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

Review Article: Ancient Warfare

Richard A. Gabriel and Karen S. Metz. From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 182. $45.00 (us)

Victor Davis Hanson, ed. Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience. London and New York: Roudledge, 1991. Pp. xvi, 286. $39.95 (us)

W. Kendrick Pritchett. The Greek State at War. Part V. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. x, 578. $60.00 (us)

Lionel Casson. The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 246. $39.50 (us), cloth; $12.95 (us), paper.     

Review Article: Napoleon Bonaparte

J. M. THOMPSON. Napoleon Bonaparte. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. xiv, 418. £20.00. Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder     

Review Article: Franco Cunctator

PAUL PRESTON. Franco: A Biography. London: HarperCollins, 1993. Pp. xxi, 1,002. £25.00;

PAUL PRESTON. The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in Twentieth- Century Spain. London and New York: Routledge, 1990 and 1995 (reprint). Pp. xix, 215. £11.99;

MICHAEL ALPERT. A New International History of the Spanish Civil War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 209. $45.00 (US);

ENRIQUE MORADIELLOS. La Perfidia de Albión: El Gobierno británico y la guerra civil española. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno de España Editores, 1996. Pp. xviii, 408. 3,000 ptas.     

Hindmarsh Revisited: Review Article

A review of two books: Diane Bell's Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: a world that is, was, and will be. North Melbourne: Spinifex 1998. Dulcie Wilson's The cost of crossing bridges. Mitcham: Small Poppies Publishing 1998     

Review Article: Discovering New Americas

DAVID E. STANNARD. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 358. $36.50 (CDN)

ANTHONY GRAFTON, APRIL SHELFORD, and NANCY SIRAISI. New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 282. $29.95 (US)

VALERIE I. J. FLINT. The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 233. $24.95 (US)

DJELAL KADIR. Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 256. $30.00 (us).     

Review Article: Imaginary Early Christianity

AVERIL CAMERON. Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 260. $39.95 (US)

PETER BROWN. Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. Pp. x, 182. $12.95 (US), paper.     

Review Article: Migration in Germany

MATHIAS BEER, MARTIN KINTZINGER, and MARITA KRAUSS, eds. Migration und Integration: Aufnahme und Eingliederung im historischen Wandel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 167. DM 64.00; ANDREAS GESTRICH and MARITA KRAUSS, eds. Migration und Grenze. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 166. DM 68.00; STEVE HOCHSTADT. Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820–1989. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 331. $52.50 (US); JAMES H.JACKSON, JR. Migration and Urbanization in the Ruhr Valley, 1821-1914. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 452. $85.00 (US); KLAUS J. BADE and MYRON WEINER, eds. Migration Past, Migration Future: Germany and the United States. Providence: Berghahn, 1997. Pp. xvii, 158. $29.95 (US); RAINER MÜNZ and MYRON WEINER, eds. Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy: US and German Policies toward Countries of Origin. Providence: Berghahn, 1997. Pp. xvi, 368. $59.95 (US); KAY HAILBRONNER, DAVID A. MARTIN, and HIROSHI MOTOMURA, eds. Immigration Admissions: The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United States. Providence: Berghahn, 1997. Pp. xii, 284. $49.95 (US); ALBRECHT WEBER, ed. Einwanderungsland Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Europäiscken Union: Gestaltungsauftrag und Regelungsmöglichkeiten. Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 1997. Pp. 381. DM 56.00. Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder     

Review Article: Louis XVI and Vergennes

JOHN HARDMAN and MUNRO PRICE, eds. Louis XVI and the comte de Vergennes: Correspondence, 1774–1787. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999. Pp. xvii, 403. £65.00. Reviewed by H. M. Scott     

Review Article: Fascist Italy at War

RENZO DE FELICE. Mussolini l'alleato: L'ltalia in guerra, 1940–1943: 1 : Dalla guerra ‘breve’ alla guerra lunga: II: Crisi e agonia del regime. Torino: Guilio Einaudi, 1990. Pp. xiv, 1,576. L. 150,000.     

Review Article: Europe Yesterday and Tomorrow

GEIR LUNDESTAD. ‘Empire’ by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 200. $108.00 (CDN); GEIR LUNDESTAD, ed. No End to Alliance: The United States and Western Europe: Past, Present, and Future. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 268. $69.95 (US); PETER J. KATZENSTEIN, ed. Tamed Power: Germany in Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 314. $19.95 (US), paper; PETER J. KATZENSTEIN, ed. Mitteleuropa: Between Europe and Germany. New York: Berghahn, 1997. Pp. ix, 292. $49.95 (US); JOHN ZYSMAN and ANDREW SCHWARTZ, eds. Enlarging Europe: The Industrial Foundations of a New Political Reality. Berkeley: University of California, 1998. Pp. xi, 448. $29.50 (US). Reviewed by John Gillingham     

Review Article: The Accuracy of Thoukydides

JOHAN HENRIK SCHREINER. Hellanikos, Thukydides, and the Era of Kimon. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1997; dist. Oakville, Conn.: David Brown Book Company. Pp. 135. $26.95 (US); GEORGE CAWKWELL. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. London and New York: Roudedge, 1997. Pp. ix, 162. $18.99 (US). Reviewed by Tim Duff     

Review Article: Re-ordering Europe after 1945

ENNIO DI NOLFO, ed. Power in Europe?: II: Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy and the Origins of the EEC, 1952–1957. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1992. Pp. viii, 598. DM 238.00;

ALAN S. MILWARD. The European Rescue of the Nation-State. London and New York: Roudedge, 1992. Pp. xv, 477. £35.00;

ALAN S. MILWARD et al. The Frontier of National Sovereignty: History and Theory, 1945–1992. London and New York: Roudedge, 1993. Pp. xi, 234. £40.00;

DAVID WEIGALL and PETER STIRK, eds. The Origins and Development of the European Community. Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 211. £11.95;

PETER DUIGNAN and L. H. GANN. The Rebirth of the West: The Americanization of the Democratic World, 1945–1958. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xii, 733. $69.50 (US);

FRANCIS H. HELLER and JOHN R. GILLINGHAM, eds. NATO: The Founding of the Atlantic Alliance and the Integration of Europe. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. ix, 470. £45.00;

WALTER LAQUEUR. Europe in Our Time: A History, 1945–1992. London: Viking, 1992. Pp. xxii, 617. £17.99.