Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article Alexander the Great: King, Commander, and Statesman. By Nicholas G. L. Hammond. (Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1981. Pp. x, 358. $24.00.) Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation. By Walter Goffart. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. xv, 278. $25.00.) Barons of the Welsh Frontier: The Corbet, Pantulf, and Fitz Warin Families, 1066-1272. By Janet Meisel. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. Pp. xix, 231. $19.95.) The Medieval English Economy, 1150-1500. By J. L. Bolton. (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1980. Pp. 400. $25.00.) Crusader Institutions. By Joshua Prawer. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. xv, 519. $89.00.) The Northern Crusades: The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525. By Eric Christiansen. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xxii, 273. $25.00 cloth, $10.95 paper.) A History of Hull. By Edward Gillett and Kenneth A. MacMahon. (New York Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 430. $45.00.) The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559. By Winthrop S. Hudson. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 158. $14.95.) The Triumphs of Providence: The Assassination Plot, 1696. By Jane Garrett. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 289. $19.50.) British Diplomacy and Swedish Politics, 1758-1773. By Michael Roberts. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xxv, 528. $29.50.) The People's Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics. By Bruce K. Murray. (New York Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 352. 549.95.) Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in, Anglo-American Social Thought. [American Civilization Series. Edited by Allen F. Davis.] By Robert C. Bannister. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979. Pp. Ix, 292. $37.50.) Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France, and the USA since 1930. By Arthur Marwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 416. $19.95.) Agriculture in France on the Eve of the Railway Age. By Hugh Clout. (London: Croom Helm, and Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble Books, 1980. Pp. 239. $28.50.) France since 1918. By Herbert Tint. Second edition. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. 221. $19.95.) August Bebel: Shadow Emperor of the German Workers. By William Maehl. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980. Pp. xiv, 560. $20.00.) The King's Honor & The King's Cardinal: The War of the Polish Succéssion. By John L. Sutton. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980. Pp. vi, 250. $19.50.) Peter Kropotkin. By Stephen Osofsky. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. Pp. 202. $11.95.) The American and European Revolutions, 1776-1848: Sociopolitical and Ideological Aspects. Edited, with an introduction, by Jaroslaw Pelenski. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1980. Pp. xviii, 412. $17.50.) The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War. By Arno J. Mayer. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. Pp. xi, 368. $16.95.) Wealth and the Wealthy in the Modern World. Edited by W. D. Rubinstein. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. 283. $27.50.) Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905-25. By Donald S. Sutton. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 404. $18.50.) The Economy of Colonial America. By Edwin J. Perkins. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 177. $17.50 cloth, $6.00 paper.) The Revolutionary Histories: Contemporary Narratives of the American Revolution. By Lester H. Cohen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $15.00.) The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America. By Michael Feldberg. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. vi, 136. $8.95.) Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1800-1860. By Anne C. Loveland. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 293. $30.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.) The Popular Mood of Pre-Civil War America. By Lewis O. Saum. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 336. $29.95.) Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. By Eric Foner. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 250. $15.95.) Financiers and Railroads, 1869-1889: A Study of Morton, Bliss & Company. By Dolores Greenberg. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $22.50.) Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times. By James R. Mellow. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Pp. xiii, 684. $19.95.) City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Gunther Barth. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. viii, 289. $19.95.) Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970. By James Borchert. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 326. $18.95.) Clifford W. Beers: Advocate for the Insane. By Norman Dain. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. Pp. xxix, 392. $19.95.) Fathers to Daughters: The Legal Foundations of Female Emancipation. (Contributions in Legal Studies, no. 11.) By Peggy A. Rabkin. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. vii, 214. $25.00.) Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900. By Ruth Bordin. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. Pp. xviii, 221. $17.50.) The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. By Barbara Leslie Epstein. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. Pp. 188. $17.95.) Women and Work. By Sheila Lewenhak. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $18.50.) American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917. By William N. Still, Jr. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 291. $29.95.) The Pugnacious Presidents: White House Warriors on Parade. By Thomas A. Bailey. (New York: The Free Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 504. $17.95.) Over Here: The First World War and American Society. By David M. Kennedy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 404. $19.95.) Oscar W. Underwood: A Political Biography. By Evans C. Johnson. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. xvi, 479. $27.50.) Louis D. Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and the New Deal. By Nelson L. Dawson. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1980. Pp. viii, 272. $19.50.) Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941-1947. by Michael B. Stoff. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 249. $15.00.) Dean Rusk. [The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, vol. 19. Edited by Robert W. Ferrell.] By Warren I. Cohen. (Totowa, N.J.: Cooper Square Publishers, 1980. Pp. xii, 358. $22.50.) James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators. By Donald A. Ritchie. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 267 $15.00.) A History of Retirement: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution, 1885-1978. By William Graebner. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. 293. $22.50.) Semper Fidelis: The History of The United States Marine Corps. By Allan R. Millett. [The MacMillan Wars of the United States series. Edited by Louis Morton.] (New York: MacMillan, and London: Collier MacMillan, 1980. Pp. 782. $29.95.) Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative. By William Appleman Williams. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 226. $14.95.) Irony and Consciousness: American Historiography and Reinhold Niebuhr's Vision. By Richard Reinitz. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1980. Pp. 230. $19.50.) The Chickasaw Freedmen: A People without a Country. By Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 248. $25.00.) The Kansas Beef Industry. By Charles L. Wood. (Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. Pp. xiii, 352. $22.50.) A Jesuit Hacienda in Colonial Mexico: Santa Lucía, 1576-1767. By Herman W. Konrad. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 455. $28.50.)     

Book Reviews

Eduardo Lozano.Community Design and the Culture of Cities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiii and 340 pp., Hardcover $65.00, Paperback $24.95.

Jonathan Barker, Rural Communities under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 228 pp., $44.50 hardbound, $13.95 paper and David J. Arnold, Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, vii, 154 pp., $17 paper.

David M. Hummon, Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, xv and 236 pp., $49.50 (hardbound); $16.95 (paper).

William H. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, x and 365 pp., $38.50 (hardbound).

F.M.L. Thompson, ed. The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750- 1950. 3 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Vol. I, Regions and Communities, xv and 588 pp., $69.50; vol. II, People and Their Environment, xv and 373 pp., $59.50; vol. Ill, Social Agencies and Institutions, xiii and 492 pp., $59.50; the set, $150.00

Luke B. Knapke, ed. Liwwät Böke, 1807-1882, Pioneer. Minster, Ohio: The Minster Historical Society, 1987, 197 pp. and pen and ink sketches, $22.25 (hardbound).

Timothy R. Mahoney. River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xi and 319 pp., $39.50 (cloth).

James S. Duncan. The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xiv and229 pp., index, figures, $49.50 (hardbound).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed “THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND PEOPLES: SUCCESSION, RELIGION, CULTURE, AND POLITICS” The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire. By Justin McCarthy. (London: Arnold Publishers, 2001. Pp. x, 234. $24.95.) Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902–1908. By M. S¸ükrü Haniog?lu. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 538. $72.00.) The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State. By Kemal H. Karpat. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 533. $49.95.) Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. By Myron Echenberg. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xviii, 305. $28.00.) “God Alone Is King”: Islam and Emancipation in Senegal, the Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859–1914. By James Searing. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann and Oxford: James Currey, 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 293. $27.00.) Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. By Rachel Adams. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 289. $19.00.) Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish‐Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821. By Jeremy Baskes. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 305. $60.00.) Making Patriots. By Walter Berns. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 150. $12.00.) A Perilous Progress: Economics and Public Purpose in Twentieth‐Century America. By Michael A. Bernstein. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. 358. $39.50.) Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries. By D. A. Brading. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 444. $34.95.) The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua. By Timothy C. Brown. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 321. $29.95.) By Any Means Necessary: America's Heroes Flying Secret Missions in a Hostile World. By William E. Burrows. (New York: Plume, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 398. $15.00.) Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. By Jack E. Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 351. $39.95.) Look Away: A History of the Confederate States of America. By William C. Davis. (New York and London: The Free Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 484. $35.00.) The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780. By María Elena Díaz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 440. $55.00.) The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914. By George Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 259. $55.00.) A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth‐Century Cuba. By Alejandro de la Fuente. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 449. $19.95.) The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade. By Robert Harms. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. 541. $30.00.) The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas: A Social and Political History, 1860–1945. By Roy Hora. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 264. $35.00.) Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940. Edited by Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. (Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 507. $21.95.) All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War. By Frank Kusch. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xviii, 173. $62.00.) John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. By R. Kent Newmyer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 508. $39.95.) Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth‐Century U.S. History. By Alice O’Connor. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 373. $29.95.) The Columbia Guide to Asian American History. By Gary Y. Okihiro. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 323. $45.00.) Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908. By Michael Perman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 397, $24.95.) Medicine in Colonial America. By Oscar Reiss. (Lanham, NY, and Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., 2000. Pp. xi, 518. $64.50.) Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953. By Mary Roldán. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 392. $64.95.) Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes. By Susan Sleeper‐Smith. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 234. $18.95.) American Colonies. By Alan Taylor. (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. Pp. xvii, 526. $34.95.) Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. By Andrea Tone. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. Pp. xvii, 353. $30.00.) Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg. By Tom Wells. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xi, 692. $29.95.) Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Edited by Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C. A. Bayly, with the collaboration of Robert Ilbert. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 410. $22.50.) Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China. By Stevan Harrell. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 370. $50.00.) Crime and Social Control in a Changing China. Edited by Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang, and Steven F. Messner. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. 197. $67.95.) A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. By Jane R. McIntosh. (Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. 224. $40.00.) Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 329. $42.00.) The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. By Robert B. Asprey. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. xx, 480. $35.00.) Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000. By James Belich. (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001. Pp. 606. $40.00.) The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800. By David A. Bell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 304. $45.00.) The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801–1846. By Stewart J. Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 459. $95.00.) Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire. By David Cannadine. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 264. $25.00.) The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914–1939. By Deborah Cohen. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 285. $50.00.) The Athenian Nation. By Edward E. Cohen. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 250. $19.95.) The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth‐Century France. By Alain Corbin. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 269. $27.50.) The Jews of Early Modern Venice. Edited by Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 314. $59.95.) The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. By Eamon Duffy. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 232. $22.50.) Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women. By Harriet Pass Freidenreich. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 296. $34.95.) Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe. By Miranda Aldhouse Green. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2001. Pp. 224. $37.50.) Fatherlands: State‐Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany. By Abigail Green. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 386. $64.95.) Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland, 450–1150. By Christina Harrington. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 329. $65.00.) Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia. By Dan Healey. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 392. $40.00.) The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. Xvi, 233. $35.00.) Law and Social Status in Classical Athens. Edited by Virginia Hunter and Jonathan Edmondson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 206. $60.00.) France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944. By Julian Jackson. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 660. $35.00.) Parliament, Politics and Elections, 1604–1648. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society: Camden Society, Fifth Series, Volume 17, 2001. Pp. xi, 355. $65.00.) Making Democracy in the French Revolution. By James Livesey. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 326. $49.95.) Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV. By Ronald S. Love. (Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 457. $65.00.) Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells. By Andrea Lynn. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 530. $30.00.) Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire. By Roberta J. Magnusson. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 238. $38.00.) Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity. Edited, with an introduction, by Irad Malkin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 418. $50.00.) The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure. By Robert McGhee. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 188. $40.00.) The Parthenon Frieze. By Jenifer Neils. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 294. $65.00.) Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804–1824. By Aleksandr Nikitenko. Translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson. Foreword by Peter Kolchin. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 228. $26.95.) British Opinion and Irish Self‐government, 1865–1925: From Unionism to Liberal Commonwealth. By G. K. Peatling. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 316. $52.50.) Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen. By Alison Plowden. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2001. Pp. xiv, 290. $27.95.) A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeeth‐Century France. By Philip F. Riley. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 203. $69.95.) Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670. By Benjamin Schmidt. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 450. $64.95.) John Maynard Keynes. Vol. III, Fighting for Freedom: 1937–1946. By Robert Skidelsky. (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. Pp. xxv, 580. $34.95.) The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North‐West Europe, 1270–1380. By Malcolm Vale. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 422. $45.00.) Deceptions of World War II. By William B. Breuer. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. Pp. xii, 242. $24.95.) Global History: A Short Overview. By Noel Cowen. (London: Polity Press, 2001. Pp. x, 213. $19.95.) An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life. By J. Donald Hughes. (London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xv, 264. $80.00.) Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality. By Jonathan Ned Katz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 416. $35.00.) The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050. Edited by MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 203. $28.00.) Events That Changed the World through the Sixteenth Century. Edited by Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 223. $39.95.)     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Man, State and Deity: Essays in Ancient History. By Victor Ehrenberg. (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1974. Pp. 191. Cloth $12.50, paperback $6.00.) The Archidamian War. By Donald Kagan. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. 392. $17.50.) From Tiberius to the Antonines. By Albino Garzetti. (London: Methuen & Co., 1974. Pp. x, 861. $30.00.) Ancient Rome: From Romulus to Augustus. By Georgina Masson. [A Studio Book.] (New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1974. Pp. 192. $13.95.) Aspects of Greek Medicine. By E. D. Phillips. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. 240. $12.95.) Muslim Spain: lts History and Culture. By Anwar G. Chejne. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 559. $24.75.) Islam and Capitalism. By Maxime Rodinson. Translated from the French by Brian Pearce. (First American Edition; New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Pp. xviii, 308. $10.00.) Lordship and Community: Battle Abbey and lts Banlieu 1066–1538. By Eleanor Searle. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1974. Pp. 479. $20.00.) Cromwell: The Lord Protector. By Antonia Fraser. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Pp. xx, 774. $12.50.) Alexander Carlyle: Anecdotes and Characters of the Times. Edited with an Introduction by James Kinsley. [Oxford English Memoirs and Travels.] (London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xxiv, 318. $14.50.) England's Mission: The Imperial Idea in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli 1868–1880. By C. C. Eldridge. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1973. Pp. xvii, 288. $10.95.) Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906. By Alan K. Russell. [David and Charles Elections and Administrations Series.] (Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1973. Pp. 260. $12.50.) Anglo-American Relations Since the Second World War. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ian S. McDonald. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. Pp. 264. $12.95.) Europe's Crucial Years: The Diplomatic Background of World War I, 1902–1914. By Dwight E. Lee. (Hanover, New Hampshire: Clark University Press by the University Press of New England, 1974. Pp. xiv, 482. $15.00.) The Politics of Torch: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942. By Arthur L. Funk. (Lawrence, Kansas: The University Press of Kansas, 1974. Pp. viii, 322. $11.00.) The Octobrists in the Third Duma, 1907–1912. By Ben–Cion Pinchuk. (Seattle and London; University of Washington Press, 1974. Pp. 232. $10.50.) Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany, 1813. By F. Loraine Petre. With an Introduction by David G. Chandler. (New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 1974. Pp. xii, 403. $10.00.) General Maurice Sarrail, 1856–1929: The French Army and Left–Wing Politics. By Jan Karl Tanenbaum. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 300. $12.95.) The Nazi Party Courts: Hitler's Management of Conflict in His Movement, 1921–1945. By Donald M. McKale. (Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1974. Pp. xii, 252. $10.00.) Pedro de la Torre: Doctor to Conquerors. By John Tate Lanning. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 145. $7.50.) Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689–1692, By Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. xviii, 321. 115.00.) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1974. Pp. xiv, 274. $8.95.) Thomas Jefferson; An Intimate History. By Fawn Brodie. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1974. Pp. 591. $12.50.) The Struggle for Neutrality: Franco-American Diplomacy During the Federalist Era. By Albert Hall Bowman. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1974. Pp. x, 460. 113.50.) The American Revolution of 1800. By Daniel Sisson. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Pp.xiii, 468. $12.50.) American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era. By Ronald N. Satz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 343. $12.95.) Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Eugene D. Genovese. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Pp. xxii, 823. $17.50.) The North, the South, and the Powers, 1861–1865. By D. P. Crook. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1975. Pp. x, 405. $11.95.) The Memoirs of Henry Heth. Edited by James L. Morrison, Jr. [Contributions in Military History, Number 6.] (Westport, Connecticut-London, England: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. lxxvi, 303. $13.95.) Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. By William C. Davis. [Southern Biography Series.] (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. Pp. xxii, 687. 117.50.) Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy. By John Niven. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. x, 676. $17.50.) America, The Middle Period: Essays in Honor of Bernard Mayo. Edited by John B. Boles. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973. Pp. xviii, 278. $8.50.) American Transcendentalism, 1830–1860: An Intellectual Inquiry, By Paul F. Boiler, Jr. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons and Books, 1974. Pp. xxvi, 227. $6.95.) American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877–1889.[Contributions in Military History No. 4.] By Kenneth J. Hagan. (Westport, Connecticut, and London, England: Greenwood Pres, 1973. Pp. x, 262. $11.50.) Nature's Yellowstone. By Richard A. Bartlett. (Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 250. $10.00.) The Hard Rock Men: Cornish Immigrants and the North American Frontier. By John Rowe. (London and New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974. Pp. x, 296. $18.00.) Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman. By Leon C. Metz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 329. $8.95.) Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. By Richard H. Pells. (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. Pp. xv, 424. $12.50.) The Intelligence of a People. By Daniel Calhoun. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 408. $14.50.) The Radical Immigrant. By Sally M. Miller. [The Immigrant Heritage of America Series.] (New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1974. Pp. 169. $7.50.) The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke. By Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Pp. xv, 265. $11.95.) Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor 1848–1896. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 274. $11.50.) The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874–1901. By Tom E. Terrill. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. ix, 306. $12.00.) Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt, and Bankruptcy, 1607–1900. By Peter J. Coleman. (Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1974. Pp. xiii, 303. $17.50.) A History of Regulatory Taxation. By R. Alton Lee. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1973. Pp. xi, 228. $15.25.) Progress and Pragmatism: James, Dewey, Beard, and the American Idea of Progress. By David W. Marcell. [Contributions in American Studies No. 9.] (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 420. $13.95.) Richard Irvine Manning and the Progressive Movement in South Carolina. By Robert Milton Burts. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974. Pp. viii, 262. $9.95.) Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era. By Lewis L. Gould. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. Pp. 339. $10.00.) Lindbergh of Minnesota: A Political Biography. By Bruce L. Larson. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. Pp. xix, 363. $14.50.) The Hofstadter Aegis: A Memorial. Edited by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Pp. xiv, 384. $10.00.) An Alternative Vision: The Socialists Party in the 1930's. By Frank A. Warren. (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 273. $10.00.) Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. By Alexander L. George and Richard Smoke. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 666. $17.50 hardcover, $6.95 paperback.) Closing the Open Door: American-Japanese Diplomatic Negotiations, 1936–1941. By James H. Herzog. (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Pp. xi, 295. $12.50.) Formosa: Licensed Revolution and the Home Rule Movement, 1895–1945. By George H. Kerr. (Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974. Pp. xxviii, 265. $12.50.)     

Review Article: An Open Door on Early Modern Asia

DONALD F. LACH and EDWIN J. VAN KLEY. Asia in the Making of Europe: Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book One: Trade, Missions, Literature. Pp. lxxvi, 597. $85.00 (us); Book Two: South Asia. Pp. Ivii, 601-1,110. $75.00 (us); Book Three: Southeast Asia. Pp. liii, 1,111-1,561. $65.00 (us); Book Four: East Asia. Pp. cxii, 1,563-2,077. $85.00 (us). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. $300.00 (us), die set.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia. By Chase F. Robinson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 206. $59.95.) Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East. By Jonathan P. Berkey. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 143. $30.00.) The Fall of Apartheid: The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki. By Robert Harvey. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 257. $65.00.) Medieval Africa, 1250–1800. By Roland Oliver and Anthony Atmore. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 251. $59.95.) West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta‐Bani Anticolonial War. By Mahir Saul and Patrick Royer. (Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2001. Pp. xiii, 404. $65.00.) Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief. By Peter Aleshire. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Pp. xiii, 354. $30.00.) Jazz Age Jews. By Michael Alexander. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 239. $24.45.) Theodore Roosevelt. By Louis Auchincloss. (New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2002. Pp. xvi, 155. $20.00.) Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. By Arnold J. Bauer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 245. $59.95.) No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. By Larry Berman. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 334. $27.50.) The Strange Death of American Liberalism. By H. W. Brands. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 200. $22.50.) The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. By Michelle Brattain. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 301. $35.00.) “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837–1916. Edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 241. $39.95.) African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896–1936. By Floris Barnett Cash. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 2001. Pp. x, 213. $64.00.) Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961–1969. By Thomas Clarkin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 376. $34.95.) Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915. By Catherine Cocks. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 287. $37.50.) Reading the Maya Glyphs. Michael D. Coe and Mark Van Stone. (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001. Pp. 176. $21.95.) Implementing the Constitution. By Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 186. $35.00.) Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth‐Century Dress Reform in the United States. By Gayle V. Fischer. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 262. $24.00.) Faith of Our Mothers: The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush. By Harold I. Gullan. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. 394. $25.00.) Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948–1974. By Theodore Hamm. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 209. $16.95.) In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature—Pre‐Columbian to the Present. By Miguel León‐Portilla and Earl Shorris, with Sylvia S. Shorris, Asención H. de León‐Portilla, and Jorge Klor de Alva. (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 720. $39.95.) Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918. By Gerald W. McFarland. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 272. $29.95.) Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. By Sioban Nelson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 240. $55.00.) The New Left: A History. By William L. O’Neill. (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2001. Pp. xi, 128. $11.95.) Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. By Clifford Putney. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 300. $39.95.) Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir. By Cheri Register. (New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Pp. 278. $13.00.) One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. By Kenneth D. Rose. (New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 301. $28.95.) The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance. By Dan Rottenberg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 262. $29.95.) John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001. Pp. x, 294. $60.00.) The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. By Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan. (New York: Viking, 2000. Pp. xv, 640. $29.95.) Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. By Grant Wacker. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 364. $35.00.) Mormon History. By Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen, with a contribution by Armand L. Mauss. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 279. $32.50.) Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic. By Richard A. Warren. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. ix, 202. $60.00.) Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. 262. $29.95.) Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xv, 336. $19.95.) Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius. By David W. Zang. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 180. $29.95.) China since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition. By Joseph Fewsmith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 313. $21.95.) The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.–A.D. 907. By Charles Holcombe. (Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai’i Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 332. $24.95.) Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 209. $29.95.) Japan: A Modern History. By James L. McClain. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 632, appendices. $35.00.) Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. By the Military History Institute of Vietnam. Translated by Merle L. Pribbenow. Foreword by William J. Duiker. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 494. $49.95.) Napoleon. By R. S. Alexander. (London: Arnold, 2001. Pp. viii, 273. $18.50.) The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. By David Armitage. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 239. $54.95.) Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle. By Lenard R. Berlanstein. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 300. $45.00.) Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. By Walter Burkert. Translated by Peter Bing. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 110. $28.00.) The Polish‐Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500–1795. Edited by Richard Butterwick. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xix, 249. $65.00.) David Livingstone. By Meriel Buxton. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvi, 215. $60.00.) Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present. By Norman Davies. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 483. $17.95.) Oliver Cromwell. By J. C. Davis. (London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 243. $65.00.) Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. By Geoff Eley. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 698. $35.00.) Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847–1928). By Coryne Hall. (New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 2001. Pp. xiv, 402. $37.95.) Britain in the First Millenium. By Edward James. (London: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 310. $24.95.) Philip V of Spain: The King Who Reigned Twice. By Henry Kamen. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $29.95.) The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793–1795. By Michael L. Kennedy. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000. Pp. viii, 312. $69.95.) Saint‐Simon and the Court of Louis XIV. By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie with the collaboration of Jean‐François Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 432, $35.50.) Sympathy for the Devil: Neutral Europe and Nazi Germany in World War II. By Christian Leitz. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. 213. $40.00.) War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I. By Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $64.95.) The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II. By Giles MacDonogh. (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. 416. $27.95.) Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 387. $39.95.) The People's Bread: A History of the Anti‐Corn Law League. By Paul Pickering and Alex Tyrrell. (London: University of Leicester Press, 2000. Pp. x, 304. $99.00.) Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I. By Marsha L. Rozenblit. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 252. $49.95.) Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire. By Antonio Santosuosso. (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 265. $26.00.) Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. vii, 312. $55.00.) Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200–1565. By Walter Simons. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 333. $65.00.) Voices of Revolution 1917. By Mark D. Steinberg. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 395. $29.95.) Radio London and Resistance in Occupied Europe: British Political Warfare, 1939–1943. By Michael Stenton. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 423. $37.00.) Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany. By B. Ann Tlusty. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xii, 288. $59.50.) Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England. Edited by Daniel J. Vitkus. Introduction by Nabil Matar. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 376. $22.50.) Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg. Translated and annotated, with an introduction, by David A. Warner. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 410. $75.00.) An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: Demographic, Economic, and Social Transition. By Michael Wintle. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 399. $70.00.) Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. Edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 338. $24.95.) The God That Failed. Edited by Richard H. Crossman, with a foreword by David C. Engerman. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xl, 273. $16.50.) Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. By David Glassberg. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2001. Pp. xvii, 267. $18.95.)     

The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900–1914

J. N. LOCKMAN. Scattered Tracks on the Lawrence Trail: Twelve Essays on T. E. Lawrence. Whitmore Lake, Mich.: Falcon Books, 1996. Pp. xxii, 208. $24.00 (us); ANITA ENGLE. The Nili Spies. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. x, 244. $36.00 (us); YOAV GELBER. Jewish-Transjordanian Relations, 1921-48. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 320. $37.50 (us); MICHAEL J. COHEN. Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945-1954. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xv, 349. $24.00 (us), paper; P. J. VATIKIOTIS. The Middle East: From the End of Empire to the End of the Cold War. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xi, 284. $65.00 (us); YEZID SXYIGK. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xliv, 953. £70.00; HAROLD M. CUBERT. ThePFLP's Changing Role in the Middle East. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xiii, 235. $47.50 (us); MAJID KHADDURI and EDMUND GHAREEB. War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 299. $39-95 (CDN); KEMAL KIRISCI and GARETH M. WINROW. The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xvi, 237. $45.00 (us); ZEEV MAOZ, ed. Regional Security in the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 208. $42.50 (us); EFRAIM KARSH, ed. Between War and Peace: Dilemmas of Israeli Security. London: Frank Cass, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 298. $37.50 (us); AHARON LEVRAN. Israeli Strategy after Desert Storm: Lessons of the Second Gulf War. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. ix, 169. $47.50 (us).     

BOOK NOTES

Books reviewed in this article: Burstein, Paul. Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle For Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1985 x+247 0-226-08134-6 $30.00 (hardcover) 0-226-08135-4 $12.95 (softcover). Cochran, Clarke E., et al. American Public Policy: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin's 1985 xvii+430 0-312-03121-1 $24.95 (hardcover). Crozier, Michel. The Trouble With America: Why the System is Breaking Down. Berkeley: University of California Press 1984 xx+156 0-520-05733-3 $7.95 (softcover). Grieson, Ronald E. (editor). Antitrust and Regulation. Lexington, MA: B.C. Heath/Lexington Books 1986 xiii+280 0-669-09301-7 $32.00 (hardcover). Hayward, Jack. The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in France. New York: New York University Press 1986 xv+267 0-8147-3435-9 $35.00 (hardcover). Houseman, Gerald L. State and Local Government: The New Battleground. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1986 xiii+272 0-13-843368-2 $17.95 (softcover). Jackman, Mary R. and Robert W. Jackman. Class Awareness in the United Stages. Berkeley: University of California Press 1986 x+231 0-520-05631-0 $10.95 (softcover). Jones, Catherine. Patterns of Social Policy: An Introduction to Comparative Analysis. New York: Tavistock 1986 ix+229 0-422-77260-7 $14.95 (softcover). Keithly, David M. Breakthrough in the Ostpolitik: The 1971 Quadripartite Agreement. Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1986 xi+247 0-8133-7178-3 $26.50 (softcover). Lisk, Franklyn (editor). Popular Participation in Planning for Basic Needs. New York: St. Martin's Press 1985 ix+277 0-312-63060-3 $29.95 (hardcover). Mann, Charles K. and Barbara Huddleston (eds.). Food Policy: Frameworks for Analysis and Action. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press 1986 xi+243 0-243-34342-9. McCurdy, Howard E. Public Administration: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature. New York: Marcel Dekker 1986 ix +311 0-8247-7518-X $29.75 (hardcover). Miser, Hugh J. and Edward S. Quade (ed.). Handbook of Systems Analysis: Overview of Uses, Procedures, Applications, and Practice. New York: North-Holland 1985 xviii+346 0-444-00918-3 $49.50 (hardcover) Perris Arnold. Music as Propaganda: Art to Persuade, Art to Control. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1985 x+247 0-313-24505-3 $29.00 (hardcover). Quandt, William B. Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics. Washington, B.C.: Brookings Institution 1986 xvi+426 0-8157-7290-4 $32.95 (hardcover) 0-8157-7289-0 $12.95 (softcover). Repetto, Robert (editor). The Globe Possible: Resources, Development and the New Century. New Haven: Yale University Press 1985 xv+538 0-300-03505-5. Reynolds, Helen. The Economics of Prostitution. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas 1986 xi+206 0-398-05161-5 $24.75 (hardcover). Rhodes, R.A.H. The National World of Local Government. Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin 1986 xviii+441 0-04-320170-9 $45.00 (hardcover). Roessner, J. David, et al. The Impact of Office Automation on Clerical Employment, 1985–2000: Forecasting techniques and Plausible Futures in Banking and Insurance. Westport, CT: Quorum/Greenwood Press 1985 xii+297 089930-119-3 $49.95 (hardcover). Rogers, Kathryn S. U.S. Goes Abroad. New York: Praeger 1985 xiii+259 0-03-004354-9 $38.95 (hardcover). Thieblot, Armand J., Jr. Prevailing Mage Legislation: The Davis-Bacon Act, State “Little Davis Bacon” Acts. The Walsh-Healy Act, and the Service Contract Act. Philadelphia: Wharton School Industrial Research Unit/University of Pennsylvania 1986 xii+279 0-89546-055-6 $27.50 (softcover). Wolfe, Christopher. The Rise of Modern Judicial Review: From Constitutional Interpretation to Judge-Made Law. New York: Basic Books 1986 x+392 0-465-07033-7 $24.95 (hardcover).     

Review Article: Bystanders to Genocide in Rwanda

BRUCE D. JONES. Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failure. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001. Pp. 209. $49.95 (US); ALAN J. KUPERMAN. The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001. Pp. 176. $38.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper; MAHMOOD MAMDANI. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. 380. $45.00 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper; LINDA R. MELVERN. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide. London: Zed Books, 2000. Pp. x, 272. £49.95, cloth; £14.95, paper; SAMANTHA POWER. ‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. 640. $30.00 (US); PETER RONAYNE. Never Again? The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide since the Holocaust. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Pp. 240. $65.00 (US); MICHAEL BARNETT. Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 215. $25.00 (US); JOHAN POTTIER. Re-imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival, and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 251. $24.00 (US), paper.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Recent Prize ‐Winning Books in History The Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World. By Jeremy Adelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.) Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. By Joseph Harsh. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.) The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.) Review Essay World War I: A Tragedy , Not a Pity The Pity of War. By Niall Ferguson. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xliii, 563. $30.00.) Affrica and the Middle East Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth‐Century Morocco. By Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 166. $49.95.) Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. By R. Stephen Humphreys. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 297. $29.95.) Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth‐Century West Central Africa. By Colleen Kriger. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heineman, 1999. Pp. xxi, 261. $59.95.) Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People. By David Maxwell. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xii, 292. $59.95.) The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684‐1706. By John K. Thornton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.50.) THE AMERICAS Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People. By Thomas A. Abercrombie. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 603. $27.00.) Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. $32.50.) Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850‐1920. By Stephen Bell. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 292. $55.00.) Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861‐1865. By William Blair. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 206. $32.50.) Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 377. $29.95.) Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800. Edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1998. Pp. xv, 484. $24.95.) John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 331. $45.00.) The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769‐1828. By Evan Cornog. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 224. $29.95.) The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820‐1890. By John M. Coward. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 244. $39.95.) Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890‐1939. By Sandra McGee Deutsch. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 491. $60.00.) A Young Man's Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860‐1929. By George Emery and J. C. Herbert Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 184. $39.95.) Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in theAmerican West. By Mark Fiege. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 340. $35.00.) Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth‐Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 240. $34.95.) The Antietam Campaign. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 335. $32.50.) The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. By Gustavo Gorriti. Translated, with an introduction, by Robin Kirk. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 290. $60.00.) Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 354. $49.95.) A Shining Thread of Hope: A History of Black Women in America. By Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson. (New York: Broadway Books, 1998. Pp. 355. $27.50.) Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.‐Latin American Relations. Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. Foreword by Fernando Coronil. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 575. $19.95.) Heart versus Head: Judge‐Made Law in Nineteenth‐Century America. By Peter Karsten. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 490. $55.00.) The Oxford History of the United States. Volume IX, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929‐1945. By David M. Kennedy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 936. $39.95.) A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic. Edited by Donald R. Kennon. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1999. Pp. xiv, 583. $55.00.) Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860‐1900. By Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 345. $18.95.) “A Few Acres of Snow”: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars. By Robert Leckie. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 385. $30.00.) For La Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces of Latin America. By Brian Loveman. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1999. Pp. xxvii, 331. $60.00.) Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate, 1789‐1990. By Joseph Martin Hernon. (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. x, 251.) The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire. By Susan Niles. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 336. $49.95.) The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900. By Frank Ninkovich. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 320. $27.50.) Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present. By Michael D. Pearlman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xii, 441. $45.00.) Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. By Vincent C. Peloso. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 251. $17.95.) The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. By Stephen G. Rabe. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 257. $17.95.) George F. Kennan's Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist. By Richard L. Russell. (Westport and London: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 178. $55.00.) The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Edited by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 258. $18.95.) Private Wealth & Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. By Judith Sealander. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 349. $39.95.) From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. By Amy Dru Stanley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 268. $54.95.) Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877. By David O. Stowell. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 181. $15.00.) Noble Abstractions: American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II. By Frank A. Warren. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 256. $40.00.) Asia and the Pacific The Japan Experience: A Short History of Japan. By W. G. Beasley. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 299. $27.50.) A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960‐1665. By Charlotte Furth. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 355. $45.00.) The Paradox of China's Post‐Mao Reforms. Edited by Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 451. $55.00.) European Commercial Enterprise in Pre‐Colonial India. By Om Prakash. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 377. $54.95.) The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. By Joanna Waley‐Cohen. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Pp. ix, 322. $24.95.) Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. Edited by Mayfair Meihui Yang. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 375. $19.95.) Europe Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. By Yitzhad Arad. (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. 437. $18.95.) Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942‐1945. By Earl R. Beck. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pg. xi, 252. $18.00.) Where the World Ended: Re‐Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. By Daphne Berdahl. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 294. $16.95.) The Kingdom of the Hittites. By Trevor Bryce. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 464. $60.00.) Henry VIII's Conservative Scholar: Bishop John Stokesley and the Divorce, Royal Supremacy and Doctrinal Reform. By Andrew A. Chibi. (Bern: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 204. $33.95.) Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football. By Tony Collins. (London and Portland, Oreg: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998. Pp. xix, 273. $49.50.) Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856‐1914. By Stephen P. Frank. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 352. $55.00.) A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700‐1998. By W. Hamish Fraser. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 291. $55.00.) Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England. Edited by Susan Frye and Karen Robinson. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 350. $60.00.) French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. By Jane F. Fulcher. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 291. $60.00.) Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. By Jane F. Gardner. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 305. $85.00.) Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. By David M. Glantz. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. x, 419, $39.95.) The Glass Beads of Anglo‐Saxon England c. AD 400‐700: A Preliminary Visual Classification of the More Definitive and Diagnostic Types. By Margaret Guido. Edited by Martin Welch. With contributions by Justine Bayley, Julian Henderson, and Martin Welch. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1999. Pp. xi, 361. $90.00.) Medieval Crime and Social Control. Edited by Barbara H. Hanawalt and David Wallace. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 259. $49.95.) Law and Empire in Late Antiquity. By Jill Harries. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 235. $59.95.) Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies. By Jeffrey Herf. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 527. $17.95.) Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. By Don Herzog. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 545. $29.95.) A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville (1712‐1770). By Allen S. Johnson. (Lanham, N.Y. and London: University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Pp. xi, 353. $55.00.) A History of Madness in Sixteenth‐Century Germany. By H. C. Erik Midelfort. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 438. $55.00.) Women in the Holocaust. Edited by Dalia Ofer and Leonore J. Weitzman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 402. $15.95.) Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286‐1306. By Fiona Watson. (East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1998. Pp. xxix, 255. $14.99.) General , Comparative , Historiographical Political Theories of International Relations. By David Boucher. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 443. $24.95.) Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946‐1962. By Zachary Karabell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. 248. $37.50.) The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II. By Robert J. McMahon. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 276. $45.00.) The Cousins’Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo‐America. By Kevin Phillips. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxxviii, 707. $32.50.) Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Vail of the Sino‐Soviet Alliance, 1945‐1963. Edited, with an introduction, by Odd Arne Westad. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, and Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 404. $45.00.)     

Book reviews

Michael F. Holt The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp.xviii + 1248. $48/£32.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 1950 5544 6.

Susan Scheckel, The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth‐Century American Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). Pp.x + 197. $52.50/£33.00 (hardback); $17.95/£11.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 6910 5963 2; 0 6910 5964 0.

Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). Pp.xvii + 319. $45/£35.95 (hardback); $16.95/£13.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8078 2442 9; 0 8078 4746 1.

Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott: the Quest for Military Glory (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). Pp.xii + 316. $35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7006 0914 8.

David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 181. $31 (hardback); $15 (paperback). ISBN 0 2267 7668 9; ISBN 0 2267 7669 7.

Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 382. $39.95. ISBN 0 5022 1765 9.     

Review Article: Nordic Exceptions in War and Cold War

PHILIP GILTNER. ‘In the Friendliest Manner’: German-Danish Economic Cooperation during the Nazi Occupation of 1940–1949. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. xii, 258. $49.95 (US); T. MICHAEL RUDDY, ed. Charting an Independent Course: Finland's Place in the Cold War and in US Foreign Policy. Claremont: Regina Books, 1998. Pp. 223. $32.95 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper; MAX JAKOBSON. Finland in the New Europe. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xiv, 176. $19.95 (US), paper; TEIJA TIILIKAINEN. Europe and Finland: Defining the Political Identity of Finland in Western Europe. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 185. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Munch-Petersen     

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.     

Book reviews

Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999). Pp.xii + 516. $29.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 8028 3872 3.

David L. Dykstra, The Shifting Balance of Power: American‐British Diplomacy in North America, 1842–1848 (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1999). Pp.xxxiv + 247. $39.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 7618 1316 2.

Kathryn Teresa Long, The Revival of 1857–58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Pp.x + 256. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 1951 1293 8.

David Williams, Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998). Pp.xiv + 288. $34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8203 2033.

Eugene D. Genovese, A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998). Pp.xvi 4–180. $24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8203 2046 3.

Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Pp.xiii + 422. $55.00 (hardback); $24.95 (paperback). ISBNs 0 1951 2128 7 and 0 1951 2129 5.

Daniel E. Sutherland, ed., Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999). Pp.250. $32.00 (hardback); $20 (paperback). ISBN 1 5572 8549 7; ISBN 1 5572 8550 0.     

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     

The Eternal Quest for a Place in the Sun

Books reviewed:
Alessandro Brogi, A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy , 1944 – 1958 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002). 336 pp. $99.95 (cloth).
Jeffrey Glen Giauque, G rand Designs and Visions of Unity: The Atlantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe , 1955 – 1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). 344 pp. Notes, index. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).     

Der gescheiterte Frieden von Münster: Spaniens Ringen mit Frankreich auf dem Westfälischen Friedenskongress (1643–1649)/La paix des Pyrénées. Vingt-quatre ans de négociations entre la France et l’Espagne (1635–1659)/Mazarin's Quest: The Congress of Westphalia and the coming of the Fronde

WALTER LAFEBER. The Clash: US-Japan Relations throughout History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. Pp. xxii, 508. $29.95 (US); PATRICK SMITH. Japan: A Reinterpretation. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Pp. 385. $27.50 (US); MICHAEL SCHALLER. Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 320. $44.50 (CDN); STEPHEN D. COHEN. An Ocean Apart: Explaining Three Decades of US-Japanese Trade Frictions. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xi, 256. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen     

Book reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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