Books Received
Books Received
Aldridge, Susan. The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. xi, 258p., index. $24.95. The brave new world of DNA.
Allison, Henry E. Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant’s Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. xxi, 217p., index. Twelve essays, mostly published before.
Armitage, David, Armand Himy, and Quentin Skinner, eds. Milton and Republicanism (Ideas in Context, Quentin Skinner, gen. ed.). New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. xii, 281p., index. $54.95. Thirteen scholarly papers from a 1992 colloquium held at U. Paris (Nanterre).
Bainbridge, Simon. Napoleon and English Romanticism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. xiv, 259p., bibl., index. $49.95. Napoleonic obsession in the Lake poets, Byron, and Hazlitt.
Beck, Hermann. The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815–70 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany, Geoff Eley, gen. ed.). Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. xvi, 298p., bibl., index. Ideas, institutions, and social policy measures in the Prussian welfare state.
Beestermöller, Gerhard. Die Völkerbundsidee: Leistungsfähigkeit und Grenzen der Kriegsächtung durch Staatensolidarität (Theologie und Frieden, band 10). Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1995. 169p., bibl., index. Philosophical foundations of the League of Nations.
Beiser, Frederick C. The Early Political Writings of The German Romantics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Raymond Geuss and Quentin Skinner, gen. eds.). New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. xli, 203p., bibl., index. $54.95. Translation of The Oldest Systematic Programme of German Idealism and selected texts from Novalis, F. Schlegel, and Schleiermacher, with critical introduction, notes, chronology, bibliography, and other apparatus.
Bender, Bert. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection in American Fiction, 1871–1926. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1996. xvi, 440p., bibl., index. Literary gendering of the Descent of Man, with attention to Howells, James, Jewett, Wharton, Hemingway, and others.
Bentham, Jeremy. Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law: Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria and Other Writings on Spain and Spanish America. Ed. by Philip Schofield (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham). Oxford: Clarendon P, 1995. lxv, 468p., index. Four essays (1820–22), three previously unpublished, with indices.
Berghaus, Günter. Futurism and Politics: Between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, 1909–1944. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. x, 326p., bibl., index. Futurism also opposed fascism...from unpublished sources.
Born, Daniel. The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995. ix, 213p., index. Political culture seen through literature.
Boucher, David, and Bruce Haddock, eds. Collingwood Studies (2 vols.). Swansea, Wales: The R. G. Collingwood Society, 1995. xiii, 460p. Official publication of The R. G. Collingwood Society, which has established a Centre for Collingwood Studies at U. Wales, Swansea. Vol. I: twelve studies by experts, with two reviews. Vol. II: eight studies, two discussions of (Collingwood) “Manuscripts,” and three reviews.
Cannon, Garland, and Kevin R. Brine, eds. Objects of Enquiry: The Life of Sir William Jones. New York: New York UP, 1995. x, 185p., bibl., index. Eight scholarly papers from a 1994 bicentennial conference.
Cartwright, Nancy, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, and Thomas E. Uebel. Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (Cambridge Ideas in Context, Quentin Skinner gen. ed.). New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. xii, 288p., bibl., ill., index. $59.95. Biographical, theoretical, and historical studies of Neurath by a team of scholars.
Cary, Noel D. The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1996. xi, 355p., index. $49.95. Alternative to National Socialism.
Célestin, Roger. From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996. xi, 254p., ill., index. $21.95. The exotic in Montaigne, Bougainville, Diderot, Flaubert, Barthes, and Naipaul.
Claydon, Tony. William III and the Godly Revolution (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, Anthony Fletcher, John Guy, and John Morrill, gen. eds.). New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. xiv, 272p., bibl., index. $54.95. Royal propaganda and courtly reformation, 1689–1702.
Coeztee, J. M. Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996. xi, 289p., bibl., index. $24...
