ARTICLES
Testamentary Charity in Early Modern Russia: Trends and Motivations Daniel H. Kaiser Page 1
The "Bosom of Proof": Criminal Justice and the Renewal of Oral Culture during the French Revolution Laura Mason Page 29
The Crack in the Plaster: Crisis in Romania and the Origins of the Cold War Alfred J. Rieber Page 62
REVIEW ARTICLE
French Democracy between Totalitarianism and Solidarity: Pierre Rosanvallon and Revisionist Historiography Andrew Jainchill and Samuel Moyn Page 107
BOOK REVIEWS
Anthony Grafton, Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation Paula Findlen Page 155
Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk, eds., The History of Political Thought in National Context Johnson Kent Wright Page 157
Patrick O'Brien et al., eds., Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London Peter Arnade Page 159
T. J. Hochstrasser, Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment Steven Lestition Page 162
Manfred Kittel, Provinz zwischen Reich und Republik: Politische Mentalitaten in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1918-1933/36 Celia Applegate Page 165
Jane Caplan and John Torpey, eds., Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World Joshua Cole Page 167
Joyce Lee Malcolm, Guns and Violence: The English Experience Chris A. Williams Page 168
Lois G. Schwoerer, The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist Mark Knights Page 170
Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage Richard G. Wilson Page 172
David Lemmings, Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century David Lieberman Page 173
Ron Harris, Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844 Wilfrid Prest Page 175
Seymour Drescher, The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation Lawrence C. Jennings Page 177
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes Philip Waller Page 179
Brock Millman, Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain Janet Watson Page 180
Dan Stone, Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race, and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain Richard C. Thurlow Page 182
Lenard R. Berlanstein, Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-de-Siecle Mary Louise Roberts Page 184
Carol Blum, Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France Jeffrey Merrick Page 186
Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France Jeremy D. Popkin Page 188
Steven L. Kaplan, La fin des corporations Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Page 190
Richard D. E. Burton, Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945 Victoria Thompson Page 191
Linda L. Clark, The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830 Laura Levine Frader Page 193
Allen Douglas, War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaine and World War I Charles Rearick Page 195
Stephen L. Harp, Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France Leora Auslander Page 197
Adam Steinhouse, Workers' Participation in Post-Liberation France Michael Seidman Page 199
James D. Le Sueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria Donald Reid Page 201
Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France Omer Bartov Page 204
Stanley Chojnacki, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society P. Renee Baernstein Page 206
Anne Jacobson Schutte, Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750 Jodi Bilinkoff Page 208
Arne Jarrick, Back to Modern Reason: Johan Hjerpe and Other Petit Bourgeois in Stockholm in the Age of Enlightenment Lisbet Rausing Page 209
Alfred Kohler, Barbara Haider, and Christine Otter, eds., Karl V., 1500-1558: Neue Perspektiven seiner Herrschaft in Europa und Ubersee Paula Sutter Fichtner Page 211
Jeffrey Freedman, A Poisoned Chalice Mary Lindemann Page 213
Monika Wienfort, Patrimonialgerichte in Preussen: Landliche Gesellschaft und burgerliches Recht, 1770-1848/49; Gunter Mahlerwein, Die Herren im Dorf: Bauerliche Oberschicht und landliche Elitenbildung in Rheinhessen, 1700-1850 Edgar Melton Page 215
Jean H. Quataert, Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 Mary Jo Maynes Page 219
Uwe Puschner, Die volkische Bewegung im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich: Sprache, Rasse, Religion; Barbara Besslich, Wege in den "Kulturkrieg": Zivilisationskritik in Deutschland, 1890-1914 Jeffrey Herf Page 221
Matthew Stibbe, German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918 Hew Strachan Page 225
Bernhard Grau, Kurt Eisner, 1867-1919: Eine Biographie Eric D. Weitz Page 227
Frank Bajohr, "Aryanisation" in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of Their Property in Nazi Germany Michael Thad Allen Page 229
Christoph Cornelissen, Gerhard Ritter: Geschichtswissenschaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert Stefan Berger Page 231
Serhii Plokhy, The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine; Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner, Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union Max J. Okenfuss Page 233
Michelle Lamarche Marrese, A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861 David L. Ransel Page 236
Austin Jersild, Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917 Adeeb Khalid Page 238
Robert P. Geraci, Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Page 240
Israel Getzler, Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Page 241
Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin, eds., A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin; Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 Andreas Kappeler Page 244
Jorg Morre, Hinter den Kulissen des Nationalkomitees: Das Institut 99 in Moskau und die Deutschlandpolitik der UdSSR, 1943-1946 Norman M. Naimark Page 246