From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: Gillis, John R. | COPYRIGHT 1998 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Ronald Hutton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xx plus 542pp. $35.00).

Don't judge a book by its cover or by its title. Together, the Stonehenge image on the dust jacket and the solar reference suggest another of those New Age books which are selling so well at the moment in both Europe and North America. But readers who are looking for confirmation of their neopagan beliefs in forgotten fertility cults and repressed goddess worship will be deeply disappointed, f...