Translating Malraux

Malraux, A., The Temptation of the West (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 136pp., US$10.95; The Conquerors (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 210pp., US$10.95; The Walnut Trees of Altenburg (University of Chicago Press, 1992), 234pp., £11.95     

BOOK REVIEWS

Gabriel A. Almond , R. Scott Appleby , and Emmanuel Sivan : Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Craig D. Atwood : Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004; pp. xi + 283. Nora Berend : At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and “Pagans” in Medieval Hungary, c. 1000‐1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; pp. 340. Peggy Brock , ed.: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2005; pp. x + 262. Martinus Cawley , trans.: Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulfus, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003; pp. xlvii + 258. J. P. Daughton : An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880‐1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 330. Khaled El ‐Rouayheb : Before Homosexuality in the Arab‐Islamic World, 1500‐1800. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005; pp. x + 210. J. Albert Harrill : Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social and Moral Dimensions. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. Timothy Insoll : Archaeology, Ritual, Religion. London: Routledge, 2004; pp. 184. Jean ‐René Jannot : Religion in Ancient Etruria, trans. Jane K. Whitehead. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005; pp. xviii + 230.
Nancy Thomson De Grummond and Erika Simon , eds.: The Religion of the Etruscans. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 226. Clayton N. Jefford : The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. R. M. Jensen : Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005. Sara Raup Johnson : Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson : The Life and Miracles of Thekla, a Literary Study. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Mathew Kuefler , ed.: The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. pp. 348. Amy ‐Jill Levine , Dale C. Allison J, r ,., and John Dominic Crossan , eds.: The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006; pp. x + 440. Keith Luria : Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005; pp. xxxviii + 357. Peter McCullough , ed.: Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; p. 491. Kari Miettinen : On the Way to Whiteness: Christianization, Conflict and Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910‐1965. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden, 2005; pp. 370. John Milbank : Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason, 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; pp. 448. Lynette Olson : The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. xvii + 248. David Shankland , ed.: Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage: In the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck, 1878‐1920, 2 vols. Istanbul: Isis, 2005; pp. 495. Nigel Yates : The Religious Condition of Ireland 1770‐1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xxiv + 401.     

Review

Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island By Jean Paul Dumont The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1992, pp. 226+xxii, maps and illustrations     

Norfolk Island: history,people, environment,language. By Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook. European Mythmaking in the Pacific. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992. xvi, 251 pp. ISBN 0–691–05680–3 How ‘Natives’ Think. About Captain Cook For Example. By Marshall Sahlins. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1995. 318 pp. ISBN 0–226–73368–8     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Paul Riesman. Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography. Translated from the French by Martha Fuller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 297 pp. Notes, glossary and index of Fulani terms, bibliography, general index, illustrations. $25.00.     

Asia in the history of cartography

The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 226 31635 1. Pp xxiv, 579, 355 illus., 40 coloured plates. US$143.75 (cloth).

The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN 0226 31637 8. Pp xxviii, 1,040, 503 illus., 40 coloured plates. US$195.00 (cloth).     

Cross‐genre talk: Expanding the ground

Clark, Herbert H. Arenas of Language Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992. xviii + 419 pp. including notes, references, and index. $47.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Tannen, Deborah, ed. Gender and Conversational Interaction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiv + 327 pp. including notes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Burke, Peter. The Art of Conversation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. viii + 178 pp. including notes, references, and index. $39.95 cloth, $13.95 paper.     

Editorial Introduction

Meillassoux, Claude. Alide Dasnois, translator. The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 421 pp. including notes, references, glossary, and index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

McGlynn, Frank and Seymour Drescher, eds. The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. viii + 333 pp. including selected bibliography and index. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.     

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.     

Assessing the 2000 Presidential Election Dispute–Judicial and Social Science Perspectives

Dershowitz, Alan M. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 275. $25.00 hardbound.

Gillman, Howard. The Votes that Counted: How the Supreme Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 301. $27.50 hardbound.

Greene, Abner. Understanding the 2000 Election: A Guide to the Legal Battles that Decided the Presidency. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 200. $20.00 hardbound.

Posner, Richard A. Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, The Constitution, and the Courts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 266. $24.95 hardbound, $11.95 e-Book.     

New approaches in French feminist history

Melzer, S.E. and Rabine, L.W., cds, Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1992) 296pp., £27.50, ISBN 0 19 506886 6

Grogan, S.K., French Socialism and Sexual Difference: Women and the New Society, 1803–44 (Macmillan, 1992), 249pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 333 52530 2     

Review articles

Jeff Halper, Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century, Boulder, Westview Press, 1991, xii+290 pp.

Svante Lundgren, Moses Hess on Religion, Judaism and the Bible, n.p., Åbo Academy Press, Åbo, 1992, x+206 pp.

Derek J. Penslar, Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870–1918, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1991, xiii+210 pp.

Yaakov Ariel, On Behalf of Israel: Fundamentalist Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865–1945, Brooklyn, New York, Carlson, 1991, xv+172 pp.

Sharman Kadish, Bolsheviks and British Jews: The Angb‐Jewish Community, Britain, and the Russian Revolution, Frank Cass, London, 1992, 312 pp.

Bernard Wasserstein, Herbert Samuel: A Political Life, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1992, xv+427 pp.

Menahem Kaufman, An Ambiguous Partnership: Non‐Zionists and Zionists in America, 1939–1948, Jerusalem, Magnes University Press, 1991, 418 pp.

Bruce J. Evensen, Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1992, 243 pp.

Selwyn Ilan Troen and Moshe Shemesh, eds., Suez‐Sinai Crisis 1956: Retrospective and Reappraisal, New York, Columbia University Press, 1990, xiv+395 pp.

Arthur Hertzberg, Jewish Polemics, New York, Columbia University Press, 1992, xiv+259 pp.

Robert S. Wistrich, Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern antisemitism and Jewish identity, London and New York, Routledge, 1990, vi+283 pp.     

The renaissance of a renaissance man

Machiavelli's Virtue. By Harvey C. Mansfield (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998) xvi + 372 pp. $15.00, £11.95 paper.

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. By Peter Godman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) xviii + 366. $49.50, £33.50 cloth.     

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian nation. By Russell McGregor

Imagining the Pacific. In the wake of the Cook voyages. By Bernard Smith. New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 1992. 262 pp, illus. (175 b/w, 40 colour), refs, bibliog., index. $US70.00. ISBN 0–300–05053–4.

History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edited by James G. Carrier. Berkeley, The University of California Press, 1992. ix, 257 pp, index. ISBN 0–520–07523–4. $US38.

Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. By Klaus Neumann. Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 10. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1992. xvi, 312 pp, maps, photos, notes, glossary, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–8248–1333–2.

Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Albert B. Robillard. London, Kegan Paul International, 1992. xv, 507 pp. ISBN 0–7103–0400–5.

Winds of Change: Rapidly Growing Religious Groups in the Pacific Islands. By Manfred Ernst. Suva, Pacific Conference of Churches, 1994. xvii, 357 pp, maps, tables, graphs, illus., notes, appendices, glossary, bibliog., index. ISBN 982–200–067–7. $F. 14.50.

A Short History of Papua New Guinea. By John Dademo Waiko. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1993. xi, 275 pp, maps, plates, index. ISBN 019–553–164–7. $A24.95.

Culture Contact in the Pacific. Edited by Max Quanchi and Ron Adams. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 186 pp, maps, diagrams, tables, illus., bibliogs, notes, appendices, index. ISBN 0–521–42284–1. $A24.95.

A Politics of Virtue: Hinduism, Sexuality and Countercolonial Discourse in Fiji. By John D. Kelly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi, 266pp, bibiog., index.

These Roots Remain: Food Habits in Islands of the Central and Eastern Pacific since Western Contact. By Nancy J. Pollock. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1992. xviii, 298 pp, index, bibliog., illus. $US 32.

In the Way: a study of Christian missionary endeavours. By Kenelm Burridge. Vancouver, UBC Press [1991]. xvi, 307 pp, appendix, index.     

REVIEW

Cargo Cult—Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond. By Lamont Lindstrom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1993. Pp. xiv + 246.     

Book Reviews

John W. Baldwin. Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii + 359 pp.

Daniel J. Sherman. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xvii + 414 pp.

C. Brian Morris. Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico García Lorca. Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. xiv + 486 pp. $39.95.

Ramón F. Llorens and Jesús Pérez Magallón, eds. Luz vital. Estudios de cultura hispánica en memoria de Victor Ouimette. McGill University and Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, 1999. 227 pp.

Robert Vilain. The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. xii + 376 pp. $85.00.

Janet Pérez. Camilo José Cela Revisited: The Later Novels. New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000. 189 pp.

Catherine G. Bellver. Absence and Presence: Spanish Women Poets of the Twenties and Thirties. Bucknell University Press, 2001. x + 294 pp. $46.50.

Allen Thiher. Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel From Balzac to Proust. Columbia and London: Universiry of Missouri Press, 2001. 215 pp. $37.50.

Michael R. Finn. Proust: The Body and Literary Form. Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 210 pp.

Melveena McKendrick. Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity. London: Tamesis, 2000. 230 pp. $75.00.

Willard Bohn. Modern Visual Poetry. University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, 2001. 321 pp. $47.50     

Fiji Museum Archives and Manuscripts Collection

Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society. By Lamont Lindstrom. Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. xvi, 224 pp, bibliog., maps, index.     

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.     

Review of Books

JOHN BOARDMAN et al., eds. The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume III, pt. 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 906. $125.00 (us). Reviewed by William M. Calder

H. T. WALLINGA. Ships and Sea-Power before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. Pp. xv, 217. $80.00. Reviewed by J. F. Lazenby

JONATHAN J. PRICE. Jerusalem under Siege: The Collapse of the Jewish State, 66–70 CE. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. Pp. xiv, 361. $91.50 (us). Reviewed by Uriel Rappaport

ROBERT BARTLETT. The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950–1350. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. 432. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by H. E. J. Cowdrey

ALAN L. KAHRAS and J. R. MCNEILL, eds. Atlantic American Societies: From Columbus to Abolition, 1492–1888. London and New York: Roudedge, 1992. Pp. xi, 274. $16.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ian K. Steele

DAVID J. WEBER. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 579. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell

SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM. The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History. London and New York: Longman, 1993. Pp. xiii, 320. £34.00. Reviewed by André Wink

ROBERT BRENNER. Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550–1653. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 734. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Conrad Russell

STEWART P. OAKLEY. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560–1790. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xvii, 222. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by H. M. Scott

ROGER SCHLESINGER, ed. Portraits from the Age of Exploration: Selections from André Thevet's ‘Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres’, trans. Edward Benson. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Pp. 159. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Luca Codignola

JANE H. OHLMEYER. Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim, 1609–1683. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 357. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Ian Gentles

MICHAEL DUFFY, ed. Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650–1850. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 144. £11.95. Reviewed by Philip Woodfine

ZDENKO ZLATAK. Between the Double Eagle and the Crescent: The Republic of Dubrovnik and the Origins of the Eastern Question. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 336. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by F. W. Carter

J. R. JONES. Marlborough. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 245. $49.95 (us).

MARK PHILP, ed. The French Revolution and British Popular Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. 238. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by John Bohstedt

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. Anglo-Ottoman Encounters in the Age of Revolution: Collected Essays: Volume I, ed. Edward Ingram; Eastern Questions in the Nineteenth Century: Collected Essays: Volume II, ed. Edward Ingram. London: Frank Cass; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS Inc., 1993. Pp. xiv, 351, £35.00; xiv, 272. £35.00. Reviewed by M. S. Anderson

JAMES E. MCCLELLAN III. Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 393. $52.00 (us). Reviewed by Hannah Gay

MICHAEL FRY. The Dundas Despotism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 425. £45.00. Reviewed by Brendan Carnduff

HSI-HUEY LIANG. The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Mettemich to the Second World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 345. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Lucy Riall

GREGOR DALLAS. At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World, 1841–1929. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xiv, 620. £25.00. Reviewed by Marjorie M. Farrar

FRANK J. COPPA. The Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence. London and New York: Longman, 1992. Pp. ix, 188.,£22.00. Reviewed by Richard Bosworth

BRUCE W. MENNING. Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861–1914. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 334. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John Bushnell

A. HAMISH ION. The Cross and the Rising Sun: Volume II: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 324. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Peter Lowe

DONALD CALMAN. The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism: A Reinterpretation of the Great Crisis of 1873. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xxii, 354. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Hilary Conroy, With Peter Shin

ROSEMARY R. GAGAN. A Sensitive Independence: Canadian Methodist Women Missionaries in Canada and the Orient, 1881-1925. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 281. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion

J. N. F. M. À CAMPO. Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij: Stoomvaart en Staatsvorming in de Indonesische Archipel, 1888–1914. Hilversum: Verloren, 1992. Pp. 756. No Price Available. Reviewed by Maahten Kuitenbrouwer

B. J. C. MCKERCHER, ed. Arms Limitation and Disarmament: Restraints on War, 1899–1939. New York. Praeger, 1992. Pp. xvi, 250. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by John W. Coogan

PAUL BAIROCH. Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 184. $32.50 (us). Reviewed by Peter J. Cain

CHRISTINE A. WHITE. British and American Commenrcial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918–1924. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 345. $39-95 (us). Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley

ERIK GOLDSTEIN. Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916–1920. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 307. $94.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Wilson

JÓZSEF GALÁNTAI. Trianon and the Protection of Minorities, trans. Ervin Dunay. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 185. $36.50 (us). Reviewed by M. B. Biskupski

MARTIN S. ALEXANDER. The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 573. $94-95 (us). Reviewed by Robert J. Young

JAMES GOODWIN. Eisenstein, Cinema, and History. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Pp. x, 262. $39.95 (us), cloth; $15.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor

VALDIS O. LUMANS. Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933–1945. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 335. $43.95 (us). Reviewed by Carole Fink

GREGOR BENTON. Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934–1938. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xlv, 639.- $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Qiang Zhai

DAVID MORGAN and MARY EVANS. The Battle for Britain: Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 193. $62.50 (us). Reviewed by Trevor Burridge

REINHOLD BRENDER. Kollaboration in Frankreich im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Marcel Déat und das Rassemblement national populaire. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1992. Pp. 338. No Price Available. Reviewed by William D. Irvine

IGNÁC ROMSICS, ed. Wartime American Plans for a New Hungary: Documents from the US Department of State, 1942–1944. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 328. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Bennett Kovrig

JOHN BAYIS. The Dipbmacy of Pragmatism: Britain and the Formation of NATO, 1942–1949. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xi, 194.,£40.00. Reviewed by T. Michael Ruddy

GÜNTER BISCHOF and STEPHEN E. AMBROSE, eds. Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts against Falsehood. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 257. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by S. P. Mackenzie

R. J. B. BOSWORTH. Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: History Writing and the Second World War, 1945–1990. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xv, 262. $59-95 (us). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

ELIZABETH A. COBBS. The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 273. $30.00 (us); Reviewed by Thomas Schoonover

MICHAEL L. CONNIFF. Panama and the United States: The Forced Alliance. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 201. $35.00 (us), cloth; $15.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Thomas Schoonover

GEORGE W. BALL and DOUGLAS B. BALL. The Passionate Relationship: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. Pp. 382. $29.99 (CDN); Reviewed by William R. Polk

DAVID SCHOENBAUM. The United States and the State of Israel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 404. $55.95 (CDN). Reviewed by William R. Polk

B. W. MUIRHEAD. The Development of Postwar Canadian Trade Policy: The Failure of the Anglo-European Option. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 230. $36.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert D. Cuff

LUDWELL LEE MONTAGUE. General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence, October 1950–February 1953. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. Pp. xxviii, 308. $14.95 (us). Reviewed by Melvyn P. Leffler

THOMAS BORSTELMANN. Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 298. $49.00 (CDN). Reviewed by L. H. Gann

G. R. BERRIDGE. South Africa, the Colonial Powers, and ‘African Defence’: The Rise and Fall of the White Entente, 1948–60. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xiii, 234. £40.00. Reviewed by Ritchie Ovendale

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, ed. Dean Acheson and the Making of US Foreign Policy. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xx, 271. £45.00. Reviewed by Robert H. Ferrell

CHRISTOPH BLUTH. Soviet Strategic Arms Policy before SALT. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 317. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by John Erickson

KIMBERLY MARTEN ZISK. Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955–1991. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 286. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence Freedman

FREDERICK M. NUNN. The Time of the Generals: Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 349. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

FARHANG RAJAEE, ed. The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1993. Pp. vii, 245. $39.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Fred Halliday

MICHAEL N. BARNETT. Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel. Princeton. Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 378. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Stuaht A. Cohen

STEPHEN F. SZABO. The Diplomacy of German Unification. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 162. $22.95 (us). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich

BRIAN HOLDEN REID, ed. The Science of War: Back to First Principles. London and New York: Roudedge, 1993. Pp. vii, 212. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by T. H. E. Travers     

Review Article: Finding the Way Back to the Ottoman Empire

DOROTHY H. CRAWFORD. Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 250. $35.95 (US). Reviewed by Linda Bryder

GREGORY CLARK. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95 (US).

JUDITH HERRIN. Byzantium: The Surprising Life oj a Medieval Empire. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 391. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Warren Treadgold

RICHARD A. GABRIEL. Muhammad: Islam's First Great General. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xxxi, 255. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by DONALD P. LITTLE

JONATHAN PHILLIPS. The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom. New Haven, C T and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix, 364. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by John France

JAMKS R. AKERMAN and ROBERT W. KARROW J R. eds. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 400. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by John Agnew

JOHN E. HERMAN. Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. x,344. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Laura Hostetler

CAROL RICHMOND TSANG. War and Faith: Ikho Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. x, 315. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Ethan I. Segal

JOHN M. HEADLEY. The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 290. $26.95 (US). Reviewed by Jean H. Quataert

MARGARET R. GREER, WALTER D. MIGNOLO, and MAUREEN QUILLIGAN, eds. Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. vii,478. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Teofilo F. Ruiz

KARLHEINZ BLASCHKE, ed. Moritz von Sachsen - Ein Filrst der Reformationszeit zwischen Territorium und Reich: Internationales wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 26. bit 28. Juni 2003 in Freiberg (Sachsen). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 336. €72.00. Reviewed by Johannes C. Wolfart

JOEP LEERSSEN. National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 312. $32.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Bergmann

IAN GENTLES. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652. London and New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2007. Pp. xiv, 522. £21.99, paper. Reviewed by Mark Kishlansky

MICHELLE BURNHAM. Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England, 2007. Pp. viii, 222. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ralph Bauer

LARISSA N. HEINRICH. The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 222. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Benjamin A. Elman

MARGARET CONNELL SZASZ. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 285. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael E. Vance

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, ed. The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain, intro. John Pinfold. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2007: dist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxiv, 198. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Emma Christopher

ELLIOTT COLLA. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 345. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James F. Goode

GIOVANNI ARRIGHI. Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. London and New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii, 418. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue

DIANA K. DAVIS. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 296. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Caroline Ford

GEORGE STEINMETZ. The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 640. $33.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Birthe Kundrus

NORMAN ETHERINGTON, ed. Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2007; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. x, 220. $31.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Patricia Seed

DUNCAN BELL. The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 321. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Eliga H. Gould

JEFF SAHADEO. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 316. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert D. Crews

MICHELLE T. MORAN. Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 280. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey S. Smith

PATRICK HARRIES. Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 286. $26.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Martin Legassick

ROGER KIRK, ed. Distinguished Service: Lydia Chapin Kirk, Partner in Diplomacy, 1896-1984. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 273. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger

STEPHEN M. MILLER. Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the. South African War, l899-1902. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 236. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy Bowman

WOLFRAM KAISER. Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 374. $105.00 (US).Reviewed by Stefan Berger

JENS RUPPENTHAL. Kolonialismus als 'Wissenschaft und Tecknik': Das Hamburgische Kolonialinstitut 1908 bis 1919. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 273. €56.00, paper.Reviewed by Bradley Naranch

THOMAS W. BURKMAN. Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914-1938. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 289. $58.00 (US). Reviewed by Frederick R. Dickinson

JEFF LIPKES. Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007; dist. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Pp. 815- $55.95 (US), paper.Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig

LEONARD V. SMITH. The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 214. $39.95 (US).Reviewed by Jay Winter

SUZANNE EVANS. Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 211. $29.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Amy Shaw

MERRILL D. PETERSON. The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 2007; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 262. $50.00 (CDN).Reviewed by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

ALEXANDER KEESE. Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930-61. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 344. €46.00.Reviewed by Patrick Chabal

CHARLES BURDETT. Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007. Pp. x, 270. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth

MICHAEL PHAYER. Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 333. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Kent

PETER STANSKY. The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $24.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Addison

CYNTHIA TOMAN. An Officer and a Lady: Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 261. $32.95 (CDN), paper.Reviewed by Linda J. Quiney

NEIL ROLLINGS. British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945-1973. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 278. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by John Gillingham

ANDREW J. BACEVICH, ed. The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 586. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Thorsten B. Olesen

PATRICK WRIGHT. Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 488. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. McMahon

MARC GALLICCHIO, ed. The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in US-East Asian Relations. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. 337. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul Midford

SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 286. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Reid

IAIN CHAMBERS. Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 181. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Larry Wolff

VLADISLAV M. ZUBOK. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 467. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Evan Mawdsley

KATHRYN C. STATLER. Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 378. $56.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Mark Philip Bradley

YAFENG XIA. Negotiating with the, Enemy: US-China Talks during the Cold War, l949-1972. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 326. $45.00 (US); GUANGQIU Xu. Congress and the US-China Relationship, 1949-1979. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2007. Pp. xi,409. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Steven I. Levine

HANNFRIED VON HINDENBURG. Demonstrating Reconciliation: State and Society in West German Foreign Policy toward Israel, 1952-1965. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. Pp. vi, 229. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald J. Granieri

VANESSA R. SCHWARTZ. It's So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 259. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Naomi Greene

JOSEPH T.JOCKEL. Canada inNORAD, 1957-2007: A History. Montreal, QC: Mc-Gill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 225. $34.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Ann Denholm Crosby

DAVID C. ATKINSON. In Theory and in Practice: Harvard's Center for International Affairs, 1958-1983. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; dist. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 248. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Irene Gendzier

LEN SCOTT. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History. London and New York, NY: Continuum, 2007. Pp. xii, 222. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by James G. Blight

JOSEPH MORGAN HODGE. Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 402. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Zaheer Baber

BERND GREINER. Krieg ohne Fronten: Die USA in Vietnam. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2007. Pp. 59.5. €35.00. Reviewed by Marc Frey

STIG TENOLD. Research in Maritime History: XXXII: Tankers in Trouble: Norwegian Shipping and the Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. St John's, NL: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2006. Pp. x, 257. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lars Berggren

MIRELA BOGDANI and JOHN LOUGHLIN. Albania and the European Union: The Tumultuous Journey towards Integration and Accession. London and New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2007. Pp. xiii, 272. £45.00. Reviewed by Judith Hoffmann

AHMAD S. MOUSSALLI. US Foreign Policy and Islamist Politics. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 224. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Bassam Tibi

KENNETH J. HAGAN and IAN J. BICKERTON. Unintended Consequences: The United States at War. London: Reaktion Books, 2007; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 223. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael S. Sherry

BERNARD ROUGIER. Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon, trans. Pascale Ghazaleh. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 333. $28.95 (US). Reviewed by Marion Boulby

GRAHAM E. FULLER. The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2008. Pp. xi, 196. $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Dietrich Jung

GREGG BRAZINSKY. Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 311. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Carl J. Saxer

ROBERT J. JACKSON and PHILIP TOWLE. Temptations of Power: The United States in Global Polities after 9/11. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv, 228. $85.00 (US), cloth; $28.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Andrew M. Johnston

AMY B. ZEGART. Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 317. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan Warburton

LEIGH A. PAYNE. Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 374. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Adelman

WILE KYMLICKA. Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 374. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Kivisto

ANDREAS FAHRMEIR. Citizenship: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Concept. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 299. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Dorith Geva

AMITAI ETZIONI. Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy. New Haven, C T and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 336. $27.00 (US). Reviewed by Rein Müllerson

ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 247. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James L. Gelvin

ROGER C. RIDDELL, Does Foreign Aid Really Work? New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi,505. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by ØYVIND ØSTERUD

MATTHEW CONNELLY. Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 521. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred W. Crosby