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Volume 15 - Issue 2 - Fall 1997

Book Reviews

V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770–1868, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xix + 634. $30.00 (ISBN 0-19-820413-2).

Joel Peter Eigen, Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 240. $32.50 (ISBN 0-300-06289-3).

G. R. Rubin, Private Property, Government Requisition and the Constitution, 1914–1927, London: Hambledon Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 263. $60.00 (ISBN 1-85285-098-1).

T. H. O'Dell, Inventions and Official Secrecy: A History of Secret Patents in the United Kingdom, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 149. €39.95 cloth (ISBN 0-19-825942-5).

Ciaran Brady, The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536–1588, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 340. $59.95 (ISBN 0-521-46176-6).

Alan J. Ward, The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782–1992, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 412. $19.95 (ISBN 0-8132-0793-2).

Brian Young, The Politics of Codification: The Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1994. Pp. xviii + 264. $44.95 (ISBN 0-7735-1235-7).

James Struthers, The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920–1970, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 401. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8020-0622-1), $24.95 paper (ISBN 0-8020-7582-7).

W. G. McMinn, Nationalism and Federalism in Australia, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 317. $32.00 (ISBN 0-19-553667-3).

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History, New York: Basic Books, 1995. Pp. x + 381. $24.00 (ISBN 0-465-03793-3). - Robert H. Wiebe, Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. x + 321. $25.95 (ISBN 0-226-89562-9).

Irving Richter, Labor Struggles, 1945–1950: A Participant's View, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxii + 151. $57.95 (ISBN 0-521-41412-1).

Francis Paul Prucha, American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xvi + 562. $45.00 (ISBN 0-520-08531-0).

Blue Clark, Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 182. $37.50 (ISBN 0-8032-1466-9).

Eugene Genovese, The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 138. $22.50 (ISBN 0-674-82527-6).

Richard B. McCaslin, Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 234. $29.95 (0-8071-1825-7).

Harold D. Woodman, New South—New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 115. $25.00 (ISBN 0-8071-1941-5).

Kenneth M. Murchison, Federal Criminal Law Doctrines: The Forgotten Influence of National Prohibition, Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 279. $42.95 (ISBN 0-8223-1510-6).

Gary Dean Best, Witch Hunt in Wise County: The Persecution of Edith Maxwell, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994. Pp. 186. $49.95 (ISBN 0-275-94892-7).

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