The law,the citizen,and the state in nineteenth‐century Australia

The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State 1788–1901 by Alastair Davidson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii + 329. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–36658–5.

The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales by David Neal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 266. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–37264‐X.

Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810–1830 by Paula J. Byrne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 301. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40379–0.     

Reviews

Book review in this Article James Peter : Finding the Historical Jesus; a Statement of the Principles Involved. David Daube : Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law. Karekin Sarkissian : The Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Church. S. L. Greenslade (Ed.): The Cambridge History of the Bible.The West from the Reformation to the Present Day. Ekkehart Fabian : Die Entstehung des Schmalkaldischen Bundes und seiner Verfassung 1524/29–1531/35.Brück, Philipp von Hessen und Jakob Sturm. A. G. Dickens : The English Reformation. Robert M. Kingdon (Ed.): ‘The Execution of Justice in England’ by William Cecil and ‘A True, Sincere, and Modest Defense of English Catholics’ by William Allen. T. L. Suttor : Hierarchy and Democracy in Australia, 1788–1870. The Formation of Australian Catholicism. Ruth Knight : Illiberal Liberal: Robert Lowe in New South Wales, 1842–1850.     

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Jonathan Derrick, Africa's ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939

Richard T. Reid, A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present

Leo Zeilig, Patrice Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader

Jay Straker, Youth, Nationalism and the Guinean Revolution

Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trevor Jenkins (eds.), A Search for Origins: Science, History and South Africa's Cradle of Humankind

Pippa Green, Choice, not Fate. The Life and Times of Trevor Manuel

Peter Limb, Nelson Mandela. A Biography

Richard Calland, Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power?

Peter Harris, In a Different Time: The Inside Story of the Delmas Four

Zarina Maharaj, Dancing to a Different Rhythm: A Memoir

Peter Joyce, The Making of a Nation: South Africa's Road to Freedom

Richard Mendelsohn and Milton Shain, The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History

Paul Deléage, End of a Dynasty: The Last Days of the Prince Imperial, Zululand 1879

R. W. Johnson, South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid

Karen E. Flint, Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948

Gerald M. Oppenheimer and Ronald Bayer, Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Markku Hokkanen, Medicine and Scottish Missionaries in the Northern Malawi Region, 1875–1930: Quests for Health in a Colonial Society

Stephens Phatlane, Poverty, Medicine and Disease in South Africa: The Era of High Apartheid, 1948–1976

Y. G.-M. Lulat, United States Relations with South Africa. A Critical Overview from the Colonial Period to the Present

Celestine J. Pretorius (ed.), Op Trek: Die Daaglikse Lewe Tydens die Groot Trek     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism. By Gareth Davies. In the Currents : Making Headway in Ethiopian Social History The Making of Modern Ethiopia: 1896–1974. By Teshale Tibebu. Ethiopia: Power and Protest, Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. By Gebru Tareke. Africa and the Middle East Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East. Edited by David Garnham and Mark Tessler. The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy. By Burton I. Kaufman. From Slave Trade to “!Legitimate Commerce”: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Edited by Robin Law. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. By Bernard Lewis. Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville. By Phyllis M. Martin. Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940–93. Edited by B. A. Ogot and W. R. Ochieng. The Americas How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. By Stephen Aron. Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WW II. By Nat Brandt. Making Peace with the 60s. By David Burner. Masters of War. By Robert Buzzanco. Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador. By Warren R. DeBoer. On the Side of My People: A Religious Life Of Malcolm X. By Louis A. DeCaro Jr. Robert Kennedy: The Final Years. By Brian Dooley. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. By David M. Esposito. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815–1840. By Daniel Feller. More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Rioting in America. By Paul A. Gilje. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. The Passing of Starr Faithfull. By Jonathan Goodman. Man of the People: The Life of Harry S. Truman. By Alonzo L. Hamby. The Press of the Young Republic, 1783–1833. By Carol Sue Humphrey. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation. By Willard Carl Klunder. Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions. By Lloyd Kramer. Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability: An Interpretive Profile. By L. B. Kuppenheimer. Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776–1995. By David E. Kyvig. Race Relations Within Western Expansion. By Alan J. Levine. George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency. By David Mervin. The New Crusades, The New Holy Land: Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969–1991. By David T. Morgan. A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850–1920. By Donald J. Pisani. Christmas in America: A History. By Penne L. Restad. Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity and Mexican Culture. By Claudia Schaefer. The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800–1880. Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway. A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas. By Jeannie M. Whayne. Asia and the Pacific Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China. By Richard L. Davis. The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. By Sheldon Garon. Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. By Stephanie Lawson. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433. By Louise Levathes. Agricultural Production and Indian History. Edited by David Ludden. The Japanese Kimono. By Hugo Munsterburg. Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins. Europe And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918–1930. By Alan M. Ball. Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931. Edited by Eugenio Biagini. Einstein: A Life. By Denis Brain. The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England. By Michelle P. Brown. The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity. By Kate Cooper. Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic. By Anthony Corbeill. The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt. Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600–1987. By Richard J. Evans. The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. By Ilya V. Gaiduk. Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning. By Eugenia C. Kiesling. Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945–1958. By Paul W. T. Kingston. Denmark in the Thirty Years’War, 1618–1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State. By Paul Douglas Lockhart. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg. Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1995. Edited by Reiner Pommerin. The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs. Edited by Donald J. Raleigh, compiled by A. A. Iskenderov. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780–1914. By Richard Rodger. The War for the German Mind: Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers. By Arthur L. Smith Jr. The Prussian Army, 1640–1871. By Jonathan R. White. The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic. By Roger Woods. General , Comparative , Historiographical Colbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade. By Glenn J. Ames. The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective. Edited by Victoria de Grazia with Ellen Furlough. The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification. By Mary N. Hampton. “Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide. By Sven Lindqvist. Translated by Joan Tate. Progress: Fact or Illusion? Edited by Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish. Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. By James M. Perry. Tobacco in Atlantic Trade: The Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675–1775. By Jacob M. Price. World History: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present. By Hugh Thomas.     

Book reviews

The New South Pacific. By R. G. Crocombe. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 130 pp. $A4–50.

Lae Village and City. By Ian Willis. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1974. 173 pp. $10.80.

Fijian Way of Life. By Kingslev Roth. Second Edition with a new Introduction by G. B. Milner. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1973. XXXIX, 176 pp. $6.00.

Contention and Dispute: Aspects of Law and Social Control in Melanesia. Edited by A. L. Epstein. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. 354 pp. $11.95.

A new system of slavery: the export of Indian labour overseas 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. London, New York, Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1974. xvi, 432.     

Book reviews

The Restless Urban Landscape. Paul L. Knox (Ed.), New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1993, 285pp.

Towards a New Economic Order: Postfordism, Ecology and Democracy. Alain Lipietz, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992, 206pp.

London: A New Metropolitan Geography. Keith Hoggart and David R. Green (Eds), London, Edward Arnold, 1992, pbk.

Regional Innovation Policy: Case‐studies from the Ruhr Area, Baden‐Württemberg and the North East of England. Robert Hassink, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Rijksuniversiteit, 1992, 187pp., ISBN 90–6809–155–7.

Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. F. W. Carter and D. Turnock (Eds), London, Routledge, 1993, 249 pp., ISBN 0–415–06229–2.

From Garden Cities to New Towns: Campaigning for town and Country Planning 1899–1946.. Dennis Hardy, London, E. and F. N. Spon, 1992, 340pp., £39.95 hbk.     

Gender,Generation, and Race in American Shipyards in the Second World War

Stephen Peter Rosen. War and Human Nature. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 3005. Pp. 211. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn

Marshall Sahlins. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 334. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by K. R. Howe

Joachim Latacz. Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery, trans. Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp.xvii, 342. $96.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Anthony Snodgrass

Angelos Chaniotis. War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History.Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 308. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein

S. A. M. Adshead. Tang China: The Rise of the East in World History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xvii, 233. $24.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Richard von Glahn

Nancy Bisaha.Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 309. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jerry Brotton

Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. vi, 346. $55.00 (US); Londa Schiebinger. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 306. $39–95 (US). Reviewed by John Gascoigne

Paul Douglas Lockhart. Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559–1596. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. xxii, 350. €99.00. Reviewed by Robert I. Frost

Ulinka Rublack. Reformation Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 208. $2.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by R. Po-Chia Hsia

Daniel V. Botsman. Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 319. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by F. G. Notehelfer

Matthew Glozier. Marshal Schomberg, 1615–1690: “The Ablest Soldier of His Age”. International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 250. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Parrott

Carla Gardina Pestana. The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 342. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Luca Codignola

Peter C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 725. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Dardess

Kathleen Wilson, ed. A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 385. $34-99 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark

Liam C. Kelley. Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship. Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Nola Cooke

Andrew Porter.Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. viii, 373- $29–95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Terence Ranger

P. J. MARSHALL. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, c.1750–1783. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 398. $90.00 (CDN); Steven Sarson.British America, 1500–1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005; dist. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xix, 332. $45.50 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Trevor Burnard

C. A. Bayly.The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 540. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz

Robert Galois, ed. A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786–89. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 441. $95.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ken S. Coates

Bernard Porter.The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 475. $71.50 (CDN). Reviewed by H. V. Bowen

Stuart Semmel.Napoleon and the British. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 354. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Neville Thompson

Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. The Global History Reader. London and New York: Roudedge, 2005. Pp. x, 302. $17.99 (US) paper; Geoffrey Jones. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 340. $195.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes

Zachary Lockman. Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 308. $30–95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Jankowski

Gerard Moran. Sending out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 252. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Tyler Anbinder

Erik Gilbert.Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 176. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Laura Fair

Michael R. Auslin. Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart

Frank J. Merli. The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War, ed. David M. Fahey. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 223. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid

Robert T. Foley. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 301. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig

Roger Owen. Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 436. $75.00 (CDN), cloth; $45.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Saul Kelly

Theodore Huters. Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 370. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward Rhoads

Stephen G. Craft. V. K. Wellington Koo and the Emergence of Modern China. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xii, 330. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen R. Mackinnon

Noenoe K. Silva. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 3004. Pp. x, 260. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William E. H. Tagupa

Anne Perez Hattori. Colonial Dis-ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 239. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger Dingman

Patricia E. Roy. The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man'lar;85.00 (CDN), cloth; $29.95 (CDNK paper. Reviewed by Hilary K. Blair

Maureen Healy. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 333. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by C. M. Peniston-Bird

Mona L. Siegel. The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 317. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. Young

Thomas Boghardt. Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xiv, 224. $69.95 (US)- Reviewed by David Stevenson

Ben Shepherd. War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 300. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark von Hagen

Yasir Suleiman. A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 270. $70.00 (US), cloth; $27.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Seth Jacobs. America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and US Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 381. $22.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Andrew Preston

Wilson P. Dizard, Jr. Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the US Information Agency. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2004. Pp. xv, 255. $49–95 (US). Reviewed by Scott Lucas

Gunnar Skogmar. The United States and the Nuclear Dimension of European Integration. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xi, 331. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Mervyn O'Driscoll

Philippe Roger. The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism, trans. Sharon Bowman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 518. $.35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid

Christopher Endy. Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 286. $32.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Frank Costigliola

David Easter. Britain and the Confrontation with Indonesia, 1960–1966. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004. Pp. ix, 257. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Howard Dick

Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow, eds. Ending the Cold War: Interpretations, Causation, and the Study of International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. viii, 248. $24.95 (US)? paper. Reviewed by William D.Jackson

James Barber. Mandela's World: The International Dimension of South Africa's Political Revolution, 1990–99. Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. ix, 214. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Seekings

Anthony James Joes. Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. 351. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett

Anne-Marie Slaughter. New World Order. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 341. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Tim Dunne

Ian Clark. Legitimacy in International Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 278. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian Hurd

Frederick Cooper. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 327. $19.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Dane Kennedy

Jack Goody. Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate. Cambridge and Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Polity Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 200. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Thomas D. Hall

David L. Rousseau. Democracy and War: Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 384. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Miriam Fendius Elman

Michael Mann. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 580. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Milton J. Esman     

The Struggle for Mastery in Cilicia: Turkey,France, and the Ankara Agreement of 1921

Micahel Williams. Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 689. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Hirt

Richard P. Hallion. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 531. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Robin Higham

A. B. Bosworth. The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Successors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 307. $127.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Waldemar Heckel

Frances Wood. The Silk Road: Two Thousand Tears in the Heart of Asia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. 270. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by Albert E. Dien

Lisa M. Bitel. Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 326. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John J. Contreni

Victor Lieberman. Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830: I: Integration on the Mainland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 484. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nicholas Tabling

Alan Knight. Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 254. $60.00 (US); Alan Knight. Mexico: The Colonial Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 353. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Eric van Young

Debra Higgs Strickland. Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 336. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by David Williams

Perez Zagorin. HOW the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 371. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by John Christian Laursen

Amnon Linder. Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003. Pp. xx, 423. €90.00. Reviewed by Christoph T. Maier

Brenda Bolton and Anne J. Duggan, eds. Adrian IV The English Pope (1154–1159): Studies and Texts. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xv, 343. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by James M. Powell

Róbert Simon. Ibn Khaldün: History as Science and the Patrimonial Empire, trans. Klára Pogátsa. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2002; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. 217. $57.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Brett

John F. Richards. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 682. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Williams

Jos Gommans. Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire, 1500–1700. London and New York: Roudedge, 2002. Pp. xv, 268. $27.95 (US); paper. Reviewed by Stephen F. Dale

David A. Lupher. Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 440. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein

Matthew Restall. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 218. $48.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ida Altman

Horst Pietschmann, ed. Atlantic History: History of the Atlantic System, 1580–1830. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck is Ruprecht, 2002. Pp. 556. €86.00. Reviewed by Ian K. Steele

H. V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby, eds. The Worlds of the East India Company. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 246. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Jon E. Wilson

David Ormrod. The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 400. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by H. T. Dickinson

David S. Landes. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 576. $27.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Rick Szostak

Patrice Higonnet. Paris: Capital of the World, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 493. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid

Michael Rowe, ed. Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c.1800–1815. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 254. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer

Purnima Bose. Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 278. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Thomas R. Metcalf

Dierk Walter. Preufiische Heeresreformen, 1807–1870: Militärische Innovation und der Mythos der ‘Roonschen Reform’. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 654. €88.00. Reviewed by Gunther E. Rothenberg

Brian E. Vick. Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 283. $49.96 (US). Reviewed by Helmut Walser Smith

James A. Jones. Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, 1881–1963. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 154. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Klein

Irmin Schneider. Die deutsche Ruplandpolitik, 1890–1900. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 344. €38.00, paper. Reviewed by David Wetzel

S. C. M. Paine. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 412. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by David Curtis Wright

Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundungh, and Mary-Lynn Suttie, eds. Writing a Wider War: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in the South African War, 1899–1902. Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2002. Pp. xix, 345. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Martin Legassick

Robert B. Bruce. A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xx, 380. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Mitchell Yockelson

Eric Lohr. Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 237. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Norman E. Saul

Tammy M. Proctor. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 204. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan

Alfred W. Crosby. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918,2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 337. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper; Howard Phillips and David Killingray, eds. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19: New Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxi, 357. $100.00 (US). Reviewed by Linda Bryder

Kais M. Firro. Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State under the Mandate. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003; dist. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 274. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by James A. Reilly

Kathleen Hayes, ed. and trans. The Journalism of Milena Jesenska: A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003. Pp. vi, 323. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Igor Lukes

Silvio Pons. Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936–1941. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xvi, 240. $62.50 (US); Steven Merritt Miner. Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xix, 407. $90.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Gabriel Gorodetsky

Francine McKenzie. Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1930–1948: The Politics of Preference. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xii, 351. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk

Eunan O'Halpin, ed. Mis and Ireland, 1939–1945: The Official History. Dublin and Pordand: Irish Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 130. $26.50 (US), paper; Mark M. Hull. Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Ireland, 1939–1945. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 383. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by WILLIAM Sheridan Allen

Kathleen E. R. Smith. God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xiii, 274. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Jeffries

Nick Smart. British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 267. $67.95 (US) Reviewed by David Dutton

W. A. B. Douglas, Roger Sarty, Michael Whitby, with Robert H. Caldwell, William Johnston, and William G. P. Rawling. No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939–1943: II: Parti. St Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 2002. Pp. xix, 664. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Geoffrey Till

Omer Bartov. Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 248. $18.95 (US)> paper; Fritz Kieffer. Judenverfolgung in Deutschland - eine innere Angelegenheit? Internationale Reaktionen aufdie Fluchtlingsproblematik, 1933–1939. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 520. €100.00. Reviewed by Robert Edwin Herzstein

Petra Goedde. GIS and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945–1949. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 280. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Borstelmann

David M. Glantz. The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: ‘August Storm’. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 451. $59.50 (US); David M. Glantz. Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945: ‘August Storm’. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvi, 368. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Dale R. Herspring

Steven E. Phillips. Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945–1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 256. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph N. Clough

Independent Commission Of Experts Switzerland - Second World War. Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World War: Final Report. Zurich: Pendo, 2002. Pp. 597. €29.90. Reviewed by Jean-Christian Lambelet

D. Clayton Brown. Globalization and America since 1945. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. xxi, 166. $19.95 (US) paper; Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler. Globalization and the American Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 343. $65.00 (US); $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen

William Johnston. A War of Patrols: Canadian Army Operations in Korea. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 426. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Jeffrey Grey

Peter Busch. All the Way with JFK?: Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 240. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Andrew Preston

Thomas Alan Schwartz. Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 339. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by George C. Herring

Peter S. Li. Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 228. $29.95 (CDN) paper. Reviewed by Patricia E. Roy

Heidrun Friese, ed. Identities: Time, Difference, and Boundaries. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. xiv, 273. $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by John R. Gillis

Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcel van Der Linden, eds. Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. vi, 250. $69.95 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Neville Kirk

Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 379. $25.95 (US). Reviewed by Barry Eichengreen

Vesna Danilovic. When the Stakes are High: Deterrence and Conflict among Major Powers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 294. $52.50 (US). Reviewed by Randall L. Schweller

Gammer, Moshe, ed., with Joseph Kostiner and Moshe Shemesh. Political Thought and Political History: Studies in Memory ofElie Kedourie. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. x, 186. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Raphael Israeli     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Songs of Zion: The African American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa. By James T. Campbell. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. By George Chauncey. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. By Liza C. Dalby. Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947–1974. By Barton C. Hacker. Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. By Marilynn S. Johnson. Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence. By Anthony Molho. The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence. By Laura Ikins Stern. Dependence in Context in Renaissance Florence. By Richard Trexler. The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis. By Farhad Daftary. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. By Liisa H. Malkki. People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800–1990. By James C. McCann. The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian. By Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski. Translated by Robert Cornman. With a Foreward by Shaye J. D. Cohen. Party Politics and Decolonisation: the Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951–1964. By Philip Murphy. Autowork. Edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth, with the assistance of Stephan Merlino. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917. By Gail Bederman. Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago. By Roger Biles. Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP. By Mary C. Brennan. The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. By Andrew Burstein. The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present. By Ballard C. Campbell. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. By Dan T. Carter. The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth. By William R. Casto. In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. Barry Goldwater. By Robert Alan Goldberg. Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina. By Donna J. Guy. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania. By Owen S. Ireland. Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland. By Jeanette Keith. Women and Power in Native North America. Edited by Laura F. Klein and Lilian A. Ackerman. Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Edited, with an introduction, by David Thomas Konig. Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru. By Florencia E. Mallon. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, & the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. By Stephanie McCurry. Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle, 1969–1979. By Maria José Moyano. Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador. By Linda A. Newson. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885–1920. By Mary E. Odem. Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton. Kenneth O'Reilly. The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: A History of the American Presidency. Volume I, From the Origins Through McKinley Volume II, Theodore Roosevelt Through George Bush. By Michael P. Riccards. Coffee, Society and Power in Latin America. Edited by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach. Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike. By John A. Salmond. The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Amy Gilman Srebnick. The Grammar of the Machine: Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States. By Edward W. Stevens Jr. The Nightingale's Song. By Robert Timberg. Fulbright: A Biography. By Randall Bennett Woods. Japan and the World Since 1868. By Michael A. Barnhart. Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. By Jacques Gernet. Translated by Franciscus Verellen. Raja Rammohan Ray: The Father of Modern India. By Bruce C. Robertson. Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel. By Bui Tin. The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan. By Conrad Totman. Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney. Napoleon Conquers Austria: The 1809 Campaign for Vienna. By James R. Arnold. Medieval Canon Law. By James A. Brundage. Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences. By Christopher Bennett. Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th-18th Centuries: Theme B, Economic Systems and State Finance. Edited by Richard Bonney. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788–907 By Charles Bowlus. The Age of Upheaval: Edwardian Politics, 1899–1914. By David Brooks. Britain Since 1939: Progress and Decline. By David Childs. The Naked Heart. By Peter Gay. Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe: Historical Essays, 1978–1991. Edited by David Herlihy. Work, Gender and Family in Victorian England. By Karl Ittman. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. Edited by David Knowles and R. Neville Hadcock. Wealth, Kinship and Culture: The Seventeenth-Century Newdigates of Arbury and their World. By Vivienne Larminie. Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925–1936. Edited by Lars T. Lih, Oleg V. Naumov, and Oleg V. Klevniuk. Translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. Foreward by Robert C. Tucker. The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety. Edited by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Reform, Revolution and Reaction: Archbishop John Thomas Troy and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1787–1817. By Vincent J. McNally. Nazi Justiz: Law of the Holocaust. By Richard Lawrence Miller. The Conquest of tke Reick: D-Day to V-E Day—A Soldier's History. By Robin Neillands. The Republican Movement: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France. By Philip Nord. The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War. By Denis Richards. The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine & Emigration. By Robert James Scally. The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment. By Liselotte Steinbrügge. Translated by Pamela E. Selwyn. Calvin in Context. By David Steinmetz. Politics and the Parlement of Paris under Louis XV 1754–1774. By Julian Swann. Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress or Cycle? Edited and translated by Theodore Taranovski, with the assistance of Peggy McInerny. Politics, Religion, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of De Lamar Jensen. [Volume XXVII of Sixteenth Century Studies Essays and Studies]. Edited by Malcolm R. Thorp and Arthur J. Slavin. Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951. By Richard Vinen. The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s. By Eugen Weber. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referenda1 Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846–1922. By Corinne Comstock Weston. Decisions for War, 1914. Edited by Keith Wilson. Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872. By Reginald E. Zelnick. Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. Edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mandelsohn, and Howard Segal. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922. By David Northrup. Drugs and Narcotics in History. Edited by Roy Porter and Mikulá? Teich.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone : 740–368–3642 Fax : 740–368–3643 Recent Prize ‐Winning Books in History : Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. Women of the Anti‐Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters. By Clare Taylor. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. Africa and the Middle East : Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Edited by Stanley Burstein. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000B.C.‐A.D. 400. By Christopher Ehret. The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Oazdaglis. By Jane Hathaway. God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam. By Peter Partner. The Americas : America Views the Holocaust, 1933–1945: A Brief Documentary History. By Robert H. Abzug. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. By Loren Baritz. The Roots of African‐American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities. By Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. By W. Jeffrey Bolster. The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. By Bruce Chadwick. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876–1926. By Steven Conn. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920. By Perry R. Duis. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson. By Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. By Lawrence Otis Graham. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish‐American and Philippine‐American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism. By Daniel Horowitz. Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. By Robert David Johnson. The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. By Grant D. Jones. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By Friedrich Katz. The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904–1924. By Henry Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self and Society in North Carolina, 1880–1920. By James L. Leloudis. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. By Harry Liebersohn. Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. By Paul C. Mishler. Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927–1948. By Michael Monteon. American Heritage Great Minds of History: Interviews by Roger Mudd: Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, Richard White, Gordon Wood. Edited by Roger Mudd. Introduction by Richard Snow. Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. By Lawrence R. Samuel. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938–1948. By Barbara Dianne Savage. Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain. Edited by Susan Schroeder. Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen W. Sears. Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815–1836. By Harlow W. Sheidley. Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities. By Joseph G. Tregle Jr. Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. By Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro Garcia. Translated by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. Asia and the Pacific : The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy towards Student Political Activism. 1927–1949. By Huang Jianli. Kingship and Authority in South Asia. Edited by J. F. Richards. Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. By Deryck Scarr. Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power. By Hira Singh. The Chen's Greet Continent: China in Western Minds. By Jonathan D. Spence. Nations and States in Southeast Asia. By Nicholas Tarling. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. By Sandra C. Taylor. Europe : The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society, and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew Ayton and J. L. Price. Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. By Lillian Bisson. Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth‐Century Athens. Edited by Deborah Boedeker and Kurt A. Raaflaub. Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society 1921–1929. By Vladimir Brovkin. In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr. The Rise and Full of Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo‐Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance. By Edward Chaney. Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa. By David Cherry. Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local Self‐Government (the Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarist Government, and the State Council before and during World War I. Edited by Mary Schaeffer Conroy. Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant‐Garde and Politics in Paris 1905–1914. By David Cottington. Dudo of Saint Quentin: History of the Normans. Translated into English, with introduction and notes, by Eric Christiansen. Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. By Nancy Louise Frey. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece. By Mark Golden. The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Edited by Arthur Gribben. The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300—‐1600. By Louis Haas. The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius. By Debra Hershkowitz. Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. By Patrice Higonnet. British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–1830. By Peter Jupp. Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris. By Ian Kershaw. The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe. By Jacques Lévesque. Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720. By Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism. By Susan Morrissey. Working‐class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Beacontree Estate. By Andrzej Olechnowicz. Dublin Slums, 1800–1925: A Study in Urban Geography. By Jacinta Prunty. Facing West: Oriental Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Compiled by the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions. By Steven L. Solnick. National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria. By Erika Thurner. Edited and translated by Gilya Gerda Schmidt. Nationalism, Anti‐Semitism, and Fascism in France. By Michel Winock. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. By Amanda Vickery. General , Comparative , Historiographical : Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson. Edited by Gerald J. Russello.     

Anthropology and working class life

W. H. Form. Blue Collar Stratification: Auto Workers in Four Countries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. i‐xx + 335 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $17.00.

J. D. Edelstein and M. Warner. Comparative Union Democracy: Organization and Opposition in British and American Labor Unions. London: George Allen, Unwin, Ltd. 1976. i‐ix + 378 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

L. B. Rubin. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family. New York: Basic Books, 1976. i‐xiii +268 pp. Bibliography, and index. $11.95.     

Reviews of Book

Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (US). Reviewed by W. Warren Wagar

Alfred W. Crosby. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 206. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by William H. Mcneill

Edwin G. Pulleyblank. Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, Variorum, 2002. Pp. xii, 312. $105.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicola Di Cosmo

Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Chandra R. De Silva

Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Edbury

Thomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 245. 860.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard

Haim Beinart. The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. Pp. xv, 591. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

H. G. Koenigsberger. Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 381. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Christine Kooi

Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward Furgol

Alastair Hamilton. Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age. London and Oxford: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 134. £60.00. Reviewed by Deborah Howard

HARRY G. GELBER. Nations out of Empires: European Nationalism and the Transformation of Asia. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Fred Halliday

Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 446. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by John Craig

Jeremy Black. European International Relations, 1648–1815. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 274. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jennifer Mori

Mlada Bukovansky. Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 255. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Norman Hampson

Patricia Seed. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 299. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Sarah H. Hill

Patrick Griffin. The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 244. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by K. David Milobar

Thomas Philipp. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730–1831. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 299. $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by DINA Rizk Khoury

Don H. Doyle. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 130. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Enrico Dal Lago

Charles John Fedorak. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801–1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 268. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. Cookson

Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, eds. Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts, and Consequences of the Act of Union. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 270. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jim Smyth

Klaus Gallo. Great Britain and Argentina: From Invasion to Recognition, 1806-26. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vi, 195. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew S. Thompson

Rory Muir. Salamanca 1812. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 322. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Thorburn Herzog

William Barr, ed. and annotated. From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836–1839. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 330. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by William R. Morrison

Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, eds. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 444. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David Clayton

John Mason Hart. Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp.xi, 677. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Schoonover

Jeremy Black. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 243. $19.95 (US)J paper; Jeremy Black, ed. European Warfare, 1815–2000. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vii, 247. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Craig Gibson

Paul B. Miller. From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 277. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Martin Ceadel

David Healy. James G. Blaine and Latin America. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 278. $39–95 (US). Reviewed by Edward P. Crapol

Rolf Hobson. Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea Power, and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875–1914. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. x, 358. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler

Roderick R. McLean. Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890–1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 239. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by David French

Philippe Chassaigne and Michael Dockrill, eds. Anglo-French Relations, 1898–1998: From Fashoda to Jospin. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 211. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite

Rebecca E. Karl. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 314. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joan Judge

Christopher Mckee. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900–1945. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp.285. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Till

Andrew Mango. Atatürk. London: John Murray, 2001. Pp. xiii, 666. £18.00, paper. Reviewed by Frank Tachau

Susan Solomon. The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 383. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Bryan C. Storey

Jaroslaw Suchoples. Finland and the United States, 1917–1919: The Early Years of Mutual Relations, trans. Tadeuz Z. Wolahski. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 221. $29.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David W. McFadden

David Henry Slavin. Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 300. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by ?William B. Cohen

David French. Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany, 1919–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 319. 821.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by B. J. C. McKercher

Joseph Moretz. The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xxi, 292. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Keith Neilson

Frances Gouda with Thus Brocades Zaalberg. American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920–1949. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2002. Pp. 382. €31.90, paper. Reviewed by Gary R. Hess

György Péteri. Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921–1929, trans. Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder and Wayne: East European Monographs and Center for Hungarian Studies, 2002; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 199. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Jürgen Nautz

David Dutton. Neville Chamberlain. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 245. £12.99 paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. Maiolo

Steven T. Ross, ed. US War Plans: 1938–1945. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2002. Pp. ix, 371. $89.95 (US) Reviewed by Allan R. Millett

Radomir Luza with Christina Vella. The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 295. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Igor Lukes

Nicholas Tarling. A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. White

Andrew J. Whitfield. Hong Kong, Empire, and the Anglo-American Alliance at War, 1941-45. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii, 266. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Chan Lau Kit-Ching

James McAllister. NO Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943–1954. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 283. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich

Peter C. Kent. The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII: The Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943–1950. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 321. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Owen Chadwick

Tim Jones. Postwar Counterinsurgency and the SAS, 1945–1952: A Special Type of Warfare. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xxii, 233. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Colin McInnes

Richard Overy. Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945. New York and London: Viking, 2001. Pp. xxii, 650. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda

Joy Damousi. Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Grief in Postwar Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 240. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Bruce Scates

Sean M. Maloney. Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means, 1945-1970. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265. $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Desmond Morton

Arnold A. Offner. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 626. $37.95 (US) Reviewed by Andrew J. Dunar

Frank Heinlein. British Government Policy and Decolonisation, 1945–1963: Scrutinising the Official Mind. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xiii, 337- $57.50 (US). Reviewed by David Goldsworthy

Matthew Connelly. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 400. $113.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Phillip C. Naylor

Martin Schain, ed. The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiii, 297. $59.95 (US); Vibeke Sørensen. Denmark's Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan, 1947–1950, ed. Mogens Riidiger. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 360. $47.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Alan S. Milward

Sumit Ganguly. Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947. New York: Columbia University Press; Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. Pp. 187. $18.50 (US), paper; C. Dasgupta. War and Diplomacy in Kashmir, 1947-48. New Delhi and Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2002. Pp. 239. $44.00 (US). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh

Hubert Zimmermann. Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany's Relations with the United States and Britain, 1950–1971. Washington and New York: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 275. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Abenheim

Jennifer Milliken. The Social Construction of the Korean War: Conflict and Its Possibilities. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 258. $107.00 (CDN). Reviewed by K. M. Fierke

Percy Cradock. Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World. London: John Murray, 2002. Pp. xii, 351. £25.00. Reviewed by Richard J. Aldrich

The Military History Institute Of Vietnam. Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975, trans. Merle L. Pribbenow; foreword by William J. Duiker. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 494. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert K. Brigham

Jeffrey Glen Giauque. Grand Designs and Visions of Unity: The Adantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955–1963. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 326. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Wolfram Kaiser

Robert D. Dean. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. x, 329. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley

Piero Gleijeses. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xix, 552. $57.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Wayne S. Smith

M. E. Sarotte. Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Dátente, and Ostpolitik, 1969–1973. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 295. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Helga Haftendorn

Wakaizumi Kei. The Best Course Available: A Personal Account of the Secret US Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations, ed. John Swenson-Wright. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Pp. x, 367. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugo Dobson

Delia M. Boylan. Defusing Democracy: Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Sylvia Maxfield

Ahmed Rashid. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 281. $24.00 (US). Reviewed by Virginia Martin

François Furet and Ernst Nolte. Fascism and Communism, trans. Katherine Golsan. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 98. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

Mark R. Beissinger. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 503. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Taras Kuzio

Elinor C. Sloan. The Revolution in Military Affairs: Implications for Canada and NATO. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 188. $24.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Joel J. Sokolsky

Michael Keren and Donald A. Sylvan, eds. International Intervention: Sovereignty versus Responsibility. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xi, 191. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nicholas Onuf

Darren G. Hawkins. International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 259. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Brian Loveman

Akira Iriye. Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 246. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Chadwick F. Alger     

Skeletal biology in the twentieth century: From Piltdown to the present

Spencer, Frank. The Piltdown Papers 1908–1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 282 pp. including references and name and subject indices. $65.00 cloth

Spencer, Frank. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xxvi + 272 pp. including references and name and subject indices. $24.95 cloth

I?can, Mehmet ?a?ar, and Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, eds. Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1989. xv + 315 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.50 cloth.     

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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Maisel, L. Sandy, ed. The Parties Respond: Changes in the American Party System Boulder, CO: Westview Press 363 pp., $50.00, ISBN 0–8133–0881-X Publication Date: October 1990

Jelen, Ted G. The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs New York: Praeger 208 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–275–93439-X Publication Date: March 1991

Seiden, Martin H. Access to the American Mind: The Damaging Impact of the New Mass Media New York: Shapolsky 232 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0–944007–71–6 Publication Date: May 1991

DeMott, Benjamin The Imperial Middle: Why American Can't Think Straight about Class New York: William Morrow and Company 264 pp., $18.95, ISBN 1–55710–023–3 Publication Date: October 1990

Alexander, Yonah and Richard Latter, eds. Terrorism and the Media: Dilemmas for Government, Journalists and the Public McLean, VA: Brassey's 147 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–08–037442–5 Publication Date: December 1990

Manheim, Jarol B. All of the People All of the Time: Strategic Communication and American Politics Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe 255 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0–87332–796–9 Publication Date: March 1991

Johnson, Haynes Sleepwalking through History: America in the Reagan Years New York: W. W. Norton 500 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0–393–02937–9 Publication Date: March 1991

Heale, M. J. American Anticommunism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830–1970 Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press 235 pp., $10.95, ISBN 0–8018–4051–1 Publication Date: November 1990

Hoeveler, J. David, Jr. Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press 333 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0–299–12810–5 Publication Date: April 1991

Heale, M. J. American Anticemmualsm: Combating the Enermy Within, 1930–1970 Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press 235 pp., $10.95, ISBN 08018–4051–1 Publications Date: November 1990

Kellerman, Barbara and Ryan J. Barilleaux The President as World Leader New York: St. Martin's Press 225 pp., ISBN 0–312–03603–5 Publication Date: 1991

Stephenson, D. Grier, Jr., ed.An Essential Safeguard: Essays on the United States Supreme Court and Its Justices Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 192 pp., $42.95, ISBN 0–313–27438-X Publication Date: March 1991

Koocher, Gerald P. and Patricia C. Keith-Spiegel Children, Ethics, and the Law: Professional Issues and Cases Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press 230 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–8032–4731–1 Publication Date: September 1990

Darling, Arthur B. The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 509 pp., $17.50, ISBN 0–271–00717–6 Publication Date: November 1990

Marston, David W. Malice Aforethought: How Lawyers Use Our Secret Rules to Get Rich, Get Sex, Get Even … and Get Away With It New York: William Morrow and Company 264 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–688–07705–6 Publication Date: March 1991

Sutter, Robert G. The Cambodian Crisis and U.S. Policy Dilemmas Boulder, CO: Westview Press 135 pp., $22.50, ISBN 0–8133–8047–2 Publication Date: December 1990

Lowenthal, Abraham F., ed. Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press 422 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0–8018–4131–3 Publication Date: April 1991

Koster, R. M. and Guillermo Sánchez In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968–1990 New York: W. W. Norton 448 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0–393–02696–5 Publication Date: October 1990

Morales-Gómez, Daniel A. and Carlos Alberto Torres The State, Corporatists Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico New York: Praeger 197 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–275–93484–5 Publication Date: 1990

Mitchell, R. Judson Getting to the Top: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership Succession Process Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press 237 pp., $23.95, ISBN 0–8179–8922–6 Publication Date: 1990

Brown, J. F. Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe Durham, NC: Duke University Press 338 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–8223–1145–3 Publication Date: May 1991

Peters, B. Guy European Politics Reconsidered New York: Holmes &; Meier 293 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–8419–1161–4 Publication Date: February 1991

Freedman, Robert O., ed. The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 441 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0–8156–2502–2 Publication Date: February 1991

Lee, Manwoo The Odyssey of Korean Democracy: Korean Politics, 1987–1990 New York: Praeger 184 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–275–93660–0 Publication Date: September 1990

Menashri, David, ed. The Iranlan Revolution and the Muslim World Boulder, CO: Westview Press 282 pp., $32.00, ISBN 0–8133–7751-X Publication Date: November 1990

Genther, Phyllis A. A History of Japan's Government-Business Relationship: The Passenger Car Industry Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan 242 pp., $14.95, ISBN 0–939512–40–8 Publication Date: 1990

Liska, George The Ways of Power New York: Basil Blackwell 511 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–631–17188–6 Publication Date: 1990

Kimmel, Michael S. Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press 252 pp., $44.95 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 0–87722–736–3 cloth ISBN 0–87722–741–1 paper Publication Date: December 1990

Freedman, Lawrence, ed. Europe Transformed: Documents on the End of the Cold War New York: St. Martin's Press 512 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0–312–05225–1 Publication Date: October 1990

Kinney, Douglas National Interest/National Honor: The Diplomacy of the Falklands Crisis New York: Praeger 372 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0–275–92425–4 Publication Date: 1989

Lodge, Juliet, ed. The 1989 Election of the European Parliament New York: St. Martin's Press 249 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0–312–04494–1 Publication Date: September 1990

Strom, Kaare Minority Government and Majority Rule New York: Cambridge University Press 293 pp., $39.50, ISBN 0–521–37431–6 Publication Date: July 1990

Scharpe, Fritz W., trans, by Ruth Crowley and Fred Thompson Crisis and Choice in European Social Democracy Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 303 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0–8014–2221–3 paper Publication Date: May 1991

Smart, Paul Mill and Marx: Individual Liberty and the Roads to Freedom New York: St. Martin's Press 202 pp., ISBN 0–7190–3333–0 Publication Date: 1991

Maxwell, Kenneth, ed. Spanish Foreign and Defense Policy Boulder, CO: Westview Press 265 pp., $31.50, ISBN 0–8133–1113–6 Publication Date: May 1991

Derogy, Jacques Resistance &; Revenge: The Armenian Assassination of the Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 Massacres and Deportations New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 206 pp., ISBN 0–88738–338–6 Publication Date: 1990

Procter, David E. Enacting Political Culture: Rhetorical Transformations of Liberty Weekend 1986 New York: Praeger 144 pp., $37.95, ISBN 0–275–93489–6 Publication Date: October 1990     

Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this article Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Volume 1, Historical Ethnography Volume 2, The Archaeology of History. By Marshall Sahlins and Patrick V. Kirch. Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, and Racism in the United States. By Mark Nathan Cohen. Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914. By Pieter M. Judson. Review Essays State Power and Politics in South Africa, 1912–51. By Paul B. Rich. Apartheid's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State. By Chris Alden. Africa and the Middle East : Muslim Politics. By Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. By Mahmood Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society. Edited by Charles Melville. Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa. By Adell Patton, Jr. The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period, 638-1099 Edited by Joshua Prawer and Haggai Ben-Shammai. From Slavery to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930. By Ibrahim K. Sundiata. The Americas : Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership. By Philip Abbott. After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal. By Kristi Andersen. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. By Carol Berkin. The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History. Ed. by Gabor S. Boritt and Norman O. Forness. “The Sex Side of Life”: Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education. By Constance M. Chen. Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City. By David T. Courtwright. National Popular Politics in Early independent Mexico, 1820–1847. By Torcuato Di Tella. Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State: Guerrero, 1800–1857. By Peter F. Guardino. Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism. By Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, with an Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo. A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf: By Kevin J. Hayes. LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. By George C. Herring. New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson. By Jeffrey D. Hockett. Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945–1968. By Michael H. Hunt. Beating Plowshares Into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606–1865. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. The Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. By Lester D. Langley. From People's War to People's Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam. By Timothy J. Lomperis. Moral Opposition to Authoritarian Rule in Chile, 1973–90. By Pamela Lowden. Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. By William Lee Miller. Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People. By Wayne D. Moore. Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation. By Deborah L. Norden. The Long Affair_: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785–1800. By Conor Cruise O'Brien. Rising Wind: Black Americans and US. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Banking, Politics and Social Structure. By George David Rappaport. From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film. By David Robinson. Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad. By Randolph Paul Runyon. Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal. By David L. Stebenne. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. By Brenda E. Stevenson. Germans & Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic. By Walter Struve. Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven. By James Tracy. Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at the Empire's End. By D. R. Howland. Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600–1200. By Xinru Liu. Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge. By H. Lyman Miller. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine. By John K. Nelson. Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China 1919–1937. By Jun Xing. Europe : Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925–1945. Edited by Günter Berghaus. The French Revolutionary Wars 1787–1802. By T. C. W. Blanning. Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688–1775. By H. V. Bowen. Emperor and Exile: Wilhelm II, 1900–1941. Volume II. By Lamar Cecil. Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth 1. By Susan Doran. Fascism: A History. By Roger Eatwell. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts. By Edward Grant, Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner. The Transformation of British Politics, 1860–1995. By Brian Harrison. Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century. By Bridget Hill. The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775. By Steven Laurence Kaplan. Anne of Austria. By Ruth Kleinman. Fascism: Past, Present and Future. By Walter Laqueur. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504–1553. By David Loades. Antwerp in the Age of the Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550–1577. By Guido Marnef. Translated by J. C. Grayson. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars Through the Crimea. By Scott Hughes Myerly. The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory. By Josiah Ober. Athenian Religion: A History. By Robert Parker. A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. By Stanley G. Payne. Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668. By Steven C. A. Pincus. King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England. By Colin Platt. Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925–1941. By Roger R. Reese. A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain. By W. D. Rubinstein. The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War. By Frederic J. Schwartz. Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement. By M. L. R. Smith. On About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World. By Peter Stansky. General , Comparative , Historiographical : Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700–1920. Edited by Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling. Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy. By John Patrick Diggins. Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars. By David M. Fahey. Isaiah Berlin. By John Gray.     

Reviews of Books

PRADEEP P. BARUA. The State at War in South Asia. Lincoln, NB and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 437. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Ashley J. Tellis

SASKIA SASSEN. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 493. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard W. Mansbach

BENJAMIN A. ELMAN. On Their Own Terms: Seience in China, 1550–1900. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 567. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by John B. Henderson

ISTVAN HONT. Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 541. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by David W. Bates

LIAM CHAMBERS. Michael Moore, c.1639–1726: Provost of Trinity, Rector of Paris. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2005. Pp. 160. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Canny

MEGAN VAUGHAN. Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 341. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony J. Barker

GEOFFREY PLANK. Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 259. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Monod

B. W. HIGMAN. Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2005; dist. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Pp. xiv, 386. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Craton

NICHOLAS B. DIRKS. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 389. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Martha McL

SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM. Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–l850. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 244. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by John Stenhouse

PETER BECKER and RICHARD F. WETZELL, eds. Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 492. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Clive Emsley

IAN BAUCOM. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 387. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. R. Oldfield

SUGATA BOSE. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 333. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth McPherson

MARTIN KITCHEN. A History of Modern Germany, 1800–2000. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xi, 455. $39.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes

MATT K. MATSUDA. Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 232. $113.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Joseph Zizek

DONG WANG. China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. Pp. x, 177. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by J. Y. Wong

AMIRIA J. M. HENARE. Museums, Anthropology, and Imperial Exchange. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 323. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Miriam Kahn

LEO LUCASSEN. The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 277. $25.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Russell King

ROBERT W. RYDELL and ROB KROES. Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 209. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Joy S. Kasson

LÁSZLÓ BENCZE. The Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, ed. Frank N. Schubert. Boulder, CO: Center for Hungarian Studies, 2006; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. xi, 403. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Scott W. Lackey

PAUL A. KRAMKR. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 538. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kristin Hoganson

JOHN LAWRENCE TONE. War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 338. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

GODFREY HODGSON. Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 335. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Thompson

KEITH DAVID WATENPAUGH. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 325. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid

HYUN OK PARK. TWO Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 314. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Wolff

WILLIAM N. TILCHIN and CHARLES E. NEU, eds. Artists of Power: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Their Enduring Impact on US Foreign Policy. West-port, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xxv, 196. $139.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

D. K. FIELDHOUSE. Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914–1958. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. vii,376. $195.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Roger Owen

ROBERT A. DOUGHTY. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 578. $39.95(US). Reviewed by Robert J. Young

ELIZABETH GREENHALGH. Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 304. $88.95 (US). Reviewed by David French

DAVID R. WOODWARD. Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Mary C. Wilson

KEITH NEILSON. Britain, Soviet Russia, and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919–1939. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 379. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley

EDWARD I. STEINHART. Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 248. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Reuben M. Matheka

REIDAR VISSER. Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism, and Nationalism in Southern Iraq. Minister: Lit Verlag, 2006; dist. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Pp. x, 238. $39.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Sluglett

AMOS NADAN. The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xl, 370. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Martin Bunton

JAMES J. BARNES and PATIENCE P. BARNES. Nazis in Pre-War London, 1930–1939: The Fate and Role of German Party Members and British Sympathizers. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. x, 283. $67.50 (US). Reviewed by David Renton

MARK METZLER. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism, in Pretvar Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 370. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Janet Hunter

GLYN A. STONE. Spain, Portugal, and the Great Powers, 1931–1941. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xiii, 316. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by David A. Messenger

VICTOR ROTHWELL. War Aims in the Second World War: The War Aims of the Major Belligerents, 1939–45. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006; dist. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Pp. 244. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite

WOLFRAM WETTE. The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, trans. Deborah Lucas Schneider. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii,372. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

PETER KENEZ. Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. ix,3i2. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig

EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY. Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 227. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by F. G. Notehelfer

RICHARD J. GOLSAN. French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 198. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid

BRIAN T. EDWARDS. Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 366. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Moshe Gershovich

BRUCE KUKLICK. Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 241. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton

JOHN H. BARTON, JUDITH L. GOLDSTEIN, TIMOTHY E.JOSLING, and RICHARD H. STEINBERG. The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 242. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes

PETER MANGOLD. The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles De Gaulle. London and New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2006. Pp. vi, 275. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Alan Sharp

GUY BEN-PORAT. Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. Pp.xii, 327. $29.95(US). Reviewed by Mary Ann Heiss

ANDREW PRESTON. The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 320. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young

WARREN I. COHEN. America's Failing Empire: US Foreign Relations since the Cold War. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005 Pp. 204. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. Bacevich

KEITH A. HANSEN. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 233. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Krepon

SHAHRAM AKBARZADEH. Uzbekistan and the United States: Authoritarianism, Islamism, and Washington's Security Agenda. London and New York, NY: Zed Books, 2005; dist. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xiv, 166. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeff Sahadeo

GLYN MORGAN. The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 204. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Dario Castiglione

ELLEN LUST-OKAR. Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 279. $100.95 (US). Reviewed by Raymond Hinnebusch

FAWAZ A. GERGES. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 345. $27.00 (US). Reviewed by John Obert Voll

PETER ALEXIS GOUREVITCH and JAMES J. SHINN. Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 344. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Randall Morck

PHILIP D. CURTIN. On the Fringes of History: A Memoir. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 193. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen

JEFFREY W. LEGRO. Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 253. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.     

New maps and atlases

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Man, Location and Behaviour: An Introduction to Human Geography. By Kevin R. Cox. 10 1/4 × 7 1/4. 399 pp. Index. John Wiley, Chichester, 1972. £4.lb75.

Urban Geography—a social perspective. By David Herbert. 8 3/4 × 5 3/4. 320 pp., illustrations, maps, notes and index. David and Charles. Newton Abbot, 1972. £5.lb50.

Industrial Britain: South Wales. By Graham Humphrys. 10 × 6 1/4, 253 pp. maps, tables, photographs. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972 £4.lb75

The Making of the Dutch Landscape: An Historical Geography of the Netherlands. By A. M. Lambert. 412 pp., 101 figs., bibliography. Seminar Press, London and New York, 1971. £4.50.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Water in Britain. By Keith Smith. 8 3/4 × 5 1/2, 241 pp., maps, illustrations, tables, and index. Macmillan, 1972. £3.

Soil Geography by James G. Cruickshank. 256 pp., 26 plates, 43 maps and diagrams. David &; Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972. £1.lb95 (paper).

Shetland (Islands series). By James R. Nicolson. 246 pp. Illustrations, Bibliog., Index. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972. £3.lb25.

CARTOGRAPHY AND SURVEY

Co‐ordinate Systems and Map Projections. By D. H. Maling. 9 1/2 × 6 1/4. Geo. Philip, London, 1973. £2.lb75.

EDUCATIONAL

The Geography of the Earth as a Globe. By R. K. Gresswell and H. J. Cooper. 7 1/4 × 9 3/4. 140 pp. 158 figures, index. Hulton, Amersham, 1971. 85p.

A New School Geography, Vol. 4: North West Europe. By F. R. Dobson and H. E. Virgo. 6 1/4 × 9 1/4, 126 pp., illus. maps. English Universities Press, London. £1.lb10.

The Unclean Planet. By R. E. Baker and J. A. Bushell. 8 3/4 × 6 1/2. 128 pp. Numerous illus. Ginn, London, 1972. £1.lb25.

Weather Study, an approach to scientific inquiry. By J. W. Bainbridge and R. W. Stockdale. 6 3/4 × 7 1/2, 83 pp. Methuen Educational Ltd. 1972. Hardback £1–80, Paperback 95p.

Introducing the New Geography. Introducing Transportation Networks. By K. Briggs. 9 3/4 × 7 1/4, 48 pp. University of London Press, 1972. Paperback Textbook 40p, Pupil Workbook 20p.

A Geography of Settlements (Aspect Geographies). By F. S. Hudson. 8 3/4 × 5y, 382 pp. 150 photos. Bibliography. Index. MacDonald and Evans, London, 1970. £1.lb75.     

Reviews

Richard J. Goy, The House of Gold: Building a Palace in Medieval Venice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxiv + 304pp., 13 col., 100 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–521–40513–0. £60.

Paul Mattick Jr. (ed.), Eighteenth‐Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. viii + 256 pp. ISBN 0–521–43106–9. £30.

Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, Cambridge Mass. & London: MIT Press, 1994. xxx + 350 pp., 197 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–19342–6. £24.95.

Barry Cunliffe, Wessex to AD 1000, London & New York: Longman, 1993. 388 pp., 128 plates and figures. ISBN 0–582–49279. £16.99.

J. M. Fladmark (ed.), Cultural Tourism, London: Donhead, 1994. 413 pp. 86 b. & w. illns. ISBN 1–873394–15–2. £37.00.

John Dixon Hunt, Gardens and the Picturesque, Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, [1992], 1994. xviii + 388 pp., 127 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–08211‐X. £17.95. Venetia Murray, Castle Howard The Life and Times of a Stately Home, London: Viking, 1994. xx + 236 pp., 33 b. & w. illus. and 20 figs. ISBN 0–670–83379–7. £18.00.

Rosamond McKitterick (ed.), Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xv + 334 pp., 21 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0 521 40586 6. £14.95.

Alan R. H. Baker and Gideon Biger (eds.), Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 356 pp., 93 figs. ISBN 0–521–41032–0. £40.00.

Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine, Museum Basics, London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 319 pp., 6 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–05770–1. £19.99.

Martin Warnke, The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xx + 299 pp. ISBN 0–521–36375–6. £35.

David Dean, Museum Exhibition Theory and Practice, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. xii + 177 pp., 56 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–08016–9. £22.50.

Hanno‐Walter Kraft, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, London: Zwemmer and New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994. 706 pp., 207 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–302–00622–2. £25.00

James Strike, Architecture in Conservation: Managing Development at Historic Sites, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. x + 163 pp., 86 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–415–08130–0. £40.00.

Peter Walker & Melanie Simo, Invisible Gardens. The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT Press, 1994. xvi + 365 pp., 12 col. and 144 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–262–23177–8. £44.95.

John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1988] 1990. xvi + 351 pp., 204 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–521–39848–7. £22.95.

G. J. Ashworth & P. J. Larkham, (eds.), Building a New Heritage: Tourism, Culture and Identity in the New Europe, London: Routledge, 1994. xiii + 278 pp., 39 figs. ISBN 0–415–07931–4, £40.00.

W. J. T. Mitchell (ed.), Landscape and Power, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. vii + 248 pp., 72 b. & w. illus. ISBN 0–226–53207–0. £ 11.25.