  This article presents a review of the field of inclusive quasi-elastic
electron-nucleus scattering. It discusses the approach used to measure the data
and includes a compilation of data available in numerical form. The theoretical
approaches used to interpret the data are presented. A number of results
obtained from the comparison between experiment and calculation are then
reviewed. The analogies and differences to other fields of physics exploiting
quasi-elastic scattering from composite systems are pointed out.
