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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.)     

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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.)     

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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.)     

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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.)     

Reviews of Book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review Article: ‘Managing’ Women in War and Peace

UTE DANIEL.The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War, trans. Margaret Ries. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997. Pp. xii, 343. $18.50 (us), paper; DEBORAH THOM. Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xvi, 224. $59.50 (us); FRANCES H. EARLY. A World without War: How US Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 265. $22.95 (us), paper, LUCY NOAKES. War and the British: Gender, Memory, and National Identity. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. vi, 218. $59.50 (us); JANE SLAUGHTER. Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945. Denver: Arden Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 171. $22.50 (us), paper; DALIA OFER and LENORE J. WEITZMAN, eds., Women in the Holocaust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 402. $30.00 (us).     

Reviews of Book

E. BADIAN. From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 264. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul Cartledge

MARK H. MUNN. The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 BC. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 258. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by W. J. Mccoy

FERGUS MILLAR. The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. xxix, 587. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Irving M. Zeitlin

JONATHAN SHEPARD and SIMON FRANKLIN, eds. Byzantine Diplomacy. Aldershot, UK: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing, 1992. Pp. xi, 333. £42.50. Reviewed by Warren Treadgold

JOHN A. LYNN, ed. Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 326. $44.50 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter

BERNARD S. BACHRACH. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987–1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 392. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts

GERD TELLENBACH. The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century, trans. Timothy Reuter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 403. $79.95 (US), cloth; $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman F. Cantor

DAVID J. WASSERSTEIN. The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 280. $78.95 (CDN). Reviewed by J. D. Latham

PAUL MAGDALINO. The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 557. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard

MAYA SHATZMILLER, ed. Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. Pp. xii, 235. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Jackson

RICHARD M. EATON. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xxvii, 359. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by André Wink

ANNE CURRY. The Hundred Years War. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xiv, 192. £30.00;Reviewed by Brendan Smith

ANTHONY GOODMAN and ANTHONY TUCK, eds. War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xi, 198. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Brendan Smith

ROGER C. SMITH. Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Friel

JAMES C. BOYAJIAN. Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 356. $48.95 (US). Reviewed by Om Prakash

GRÀINNE HENRY. The Irish Military Community in Spanish Flanders, 1586–1621. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1992; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 208. £29.50. Reviewed by David Parrott

JOHN BREWER and ROY PORTER, eds. Consumption and the World of Goods. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xix, 564. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Linda Colley

SUDIPTA DAS. Myths and Realities of French Imperialism in India, 1763–1783. New york: Peter Lang, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 459. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Bruce P. Lenman

BARRY GOUGH. The Falkland Islands/Malvinas: The Contest for Empire in the South Atlantic. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 212. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Glyndwr William

RICHARD ROBERTS. Schroders: Merchants and Bankers. London: Macmillan. 1993. Pp. xxiii, 616. £25.00. Reviewed by Michael Collins

PETER PARET. Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 229. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Bassford

ELIZABETH A. ELDREDGE. A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 250. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman Etherington

CECILLIE SWAISLAND. Servants and Gentlewomen to the Golden Land: The Emigration of Single Women from Britain to Southern Africa, 1820–1939. Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg Publishers Limited, 1993. Pp. xii, 186. $17.75 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson

DIRK HOERDER and HORST RÖSSLER, eds. Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840–1930. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1993. Pp. 312. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Ida Altman

MICHAEL BALFOUR. Germany: The Tides of Power. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. vii, 271. $69.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert H. Keyserlingk

W. DIRK RAAT. Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 277. $45.00 (US) cloth; $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jim Handy

ROBERT M. UTLEY. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Holt, 1993. Pp. xvii, 413. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Richmond L. Clow

ASAFA JALATA. Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868–1992. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. Pp. xiii, 233. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Harold Marcus

WILLIAM L. SACHS. The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global Communion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 386. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Chandler

MARK WYMAN. Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 267. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder

JAMES C. BRADFORD, ed. Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993; dist. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing Limited. Pp. xxii, 269. $31.95 (US). Reviewed by David Healy

GARY S. MESSINGER. British Propaganda and the State in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. x, 292. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Reeves

DAVID W. WOODWARD. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917–1918. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Pp. x, 276. $34.00 (US). Reviewed by Kathleen Burk

BARBARA J. SMITH. The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920–1929. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 258. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Ilan Pappe

MAURICE VAÏSSE, ed. Le Pacifisme en Europe: des années 1920 aux années 1950. Brussels: Bruylant, 1993. Pp. 455. BFr. 2,400. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley

GEORGE O. LIBER. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923–1934. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 289. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by David R. Marples

RENZO DE FELICE, ed. Bibliografia Orientativa del Fascisme Rome: Bonacci Editore, 1991. Pp. x, 584. L.i 10.000. Reviewed by Richard Bosworth

YU-MING SHAW. An American Missionary in China: John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 381. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion

ROMUALD J. MisiUNAS and REIN TAAGEPERA. The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 400. $45.00 (US), cloth; $17.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Marvin Rintala

GYÖRGY LENGYEL, ed. Hungarian Economy and Society during World War II, trans. Judit Pokoly. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 284. $34.00 (US). Reviewed by Joseph Held

HORST BOOG, ed. The Conduct of the Air War in the Second World War: An International Comparison. New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 763. $79.50 (US). Reviewed by David I. Hall

IAN MCGIBBON, ed. Undiplomatic Dialogue: Letters between Carl Berendsen and Alister McIntosh, 1943–52. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 305. $29.95 (NZ). Reviewed by Ann Trotter

FEDERICO ROMERO. The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944–1951, trans. Harvey Fergusson II. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 292. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. Milward

GEOFFREY SWAIN and NIGEL SWAIN. Eastern Europe since 1945. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xiv, 255. £35.00. Reviewed by Stephen Fischer-Galati

RONALD HYAM, ed. British Documents on the End of Empire: Series A: Volume II: The Labour Government and the End of Empire, 1945–51: Part I: High Policy and Administration. Pp. lxxiv, 372; Part II: Economics and International Relations. Pp. xxi, 498; Part III: Strategy, Politics, and Constitutional Change. Pp. xxi, 419; Part IV: Race Relations and the Commonwealth. Pp. xviii, 399. London: HMSO, 1992; dist. Lanham, MD: UNIPUB. $140.00 (us), each. Reviewed by B. R. Tomlinson

RAANAN REIN. The Franco-Perón Alliance: Relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946–1955, trans. Martha Grenzeback. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. Pp. x, 329. $4.9.95 (US). Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

NORMAN HILMER and DONALD PAGE, eds. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: Volume XIII: 1947. Ottawa: External Affairs and International Trade Canada, 1993. Pp. xxxvii, 1,654. $99.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen

DAVID W. LESCH. Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 242. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Diane B. Kunz

PETER T. HAYDON. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Canadian Involvement Reconsidered. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1993. Pp. xii, 297. $20.00 (CDN). Reviewed by J. L. Granatstein

LENARD J. COHEN. Broken Bonds: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 299. $49.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Philip J. Adler

CLEMENT H. DODD, ed. Turkish Foreign Policy: New Prospects. Huntingdon, UK: Eothen Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 117. £12.50, paper. Reviewed by Michael B. Bishku

GREGORY F. TREVERTON. America, Germany, and the Future of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 240. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Walter B. Mead

CHIH-YU SHIH. China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Relations. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. Pp. ix, 244. $37.00 (US). Reviewed by Lucian W. Pye

MICHAEL E. BROWN, ed. Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 276. $14.95 (US). paper. Reviewed by Milton J. Esman

KEITH KRAUSE. Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 299. $4.9.95 (US). Reviewed by William H. Mcneill

T. G. FRASER and KEITH JEPFERY, eds. Men, Women, and War. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 242. £25.00. Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid

ROBERT W. MCELROY. Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 194. $14.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Vasquez

MARTIN VAN CREVELD. Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1993. Pp. viii, 180. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence Freedman

ROGER CAREY and TREVOR C. SALMON, eds. International Security in the Modern World. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. ix, 241.£40.00. Reviewed by Tom Walker     

Reviews Book

TIM UNWIN. Wine and the Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade. London and New York: Roudedge, 1991. Pp. xvi, 409. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Norman R. Bennett

MASK GREENGHASS, ed. Conquest and Coalescence: The Shaping of the State in Early Modem Europe. London: Edward Arnold, 1991. Pp viii, 200. $33.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Simon Ditchfiel

DAVID KIRBY. Northern Europe in the Early Modem Period: The Baltic World 1492–1772. London and New York: Longman, 1990. Pp. xii, 443. $33.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Thomas Munck

JOHN CORREIA-APONSO, ed. Intrepid Itinerant: Manuel Godinho and His Journey from India to Portugal in 1663. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 253. $33.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Anthony Disney

KARL W. SCHWEIZER. Frederick the Great, William Pitt, and Lord Bute: The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756–1763. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. Pp. ix, 358. $53.00 (US). Reviewed by H.M. Scott

HELEN ANGELOMATIS-TSOUGARAKIS. The Eve of the Great Revival: British Travellers' Perceptions of Early Nineteenth-Century Greece. London and New York: Roudedge, 1990. Pp. xvii, 289. $52.00 (US). Reviewed by Alexander Kitroeff

CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ. Historical and Political Writings, ed. and trans. Peter Paret and Daniel Moran. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. 397. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Bassford

LAWRENCE SONDHAUS. In the Service of the Emperor: Italians in the Austrian Armed Forces 1814–1918. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 217. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Erwin A. Schmidl

SANDI E. COOPER. Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815–1914… New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 336. $55.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Roger Chickering

R.S. O'FAHEY. Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 261. $42.95 (US), cloth; $12.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Rudolph Peters

RUDOLPH J. VECOLI and SUZANNE M. SINKE, eds. A Century of European Migrations, 1830–1930. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Pp. 395. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson

MARGARET FULLER. ‘These Sad but Glorious Days’: Dispatches from Europe, 1846–1850, ed. Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 338. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Agatha Ramm

STEVEN G. MARKS. Road to Power: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850–1917. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 240. $31.95 (US). Reviewed by J.L. Black

ANN POTTINGBR SAAB. Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria and the Working Classes 1856–1878. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 257. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by P.R. Ghosh

ARDEN BUCHOLZ. Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning. New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 352. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Gunther E. Rothenberg

HERBERT ELZER. Bismarcks Bündnispolitik von 1887: Erfolg und Grenzen einer europäischen Friedensordnung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991. Pp. 507. DM 108. Reviewed by Norman Rich

ISAHIA N. KIMAMBO. Penetration and Protest in Tanzania: The Impact of the World Economy on the Pare 1860–1960. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 188. $29.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper

ABDUL SHERIFF and ED FERGUSON, eds. Zanzibar under Colonial Rule. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 278. $34.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ibrahim Abdullah

ROBERT A. KANN. Dynasty, Politics and Culture: Selected Essays, ed. Stanley B. Winters. Boulder, Col.: Social Science Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 444. $61.00 (US). Reviewed by Enno E. Kraehe

CARLO M. SANTORO. La politica estera di una media potenza: L'Italia dall'Unità ad oggi. Bologna: il Mulino, 1991. Pp. 352. L40,000

BRUNELLO VIGEZZI. Politica Estera e Opinione Pubblica in Italia dall'Unità ai Giorni Nostri. Milan: Jaca Books, 1991. Pp. 220. L22,000. Reviewed by Richard Bosworth

DAVID A. LAKE. Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of US Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 242. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Ben Baack

JOSEPH SMITH. Unequal Giants: Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Brazil, 1889–1930. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. Pp. 296. $39.95 (US)

THOMAS D. SCHOONOVER. The United States in Central America, 1860–1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 253. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Lester D. Langley

ROSAMUND M. THOMAS. Espionage and Secrecy: The Official Secrets Act 1911–1989 of the United Kingdom. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. 304. £40.00. Reviewed by Wesley K. Wark

LEE CONGDON. Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria, 1919–1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 376. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by István Deák

ROBERT WRIGHT. A World Mission: Canadian Protestantism and the Quest for a New International Order, 1919–1939. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 337. $44.95 (CDN). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion

JAN WILLEM SCHULTE NOHDHOLT. Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace, trans. Herbert H. Rowen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 495. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

CAROLE FINK, AXEL FROHN, and JÜRGEN HELDBKING, eds. Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 262. $44.50 (US). Reviewed by Alan Cassels

B.J.C. MCKERCHER, ed. Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s: The Struggle for Supremacy. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 242. $37.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Frank Costigliola

HARM G. SCHRÖTER and CLEMENS A. WURM, eds. Politik, Wirtschaft und internationale Beziehungen: Studien zu ihrem Verhältnis in der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1991. Pp. ix, 176. DM 48. Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier

GERALD STUDDERT-KENNEDY. British Christians, Indian Nationalists and the Raj. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 274. $23.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Judith M. Brown

MICHAEL GELB, ed. An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 363. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David W. McFadden

PAUL BROOKER. The Faces of Fratemalism: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 397. $89.00 (US). Reviewed by Alan Cassels

TOM BUCHANAN. The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 250. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by Tim Rees

MARK WALKER. German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939–1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 290. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Bruce Wheaton

IFTIKHAR H. MALIK. US-South Asian Relations, 1940–47: American Attitudes towards the Pakistan Movement. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xi, 322. £45.00. Reviewed by Ayesha Jalal

SIR ALEC CAIRNCROSS. Planning in Wartime: Aircraft Production in Britain, Germany and the USA. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xvi, 197. £35.00. Reviewed by Robin Higham

JOHN A. ENGLISH. The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command. New York: Praeger, 1991. Pp. xvii, 347. $47.95 (US). Reviewed by David I. Hall

DAVID JABLONSKY. Churchill, the Great Game and Total War. London: Frank Cass, 1991. Pp. xi, 237. £27.50, cloth; £18.00, paper

CHRISTOPHER HILL. Cabinet Decisions on Foreign Policy: The British Experience October 1938–June 1941. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 359. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by John Charmley

PAUL FREYBERG. Bernard Freyberg VC: Soldier of Two Nations. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. Pp. xi, 627. £30.00. Reviewed by T.H.E. Travers

JOHN GILLINGHAM. Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945–1955: The German and French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 397. $44.50 (US). Reviewed by Henry Pelling

IRWIN M. WALL. The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945–1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 324. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. Milward

LOUISE FAWCETT. Iran and the Cold War: The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 227. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson

E. TIMOTHY SMITH. The United States, Italy and NATO, 1947–52. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. ix, 232. £45.00. Reviewed by James Edward Milles

PAUL M. EVANS and B. MICHAEL FROLIC, eds. Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People's Republic of China 1949–1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 268. $60.00 (CDN), cloth; $19.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Patricia E. Roy

LAWRENCE S. KAPLAN, ed. American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 192. $27.00 (US), cloth; $14.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ritchie Ovendale

MONICA BRAW. The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied Japan. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1991. Pp. xviii, 194. $35.00 (US).Reviewed by Kathryn Meyer

JEFFREY HERF. War by Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance, and the Battle of the Euromissiles. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1991. Pp. xiii, 369. $24.95 (US).Reviewed by Matthew Evangelista

MARTIN STANILAND. American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955–1970. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 310. $30.00 (US).Reviewed by Dane Kennedy

DIANE B. KUNZ. The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 295. $43.95 (US).Reviewed by Kathleen Buhk

W. DAVID MCINTYRE. The Significance of the Commonwealth 1965–90. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. ix, 305. £45.00.Reviewed by J.G. Darwin

KARL PIERAGOSTINI. Britain, Aden and South Arabia: Abandoning Empire. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xiv, 256. £45.00.Reviewed by Michael B. Bisheu

TOMOHEI CHIDA and PETER N. DAVTES. The Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding Industries: A History of Their Modem Growth. London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 240. $65.00 (US).Reviewed by Steven J. Ericson

WILLIAM T. TOW. Encountering the Dominant Player: US Extended Deterrence Strategy in the Asia-Pacific. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 540. $52.00 (US).Reviewed by Paul A. Varg

CHARLES F. DORAN. Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 294. $49.50 (US).Reviewed by Robert Jervis     

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ARTHUR POWER DUDDEN. The American Pacific: Prom the Old China Trade to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 314. $39.50 (CDN)

SUNG-HWA CHEONG. The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea: Japanese- South Korean Relations under American Occupation, 1945–1952. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 190. $43.00 (US)

HIDEO IBE. Japan Thrice-Opened: An Analysis of Relations between Japan and the United States. New York: Praeger, 1992. Pp. 294. $49.93 (US)

RICHARD B. FINN. Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xxi, 413. $42.00 (US)

ROBERT P. NEWMAN. Owen Lattimore and the ‘Loss’ of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 669. $36.00 (US)

H. W. BRANDS. Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 384. $39.50 (CDN)

ODD ARNE WESTAD. Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 260. $16.50 (US).     

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     

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     

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     

Book Reviews

EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS, ed. Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689–1759. New Jersey: Humanities Press, Inc., 1982. Pp. 231. $31.50 (US). Reviewed by Charles L. Hamilton

STUART A. COHEN. English Zionists and British Jews. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. 349. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Alfred Gollin

DAVID BATES. Normandy Before 1066. London: Longmans, 1982. Pp. xxx, 287. $13.95 (US). Reviewed by T.A. Sandquist

RICHARD C. FRUCHT. Dunarea Noastra: Romania, the Great Powers and the Danube Question. 1914–1921. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. ix, 216. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by R.J. Crampton

MONIKA RICHARZ. Judisches Leben in Deutschland: Selbstzeugnisse zur Sozialgeschichte, 1918–1945. New York: Leo Baeck Institute, 1982. Pp. 495. Reviewed by John S. Conway

ALAN EDELSTEIN. An Unacknowledged Harmony: Philo-Semitism and the Survival of European Jewry. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 235. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Joseph Shatzmiller

LOUIS L. SNYDER. Louis L. Snyder's Historical Guide to World War II. Westport, Conn., and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 838. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

GEORGE ALEXANDER LENSEN. Balance of Intrigue: International Rivalry in Korea and Manchuria, 1884–1889. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1982. 2 vols. Pp. xvii, 476; and vi, 508. $62.50 (US). Reviewed by Hilary Conroy

T.H. LLOYD. Alien Merchants in England in the High Middle Ages. Brighton and New York: Harvester Press and St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. 253. $28.00 (US). Reviewed by G.D. Ramsay

JOHN L. BULLION. A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763–1765. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 317. $24.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Mugridge

WILLIAM WOODRUFF. Impact of Western Man: A Study of Europe's Role in the World Economy, 1750–1060. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. xvii, 430. $25.50 (US) cloth; $14.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Glen R. McDougall

JACK STOKES BALLARD. The Shock of Peace: Military and Economic Demobilization after World War II. Washington, D.G.: University Press of America, Inc., 1983. Pp. x, 259. $23.50 (US), paper $11.75 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen

PATRICK BEESLEY. Room 40: British Naval Intelligence 1914–18. London: Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., 1983. Pp. 315. £9.95. Reviewed by Ewen Montagu

ERNST BREISACH. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 487. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Arthur Marwick

LIANG HENG AND JUDITH SHAPIRO. Son of the Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Pp. xii, 301. $19.50 (US). Reviewed by David P. Barrett

LOUIS A. PEREZ, JR. Cuba Between Empires, 1878–1902. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983. 32.95 (US). Reviewed by David Healy

SYLVIA LEITH-ROSS. Stepping Stones: Memoirs of Colonial Nigeria 1907–1960. New Jersey: Humanities Press, Inc., 1983. Pp. 189. $21.00 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

MICHAEL JABARA CARLEY. Revolution and Intervention: The French Government and the Russian Civil War, 1917–1919. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 265. $30.00 (Can.). Reviewed by Ioannis Sinanoglou

KARL ERICH BORN. International Banking in the 19th and 20th Centuries, translated by Volker R. Berghahn. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 353. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald A. Shearer

ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK. The Frankish Kingdom under the Carolingians, 751–978. London and New York: Longman, 1983. Pp. 414. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Donald E. Queller

CLIVE H. CHURCH. Europe in 1830. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. Pp. xiii, 210. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by Agatha Ramm     

A. J. P. Taylor,Adolf Hitler,and the Origins of the Second World War

CHRISTON I. ARCHER, JOHN R. FERRIS, HOLGER H. HERWIG, and TIMOTHY H. E. TRAVERS. World History of Warfare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 626. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn

ANGELOS CHANIOTIS and PIERRE DUCREY, eds. Army and Power in the Ancient World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. viii, 204. €44.00, paper. Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein

MARTIN CARVER, ed. The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300. York: York Medieval Press, University of York; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 588. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by John Howe

DANIEL CANER. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 325. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John J. Contreni

HUGH KENNEDY. The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xix, 229. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Walter E. Kaegi

JEREMY JOHNS. Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Dīwān. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 389. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by James M. Powell

DIRK HOERDER. Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 779. $100.00 (US). Reviewed by J. R. McNeill

NORMAN HOUSLEY. Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400–1536. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 238. $105.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Thomas A. Fudge

SCOTT C. LEVI. The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade, 1550–1900. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. ix, 319. €72.00; DAVID ZWEIG. Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 291. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by S. A. M. Adshead

HENRY HELLER. Anti-ltalianism in Sixteenth-Century France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 307. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Wolfe

WADE G. DUDLEY. Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. Pp. xiv, 96. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell

ALISON WEIR. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley. New York: Ballantine, 2003. Pp. xvii, 670. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Jane E. A. Dawson

DAVID FREEDBERG. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 513. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Steven F. Ostrow

RICHARD LAWTON and ROBERT LEE, eds. Population and Society in Western European Port-Cities, c. 1650–1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xx, 385. –75.95 (US). Reviewed by Dudley Baines

PETER KRUGER and PAUL W. SCHRODER, eds., in co-operation with KATJA WUSTENBECKER. 'The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848': Episode or Model in Modern History? Munster: Lit Verlag, 2002. Pp. 356. €35.90. Reviewed by James J. Sheehan

ROBERT L. SCHEINA. Latin America's Wars: I: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 569. $29.95 (US), paper; CHRIS LEUCHARS. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 254. $68.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna

JOHN GASCOIGNE, with the assistance of PATRICIA CURTHOYS. The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 233. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Marian Quartly

ROBERT J. ANTONY and JANE KATE LEONARD, eds. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2002. Pp. xiii, 333. $19.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John W. Dardess

JOEL MOKYR. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 359. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Lindenfeld

DANIEL H. BAYS and GRANT WACKER, eds. The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Pp. x, 332. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion

MIMI COLLIGAN. Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul &; Company. Pp. xvi, 250. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Philippa Mein Smith

MICHAEL STURMA. South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. x, 193. $63.95 (US) Reviewed by Vicki Luker

SUDIPTA SEN. Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 216. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. J. Marshall

CHARLES ESDAILE. The Peninsular War: A New History. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 587. $49.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer

MARKUS MOSSLANG, SABINE FREITAG, and PETER WENDE, eds. British Envoys to Germany, 1816–1866: II: 1830–1847. New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society in Association with the German Historical Institute, London, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 600. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by John Clarke

SEYMOUR DRESCHER. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 307. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen

PATRICK KARL O'BRIEN and ARMAND CLESSE, eds. Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846–1914 and the United States 1941–2001. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xiii, 369. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by William R. Thompson

HOLLIS CLAYSON. Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–71). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxxi, 485. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Gay L. Gullickson

JEFFREY W. CODY. Exporting American Architecture, 1870–2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xviii, 205. $39-95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Annabel Jane Wharton

MICHAEL SCHMID. Der ?Eiserne Kanzler? und die Generäle: Deutsche Rüstungs-politik in der Ära Bismarck (1871–1890). Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. xii, 751. €65.00. Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener

JULIE A. CHARLIP. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers ofCarazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2003. Pp. xiv, 288. $28.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Thompson

ROBERT O. COLLINS. The Nile. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 260. $39.95 (US); HEATHER J. SHARKEY. Living with Colo-nialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 232. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by M. W. Daly

CRAIG WILCOX. Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899–1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 541. $75.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Keith Surridge

MARGARET MACMILLAN and FRANCINE MCKENZIE, eds. Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 288. $85.00 (CDN), cloth; $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell

MARK BLYTH. Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 284. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by James K. Galbraith

DANIEL JOSEPH WALTHER. Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 268. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jan-Bart Gewald

STEVEN G. MARKS. How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 393. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by William G. Rosenberg

RICHARD F. HAMILTON and HOLGER H. HERWIG, eds. The Origins of World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 537. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Dominic Lieven

CHARLES DE GAULLE. The Enemy's House Divided, trans, and annotated, and with an intro., by Robert Eden. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 1, 177. $53.75 (CDN). Reviewed by John S. Hill

STÉPHANE AUDOIN-ROUZEAU and ANNETTE BECKER. 1914–1918: Understanding the Great War, trans. Catherine Temerson. London: Profile Books, 2002. Pp. v, 280. £15.00. Reviewed by Brian Bond

PAUL NUGENT. Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Lie of the Borderlands since 1914. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 302. –24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Dimitri Van Den Bersselaar

ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FÖRSTER, eds. The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919–1939. Washington: German Historical Institute, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 364. –60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett

GAYNOR JOHNSON. The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920–1926. Basing-stoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xi, 221. –65.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Crozier

IGNÁC ROMSICS. The Dismantling of Historic Hungary: The Peace Treaty of Trianon, 1920, trans. Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder: East European Monographs; Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications, 2002; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. v, 201. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Sakmyster

ALAN DAWLEY. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 409. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David S. Foglesong

PRASENJIT DUARA. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Lanham: Rowman &; Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xiii, 306. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. Stephan

SANDRA WILSON. The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931–33. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 252. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Antony Best

IAN NISH. Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. x, 212. $65.95 (US). Reviewed by Frederick Dickinson

RAINER F. SCHMIDT. Die Aussenpolitik des Dritten Reiches, 1933–1939. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2002. Pp. 448. €25.00. Reviewed by Erich J. Hahn

HENRY G. GOLE. The Road to Rainbow: Army Planning for Global War, 1934–1940. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 224. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Stoler

HELEN GRAHAM. The Spanish Republic at War, 1936–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 472. $70.00 (US), cloth; $26.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Willard C. Frank, Jr.

FLORENTINO RODAO. Franco y el imperio japonés: Imágenes y propaganda en tiempos de guerra. Barcelona: Plaza and Janés, 2002. Pp. 668. €18.00 Reviewed by Raanan Rein

ALEXANDER B. ROSSINO. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atro-city. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xv, 343. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. Kulczycki

RICHARD F. HILL. Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on Germany. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Pp. vii, 227. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Freeman Smith

PETER SCHRIJVERS. The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 320. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Marc Gallicchio

JON LATIMER. Alamein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 400. $27.95 (US); MARK JOHNSTON and PETER STANLEY. Alamein: The Australian Story. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 314. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Saul Kelly

CHARLIE WHITHAM. Bitter Rehearsal: British and American Planning for a Post-war West Indies. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxxvi, 224. –69.95 (US). Reviewed by J. Simon Rofe

JONATHAN E. LEWIS. Spy Capitalism: Itek and the CIA. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 329. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan Warburton

WILLIAM GLENN GRAY. Germany's Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949–1969. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 351. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Wilfried Loth

GREG DONAGHY. Tolerant Allies: Canada and the United States, 1963–1968. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 235. $75.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Edelgard Mahant

ROBERT J. TOPMILLER. The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964–1966. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xii, 214. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Edwin E. Moïse

ROBERT HOPKINS MILLER. Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat's Cold War Education. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 247. $36.50 (US). Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner

PIERRE ASSELIN. A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xx, 272. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Jussi M. Hanhimäki

M. S. KOHLI and KENNETH CONBOY. Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xi, 226. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. McMahon

JOHN PRADOS. Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 380. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Timothy N. Castle

PETER H. KOEHN and XIAO-HUANG YIN, eds. The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in US-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xl, 311. $66.95 (US), cloth; $25.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gordon H. Chang

JEFFREY S. LANTIS. Strategic Dilemmas and the Evolution of German Foreign Policy since Unification. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiii, 230. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Stephen F. Szabo

FREDERICK H. FLEITZ, JR. Peacekeeping Fiascos of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and US Interests. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xx. 224. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

HENRY R. NAU. At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 314. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Melvyn P. Leffler

KRISTIAN SKREDE GLEDITSCH. All International Politics Is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. x, 266. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by Randall L. Schweller

RICHARD MADSEN and TRACY B. STRONG, eds. The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 372. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Dorothy V. Jones.

MEHDI MOZAFFARI, ed. Globalization and Civilizations. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xiv, 274. $120.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Crockatt

KATHERINE BARBIERI. The Liberal Illusion: Does Trade Promote Peace? Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 184. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes     

Review Article: Cold War or Cold Peace

JOHN LEWIS GADDIS. The United States and the End of the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 301. $34.95 (CDN);

MICHAEL J. HOGAN, ed. The End of the Cold War: Its Meanings and Implications. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 294. $13.95 (us), paper;

JAMES CHACE. The Consequences of the Peace: The New Internationalism and American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 221. $32.50 (CDN).     

Reviews of Books

THOMAS FIGUEIRA. Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 274. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by B. M. Lavelle

JUDITH LIEU, JOHN NORTH, and TESSA RAJAK, eds. The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xvii, 198. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by James E. Seaver

PAUL RATCHNEVSKY. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy, trans, and ed. Thomas Nivison Haining. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xvii, 313. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Reuven Amitai-Preiss

RODERICH PTAK and DIETMAR ROTHERMUND, eds. Emporia, Commodities, and Entrepreneurs in Asian Maritime Trade, c.1400–1750. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Pp. xi, 509. DM 102.00. Reviewed by Christine Dobbin

BERNARD COTTRET. The Huguenots in England: Immigration and Settlement, c.1550–1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 317. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Spicer

NICHOLAS B. DIRKS, ed. Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 402. $27.00 (US). Reviewed by Dane Kennedy

JOYCELYNE G. RUSSELL. Diplomats at Work: Three Renaissance Studies. Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton, 1992. Pp. xiii, 190. £28.00. Reviewed by Denys Hay

RICHARD HARDING. Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century: The British Expedition to the West Indies, 1740–1742. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press (Royal Historical Society), 1991. Pp. x, 248. £35.00; $73.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip Woodfine

BILLIE MELMAN. Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918: Sexuality, Religion, and Work. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xix, 417. £45.00. Reviewed by Afaf Lutfi Al Sayyid Marsot

H. V. BOWEN. Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757–1773. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 204. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by John Derry

PETER D. G. THOMAS. Revolution in America: Britain and the Colonies, 1763–1776. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992. Pp. x, 101. £5.95. Reviewed by Philip Lawson

STEPHEN HOWARTH. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775–1991. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991. Pp. xv, 620. £25.00. Reviewed by William S. Dudley

MIRON REZUN. Intrigue and War in Southwest Asia: The Struggle for Supremacy from Central Asia to Iraq. New York: Praeger, 1992. Pp. xiv, 149. $42.95 (US). Reviewed by M. E. Yapp

GERASIMOS AUGUSTINOS. The Greeks of Asia Minor: Confession, Community, and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 270. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Stanford J. Shaw

JAVED MAJEED. Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 225. $74.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Lynn Zastoupil

MICHAEL PARIS. Winged Warfare: The Literature and Theory of Aerial Warfare in Britain, 1859–1917. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. 272. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by John Ferris

DAVID EDGERTON. England and the Aeroplane: An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xx, 139. £14.99. Reviewed by John Ferris

MAARTEN KUITENBROUWER. The Netherlands and the Rise of Modem Imperialism: Colonies and Foreign Policy, 1870–1902, trans. Hugh Beyer. New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 407. $71.50 (US). Reviewed by D. K. Fieldhouse

JOHN W. CELL. Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872–1969. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 332. $47.95 (US). Reviewed by Robin J. Moore

HEINRICH WALLE, ed. Von der Friedenssicherung zur Friedensgestaltung: Deutsche Streitkräfte im Wandel. Herford and Bonn: Verlag E. S. Mittler und Sohn GmbH, 1991. Pp. 398. DM 34.80. Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

CHRISTOPHER J. WALKER, ed. Armenia and Karabagh: The Struggle for Unity. London: Minority Rights Group, 1991. Pp. ix, 162. £7.95. Reviewed by Michael B. Bishku

JOHN B. HATTENDORF, ed. The Influence of History on Mahan. Newport: Naval War College Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 208. NP. Reviewed by Bryan Ranft

RAYMOND F. BETTS. France and Decolonisation, 1900–1960. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. 152. £35.00. Reviewed by William B. Cohen

THOMAS B. STEPHENS. Order and Discipline in China: The Shanghai Mixed Court, 1911–1927. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 159. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas R. Clifford

PAUL LATAWSKI, ed. The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914–1923. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xxi, 217. £45.00. Reviewed by Stefania Szlek Miller

JOHN TURNER. British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and Conflict, 1915–1918. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 511. $40.00 (US) Reviewed by Trevor Wilson

PANIKOS PANAYI. The Enemy in Our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War. New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 312. $66.50 (US). Reviewed by Trevor Wilson

DAVID M. ANDERSON and DAVID KIIXINGRAY, eds. Policing and Decolonisation: Nationalism, Politics, and the Police, 1917–1965. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 227. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

DAVID G. WILLIAMSON. The British in Germany, 1918–1930: The Reluctant Occupiers. New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 374. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by John Hiden

JOHN MORISON, ed. Eastern Europe and the West. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xix, 271. £40.00. Reviewed by Kay Lundgreen-Nielsen

MARK MAZOWER. Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 334. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Dimitri Kitsikis

JONATHAN HASLAM. The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933–41. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Pp. vii, 208. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul Dukes

DAVID R. MARPLES. Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940S. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 228. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by David Saunders

JUDITH A. STOWE. Siam Becomes Thailand: A Story of Intrigue. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 394. $39.00 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anthony Short

DAVID DAY. Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan, 1942–45. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 366. $45.00 (CDN). T. B. Millar

KLEMENS VON KLEMPERER. German Resistance against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938–1945. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 487. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Katharine Sams

SAMUEL W. MITCHAM, JR. and GENE MUELLER. Hitler's Commanders. Lanham, MD: Scarborough House, 1992. Pp. 320. $23.95 (US). Reviewed by L. H. Gann

HARRY A. GAILEY. Bougainville: The Forgotten Campaign, 1943–1943. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. Pp. 237. $27.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas M. Huber

ROY PALMER DOMENICO. Italian Fascists on Trial, 1943–1948. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 295, $43.95 (US). Reviewed by Richard Bosworth

GRANT K. GOODMAN, ed. Japanese Cultural Policies in Southeast Asia during World War Two. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xi, 223. $35.95 (US). Reviewed by Ricardo T. Jose

DONALD R. BAUCOM. The Origins of SDI, 1944–1983. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Pp. xix, 276. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Edward Rhodes

STEIN TØNNESSON. The Vietnamese Revolution 0/1945: Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, and De Gaulle in a World at War. London: Sage, 1991. Pp. xiv, 458. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph Smith

LOWELL DITTMER. Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, 1945–1990. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 373. $35.00 (US) Reviewed by Dennis J. Dunn

BEATRICE LEUNG. Sino-Vatican Relations: Problems in Conflicting Authority, 1976–1986. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 415. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Dennis J. Dunn

ROGER BUCKLEY. US-Japan Alliance Diplomacy, 1945–1990. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 225. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Akira Iriye

JEFFREY GREY. Australian Brass: The Career of Sir Horace Robertson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi, 249. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by G. C. Bolton

SALLIE PISANI. The CIA and the Marshall Plan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. Pp. x, 188. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Wittner

ANUSON CHINVANNO. Thailand's Policies towards China, 1949–54. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xiv, 200. £40.00. Reviewed by Arlene B. Neher

THOMAS-DURRELL YOUNG. Australian, New Zealand, and United States Security Relations, 1951–1986. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. Pp. xxii, 284. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ann Trotter

THOMAS W. ZEILER. American Trade and Power in the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 371. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip J. Funigiello

RAMESH THAKUR and CARLYLE A. THAYER. Soviet Relations with India and Vietnam. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xi, 315. £45.00. Reviewed by Rajan Menon

EFRAIM KARSH. Soviet Policy towards Syria since 1970. London: Macmillan, 1991.Pp.ix, 235. £35.00 Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry, Tamara Bitar

OLES M. SMOLANSKY with BETTIE M. SMOLANSKY. The USSR and Iraq: The Soviet Quest for Influence. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 346. $55.00 (US), cloth; $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry, Tamara Bitar

JOHN NORTON MOORE, ed. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Volume IV: The Difficult Search for Peace (1975–1988). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Part One: Pp. xxvii, 1,066. $99.50 (US); Part Two: Pp. xvii, 1,072–1,960. $99.50 (US). Reviewed by L. Carl Brown

KATHLEEN BURK and ALEC CAIRNCROSS.‘Goodbye, Great Britain’: The 1976 IMF Crisis. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 268. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by John McDermott

RICHARD EDMUND WARD. India's Pro-Arab Policy: A Study in Continuity. New York: Praeger, 1992. Pp. x, 172. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh

MARTIN VAN CREVELD. On Future War. London and New York: Brassey's, 1991. Pp. x, 254. £24.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey Blainey

MURRAY WOLFSON. Essays on the Cold War. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. x, 244. £45.00. Reviewed by Dietrich Fischer

ADAM WATSON. The Evolution of International Society. New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. viii, 337. £14.99. Reviewed by Richard Langhorne     

The Management of Public Records under the British Colonial Administration in Cyprus

CHRISTOPHER ALLMAND. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c.1300–c.1450. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 207. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by John Bell Henneman, Jr.

L.N. GUMILEV. Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John, trans. R.E.F. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 420. £37.50. Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen

JOHN B. HATTENDORF. England in the War of the Spanish Succession: A Study of the English View and Conduct of Grand Strategy, 1702–1712. New York: Garland, 1987. Pp. 408. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Bassford

DAVID A. WILSON. Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. Pp. 218. $27.95 (CAN). Reviewed by Hannah Gay

DESMOND GREGORY. Sicily: The Insecure Base: A History of the British Occupation of Sicily, 1806–1815. London: Associated University Press, 1988. Pp. 184. £18.00. Reviewed by Charles John Fedorak

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815–1922: An International Perspective. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 250. $29.95 (CAN). Reviewed by Patrick O'Farrell

PATRICK J.N. TUCK. French Catholic Missionaries and the Politics of Imperialism in Vietnam, 1857–1914. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1987. Pp. 352. £12.50. Reviewed by J. Kim Munholland

HAGEN SCHULZE, ed. Nation-Building in Central Europe. German Historical Perspectives, Vol. III. Leamington Spa, U.K.: Berg Publishers Ltd; dist. New York; St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 208. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Geoff Eley

DANIEL J. HUOHES. The King's Finest: A Social and Bureaucratic Profile of Prussia's General Officers, 1871–1914. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1987. Pp. ix, 215. $42.95 (US). Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener

HELMUTH STOECKER, ed. German Imperialism in Africa: From the Beginnings until the Second World War. London: C. Hurst &; Company, 1986. Pp. 446. $38.50 (US). Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen

MARK R. PEATTTE. Nan'yō The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. Pp. xxii, 416. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Felix Moos

DAVID FRENCH. British Strategy and War Aims 1914–1916. Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1986. Pp. 274. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Cameron Hazlehurst

BILL ALBERT, with the assistance of PAUL HENDERSON. South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 388. £27.50. Reviewed by Robert N. Seidel

TIMOTHY EDWARD O'CONNOR. Diplomacy and Revolution: G.V. Chicherin and Soviet Foreign Affairs, 1918–1930. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 250. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Rex A. Wade

A.J. CHRISTOPHER. The British Empire at Its Zenith. London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. xii, 260. £30.00. Reviewed by Ged Martin

MARY C. WILSON. King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xxii, 289. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Neil Caplan

PETER J. COLEMAN. Progressivism and the World of Reform: New Zealand and the Origins of the American Welfare State. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. Pp. 247. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee

MORRIS H. MORLEY. Imperial State and Revolution: The United States and Cuba, 1952–1986. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 571.$59.50 (US). Reviewed by Richard E. Welch, Jr.

THOMAS R.H. HAVENS. Fire across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 264. $37.50 (US), cloth; $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ernest P. Young     

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RAMI GINAT. The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945–1955. London: Frank Cass, dist. Portland, OR: ISBS, 1993. Pp. xii, 268. $45.00 (US);

ABRAHAM BEN-ZVL The United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 312. $35.00 (US).     

Reviews

EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS, ed. Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689–1759. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1982. Pp. xi, 231. $31.50 (US). Reviewed by Roger L. Emerson

JAMES PINCKNEY HARRISON. The Endless War: Fifty Years of Struggle in Vietnam. New York: The Free Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 372. $17.95 (US). Reviewed by P.J. Honey

J. ROBERT WRIGHT. The Church and the English Crown, 1305–1334: A Study based on the Register of Archbishop Walter Reynolds. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 1980. Pp. xix, 472, $27.00 paper. Reviewed by Robert Brentano

TORGIL, MAGNUSON. Rome in the Age of Bernini. Vol. I : From the election of Sixtus V to the death of Urban VIII, translated by Nancy Adler. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell International, and N.J.: Humanities Press, 1982. Pp. ix, 388, $45 (US). Reviewed by Paul F. Grendler

BRUCE CUMINGS. The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes 1945–1947. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. 606. $40.00 (US); $14.50 (US) paper. Reviewed by Tae Jin Kahng

STEFANOS SARAFIS. ELAS: Greek Resistance Army. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981. Pp. civ, 566. $26.25 (US); LAWRENCE S. WTTTNER. American Intervention in Greece, 1943–1949. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 445. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Dimitri Kitsikis

ANDREW ROSSOS. Russia and the Balkans: Inter-Balkan Rivalries and Russian Foreign Policy 1908–1919. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. Pp. xiii. 313. $35.00. Reviewed by Hugh Seton-Watson

JOHN MEYENDORFF. Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russian relations in the fourteenth century. Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xxi, 326. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by N. Oikonomides

THOMAS C. OWEN. Capitalism and Politics in Russia. A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855–1905. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 295. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John F. Hutchinson

G. DANIELS (ed.). A Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 12. London, 1981. Pp. xxvi, 115. £12.00. Reviewed by R.J. Overy

LOUIS L. SNYDER. Global Mini-Nationalisms: Autonomy or Independence. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xvii, 326. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Allan C. Smith

PAUL HAGGIE. Britannia at Bay: The Defence of the British Empire Against Japan 1931–41. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 264. $59.95. Reviewed by Raymond Callahan

DAVID REYNOLDS. The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance 1937–41: A Study in Competitive Co-operation. London: Europa Publications Limited, 1981. Pp. xiv, 397. £20.00. Reviewed by Ernest Gilman

DONALD S. BIRN. The League of Nations Union: 1918–1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 269. £69.50. Reviewed by George Egerton