old) and gives one or two sentence statements about certain articles contained therein or the authors. The articles and essays section has six essays by six authors. Some of these have very long titles like "Francois Bernier and the Invention of Radical Classification" by Siep Stuurman, or "Common Sense in Shanghai: the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and political Legitimacy in Republican China" by Josephine Fox. In the feature section are four lengthy articles two of which are: " Re-remembering the Soldier Hero: the Psychic and Social Construction of Memory in Personal Narratives of the Great War" by Michael Roper and "Writing Early Medieval Biography" by Janet L. Nelson. Under archives and sources is the Boyd Orr survey of the Nutrition of Children in Britain and extracts of Gwen Pemberton's diaries. In history on the line Bapsi Sidhwa and Urvashi Butalia discuss the partition of India. The history workshop section contains two scholarly articles about history and its effects on average people. The reviews section explains the contents of seven different works as assorted as "a philosophical history of language" to "the language of the third Reicht". The report back section contains three essays on "war, peasants, and Medieval pasts". After the obituary section is a lengthy section with notes on the contributors. Here is much information about the work and writings of the contributing authors. The articles and essays are scholarly and detailed and some of them were originally lectures delivered at universities. Lengthy references with abundant footnotes conclude each of the essays and articles. Some of them are technical (where specific learned knowledge is required on a certain topic such as Philosophy or Religion) while others are appealing and easy to read.
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