A Review of “Party Influence in Congress”

Dubin, Michael J. United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &; Co. Publishers, 1998. Pp. xxix, 1,005. $235.00, hardbound.

Mulder, John M., Ernest M. White and Ethel S. White. Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 488. $95.00, hardbound.

Rupp, Robert O. James A. Garfield: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. 216. $65.00, hardbound.

Ornstein, Norman]., Thomas E. Mann and Michael J. Malbin. Vital Statistics on Congress 1997-1998. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1998. Pp. 292. $50.95, hardbound; $36.95, paperback.

Barilleaux, Ryan]., ed. Presidential Frontiers: Underexplored Issues in White House Politics. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Pp. 256. $59.95, hardbound.

Campbell, Colin. The U.S. Presidency in Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. vi, 266. $18.95, paperback.

Davidson, Roger H., Susan Webb Hammond and Raymond W. Smock, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 345. $69.00, hardbound; $30.00, paperback.

Moreland, Laurence W. and Robert P. Steed, eds. The 1996 Presidential Election in the South: Southern Party Systems in the 1990s. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997. Pp. 264. $59.95, hardbound.

Weisberg, Herbert R, and Samuel C. Patterson, eds. Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 317. $64.95, hardbound; $19.95, paperback.

Benson, Michael T. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997. Pp. xii, 217. $57.95, hardbound.

Bernstein, Irving. Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 606. $39.95, hardbound.

Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 754. $35.00, hardbound.

Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: The Free Press, 1996. Pp. 230 $25.00, hardbound; $12.00, softbound.

Gambone, Michael D. Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua 1953-1961. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997. Pp. xiv, 264. $65.00, hardbound.

Hellmann, John. The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 206. $29.50, hardbound.

Hohenberg, John. Reelecting Bill Clinton: Why America Chose a "New Democrat." Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp. 300. $26.95, hardbound.

Roberts, Robert N. and Marion T. Doss, Jr. From Watergate to Whitewater: The Public Integrity War. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers 1997. Pp. vi, 232. $55.00, hardbound.     

Collected Essays

SARKESIAN, SAM C. and ROBERT E. CONNOR, JR. eds. America's Armed Forces: A Handbook of Current and Future Capabilities. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 475. $99.50 (us).

COHEN, ROBIN, ed. The Cambridge Survey of World Migration. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 570. $125.00 (us).

KUPCHAN, CHARLES A., ed. Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 224. $14.95 (us)> paper.

LONG, ROGER D., ed. The Man on the Spot: Essays on British Empire History. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. x, 246. $59.95 (us).

MANDELBAUM, MICHAEL, ed. The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan, and the United States in East Asia. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 221. $16.95 (us), paper.

MECONIS, CHARLES A. and BORIS N. MAKEEV. US-Russian Naval Co-operation. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xii, 172. $55.00 (us).

NOLAN, CATHAL J., ed. Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xvii, 235. $19.95 (us), paper.

REINHARZ, JEHUDA and ANITA SHAPIRA, eds. Essential Papers on Zionism. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 857. $25.00 (us), paper.

WEINDLTNG, PAUL, ed. International Health Organisations and Movements, 19187ndash;1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi,337. $69.95(us).     

Collected Essays

FINZSCH, NORBERT and JÜRGEN MARTSCHUKAT. Different Restorations: Reconstruction and ‘Wiederaufbau’ in Germany and the United States: 1865, 1945, and 1989. Providence, Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. ix, 422. $49.95 (us).

FRANKEL, BENJAMIN, ed. A Restless Mind: Essays in Honor of Amos Perlmutter. London: Frank Cass, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xii, 303. $45.00 (us).

GAL, ALLON, ed. Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. Pp. 444. $26.95 (us), paper.

GILBERT, MARC JASON and WILLIAM HEAD, eds. The Tet Offensive. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xiv, 286. $69.50 (us).

HUNT, MICHAEL H. and NIU JUN, eds. Chinese Communist Foreign Relations, 1920s-1960s: Personalities and Interpretive Approaches. Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1995. Pp. xvi, 194.

HUNTER, KENNETH W. and TIMOTHY C. MACK, eds. International Rights and Responsibilities for the Future. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xxiii, 207. $55.00 (us).

MACLEOD, ROY and DEEPAK KUMAR, eds. Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947. New Delhi: Sage, 1995. Pp. 348. $32.00 (us).

MCKERCHER, B. J. C. and MICHAEL A. HENNESSY, eds. The Operational Art: Developments in the Theories of War. Westport: Praeger, 1996. Pp. vi, 224. $59.95 (us).

RA'ANAN, URI and KATE MARTIN, eds. Russia: A Return to Imperialism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 216. $45.00 (us).

THOß, BRUNO and WOLFGANG SCHMIDT, eds. Vom Kalten Krieg zur deutschen Einheit: Analysen und Zeitzeugenberichte zur deutschen Militärgeschichte, 1945 bis 1995. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1995. Pp. xviii, 743. DM 78.

SHAFER, BYRON E., ed. Postwar Politics in the G-7: Orders and Eras in Comparative Perspective. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1996. Pp. ix, 326. $19.95 (us), paper.     

The Presidency and National Security: Presidential Foreign Policymaking, 1945-1999

Busby, Robert. Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair: The Politics of Presidential Recovery. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 222. $65.00, hardbound.

Garrison, Jean A. Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 192. $34.95, hardbound.

Hogan, Michael J. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. v, 525. $37.95, hardbound.

Hyland, William G. Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. Pp. i, 221. $24.95, hardbound.     

Review of Books

MICHAEL BENTLEY, ed. Companion to Historiography. London and New York: Roudedge, 1997. Pp. xvii,997. $150.00 (us). Reviewed by Simon Hornblower

JEREMY BLACK. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. 267. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John A. Agnew

GANG DENG. Chinese Maritime Activities and Socioeconomic Development, c. 2100 BC–1900AD. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 218. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas T. Allsen

RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN, ed. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 372. $49.95 (us); Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 493. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Dennis R. Papazian

ANTONIO SANTOSUOSSO. Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167 BC. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. x, 277. $22.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Hodgkinson

THOMAS T. ALLSEN. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 137. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Ruth I. Meserve

HUGH KENNEDY. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xvi, 342. £15.99. Reviewed by Maya Shatzmiller

MICHAEL COSTEN. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. New York; St Martin's Press. Pp. x, 229. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by James A. Brundage

JAMES L. GILLESPIE, ed. The Age of Richard II. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 256. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Tuck

S. A. M. ADSHEAD. Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800: The Rise of Consumerism. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Craig Cluna

J. J. CLARKE. Oriental Enlightenment: The Encounter between Asian and Western Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 273. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Tsin

P. E. H. HAIR. Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450–1700. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xx, 324. $94.95 (us). Reviewed byNorman R. Bennett

GODFREY GOODWIN. The Janissaries. London: Saqi Books, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 288. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan

JOHN M. HEADLEY. Church, Empire, and World: The Quest for Universal Order, 1520–1640. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. x, 322. $89.98 (us); JOHN M. HEADLEY. Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 399. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by William Mccuaig

DAVID MCDOWALL. A Modern History of the Kurds. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xii, 480. $17.95 (us) paper. Reviewed by Kemal H. Karpat

GLYNDWR WILLIAMS. The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570– 1750. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 300. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell

RONALD G. ASCH. The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618–48. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Heinz Duchhardt

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON. If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630–1730. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 273. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy

GRETE KLINGENSTEIN and FRANZ A. J. SZABO, eds. Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711–1704: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung. Graz: Andreas Schnider Verlagsatelier, 1996. Pp. iv, 499. $46.00 (us). Reviewed by P. G. M. Dickson

THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN. Aryans And British India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 260. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Eugene F. Irschick

MATTHEW H. EDNEY. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 458. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers

ORVILLE T. MURPHY. The Diplomatic Retreat of France and Public Opinion on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1783–1789. Washington: Cadiolic University of America Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 193. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Marsha Frey

J. E. COOKSON. The British Armed Nation, 1793–1815. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vi, 286. $121.50 (CDN). Reviewed by H. T. Dickinson

ANTHONY S. BENNELL. The Making of Arthur Wellesley. London: Sangam Books, 1997. Pp. viii, 235. £17.95. Reviewed by Enid M. Fuhr

DAVID CURTIS SKAGGS and GERARD T. ALTOFF. A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812–1813. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 244. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by E. Jane Errington

ZEYNEP ÇELIK. Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 236. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by John Ruedy

PETER YOUNG and PETER JESSER. The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 391. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor

JOST DÜLFFER, MARTIN KRÖGER, and ROLF-HARALD WIPPICH. Vermiedene Kriege. Deeskalation von Konflikten der Großmächte zwischen Krimkrieg uni Erstem Weltkrieg, 1856–1914. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. Pp. vi, 716. DM 98, paper. Reviewed by Ivo N. Lambi

PAUL A. C. KOISTINEN. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xiii, 391. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Robert D. Cuff

THOMAS FISCHER. Die verlorenen Dekaden: ←Entwicklung nach außen→ und ausländische Geschäfte in Kolumbien, 1870–1914. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 472. $76.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by JÜRgen Buchenau

FREDERICK F. ANSCOMBE. The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 270. $17.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Caesar E. Farah

LEILA J. RUPP. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 325. $19.95 (us)> paper. Reviewed by Harriet Hyman Alonso

IAN ROBERT DOWBIGGIN. Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 245. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Angus Mclaren

MYUNG-KEUN CHOI. Changes in Korean Society between 1884–1910 as a Result of the Introduction of Christianity. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xx, 321. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by James H. Grayson

ALEX MCKAY. Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre, 1904–1947. Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 293. £65.00. Reviewed by Ian Copland

WILLIAM N. TILCHIN. Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 302. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Collin

SAMUEL HYNES. The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York and London: Allen Lane and Penguin, 1997. Pp. xvi, 318. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Jacek Wi?niewski

STEPHEN GARTON. The Cost of War: Australians Return. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 298. $53.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Christina Twomey

WILLIAM ALLISON. American Diplomats in Russia: Case Studies in Orphan Diplomacy, 1916–1919. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 190. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Betty M. Unterberger

T. HUNT TOOLEY. National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918–1922. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 320. $56.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Krüger

DAVID CHUTER. Humanity's Soldier: France and International Security, 1919– 2001. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1996. Pp. xi, 356. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite

G. F. KRIVOSHEEV, ed. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century, trans. Christine Barnard. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1997. Pp. xiv, 290. £21.95. Reviewed by Steven Rosefielde

RAYMOND PEARSON. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 194. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Graeme Gill

WARREN F. KUEHL and LYNNE K. DUNN. Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Mations, 1920–1939. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 306. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by George Egerton

ALEKSANDR M. NEKRICH. Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations, 1922–1941, ed. and trans. Gregory L. Freeze. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 308. $35.00 (us); DIANE P. KOENKER and RONALD D. BACHMAN, eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997. Pp. xxv, 808. $59.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Haslam

D. A. Low. Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Ambiguity, 1929– 1942. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 358. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh

CHARLES REARICK. The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 321. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Judith Devlin

DEREK H. ALDCROFT. Studies in the Interwar European Economy. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. ix, 229. $72.95 (us). Reviewed by Sidney Pollard

PATRICIA CLAVIN. The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France, and the United States, 1931–36. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. x, 279. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré

BENJAMIN WELLES. Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 437. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Warren F. Kimball

TOM BUCHANAN. Britain and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 241. $64.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Richards

DENNIS J. DUNN. Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. xii, 349. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by David Mayers

BARBARA REARDEN FARNHAM. Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 313. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Randall Schweller

DAVID DAY, ed. Brave New World: Dr H. V. Evatt and Australian Foreign Policy, 1941–1949. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1996; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. x, 182. $22.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Roger Dingman

HORSTJ. P. BERGMEIER and RAINER E. LOTZ. Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 368. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Edwin Herzstein

CHARLES L. ROBERTSON. International Politics since World War II: A Short History. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xiv, 383. $62.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Keith L. Nelson

YEZID SAYIGH and Avi SHLAIM, eds. The Cold War and the Middle East. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 303. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry

PETER LOWE. Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China, and Korea, 1948–1953. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 288. £45.00. Reviewed by Roger Buckley

NEIL CAPLAN. Futile Diplomacy: Volume III: The United Nations, the Great Powers, and Middle East Peacemaking, 1948–1954. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxvi, 390. $59.50 (us); Volume IV: Operation Alpha and the Failure of Anglo-American Coercive Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1954–1956. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxi,414. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benny Morris

ONN WINCKLER. Population Growth and Migration in Jordan, 1950–1994. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 138. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by Allan Findlay

MICHAEL D. GAMBONE. Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953–1961. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiv, 247. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard H. Immerman

N. PIERS LUDLOW. Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 282. $64.95 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell

KENDRICK OLIVER. Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961–63. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 252. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Jeffrey W. Knopf

TIMOTHY P. MAGA. Hands across the Sea? US-Japan Relations, 1961–1981. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 183. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart

HOUMAN A. SADRI. Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and Iran. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xv, 147. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Odd Arne Westad

DUNCAN L. CLARKE, DANIEL B. O'CONNOR, and JASON D. ELLIS. Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and US Foreign Policy. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xiv, 211. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ted Galen Carpenter

CHARLES S. MAIER. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 440. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Geoff Eley

FERGUS CARR, ed. Europe: The Cold Divide. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard Falk

KARL VON VORYS. American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. viii, 379. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley

ALAN COLLINS. The Security Dilemma and the End of the Cold War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 243. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by William C. Wohlforth

MICHAEL LIBAL. Limits of Persuasion: Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1991– 1992. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xi, 206. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Hanns W. Maull

JOHN W. GARVER. Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization. Seatde: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 193. $18.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Peter Van Ness

ROBERT JERVIS. System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 309. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Harlan Wilson

MICHAEL W. DOYLE. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism. New York: W. W. Norton &; Company, 1997. Pp. 557. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson     

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

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

Review Article: Westward the Course of Empire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review Article: Nordic Exceptions in War and Cold War

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

Review Article: The Air Force Brats' View of History: Recent Writing and the Royal Air Force, 1918–1960

JAMES S. CORUM. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. ix, 378. $39.95 (US);

CHRISTINA J. M. GOULTER. A Forgotten Offensive: Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1941–1945. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xxii, 366. $47.50 (US);

SEBASTIAN RITCHIE. Industry and Air Power: The Expansion of British Military Aircraft Production, 1935–1941. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 304. $49.50 (US), cloth; $22.50 (US), paper;

S. J. BALL. The Bomber in British Strategy: Doctrine, Strategy, and Britain's World Role, 1945–1960. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. x, 246. $59.95 (US);

SCOT ROBERTSON. The Development of RAF Strategic Bombing Doctrine, 1919–1939. Westport: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xxix, 187. $55.00 (US);

JOHN GOOCH, ed. Airpower: Theory and Practice. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 276. $37.00 (US);

MARK K. WELLS. Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xiv, 240. $40.00 (US);

ARTHUR T. HARRIS. Despatch on War Operations: 23rd February, 1942 to 8th May, 1945, introd. Sebastian Cox. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. liv, 211. $45.00 (US).     

War and Foreign Affairs in China

EDWARD L. DREYER. China at War, 1901–1949. London and New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. x, 422. $114.95 (CDN);

ARTHUR WALDRON. From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924–1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 366. $39.95 (us);

MICHAEL H. HUNT. The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 343. $34.50 (us);

XIAOYUAN LIU. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 343. $59.95 (us).     

The Struggle for Mastery in Cilicia: Turkey,France, and the Ankara Agreement of 1921

Micahel Williams. Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 689. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul W. Hirt

Richard P. Hallion. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 531. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Robin Higham

A. B. Bosworth. The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Successors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 307. $127.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Waldemar Heckel

Frances Wood. The Silk Road: Two Thousand Tears in the Heart of Asia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. 270. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by Albert E. Dien

Lisa M. Bitel. Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 326. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by John J. Contreni

Victor Lieberman. Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830: I: Integration on the Mainland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 484. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nicholas Tabling

Alan Knight. Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 254. $60.00 (US); Alan Knight. Mexico: The Colonial Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 353. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Eric van Young

Debra Higgs Strickland. Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 336. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by David Williams

Perez Zagorin. HOW the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 371. $29.95 (US) Reviewed by John Christian Laursen

Amnon Linder. Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003. Pp. xx, 423. €90.00. Reviewed by Christoph T. Maier

Brenda Bolton and Anne J. Duggan, eds. Adrian IV The English Pope (1154–1159): Studies and Texts. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xv, 343. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by James M. Powell

Róbert Simon. Ibn Khaldün: History as Science and the Patrimonial Empire, trans. Klára Pogátsa. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2002; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. 217. $57.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Brett

John F. Richards. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 682. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Williams

Jos Gommans. Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire, 1500–1700. London and New York: Roudedge, 2002. Pp. xv, 268. $27.95 (US); paper. Reviewed by Stephen F. Dale

David A. Lupher. Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 440. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein

Matthew Restall. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xix, 218. $48.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ida Altman

Horst Pietschmann, ed. Atlantic History: History of the Atlantic System, 1580–1830. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck is Ruprecht, 2002. Pp. 556. €86.00. Reviewed by Ian K. Steele

H. V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby, eds. The Worlds of the East India Company. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 246. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Jon E. Wilson

David Ormrod. The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 400. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by H. T. Dickinson

David S. Landes. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 576. $27.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Rick Szostak

Patrice Higonnet. Paris: Capital of the World, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 493. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid

Michael Rowe, ed. Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c.1800–1815. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 254. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip G. Dwyer

Purnima Bose. Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 278. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Thomas R. Metcalf

Dierk Walter. Preufiische Heeresreformen, 1807–1870: Militärische Innovation und der Mythos der ‘Roonschen Reform’. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 654. €88.00. Reviewed by Gunther E. Rothenberg

Brian E. Vick. Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 283. $49.96 (US). Reviewed by Helmut Walser Smith

James A. Jones. Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, 1881–1963. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 154. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Klein

Irmin Schneider. Die deutsche Ruplandpolitik, 1890–1900. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 344. €38.00, paper. Reviewed by David Wetzel

S. C. M. Paine. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 412. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by David Curtis Wright

Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundungh, and Mary-Lynn Suttie, eds. Writing a Wider War: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in the South African War, 1899–1902. Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2002. Pp. xix, 345. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Martin Legassick

Robert B. Bruce. A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Pp. xx, 380. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Mitchell Yockelson

Eric Lohr. Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 237. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Norman E. Saul

Tammy M. Proctor. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 204. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan

Alfred W. Crosby. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918,2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 337. $60.00 (US), cloth; $22.00 (US), paper; Howard Phillips and David Killingray, eds. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19: New Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxi, 357. $100.00 (US). Reviewed by Linda Bryder

Kais M. Firro. Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State under the Mandate. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003; dist. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 274. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by James A. Reilly

Kathleen Hayes, ed. and trans. The Journalism of Milena Jesenska: A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003. Pp. vi, 323. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Igor Lukes

Silvio Pons. Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936–1941. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xvi, 240. $62.50 (US); Steven Merritt Miner. Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xix, 407. $90.75 (CDN). Reviewed by Gabriel Gorodetsky

Francine McKenzie. Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1930–1948: The Politics of Preference. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xii, 351. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk

Eunan O'Halpin, ed. Mis and Ireland, 1939–1945: The Official History. Dublin and Pordand: Irish Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 130. $26.50 (US), paper; Mark M. Hull. Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Ireland, 1939–1945. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 383. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by WILLIAM Sheridan Allen

Kathleen E. R. Smith. God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Pp. xiii, 274. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Jeffries

Nick Smart. British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 267. $67.95 (US) Reviewed by David Dutton

W. A. B. Douglas, Roger Sarty, Michael Whitby, with Robert H. Caldwell, William Johnston, and William G. P. Rawling. No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939–1943: II: Parti. St Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 2002. Pp. xix, 664. $60.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Geoffrey Till

Omer Bartov. Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 248. $18.95 (US)> paper; Fritz Kieffer. Judenverfolgung in Deutschland - eine innere Angelegenheit? Internationale Reaktionen aufdie Fluchtlingsproblematik, 1933–1939. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 520. €100.00. Reviewed by Robert Edwin Herzstein

Petra Goedde. GIS and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945–1949. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 280. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Borstelmann

David M. Glantz. The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: ‘August Storm’. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xxviii, 451. $59.50 (US); David M. Glantz. Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945: ‘August Storm’. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvi, 368. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Dale R. Herspring

Steven E. Phillips. Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945–1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 256. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Ralph N. Clough

Independent Commission Of Experts Switzerland - Second World War. Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World War: Final Report. Zurich: Pendo, 2002. Pp. 597. €29.90. Reviewed by Jean-Christian Lambelet

D. Clayton Brown. Globalization and America since 1945. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. xxi, 166. $19.95 (US) paper; Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler. Globalization and the American Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 343. $65.00 (US); $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen

William Johnston. A War of Patrols: Canadian Army Operations in Korea. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 426. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Jeffrey Grey

Peter Busch. All the Way with JFK?: Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 240. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Andrew Preston

Thomas Alan Schwartz. Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 339. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by George C. Herring

Peter S. Li. Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 228. $29.95 (CDN) paper. Reviewed by Patricia E. Roy

Heidrun Friese, ed. Identities: Time, Difference, and Boundaries. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. xiv, 273. $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by John R. Gillis

Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcel van Der Linden, eds. Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History. New York: Berghahn, 2002. Pp. vi, 250. $69.95 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Neville Kirk

Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 379. $25.95 (US). Reviewed by Barry Eichengreen

Vesna Danilovic. When the Stakes are High: Deterrence and Conflict among Major Powers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 294. $52.50 (US). Reviewed by Randall L. Schweller

Gammer, Moshe, ed., with Joseph Kostiner and Moshe Shemesh. Political Thought and Political History: Studies in Memory ofElie Kedourie. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. x, 186. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Raphael Israeli     

Congressional Candidate Emergence

Biographical Directory of the American Congress. Washington, DC: CQ Staff Directories, 1997. Pp. xii, 2,108. $295, hardbound.

Metz, Allan, ed. National Service and AmeriCorps: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 269. $69.50, hardbound.

Sharp, Michael, ed. Directory of Congressional Voting Scores and Interest Croups Ratings, 2nd ed., 1996. Washington, DC: CO Press. 2-volume set, 1,542 pages. $269, hardbound.

Dodd, Lawrence C, and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. Congress Reconsidered, 6th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 450. $32.95, softbound.

Foley, Michael, and John E. Owens. Congress and the Presidency: Institutional Politics in a Separated System. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 432. $74.95, hardbound; $29.95 softbound.

Reischauer, Robert D., ed. Setting National Priorities: Budget Choices for the Next Century. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997. Pp. xiii, 316. $42.95, hardbound; $14.95, softbound.

Sundquist, James L. Back to Gridlock? Governance in the Clinton Years. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp. x, 115. $9.95, softbound.

Kettl, Donald. R, Patricia W. Ingraham, Ronald P. Sanders, and Constance Homer. Civil Service Reform: Building a Government that Works. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997. Pp. ix, 110. $12.95, softbound.

Laham, Nicholas. A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xiv, 251. $59.95, hardbound.

Nelson, Albert J. Democrats Under Siege in the Sunbelt Megastates: California, Florida, and Texas. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Pp. xii, 120. $49.95, hardbound.

Rising, George. Clean for Gene: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xv, 156. $55.00, hardbound.

Rozell, Mark J. The Press and the Bush Presidency. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Pp. viii, 189. $55.00, hardbound.     

Review Article: Hirohito and His Army

STEPHEN S. LARGE. Emperor Hirohito and Shāwa Japan: A Political Biography. London and New York: Roudedge, 1997. Pp. xii, 249. $18.95 (US); paper; PETER WETZLER. Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 294. $38.00 (US); EDWARD J. DREA. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 299. $45.00 (US); ROBERT B. EDGERTON. Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 384. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart     

Review Article: ‘Managing’ Women in War and Peace

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

Collected Essay

POKU, NANA and DAVID T. GRAHAM, eds. Redefining Security: Population Movements and National Security. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xv, 245. $59.95 (US).

DICK, TREVOR J. O., ed. Business Cycles since 1820: New International Perspectives from Historical Evidence. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. xiv, 294. $95.00 (US).

FRANCE, JOHN and WILLIAM G. ZAJAC, eds. The Crusades and Their Sources: Essays Presented to Bernard Hamilton. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xix, 297. $76.95 (US).

WHITE, MARK J., ed. Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 291. $50.00 (US).

BOLARIA, B. SINGH and ROSEMARY VON ELLING BOLARIA, eds. International Labour Migrations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vi, 209. $34.50 (CDN).

ROHRLICH, RUBY, ed. Resisting the Holocaust. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1998. Pp. 246. $19.50 (US), paper.

EVANS, TONY, ed. Human Rights Fifty Years On: A Reappraisal. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. x, 237. $69.95 (US).

CLYMER, KENTON J., ed. The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature, and Music. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1998. Pp. x, 195. $15.00 (US), paper.

GLASSNER, MARTIN IRA, ed. The United Nations at Work. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xx, 351. $69.50 (US).

BARTLETT, ROGER and KAREN SCHÖNWÄLDER, eds. The German Lands and Eastern Europe: Essays on the History of Their Social, Cultural, and Political Relations. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 288. $69.95 (US).

REES, TIM and ANDREW THORPE, eds. International Communism and the Communist International, 1919–43. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. x, 323. $79.95 (US), paper.

HUDSON, MICHAEL, C. ed. Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 341. $20.00 (US), paper.

HARRIS, ERROL E. and JAMES A. YUNKER, eds. Toward Genuine Global Governance: Critical Reactions to ‘Our Global Neighbourhood’. Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. x, 211. $59.95 (US).

COATSWORTH, JOHN H. and ALAN M. TAYLOR, eds. Latin America and the World Economy since 1800. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 484. $24.95 (US), paper.

GINAT, JOSEPH and ONN WINCKLER, eds. The Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli Triangle: Smoothing the Path to Peace. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 220. $54.95 (US).

BOMMES, MICHAEL and JOST HALFMANN, eds. Migration in nationalen Wohlfahrtsstaaten: Theoretische und vergleichende Untersuchungen. Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, 1998. Pp. 309. DM 48.00.

BRINKLEY, DOUGLAS and RICHARD T. GRIFFITHS, eds. John F. Kennedy and Europe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 349. $60.00 (US).

SPIERS, EDWARD M., ed. Sudan: The Reconquest Reappraised. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 269. $49.50 (US).

SCHNAUBELT, JOSEPH C. OSA and FREDERICK VAN FLETEREN, eds. Columbus and the New World. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. x, 207. $42.95 (US).

BÉLY, LUCIEN and ISABELLE RICHEFORT, eds. L'Invention de la Diplomatie: Moyen Age - Temps Modernes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. Pp. 376. No Price Available.     

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.     

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     

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     

Review Article: Cold War or Cold Peace

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

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

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