Books Received

Akam, Everett Helmut. Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century (American Intellectual Culture, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ted V. McAllister, and Wilfred M. McClay, eds.). New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. x, 227p., bibl., index. Politics of cultural difference.

Alexander, Amir R. Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002. xv, 293p., index, bibl. Sixteenth-century mathematicians as new Columbuses and imaginary voyagers.

Allott, Philip. The Health of Nations: Society and Law beyond the State. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. xvi, 436p. index. Thinking about humanity as species.

Andersen, Douglas. William Bradford's Books: Of Plimoth Plantation and the Printed Word. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003. ix, 280p., index. Bradford's work put back into context.

Anderson, Paul Christopher. Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and Southern Mind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. xxii, 258p., bibl., index. Life of Confederate cavalry leader.

Antiphon the Sophist. The Fragments (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries). Ed. by Gerard J. Pendrick. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. xi, 472p., bibl., index. With critical introduction, texts, translations, and commentary.

Bates, Clifford A., Jr. Aristotle's "Best Regime": Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2003. x, 234p., bibl., index. Defending liberal democracy via Aristotle.

Bates, David W. Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2002. xiii, 262p., index. The other side of truth in the philosophes and the Revolution.

Beck, David R.M. Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2002. xxi, 294p., bibl., index. Past and present of a Wisconsin tribe.

Behnegar, Nasser. Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002. 221p., bibl., index. Social science and the problem of values according to two pioneers.

Benardete, Seth. Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete. Ed. by Ronna Burger. Chicago: U of Chicage P, 2002. x, 229p. index. Oral materials for a biography.

Benedict, Philip. Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2002., xxvi, 670p., index. Detailed and comprehensive review.

Benton, Lauren Lawand. Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. 285p, bibl., index. Catholic and Islamic empires, South Africa, Uruguay, etc.

Berley, Marc, ed. Reading the Renaissance: Ideas and Idioms from Shakespeare to Milton (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies, Albert C. Labriola, gen. ed.). Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2003. ix, 278p., index. $60. Ten literary essays.

Betts, Paul, and Greg Eghigian, eds. Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003. vii, 276p., index. Nine contributions.

Block, James E. A Nation of Agents: The American Path to a Modern Self and Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002. xi, 658p., index. Agency in Anglo-American intellectual history from Puritanism to Dewey's synthesis.

Bobbio, Norberto. A Political Life. Ed. by Alberto Papuzzi and trans. by Allan Cameron. Cambridge: Polity P, 2002. 224p., index. Collection of autobiographical essays by Italian political theorist.

Bobbitt, Philip. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. xxxiii, 919p., bibl., index. Historical survey of the state, born in war and seeking peace and legitimacy.

Boon, Marcus. The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002. 339p., bibl. Literature about and on drugs, from De Quincey to Sartre.

Boonin, David. A Defense of Abortion. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. xvi, 350p., bibl., index. $65. Taking an ethical stand.

Bowen, James, and Margarita Bowen. The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. bibl., index. Cultural and ecological history and heritage.

Breton, Stanislaus. The Word and the Cross. Trans. by Jacquelyn Porter. Bronx, N.Y.: Fordham UP, 2002. xxvii, 154p., index. $35. Trans. of Le Verbe et la croix (1881).

Broers, Michael. The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy: The War Against God, 1801-1814. London: Routledge, 2002. xvi, 238p., bibl., index. $80. France extricating...