Bridging the Unbridgeable in the History of the Middle East: The Arab and the Raj; Paul Rich

Rosemarie Said Zahlan , The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh , Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923.     

The Diwaniah: A Traditional Kuwaiti Social Institution in a Political Role

A s sociologists try to uncover the reasons why Kuwait was not only able to endure the oppression of the Iraqi invasion and occupation but also to recover relatively rapidly, some social institutions in the country are being explored for their value in understanding the coping strategies available within the culture. One such traditional institution is the diwaniah. This informal institution in Kuwait served as a natural and largely unchallenged survival mechanism both during historical conflicts and turmoil as well as recently during the Iraqi invasion and occupation. As a culture-wide tradition, the diwaniah, by providing the meeting places for men to discuss important political and social issues, played several significant roles during the Iraqi invasion and occupation. In this paper, the author investigates the growth of and changes within the traditional institution of the diwaniah over the years in Kuwait, describing its structure and development, and evaluating its influence and the roles it has played in Kuwait's sociopolitical history. The study includes results of a an informal survey of the roles the diwaniah has played during the last decade in the social future of the diwaniah in Kuwait is positive and promising, because its importance and traditional influence are increasing each day. While the diwaniah is a Gulf Arab tradition, it is in Kuwait that it has maintained its strength. Kuwaitis are proud of this unique institution, they see how it helped them cope with the dangers of an occupying army, and they understand that it made possible the swift recovery after the war. Therefore, it is the wish of every Kuwaiti to preserve the diwaniah for the coming generations for the welfare of the society and the individual.     

Bibliometric Indicators of the Scholarly Productivity of Researchers and Scientists in Kuwait as Documented by Citation to Their Published Works

The study uses the bibliometric method of research to examine the productivity of academic scientists and re searchers in Kuwait. The Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Index, Social Science Index, and Science Citation Index are surveyed to gather the data by department and year from 1986 through 1995. Analysis of Kuwaiti cited papers show the majority of journals (35%) which cited Kuwaiti institutions are published in the U.S. Analysis of the papers published in 1994 revealed that Kuwaiti's participation in the international scientific literature is higher than those of their colleagues from Morocco or Egypt. The data is discussed in light of theories of bibliometrics and the Bradford Law of Scattering.     

Guest editors’ foreword

This special issue of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is the result of the conference ‘Archaeological Failaka, Recent and Ongoing Investigations’ organised at the National Library of Kuwait by the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters (NCCAL) of the State of Kuwait and the French Research Center of the Arabian Peninsula (CEFREPA, formerly known as CEFAS) between 26 and 28 November 2019. Not less than 13 articles on the archaeology of Failaka offer an overview of the most recent works on sites dating from its first occupation in the Bronze Age to the late Islamic period. It provides a new insight into the rich history of Failaka – an island explored by Kuwaiti and international teams since the 1950’s and that was connected with Mesopotamia, Iran, the Near East and India – and begin to fill in some gaps, in particular concerning the late Islamic period, the pottery studies, the long-distance trade and the geomorphology of the island.     

A geochemical study of bituminous mixtures from Failaka and Umm an-Namel (Kuwait), from the Early Dilmun to the Early Islamic period

This paper is the last in a series presenting geochemical analyses of fragments of bituminous mixtures excavated from archaeological sites in Kuwait. The first was devoted to bituminous boat remains from the Ubaid‐related Neolithic site of H3, As‐Sabiyah, while the second dealt with bituminous amalgams from the Partho‐Sasanian site of ^cAkkaz, a former island now joined to the south side of Kuwait Bay. This, the third, refers to bitumen‐bearing samples from two other islands, Failaka and Umm an‐Namel, and covers a time span including the Early Dilmun period, the Kassite period and the Hellenistic to Early Islamic periods. The composition of the bituminous amalgams was studied in detail. The proportions of soluble and insoluble organic matter as well as vegetal organic matter were evaluated. Mineralogical composition by X‐Ray diffraction and thin‐section analysis was used to estimate the mineral input in the bituminous mixtures. It can be confirmed that the recipes used in the preparation of these bituminous amalgams comply with those traditionally used in antiquity, as seen at many sites in Mesopotamia and the Gulf. Analysis of the soluble organic matter, and especially its ‘‘saturates’’ fraction, provided sterane and terpane distributions and the measurement of diagnostic molecular ratios. These data, complemented by the isotopic composition of asphaltenes, allowed the identification of the sources of the bitumen, by calibration with numerous references from Iran and northern Iraq (oil seeps, bitumen from archaeological sites). It was established that the bitumen from Failaka and Umm an‐Namel was mainly imported from central Iraq (Hit‐Abu Jir) and northern Iraq (around Mosul). One sample of oil‐stained sand, dating to the Early Dilmun period, originated from Burgan and thus documents small‐scale imports from inland Kuwait. These results, and those of previous analyses, agree with the geopolitical context of the Early Dilmun, Kassite and Hellenistic periods, and the maritime trade routes that linked Mesopotamia to the settlements of the Gulf and beyond. The paper concludes with an overview of recent bitumen provenance analyses, and discerns chronological patterns in the distribution of Iraqi and Iranian bitumen in the Gulf and Indian Ocean, from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods.     

Kuwait: Elections and Issues of Democratization in a Middle Eastern State

In 1992, elections were held in Kuwait to vote for the four-year assembly. The elections were essentially a compromise formula between two systems and political cultures in Kuwait: traditional hereditary rule and representative and modern forms. The successful conclusion of the election campaign, one of the most intensive in the history of Kuwait, may be the first step in the direction of much-needed political reform that may tilt the country more and more toward a true parliamentary system. The elections resulted in a victory for the opposition forces and their supporters, who together won thirty-five seats. For the first time in the history of Kuwait, government ministers can vote in parliament against a government-backed policy, should they feel the need to do so. Kuwait, as far as conditions allow today, is progressively shifting toward a parliamentary system. But, despite Kuwait's political steps forward, many questions and immense dangers still surround the democratic process.     

Book reviews

Empire and Order. The Concept of Empire, 800–1800 by James Muldoon. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.viii + 209. £42.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–65013–1.

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 239. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–59081–7; 0–521–78978–8.

England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy, 1490–1690 by David Loades. Harlow: Longman, 2000. Pp.xi + 277, maps. £50.00 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–35622–6; 0–582–35628–8.

Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages under James VI and I by Tristan Marshall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.viii + 211. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7190–5748–5.

Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800 by Eric Hinderaker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 and 2000. Pp.xii + 293. £45.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–56333‐X; 0–521–66345–8.

Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 by Timothy J. Shannon. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp.xv + 263. No price given (hardback). ISBN 0–8014–3657–5

An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp.xviii + 357, maps, tables, illus. $55.00/£41.00 (hardback); $22.50/£17.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–8122–3558–4; 0–8122–1732–2.

A Voyage round the World by George Forster, edited by Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof assisted by Jennifer Newell. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. 2 vols. Pp.xlvii + 860, illus., maps. ISBN 0–8248–2091–6.

General History of the Caribbean, Volume VI: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean edited by B.W. Higman. London and Oxford: Unesco Publishing/Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xxii + 948, illus. £45.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–72460–7; 0–333–72461–5.

The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism by Keith A. Sandiford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.221. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–64233–7.

History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770–1822 by Pier M. Larson. Portsmouth, NH, Oxford, and Cape Town: Heinemann, James Currey and David Philip. Pp.xxxii + 414, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–689–6; 0–85255–639‐X.

West Indians in West Africa, 1808–1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse by Nemata Amelia Blyden. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 258. $75.00/£50.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–58046–0461.

A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xiv + 320, maps, illus. £30.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–62359–6; 0–521–62577–7.

Ships, Furs, and Sandalwood: A Yankee Trader in Hawai'i, 1823–1825 by Charles H. Hammatt, edited by Sandra Wagner‐Wright. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. Pp.xxxii + 96. $39.00 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8248–2258–7 (pb).

Mission und Gewalt: Der Umgang christlicher Missionen mit Gewalt und die Ausbreitung des Christentums in Afrika und Asien in der Zeit von 1792 bis 1918/19 (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv, vol. 6) edited by Ulrich van der Heyden and Jürgen Becher. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp.557. DM 160,‐ (hardback). ISBN 3–515–07624–7.

Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism by Richard H. Grove. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.xiv + 540. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40385–5.

Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and South East Asia edited by Richard H. Grove, Vanita Damodaran, and Satpal Sangwan. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 1,036. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–195–63896–4.

Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400–1940 by Richard H. Grove. Knapwell: White Horse Press, 1997. Pp.237. No price given. ISBN 1–874267–18–9 (hb). 1–874267–19–7 (pb).

Weltmacht oder Untergang: Die Weltreichslehre im Zeitalter des Imperialismus by Sönke Neitzel. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000. Pp.453. DM 98,‐(paperback). ISBN 3–506–76102–1.

The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492–1962 by Arthur Charles Dayfoot. Kingston, Jamaica: University Press of the West Indies, 1999; Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Pp.xvii + 360, maps, illus. US$30.00 (paperback); US$49.95 (hardback). ISBN 976–640–061‐X (paperback); 0–8130–1626–6 (hardback).

Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809–1885 by Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. Madison and London: Associated University Presses, 1998. Pp.197. £27.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8386–3729–9.

Negotiating India in the Nineteenth‐Century Media edited by David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xi + 285. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–71146–7.

Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Reader edited by Catherine Hall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp.x + 390, photographs. £47.00 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–5857–0; 0–7190–5858–9.

Indians in Britain: Anglo‐Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930 by Shompa Lahiri. London: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.xviii + 249. £42.50 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4986–4; 0–7146–8049–4.

Bausteine eines zukünftigen deutschen Mittelafrika: Deutscher Imperialismus und die portugiesischen Kolonien by Rolf Peter Tschapek. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp.475. DM 144,‐ (paperback). ISBN 3–515–07592–5.

The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959 by G.C. Peden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xiv + 581. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–820707–7.

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An Economic History of Malaysia, c. 1800–1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth by John H. Drabble. Basingstoke: Macmillan (in association with the Australian National University), Canberra, 2000. Pp.xxiii + 316. £19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–55300–4.

The Making of Modern Burma by Thant Myint‐U. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.284. £45.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–78021–7; 0–521–79914–7.

East African Doctors: A History of the Medical Profession by John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.336. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–63272–2.

India's Prisoner: A Biography of Edward John Thompson 1886–1946 by Mary Lago. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp.xi + 388, illus. $39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8262–1299–9.

Kuwait, 1950–1965: Britain, the al‐Sabah, and Oil by Simon C. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1999. Pp.167, map, illus. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–726197–3

The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast by Sarah Stockwell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp.ix + 265. £48.00. ISBN 0–19–820848–0.

Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia: Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941–68 by Karl Hack. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. Pp.xiv + 341. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7007–1303–4.

British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume 4: The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1957–64, Parts I and II, edited by Ronald Hyam and Wm. Roger Louis. London: The Stationery Office, 2000. Pp.cix + 825 (Part I); Pp.xxxvii + 811pp (Part II). £80.00 each (hardback). ISBN 011–290578–1 (Part I) and 011–290579‐X (Part II).

Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit edited by Steve Clark. London: Zed Books, 1999. Pp.viii + 264. £45.00 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–85649–627–9; 1–85649–628–7.     

Review of Books

MICHAEL BENTLEY, ed. Companion to Historiography. London and New York: Roudedge, 1997. Pp. xvii,997. $150.00 (us). Reviewed by Simon Hornblower

JEREMY BLACK. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. 267. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John A. Agnew

GANG DENG. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 BC–1900AD. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 218. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen

RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN, ed. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 372. $49.95 (us); Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 493. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Dennis R. Papazian

ANTONIO SANTOSUOSSO. Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167 BC. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. x, 277. $22.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Hodgkinson

THOMAS T. ALLSEN. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 137. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Ruth I. Meserve

HUGH KENNEDY. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xvi, 342. £15.99. Reviewed by Maya Shatzmiller

MICHAEL COSTEN. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York; St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 229. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by James A. Brundage

JAMES L. GILLESPIE, ed. The Age of Richard II. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 256. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Tuck

S. A. M. ADSHEAD. Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800: The Rise of Consumerism. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Craig Cluna

J. J. CLARKE. Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter between Asian and Western Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 273. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Tsin

P. E. H. HAIR. Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450–1700. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xx, 324. $94.95 (us). Reviewed byNorman R. Bennett

GODFREY GOODWIN. The Janissaries. London: Saqi Books, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 288. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan

JOHN M. HEADLEY. Church, Empire, and World: The Quest for Universal Order, 1520–1640. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. x, 322. $89.98 (us); JOHN M. HEADLEY. Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 399. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by William Mccuaig

DAVID MCDOWALL. A Modern History of the Kurds. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xii, 480. $17.95 (us) paper. Reviewed by Kemal H. Karpat

GLYNDWR WILLIAMS. The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570– 1750. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 300. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell

RONALD G. ASCH. The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618–48. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Heinz Duchhardt

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630–1730. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 273. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy

GRETE KLINGENSTEIN and FRANZ A. J. SZABO, eds. Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711–1704: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung. Graz: Andreas Schnider Verlagsatelier, 1996. Pp. iv, 499. $46.00 (us). Reviewed by P. G. M. Dickson

THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN. Aryans And British India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 260. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick

MATTHEW H. EDNEY. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 458. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers

ORVILLE T. MURPHY. The Diplomatic Retreat of France and Public Opinion on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1783–1789. Washington: Cadiolic University of America Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 193. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Marsha Frey

J. E. COOKSON. The British Armed Nation, 1793–1815. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vi, 286. $121.50 (CDN). Reviewed by H. T. Dickinson

ANTHONY S. BENNELL. The Making of Arthur Wellesley. London: Sangam Books, 1997. Pp. viii, 235. £17.95. Reviewed by Enid M. Fuhr

DAVID CURTIS SKAGGS and GERARD T. ALTOFF. A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812–1813. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by E. Jane Errington

ZEYNEP ÇELIK. Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 236. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by John Ruedy

PETER YOUNG and PETER JESSER. The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 391. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor

JOST DÜLFFER, MARTIN KRÖGER, and ROLF-HARALD WIPPICH. Vermiedene Kriege. Deeskalation von Konflikten der Großmächte zwischen Krimkrieg uni Erstem Weltkrieg, 1856–1914. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. Pp. vi, 716. DM 98, paper. Reviewed by Ivo N. Lambi

PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xiii, 391. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Robert D. Cuff

THOMAS FISCHER. Die verlorenen Dekaden: ←Entwicklung nach außen→ und ausländische Geschäfte in Kolumbien, 1870–1914. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 472. $76.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by JÜRgen Buchenau

FREDERICK F. ANSCOMBE. The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 270. $17.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Caesar E. Farah

LEILA J. RUPP. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 325. $19.95 (us)> paper. Reviewed by Harriet Hyman Alonso

IAN ROBERT DOWBIGGIN. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 245. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Angus Mclaren

MYUNG-KEUN CHOI. Changes in Korean Society between 1884–1910 as a Result of the Introduction of Christianity. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xx, 321. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by James H. Grayson

ALEX MCKAY. Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre, 1904–1947. Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 293. £65.00. Reviewed by Ian Copland

WILLIAM N. TILCHIN. Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 302. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Collin

SAMUEL HYNES. The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York and London: Allen Lane and Penguin, 1997. Pp. xvi, 318. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Jacek Wi?niewski

STEPHEN GARTON. The Cost of War: Australians Return. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 298. $53.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Christina Twomey

WILLIAM ALLISON. American Diplomats in Russia: Case Studies in Orphan Diplomacy, 1916–1919. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 190. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Betty M. Unterberger

T. HUNT TOOLEY. National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918–1922. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 320. $56.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Krüger

DAVID CHUTER. Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919– 2001. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xi, 356. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite

G. F. KRIVOSHEEV, ed. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, trans. Christine Barnard. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1997. Pp. xiv, 290. £21.95. Reviewed by Steven Rosefielde

RAYMOND PEARSON. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 194. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Graeme Gill

WARREN F. KUEHL and LYNNE K. DUNN. Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Mations, 1920–1939. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 306. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by George Egerton

ALEKSANDR M. NEKRICH. Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations, 1922–1941, ed. and trans. Gregory L. Freeze. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 308. $35.00 (us); DIANE P. KOENKER and RONALD D. BACHMAN, eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997. Pp. xxv, 808. $59.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Haslam

D. A. Low. Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Ambiguity, 1929– 1942. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 358. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh

CHARLES REARICK. The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 321. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Judith Devlin

DEREK H. ALDCROFT. Studies in the Interwar European Economy. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. ix, 229. $72.95 (us). Reviewed by Sidney Pollard

PATRICIA CLAVIN. The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France, and the United States, 1931–36. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré

BENJAMIN WELLES. Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 437. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Warren F. Kimball

TOM BUCHANAN. Britain and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 241. $64.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Richards

DENNIS J. DUNN. Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. xii, 349. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by David Mayers

BARBARA REARDEN FARNHAM. Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 313. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Randall Schweller

DAVID DAY, ed. Brave New World: Dr H. V. Evatt and Australian Foreign Policy, 1941–1949. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. x, 182. $22.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Roger Dingman

HORSTJ. P. BERGMEIER and RAINER E. LOTZ. Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 368. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Edwin Herzstein

CHARLES L. ROBERTSON. International Politics since World War II: A Short History. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xiv, 383. $62.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Keith L. Nelson

YEZID SAYIGH and Avi SHLAIM, eds. The Cold War and the Middle East. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 303. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry

PETER LOWE. Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China, and Korea, 1948–1953. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 288. £45.00. Reviewed by Roger Buckley

NEIL CAPLAN. Futile Diplomacy: Volume III: The United Nations, the Great Powers, and Middle East Peacemaking, 1948–1954. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxvi, 390. $59.50 (us); Volume IV: Operation Alpha and the Failure of Anglo-American Coercive Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1954–1956. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxi,414. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benny Morris

ONN WINCKLER. Population Growth and Migration in Jordan, 1950–1994. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 138. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by Allan Findlay

MICHAEL D. GAMBONE. Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953–1961. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Immerman

N. PIERS LUDLOW. Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 282. $64.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell

KENDRICK OLIVER. Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961–63. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 252. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Jeffrey W. Knopf

TIMOTHY P. MAGA. Hands across the Sea? US-Japan Relations, 1961–1981. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 183. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart

HOUMAN A. SADRI. Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and Iran. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xv, 147. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Odd Arne Westad

DUNCAN L. CLARKE, DANIEL B. O'CONNOR, and JASON D. ELLIS. Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and US Foreign Policy. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiv, 211. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ted Galen Carpenter

CHARLES S. MAIER. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 440. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Geoff Eley

FERGUS CARR, ed. Europe: The Cold Divide. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard Falk

KARL VON VORYS. American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. viii, 379. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley

ALAN COLLINS. The Security Dilemma and the End of the Cold War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 243. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by William C. Wohlforth

MICHAEL LIBAL. Limits of Persuasion: Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1991– 1992. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 206. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Hanns W. Maull

JOHN W. GARVER. Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization. Seatde: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 193. $18.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Peter Van Ness

ROBERT JERVIS. System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 309. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Harlan Wilson

MICHAEL W. DOYLE. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism. New York: W. W. Norton &; Company, 1997. Pp. 557. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson     

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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History: Providence island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. The New Rural History: A Subject Whose Time Has Come Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930. Africa and the Middle East The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. The Americas: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. The George R. “Bob” Caron Story—Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay: Fire of a Thousand Suns. Science and Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison. The Scottish High Church Tradition in America: An Essay in Scotch-Irish Ethnoreligious History. The Abolitionists & The South, 1831-1865. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994. The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II. Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side. Rural Guatemala: 1760-1940. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. “Lest We Forget:” A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland. The Sixties and the End of Modern America. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt. Asia and the Pacific China in World History. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. The Cambridge History of China. Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III:4, Ideologies of the Raj. The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. A History of Brunei. Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution. Europe: Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule. Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England. Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage. Asquith As War Leader. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune. A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Charlotte Brontë. A Passionate Life. Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England. Captain James Cook: A Biography. Poland Since 1944: A Portrait of Years. Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. New French Thought: Political Philosophy. The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500. Gladstone 1875-1898. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494-1545. Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London, 1850-1915. Who Are The Macedonians? Exile and Destruction. The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Economic Structures of Antiquity. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle. London at War, 1939-1945. kathinka Zitz-Halein and Female Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany. General, Comparative, Historiographical The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. The pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim states and the Pacific Islands.     

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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870 Between Mutiny and Obedience Review Essay: Clio Goes to the Ballpark Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908 Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer Sol Whites History of Colored Baseball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886–1936 Africa and the Middle East Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1838 Colonialism in the Congo Basin: 1880–1940 The Americas: Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914 James Buchanan and the American Empire The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement Lion of the Forest: James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660–1720 Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990 Coca Prohibition in Peru: The Historical Debates The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police, 1895–1897 Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster The Populist Persuasion: An American History Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Andersonville: The Last Depot. By William Marvel Three Frontiers: Family, land, and society in the American West, 1850–1900 The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854–1920 Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives Small Worlds, Large Questions: Explorations in Early American Social History, 1600–1850 Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870–1900 Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium The Evolution Controversy in America Asia and the Pacific American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire. By Ruan Ming The Sorrow of War_: A Novel of North Vietnam Turbans and Traders: Hong Kong's Indian Communities Europe The Diplomats, 1939–1979 William Tyndale, A Biography Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Finde-Siècle Europe The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770–1868 Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium Saint Peter: A Biography Battle Tactics of the Western Front Sidonius Apollinaris and the Full of Rome AD 407–485 Dictionary of East European History since 1945 The German Colonial Empire 1884–1919 The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400–1700 Nazi Germany at War Disraeli Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany The Social Legacy of Communism Pence Without Victory for the Allies 1918–1932 The Impact of the Reformation Herds of the Tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism An Economic History of Medieval Europe Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198–1216 Constitutional Royalism and the Search For Settlement, c. 1640–1649 The Russian Fur East: A History Socialism and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire 1876–1923 The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782–1992 Neither Kingdom Nor Nation: The Irish Quest for Constitutional Rights, 1698–1800 John Stuart Mill and India Turkey: A Modern History General, Comparative, Historiographical International Relations Since 1945: A History Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make Gender Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in History     

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Gay New York Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages. Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. Review Essay: Churchill in the 1990s Roger Adelson and Jonathan Sikorsky Churchill: A Life. In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey. Churchill, The End of Glory A Political Biography Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940–57. Africa and the Middle East The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization. Living with Africa. The Americas Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico. Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660–1680. In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life. The Pursuit of Public Power: Political Culture in Ohio, 1787–1861. The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History. The Roosevelts: An American Sap. The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Up Class, 1750–1950. Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin. “A Government of Our Own”: The Making of the Confederacy. Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico. U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina. Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro. The Lost Promise of Progressivism. Negotiated Authorities: On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History. Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774–1789. NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance. Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. john F Kennedy and New Frontier Diplomacy, 1961–1963. One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee. Chiefs, Agents, and Soldiers: Conflict on the Navajo Frontier, 1868–1882. Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860–1880. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. President Kennedy: Profile of Power. The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864. Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. Latin America in the 1940s. War and Postwar Transitions. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945–1993. The Spanish Frontier in North America. Asia and the Pacific The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-up. The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India, 1900–1910. The Ruhela Chteftaincies: The Rise and Fall of the Ruhela Power in India in the Eighteenth Century Cambodia: A Shattered Society. Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese Medical Elite. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945–1992: Uncertain Friendships. Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History. Europe British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783–1793. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands. Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790–1850. The Remaking of France: The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791. Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations. A Management Odyssey: The Royal Dockyards, 2724–1924. Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First-Century Conquest of Judea. Piety and Charity in late Medieval Florence. Rumania, 1866–1947. The Jews in the History of England, 1485–1850. Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. Goebbels and Der Angriff. Music in the Third Reich. The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power. Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution. Simon de Montfort. Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics. The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile. War and Economy in the Third Reich. Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought. The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity. Trumpets from the Tar: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands, 1600–1640. Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe. In Defense of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy, 1889–1914. Literacy and Its Uses: Studies on Late Medieval Italy. The Return of the Armadas: The Last Years of the Elizabethan War against Spain General, Comparative, Historiographical Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. Ike b Monty: Generals at War. European Expansion and Law: The Encounter of European and Indigenous Law in 19th-and 20th-Century Africa and Asia. 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Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development Columbus, Cortés, and Other Essays Church and State in the Teaching of St. Ambrose The Meaning of Courtly Love Essays in Medieval History Presented To cWilkinson Roman London Elizabethan London Arab Historians of the Crusades Frederick Barbarossa: A Study in Medieval Politics Heresies of the High Middle Ages Europe Divided, 1559–1595 The History of Modern Germany, 1840–1945 Otto von Bismarck: Eine Kurzbiographie The Tragedy of Nazi Germany The Role of Fouché During the Hundred Days Colleges in Controversy: The Jesuit Schools in France from Revival to Suppression, 1815–1880 The Roots of Russian Communism: A Social and Historical Study of Russian Social Democracy, 1898–1907 The Country Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, With Special Reference to the Heraldic Rolls of Arms The Political Thought of Sir Henry Vane the Younger The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg Society and Pauperism Land Fit for Heroes: The Planning of British Reconstruction, 1916–1919 Northern Mists The Cousin Jacks: The Cornish in America Red, White, and Blue: Men, Books, and Ideas in American Culture The Education of American Leaders: Comparative Contributions of U. S. Colleges and Universities The Breaking of Traditions: Theological Convictions in Colonial America New York Beginnings; The Commercial Origins Of New Netherland Borderland Empire in Transition: The Triple-Nation Transfer of Florida The American Revolution and the French Alliance The Practice and Politics of Fiat Finance: North Carolina in the Confederation, 1783–1759 The War of 1812 The Best Dressed Miners: Life ad Labor in the Maryland Coal Region, 1335–1910 Surfboats and Horse Marines: U. S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War, 1846–43 William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer Field Medical Services at the Battles of Manassas Reconstruction in Retrospect, Views from the Turn of the Century Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist Thomas James Conaty, Pastor, Educator, Bishop Factories in the Valley: Neenah-Menasha, 1870–1915 Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men Blood an the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican Irregulars Seeking World Order: The United States and International Organization to 1920 Heir to Empire: United States Economic Diplomacy, 1916–1923 Weekly on the Wabash Ideologies and Utopias: The Impact of the New Deal on American Thought Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs The Canadian Frontier, 1533–1760 China: An Interpretive History, From the Beginnings to the Fall of Han Chinese Communist Politics in Action. Edited, with an introduction, by A. Doak Barnett. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969. Pp. viii, 620. $12.50.) The Emergence of the Middle East: 1914–1924 The Middle East: A Social Geography     

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Book reviewed in this article Soundtngs, Psychohistorical and Psycholiterary. By Rudolph Binion. Foundations of Psychohistory. By Lloyd deMause. End and Begznning: O n the Generatzons of Cultures and the Origins of the West. By Franr Borkenau. Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Lowenthal. The Making of Roman Italy. Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400-1000. By Chris Wickham. Rhinocrros Bound: Cluny in thr Tenth Century. By Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521. By Stephen Haliczer. Essays on Frontiers in World Hzstory. Edited by George Wolfskill and Stanley Palmer. Enemies of God: The Witch-hunt in Scotland. By Christina Larner. Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seuenteenth-Century England. By Margaret Spufford. The Declaration of Rights, 1689. By Lois G. Schwoerer. Elzrabeth Fry: A Biography. By June Rose. Country Towns in Pre-Industrial England. Edited by Peter Clark. The Emergence of Modern Ireland, 1600-1900. By L.M. Cullen. British Labor and the American Czvil War. By Philip S . Foner. Lord Randolph Churchzll: A Political Life. By R. F. Foster. No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland, 1914-1980. [The New History of Scotland series.] By Christopher Harvie. Reconstructing Europe after the Great War. By Dan P. Silverman. The Abbey of St. Germain des Prts in the Sezmzteenth Century. By Maarten Ultee. The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Curts and theReligious Fronde, 1652-1662. By Richard M. Golden. La Rochelle and the Atlantic Economy duringtheEighteenth Century. By John G. Clark. The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution: The First Years. By Michael L. Kennedy. An Economic History of Modern France, 1730-1914. By Roger Price. Vichy France and the Jews. By Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton. The Pope and the Duce: The international Impact of the Lateran Agreements. By Peter C. Kent. Ferdinand I of Austria. By Paula Fichtner. Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, 1928-1978. By Paul Hollander. Chinese Democracy: The Self-Goiiernment Moiiement in Local, Provincial, and National Politics, 1905-1914. By John H. Fincher. Organzing Chzna: T h e Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976. By Iiarry Hartling. Korea: The Untold Story of the War. By Joseph C. Coulden. The Revolutionary Orzgins of Modern Japan. By Thomas M. Huber. The African Nexus: Black American Perspectives on the European Partition of Africa, 1880-1920. By Sylvia M. Jacobs. The King's Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Florida Treasury, 1565-1702. By Amy Bushnell. Lewis Morris, 1671-1746. By Eugene R. Sheridan. Chesapeake Bay zn the American Revolution. Edited by Ernest M. Eller. The Presidential Game: The Ortgins of American Presidential Politics. By Richard P. McCormick. The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty. By James MacCregor Burns. Transcendentalism IIS a Social Movement, 1830-1850. By Anne C. Rose. Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality. By Dwight G. Anderson. Sherman's Other War: The General and the Ciuil War Press. By John F. Marszalek. Lee: The Last Years. By Charles Bracelen Flood. James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner. By George Coleman Osborn. Making Sense of Self: Medical Advice Literature i n Late Nineteenth-Centu y America. By Anita Clair Fellman and Michael Fellman. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. By Reginald Horsman. “Empire Can Wait”: American Opposition to Hawaiian Annexation, 1893-1898. By Thomas J. Osborne. Ideas in America's Cultures: From Republic to Mass Society. Edited by Hamilton Cravens Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers. By Lowell K. Dyson. A Different Kind of Victory: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart. By James Leutze. Macclrthur in Korea: The Naked Emperor. By Robert Smith. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier and Statesman. By R. Alton Lee.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era Mac Dixon–Fyle, A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912–1984: The Potts–Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs Steven Heydemann (ed.), War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East Linda Heywood, Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present Dariush Zahedi, The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability Rod Andrew, Jr., Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839–1915 Richard Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century Gregg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas Edward S. Curtis, The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis Stephen Davis, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions William C. Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens Olivier Debroise, Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War John S. D. Eisenhower with Joanne T. Eisenhower, Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I Victoria Getis, The Juvenile Court and the Progressives Fred Greenbaum, Men Against Myths: The Progressive Response John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History Gerald Horne, From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965–1980 Norris Hundley Jr., The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, A History Revised Edition Takeshi Inomata and Stephen Houston (eds.), Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya. Volume I, Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis William G. Jordan, Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914–1920 Jeff Kinard, Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War John Lear, Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City John Lynch, Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays John Allen Macaulay, Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution John Miller Morris (ed.), A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars Roger H. Tuller, “Let No Guilty Man Escape”: A Judicial Biography of “Hanging Judge” Isaac C. Parker Bill Werber and C. Paul Rogers, III, Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s Jeffrey D. Wert, Gettysburg: Day Three Jian Chen, Mao's China and the Cold War Mary Somers Heidhues, Southeast Asia: A Concise History Philip C. C. Huang, Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared Claude Markovits, The Global World of Indian Merchants 1750–1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama Kamakshi P. Murti, India: The Seductive and Seduced “Other” of German Orientalism Richard Sims, Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868–2000 Irena Backus, Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg J. H. Baker, The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law Noel Barber, The Week France Fell, June 10–16, 1940 Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher (trans.), The World of El Cid: Chronicle of the Spanish Reconquest Peter Biller, The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought Constance Brittain Bouchard, “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson (eds.), Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece Thomas S. Burns and John W. Eadie (eds.), Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity Norma Clarke, Dr. Johnson's Women Stephen Coote, Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II Claire A. Culleton, Working–Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914–1921 Sean Dobson, Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910–1920: The Story of a Relationship Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages Christopher Dyer, Everyday Life in Medieval England Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents Robert F. Haggard, The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870–1900 Lawrence James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India Roy MacLeod (ed.), The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World Gary Marker and Rachel May (trans., eds.), Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758–1821 Kostiantyn P. Morozov, Above and Beyond: From Soviet General to Ukrainian State Builder Peter Neville, Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937–1939 Gavriel Rosenfeld, Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich John H. Rosser, Historical Dictionary of Byzantium Edward Royle, Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789–1848 Robert Service, Lenin: A Biography Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington (eds.), Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Places, Rhetoric Andrew Stockley, Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782–1783 Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16^th to the 20^th Century Carol Wilton, Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800–1850 Anders Winroth, The Making of Gratian's Decretum.[Volume IL, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought] Isser Woloch, Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship Peter L. Bernstein, The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild, The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom E. Ray Canterbery, A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science David D. Gilmore, Misogyny: The Male Malady Geoffrey Jensen and Andrew Wiest (eds.), War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research     

Reviews of Books

CLARK G. REYNOLDS. Navies in History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 267. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. Maiolo

PETER WHITFIELD. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. viii, 200. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Glyndwr William

A. J. COATES. The Ethics of War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. 314. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Noam J. Zohar

JEREMY BLACK. Why Wars Happen. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 271. $30.00 (US); JEREMY BLACK. War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450–2000. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. 334. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger Beaumont

ROBERT E. A. PALMER. Rome and Carthage at Peace. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 152. DM 68. Reviewed by Hans-Friedrich Mueller

ROGER COLLINS. Charlemagne. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 234. $55.00 (CDN), cloth; $19.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by John J. Contreni

JEAN FAVIER. Gold and Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages, trans. Caroline Higgitt. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1998. Pp. 390. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by John H. Munro

JOHANNA MARIA VAN WINTER, compiler. Sources Concerning the Hospitallers of St John in the Netherlands, 14th–18th Centuries. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998. Pp. viii, 821. NLG 450. Reviewed by David F. Allen

DENIS TWITCHETT and FREDERICK W. MOTE, eds. The Cambridge History of China: VIII: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 2. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 1203. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard von Glahn

RICHARD W. UNGER. Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400–1800. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xii, 316. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy J. Runyan

OM PRAKASH. The New Cambridge History of India: II.5: European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii,377. $54.95(US). Reviewed by Blair B. Kling

M. W. DALY, ed. The Cambridge History of Egypt: II: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 463. $100.00 (US). Reviewed by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot

JAROSLAW PELENSKI. The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus'. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1998; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xxiii, 325. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Bushkovitch

NICHOLAS CANNY, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 533. $59.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Simon Adams

PHILIP LAWSON. A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660–1800. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xiv, 298. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan

HARRY LIEBERSOHN. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 179. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Ian K. Steele

SYLVIANE A. DIOUF. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 254. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul E. Lovejoy

DESMOND GREGORY. No Ordinary General: Lt General Sir Henry Bunbury (1778–1860): The Best Soldier Historian. Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. Pp. 144. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Neville Thompson

JOHN GASCOIGNE. Science in the Service of the Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 247. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Larry Stewart

PAUL WEBER. On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg, 1796–1803. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 205. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Daire Keogh

JAC WELLER. On Wellington: The Duke and His Art of War, ed. Andrew Uffindell. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 191. £19.99. Reviewed by Brian M. de Toy

LAWRENCE S. KAPLAN. Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Pp. xvii, 198. $50.00 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US)) paper. Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart

I. C. CAMPBELL. ‘Gone Native’ in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 167. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by David A. Chappell

NICHOLAS TARLING. Nations and States in Southeast Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 136. $59.95 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by A.J. Stockwell

JAMES CABLE. The Political Influence of Naval Force in History. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 213. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by George W. Baer

NELIDA FUCCARO. The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 230. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Olson

MARTIN A. KLEIN. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 354. $54.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William B. Cohen

JAIME E. RODRÍGUEZ O. The Independence of Spanish America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 274. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna

CARL BENN. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 272. $21.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by K. David Milobar

PHILIP D. CURTIN. Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 256. $64.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Daniel R. Headrick

TIMOTHY E. ANNA. Forging Mexico, 1821–1835. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 330. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Claudia Agostoni

GERALD STUDDERT-KENNEDY. Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1998. Pp. 273. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Penelope Carson

JANE SAMSON. Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 240. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugh Laracy

J. Y. WONG. Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxx, 542. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by D. W. Clayton

ELLIOTT WEST. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 422. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Francis Paul Prucha

JACK L. HAMMERSMITH. Spoilsmen in a ‘Flowery Fairyland’: The Development of the US Legation in Japan, 1859–1906. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 368. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Antony Best

PETER STANLEY. White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 314. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan

JOHN C. G. RÖHL. Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888, trans. Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxv, 979. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Lamar Cecil

DAVID MAYERS. Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861–1991. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 184. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Eileen P. Scully

SAMUEL L. BAILY. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 308. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald S. Castro

HIROAKI KUROMIYA. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 357. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by David Saunders

ANDREW LAMBERT. The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy, and the Historical Profession. London: Chatham Publishing, 1998. Pp. 256. £30.00. Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton

H. RAHMAN. The Making of the Gulf War: Origins of Kuwait's Long-Standing Territorial Dispute with Iraq. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 378. £35.00. Reviewed by Peter Sluglett

ROY MACLAREN, ed. African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887–1892. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. vi, 423. $49.95 (CDN); PETER HARRINGTON and FREDERIC A. SHARF, eds. Omdurman 1898: The Eye-Witnesses Speak: The British Conquest of the Sudan as Described by Participants in Letters, Diaries, Photos, and Drawings. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 236. £20.00. Reviewed by Philip Stigger

MATTHEW S. SELIGMANN. Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893–99: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 200. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Kubicek

SALWA ALGHANIM. The Reign of Mubarak al-Sabah: Shaikh of Kuwait, 1896–1915. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 242. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Frederick F. Anscombe

RISTO MARJOMAA. War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897–1903. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998. Pp. 305. FIM 140; $28.00 (US). Reviewed by A. S. Kanya-Forstner

LOUIS A. PÉREZ, JR. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 171. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Healy

MARK MAZOWER. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 495. £20.00. Reviewed by William R. Keylor

GUIDO MÜLLER, ed. Deutschland und der Westen: Internationale Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift fiir Klaus Schwabe zum 65. Geburtstag. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 381. DM 138, paper. Reviewed by Rennie W. Brantz

NIALL FERGUSON. The Pity of War. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xliii, 563. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

JAY WINTER and EMMANUEL SIVAN, eds. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. vii,260. $59.95 (US) Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth

GEORGE H. CASSAR. The Forgotten Front: The British Campaign in Italy, 1917–1918. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 269. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by William Philpott

DAVID DUTTON. The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the Balkans in the First World War. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. 248. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by David Stevenson

PAUL W. DOERR. British Foreign Policy, 1919–1939: ‘Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 291. $28.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Fred Stambrook

KURKPATRICK DORSEY. The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: US-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 311. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip V. Scarpino

JACOB METZER. The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 275. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Bunton

SASSON SOFER. Zionism and the Foundations of Israeli Diplomacy, trans. Dorodiea Shefet-Vanson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 449. $64.95 (US); BEN HALPERN and JEHUDA REINHARZ. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 293. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donna Robinson Divine

SHERI BERMAN. The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 308. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by William Lee Blackwood

ERIC PAUL ROORDA. The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 337. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Irwin F. Gellman

M. E. YAPP, ed. Politics and Diplomacy in Egypt: The Diaries of Sir Miles Lampson, 1935–1937. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 1044. $332.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert L. Tignor

JOHN HERMAN. The Paris Embassy of Sir Eric Phipps: Anglo-French Relations and the Foreign Office, 1937–1939. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 276. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith Neilson

JAMES K. HOPKINS. Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 474. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Willard C. Frank, Jr.

SUSAN A. BREWER. To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 269. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by John Ramsden

JÜRGEN ROHWER. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two: German, Italian, and Japanese Submarine Successes, 1939–1945. London: Greenhill Books, 1999. Pp. xvi, 366. £30.00. Reviewed by Michael L. Hadley

RICHARD OVERY. Russia's War. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 394. £20.00 Reviewed by Evan Mawdsley

DONALD H. AVERY. The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology during the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 406. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Reg Whitaker

RANDALL L. SCHWELLER. Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 267. $21.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen A. Schuker

OOI KEAT GIN. Rising Sun over Borneo: The Japanese Occupation of Sarawak, 1941–1945. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 158. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling

LARRY I. BLAND, ed. George C. Marshall's Mediation Mission to China, December 1945–January 1947. Lexington: George C. Marshall Foundation, 1998. Pp. xx, 661. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by David L. Wilson

MICHAEL J. HOGAN. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 525. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Matthew Jones

ROGER S. WHITCOMB. The Cold War in Retrospect: The Formative Years. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xiii, 260. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by David S. Foglesong

EDELGARD MAHANT and GRAEME S. MOUNT. Invisible and Inaudible in Washington: American Policies toward Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 252. $75.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gordon T. Stewart

GARY B. OSTROWER. The United Nations and the United States. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. Pp. xvi, 317. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley Michalak

LARS BLINKENBERG. India-Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts: I: The Historical Part. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 337, paper; LARS BLINKENBERG. India-Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts: II: An Analysis of Some Structural Factors. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 433. $61.50 (US, for both), paper. Reviewed by Hasan-Askari Rizvi

MARY ANN HEISS. Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950–1954. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 328. $19.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Helmut Mejcher

ANDREW MORAVCSIK. The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Idiaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 514. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Pierre-Henri Laurent

YOSEF GOVRIN. Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953–1967: From Confrontation to Disruption. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xxxvi, 347. $59.50 (US), cloth; $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry

JEFFREY PICKERING. Britain's Withdrawal from East of Suez: The Politics of Retrenchment. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 231. $65.00 (US); MICHAEL J. COHEN and MARTIN KOLINSKY, eds. Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943–55. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xv, 255. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by Tore Tingvold Petersen

DAVID R. MORRISON. Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 602. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Kim Richard Nossal

FRITZ FISCHER. Making Them, Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 237. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

ROLAND DANNREUTHER. The Soviet Union and the PLO. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 222. $59.95 (US); FRED WEHLING. Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967–1973. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 225. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Fred Halliday

ELINOR C. SLOAN. Bosnia and the New Collective Security. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xii, 128. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Donald M. Snow

STEVE TSANG. Hong Kong: Appointment with China. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 274. $17.95 (US), paper; JOHN FLOWERDEW. The Final Years of British Hong Kong: The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 258. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Scott

STEPHEN HOPGOOD. American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 262. $94.50 (CDN).Reviewed by Dimitris Stevis

JERROLD L. SCHECTER. Russian Negotiating Behavior: Continuity and Transition. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 225. $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen White

PETER TRUBOWITZ, EMILY O. GOLDMAN, and EDWARD RHODES, eds. The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 331. $20.50 (US), paper Reviewed by John H. Maurer

PETER BURROUGHS and A. J. STOCKWELL, eds. Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. 262. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

CHARLES JONES. E. H. Carr and International Relations: A Duty to Lie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 179. $54.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Christopher Brewin

PAUL GORDON LAUREN. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 385. $29.95 (US), paper; WILLIAM KOREY. NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ‘A Curious Grapevine’. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 638. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by J. G. Merrills

CHRISTOPHER COKER. War and the Illiberal Conscience. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 240. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by John Mueller     

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Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below: The Agrarian Transvaal at the Turn of the Century. By Jeremy Krikler. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400—1680. By John Thorton. Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda. By Justin Willis. The Americas : “Brother Woodrow”: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson. By Stockton Axson. Edited, with an introduction, by Arthur S. Link. Liberty, Justice, Order: Writings as Past Politics. By John Morton Blum. The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s. By Christine Bolt. Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement. By John M. Carroll. Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. By Roger Daniels. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 2828–1853. By James D. Dilts. The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 2835–1955. By Laurence F. Gross. The Making and Remaking of Asian America through Immigration Policy, 1850–1990. By Bill Ong Hing. The Arabists: Romance of an American Elite. By Robert D. Kaplan. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family. By Bernice Kert. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. By William Leach. Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans, 1917–1920. By David W. McFadden. Controlling the Waves: Dean Acheson and US. Foreign Policy in Asia. By Ronald L. McGlothlen. Cortés: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico. By Richard Lee Marks. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator. By Martin J. Medhurst. George Washington and American Constitutionalism. By Glenn A. Phelps. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement. By James R. Ralph, Jr. Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism. By Philippa Strum. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. By Robert M. Utley. Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910–1940. By Mark Wasserman. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. By Marjorie Spruill Wheeler. Asia and the Pacific : The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period. By Leonard Y. Andaya. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. By Liza Crihfield Dalby Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chiek-Ju. Edited by Lloyd E. Eastman. Economy, Society and Politics in Bengal: Jalpaiguri 1869–1947. By Ranajit Das Gupta. Old Malacca. By Sarnia Hayes Hoyt. Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China. Edited by Linda Cooke Johnson. Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagar Rule. By Noboru Karashima. The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. By Mark P. Parillo. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers'Jaws. Edited and translated by Lynn A. Struve. Europe : A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c. 1422–c. 2485. By Eric Acheson. Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884–1914. By Andrew Adonis. The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security, 1918–1957. Edited by R. Ahmann, A. M. Burke, and M. Howard. Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830–1871. By Ronald Aminzade. Germany after the First World War. By Richard Bessel. The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. By R 0. Bucholz. Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony, c. 970–c. 1130. By Marcus Bull. Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–1651. By Charles Carlton. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. By David G. Chandler. The Greek Civil War, 1943–1950: Studies of Polarization. Edited by David H. Close. Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. By Dora P. Crouch. Marriage, Wife-Beating, and the Law in Victorian England. By Maeve E. Doggett. Fragile Lives: Violence, Power, and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Arlette Farge. Translated by Carol Shelton. Russian Peasant Women. Edited by Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola. Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany. By Caroline Ford. National Socialist Rule in Germany: The Führer State, 1933–1945. By Norbert Frei. Translated by Simon B. Steyne. Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642–1649. By Christopher Hibbert. Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640. By Ronald C. Jennings. History and the Historians of Medieval Spain. By Peter Linehan. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914–1950. By Joseph McAleer. Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pietà of Florence. By Carol Bresnahan Menning. Revolution and Restoration: England in the 1650s. Edited by John Morrill. The First Jesuits. By John W. O'Malley. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. By R. A. C. Parker. Patronage and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850–1900. By Dermot Quinn. The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648–1652. By Orest Ranum. A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847. By Joachim Remak, with a foreword by James M. McPherson. Capitalism, Culture, and Decline in Britain 1750–1990. By W. D. Rubinstein. One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo. By Alan Schom. Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat. By Raphael Sealey Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789–1790. By Barry M. Shapiro. The City and the Crown: Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600–1740. By John P. Spielman. Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theater in Seventeenth-Century Spain. By Louise K Stein. European Revolutions, 1492–1992. By Charles Tilly. The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500–1650. By H. F. K. van Nierop. Translated by Maarten Ultee. German Resistance against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad 1938–1945. By Klemens von Klemperer. Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian Britain. By Frank H. Wallis. The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. By David Welch. The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France. By Michael Wolfe. General : The Past in Ruins: Tradition and the Critique of Modernity. By David Gross. Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History. By E. L. Jones.     

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Books reviewed: Review Essay Dennis B. Downey, Terrorism and the Loss of Being Walter Laqueur. A History of Terrorism. Mark S. Hamm. In Bad Company: America’s Terrorist Underground. Edward T. Linenthal. The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. Africa and the Middle East Philip D. Curtin. Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700–1900. Humphrey J. Fisher. Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa. The Americas Stephen E. Ambrose. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B‐24s over Germany. Samuel Basch. Recollections of Mexico: The Last Ten Months of Maximilian’s Empire. Volker R. Berghahn. America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. William C. Berman. From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency. Alexander Bloom, ed. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. Susan Branson. These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. Paul Buhle and David Wagner. A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Blacklist. Judith A. Carney. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Caleb Crain. American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. Robert M. Fogelson. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950. Nancy Gentile Ford. Americans All!: Foreign‐born Soldiers in World War I. Frank R. Freemon. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War. James N. Giglio. Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man. Earl J. Hess. Pickett’s Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg. Gary R. Hess. Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Lee Kennett. Sherman: A Soldier’s Life. Henry Kissinger. Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21^st Century. Cathy Luchetti. Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier. Gloria L. Main. Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. Louis A. Pérez Jr. Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Formation of Nineteenth‐Century Cuba. David M. Pletcher. The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion across the Pacific, 1784–1900. David J. Russo. American Towns: An Interpretive History. Edward Steers Jr. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Eric Van Young. The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810–1821. Michael Vorenberg. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Steven Watts. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Robert Whitney. State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920–1940. Linda Williams. Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. Barry K. Wilson. Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst. Asia and the Pacific Suzanne Gay. The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. Nicholas Tarling. A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945. Xiaoqun Xu. Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937. Dingxin Zhao. The Power of Tiananmen: State‐Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. Europe Gregory S. Aldrete. Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome. Abraham Ascher. P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Samuel H. Baron. Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962. Leeds Barroll. Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. Christopher M. Bellitto. Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations. Pierre Birnbaum. The Idea of France. Jean‐Francois Breton. Arabia Felix: From the Time of the Queen of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. to First Century A.D. Arden Bucholz. Moltke and the German Wars, 1864–1871. Nicholas Doumanis. Italy. Pál Engel. The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526. Geoffrey Hosking. Russia and the Russians: A History. Chris Humphrey. The Politics of Carnival: Festive Misrule in Medieval England. Edward Ingram. The British Empire as a World Power. Katherine Ludwig Jansen. The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. Ian Kershaw. Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis. Adam J. Kosto. Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200. John F. Matthews. Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code. P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart. Satan’s Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth‐Century Scotland. P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart. Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400–1800. Steven A. McKinion, ed. Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader. Annika Mombauer. Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War. Brian Parsons. The London Way of Death. Derek J. Penslar. Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. Bob Reece. The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales. Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson, eds. Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein. Matthew Stibbe. German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914–1918. Marjorie Swann. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. Ramie Targoff. Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco‐Prussian War. David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco‐Prussian War. Lucy E. C. Wooding. Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Benjamin Woolley. The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. General, Comparative, Historiographical Martin Bernal. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. Simon A. Cole. Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Ian Jackson. The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East‐West Trade, 1948–63. Adrienne Mayor. The First Fossil Hunters. Sam Wineburg. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.     

The romance of Czechoslovakia

EUROPE.

La Lorraine Métallurgique: Axel, Somme, Nancy, etc. Paris: Editions Berger‐Livrault, 1930.

Abbeys of Old Romance. By Charles G. Harper. London: Cecil Palmer, 1930. Price 15s.

Russia at Random. By Oliver Tweedy. London: Jarrolds, 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

European Encounters. By Hubert Griffith. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1931. Price 8s. 6d.

1. Between the River and the Hills. By Sisley Huddleston. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

2. Travels in Normandy. By Roy Elston. London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

3. Folktales of Normandy. By W. Branch Johnson. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1929. Price 7s. 6d.

Russia Unveiled. By Panait Istrati. Translated from the French by R. J. S. Curtis. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 10s.

French Leaves. By E. V. Lucas. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 5s.

Beautiful Mountains: In the Jugoslav Alps. By F. S. Copeland. Split: The Jugoslav Bureau, n.d. Price 5s.

Italy Yesterday and To‐Bay. By A. Marinoni. New York: The Macmillan Company Ltd., 1931. Price 21s.

The Economic Life of Soviet Russia. By Calvin B. Hoover, Ph.D. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

ASIA.

A Journey to China, or Things which are Seen. By Arnold Toynbee. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 15s.

The Japanese Population Problem: The Coming Crisis. By W. R. Crocker. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1931. Price 10s. 6d. net.

Conflict: Angora to Afghanistan. By Rosita Forbes. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 15s.

AFRICA.

Across Africa on Foot. By Ronald A. Monson. Photographs by J. Hunter Wilson. London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1931. Price 18s. net.

The Lonely Island. By Rose Annie Rogers. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

The Red Men of Nigeria. By Captain J. R. Wilson‐Haffenden, T.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. London: Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 21s. net.

AMERICA.

New Brunswick, Canada: Its Natural Resources and Development. By L. O. Thomas, B.Sc. Ottawa: Natural Resources Intelligence Service, 1930.

British Policy and Canada, 1774–1791. By Gerald S. Graham. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 10s. 6d. net.

POLAR.

Little America. By R. E. Byed. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 21s.

GENERAL.

The Mysterious Universe. By Sir James Jeans. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1930. Price 3s. 6d. net.

Jungle Islands: The "Illyria” in the South Seas. By Sidney N. Shurcliff. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., 1930. Price 42s.

Trodden Ways: 1895–1980. By Sir Ian Malcolm. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 12s. 6d.

The Island of Penguins. By Cherry Kearton. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 10s. 6d.

Turkey: Yesterday, To‐day, and To‐morrow. By Sir Telford Waugh. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1930. Price 18s.

Dark Trails: Adventures of a Naturalist. By George K. Cherbie. With a Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., Price 15s.

Changing Conditions of Imperial Defence: Essays on Military Geography. By Capt. D. H. Cole, M.B.E. London: Sifton, Praed and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 6s.

Downhill Ski‐Racing. By Harold Mitchell. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 5s.

Vancouver—A Life: 1757–1798. By George Godwin. London: Philip Allan and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 15s.

Kultur im Spiegel der Landschaft. Das Bild der Erde in seiner Oestaltung durch den Menschen. Ein Bilderatlas. Von Nikolaus Creutzburg. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut A.G., 1930. Preis RM. 45.

Peru from the Air. By Lieutenant George R. Johnson. With Text and Notes by Raye R. Platt. New York: American Geographical Society, 1930. Price $5.

The Autobiography of a Wanderer. By Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore, F.R.G.S. London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., n.d. Price 18s. net.

Through the Caucasus to the Volga. By Fridtjof Nansen. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.. 1931. Price 12s. 6d. net.

Chorus to Adventurers. By Roger Pocock. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

Impacts: The Trip to the States, and other Adventures of Travel. By Douglas Goldring. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Price 7s. 6d.

EDUCATIONAL.

Geographische Kausalprofile: Eine Beispielsammlung aus der Praxis fur die Praxis. Von Dr. Kurt Keause. Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt, 1930. Preis RM. 2.50.

The Peoples of the World. Vol. II. People and Homes in Many Lands. By F. G. Moss, B.A. Illustrated. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 2s. 6d.

An Introduction to Regional Surveying. By C. C. Fagg and G. E. Hutchings. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1930. Price 7s. 6d.

Introductory Studies in Geography. By E. Irene Daughtry, B.A. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. Price 2s. 3d.

The Seal Princess, by C. A. Dawson Scott, and With the Australian Aborigines, by E. L. Grant Wilson. “New Prospect” Readers. London: George Philip and Son Ltd., 1930. Price 8d. each.

The World‐Wide Geographies. Book IV. The World We Live In. By J. H. Stembridge. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1930. Price 1s. 9d.

Individual Geographies: North America. By R. Finch. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1930. Price 1s. 6d.

Progressive Studies in Geography. Book II. The Atlantic Hemisphere. Book III. Euro‐Asia. By H. Sankey and E. A. Meerett. London: George Philip and Son Ltd., 1930. Price, Book II., 10d.; Book III., 9d.

A Text‐Book of Geography. By G. C. Fey, M.Sc. 7th Edition. London : University Tutorial Press, 1930. Price 6s. 6d.

Earth and Sky. By C. H. Dobinson, M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1930. Price 3s. 6d.     

Review Article

Book reviewed in this article: Review Article Escape to Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China. James R. Ross. Review Article Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore 1870-1940. James Francis Warren. Africa and the Middle East Egypt in Late Antiquity. Roger S. Bagnall. The Women's Awakening in Egypt. Beth Baron. Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's‘Economic Decline. Thomas M. Callaghy and John Ravenhill. The First Son of South Africa to Be Premier: Thomas Charles Scanlon. Basil T. Hone. The Making of Saudi Arabia 1916-1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State. Joseph Kostiner. The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire. Alan Palmer. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Leslie P. Peirce. Revolution until Victory? The Politics and History of the PLO. Barry Rubin. Zimbabwe and the New Elite. Ruth Weiss. The Americas From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America. John A. Andrew IE. Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War. Thomas Borstelmann. God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America. Walter H. Conser, Jr. Samtiento: Author of a Nation. Tulio Halperin Donghi, Ivan Jaksic, Gwen Kirkpatrick, and Francine Masiello. Passionate Sage: The Character and legacy of John Adams. Joseph J. Ellis. American Political Cultures. Richard J. Ellis. Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier. Arrell Morgan Gibson. The Texture of Industry: An Archaeobgkal View of the Industrialization of North America. Robert B. Gordon and Patrick M. Malone. Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History. Carole Haber and Brian Gratton. Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877. Bruce Hampton. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution. Tom Hatley. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. Clifton Hood. James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age. James G. Herehberg. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Eric Lott. A Bloc of One: The Political Career of Hiram W. Johnson. Richard Coke Lower. Prize Possession: The United States and the Panama Canal, 1903-1979. John Major. Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War. Edward Pessert. Lincoln in American Memory. Merrill D. Peterson. Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator. Kurt Ritter and David Henry. Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War. Howard B. Schaffer. Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980. Steven Seidman. Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist. Sheila L. Skemp. Sam Houston: The Life and Times of the Liberator of Texas, an Authentic American Hero. John Hoyt Williams. Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Cyphers Affected Naval Operations against Japan, 1941-45. John Winton. Asia and the Pacific Colonialism in an Indian Hinterland: The Central Provinces, 1820-1920. D. E. U. Baker. Central Authority and local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain. Philip C. Brown. Broken Promises: Popular Protest, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar, 1935-1946. Vinita Damodaran. The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1945. Peter Ward Fay. Law and Order in Song China. Brian E. McKnight. An‘Agreed’Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northernmost Borders, 1846-1947. Parshotsam Mehra. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Volume 2, Expansion and Crisis. Anthony J. S. Reid. Europe The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple. Malcolm Barber. Collaboration in Belgium: Leon Degrelle and the Racist Movement 1940-1944. Martin Conway. The Halt in the Mud: French Strategic Planning from Waterloo to Sedan. Gary P. Cox. Anglicizing the Government of Ireland: The Irish Privy Council and the Expansion of Tudor Rule, 1556-1578. Jon G. Crawford. A History of Wales. John Davies. Franco. Sheelagh Ellwood. The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924. Gerald D. Feldman. From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-1933. E. J. Feuchtwanger. After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848-74. Margot C Finn. Life in the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Century. Hans-Werner Goetz, Albert Wimmer and Steven Rowan. The Origins of the Crimean War. David M. Goldfrank Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. Geoffrey Hartman. Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience. Barbara Harvey. Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post Communist Eastern Europe. Paul Hockenos. Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire 1918-1964. Stephen Howe. The Rush to German Unity. Konrad Jarausch. The Labour Party since 1945. Kevin Jefferys. Park Güell. Conrad Kent and Dennis Prindle. Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant. Amy Knight. Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West. Stephen Koch. Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present. John A. Lynn. Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany. Kristie Macrakis. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. J. M. Neeson. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend. D. D. R. Owen. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Jonathan Parry. Julius II. The Warrior Pope. Christine Shaw.d German History 1770-1866. James J. Sheehan. The Spanish Civil War. Hugh Thomas. The Shape of Athenian Law. Stephen C. Todd. Planning for War against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914. Graydon A. Tunstall, Jr. The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula. David J. Wasserstein. The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751. Ian Wood. General , Comparative , Historiographical A History of Civilizations. Femand Braudel. Richard Mayne.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. Vietnam 1945: The Quest of Power. By David G. Marr. William Cooper's Town: Powers and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. By Alan Taylor. The Secret World of American Communism. By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism in the Cold War Era. By John E. Haynes. Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. By Richard Gid Powers. The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. By Ami Ayalon. The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal: The Master of the Word The State and Its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present. Edited by Nelly Hanna. Breaking the Chains: Slavery and its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony. Edited by Nigel Worden and Clifton Crais. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Volume I, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch. By Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920. By Charlotte G. Borst. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. By Elaine G. Breslaw. The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870. By Richard D. Brown. Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal. By Jeanne Nienaber Clarke. The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New England. By Cedric B. Cowing. Them Damned Pictures: Explorations in American Political Cartoon Art. By Roger A. Fischer. Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808–1856. Edited and Translated by Elborg Forster and Robert Forster. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Kevin K. Gaines. Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis. Edited by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss. Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross. By John F. Hutchinson. Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. By Harvey T. Jackson III. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’Movement and World War II. By Glen Jeansonne. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. By Michael Kammen. The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism. By Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh. Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. By James M. McPherson. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. By Donald L. Miller. O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian. By John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastian. Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman. Edited by David Morgan. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. By Thomas D. Morris. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. By Joane Nagel. The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945. By Thomas F. O'Brien. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962–1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration. By Robert A. Potash. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. By Jack N. Rakove. The Power and the Darkness: The Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the Game. By Mark Ribowsky. Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth. By Joseph G. Rosa. Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture. By Jennifer Scanlon. State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax. Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money. By Robert Wuthnow. A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism. By Clive J. Christie. Rescuing History From the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. By Prasenjit Duara. Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts 600–1400. By Valerie Hansen. Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919–1937. By Brian G. Martin. Competition and Collaboration: Parsi Merchants and the English East India Company in Eighteenth-Century India. By David L. White. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. By Judy Yung. Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle. By John Aberth Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises. By Steven E. Aschheim. Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945. By Yehuda Bauer. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598–1661. By Yves-Marie Berce. Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia. By Laurie Bernstein. The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536. By Michael Bush. European Jewry and the First Crusade. By Robert Chazan. Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion. Edited by Roger Chickering. The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium. Edited by Adelbert Davids. Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. By Peter Berresford Ellis. Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1889–1914. By David M. Gordon. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. By Roger V. Gould. The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Edited by John Guy. The Spanish Economy, From the Civil War to the European Community. By Joseph Harrison. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806. By Jonathan Israel. Volume I, The Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia. By Adele Lindenmeyr. The Druids: Priests of the Ancient Celts. By Paul R. Lonigan. Medieval Russia, 980–1584. By Janet Martin. Women in Antiquity. Edited by Ian McAuslan and Peter Walcot, with an introduction by Gillian Clark. Government and Institutions in the Post-1832 United Kingdom. [Volume XXXIV, Studies in British History.] Edited, with an introduction, by Alan O'Day. Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. By Norman Roth. The Palazzo Vecchio, 1298–1532: Government, Architecture, and Imagery in the Civic Palace of the Florentine Republic. By Nicolai Rubinstein. Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860–1980. By Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits. Edited by Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker. Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940. By Simon Szreter. Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France. By Geoffrey Treasure. When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and The End of Empire in Egypt. By Robert Vitalis. Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years. By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982–1995. By George F. Kennan. Why the Allies Won. By Richard Overy.