The Chester Penn Higby Prize for 2004
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ARTICLES
Thinking about Marriage: Kant's Liberalism and the Peculiar Morality of Conjugal Union, Anthony J. La Vopa, Page 1

The Roman Matron in Britain: Female Political Influence and Republican Response, ca. 1750-1800, Philip Hicks, Page 35

In the Name of the Tsar: Competing Legalities and Marital Conflict in Late Imperial Russia, Barbara Alpern Engel, Page 70

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Resistance and Its Discontents: Affairs, Archives, Avowals, and the Aubracs Donald Reid, Page 97

REVIEW ARTICLE
Modern German Universities and Their Historians since the Fall of the Wall, Charles McClelland, Page 138

BOOK REVIEWS
Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, eds., Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage. Volume 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe, John H. Zammito, Page 160

James D. Tracy, Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics, David Potter, Page 162

Philip Benedict, Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism, Benjamin J. Kaplan, Page 164

Ouzi Elyada and Jacques Le Brun, eds., Conflits politiques, controverses religieuses: Essais d'histoire europeenne aux 16e-18e siecles, Susan Rosa, Page 166

Robert J. Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe, Anthony La Vopa, Page 168

Eric D. Weitz, A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Page 171

Barbara J. Harris, English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers, Shannon McSheffrey, Page 172

Julia Rudolph, Revolution by Degrees: James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century, Johann P. Sommerville, Page 174

Andreas Rodder, Die radikale Herausforderung: Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen landlicher Tradition und industrieller Moderne, 1846-1868, Frank Trentmann, Page 176

Lawrence Goldman, Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886, Louise Blakeney Williams, Page 178

David Taylor, Policing the Victorian Town: The Development of the Police in Middlesbrough, c. 1840-1914, Stanley H. Palmer, Page 180

Gaynor Johnson, The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926, Elspeth O'Riordan, Page 182

Christopher Price, Britain, America, and Rearmament in the 1930s: The Cost of Failure, Sidney Aster, Page 183

Alexandre Y. Haran, Le lys et le globe: Messianisme dynastique et reve imperial en France a l'aube des temps modernes, Anthony Pagden, Page 185

Alexandre Maral, La Chapelle Royale de Versailles sous Louis XIV: Ceremonial, liturgie et musique, Charles Dill, Page 187

Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701, John A. Lynn, Page 189

Bettina Dietz, Utopien als mogliche Welten: Voyages Imaginaires der franzosischen Fruhaufklarung 1650-1720, Jeroen Duindam, Page 191

Marisa Linton, The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France, Katharine Hamerton, Page 193

Jessica Riskin, Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment, Anne C. Vila, Page 195

Christian Windler, La Diplomatie comme experience de l'autre: Consuls Francais au Maghreb (1700-1840), Julia Clancy-Smith, Page 197

Nobuhito Nagai, Les conseillers municipaux de Paris sous la Troisieme Republique, 1871-1914, Philip Nord, Page 199

Patrice Higonnet, Paris: Capital of the World, Colin Jones, Page 201

Daniela Lombardi, Matrimoni di antico regime, Jutta Sperling, Page 203

Nelson Moe, The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question, Linda Reeder, Page 204

R. J. B. Bosworth, Mussolini, Carl Ipsen, Page 206

Sandie Holguin, Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Page 208

Sebastian Balfour, Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War, Adrian Shubert, Page 210

R. Po-Chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop, eds., Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age, Miriam Bodian, Page 212

H. G. Koenigsberger, Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, J. L. Price, Page 214

William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840, David M. Luebke, Page 216

Jennifer Jenkins, Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hamburg; Carolyn Kay, Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886-1914, Richard J. Evans, Page 218

Robert T. Foley, trans. and ed., Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings; Terrence Zuber, Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871-1914, Arden Bucholz, Page 220

Andrea Suchting-Hanger, Das "Gewissen der Nation": Nationales Engagement und politisches Handeln konservativer Frauenorganisationen 1900 bis 1937, Raffael Scheck, Page 224

Georg Koglmeier, Die Zentralen Rategremien in Bayern 1918/19: Legitimation-Organisation-Funktion, Bernhard Grau, Page 226

Robert E. Norton, Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle, George S. Williamson, Page 228

Rudolf Morsey, Gorres-Gesellschaft und NS-Diktatur: Die Geschichte der Gorres-Gesellschaft 1932/33 bis zum Verbot 1941, Ellen Lovell Evans, Page 230

David K. Yelton, Hitler's Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945, Sonke Neitzel, Page 232

James F. Tent, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans, John S. Conway, Page 234

Zeev W. Mankowitz, Life between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany, Robert G. Moeller, Page 235

Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds., The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945-71; Beatrix Bouvier, Die DDR--ein Sozialstaat? Sozialpolitik in der Ara Honecker, Young-Sun Hong, Page 237

Barbara Weinmann, Eine andere Burgergesellschaft: Klassischer Republikanismus und Kommunalismus im Kanton Zurich im spaten 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Randolph C. Head, Page 240

Eva Fodor, Working Difference: Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995, Mark Pittaway, Page 242

Fritz Fellner, Geschichtsschreibung und nationale Identitat: Probleme und Leistungen der osterreichischen Geschichtswissenschaft, William D. Bowman, Page 244

Victor Donninghaus, Die Deutschen in der Moskauer Gesellschaft: Symbiose und Konflikte (1494-1941), Iu. A. Petrov, Page 246

Michael Khodarkovsky, Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800; Paul W. Werth, At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, 1827-1905, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Page 248

Stephen Lovell, Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000, N. B. Lebina, Page 251

Dmitry A. Elyashevich, Pravitel'stvennaia politika i evreiskaia pechat' v Rossii, 1797-1917: Ocherki istorii tsenzury, Marianna Tax Choldin, Page 253

Abby M. Schrader, Languages of the Lash: Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia; Christopher Ely, This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia, William G. Wagner, Page 255

Donald J. Raleigh, Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922, Joshua Sanborn, Page 258

Choi Chatterjee, Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture, and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939; Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, Katherine R. Jolluck, Page 260