CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• John Bayley
• Brian Bond
• Victoria Brittain
• Peter Clarke
• Ursula Creagh
• Jon Elster
• John Gibbens
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Alasdair MacIntyre
• Arthur Marwick
• John Maynard Smith
• Karl Miller
• David Pears
• Pat Rogers
• Barry Supple
• Charles Townshend
• Errol Trzebinski

Contents

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 by Geoffrey Best
  • European Empires from Conquest to Collapse 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan

• Letters
  Hans Aarsleff, Isaiah Berlin, Stephen Bann, John Nicoll, Blake Morrison, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Arthur Terry, P.J. Croft

• Arthur Marwick

  • The Wasting of the British Economy by Sidney Pollard
  • The Global 2000 Report to the President: Entering the 21st Century
  • United Kingdom Facts by Richard Rose and Ian McAllister

• Barry Supple

  • Getting and Spending: Public Expenditure, Employment and Inflation by Leo Pliatzky
  • Inside the Treasury by Joel Barnett
  • Public Expenditure and Social Policy: An Examination of Social Spending and Social Priorities edited by Alan Walker

• Peter Clarke

  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Vol. XIX. Activities 1924-9: The Return to Gold and Industrial Policy edited by Sir Austin Robinson and Donald Moggridge
  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Vol. XX. Activities 1929-31: Rethinking Employment and Unemployment Policies edited by Sir Austin Robinson and Donald Moggridge
  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Vol. XXI. Activities 1931-9: edited by Sir Austin Robinson and Donald Moggridge

• John Gibbens
  Poem: ‘A Wild Inhabitation’

• David Pears

  • Reason, Truth and History by Hilary Putnam

• John Bayley
  Poem: ‘Ode to a Private Convenience’

• John Maynard Smith

  • The Laws of the Game: How the principles of nature govern science by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber

• Brian Bond

  • End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance 1939-40 by Eleanor Gates
  • The Strategy of Phoney War: Britain, Sweden and the Iron Ore Question 1939-1940 by Thomas Munch-Petersen

• Charles Townshend

  • Davitt and Irish Revolution 1846-1882 by T.W. Moody

• Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit by Elizabeth Dipple

• Jon Elster

  • Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology by M.I. Finley
  • Economy and Society in Ancient Greece by M.I. Finley
  • The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal edited by M.I. Finley

• Ursula Creagh

  • Life after Marriage: Scenes from Divorce by A. Alvarez

• Pat Rogers

  • The Samurai by Shusaku Endo, translated by Van C. Gessel
  • The Obedient Wife by Julia O’Faolain
  • Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski
  • Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido

• Victoria Brittain

  • Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiongo
  • Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary by Ngugi wa Thiongo
  • Writers in Politics by Ngugi wa Thiongo
  • Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

• Errol Trzebinski

  • Letters from Africa 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born

• Karl Miller
  Diary

• Julian Barnes

  • The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857 by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Sartre and Flaubert by Hazel Barnes