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* Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life; 1500 to the Present. HarperCollins. May 2000. c.816p. index. ISBN 0-06-017586-9. $35. HIST Barzun, the longtime Columbia [...]

Fentress, James. Rebels and Mafiosi: Death in a Sicilian Landscape. Cornell Univ. Apr. 2000. c.304p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-8014-3539-0. $29.95. HIST Nineteenth-century Sicily was defined by two successive concepts: revolution [...]

Palmer, Alan. Victory 1918. Atlantic Monthly. Jan. 2000. c.384p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-87113-803-4. $27. HIST Most World War I histories focus on the muddy trenches of France and Belgium, [...]

Dickie, John. Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900. St. Martin's. Dec. 1999. c.224p, illus. bibliog, index. LC 99-23083. ISBN 0-312-22168-1. $45. HIST Defining a nation's identity [...]

Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 3: 1951-1999. Morrow. Nov. 1999. c.990p. photogs. maps. index. ISBN 0-688-10066-X. $35. HIST This final book in Gilbert's mammoth, three-volume summary [...]

Tosh, John. A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England. Yale Univ. Jul. 1999. c.288p. illus. index. ISBN 0-300-07779-3. $30. HIST Tosh (history, Univ. of North London) [...]

Eminent British historian Gilbert (Jerusalem in the 20th Century, LJ 10/1/96) begins a massive, year-by-year precis of our century by focusing on the national, ethnic, and imperial conflicts that surrounded [...]

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Metropolitan: Holt. May 1997. c.280p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. LC 96-50891. ISBN 0-8050-5077-9. $25. HIST Social critic and Time magazine essayist Ehrenreich (The Worst Years of Our Lives, [...]

Garrioch, David. Harvard Univ. (Historical Studies, Vol. 122). 1997. c.352p. illus. index. LC 96-21146. ISBN 0-674-30937-5. $45. HIST Analyzing parish and municipal records from one Parisian quarter, the Faubourg Saint [...]

Buruma, Ian. Anglomania. Random. Apr. 1999. c.304p. index. ISBN 0-375-50206-8. $24.95 INT AFFAIRS Noted Anglo-Dutch writer Buruma (The Wages of Guilt, LJ 6/1/94) uses portraits of historical Anglophiles (and some [...]

Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2: 1933-1951. Morrow. Feb. 1999. c.932p, photogs. maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-688-10065-1. $35. HIST The prolific Gilbert continues his precis of [...]

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times; Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford Univ. Feb. 1999. c.290p, permanent paper, bibliog, index. LC 98-15421. ISBN 0-19-505000-2. $30. HIST Fitzpatrick's [...]

Rietbergen, Peter. Europe: A Cultural History. Routledge. Feb. 1999. c.544p. ISBN 0-415-17229-2. $95; pap. ISBN 0-415-17230-6. $27.99. HIST Dutch historian Rietbergen (Univ. of Nijmegen) offers a broad historical summary of [...]

Mackaman, Douglas Peter. Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France. Univ. of Chicago. Nov. 1998. c.256p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-226-50074-8. $46; pap. ISBN [...]

Conan, Eric & Henry Rousso. Dartmouth: Univ. Pr. of New England. (Contemporary French Culture & Society). Apr. 1998. c.368p. tr. by Nathan Bracher. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-87451-795-8. $45. INT AFFAIRS [...]

Morris, Jan. Villard. Nov. 1997. c.384p. index. ISBN 0-679-41610-2. $24. TRAV After a half-century of traversing Europe, which for her stretches from Iceland to the former Yugoslavia, travel writer and [...]

Yoder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist, collects and expands here columns and book reviews dealing with historical issues. The best columns focus on American constitutional history, and his debunking [...]

Durant, David N. St. Martin's. Jul. 1997. c.352p. bibliog. ISBN 0-312-15688-X. $24.95. HIST Durant (Life in the Country House, John Murray, 1996) has compiled a lay reader's dictionary of British [...]

Burrin, Philippe. New Pr., dist. by Norton. Feb. 1997. c.504p. tr. by Janet Lloyd. index. ISBN 1-56584-323-1. $27.50. HIST While many French people resisted the German invaders when France was [...]