–1690. Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660–1830. Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf and Iain McCalman (eds), The Enlightenment World. Jeremy Black, Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century. Karen Harvey, Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture. Gwynne Lewis, France 1715–1804: Power and the People. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Robert D. Schulzinger, A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Rebecca Starr (ed), Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honour of J. R. Pole. John Grenier, The First Way of War. American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814. Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Anthony S. Parent, Jr (ed), Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660– 1740. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Matthew C. Ward, Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765. Philip Gould, Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World. Robert A. Ferguson, Reading the Early Republic. Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. W. Barksdale Maynard, Walden Pond: A History. William L. Richter, Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Theresa McDevitt, Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography. Duncan Andrew Campbell, English Public Opinion and the American Civil War. William C. Harris, Lincoln's Last Months. Thomas Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900. Carol J. Williams, Framing the West: Race, Gender, and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest. Raymond Lamont-Brown, Carnegie: ‘The Richest Man in the World’. Joseph P. McCallus (ed), Gentleman Soldier: John Clifford Brown and the Philippine–American War. Edward M. Coffman (ed), The Regulars: The American Army 1898–1941. Stephen J. Whitfield (ed), A Companion to 20th-Century America. Michael J. Heale, Twentieth Century America: Politics and Power in the United States 1900–2000. R. Laurence MooreMaurizio Vaudagna (ed), The American Century in Europe. Neil A. Wynn, Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression. Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Ibrahim Sundiata, Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940. Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. Patrick Renshaw, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Resa Willis, FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends. Renee C. Romano, Race Mixing. Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. Peter L. Hahn, Caught in the Middle East: U. S. Policy toward the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961. Peter N. Stearns, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. Laura A. Lewis, Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico. Paul Sullivan, Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan. Pedro L. V. Welch, Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados 1680–1834. Howard A Fergus, A History of Education in the British Leeward Islands, 1838–1945. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Stuart Semmel, Napoleon and the British. Michael J. Turner, Independent Radicalism in Early Victorian Britain. Saho Matsumoto-Best, Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1846–1851. Mark Curthoys, Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s. Carolyn Malone, Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880–1914. Jean-Louis Robert, Antoine Prost and Chris Wrigley (eds), The Emergence of European Trade Unionism. Katherine Anne Lerman, Bismarck. Robert T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916. Terence Zuber, German War Planning 1891–1914: Sources and Interpretations. Robert Zaretsky, Cock & Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue. Jean-Pierre Dormois, The French Economy in the Twentieth Century. Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography. Shlomo Aronson, Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews. Moishe Postone and Eric Santner (eds), Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century. Gordon Martel (ed), The World War Two Reader. Ben Shepherd, War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Alan McDougall, Youth Politics in East Germany: The Free German Youth Movement 1946–1968. Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton, An Affluent Society? Britain's Post-war ‘Golden Age’ Revisited. Steven Fielding, The Labour Governments 1964–70, volume 1: Labour and Cultural Change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall D. M. Palliser (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. 1, 600–1540 Paul Stephenson, Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier, A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900–1204 Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld, Henk Teunis and Andrew Wareham (ed.), Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power: Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages Michael Staunton, The Lives of Thomas Becket J. A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire 1158–1203 M. Prestwich, R. Britnell and R. Frame (ed.), Thirteenth Century England VIII. Proceedings of the Durham Conference 1999 J. S. Bothwell (ed.), The Age of Edward III Alan V. Murray (ed.), Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier, 1150–1500 Terry Slater (ed.), Towns in Decline AD 100–1600 E. J. Cowan and R. A. McDonald (ed.), Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages Nancy Bradley Warren, Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England Cary J. Nederman, Worlds of Difference: European Discourses of Toleration, c.1100–c.1550 Chris Humphrey, The Politics of Carnival. Festive Misrule in Medieval England Francis Ames-Lewis, Tuscan Marble Carving 1250–1350: Sculpture and Civic Pride Colin Richmond and Eileen Scarff (ed.), St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi (ed.), Natural Particulars. Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe Susan Brigden, New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485–1603 Tim Thornton, Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480–1560 Andrew Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation World James M. Esters (ed.), Godly Magistrates and Church Order. Johannes Brenz and the Establishment of the Lutheran Church in Germany, 1524–1559 Peter Lake and Michael Questier (ed.), Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c.1560–1660 Michael Zell (ed.), Early Modern Kent, 1540–1640 Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England Barbara Howard Traister, The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman Santiago Fernández Conti, Los Consejos de Estado y Guerra de la Monarquía Hispana en Tiempos de Felipe II (1548–1598) Carlos Javier de Carlos Morales, El Consejo de Hacienda de Castilla, 1523–1602. Patronazgo y clientelismo en el gobierno de las finanzas reales durante el siglo XVI Ignacio Ezquerra Revilla, El Consejo Real de Castilla bajo Felipe II. Grupos de poder y luchas faccionales Bernardo José García García, La Pax Hispánica. Política exterior del Duque de Lerma Paul C. Allen, Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598–1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy Chester S. L. Dunning, Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty Ruth Mackay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile Nicholas Canny, Making Ireland British 1580–1650 J. C. Davis, Oliver Cromwell Trevor Cooper (ed.), The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia during the English Civil War Frederick Valletta, Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70 Toby Barnard and Jane Fenlon (ed.), The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610–1745 Christopher Storrs, War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690–1720 Anthony Crubaugh, Balancing the Scales of Justice. Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750–1800. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "French Revolution Documents, Vol. II: 1792-95" edited by John Hardman.

Reviews the book "Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance: Collected Essays," by Frances Yates.

Reviews the book "Der deutsche b¨rgerkrieg: eine geschichte der deutschen und Österreicheb Freikorps," by C. Earl Edmondson.

Reviews books on British urban history. "Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History," by H.J. Dyos and "Patricians, Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Towns," edited by David Cannadine.

A review of the book "Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640-1660," by Geoffrey Smith is presented.

The article reviews the book "Slavery, Diplomacy, and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975," edited by Keith Hamilton and Patrick Salmon.

The article reviews the book "Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy," edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton.

Reviews the book 'Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England, 1734-1832,' by Frank O'Gorman.

The article reviews the book "The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation 1894-1905," by T. G. Otte.

The article reviews the book "Women's Work in Industrial England: Regional and Local Perspectives," edited by Nigel Goose.