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Journal of the History of Ideas 68.3 (2007) 529-532
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Adam, Ulrich. The Political Economy of J. H. G. Justi. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. 317p., bibl., index, $61.95. The eighteenth-century German statistician as reader of French theory of commerce and reformer of the European state system.
Armitage, David, ed. British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500–1800. xi, 326p., bibl., index, $90. Thirteen essays from a 2005 Folger Library seminar offer a reflective moment on the Cambridge school.
Austin, Linda M. Nostalgia in Transition, 1780–1917. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2007. ix, 242p., bibl., ill., index, $39.50. Expressions of homesickness in Victorian literature and art, and its marginalization under a materialist conception of disease.
Bayle, Pierre. A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, "Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full." Ed. and intro. John Kilcullen and Chandran Kukathas. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005. xxiv, 639p., index, $12. Reprint of the 1706 translation on tolerance in the face of enforced religious assimilation.
Black, Jeremy. George III: America's Last King. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006. xvi, 475p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Politics, wars, and domestic change from the Seven Years' War through Napoleon.
Breña, Roberto. El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emancipación de América, 1808–1824. Una revision historiográfica del liberalismo hispánico. Mexico City: Colegio de México, 2006. 580p., bibl. Republican constitutionalism and a vision of global historical process provoked an ideology of independence in Latin America and Spain.
Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. x, 324p., index. The mid-twentieth-century vision of a postindustrial technological economy, including Thorstein Veblen, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Reich.
Brousseau, James. Decadence of the French Nietzsche. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2006. x, 229p., bibl., index, $26.95. Truth sacrificed to thinking for its own sake, especially by Gilles Deleuze.
Burgess, Glenn and Matthew Festenstein, eds. English Radicalism, 1550–1850. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. vii, 381p., index, $120. Eleven essays attempt to discern whether radical activity constitutes a continuous tradition or simply ad hoc response.
Cladis, Mark S. Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-Century Democracy. New York: Columbia UP, 2003. lvi, 298p., bibl., index, $27.50. Redemption in solitude and social engagement.
Cohen, Daniel J. Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007. x, 242p., bibl., index, $50. Symbolic logic as mysticism.
Conn, Steven. History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004. xii, 276p., [End Page 529] bibl., ill., index, $22.50. Archaeology, ethnology, and linguistics founded in the nineteenth century for the purpose of understanding American Indians.
Duran, Angelica. The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2006. xii, 349p., ill., index, $58. Poetry as part of the advancement of learning and natural philosophy.
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006. xxi, 546p., bibl., plates, index. From the initial occupation of the New World to the consolidation of colonies into empires and the emancipation of the colonials.
Engh, Mary Jane. In the Name of Heaven: 3000 Years of Religious Persecution. Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus, 2007. 269p., index, $25. The monotheistic heritage, from Akhenaten through nineteenth-century imperialism.
Evans, Stephanie Y. Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007. xv, 275p., bibl., ill., index, $59.95. Profiles of a dozen students drawn from college memoires and two professors' research, teaching, and service.
Evens, T. M. S. and Don Handelman, eds. The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. New York: Berghahn, 2006. x, 334p., index, $25. Thirteen essays as a kind of Festschrift for Max Gluckman and J. Clyde Mitchell, explaining change and individual choice through extended case and situation analysis methods.
Franklin, Sarah. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Durham, N. C.: Duke UP...

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