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The article reviews the book "Islam in Inter-War Europe," edited by Nathalie Clayer and Eric Germain.

The article reviews the book "Flexibility and Employment Security in Europe. Labour Markets in Transition," edited by Ruud Muffels.

Reviews the book "Economy, Society and Warfare Among the Britons and Saxons," by Leslie Alcock.

Reviews the book "The Barons of European Industry," edited by A. Rowley.

The article reviews the book "Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe: Representations of the Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918," edited by Frank Hadler and Mathias Mesenhöller.

Presents a list of essays included in the book "Kazaam! Splat! Ploof! The American Impact on European Popular Culture Since 1945," edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Gordana P. Crnkovic.

The article reviews the book "Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe," edited by Anna Kwak and Robert Dingwall.

The article reviews the book "Producing Islamic Knowledge. Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe," edited by Martin van Bruinessen and Stefano Allievi.

The article reviews the book "Cartography in the European Renaissance," edited by David Woodward.

The article reviews the book "Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950."

Book reviewed in this article: Frédéric Bozo, Two Strategies for Europe: De Gaulle, the United States and the Atlantic Alliance . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among EU Member States, there are basically two models of government. The standard European model, mainly developed in Prussia and France at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, has been successfully imitated to a very large extent in combination with the adoption of a parliamentary regime. The British civil service adopted the same type of hierarchical organisation as it was particularly suitable to the Westminster model of government responsibility. Opposed to this standard European model, the Swedish model has long been seen as a survival of Ancien Régime administrations. In the last part of the twentieth-century, several institutions have been directly or indirectly imported from Sweden to other countries, without taking account of the environment which made them successful in their country of origin. Some of the institutions can be seen as a way to modernisation although they were established two centuries ago. Both models feature a small number of elements, which are closely interlinked and make the system work. They are based on entirely different systems of accountability. This article presents and compares those two models in order to allow a better understanding of recent reforms and their prospects of success or failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in Minority Integration," by Jonathan Laurence, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Experiencing Illness and the Sick Body in Early Modern Europe," by Michael Stolberg, previously published in Germany as "Homo Patiens. Krankheits- und Körpererfahrung in der Frühen Neuzeit."

The article reviews the electronic resource "Witchcraft in Europe and America," available at http://gale.cengage.co.uk/unbound.

The article reviews the book "How Europe's Economies Learn: Coordinating Competing Models," edited by Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall.

The article reviews the book "Muslims in the Enlarged Europe: Religion and Society," edited by Brigitte Maréechal, Stefano Allievi, Felice Dassetto, and Jorgen Nielsen.

The article reviews the book "Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe," edited by Stefano Allievi and Jorgen S. Nielsen.

The article reviews the book "Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey" by Şener Aktürk, part of the Problems of International Politics book series.

The article reviews the book "Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500," edited by Harry Kitsikopoulos.

The article reviews the book "Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe," edited by Donald Bloxham and Robert Gerwarth.

A review of the book "Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country," by Janet L. Polasky is presented.

The article reviews the book "Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović" by Jovan Byford.

The article reviews the book "Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales," by Carolyn A. Conley.

Presents a list of essays featured in the book "Raub und Restitution: "Arisierung" und Rückerstattung des jüdischen Eigentums in Europa," edited by Constantin Goschler and Philipp Ther. "Eine engtrenzte Geschichte: Raub und Rückerstattung jüdischen Eigentums in Europa," by Constantin Goschler and Philipp Ther; "Dei Enteignung der Juden in Westeuropa," by Jean-Marc Dreyfus; "Der Raub an den Juden im besetzten Osteuropa 1939-1942," by Dieter Pohl.

Reviews the book "Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates," by Grace Davie.