Recent Books.

Includes: Fiorenzo Landi, 'The Dissolution of Monasteries and Convents in Europe: An Overview of the Economic Implications'; Richard Sharpe, 'Dissolution and Dispersion in Sixteenth-Century England: Understanding the Remains'; Rudolf Gamper, 'Klosteraufhebungen und das Schicksal ihrer Bibliotheken in der Deutschschweiz'; Jeffrey Garrett, 'The Expropriation of Monastic Libraries in German-Speaking Europe, 1773-1817'; Javier Antón Pelayo, 'The Secularization of Spanish Religious Libraries (1767-1836): The Catalan Case'; Luís Cabral, 'Case study 1: Portugal, Porto - State Policy Concerning the Dissolution of Monastic Book Collections in Portugal, especially during the Nineteenth Century'; María Luisa Lopez Vidriero, 'Case study 2: Spain, Seville and Madrid - The Formation of New Libraries'; Pedro Rueda Ramírez, 'The Secularization of Religious Houses in Latin America from Independence to the New Republics: The Continuity and Fragmentation of Library Collections'; Dorit Raines, 'The Dissolution of the Venetian Religious Houses and the Keeper of the Library of St Mark, Jacopo Morelli, under Venetian, French, and Austrian Governments (1768-1819)'; Vincenzo Trombetta, 'La politica delle soppressioni e le nuove biblioteche a Napoli tra illuminismo regalista e restaurazione (1767-1815)'; Marie-Pierre Laffitte, 'Napoléon et les confiscations de livres dans les monastères italiens'; Jos A. A. M. Biemans, 'The Foundation of the City Library of Amsterdam (1578) and the Confiscation of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Ecclesiastical and Monastic Libraries: Fact or Fiction? The quality of this book lies in the quiet tone of the observation, the absence of any strident ideology, and the attractiveness of some of the examples, discovered through long years of actually handling books in a major library. [Extracted from the article]