Book reviews

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Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World. By Vilho Harle (Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1998) xvii + 252 pp. $65.00 cloth.

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. By Quentin Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xvi + 477 pp. $49.95, £35.00 cloth.

Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: The Changing Geographies of the Finnish‐Russian Border. By Anssi Paasi (Chichester: Wiley, 1996) 353 pp. £55.00 cloth.

The Uses of the Other: “The East” in European Identity Formation. By Iver B. Neumann (Boulder, CO: Minnesota University Press, 1998) 218 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. By Michael A. Sells (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) 244 pp. $19.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War. By Erik Ringmar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 236 pp. £40.00 cloth.

Law in the Courts of Love: Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences. By Peter Goodrich (London and New York, Routledge, 1996) vii + 228 pp., n.p.g.

Taking Nature into Account: A Report to the Club of Rome. Edited by Wouter Van Dieren (New York: Copernicus, Springer‐Verlag, 1995) xviii + 332 pp. $17.00, $24.00 Canadian, DM 24.00, SFN 21.50, OS 175.00, paper.

National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity, and Justice in Bosnia. By David Campbell (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998) xvi + 304 pp. $62.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

A History of the Family, Vol. II: The Impact of Modernity. Edited by André Burguière et al., Trans. By Sarah Hanbury Tenison. (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996) vi + 585 pp. $39.95 cloth.

The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory. Edited by Yosef Lapid and Friedrich Kratochwil (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996) 255 pp. £35.50 cloth, £14.95 paper.

A History of European Integration Since 1914. By Peter M. R. Stirk (London: Pinter, 1996.) xi + 308pp, £42.50 cloth, £16.99 paper.

Making It Home: Europe and the Politics of Culture. By Simon Mundy (Parapress: European Cultural Foundation, 1997), xii + 97 pp. £7.50, paper.

Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts. By Terence Allan Hoagwood (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996) x + 222 pp. $29.50 cloth.

Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology. By Sally Shuttleworth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) xiv + 289 pp. $ 54.95, £35.00 cloth.

Domesticating Passions: Rousseau, Women, and Nation. By Nicole Fermon (Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1997) xvi + 240 p. $45.00 cloth, 19.95 paper.

The European Union: Structure and Process. By Clive Archer and Fiona Butler (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) 224 pp. $19.95 paper.

The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815–70. By Hermann Beck (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995) xvi + 298 pp. $52.50 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1948–53. By Peter Lowe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997) xii + 288 pp. £45.00 cloth.

Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers. By Peter Raby (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997) xvi + 276 pp. $14.95 paper.

The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450–1700. Edited by J. H. Burns with the assistance of Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991; paperback edition, 1994) xii + 798 pp. £24.95, $37.95 paper.

The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science. By Andrew Pickering (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1995) xvi + 252 pp.: $45.00, £35.95 cloth, $17.95, £14.25 paper.

The Myth of the Explorer: The Press, Sensationalism and Geographical Discovery. By Beau Riffenburgh, (Belhaven Press, London and New York, 1993) ix + 226 pp, $39.50 cloth.

After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany. By Michael Brenner (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1997) x + 196 pp. $24.95, £17.95 cloth.

Anti‐Semitism in Germany: The Post‐Nazi Epoch since 1945. By Werner Bergmann and Rainer Erb. Translated by Belinda Cooper and Allison Brown; (New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) Transaction Publishers, 1997) ix + 385pp. $39.95 cloth.

Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life. By Maria Dolors García‐Ramon and Janice Monk, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1996) International Studies of Women and Place, xv + 288 pp. $65 doth, $24.95 paper