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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 books "La France et L'Esprit de 76; Colloque du Bicentenaire de L' Indéependance des Etats-Unis," edited by Daniel Royot and "Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790," VOL. II: April 10, 1776-March 20, 1780," edited by Stanley Idzerda.

Reviews the book "Sir Walter Scott and History, With Other papers," by James Anderson.

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

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

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

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

Reviews the book "The Parliament of Science: The British Association for the Advancement of Science 1831-1981," edited by Roy Mcleod and Peter Collins.

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

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

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 "Das Preussenbild in der Geschichte: Protokoll Eines Symposions," edited by Otto Busch.

Reviews the book "Land and Society in Early Scotland," by Robert A. Dodgshon.

Reviews the book "The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture," edited by Trevor Rowley.

Reviews the book "Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century," edited by Walter McKenzie Pintner and Don Karl Towney.

Reviews the book "Statistics in Britain 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge," by Donald A. Mackenzie.

Reviews the book "York 1831-1981: 150 Years of Scientific Endeavour and Social Change," edited by Charles Feinstein.

Reviews the book "Social Darwinism and English Thought: The Interaction Between Biological and Social Theory," by Greta Jones.

Reviews the books "Darwin to Einstein: Primary Sources on Science and Belief," edited by Noel G. Coley and Vance M.D. Hall and "Darwin to Einstein: Historical Studies on Science and Belief," edited by Colin Chant and John Fauvel.

Reviews the book "Recueil Des Actes De Jean IV, Duc De Bretagne, Vol. 1: 1357-1382," edited by Michael Jones.

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

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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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]

Books reviewed in this article: Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo, (eds) Labour's First Century . Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan, (eds) The Labour Party: A Centenary History . Tanner, Chris Williams and Deian Hopkin, The Labour Party in Wales . Keith Laybourn, A Century of Labour: A History of the Labour Party, 1900-2000 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mary K. Geiter, William Penn . John Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees . Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean . Francis Jennings, The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire . Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920 . William Benemann (ed.), A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849–1850 . Mary Lawlor, Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Clossing of the American West . Patricia Nelson Limerick, Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West . Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 . Gerard T. Koeppel, Water for Gotham: A History . Firth Haring Fabend, Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals . Anthony Gronowicz, Race and Class Politics in New York City before the Civil War . Edward L. Widmore, Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City . William E. Van Vugt, Britain to America: Mid-nineteenth-century Immigrants to the United States . Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn . Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing up Enslaved in the Antebellum South . Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie, Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965 . John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee . Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth Century . Catherine Clinton and Christine Lunardini, The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century . Laura F. Edwards, Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era . Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994 . Lois Brown (ed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]