Vol. 10 No. 2 · 21 January 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 2 · 21 January 1988
Philip Towle
Will the INF Treaty do any good?
Letters
Christopher Price, Sophie Tomlinson, D.G. Wright, James Drake, J.R. Pole, Paul Clifford
Benedict Anderson
Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 edited by Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden. Princeton, 290 pp., £22, September 1987, 0 691 05372 3
Blair Worden
Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Secker, 317 pp., £17.50, November 1987, 0 436 42512 2 Archbishop William Laud by Charles Carlton. Routledge, 272 pp., £25, December 1987, 0 7102 0463 9 Clarendon and his Friends by Richard Ollard. Hamish Hamilton, 367 pp., £15, September 1987, 0 241 12380 1 Anti-Calvinists by Nicholas Tyacke. Oxford, 305 pp., £30, February 1987, 0 19 822939 9 Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe. Cambridge, 309 pp., £27.50, December 1987, 0 521 34239 2
John Durant
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Longman, 332 pp., £12.95, September 1986, 0 582 44694 5
Alan Ryan
The Culture of Capitalism by Alan Macfarlane. Blackwell, 254 pp., £19.50, August 1987, 0 631 13626 6
Sheldon Rothblatt
The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. I: The Early Oxford Schools edited by J.I. Catto. Oxford, 684 pp., £55, June 1984, 0 19 951011 3 The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. III: The Collegiate University edited by James McConia. Oxford, 775 pp., £60, July 1986, 9780199510139 The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. V: The 18th Century edited by L.S. Sutherland and L.G. Mitchell. Oxford, 949 pp., £75, July 1986, 0 19 951011 3 Learning and a Liberal Education: The Study of History in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester, 1880-1914 by Peter Slee. Manchester, 181 pp., £25, November 1986, 9780719018961
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘Self-Portrait with a Speedboat’
Roy Porter
Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist 1791-1851 by F.L.M. Pattison. Canongate, 284 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 0 86241 077 0 Death, Dissection and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson. Routledge, 426 pp., £19.95, January 1988, 0 7102 0919 3
Robert Crawford
The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect by George Davie. Polygon, 283 pp., £17.95, September 1986, 0 948275 18 9
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘The Dalswinton Enlightenment’
John Burrows
Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan. Weidenfeld, 452 pp., £16.95, October 1987, 0 297 79217 2
J.A. Burrow
Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory by Geoffrey Russom. Cambridge, 178 pp., £25, August 1987, 0 521 33168 4
Denton Fox
Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe by R.W. Southern. Oxford, 337 pp., £30, July 1986, 9780198264507 Politics, Policy and Finance under Henry III, 1216-1245 by Robert Stacey. Oxford, 284 pp., £27.50, July 1987, 0 19 820086 2
Rodney Hilton
Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies edited by David Cannadine and Simon Price. Cambridge, 351 pp., £25, August 1987, 0 521 33513 2
Keith Kyle
The Failure of the Eden Government by Richard Lamb. Sidgwick, 340 pp., £16.95, October 1987, 0 283 99534 3
Brian Harrison
Troublesome People: Enemies of War, 1916-1986 by Caroline Moorehead. Hamish Hamilton, 344 pp., £14.95, April 1987, 0 241 12105 1 Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 by Susan Kingsley Kent. Princeton, 295 pp., £22, June 1987, 0 691 05497 5 Women, Marriage and Politics, 1860-1914 by Pat Jalland. Oxford, 366 pp., £19.50, November 1986, 0 19 822668 3 An Edwardian Mixed Doubles: The Bosanquets versus the Webbs. A Study in British Social Policy, 1890-1929 by A.M. McBriar. Oxford, 407 pp., £35, July 1987, 0 19 820111 7
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Diary: Peddling Books
Galen Strawson
The Golden Droplet by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright. Collins, 198 pp., £12.95, November 1987, 0 00 223139 5
Peter Campbell
Running with the fox by David Macdonald. Unwin Hyman, 224 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 04 440084 5
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