KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. By Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin. 384 pp. $26
ATHENS: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age. By Christian Meier. Trans. by Robert and Rita Kimber. Metropolitan. 640 pp. $37.50
THURGOOD MARSHALL: American Revolutionary. By Juan Williams. Times Books. 459 pp. $27.50
THE BRITISH MONARCHY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Marilyn Morris. Yale Univ. Press. 229 pp. $28.50
MANIFESTO OF A PASSIONATE MODERATE: Unfashionable Essays. By Susan Haack. Univ. of Chicago Press. 223 pp. $22.50
[Introduction to "cluster" of articles on the tech economy]
The idea of an untouched Arcadia is an illusion we can no longer afford.
"Neither Machiavellian Moment nor Possessive Individualism: Commercial Society and the Defenders of the English Commonwealth" by Steve Pincus, in American Historical Review (June 1998), 914 Atwater, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Ind. 47405.