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     

Appeasement Revisited

R. A. C. PARKER. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. v, 388. £35.00;

GAINES POST, JR. Dilemmas of Appeasement: British Deterrence and Defense, 1934–1937. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. $48.50 (US);

R. J. Q. ADAMS. British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–39. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xii, 192. £40.00;

MICHAEL J. COHEN and MARTIN KOLINSKY, eds. Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s: Security Problems, 1935–1939. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xvii, 231. $40.00;

BENNY MORRIS. The Roots of Appeasement: The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany during the 1930s. London: Frank Cass, 1992. Pp. 212. $40.00 (US);

GERARD J. DE GROOT. Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair. New York: New York University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 266. $35.00 (US);

CLEMENT LEIBOVITZ. The Chamberlain-Hitler Deal. Edmonton, Alberta: Les Éditions Duval Inc., 1993. Pp. viii, 544. No Price Available.     

Editorial notes

The New Cambridge History of India: the Portuguese in India by M.N. Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xviii + 178; maps. £17.50.

Colonial Chesapeake Society edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp.x + 512. £29.50.

A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals by Michael H. Fisher. London: Sangam Books Ltd., 1988. Pp.x + 284; illus. £17.95.

Common Law Aboriginal Title by Kent McNeil. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xli + 357. £40.00

Colonialism and Resistance in Belize; Essays in Historical Sociology by O. Nigel Bolland. Belize: Cubola Productions, 1988. Pp. + 218; maps and illus. US$10.00.

Labour in the Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence edited by Malcolm Cross and Gad Heuman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean, 1988. Pp.xvii + 329; map. £10.95.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume V:1801 to 1820, edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp.xxv + 1044. £38.25; Volume VI, 1821 to 1835. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp.xxiv + 960. £42.50.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VII: 1836 to 1850 edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp.xxix + 1088. £45.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume VIII: 1851–60. Edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp.xxxvii + 1129. £40.00.

The Upper House in Colonial New Zealand. A Study of the Legislative Council of New Zealand in the period 1854–1887 begun by the late A.H. McLintock, Revised and completed by G.A. Wood. Government Printer, 1987. Pp.271. N.p.

Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica by Bernard Semmel. Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1986. Pp.xii + 239.

’Benefits Bestowed'? Education and British Imperialism edited by J. A. Mangan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.ix + 242; illus. £29.95.

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power by Robert I. Rotberg with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xix + 800; maps and illus. £25.00.

Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers edited with commentary by Arthur Davey. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series No.18, 1987. Pp.lxiv + 238; maps and illus. N.p.

The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa by Anne Phillips. London: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp.vii + 184. £25.00 hardback; £8.95 paperback.

Modern India, 1885–1947 by Sumit Sarkar (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xxv + 489. £35.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback.

Fabianism and Colonialism, the Life and Political Thought of Lord Sydney Olivier by Francis Lee. London: Defiant Books, 1988. Pp.v + 242.

Finance and Empire: Sir Charles Addis, 1861–1945 by R.A. Dayer. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xxi + 431; maps and illus. £35.00.

The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War: II, 1895–1918 by Frank H.H. King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxxv + 720; maps and illus. £60.00.

The Origins of the Boxer Uprising by Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp.xx + 451. N.p.

The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor by Kiyoko Takeda. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xvi + 183. £33.00.

The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire by Marc S. Gallicchio. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp.xvi + 188. US$25.00.

British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century by C.J. Bartlett. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 144. £20.00 hardback; £5.50 paperback.

British Imperial Policy and Decolonization 1938–64: Volume 2, 1951–64 by A.N. Porter and A.J. Stockwell (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xviii + 601 £45.00 hardback; £19.95 paperback.

Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View by D.C.M Platt. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 91. £24.50.     

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     

Review Article: Re-ordering Europe after 1945

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews of Books

Arthur Waldron. The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 296. $39.30 (us) Reviewed by John W. Dardess

Michael Mccormick. Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Eariy Medieval West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 454. $4950 (us) Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard

Sylvia Schein. Fideles Cruets: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press,1991. Pp. x, 310. $96.50 (CDN) Reviewed by James M. Powell

Donald M. Nicol. Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 465. $65.00(us). Reviewed by Irene B. Katele

Mikiso Hane. Premodem Japan: A Historical Survey. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 258. $45-oo (us), dodi; $15.95 (us). paper Reviewed by Karl F. Friday

Albert Hourani. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 551. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid

Peter Brock. Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Pp. x, 385.$5500 (CDN) Reviewed by Robert L. Holmes

Tom Scott and Bob Sckibner, eds. The German Peasants' War: A History in Documents. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. and London: Humanities Press International, 1991. Pp. xvii, 355. $60.00 (us) Reviewed by Thomas F. Sba

Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Strangers within the Realm:Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. 456. $39.93 (us), clodi; $14.95 (us). paper Reviewed by Robert Olwell

George S. Keyes. Minor of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 444. $65.00 (us) Reviewed by J.R. Jones

Desmond Gregory. Minorca, the Illusory Prize: A History of the British Occupations of Minorca between 1708 and 1802. Rudierford: Farieigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1989.Pp. 395- S38.50 (us) Reviewed by N.A.M. Rodger

Richard B. Sher and Jeffrey R. Smitten, eds. Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xii,307. $4500 (us) Reviewed by Eric Richards

Kenneth J. Hagan. This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power. New York: Free Press (MacmiHan), 1991. Pp. xiii, 434. $27.95 (us) Reviewed by Anthony S. Nicolosi

William Jeffrey Welsh and David Curtis Skaggs, eds. War on the GreatLakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Eric. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. Pp. vi, 154. $29.00 (us), clodi;$17.50 (us), paper Reviewed by Jane Errington

Eugene L. Rasok. British Naval History situe 1815: A Guide to the Literature. New York: Garland, 1990. Pp. xxi, 841. $90.00 (us) Reviewed by Bryan Ranft

Carl Van Dyke. Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832-1914. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 193. $55.00 (us) Reviewed by Keith Neilson

Clive Moore, Jacquelin B. Leckie, and Doug Munbo, eds. Labour, in the South Pacific. Townsville: James Cook University of Northern Queensland,1990. Pp. li, 335- $30.00 (us) Reviewed by I.C. Campbell

William F. Sateh. The United States and the Americas: Chile and the United States: Empires in Conflict. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. Pp. xi,249. $30.00 (us), clodi; $15.00 (us), paper Reviewed by Brian Loveman

James Petras and Morris Morley. US Hegemony under Siege: Class, Politics and Development in Latin America. London: Verso, 1990. Pp. viii, 258. £32.95,doth; £10.95, paper Reviewed by Richard H. Collin

Frank Niess. A Hemisphere to Itself: A History of US-Latin American Relations, Tans. Harry Drost. London and New Jersey: Zed Press; dist. Adantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1990. Pp. xx, 229. $15.95us), paper Reviewed by Richard H. Collin

Frank Mcnitt. Navajo Wars: Military Campaigns, Slave Raids, and Reprisals. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 477. $18.50(us) Reviewed by Ted J. Warner

Richard Gray. Black Christians and White Missionaries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 134. $20.00 (us) Reviewed by M.F.C. Bourdillon

Heinz Joachim Domnick. Der Krieg der Tripel-Allianz in der deutschen Historiographie uni Pubtizistik: Zur Erforschung des historischen Lateinamerikabildcsim 19. uni zo.Jahrhuniert. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Pp. 291. $64.80 (us) Reviewed by Friedrich E. Schuller

John Kendle. Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1921. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. Pp. vii, 295. $34.95 (CDN) Reviewed by Keith Jeffey

Andreas Osterhaus. Europäiscker Terraingewinn in Sckwarzafiica: Das Vcrkâltnisvon Presse und Verwaltung in seeks Kolonien Deutschtands, Frankreicks und Groβbritanniens von 1894 bis 1914. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Pp. 521.$68.80 (us) Reviewed by J.K. Osterhammel

Brian Digre. Imperialism's New Clothes: The Repartition of Tropical Africa, 1914-1919. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Pp. xiii, 225. $44.95 (us) Reviewed by J.K. Osterhammel

Elizabeth A. Muenger. The British Military Dikmma in Ireland: OccupationPolitics, 1886-1914. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. Pp. ix, 234.$29-95 (US) Reviewed by Ian E.W. Beckett

Haim Shamir, ed. France and Germany in an Age of Crisis 1900-1960: Studies in Memory of Chartes Bloch. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Pp. vi, 411. $75.00 (us) Reviewed by Carole Fink

Samuel R. Williamson, JR. Austria and the Origins of the First World War. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xviii, 272. £35.00, cloth; £9.99, paper Reviewed by F.R. Bridge

Dennis E. Showaltek. Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. Hamden, Conn.:Archon Books, 1991. Pp. vii, 419. $42.50 (us) Reviewed by John W. Steinberg

Denis Winter. Haig's Command: A Reassessment. London: Viking, 1991. Pp.36a. £18.99 Reviewed by Gerard J. De Groot

Louis P. Cassimatis. American Influence in Greece, 1917-1929. Kent, Ohio:Kent State University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 300. $25.00 (us) Reviewed by Mark Mazower

Houshang Sabahi. British Policy in Persia 1918-1925. London: Frank Cats,1990. Pp. 269. £30.00 Reviewed by J.R. Ferris

Barry Eichencreen. Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance, 1919-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 335.$49-95 (us) Reviewed by Sheila M. Rimmer

Norman Ingram. The Politics of Dissent: Pacifism in France 1910-1939. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 366.$100.00 (CDN) Reviwied by Robert J. Young

Marc Raeff. Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1039. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 239. $41.95 (CDN) Reviewed by T.R. Ravindranathan

Stephen J. Valons. 'A Policy Calculated to Benefit China': The United States and the China Arms Embargo, 1919-1929. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.Pp. xxii, 155. $39.95 (us) Reviewed by Paul A. Varg

Michael J. Nozinski. Outrage at Uncheng: China Enters the Twentieth Century. Scarborough, Ont.: Glenbridge Publishing, 1991. Pp. xxiii, 243. $28.95(CDN) Reviewed by Nicholas R. Clifford

Chalmers Johnson. An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. 324. $39.50 (us),cloth; $12.95 (us), paper Reviewed by Hilary Conroy

Robert Allan Doughty. The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 199a Pp. xiv, 374. $39.50 (us) Reviewed by S.P. MacKenzie

Arthur J. Marder, Mark Jacobsen, and John Horsfibld. Old Friends New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy: Volume II: The Pacific War, 1942-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xxx, 6a 1.$60.00 (us) Reviewed by Andrew Lambert

Mawb-Luisb Reckbr. Die Aussenpolitik des Dritten Retches. Munich: R.Oldenbourg Vedag, 1990. Pp. viii, 135. DM28 Reviewed by Robert Gellately

Alison R. Bernstein. American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Erain Indian Affairs. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.Pp. xiv, 247. $21.95 (us) Reviewed by Ted J. Warner

M.R.D. Foot, ed. Holland at War against Hitler. London: Frank Cass, 1990.Pp. XX, 258.,£2500 Reviewed by Werner Warmbrunn

Ann Trotter. New Zealand and Japan 1945-1932: The Occupation and the Peace Treaty. London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 199a Pp. viii,231-U99S (us) Reviewed by Michael Schaller

Michael Wala. Winning the Peace: Amerikanische Aussenpolitik uni der Councilon Foreign Relations, 1945-1950. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. Pp. 331.DM68 Reviewed by Thomas Alan Schwartz

Douglas Stuaht and William Tow. The Limits of Alliance: NATO Out-of-Area Problems since 1949. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 383. $42.50 (us) Reviewed by Don M. Cregier

Thomas Alan Schwartz. America's Germany: John. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 404. $29.95 (us) Reviewed by Lloyd E. Ambrosius

David L. Anderson. Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-1961. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xv,276. $39.50(us) Reviewed by H.W. Brands

Douglas Pike, ed. The Bunker Papers: Reports to the President fiom Vietnam, 1967-1973. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies,1990. Pp. 899. $35.00 (us) Reviewed by Wallace J. Thies

Ebekhard Kienle. Bath v. Ba'th: The Conflict between Syria and Iraq 1968-1989. London: 1 3. Tauris, 1990. Pp. 238.,£29.95 Reviewed by Raymond A. Hinnebaush

John O. Crane and Sylvia Crane. Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xxvi, 352. $45.00 (us) Reviewed by Radomir V. luza

Keith Neilson and Ronald G. Haycock, eds. The Cold War and Defense. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. vi, 206. (45.00 (us) Reviewed by Robert M. Hathaway

John B. Hattendorf and Malcolm H. Murfftt, eds. The Limitations of Military Power: Essays Presented to Professor Norman Gibbs on his Eightieth Birthday. London: Macrmullan, 1990. Pp. xx, 242.,£40.00 Reviewed by Wesley K. Wark

Kenneth C. Allard. Command, Control, and the Common Defense. NewHaven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 317. $25.00 (us) Reviewed by Terry Copp

J.L. Gsanatstein And Robert Bothwell. Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau andCanadian Foreign Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Pp. xiv,477- $35-00 (CDN) Reviewed by Thomas Keating

Roger E. Kan Et And Edward A. Kolodziej, eds. The Cold War asCooperation: Superpower Cooperation in Regional Conflict Management. London:Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xv, 439. £4.5.00 Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley

Carl G. Jacobsen, ed. Strategic Power: USA/USSR. London: Macmillan,1990. Pp. xxiii, 519. £i9-99 Reviewed by Robert Malcolmson

Robert C. North. War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis. Boulder, Col. and Oxford: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 298.$48.50 (us), cloth; $17-95 (us), paper Reviewed by Stephen Pelz

Eugene Sochor. The Politics of International Aviation. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 288. $36.00 (us) Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton     

The Wireless World at War, 1939–1945

F. H. HINSLEY. British Intelligence in the Second World War, abridged version.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 628. $39.95 (US);

F. H. HINSLEY and ALAN STRIPP. Codebreakers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. 321. £17.95;

RALPH BENNETT. Behind the Battle: Intelligence in the War with Germany, 1939–1945. London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1994. Pp. xxiv, 328. £20.00;

CARL BOYD. Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General ōshima Hiroshi and Magic Intelligence, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. Pp. xviii, 271. $25.00 (US);

DEREK HOWSE. Radar at Sea: Tlie Royal Navy in World War Two. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xviii, 383. £25.00;

JOHN WINTON. Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Ciphers Affected Naval Operations against Japan. London: Leo Cooper, 1993. Pp. 247. £17.50     

Review of Books

GORDON MAXWELL. A Battle Lost: Romans and Caledonians at Mons Graupius. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; dist., New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 138. $15.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by A.R. Birley

ANDRÉ WINK. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Volume I: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th–11th Centuries. Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1990. Pp. viii, 396. $82.50 (us). Reviewed by D.N. MacLean

PETER EDBURY. The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 241. $44.50 (us). Reviewed by James A. Brundage

THEO HOLZAPFEL. Papst Innozenz III., Philipp II. August König von Frankreich und die englisch-welfische Verbindung 1198–1216. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. Pp. 334. $68.00 (us). Reviewed by H.E J. Cowdrey

DIRK H.A. KOLFF. Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 217. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Richard B. Barnett

KIRKPATRICK SALE. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. Pp. 451. £17.95; Reviewed by G.V. Scammell

DAVID HENIGE. In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 359. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by G.V. Scammell

DANIEL GOFFMAN. Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550–1650. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 236. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Salih ÖZbaran

ALBERT HOURANI. Islam in European Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 199. $34.50 (us). Reviewed by Michael Curtis.

HEDLEY BULL, BENEDICT KINGSBURY, and ADAM ROBERTS, eds. Hugo Grotius and International Relations. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 331. $96.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Cornelius F. Murphy, Jr.

MICHAEL ROBERTS. From Oxenstierna to Charles XII: Four Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 202. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by David Kirby

JACK VERNEY. The Good Regiment: The Carignan-Salières Regiment in Canada 1665–1668. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 222. $34-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay Cassel.

SERGEI SOLOVIEV. History of Russia: Volume XLVIII: The Rule of Catherine the Great: War, Diplomacy and Domestic Affairs, 1771–1774, ed. and trans. George E. Munro. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 339. $33.00 (us). Reviewed by John T. Alexander.

W.J. WOOD. Battles of the Revolutionary War: 1775–1781. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990. Pp. xxxii, 315. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Paul David Nelson.

ECKHART HELLMUTH, ed. The Transformation of Political Culture: England and Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 597. $132.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Daniel Moran.

ROBERT D. BILLINGER, JR. Metternich and the German Question: States' Rights and Federal Duties, 1820–1834. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991. Pp. 230. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence J. Flockerzie.

RICHARD J.B. BOSWORTH and SERGIO ROMANO, eds. La politica estera italiana, 1860–1985. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991. Pp. 360. L. 38,000. Reviewed by Alan Cassels.

WILLIAM CARR. The Origins of the Wars of German Unification. London and New York: Longman, 1991. Pp. xiv, 239. £8.99, paper. Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener.

ALLAN MITCHELL. The Divided Path: The German Influence on Social Reform in France after 1870. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 410. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Patricia E. Prestwich.

ULRICH HERBERT. A History of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880–l980: Seasonal Workers/Forced Laborers/Guest Workers, trans. William Templer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 310. $48.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert G. Moeller.

MICHAEL FRöHLICH. Von Konfiontation zur Koexistenz: Die deutsch-englischen Kolonialbeziehungen in Afrika zwischen 1884 und 1914. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr N. Brockmeyer, 1990. Pp. 371. DM 54,80. Reviewed by Woodruff D. Smith.

RHODRI WILLIAMS. Defending the Empire: The Conservative Party and British Defence Policy 1899–1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 306. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Keith Neilson

FRANK FIELD. British and French Writers of the First World War: Comparative Studies in Cultural History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 280. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Paul Delany.

ANATOLE C. J. BOGACKI. A Polish Paradox: International and the National Interest in Polish Communist Foreign Policy 1918–1948. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs; dist., New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 320. $37.00 (us). Reviewed by David Mayers.

ALAN SHARP. The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xi, 243. £35.00. Reviewed by Gordon Martel.

NICHOLAS R. CLIFFORD. Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the 1920s. Hanover, N.H. and London: University Press of New England, 1991. Pp. xvi, 361. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Parks M. Coble.

ROBERT GORDON KAUFMAN. Arms Control during the Pre-Nuclear Era: The United States and Naval Limitation between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 289. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Francis M. Carroll.

ALFREDO JOSÉ SCHWARCZ. Y a pesar de todo …: Losjudios de habla alemana en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, Colecciín Estudios Politicos y Sociales, 1991. Pp. 317. No Price Available; Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

CARLOTA JACKISCH. El nazismo y los refugiados alemanes en la Argentina, 1933– 1945. Buenos Aires: Editorial de Belgrano, 1989. Pp. 306. No Price Available; Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

OLGA ELAINE ROJER. Exile in Argentina, 1933–1945: A Historical and Literary Introduction.. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Pp. 250. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

NEIL V. SALZMAN. Reform and Revolution: The Life and Times of Raymond Robins. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 472. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Bruce S. Greenawalt.

EDWARD M. BENNETT. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939–1945. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990. Pp. xxvii, 207. $40.00 (us), cloth; $13.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Sean Dennis Cashman.

DAVID F. SCHMITZ and RICHARD D. CHALLENER, eds. Appeasement in Europe: A Reassessment of US Policies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 166. $3795 (us). Reviewed by D. Cameron Watt

JOHN CARVER EDWARDS. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich. New York: Praeger, 1991. Pp. x, 238. $21.95 (us). Reviewed by Justus D. Doenecke

TERRY COPP and BIIL MCANDREW. Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939–1945. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 249. $29.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert. J.T. Joy.

ROBERT BOH N, JÜRGEN EL VERT, HAIN REBAS, MICHAEL SALEWSKI, eds. Neutralität und totalitäre Aggression: Nordeuropa und die Großmächte im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991, Pp. xii, 435. DM 128; Reviewed by Martin kitchen.

IZIDORS VIZULIS. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: The Baltic Case. New York: Praeger, 1990. Pp. vi, 176. $38.95 (us). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen.

P.M.H. BELL. John Bull and the Bear: British Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union 1941–1945. London: Edward Arnold, 1990. Pp. x, 214. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Gordon W. Morrell.

AVIEL ROSHWALD. Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 315. $63.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Fry.

HENRY ROUSSO. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 384. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Robert J. Young.

JOSEPH SMITH, ed. The Origins of NATO. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 173. £6.95. Reviewed by S. Victor Papacosma

PETER L. HAHN. The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945–1956: Strategy, Diplomacy in the Early Cold War. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. x, 359. $37.50 (us); Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen.

DAVID R. DEVEREUX. The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948–56. London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp. xi, 241.,£35.00. Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen.

JAMES BARBER and JOHN BARRATT. South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945–1988. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 398. $54.50 (us), cloth; $16.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ritchie Ovendale.

CHESTER J. PACH, JR. Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945–1050. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. x, 322. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by Steven L. Rearden.

JOEL J. SOKOLSKY. Seapower in the Nuclear Age: The United States and NATO 1949–80. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xi, 221. £35.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey Till.

LESTER D. LANGLEY. Mexico and the United States: The Fragile Relationship. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Pp. xvi, 138. $27.95 (us), cloth; $13.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Don M Coerver.

MARTIN S. NAVIAS. Nuclear Weapons and British Strategic Planning, 1955–1958. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 269. $76.50 (us). Reviewed by John Baylis.

GLEN BALFOUR-PAUL. The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Relinquishment of Power in the Last Three Arab Dependencies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxiii, 278. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Michael B. Bishku.

SANTOSH MEHROTRA. India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 243. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Colin Lawson.

JAMES MAYALL and ANTHONY PAYNE, eds. The Fallacies of Hope: The Post Colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. 218. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Robin W. Winks.

BARRY H. STEINER. Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. Pp. xvi, 367. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Edward Rhodes.

R.B. SMITH. An International History of the Vietnam War. Volume III: The Making of a Limited War 1965–66. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xiv, 490. £4500. Reviewed by John M. Carland.

BRIAN VANDEMARK. Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 268. $22.95 (us); Reviewed by Gary R. Hess.

ELIZABETH JANE ERRINGTON and B.J.C. MCKERCHER, eds. The Vietnam War as History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 196. $45.00 (us); Reviewed by Gary R. Hess.

ELIZABETH NORMAN. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. x, 211. $36.95 (us), cloth; $14.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Gary R. Hess.

RICHARD A. MELANSON. Reconstructing Consensus: American Foreign Policy since the Vietnam War. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. viii, 248. £9.99. Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen.

F. ROBERT HUNTER. The Palestinian Uprising: A War by Other Means. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 292. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod.

JONATHAN HASLAM. The Soviet Union and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1969–87. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 227. $13.95 (us). paper. Reviewed by Paul Buteux

HENRY T. BERNSTEIN. And None Afraid: Soviet-Western Suspicion and Trusting from Red October to Glasnost Dialogue. Oxford: Baardwell, 1991. Pp. 240. £ 19.95. Reviewed by J.L Black.

CLAYTON R. NEWELL. The Framework of Operational Warfare. London and New York: Roudedge, 1991. Pp. xiv, 186. £25.00. REviewed by K.E. Hamburger

PAUL KENNEDY, ed. Grand Strategies in War and Peace. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 228. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Gordon A. Craig.

MICHAEL HOWARD. The Lessons of History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. 217. $27.50 (us). Reviewed by M.L. Dockrill.     

Book Reviews

BRIAN BOND. British Military Policy between the Two World Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. XVI, 419. £16.00. Reviewed by Paul Kennedy

Washington Despatches, 1941–1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy, edited by H.G. Nicholas, with an introduction by Isaiah Berlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Pp. XVIII, 700. $40.00 (US), £20.00. Reviewed by David Reynolds

MARK C. WHEELER. Britain and the War for Yugoslavia, 1940–1943. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. 342 (East European Monographs, No. LXIV). SI8.50 (US). Reviewed by John O. Iatrides

PATRICIA JALLAND. The Liberals and Ireland. The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914. Hassocks, Sussex, 1980. Pp. 250. £20.00. Reviewed by John Kendle

BRIAN JENKINS. Britain and the War for the Union. Volume II. Montreal: McGill- Queen's University Press, 1980. Pp. IX, 480. $26.50 (US). Reviewed by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.

GEOFFREY ELLIS. Napoleon's Continental Blockade: The Case of Alsace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. 355. $65.75. (CAN.) Reviewed by Richard Glover

R.D. THORPE. The Uncrowned Prime Ministers. London: Darkhorse Publishing, 1980. Pp. XV, 263. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by J.O. Stubbs

DAVID DILKS, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. I. 1906–1939. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 213. £10. Reviewed by Trevor Burridge

DAVID DILKS, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. II. After 1939. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 198. £10. Reviewed by Ray Jones

CLAIRE HIRSCHFIELD. The Diplomacy of Partition: Britain, trance and the Creation of Nigeria, 1890–1898. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Pp. 234, Fl. 90. Reviewed by A.S. Kanya-Forstner

PHILIP M. TAYLOR. The Projection of Britain: British Overseas Publicity and Propaganda 1919–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xv, 363. £25.00. Reviewed by Keith Robbins

NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY. The Keyes Papers, Vol. III, 1939–1945, ed. Paul Halpern. London: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. 398. $;37.50 (Can.). Reviewed by Donald M. Schurman

JOHN TURNER. Lloyd George's Secretariat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp.vm, 254 £15. Reviewed by Patricia Jalland

JAMES NEIDPATH. The Singapore Naval Base and the Defence of Britain's Eastern Empire, 1919–1941. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp.XVII, 296. £22.50. Reviewed by C.C. Ong

ELEANOR M. GATES. End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939–40. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. XVIII, 630. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by P.M.H. Bell

F.H. HINSLEY ET AL. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Vol. I, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. 616. $29.95 (US); Vol. H, ibid., 1981. Pp. 690. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by D.C. Watt

E. MARY SMALLWOOD. The Jews under Roman Rule: A Study in Political Relations. From Pompey to Diocletian. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. Pp. XIV, 595. 96 guilders. Reviewed by Jacob Neusner     

Review Article: The General History of the Second World War

MARTIN KITCHEN. A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London and New York: Longman, 1990. Pp. xii, 377. $24.95 (CAN);

R.A.C. PARKER. Struggle for Survival: The History of the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 328. £5.95;

H.P. WiLLMOTT. The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1989. Pp. xii, 500. $24.95 (us);

JOHN KEEGAN. The Second World War. Sydney: Hutchinson, 1989. Pp. vii, 608. Aus $39.95;

JOHN ELLIS. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: André Deutsch, 1990. Pp. xxii, 643. £19.95;

ALAN F. WILT. War from the Top: German and British Military Decision Making during World War II. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 390. $35.00 (us).     

New maps

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Periglacial Environment. By H. M. French. 22 × 15 cm., 309 pp., 67 figures, 50 photographs, tables, references. Longman, Harlow, 1976. Paper £5.50.

Glaciers and Landscape. By David E. Sugden and Brian S. John. 23 × 17 cm., 376 pp. Numerous illustrations. References. Index. Edward Arnold, London, 1976. Paper £5.95.

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Development of the West of Scotland 1750‐1960. By Anthony Slaven. 22 × 14 cm., 272 pp., 4 maps, 29 tables, bibliography, index. Routledge and Kegan Paul 1975. £6.50.

A Geography of 19th‐century Britain. By P. J. Perry. 22 × 14, 187 pp., plates, maps and diagrams. Batsford, London, 1975. £6.50 (£2.95 paperback).

SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY

Recreation in the Countryside—A Spatial Analysis. By J. T. Coppock and B. S. Duffield. 24 × 16, 262 pp., 34 figures, references, index. Macmillan, London, 1975. £8.95 (£3.95 paperback).

A Geography of Tourism. By H. Robinson. 21 × 13 cm., 47 pp., 47 illustrations, tables, index. Macdonald and Evans, London, 1976. Paper £4.25.

The Look of the Land. By John Fraser Hart. 23 × 16 cm., 210 pp., illustrations, index. Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1975.

REGIONAL

Southern Europe: the Mediterranean and Alpine lands. By Monica and Robert Beckinsale. 29 × 20, 334 pp., 107 maps and diagrams, 38 plates, tables, bibliography, index. U. of London Press, London, 1975. £10.50.

London. By David Gowing. Longman Revised Colour Geographies, Editor Rex Walford. 23 × 21, 48 pp. Longman, Harlow, 1976. 75p.

TECHNIQUES

Mathematics for Geographers and Planners. By A. G. Wilson and M. J. Kirkby. 20 × 18, 325 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, index. Clarendon/Oxford Press, London, 1975. £6.75 (£3.00 paperback).

Patterns in Human Geography: An Introduction to Numerical Methods. By David M. Smith. 22 × 14, 373 pp, Illustrations, diagrams and tables, Index. David &; Charles, Newton Abbot, 1975. £6.50.

CARTOGRAPHY

The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition. 46 × 32, xi pp. and 123 plates. Index 223 pp. Times Books/Bartholomew, London and Edinburgh, 1975. £26.

EDUCATIONAL

Objective Tests in Geography for O‐Level and C.S.E.: The British Isles. By K. Briggs. 24 × 18., 101 pp. Hodder &; Stoughton, London, 1976. £1.35.

The Developing World: Geography Four. Living Together. By S. Crawford. 24 × 18, 128 pp. Longman, London, 1975. £1.50.

Industries in Britain. By M. P. Devereux. 27 × 22, 80 pp, 95 figures. Macmillan, London, 1974. 70p.

Three Giant Powers. By Martin Simons. 20 × 21 cm., 144 pp., many illustrations, index. Oxford University Press 1974. £1.25.

The U.S.S.R. By Harry Robinson. 14 × 22 cm., 250 pp., 32 illus., diagrams, index. University Tutorial Press, London, 1975. £1.80.

No. 26 Teaching Geography—Motorway. By E. Rawling (Geographical Association). Sheffield. 23 pp., 25×20, 1976. 55p.

No. 27 Teaching Geography—Analysis of Land Use Data. By R. Daugherty (Geographical Association). Sheffield. 25×20, 16 pp. 1976. 50p.

Place and People: 1. Village, Town and City. Ed. by S. Dunlop. 76 pp., 25×19. Heine‐mann, London, 1976. £1.25.

Atlas of Denmark—Series II, Vol. 2. Topographic Atlas Denmark. Edited by Ruth Helkier Jensen and Kr. M. Jensen. Pp.192. 34×25. The Royal Danish Geographical Society, Copenhagen, 1976. DKr. 195.00.

North America: Maps. Topographical Map Studies of Canada and the U.S.A. By R. Knowles and P. W. E. Stave. Pp. 96, 21 × 33. Longmans, 1976. £3.95.

Geography Project Workbooks, book 3—Britain's Trade and Communications. By S. C. Harrison, et al. Pp.32. 24×18. Longmans, 1976. 45p.

The New Certificate Geography Series: A Level. Monsoon Asia. 3rd edition. By H. Robinson. Pp.528. 22×14. Macdonald and Evans, London, 1976. £3.75 paperback.

A Geography of Britain. 3rd edition, up‐dated. By A. R. Toison and M. E. Johnstone Pp.259. 23×17. Oxford University Press, London, 1976. £2.50.

Elementary Geographical Fieldwork. By J. Hume Brown. Pp. 152, 20×13. Blackie Glasgow, 1976. £1.75.

Geographies: A certificate series: North America. 2nd edition. By F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Cain. Pp.332. 21 × 14. Longman, Harlow, 1976. £1.50.

Sketch‐map Geographies: Book Seven: Economic Geography. By P. Speak and H. C. Carter. 2nd, up‐dated edition. Pp. 76. 25 × 19. Longman, Harlow, 1976. £1.25.     

Book reviews

Reappraisals in British Imperial History by Ronald Hyam and Ged Martin. Cambridge Commonwealth Series, London: Macmillan, 1975. Pp. x + 234. £10.00.

The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870 by James W. St. G. Walker. Dalhousie African Studies Series. London: Longman and Dalhousie University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi+438. £8.75. Paper £3.50. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1976. $24.00. Paper $10.00.

The Loyal Blacks by Ellen Gibson Wilson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. Pp. xi+463. $7.95.

Bibliography of British History 1789–1851 edited by Lucy M. Brown and Ian R. Christie. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1977. Pp.xxxi+759. £20.

New South Wales—Autocracy to Parliament 1824–1856. Published by the Legislative Council of the Parliament of New South Wales, Parliament House, Sydney, 1976. Pp. vii + 137. Loose‐leaf edition limited to 300 copies.

Office‐Holders in Modern Britain. Volume VI, Colonial Office Officials compiled by J. C. Sainty. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research. 1976. x + 52 pp. £4.00.

Indian Society and the Beginnings of Modernisation c. 1830–1850 edited by C. H. Philips and Mary Doreen Wainwright. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976. Pp. vi+243. £2.50.

Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India by Blair B. Kling. University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xii+276. £15.60.

Buddhism in Sinhalese Society 1750–1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change by Kitsiri Malalgoda. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xiii+300. £13.20

Facets of Modern Ceylon History through the Letters of Jeronis Pieris by Michael Roberts. Colombo: Hansa Publishers Limited, 1975. Pp. 108, map, photographs, appendices. (No price is listed ; Distributors, H. W. Cave and Co. Ltd., P. O. Box 25, Colombo, Sri Lanka).

Southeast Asia: A History by Lea E. Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii+299. £7.50.

A History of Malaysia and Singapore by N. J. Ryan. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xiv+322. £16.00.

Comparative History of Civilizations in Asia by Edward L. Farmer et al. Reading (Mass.): Addison‐Wesley Publishing Co., 1977. 2 Vols. Pp. xxx+797. £11.20 each.

Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa by Donald Simpson. London: Paul Elek, 1976. Pp. xi+228. £7.50.

Europäische Kolonialherrschaft 1880–1940 by Rudolf von Albertini, in association with Albert Wirz. Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau: Atlantis Verlag, 1976. Pp. 528, 20 maps. DM. 54 (hardback), DM. 45 (paperback).

Oil and Empire: British Policy and Mesopotamian Oil 1900–1920 by Marian Kent, London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. xiii+273. £10.

On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation by J. Bowyer Bell. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard U.P., 1976. Pp. xv+272. £11.25.

The Erosion of a Relationship: India and Britain since 1960 by Michael Lipton and John Firn. Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs: London, 1976. Pp. xvi+427. £13.00.     

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     

The Berlin West Africa conference of 1884–85 revisited: A report

The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians edited by John Cannon with R.H.C. Davis, William Doyle and Jack P. Greene. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp.xiv + 480. £50.00.

Atlas of the British Empire, with Foreword by Norman Stone, edited by C.A. Bayly. Hamlyn Publishing Group/Amazon: London, 1989. Pp.256; illus. £25.00.

The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion c. 1400–1715 by G.V. Scammell. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. Pp.xix + 281; maps. £30.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback).

The History of Architecture in India: From the Dawn of Civilisation to the End of Raj by Christopher Tadgell. London: A.D.T Press, 1990. Pp.IX + 336. £65.00.

Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700–1900 by Susan Bayly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.xv + 504. £40.00.

A Dictionary of Modern Indian History, 1707–1947, by Parshotam Mehra. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985 (reprinted 1987). Pp.xiii + 823; £25.00.

Navies, Deterrence, and American Independence: Britain and Seapower in the 1760s and 1770s by Nicholas Tracy. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. Pp.207. £21.80.

The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution by Philip Lawson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1989. Pp.x + 192. £29.65.

History's Anthropology. The Death of William Gooch by Greg Dening. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. Pp.xix + 122; maps and illus.

Thomas Clarkson: A Biography by Ellen Gibson Wilson. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xiv + 269. £35.00.

The Caribbean in Europe; Aspects of the West Indian Experience in Britain, France and the Netherlands. Edited by Colin Brock. London: Frank Cass, 1985. Pp.ix + 243. £20.00 (hardback).

The Transformation of Theology, 1830–1890. Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America by Charles D. Cashdollar. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 489. $35.00.

Social Welfare, 1850–1950: Australia, Argentina and Canada Compared edited by D.C.M. Platt. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xii + 208. £35.00.

Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism by Robert A. Stafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 293. £30.00 (hardback).

Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer by Frank McLynn. London: Constable, 1989. Pp.410; maps and illustrations. £17.95.

Baden‐Powell, by Tim Jeal. London: Hutchinson, 1989. Pp.xxi + 670. £18.95 (hardback).

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII: 1891–1900 edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Pp.xxix + 1305. £48.50; $78.00.

The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 by Aaron L. Friedberg. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp.xvii + 321, maps. $14.95 (paperback).

Lost Children of the Empire: The Untold Story of Britain's Child Migrants by Philip Bean and Joy Melville. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Pp. ix + 177; illus. £12.95 (hardback).

The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Volume III: The Hongkong Bank between the Wars and the Bank Interned, 1919–45; Return from Grandeur by Frank H.H. King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxxviii + 705; maps and illus. £60.00.

Menzies and Churchill at War by David Day. London: Angus &; Robertson, 1987. Pp.xi + 271. £12.50.

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937–49, Vol. VII: 1944, edited by W.J. Hudson. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. Pp.lvi + 749; illus. AS39.95.

Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan by David Gilmartin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 258. $32.00.

The Expedient Utopian: Bandaranaike and Ceylon by James Manor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.xiii + 338. £30.00.

Britain, the United States, and the End of the Palestine Mandate, 1942–1948 by Ritchie Ovendale. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1989. Pp.332. £37.50 (hardback).

Palestine and the Arab‐Israeli Conflict by Charles D. Smith. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp.viii+ 308; maps. £10.99 (paperback).

Hearts and Minds in Guerrilla Warfare: The Malayan Emergency 1948–1960 by Richard Stubbs. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.xiv + 286. £25.00.

Britain and the Korean War by Callum MacDonald. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp.vii + 112; map. £17.50 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation by Richard Sandbrook with Judith Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.xvi + 180; maps. £17.50 (hardback); £7.95 (paperback).     

1948 and All That: A New Chronology for the History of Palestine?

DEREK J. PENSLAR. The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870–1918. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 210. $25.00 (us).

JACOB BARNAI. The Jews in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Under the Patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine, trans. Naomi Goldblum. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 305. $39.95 (us).

BARUCH KIMMERLING and JOEL S. MIGDAL. Palestinians: The Making of a People. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1993. Pp. xix, 396. $29.95 (us).

MAYIR VERETÉ. From Palmerston to Balfour: Collected Essays of Mayir Vereté, ed. Norman Rose. London: Frank Cass, 1992. Pp. xiv, 233. £28.00.

ISSA KHALAF. Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration, 1939–1948. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1991. Pp. xix, 318. $19.95 (us).

ANITA SHAPIRA. Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881–1948, trans. William Templer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 446. $59.00 (CDN).     

Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine

Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797 by Peter Hulme. London: Methuen, 1986. Pp. xi + 399; maps and illus. £25.

The Aggressions of the French at Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific, by George Pritchard, edited by Paul De Deckker. Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand), 1985. Pp.253. £35.00.

A History of Christianity in India 1707–1858 by Stephen Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xiv + 578. £45.

Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World edited by Gad Heuman. London: Frank Cass &; Co., 1986. Pp. vii + 199; maps. £19.50.

Victorian Shipping, Business and Imperial Policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line and Southern Africa by A.N. Porter. Royal Historical Society Studies in History 49. Woodbridge: Boydell &; Brewer, 1986. Pp. 332. £29.50.

Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business Biography edited by R.P.T. Davenport‐Hines, London: Frank Cass &; Co.Ltd., 1986. Pp. viii + 139. £21.00.

Julius Vogel, Business Politician by Raewyn Dalziel. Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 368, illus. NZ $45.00.

Kipling and ‘Orientalism’ by B.J. Moore‐Gilbert. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 228; £18.95.

The Imperial Imagination, Magic and Myth in Kipling's India by Lewis D. Wurgraft. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. Pp.xxi + 211; £7.95.

A Short History of Tasmania by L.L. Robson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp.xii + 189. £7.95.

Horace Plunkett, Co‐operation and Politics: An Irish Biography by Trevor West. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1986. Pp. xviii + 288, illus. £12.95.

The Canadian Career of the Fourth Earl of Minto: The Education of a Viceroy by Carman Miller. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980. Pp.225.

Lord Minto's Canadian Papers: A Selection of the Public and Private Papers of the Fourth Earl of Minto, 1898–1904 edited by Paul Stevens and John T. Saywell. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1981. Vol. I. Pp. lxxix + 467.

Robert Thorne Coryndon: Proconsular Imperialism in Southern and Eastern Africa, 1897–1925 by Christopher P. Youe. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 241; maps, tables, and illus. $29.95.

The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa: Class, Nationalism, and the State in Twentieth‐Century Natal by Shula Marks. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 171; illus. £13.75.

Oil Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century by Fiona Venn. London: Macmillan, 1986. Pp.xii + 228. £7.95 (paperback); £25.00 (hardback).

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by F.R. Nicosia. London: I.B. Tauris, 1986. Pp.343. £24.50.

Old Sinister: A Memoir of Sir Arthur Richards, GCMG by Richard Peel. Privately printed, n.d. Pp. 196, £8.

Yanks Down Under 1941–45: The American Impact on Australia by E. Daniel Potts and Annette Potts. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xxiii + 455, illus. £29.50.

Anthony Eden: A Biography by David Carlton. London: Allen &; Unwin Paperbacks, 1986. Pp.528: illus. £8.95.

Anthony Eden by Robert Rhodes James. London: Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1986. Pp. xiv + 665; map and illus. £16.95.

The English‐Speaking Alliance‐ Britain, the United States, the Dominions and the Cold War 1945–1951 by Ritchie Ovendale. London: George Allen &; Unwin, 1985. Pp. 308; bibliography and index. £30.

Black Africa 1945–1980: Economic Decolonisation and Arrested Development by D.K. Fieldhouse. London: Allen &; Unwin Ltd., 1986. Pp.xix + 260. £22.50 (hardback), £9.95 (paperback).     

A British high commissioner for Canada, 1927–28

Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom: The Manyika and their Portuguese and African Neighbours, 1575–1902 by H.H.K. Bhila. Salisbury: Longman, 1982. Pp. xvi + 291, maps; £7.lb50.

Indo‐Portuguese History: Sources and Problems edited by John Correia‐Afonso. Bombay: Oxford University Press India, 1981. Pp. xii + 201; £7.lb75.

The Sack of Panama by Peter Earle. London: Jill Norman &; Hobhouse, 1981. Pp. 304, maps and illus.; £9.lb95.

Scotus Americanus: A Survey of the Sources for Links between Scotland and America in the 18th Century by William R. Brock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 293; £10.00.

The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment by P.J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. London: J.M. Dent, 1982. Pp. 314; £16.lb50.

Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue 1793–1798 by David Geggus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 492, maps; £28.lb00.

The Peopling of Newfoundland. Essays in Historical Geography edited by John J. Mannion. St John's; Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977. Pp. x + 289, maps, tables, illus.; $12.lb50.

Delhi Between Two Empires 1803–1931: Society, Government and Urban Growth by Narayani Gupta. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 260, maps, illu's.; Rs. 90.

The Other Side of the Frontier: An Interpretation of the Aboriginal Response to the Invasion and Settlement of Australia by Henry Reynolds. Townsville: James Cook University, 1981. Pp. 261; $A 7.lb50.

The Politics of Eastern Cape Separatism, 1820–1854 by Basil A. Le Cordeur. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 314, maps, illus.; NP.

Rule Britannia: The Victorian Navy; by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 246, illus.; £8.lb95.

Studies in the History of Plateau State, Nigeria edited by E. Isichei. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xvi + 288, maps and illus.; £25.lb00.

Varieties of Christian Experience in Nigeria edited by Elizabeth Isichei. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 211, map and illus.; £17.lb50.

Britain and the War for the Union, by Brian Jenkins. Montreal and London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2 vols., 1974 and 1980. Pp. 315, 470; $17.lb50 and $26.lb50.

Egypt for the Egyptians! The Socio‐political Crisis in Egypt 1878–82 by Alexander Schölch. London: Ithaca Press (for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford), 1981. Pp.xiv + 386, maps; £14.50.

Gentlemen Emigrants. From the British Public Schools to the Canadian Frontier by Patrick A. Dunae. Vancouver: Douglas &; McIntyre, 1981. Pp. 276; NP.

The Far Eastern Telegraphs. The History of Telegraphic Communications between the Far East, Europe and America before the First World War by Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981. Pp. 226, maps and illus.; NP.

Anglo‐Russian Rivalry in Central Asia: 1810–1885 by Gerald Morgan, with an epilogue by Geoffrey Wheeler. London: Frank Cass, 1981. Pp. xix + 264, maps; £15.

Imperialism. The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880–1914 by Winfried Baumgart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 239; cloth £15.lb00, paper £5.lb95.

Economic Control and Colonial Development. Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain by R.M. Kesner. Oxford: Clio Press, 1982. Pp. xvii+ 305; £23.lb25.

Julian S. Corbett, 1854–1922: Historian of British Maritime Policy from Drake to Jellicoe by Donald M. Schurman. Royal Historical Society, Studies in History Series No. 26. London: Swift Printers, 1981. Pp. x + 216; £15.lb75/$US39.lb89.

British Malaya. A Bibliographical and Biographical Compendium by Robert Heussler. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981. Pp. xvii + 193; $30.

Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth: Essays presented to Sir Edgar Williams edited by Frederick Madden and D.K. Fieldhouse. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. vii + 167, 1 plate: £11.lb95.

British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905–1939 by S.R. Ashton. London Studies on South Asia, No. 2. London: Curzon Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 231, map; £6.lb75.

The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry by Geoffrey Jones. London: Macmillan, in association with Business History Unit, University of London, 1981. Pp. xi + 264, maps, tables and figures; £20.lb00.

Mahatma Gandhi A Biography by B.R. Nanda. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 542; Rs. 80.

Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939–1945 by Roy Maclaren. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xv + 330, maps and illus.; NP.

British Army Aid Group: Hong Kong Resistance, 1942–1945 by Edwin Ride. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 347, maps and illus.; £14.lb00.

The Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy, 1938–1948 by R.D. Pearce. London: Frank Cass, 1982. Pp. 223; £15.lb00.

Domestic Roots of India's Foreign Policy 1947–1972 by A. Appadorai. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 244; Rs. 80.

New History: Studying Australia Today edited by G. Osborne and W.F. Mandle. Sydney: George Allen &; Unwin, 1982. Pp. 216.

Inventing Australia. Images and Identity 1688–1980 by Richard White. Sydney, London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. x + 205, illus; £10.lb00.

Sind Through the Centuries by Hamida Khuhro (ed.). Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 301, 23 plates; £17.lb00.     

Boserup revisited: Population and technology in tropical African agriculture, 1900–1940

The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East 1680–1880 by R. Schwab, translated by G. Patterson‐Black and V. Reinking with a Foreword by E.W. Said. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp.xxiv + 542. $22.50 paperback.

Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal by T. Raychaudhuri. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xvii + 369, £12.00.

Colonial Dutch Studies. An Interdisciplinary Approach edited by Eric Nooter and Patricia U. Bonomi. New York and London: New York University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 141. $30.00.

The Economy of Colonial America by Edwin J. Perkins. Second edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 251. $30.00 ($13.00 paper).

Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience edited by Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.viii + 298. £22.50.

The British Navy and the Use of Naval Power in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Jeremy Black and Philip Woodfine. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988. Pp.xiv + 273; maps. £27.50.

The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom by Nicholas B. Dirks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxiv + 458. £35.00.

Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire by C.A. Bayly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 230; maps, glossary and illus. £17.50.

Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798–1866 by Amalie M. Kass and Edward H. Kass. Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pp.xxx + 642; genealogy and illus. £24.50.

The Life of Charles Ledger (1818–1905): Alpacas and Quinine by Gabriele Gramiccia. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xiv + 222. £30.00.

Benevolent Neutrality: Indian Government Policy and Labour Migration to British Guiana, 1854–1884 by Basdeo Mangru. London: Hansib Publishing, 1987. Pp.267; maps and illus. £12.95.

Sir Robert Falconer: A Biography by James G. Greenlee. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp.407. £26.50; $43.00 (hardback).

Francophone Sub‐Saharan Africa, 1880–1985 by Patrick Manning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.199; maps + figures, bibliographical essay. £25.00 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Essays on African History: From the Slave Trade to Neocolonialism by Jean Suret Canale. Translated by C. Hurst. Preface by B. Davidson. Bibliography of works by Jean Suret Canale concerning Africa. London: C. Hurst and Co., 1988. Pp.232; index and bibliography. £25.00.

The Boer War and Military Reforms by Jay Stone and Erwin A. Schmidl. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. Pp.xi + 345, maps. $22.75.

Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire: A Critical Study of British Imperial Fiction by Wendy R. Katz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.ix + 171. £22.50.

The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars by F.W. Perry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.vi + 250. £27.50.

Imperial Rearguard: Wars of Empire 1919–85 by Lawrence James. London: Brasseys, 1988. Pp. + 242, maps and illus. £19.95.

Colonial Development. Die Grundlegung moderner Entwicklungspolitik durch Grossbritannien, 1919–1949 by Herward Sieberg. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner Verlag, 1985. Pp.736. DM 78.

Appeasement and Germany's Last Bid for Colonies by A.J. Crazier. London: Macmillan in association with King's College, London, 1988. Pp.x + 349, maps. £33.00.

Australians, 1938 edited by Bill Gammage and Peter Spearritt, the fourth volume of Australians: A National Library, edited by Alan D. Gilbert and K.S. Inglis. Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987. Pp.xviii + 474. £350 (the set of 11 vols.).

Australians from 1939 edited by Ann Curthoys, A.W. Martin and Tim Rowse. Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987. Pp.xvii and 474, maps, tables and illus.

The Politics of Persuasion by Desmond Dinan. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. Pp.xii + 307.

King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan by Mary C. Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.xxii + 289; maps and photographs. £25.00.

Collusion Across the Jordan by Avi Shlaim. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp.x + 676; maps. £35.00.

The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War: An Alliance Study by Jeffrey Grey. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 244; maps and illus. £29.95.

The Oxford Book of Canadian Political Anecdotes edited by Jack McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xiii + 273. £17.50.

Mastering Australian History by Ronald W. Laidlaw. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.vi + 477; illus. £5.95 (paperback).

British Review of New Zealand Studies edited by Ged Martin and Guy M. Robinson. No. I, July 1988.     

Book reviews

RODERICK STACKELBERG. Idealism Debased: From Völkisch Ideology to National Socialism. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1981. Pp. XIII, 202, 3 plates. $18 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes

JEROME CH'EN. China and the West: Society and Culture 1815–1937. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. Pp. 488. $25.90 (Can.) Reviewed by David P. Barrett

FREDERICK W. MARKS ill. Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 247. $15.00 (US). Reviewed by Raymond A. Esthus

CRAIG L. SYMONDS. Navalists and Antinavalists: The Naval Policy Debate in the United States, 1785–1827. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 252. $17.50 (US). Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart

BERNARD RANSOM, Connolly's Marxism, London: Pluto, 1980. Pp. 126. Reviewed by Desmond Bowen

THOMAS A. BAILEY and PAUL B. RYAN, Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared War. London: Collier Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 302. £7.45. Reviewed by Ronald W. Pruessen

M.A. HICKS, False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence; George, Duke of Clarence, 1449–1478. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, and Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. 270. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Tittler

MURIEL ATKIN, Russia and Iran, 1780–1828. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 216. $20 (US). Reviewed by M.E. Yapp

J.K. FEDOROWICZ. England's Baltic Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Study in Anglo-Polish Commerical Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. XIII, 334. $35 (US). Reviewed by David S. Macmillan

MICHAEL CROWDER. Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays. London: Frank Cass, 1978. Pp. 341. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

PETER GRAF KIELMANSEGG. Deutschland und der erste Weltkrieg. 2. Auflage. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1980. Pp. XI, 755. Reviewed by Henry Cord Meyer

PIOTR S. WANDYCZ. The United States and Poland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. XVI, 465. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by Stanislaw Bobr-Tylingo

FREDERICK COOPER. From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Colonial Kenya, 1890–7925. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 328. $25 (US). Reviewed by Mike Mason

DONALD E. QUELLER. Medieval Diplomacy and the Fourth Crusade. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980. Pp. 322. £22. Reviewed by Bernice M. Kacznski

CHRISTINE MOSS HELMS. The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia: Evolution of Political Identity. London: Croom Helm, &; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. 313. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Ray L. Cleveland

CHRISTOPHER H.D. HOWARD, editor. The Diary of Edward Goschen, 1900–1914. London: Royal Historical Society (Camden Fourth Series, Vol. 25), 1980. Pp. xn, 315. £10. Reviewed by Briton C. Busch     

The racial politics of criminal jurisdiction in the aftermath of the Anglo-American ‘destroyers-for-bases’ deal, 1940–50

Monopolists and Freebooters by O.H.K. Spate. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983, Pp.xxi + 426, 28 maps, 19 plates; £29.95.

John Hawkes worth: Eighteenth‐Century Man of Letters by John Lawrence Abbott. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. xvii + 241, frontispiece; £16.90.

The Papers of William Penn. Volume 1:1644–1679 edited by Mary Maples Dunn and Richard S. Dunn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp.xv + 703; $28.50.

Settlements, Trade and Politics in the 17th Century Gold Coast by Ray A. Kea. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp.475; £23.50.

White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis by David W. Galenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 291; £22.50.

Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies edited by J.E. Inikori. London: Hutchinson University Library for Africa, 1982. Pp.349, bibliography, index, maps and tables; £12.95 (cased), £5.95 (paper).

Tide of Empires: Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West. Volume II, 1654–1763 by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp.ix + 270, maps and illus.; £12.50.

A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763–1765 by John L. Bullion. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1982. Pp.xv + 317; £18.

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763–1789 by Robert Middle‐kauff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xvi + 696, maps and portraits; £15.

Liberty and Empire: British Radical Solutions to the American Problem 1774–1776 by Robert E. Toohey. London: University of Kentucky Press, 1978. Pp.xiv + 210; £12.

Evangelicals United: Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre‐Victorian Britain, 1795–1830 by Roger H. Martin. Studies in Evangelicalism, No. 4. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 230. NP.

Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies by Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 389, maps and illus.; £25.

Readings in Caribbean History and Economics: An Introduction to the Region edited by R. M. Delson. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 1981. Pp.xxi + 336; $35.

Tubbo: ‘The Great Peter's Run’ by Paul de Serville. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.256; £19.50.

The Precious Gift (Tuhfat al‐Nafis) by Raja Ali Haji Ibn Ahmad; translated and annotated by Virginia Matheson and Barbara Watson Andaya. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xix + 476, maps and illus.; £29.50.

A Collection of Treaties and Other Documents Affecting the States of Malaysia 1761–1963 edited by J. de V. Allen, A. J. Stockwell and L. R. Wright. London, Rome, New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1981.2 vols. Pp. xviii + 504, 683; $85.

Young Logan Campbell by R.C.J. Stone. Oxford University Press/Auckland University Press, 1983. Pp.287, illus.; £18.

Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada by Judith Fingard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 292, illus.; £9.25

City of Blood Revisited: A New Look at the Benin Expedition of 1897 by Robert Home. London: Rex Collings, 1982. Pp.xv + 141, maps and illus.; £8.75.

British Imperialism and African Response: The Niger Valley, 1851–1905 by A. D. Nzemeke. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1982. Pp.379, maps and tables; DM 58.

John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman by Phyllis Lewsen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp.xii + 431, maps and illus.; £31.

Black People and the South African War 1899–1902 by Peter Warwick. African Studies Series No. 40, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.256; £25.

British Economists and the Empire by John Cunningham Wood. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Pp.299; £15.95.

Social Engineering in the Philippines; The Aims, Execution and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900–1913 by Glenn Anthony May. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp.xxvii + 268, photographs; £16.95.

European Colonial Rule, 1880–1940: The Impact of the West on India, Southeast Asia, and Africa by Rudolf von Albertini with Albert Wirz; translated by John G. Williamson. Oxford: Clio Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 581, maps and tables; £27.50.

WITS. The Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Its Precursors 1896–1939 by Bruce K. Murray. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1982. Pp.xvii + 389, photographs; R 10,00.

Verwaltung in einem afrikanischen Bauernstaat: das koloniale Französisch‐Westafrika 1919–1939 by Gerd Spittler. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981. Pp.208, maps; DM38 (paper).

Peasant Movements in Colonial India: North Bihar 1917–1942 by Stephen Henningham. Australian National University Monographs on South Asia No. 9. Canberra: The Australian National University, 1982. Pp.xvi + 286; NP.

Peasant Movements in India 1920–1950 by D. N. Dhanagare. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.xiii + 254, 6 maps; £12.

Readings in the Constitutional History of India 1757–1947 edited by S. V. Desika Char. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xcii + 789; £29.

The Transfer of Power 1942–7 (Constitutional Relations Between Britain and India) edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon. Vol. XI: The Mount‐batten Viceroyalty: Announcement and Reception of the 3 June Plan; Vol. XII: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Princes, Partition and Independence. London: HMSO, 1982–3. Pp.cxxiv + 1021; cvxi + 851, maps and illus.; £70 each.

The Commonwealth Experience. Vol. I: The Durham Report to the Anglo‐Irish Treaty. Vol. II: From British to Multi‐racial Commonwealth by Nicholas Mansergh: Revised edition. London and Toronto: Macmillan and University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp.xii + 275 and 299; £35 (cased); also available in paperback.

European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Woodruff D. Smith. Chicago: Nelson‐Hall, 1982. Pp.ix + 273; $20.95 (cased), $10.95 (paper).

Prime Ministers and Diplomats: The Making of Australian Foreign Policy, 1901–1949 by P.G. Edwards. Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1983. Pp.240; $24.99.

Asia: The Winning of Independence edited by Robin Jeffrey. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp.xv + 337, maps and illus.; £15 (cased), £5.95 (paper).

Sir Charles Arden‐Clarke by David Rooney. Rex Collings, London, 1982. Pp.222, maps and photos; £12.50.

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.xxvii + 211; £16.

Britain, Europe and the World 1850–1982: Delusions of Grandeur by Bernard Porter. London: Allen and Unwin, 1983. Pp.xv + 173; £10.

Canada Since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism by Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond and John English. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 489, illus.; £12.