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Todd Butler charts how some of the Stuart period's major challenges to governance evoked much greater disputes about the mental processes by which monarchs and subjects imagined and effected political action. He draws upon a myriad of literary and political texts, including the work of Francis Bacon, John Donne, Philip Massinger, and John Milton.

A review essay on books by: Henning Melber, Der Weissheit letzter Schluss. Rassismus und kolonialer Blick ([The Whiteness of the Last Conclusion. Racism and the Colonial Perspective] Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsei, 1992); Siegfried Jager, BrandSatze. Rassismus im Alltag ([Firesetting. Racism in Everyday Life] Duisburg: DISS, 1992); Sigrid Baringhorst, Fremde in der Stadt. Multikulturelle Minderheitenpolitik, dargestellt am Beispiel der nordenglischen Stadt Bradford ([Stranger in the City: Multicultural Minority Politics, Illustrated by the Northern English City of Bradford] Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1991); Christian J. Jaggi, Rassismus. Ein globales Problem ([Racism. A Global Problem] Zurich u Koln: Orell Fussli, 1992); & Eckhard J. Dittrich, Das Weltbild des Rassismus ([The Worldview of Racism] Frankfurt: Cooperative-Verlag, 1991 [see listings in IRPS No. 84]). Melber concentrates on the historical origins of the colonial perspective & the worldwide domination of concepts of development & progress; social Darwinism & Germany's colonial activities in Africa are covered. Jager uses interviews & discourse analysis to expose forms of racism in everyday German life. He emphasizes the racist attitudes not of right-wing extremists but of "normal citizens" & institutions. Baringhorst analyzes John Rex's concept of multiculturalism using the example of the English city of Bradford. Local politics, the lifeworld of Bradford's ethnic minorities, & conflicts over education are highlighted. Jaggi gives a global overview of racism, covering structural racism in Latin America, connections between racism & poverty in the US, ideological racism in South Africa, religion & racism in the formerly communist states, psuedoscientific apologies for racism, & strategies to combat racism. Dittrich analyzes the inner logic of the racist worldview & sketches a social scientific explanatory model based on integration research. E. Blackwell