Books Received

Books Recieved

Bannet, Eve Taylor. Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680–1820. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 347p.,bibl., index, $90. Norms of polite conduct and communication in the British Atlantic.

Ben-Menahem, Yemima. Conventionalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, bibl., index, $80. The origins and demise of conventionalism, which is disentangled from relativism and postmodernism.

Bock, Gisela, and Daniel Schönpflug, eds. Friedrich Meinecke in seiner Zeit: Studien zu Leben und Werk. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2006. 294p,. bibl., 44. Bibliography of writings on Meinecke, 1915–2006, plus ten essays presenting him as a pan-European comparative public historian.

Brock, Gillian, and Brighouse, Harry, eds. The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 262p., bibl., index, $70. Fifteen articles championing cosmopolitanism.

Brown, Jane K. The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 292p., bibl., ill., index, $59.95. Analysis of allegorical forms in changing dramatic practice through the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries: Shakespeare, Calderón, Racine, Vondel, Metastasio, Goethe, and Wagner.

Brown, Stewart J., and Timothy Tackettt, eds. Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume VII: Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660–1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 678p., bibl., index, $180. Twenty-nine essays on church, state, society, and Christian life in Europe and the wider world.

Calhoun, Craig, ed. Sociology in America: A History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007. xiv, 913p., bibl., ill., index, $30. Twenty-one essays periodizing the discipline to the 1960s and assessing its current state, especially regarding race.

Carlisle, Clare. Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum, 2006. ix, 166p., bibl., index, $19.95. Hegel, plus readings of the major texts.

Cattaneo, Carlo. Civilization and Democracy: The Salvemini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings. Ed. Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, trans. David Gibbons. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006. xiii, 283p., bibl., index, $27.95. Nineteenth-century writings on political economy, education, world history, and Risorgimento.

Clayton, John, Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. 372p., bibl., index, $100. Early modern philosophy and theology offers lessons for managing religious difference in the public sphere today.

Coblin, W. South. Francisco Varo's Glossary of the Mandarin Language. Nettetal, Steyler Verlag, 2006. 2 vols., 1003p., index, 115. Spanish Dominican missionary's Spanish-Chinese dictionary with English translations of Spanish glosses.

Earnshaw, Steven. Existentialism: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum, 2006. vi, 186p., bibl., index, $19.95. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus.

Garnett, George, Marsilius of Padua and "the Truth of History". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 221p., bibl., index. Marsilius as imperialist and his political theory underpinned by providential Christian understanding of history.

Gill, Michael B. The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 359p.,bibl., index, $85. Triumph of optimistic views of human nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.

Gimbel, Steven, and Anke Walz, eds.and trans. Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Writings on Space, Time and Motion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 216p., index, $80. Reviews, responses, polemical discussions, and popular articles by Einstein's student.

Goldhill, Simon, and Robin Osborne. Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 319p., bibl., index, $100. Eleven essays on the claims made for classical Greece.

Groebner, Valentin. Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe. Trans. Mark Kyburz and John Peck. New York: Zone Books, 2007. 349p., ill., index, $30. Passports and letters of introduction before photography and fingerprinting, and their forging.

Jager, Colin. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 274p., bibl., index, $59.95. The idea of design in the romantic era reveals a romantic modernity which is neither progressive nor entirely secular.

Kellogg, Frederic R. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 206p., bibl...