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Books reviewed: La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles). By Pierre Bauduin. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen. 2004. 462 pp. EUR 30.00. ISBN 2 84133 145 8. Das monastische Experiment: die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens. By Albrecht Diem. Vita Regularis 24. Münster: LIT Verlag. 2005. x + 465 pp. EUR 39.90. ISBN 3 8258 8556 9. Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. By W?adys?aw Duczko. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2004. xii + 290 pp. + 78 ill. (including maps). $184.00. ISBN 90 04 13874 9. Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age. By Paul Edward Dutton. The New Middle Ages. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 2005. xvi + 279 pp. + 34 b/w ill. £40. ISBN 1 4039 6223 5. Politics and History in the Tenth Century. The Work and World of Richer of Reims. By Jason Glenn. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series 60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xviii + 330 pp. + 10 plates. £50. ISBN 0 521 83487 2. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims 919–966. Edited and translated by Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 9. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. [2004]. xxxvi + 120 pp. £8.99. ISBN 1 55111 650 2. Liber Eliensis: The History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth. Translated by Janet Fairweather. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xliv + 575 pp. £30. ISBN 1 84383 015 9. La géographie du pouvoir dans l’Espagne Visigothique. By Céline Martin. La collection Temps, Espace et Société«Histoire et Civilisations». Lille: Press Universitaires du Septentrion. 2003. 408 pp. EUR 23.50. ISBN 2 85939 815 5. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry. Edited by Gale R. Owen‐Crocker. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2005. xii + 202 pp. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 84383 124 4. Die Inszenierung religiöser Konfrontationen. Theorie und Praxis der Missionspredigt im frühen Mittelalter. By Lutz E. von Padberg. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 51. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann. 2003. xii + 528 pp. EUR 184. ISBN 3 7772 0324 6. Power and Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia. By Alexandra Sanmark. Uppsala: Occasional Papers in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. 2004. 322 pp. ISBN 91 506 1739 7. Barbarians, Marauders and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare. By Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, and Cumnor Hill, Oxford: Westview. 2004. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0 8133 9153. Herrschaft und Repräsentation: Studien zur Hofkultur König Alfreds des Groβen. By Anton Scharer. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsband 36. Vienna and Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2000. 151 pp. DM 66 paperback. ISBN 3 7029 0445 X. Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas. By Michael P. Speidel. London and New York: Routledge. 2004. xiv + 313 pp. ISBN 0 415 31199 3. Charlemagne: Empire and Society. Edited by J. Story. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2005. xx + 330 pp. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 7190 7089 9. The Evolution of Norman Identity, 911–1154. By Nick Webber. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2005. xi + 195 pp. £45. ISBN 1 84383 119 8.     

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Hønneland, Geir and Anne‐Kristin Jørgensen, Integration vs. Autonomy: Civil‐Military Relations on the Kola Peninsula, Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. 200 pp. ISBN 0 7546 2058 1

Marjut Anttonen, Etnopolitiikkaa Ruijassa. Suomalaislähtöisen väestön identi‐teettien politisoituminen 1990‐luvulla. Vammala: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1999, 521s. Sammendrag (norsk), Summary. (SKS Toimituksia, 764)     

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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Hugo Grotius on the law of war and peace: student edition. Edited and annotated by Stephen C. Neff. Thinking International Relations differently. Edited by Arlene Tickner and David L. Blaney. International organization, law and ethics Governing the world: the history of an idea. By Mark Mazower. The dictator's learning curve: inside the global battle for democracy. By William J. Dobson. The rise of global corporate social responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms. By Hevina S. Dashwood. Sacred aid: faith and humanitarianism. Edited by Michael Barnett and Janice Gross Stein. Global corruption: money, power and ethics in the modern world. By Laurence Cockcroft. Monitoring democracy: when international election observation works, and why it often fails. By Judith G. Kelley. Conflict, security and defence * 1 See also David Patrikarakos, Nuclear Iran: the birth of an atomic state, pp. 219–20.
The glorious art of peace: from the Iliad to Iraq. By John Gittings. The responsibility to protect: rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention. By Aidan Hehir. War from the ground up: twenty‐first‐century combat as politics. By Emile Simpson. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The net delusion: how not to liberate the world. By Evgeny Morozov. The age of social democracy: Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century. By Francis Sejersted. Radical: my journey from Islamist extremism to a democratic awakening. By Maajid Nawaz. Governance by indicators: global power through quantification and rankings. Edited by Kevin E. Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry. Political economy, economics and development Aftermath: the cultures of the economic crisis. Edited by Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso. Energy, environment and global health * 2 See also Hevina S. Dashwood, The rise of global corporate social responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms, pp. 187–8.
The oil road: journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London. By James Marriott and Mika Minio‐Paluello. Oil. By Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon. Economies of recycling: the global transformation of materials, values and social relations. Edited by Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno. Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. By Ben Goldacre. International history Belgium and the Congo 1885–1980. By Guy Vanthemsche. Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956. By Anne Applebaum. The Cold War and after: history, theory, and the logic of international politics. By Marc Trachtenberg. Europe * 3 See also Francis Sejersted, The age of social democracy: Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century, pp. 198–9; Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman, eds, The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro‐Europa, pp. 225–7.
Helmut Kohl: eine politische Biographie. By Hans‐Peter Schwarz. Good Italy, bad Italy: why Italy must conquer its demons to face the future. By Bill Emmott. Russia and Eurasia Russia and the cult of state security: the Chekist tradition, from Lenin to Putin. By Julie Fedor. The last dictatorship in Europe: Belarus under Lukashenko. By Brian Bennett. Middle East and North Africa Nuclear Iran: the birth of an atomic state. By David Patrikarakos. Everyday Arab identity: the daily reproduction of the Arab world. By Christopher Phillips. Qatar: a modern history. By Allen J. Fromherz. Exit Gaddafi: the hidden history of the Libyan revolution. By Ethan Chorin. The Arab uprising: the unfinished revolutions of the Middle East. By Marc Lynch. Sub‐Saharan Africa * 4 See also Guy Vanthemsche, Belgium and the Congo 1885–1980, pp. 210–11.
The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro‐Europa. Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman. Warfare in African history. Richard J. Reid. South Sudan: from revolution to independence. By Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold. South Asia Still counting the dead: survivors of Sri Lanka's hidden war. By Frances Harrison. East Asia and Pacific China's remarkable economic growth. By John Knight and Sai Ding. Is China buying the world? By Peter Nolan. North America Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations in the rise of American power. By Inderjeet Parmar. Sword of the spirit, shield of faith: religion in American war and diplomacy. By Andrew Preston. Latin America and Caribbean Raúl Castro and Cuba: a military life. By Hal Klepak. Mexico: democracy interrupted. By Jo Tuckman. Civil society and the state in left‐led Latin America: challenges and limitations to democratization. Edited by Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby.     

Book reviews

Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., ‘Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830–1930,’ http://vvomhist.Binghamton.edu.

Leonard L. Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780‐1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000). Pp.xii + 228. $39.95 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8071 2537 7; 0 8071 2600 4.

Timothy S. Huebner, The Southern Judicial Tradition: Southern Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790–1890 (Athens: University of Georgia Press), 1999. Pp. xiii 4‐ 263. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 252 0634 0.

Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000). Pp.xii + 316. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 6910 0130 8.

Joseph G. Dawson III, Doniphan's Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999). Pp. xii + 325. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 7006 0956.

Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). $45.00 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). Pp.xii + 311. ISBN 0 8078 2436 4; 0 8078 4741 0.

Paul Goodman, Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998). Pp.xxi + 303. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 5202 0794 7.

Mark E. Neely Jr, Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999). Pp.vii + 212. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 8139 1894 4.

John C. Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo‐Mississippi Delta after the Civil War (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000). Pp. xiv + 239. $55.00 (hardback); $19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8139 1971 1; 0 8139 1982 7.     

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Henryk Wisner: Zygmunt III Waza [Sigismund III Vasa], Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1991. ISBN 83–04–03693–2. 263 pp., paper, illustrated.

Rolf Tamnes, The United Stales and the Cold War in the High North (Dartmouth Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vermont, 1991), 384 pp. ISBN 1–85521–223–4.

Göran Göransson, Virtus Mililaris. Ojficersideal i Sverige 1560–1718 (Officer Ideal in Sweden 1560–1718). (Bibliotheca Histórica Lundensis 68, Lund, 1990), 200pp. ISBN 91–7966–127–0. English summary.     

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Drawing on methodologies and theories used to understand forms of material culture, this paper traces the spatio-temporal lives of a group of medicine chests manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., the business co-founded by Henry Wellcome which is now known as GlaxoSmithKline. The paper examines the biographical, historical and commercial histories connected with these objects. In particular, it considers how the chests became embroiled within narratives of progress and modernity associated with the production and promotion of ‘modern’ pharmaceuticals and the establishment of a collection of objects through which Wellcome attempted to trace the ‘history of medicine and mankind’ from evolutionary perspectives. Using empirical research from a variety of contexts, the paper therefore reflects on how the chests’ circulation, use and display shed light on historical geographies of science, collecting, commerce and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Le parcours des pharmacies portatives à travers le monde: esquisse sur les géographies de la cueillette et des produits pharmaceutiques

En s'appuyant sur des méthodologies et des théories qui servent à comprendre les formes de culture matérielle, cet article esquisse les vies spatiales et temporelles d'un ensemble de pharmacies portatives fabriquées par l'entreprise Burroughs Wellcome et cie, cofondée par Henry Wellcome et qui est connue aujourd'hui sous le nom de GlaxoSmithKline. Cet article aborde sous les angles biographique, historique et commercial les histoires associées à ces objet. Il se penche en particulier sur la façon dont les pharmacies se sont mêlées aux récits sur le progrès et la modernité liés à la production et la promotion de produits pharmaceutiques «modernes» et à la constitution d'une collection d'objets à partir desquels Wellcome a tenté d'esquisser dans une optique évolutive une «histoire de la médecine et de l'humanité». [Agrave] partir de recherches empiriques issues d'un large éventail de contextes, cet article examine donc comment la diffusion, l'usage et la présentation des pharmacies peuvent donner des renseignements sur les géographies historiques de la science, de la cueillette, du commerce et de l'empire à la fin du dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècle.

Mots-clefs: géographies historiques de la culture matérielle, cueillette, commerce, empire, histoires de la science, de la médecine et des produits pharmaceutiques, biographie.

Botiquines de medicina trotamundos: análisis de las geografías de coleccionar y farmacéuticos

Haciendo uso de metodologías y teorías que se emplea para entender formas de cultura material, este papel detalla las vidas espacio-temporales de un grupo de botiquines de medicina, fabricados por Burroughs Wellcome and Co., una empresa cofundada por Henry Wellcome, que hoy en día es conocida como GlaxoSmithKline. El papel examina las historias biográficas, históricas y comerciales relacionadas con estos objetos. En particular, considera cómo los botiquines llegaron a verse envueltos en narrativas de progreso y modernidad, asociadas con la producción y promoción de farmacéuticos modernos y el establecimiento de una colección de objetos, por los cuales Wellcome pretendía detallar la ‘historia de la medicina y del hombre’ desde perspectivas evolucionarias. Haciendo uso de investigaciones empíricas de varios contextos, el papel considera cómo la circulación, el uso y la exposición de los botiquines revela las geografías históricas de ciencia, coleccionar, comercio e imperios en la última parte del siglo 19 y la primera parte del siglo 20.

Palabras claves: geografías históricas de la cultura material, coleccionar, comercio, imperio, Historias de ciencia, medicina y farmacéuticos, biografía.     

Book reviews

Ken Alder. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. xvi+476.

Robert Kanigel. The One Best Way: Frederick Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (New York: Viking, 1997), pp. 675.

Robert P. Crease. Making Physics. A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972 (University of Chicago Press, 1999).     

Book reviews

Ruth Oldenziel, Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999), pp. 271

Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni (eds.), Management Education in Historical Perspective (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999), pp. Xiii+177

T.R. Gourvish and N. Tiratsoo (eds.), Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945–1960 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press/St. Martins, 1999), pp. X+165     

Book reviews

AFFERGAN, F., La pluralite des mondes. Vers une autre anthropologie, Albin Michel, 1997, 288 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 22609 4067

BERNARD‐GRIFFITHS, S. (ed.), Cahier romantique no. 3: Variétés sur Michelet, Nizet, 1998, 200 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 910875 06 7

BOUVET, L., DELORS, J., KLUXEN‐PYTA, D., LAMERS, K. and ROVAN, J., France‐Allemagne: le bond en avant, Odile Jacob, 1998, 208 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 7381 0580 7

CHOLVY, G., Être chrétien en France au XIX^e siècle 1790–1914, Seuil, 1997, 178 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 02 022836 X

DEMOLINS, E., A, quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo‐Saxons?, Anthropos, 1998, 302 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 7178 3653 5

DIXON, W.W., The films of Jean‐Luc Godard, State University of New York Press, 1997, 290 pp., £10.49, ISBN 0 7914 3286 6

DUBOIS, L. (ed.), Albert Camus entre la Misère et le Soleil, Editions du Pont‐Neuf, 1997, 321 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 910351 14 9

EVANS, M. and LUNN, K., (eds), War and Memory in the Twentieth Century, Berg, 1997, 272 pp; price not indicated, ISBN 1 85973 199 6

FOUCAULT, M. (Edited by Paul Rabinów and translated by Robert Hurley et al.), Ethics: the Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 1, Penguin, 1997, 334 pp., £25.00, ISBN 0 713 99163 1

GIOLITTO, P., Histoire de la Milice, Perrin, 1997, 575 pp., 159F., ISBN 2 262 01250 4

HOLMES D. and INGRAM R., François Truffaut, Manchester University Press, 1998, 225 pp., £36.00 hbk, ISBN 0 7190 4553 3 £8.99 pbk, 0 7190 4554 1

KOK ESCALLE, M.‐C. (ed.), Paris: De l'image à la mémoire. Représentations artistiques, littéraires, socio‐politiques, Rodopi, 1997, 229 pp., price not indicated ISBN 90 420 0049 X

LE CACHEUX, J. (ed.), Europe, la nouvelle vague: perspectives économiques de l'élargissement, Presses de Sciences Po, 1996, 372 pp., 95F., ISBN 2 7246 0704 X

LENEVEU C. and VAKALOULIS M. (eds), Faire mouvement. Novembre‐décembre 1995, PUF, 1998, 314 pp., 138F., ISBN 2 13 0494889

LEP APE P., André Gide le messager, Seuil, 1997. 508 pp. 132F., ISBN 2 02 025247 3

MACMASTER, N., Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France 1900–1962, Macmillan, 1997, £40.50 hbk, 0 333 64466 2 £16.65 pbk, 0 333 68700 0

MANO, J.‐L. and BIRENBAUM, G., La défaite impossible. Enquête sur les secrets d'une élection, Ramsay, 1997, 356 pp., 109F., ISBN 2 84114 303 1

MAURY, R., Albine, le dernier amour de Napoléon, (Préface de François de Montholon‐Candé) Calmann‐Lévy, 1998, 378 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7021 2851 3

MAYOL, P., Les Enfants de la liberté. Études sur l'autonomie sociale et culturelle des jeunes en France 1970–1996, L'Harmattan, 1997, 286 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7384 5677 4

PITTE, J.‐R., La France, Nathan, 1997, 192 pp., 69F., ISBN 2 09 190226 8

POIRRIER, P., La, Naissance, des politiques culturelles et les Rencontres d'Avignon 1964–1970, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 1997, 570 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 909 717 30 5

REARICK, C., The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars, Yale University Press, 1997, 321 pp., £25, ISBN 0 300 06433 0

REVEL, J.‐F., Le voleur dans la maison vide, Plon, 1997, 649 pp., 149 F., ISBN 2 259 18022 1

STEEGMULLER, F., Cocteau, A Biography, (translated by M. Jossua) Buchet/Chastel, 1997, 409 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 7020 1624 3

TODD, E., L'Illusion économique: essai sur la stagnation des sociétés développées, Gallimard, 1998, 321 pp., 115F., ISBN 2 07 074885 5

ZAMPONI, F., Les, RG, à, l'écoute de la France. Police et politique de 1981 à 1997, La Découverte, 1998, 300 pp., 135F., ISBN 2 7071 2821 X     

Book reviews

Abraham Ben‐Zvi, Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American‐Israeli Alliance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. 218, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0 23111 262 9 HB, 0 23111 263 7 PB.

Kenneth W. Stein, Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab‐Israeli Peace. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xix + 324, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 041592 154 6 HB.

Antonio Donno (ed.), Ombre di guerra fredda. Gli Stati Uniti nel Medio Oriente durante gli anni di Eisenhower, 1953–1961. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1998. Pp. 754, bibliography, notes. ISBN 8 88114 584 7 HB.

Raanan Rein, In the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Inquisition: Israel's Relations with Francoist Spain. Trans. Martha Grenzebach. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp. 278, Notes, sources, bibliography, index. ISBN 0 71464 796 9 HB, 0 71464 351 3 PB.

Alan Dowty, The Jewish State: A Century Later. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 337, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0 52020 941 9 PB.

Daniel Gavron, The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp xvi + 295, glossary, selected bibliography, index. ISBN 0 84769 526 3 HB.

Nahum Karlinsky, Citrus Blossoms: Jewish Entrepreneurship in Palestine, 1890–1939. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2000. Pp. 1 + 315, bibliography, indices. ISBN 9 65493 089 7 HB.

Yaacov N. Goldstein, From Fighters to Soldiers: How the Israeli Defense Forces Began. Brighton, UK, and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 302, forward by Yoav Gelber, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 1 90221 001 8 HB, 1 90221 002 6 PB.     

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Environmental Management: New Directions for the Twenty‐First Century. Geoff A. Wilson and Raymond L. Bryant. UCL Press (Taylor & Francis), London; 1997, 224 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1–857284–631 (pb)

Sustainable Development in Western Europe: Coming to Terms with Agenda 21. Tim O'Riordan and Heather Voisey (Eds). Cass, Ilford, Essex, 1997, 190 pp., £25.00 (hb) ISBN 0–7146–4830–2, £13.50 (pb) ISBN 0–7146–4376–9

Industrial Policies and Economic Integration. Patrizio Bianchi. Routledge, London; 1998, 228 pp., £45.00 (hb), ISBN 0–415–14910‐X

Economia, Espacio e Globalizacio. Georges Benko. Hucitec, São Paulo, 1996, 266 pp., ISBN 85–271 0348–6     

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Books reviewed: Bruce Russett and John R. Oneal, Triangulating peace: democracy, interdependence, and international organizations Robert M. A. Crawford and Darryl S. L. Jarvis, (eds.) International Relations: still an American social science? Toward diversity in international Thought Charlotte Hooper, Manly states: masculinities, International Relations, and gender politics Richard A. Falk, Human rights horizons: the pursuit of justice in a globalizing world Simon Caney and Peter Jones, (eds.) Human rights and global diversity Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Daniel Warner, (eds.) Ethics and international affairs: extent and limits Elazar Barkan, The guilt of nations: restitution and negotiating historical injustices Richard Little and Mark Wickham‐Jones, (eds.) New Labour's foreign policy: a new moral crusade? Robert L. Maddex, International encyclopedia of human rights: freedoms, abuses, and reform W. Andy Knight, (ed.) Adapting the United Nations to a post‐modern era: lessons learned Malcolm Dando, The new biological weapons: threat, proliferation, and control J. Cirincione, (ed.) Repairing the regime: preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction Avery Goldstein, Deterrence and security in the twenty‐first century: China, Britain, France and the enduring legacy of the nuclear revolution I. William Zartman, (ed.) Preventive negotiation: avoiding conflict escalation Leon V. Sigal, Hang separately: cooperative security between the United States and Russia 1985‐1994 Cecilia Albin, Justice and fairness in international negotiation G. R. Berridge and Alan James, A dictionary of diplomacy Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock, (eds.) The progressive century: the future of the centre‐left in Britain John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister Bertrand Badie, The imported state: the Westernization of the political order Justin Lewis, Constructing public opinion: how political elites do what they like and why we seem to go along with it Catherine Eschle, Global democracy, social movements and feminism Catharin E. Dalpino, Deferring democracy: promoting openness in authoritarian regimes James G. McGann and R. Kent Weaver, Think‐tanks and civil societies Jim MacLaughlin, Reimagining the nation‐state: the contested terrains of nation‐building Justin Rosenberg, The follies of globalisation theory: polemical essays Allen J. Scott, Global city‐regions: trends, theory, policy Robert Gilpin, Global political economy: understanding the international economic order Rorden Wilkinson, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organization: the architecture and extension of international trade regulation Edward M. Graham., Fighting the wrong enemy: antiglobal activists and multinational enterprises John J. Kirton, Joseph P. Daniels and Andreas Freytag., (eds.) Guiding global order: Ggovernance in the twenty‐first century Mauro F. Guillén, The limits of convergence: globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain Neil Middleton and Phil O'Keefe, Redefining sustainable development Adrian Leftwich, States of development: on the primacy of politics in development Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, (eds.) War diaries 1939‐1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the making of modern Japan Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy's wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam Rolf Steininger, Der Mauberbau: die Westmåchte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958‐1963 Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss, Empire and revolution: the United States and the Third World since 1945 Bo Stråth, (ed.) Europe and the other and Europe as the other Paul Gillespie, (ed.) Blair's Britain, England's Europe: a view from Ireland Rory O'Donnell, Europe: the Irish experience Gerald Schneider and Mark Aspinwall, (eds.) The rules of integration: institutionalist approaches to the study of Europe Marcus Höreth, Die Europäische Union im Legitimationstrilemma: Zur Rechtfertigung des Regierensjenseits der Staatlichkeit Robert J. Guttman, (ed.) Europe in the new century: visions of an emerging superpower Hans Arnold, Europa neu Denken:Warum und Wie Weiter Einigung? Miron Rezun, Europe's nightmare: the struggle for Kosovo Archie Brown, (ed.) Contemporary Russian politics: a reader Alena Ledeneva, Unwritten rules: how Russia really works Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the politics of culture Roy Allison and Lena Jonson, (eds.) Central Asian security: the new international context Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser, Israel and the politics of Jewish identity: the secular‐religious impasse Eyal Zisser, Asad's legacy: Syria in transition Ali M.Ansari, Iran, Islam and democracy: the politics of managing change David Menashri, Post‐revolutionary politics in Iran: religion, society and power Tim Niblock, ‘Pariah states’ and sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya and Sudan Carl Brown, (ed.) Diplomacy in the Middle East: the international relations of regional and outside Powers Volker Perthes, Vom Krieg zur Konkurrenz: regionale Politik und die Suche nach einer neuen arabisch‐nahöstlichen Ordnung Jeffrey Herbst, States and power in Africa: comparative lessons in authority and control Nana Poku, (ed.) Security and development in Southern Africa Achille Mbembe, De la postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine Michael Leifer, (ed.) Asian nationalism Marcus Noland, Avoiding the apocalypse: the future of the two Koreas Carl E.Walter and Fraser J. T. Howie, ‘To get rich is glorious!’ China's stock markets in the 1980s and 1990s Mayumi Itoh, Globalization of Japan: Japanese sakoku mentality and US efforts to open Japan Mya Than and Carolyn L. Gates, (eds.) ASEAN enlargement: impacts and implications Siobhán McEvoy‐Levy, American exceptionalism and US foreign policy: public diplomacy at the end of the Cold War H. Michael Erisman, Cuba's foreign relations in a post‐Soviet world Merilee S. Grindle, Audacious reforms: institutional invention and democracy in Latin Americ Gary H. Gossen, Telling Maya tales: Tzotzil identities in modern Mexico Howard J. Wiarda, The soul of Latin America: political and cultural tradition     

Book reviews

CHINA

BOB HODGE and KAM LOUIE. The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture: the Art of Reading Dragons. London: Routledge, 1998. A$150.00, hardcover; A$52.95, paper.

JAPAN, KOREA

LEWIS R. LANCASTER and RICHARD K. PAYNE (eds). Religion and Society in Contemporary Korea. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1997. 282 pp. Preface, index. $US20.00, paper.

DOH C. SHIN. Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. A$90.00, hardcover; A$34.95, paper.

GEIR HELGESEN. Democracy and Authority in Korea: the Cultural Dimension in Korean Politics. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998. £40.00, hardcover.

SOUTH, WEST & CENTRAL ASIA

J. E. LLEWELLYN. The Legacy of Women's Uplift in India. Contemporary Women Leaders in the Arya Samaj. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. 224 pp. Rs325, hardcover.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

R. E. ELSON. The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: a Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800‐1990s. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, 1997. xxvii, 335 pp. Tables, abbreviations, glossary, index. A$49.95, paper.

GENERAL ASIA

JAMES W. MORLEY (ed). Driven by Growth: political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region. Revised Edition. Armonk, New York; London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. 393 pp. Preface, tables, figures, bibliography, index. US$24.95, paper.