New Approaches to Sacred Space

Stephen Murray : A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Jaime Lara : City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Robert Nelson : Hagia Sophia 1850–1950: Holy Wisdom, Holy Monument. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Robert W. Moss : Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.     

Unsocial analyses: Habitus,Hegemony, and self

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 330 pp. including appendix, references, and index. $39.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Comaroff, Jean and John Comaroff. Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xx + 414 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Crapanzano, Vincent. Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. ix + 386 pp. including notes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.     

Things Japanese: Something old,something new

Bernstein, Gail Lee. Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983. xvii + 199 pp. including maps, photographs. $15.00 cloth.

Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. xi + 315 pp. including notes, references, glossary, index. $18.95 cloth.

Smith, Robert J. Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xii + 176 pp. including notes, bibliography, author ₍and subject indices. $19.95 cloth.

Smith, Robert J., and Ella Lury Wiswell. The Women of Suye Mura. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xxxvii + 293 pp. including maps, photographs, glossary, index. $7.50 paper.     

Women's studies in anthropology: Old debates and new issues

Powers, Maria N. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xv + 241 pp. including reference notes and index. $19.95 cloth.

Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. viii + 285 pp. including notes, and index. $24.95 cloth.

Simms, Margaret C., and Julianne M. Malveaux, eds. Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1986. 302 pp. including chapter references. $12.95 paper.     

The cultural,the material and the spiritual in new Spain

The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas. By BARBARA E. MUNDY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xxiii, 281.

Shadows Over Anáhuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730–1800. By ARIJ OUWENEEL. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 429.

Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth‐Century Mexico. By WILLIAM B. TAYLOR. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 868.     

Kennedy and Cuba: Then and Now

Book reviewed:
Sheldon Stern. Averting 'the Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 496 pp. Illus. $35.00 (cloth).
Alice L. George. Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Illus., notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth).     

Book reviews

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

Nuclear Weapons: The Global and Popular Context of Policy

Book reviewed:
Lawrence S. Wittner. Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement , 1971 to the Present . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 491 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 (cloth), $32.95 (paper).     

Pursuing a World of Law, Justice, and Peace

Book reviewed:
Dorothy V. Jones. Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 285 pp. Notes, bibliographic note, index. $30.00 (cloth).     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Surviving the Tudors. The ‘Wizard’ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537–1586. By Vincent P. Carey. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2002. 240 pp. £39.38. ISBN 1851825495. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. By Stephen Alford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiv, 233 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0521660556. Parliament at Work. Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England. Edited by Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2002. xiv, 190 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0851158749. Parliament, Politics and Elections, 1604–1648. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. (Camden Society, 5th Series, Volume XVII). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. 355pp. £45.00. ISBN 0521802148. Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. House of Commons and the Strafford Trial. Volume 3: 22 March –17 April 1641. Edited by Maija Jansson, assisted by Jennifer Klein Morrison, Alison Plant and Shawn Smith. (The Yale Center for Parliamentary History.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2001. xxxvii, 608 pp. £ 90.00. ISBN 1580460895. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724–1741. Literary and Political Events in Georgian England. Edited, with commentary by Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston. 2002. xxii, 167 pp. £64.95. ISBN 0773472339. Women, Privilege, and Power. British Politics, 1750 to the Present. Edited by Amanda Vickery. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. x, 413 pp. £60.00. ISBN 0804742847. George III. An Essay on Monarchy. By G. M. Ditchfield. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. xi, 233 pp. £45.00. ISBN 03339 1962 9. Grattan. A Life. By R. B. McDowell. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. 2001. viii, 271 pp. £27.56. ISBN 1901 866726. Revolution, Counter‐Revolution and Union. Ireland in the 1790s. Edited by Jim Smyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii, 245 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521661099. Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914. By Martin Daunton. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii, 438 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521803721. Rational Choice and British Politics. An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair. By Iain McLean. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xiv, 256 pp. £40.00 hardback; £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 1982 95308; 0 1982 95294. Die radikale Herausforderung. Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen laendlicher Tradition und industrieller Modeme (1846–1868). By Andreas Roedder. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2002. 574 pp. £64.80. ISBN 3486566555. The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868. From Gentlemen to Players. By Michael Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii, 249 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 1982 75773. The Lancashire Working Classes c.1880–1930. By Trevor Griffiths. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xi, 390 pp. £ 55.00. ISBN 0 1992 47382. Socialist Women. By June Hannam and Karen Hunt. London: Routledge. 2002. viii, 232 pp. £17.99. ISBN 0415266394.     

Fisherwomen,fisheries policy,and maritime anthropology

Allison, Charlene J., Sue‐Ellen Jacobs, and Mary A. Porter. Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xliv + 203 pp. including time‐line, photographs, map, place‐name locator, glossary, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth.

Cole, Sally, Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xvii + 189 pp. including photographs, tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and subject index. $52.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

McGoodwin, James R. Crisis in the World's Fisheries: People, Problems, and Policies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. viii + 235 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and subject index. $35.00 cloth.

Pálsson, Gísli. Coastal Economies, Cultural Accounts: Human Ecology and Icelandic Discourse. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. xvii + 202 pp. including figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 cloth.     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Israel Bartal : The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772–1881, trans. Chaya Naor . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 [2002]; pp. vi + 203. Jay R. Berkowitz : Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004; pp. 333. George Bernard : The King's Reformation. Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005; pp. xii + 736. Madeleine Biardeau : Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess. Trans. Alf Hiltebeitel , James Walker , and Marie ‐Louise Reiniche . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. 358. 108 halftones, 10 figures, 3 maps. T. Patrick Burke : The Major Religions: An Introduction with Texts, 2d ed. Malden, Oxford, and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2004 [1996]; pp. xix + 380. Lorne L. Dawson , ed.: Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader. Malden, MA, Oxford, and Melbourne: Blackwell Publishing, 2003; pp. 312. Carl W. Ernst : Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Ian Forrest : The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005; pp. vii + 277. Ian Hunter , John Christian Anderson , and Cary J. Nederman , eds: Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Catholic Christendom, 300–1700. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2005; pp. xii + 205. Marion Maddox : God Under Howard: The Rise of The Religious Right in Australian Politics. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005; pp. 386. Arthur F. Marotti : Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti‐Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2005; pp. xii + 307. Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless , eds: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003; pp. 224. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby , eds: Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. 307. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby , ed.: The Hindu World. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. pp. 657. Karla Poewe : New Religions and the Nazis. New York and London: Routledge, 2006; pp. xii + 218. Adam Possamai : Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyperreal Testament. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005; pp. 176. Janine Tasca Sawada : Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth‐Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, 2004: pp. 432. Stefanie B. Siegmund : The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006; pp. xxii + 624, 2 maps, 9 figures. Anna M. Silvas : The Asketikon of St Basil the Great, Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; pp. xx + 517, 1 map, 7 appendices. Michael Strmiska (ed.): Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC‐CLIO, 2005; pp. ix + 382. Robert A. F. Thurman and the AIBS team , trans.: The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara). New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and Columbia University's Centre for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, 2004. pp. 368. Claire Walker : Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. xii + 247. R. Willis and P. Curry : Astrology, Science, and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004; pp. v + 170. John Witte , Jr . and Robert Kingdon : Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin's Geneva: Volume 1: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage. Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Cambridge: William B. Eeardmans Publishing Company, 2005; pp. xxxii + 512.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Karen L. King : What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; pp. xii + 343. Michael Frassetto , ed.: The Year 1000: Religious and Social Responses to the Turning of the First Millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xi + 278. K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn : Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner : Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002; pp. xi + 321. Patricia Londoño ‐Vega : Religion, Culture and Society in Colombia. Medellín and Antioquia, 1850–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; pp. xiii + 402. Colin Holden : Church in a Landscape. Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Group, 2002; pp. xix + 324. Jeffrey J. Kripal : Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xviii + 412. William James , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Centenary ed. (First published New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902) London and New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. lxiii + 415.     

The Case for Mainstreaming Gender Politics Studies

Swers, Michele L. The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 194. $45.00 hardbound, $16.00 softbound.

Borrelli, Mary Anne. The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power and Representation. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. Pp xii, 270. $59.95 hardbound, $26.50 softbound.

Watson, Robert P., and Ann Gordon, eds. Anticipating Madam President. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. Pp. xv, 271. $55.00 hardbound, $22.50 softbound.

Carroll, Susan]., ed. Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 250. $74.00 hardbound, $24.95 softbound.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this articles:
R obert L. W ilken : The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992; pp. xvi + 365
C. S tephen J aeger : The Envy of Angels: Cathedral School and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994; pp. 515.
R oberta G ilchrist : Contemplation and Action: The Other Monasticism. London, Leicester University Press, 1995; pp. xvi + 250.
W illiam J. D ohar : The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership: The Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century . Philadelphia, Philadelphia University Press, 1995; pp. xvi + 198.
J ohn F ennell : A History of the Russian Church to 1448 . London and New York, Longman, 1995; pp. xii + 266.
M ihchel de C erteau : The Mystic Fable, Volume 1 : The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . Translated by Michael B. Smith, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. 384.
J osé C asanova , Pblic Religions in the Modern World . Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. x 320
W alter H. C apps : The New Religious Right: Piety, Patriotism, and Politics . Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1994; p. 223.
D iana W ood : The Church and Childhood (Studies in Church History, Volume 31). Oxford, Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Basil Blackwell, 1994; pp. 530.
R ose -M ary S argent : The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment . Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. 336.
T homas O'C onnor : An Irish Theologian in Enlightenment France: Luke Joseph Hooke, 1714-96 . Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1995; pp. 218.     

Tragic Elements in Calderón's La Dama Duende

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Ricardo Landeira. El género policíaco en la literatura española del siglo XIX. Universidad de Alicante, 2001. 142 pp.

Armine Kotin Mortimer and Katherine Kolb, eds. Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii + 316 pp. $39.95.

Madeleine Dobie. Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism. Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 234 pp. $49.50.

Daniel Murphy. Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001. 263 pp. $43.50.

Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxii + 367 pp. $59.95 cloth; $21.95 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.)