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).     

Gender,Generation, and Race in American Shipyards in the Second World War

Stephen Peter Rosen. War and Human Nature. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 3005. Pp. 211. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Lynn

Marshall Sahlins. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 334. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by K. R. Howe

Joachim Latacz. Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery, trans. Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp.xvii, 342. $96.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Anthony Snodgrass

Angelos Chaniotis. War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History.Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 308. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein

S. A. M. Adshead. Tang China: The Rise of the East in World History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xvii, 233. $24.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Richard von Glahn

Nancy Bisaha.Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. 309. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Jerry Brotton

Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. vi, 346. $55.00 (US); Londa Schiebinger. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 306. $39–95 (US). Reviewed by John Gascoigne

Paul Douglas Lockhart. Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559–1596. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. xxii, 350. €99.00. Reviewed by Robert I. Frost

Ulinka Rublack. Reformation Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 208. $2.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by R. Po-Chia Hsia

Daniel V. Botsman. Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 319. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by F. G. Notehelfer

Matthew Glozier. Marshal Schomberg, 1615–1690: “The Ablest Soldier of His Age”. International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 250. $35.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Parrott

Carla Gardina Pestana. The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 342. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Luca Codignola

Peter C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 725. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by John W. Dardess

Kathleen Wilson, ed. A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 385. $34-99 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark

Liam C. Kelley. Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship. Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Nola Cooke

Andrew Porter.Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. viii, 373- $29–95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Terence Ranger

P. J. MARSHALL. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, c.1750–1783. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 398. $90.00 (CDN); Steven Sarson.British America, 1500–1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005; dist. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xix, 332. $45.50 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Trevor Burnard

C. A. Bayly.The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 540. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Pomeranz

Robert Galois, ed. A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786–89. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 441. $95.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ken S. Coates

Bernard Porter.The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 475. $71.50 (CDN). Reviewed by H. V. Bowen

Stuart Semmel.Napoleon and the British. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 354. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Neville Thompson

Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. The Global History Reader. London and New York: Roudedge, 2005. Pp. x, 302. $17.99 (US) paper; Geoffrey Jones. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 340. $195.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes

Zachary Lockman. Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 308. $30–95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Jankowski

Gerard Moran. Sending out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 252. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Tyler Anbinder

Erik Gilbert.Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 176. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Laura Fair

Michael R. Auslin. Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart

Frank J. Merli. The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War, ed. David M. Fahey. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 223. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid

Robert T. Foley. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 301. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig

Roger Owen. Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 436. $75.00 (CDN), cloth; $45.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Saul Kelly

Theodore Huters. Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 370. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward Rhoads

Stephen G. Craft. V. K. Wellington Koo and the Emergence of Modern China. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xii, 330. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephen R. Mackinnon

Noenoe K. Silva. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 3004. Pp. x, 260. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William E. H. Tagupa

Anne Perez Hattori. Colonial Dis-ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 239. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger Dingman

Patricia E. Roy. The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man'lar;85.00 (CDN), cloth; $29.95 (CDNK paper. Reviewed by Hilary K. Blair

Maureen Healy. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 333. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by C. M. Peniston-Bird

Mona L. Siegel. The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 317. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. Young

Thomas Boghardt. Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xiv, 224. $69.95 (US)- Reviewed by David Stevenson

Ben Shepherd. War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 300. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Mark von Hagen

Yasir Suleiman. A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 270. $70.00 (US), cloth; $27.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Seth Jacobs. America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and US Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 381. $22.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Andrew Preston

Wilson P. Dizard, Jr. Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the US Information Agency. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2004. Pp. xv, 255. $49–95 (US). Reviewed by Scott Lucas

Gunnar Skogmar. The United States and the Nuclear Dimension of European Integration. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xi, 331. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Mervyn O'Driscoll

Philippe Roger. The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism, trans. Sharon Bowman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 518. $.35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald Reid

Christopher Endy. Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xii, 286. $32.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Frank Costigliola

David Easter. Britain and the Confrontation with Indonesia, 1960–1966. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004. Pp. ix, 257. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Howard Dick

Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow, eds. Ending the Cold War: Interpretations, Causation, and the Study of International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. viii, 248. $24.95 (US)? paper. Reviewed by William D.Jackson

James Barber. Mandela's World: The International Dimension of South Africa's Political Revolution, 1990–99. Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. ix, 214. $24.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Jeremy Seekings

Anthony James Joes. Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. 351. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett

Anne-Marie Slaughter. New World Order. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 341. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Tim Dunne

Ian Clark. Legitimacy in International Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 278. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian Hurd

Frederick Cooper. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 327. $19.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Dane Kennedy

Jack Goody. Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate. Cambridge and Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Polity Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 200. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Thomas D. Hall

David L. Rousseau. Democracy and War: Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 384. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Miriam Fendius Elman

Michael Mann. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 580. $24.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Milton J. Esman     

Review Article: Europe Yesterday and Tomorrow

GEIR LUNDESTAD. ‘Empire’ by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 200. $108.00 (CDN); GEIR LUNDESTAD, ed. No End to Alliance: The United States and Western Europe: Past, Present, and Future. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 268. $69.95 (US); PETER J. KATZENSTEIN, ed. Tamed Power: Germany in Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 314. $19.95 (US), paper; PETER J. KATZENSTEIN, ed. Mitteleuropa: Between Europe and Germany. New York: Berghahn, 1997. Pp. ix, 292. $49.95 (US); JOHN ZYSMAN and ANDREW SCHWARTZ, eds. Enlarging Europe: The Industrial Foundations of a New Political Reality. Berkeley: University of California, 1998. Pp. xi, 448. $29.50 (US). Reviewed by John Gillingham     

Review Article: British Foreign Policy from Salisbury to Blair

JOHN W. YOUNG. Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 250. $19.95 (us), paper; DOUGLAS NEWTON. British Policy and the Weimar Republic, 1918–1919. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 481. $135.00 (CDN); RICHARD S. GRAYSON. Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe; British Foreign Policy, 1924–29. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 318. $49.50 (us); DAVID DUTTON. Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 576. $40.50 (CDN), paper; PETER JONES. America and the British Labour Party: The ‘Special Relationship’at Work. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. 252. $59.50 (us).     

Reviews of Books

CLARK G. REYNOLDS. Navies in History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 267. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. Maiolo

PETER WHITFIELD. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. viii, 200. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Glyndwr William

A. J. COATES. The Ethics of War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. 314. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Noam J. Zohar

JEREMY BLACK. Why Wars Happen. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 271. $30.00 (US); JEREMY BLACK. War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450–2000. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. 334. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Roger Beaumont

ROBERT E. A. PALMER. Rome and Carthage at Peace. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 152. DM 68. Reviewed by Hans-Friedrich Mueller

ROGER COLLINS. Charlemagne. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 234. $55.00 (CDN), cloth; $19.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by John J. Contreni

JEAN FAVIER. Gold and Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages, trans. Caroline Higgitt. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1998. Pp. 390. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by John H. Munro

JOHANNA MARIA VAN WINTER, compiler. Sources Concerning the Hospitallers of St John in the Netherlands, 14th–18th Centuries. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998. Pp. viii, 821. NLG 450. Reviewed by David F. Allen

DENIS TWITCHETT and FREDERICK W. MOTE, eds. The Cambridge History of China: VIII: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 2. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 1203. $130.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard von Glahn

RICHARD W. UNGER. Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400–1800. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xii, 316. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy J. Runyan

OM PRAKASH. The New Cambridge History of India: II.5: European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii,377. $54.95(US). Reviewed by Blair B. Kling

M. W. DALY, ed. The Cambridge History of Egypt: II: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 463. $100.00 (US). Reviewed by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot

JAROSLAW PELENSKI. The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus'. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1998; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xxiii, 325. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Bushkovitch

NICHOLAS CANNY, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 533. $59.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Simon Adams

PHILIP LAWSON. A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660–1800. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate. Pp. xiv, 298. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan

HARRY LIEBERSOHN. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 179. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Ian K. Steele

SYLVIANE A. DIOUF. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 254. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul E. Lovejoy

DESMOND GREGORY. No Ordinary General: Lt General Sir Henry Bunbury (1778–1860): The Best Soldier Historian. Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. Pp. 144. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Neville Thompson

JOHN GASCOIGNE. Science in the Service of the Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 247. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Larry Stewart

PAUL WEBER. On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg, 1796–1803. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 205. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Daire Keogh

JAC WELLER. On Wellington: The Duke and His Art of War, ed. Andrew Uffindell. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 191. £19.99. Reviewed by Brian M. de Toy

LAWRENCE S. KAPLAN. Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Pp. xvii, 198. $50.00 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US)) paper. Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart

I. C. CAMPBELL. ‘Gone Native’ in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 167. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by David A. Chappell

NICHOLAS TARLING. Nations and States in Southeast Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 136. $59.95 (US), cloth; $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by A.J. Stockwell

JAMES CABLE. The Political Influence of Naval Force in History. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 213. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by George W. Baer

NELIDA FUCCARO. The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 230. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Olson

MARTIN A. KLEIN. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 354. $54.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by William B. Cohen

JAIME E. RODRÍGUEZ O. The Independence of Spanish America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 274. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna

CARL BENN. The Iroquois in the War of 1812. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 272. $21.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by K. David Milobar

PHILIP D. CURTIN. Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 256. $64.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Daniel R. Headrick

TIMOTHY E. ANNA. Forging Mexico, 1821–1835. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 330. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Claudia Agostoni

GERALD STUDDERT-KENNEDY. Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1998. Pp. 273. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by Penelope Carson

JANE SAMSON. Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 240. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Hugh Laracy

J. Y. WONG. Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxx, 542. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by D. W. Clayton

ELLIOTT WEST. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 422. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Francis Paul Prucha

JACK L. HAMMERSMITH. Spoilsmen in a ‘Flowery Fairyland’: The Development of the US Legation in Japan, 1859–1906. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 368. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Antony Best

PETER STANLEY. White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 314. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan

JOHN C. G. RÖHL. Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888, trans. Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxv, 979. $74.95 (US). Reviewed by Lamar Cecil

DAVID MAYERS. Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861–1991. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 184. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Eileen P. Scully

SAMUEL L. BAILY. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 308. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Donald S. Castro

HIROAKI KUROMIYA. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 357. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by David Saunders

ANDREW LAMBERT. The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy, and the Historical Profession. London: Chatham Publishing, 1998. Pp. 256. £30.00. Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton

H. RAHMAN. The Making of the Gulf War: Origins of Kuwait's Long-Standing Territorial Dispute with Iraq. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 378. £35.00. Reviewed by Peter Sluglett

ROY MACLAREN, ed. African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887–1892. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. vi, 423. $49.95 (CDN); PETER HARRINGTON and FREDERIC A. SHARF, eds. Omdurman 1898: The Eye-Witnesses Speak: The British Conquest of the Sudan as Described by Participants in Letters, Diaries, Photos, and Drawings. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1998. Pp. 236. £20.00. Reviewed by Philip Stigger

MATTHEW S. SELIGMANN. Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893–99: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 200. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Kubicek

SALWA ALGHANIM. The Reign of Mubarak al-Sabah: Shaikh of Kuwait, 1896–1915. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 242. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by Frederick F. Anscombe

RISTO MARJOMAA. War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897–1903. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998. Pp. 305. FIM 140; $28.00 (US). Reviewed by A. S. Kanya-Forstner

LOUIS A. PÉREZ, JR. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 171. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Healy

MARK MAZOWER. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 495. £20.00. Reviewed by William R. Keylor

GUIDO MÜLLER, ed. Deutschland und der Westen: Internationale Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert: Festschrift fiir Klaus Schwabe zum 65. Geburtstag. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 381. DM 138, paper. Reviewed by Rennie W. Brantz

NIALL FERGUSON. The Pity of War. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xliii, 563. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen

JAY WINTER and EMMANUEL SIVAN, eds. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. vii,260. $59.95 (US) Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth

GEORGE H. CASSAR. The Forgotten Front: The British Campaign in Italy, 1917–1918. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 269. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by William Philpott

DAVID DUTTON. The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the Balkans in the First World War. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. 248. $59.50 (US). Reviewed by David Stevenson

PAUL W. DOERR. British Foreign Policy, 1919–1939: ‘Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xi, 291. $28.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Fred Stambrook

KURKPATRICK DORSEY. The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: US-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 311. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Philip V. Scarpino

JACOB METZER. The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 275. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Martin Bunton

SASSON SOFER. Zionism and the Foundations of Israeli Diplomacy, trans. Dorodiea Shefet-Vanson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 449. $64.95 (US); BEN HALPERN and JEHUDA REINHARZ. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 293. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Donna Robinson Divine

SHERI BERMAN. The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 308. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by William Lee Blackwood

ERIC PAUL ROORDA. The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 337. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Irwin F. Gellman

M. E. YAPP, ed. Politics and Diplomacy in Egypt: The Diaries of Sir Miles Lampson, 1935–1937. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 1044. $332.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert L. Tignor

JOHN HERMAN. The Paris Embassy of Sir Eric Phipps: Anglo-French Relations and the Foreign Office, 1937–1939. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 276. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith Neilson

JAMES K. HOPKINS. Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 474. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Willard C. Frank, Jr.

SUSAN A. BREWER. To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 269. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by John Ramsden

JÜRGEN ROHWER. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two: German, Italian, and Japanese Submarine Successes, 1939–1945. London: Greenhill Books, 1999. Pp. xvi, 366. £30.00. Reviewed by Michael L. Hadley

RICHARD OVERY. Russia's War. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 394. £20.00 Reviewed by Evan Mawdsley

DONALD H. AVERY. The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology during the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 406. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Reg Whitaker

RANDALL L. SCHWELLER. Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 267. $21.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen A. Schuker

OOI KEAT GIN. Rising Sun over Borneo: The Japanese Occupation of Sarawak, 1941–1945. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 158. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling

LARRY I. BLAND, ed. George C. Marshall's Mediation Mission to China, December 1945–January 1947. Lexington: George C. Marshall Foundation, 1998. Pp. xx, 661. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by David L. Wilson

MICHAEL J. HOGAN. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 525. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Matthew Jones

ROGER S. WHITCOMB. The Cold War in Retrospect: The Formative Years. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xiii, 260. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by David S. Foglesong

EDELGARD MAHANT and GRAEME S. MOUNT. Invisible and Inaudible in Washington: American Policies toward Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 252. $75.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gordon T. Stewart

GARY B. OSTROWER. The United Nations and the United States. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. Pp. xvi, 317. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Stanley Michalak

LARS BLINKENBERG. India-Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts: I: The Historical Part. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 337, paper; LARS BLINKENBERG. India-Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts: II: An Analysis of Some Structural Factors. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 433. $61.50 (US, for both), paper. Reviewed by Hasan-Askari Rizvi

MARY ANN HEISS. Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950–1954. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 328. $19.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Helmut Mejcher

ANDREW MORAVCSIK. The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Idiaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 514. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Pierre-Henri Laurent

YOSEF GOVRIN. Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1953–1967: From Confrontation to Disruption. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xxxvi, 347. $59.50 (US), cloth; $27.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry

JEFFREY PICKERING. Britain's Withdrawal from East of Suez: The Politics of Retrenchment. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 231. $65.00 (US); MICHAEL J. COHEN and MARTIN KOLINSKY, eds. Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943–55. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xv, 255. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by Tore Tingvold Petersen

DAVID R. MORRISON. Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 602. $65.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Kim Richard Nossal

FRITZ FISCHER. Making Them, Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 237. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

ROLAND DANNREUTHER. The Soviet Union and the PLO. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 222. $59.95 (US); FRED WEHLING. Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967–1973. New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. 225. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Fred Halliday

ELINOR C. SLOAN. Bosnia and the New Collective Security. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xii, 128. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Donald M. Snow

STEVE TSANG. Hong Kong: Appointment with China. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 274. $17.95 (US), paper; JOHN FLOWERDEW. The Final Years of British Hong Kong: The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 258. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Scott

STEPHEN HOPGOOD. American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 262. $94.50 (CDN).Reviewed by Dimitris Stevis

JERROLD L. SCHECTER. Russian Negotiating Behavior: Continuity and Transition. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 225. $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Stephen White

PETER TRUBOWITZ, EMILY O. GOLDMAN, and EDWARD RHODES, eds. The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 331. $20.50 (US), paper Reviewed by John H. Maurer

PETER BURROUGHS and A. J. STOCKWELL, eds. Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. 262. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

CHARLES JONES. E. H. Carr and International Relations: A Duty to Lie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 179. $54.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Christopher Brewin

PAUL GORDON LAUREN. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 385. $29.95 (US), paper; WILLIAM KOREY. NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ‘A Curious Grapevine’. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 638. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by J. G. Merrills

CHRISTOPHER COKER. War and the Illiberal Conscience. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 240. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by John Mueller     

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     

Review Article: The Ways of the World

S. E. FINER. The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume I: Ancient Monarchies and Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 610; Volume II: The Intermediate Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 613–1,061; Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 1,065–1,701. $270.00 (CDN), for the three volumes. Reviewed by A. P. Thornton     

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).     

Book Reviews

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(Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 297. $29.95.) Pride of Men: Ironworking in Nineteenth‐Century West Central Africa. By Colleen Kriger. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heineman, 1999. Pp. xxi, 261. $59.95.) Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People. By David Maxwell. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xii, 292. $59.95.) The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684‐1706. By John K. Thornton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 228. $49.50.) THE AMERICAS Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People. By Thomas A. Abercrombie. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 603. $27.00.) Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. $32.50.) Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850‐1920. By Stephen Bell. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 292. $55.00.) Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861‐1865. By William Blair. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 206. $32.50.) Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 377. $29.95.) Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800. Edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1998. Pp. xv, 484. $24.95.) John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 331. $45.00.) The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769‐1828. By Evan Cornog. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 224. $29.95.) The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820‐1890. By John M. Coward. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 244. $39.95.) Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890‐1939. By Sandra McGee Deutsch. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 491. $60.00.) A Young Man's Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860‐1929. By George Emery and J. C. Herbert Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 184. $39.95.) Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in theAmerican West. By Mark Fiege. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 340. $35.00.) Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth‐Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 240. $34.95.) The Antietam Campaign. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 335. $32.50.) The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. By Gustavo Gorriti. Translated, with an introduction, by Robin Kirk. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 290. $60.00.) Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. By Andrew Gyory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 354. $49.95.) A Shining Thread of Hope: A History of Black Women in America. By Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson. (New York: Broadway Books, 1998. Pp. 355. $27.50.) Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.‐Latin American Relations. Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. Foreword by Fernando Coronil. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 575. $19.95.) Heart versus Head: Judge‐Made Law in Nineteenth‐Century America. By Peter Karsten. 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Review Article:Rediscovering India under the British

O.P. KEJARIWAL. The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past 1784–1838. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 293. $24.95 (US);

TAPAN RAYCHAUDHUM. Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 369. $39.95 (US);

JOAN G. ROLAND. Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era. Hanover, N.H. and London: University Press of New England, 1989. Pp. xiii, 355. $40.00 (US);

NANCY GARDNER CASSELS. Religion and Pilgrim Tax under the Company Raj. Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1988. Pp. xiii, 184. $34.00 (US);

APARNA MUKHERJEE. British Colonial Policy in Burma: An Aspect of Colonialism in South-East Asia 1840–1885. Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1988. Pp. x, 559. $34.00 (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).     

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.     

‘Reassessments of Winston Churchill’: A Reply

LINDA GRANT DE PAUW. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 395. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Frances Early

JEFFREY D. LERNER. The Impact of Seleucid Decline on the Eastern Iranian Plateau: The Foundations of Arsacid Parthia and Graeco-Bactria. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 139. DM 68.00. Reviewed by Richard Fowle

GOCHA R. TSETSKHLADZE, ed. The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area: Historical Interpretation of Archaeology. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 336. DM 148.00. Reviewed by Vanessa B. Gorman

DANIEL POWER and NAOMI STANDEN, eds. Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700–1700. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 293. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue

JAMES MULDOON. Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800–1800. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 209. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by John M. Headley

J. H. ELLIOTT and L. W. B. BROCKLISS, eds. The World of the Favourite. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xv,320. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John C. Rule

PHILIP BENEDICT, GUIDO MARNEF, HENK VAN NIEROP, and MARC VENARD, eds. Reformation, Revolt, and Civil War in France and the Netherlands, 1555–1585. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. Pp. vii, 298. NLG 95.00, paper. Reviewed by Mark Konnert

MICHAEL LEROY OBERG. Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585–1685. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 239. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by Ian K. Steele

HERBERT S. KLEIN. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 234. $49.95 (US), cloth; $15.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Thornton

AGNES LATHAM and JOYCE YOUINGS, eds. The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999. Pp. bdii, 403. £45.00. Reviewed by Harry Kelsey

COLIN KIDD. British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 302. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Arthur Williamson

VICTOR TREADWELL. Buckingham and Ireland, 1616–1628: A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 443. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Kishlansky

DEREK CROXTON. Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643–1648. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1999. Pp. 397. $52.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul M. Sonnino

STUART BANNER. Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690–1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 318. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. James

EDMOND DZIEMBOWSKI. Un nouveau patriotisme français, 1750–1770: La France face à la puissance anglaise à l'époque de la guerre de Sept Ans. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999. Pp. vii, 566. £75.00. Reviewed by Lucien Bély

MAX M. MINTZ. Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 232. $28.95 (US). Reviewed by Colin G. Calloway

ALEX CALDER, JONATHAN LAMB, and BRIDGET ORR, eds. Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769–1840. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 344. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by I. C. Campbell

JERZY LUKOWSKI. The Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793, 1795. London and New York: Longman, 1999. Pp. xv, 232. £42.00, cloth; £13.99, paper. Reviewed by Robert E.Jones

NORMAN HAMPSON. The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 181. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Duffy

KEN POST. Revolution and the European Experience, 1789–1914. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 227. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter N. Stearns

FREDERICK W. KAGAN. The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 337. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Marc Raeff

T. R. MOREMAN. The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849–1947. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 258. $72.00 (US) Reviewed by David Omissi

JOSE C. MOYA. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 567. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Monica Quijada

STEFAN LIPPERT. Felix Fiirst m Schwarzenberg: Eine politische Biographic. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 445. DM 168.00. Reviewed by Lawrence Sondhaus

STEPHEN M. HARRIS. British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854–1856. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 182. $52.50 (US). Reviewed by Ann Pottinger Saab

KOJI KAWASHIMA. Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore, 1858–1936. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 252. $43.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Penelope Carson

DAVID ALAN RICH. The Tsar's Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 293. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by W. Bruce Lincoln

GREG MARQUIS. In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 389. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Eric W. Sager

IRVING STONE. The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865–1914: A Statistical Survey. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 430. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by C. H. Feinstein

GEORGE VON RAUCH. Conflict in the Southern Cone: The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute with Chile, 1870–1902. Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xii, 229. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by David Rock

CLAUDIA LINDA REESE. Neuseeland und Deutschland: Handelsabkommen, Aufienhandelspolitik und Handel von 1871 bis 1973. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. xxv, 378. DM 148.00, paper. Reviewed by John A. Moses

GERALD FRIEDMAN. State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876–1914. Idiaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 317. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Samuel Cohn

ANDREAS ECKERT. Grundhesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandeh Douala 1880 bis 1960. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. x, 503. DM 144.00, paper. Reviewed by Dierk Walter

WOLFRAM HARTMANN, JEREMY SILVESTER, and PATRICIA HAYES, eds. The Colonising Camera: Photographs in the Making of Namibian History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 220. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Subhash Jaireth

JULIE F. CODELL and DIANNE SACHKO MACLEOD, eds. Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xiii, 249. $84.95 (US). Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie

ANGEL SMITH and EMMA DÁVILA-COX, eds. The Crisis of l898: Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 221. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Jules R. Benjamin

STEPHEN M. MILLER. Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa. London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. 279. $57.50 (US), cloth; $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett

DAVID A. LAKE. Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 332. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes

JONATHAN SCHNEER. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. ix,336. $29.95(US). Reviewed by Peter Cain

DARSHAN SINGH TATLA. The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 327. $22.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Hugh Johnston

CHRISTOPH JAHR. Gewöhnliche Soldaten: Desertion und Deserteure im deutschen und britischen Heer, 1914–1918. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. 419. DM 78.00. Reviewed by Jay Winter

JAN HEITMANN. Unter Wasser in die Neue Welt: Handelsunterseeboote und kaiserliche Unterseekreuzer im Spannungsfeld von Politik und Kriegführung. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1999. Pp. 365. DM 78.00, paper. Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig

ALEXANDRU CRETZIANU. Relapse into Bondage: Political Memoirs of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918–1947, ed. Sherman David Spector. Ia?i: Center for Romanian Studies, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 351. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Dov B. Lungu

INBAL ROSE. Conservatism, and Foreign Policy during the Lloyd George Coalition, 1918–1922. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp. xxix, 289. $54.50 (US). Reviewed by Alan Sharp

PATRICK PASTURE and JOHAN VERBERCKMOES, eds. Working-Class Internationalism and the Appeal of National Identity: Historical Debates and Current Perspectives. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1998. Pp. vii, 263. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Carl Strikwerda

JOHN E. MOSER. Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Thompson

DAVID F. SCHMITZ. Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921–1965. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 383. $18.95 (US)> paper. Reviewed by Anders Stephanson

MALCOLM ANDERSON and EBERHARD BORT, eds. The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 286. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by S. J. Connolly

AZAR GAT. Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, LiddeU Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 334. $130.50 (CDN); BRIAN HOLDEN REID. Studies in British Military Thought: Debates with Fuller and LiddeU Hart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 287. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert H. Larson

ALEX DANCHEV. Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. Pp. xiv, 369. £25.00. Reviewed by John P. Campbell

HORST BOOG, JÜRGEN FÖRSTER, JOACHIM HOFFMANN, ERNST KLINK, ROLF-DlETER MÜLLER, and GERD R. UEBERSCHÄR. Germany and the Second World War: IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union, trans. Dean S. McMurray, Ewald Osers, and Louise Wilmott. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxxi, 1,364. $362.50 (CDN). Accompanied by a booklet of maps: Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1983. Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes

NATALIIA S. LEBEDEVA and M. M. NARINSKII, eds. Komintern i vtoraia mirovaia voina: I: 1939–1941. Moscow: Pamiatnikii Istoricheskoi Myslii (PIM), 1994. Pp. 554; II: Posh 22 Iuniia 1941. Moscow: PIM, 1998. Pp. 595. No Price Available. Reviewed by Anna M. Cienciala

PENNY SUMMERFIELD. Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 338. $29.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Nicoletta F. Gullace

DAVID B. WOOLNER, ed. The Second Quebec Conference Revisited: Waging War, Formulating Peace: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States in 1944–1945. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 210. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Hayes

NICHOLAS TARLING. Britain, Southeast Asia, and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 488. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Matthew Jones

ZACHARY KARABELL. Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946–1962. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. 248. $37.50 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by David S. Painter

IAN MCGIBBON, ed. Unofficial Channels: Letters between Alister Mclntosh and Foss Shanahan, George Laking, and Frank Corner, 1946–1966. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999. Pp. 360. $39.95 (NZ), paper. Reviewed by Michael Bassett

SELIG S. HARRISON, PAUL H. KREISBERG, and DENNIS KUX, eds. India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years. Washington and New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 216. $49.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh

NOEL E. FIRTH and JAMES H. NOREN. Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950–1990. College Station: Texas A &; M University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 291. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by John P. Hardt

BERT EDSTRÖM. Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine: From Yoshida to Miyazawa. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. x, 216. $72.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher W. Hughes

NICK CULLATHER. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xl, 142. $39.50 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by STEPHEN G. RABE

MOTTI GOLANI. Israel in Search of a War: The Sinai Campaign, 1955–1956. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998. Pp. x, 236. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Howard J. Dooley

CAMPBELL CRAIG. Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 216. $22.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by John Prados

CHRISTIAN BREMEN. Die Eisenhower-Administration und die zweite Berlin-Krise, 1958–1961. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998. Pp. xi, 625. DM 298.00. Reviewed by Wolfgang Krieger

ELIZABETH COBBS HOFFMAN. All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 306. $27.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan S. Russ

KEN ENDO. The Presidency of the European Commission under Jacques Delors: The Politics of Shared Leadership. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 260. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by G. W. Jones

WILLIAM E. ODOM. The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 523. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence Freedman

CHRISTOPHER C. JOYNER. Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 363. $41.25 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Maarten J. de Wit

JOHN BUCKLEY. Air Power in the Age of Total War. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 260. $19.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Sherry     

Review Article: Elie Kedourie: Forgotten Iconoclast

ELIE KEDOURIE. Nationalism, 4th ed. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1993. Pp. xviii, 154. $16.95 (US), paper; ELIE KEDOURIE. Democracy and Arab Political Culture. London: Frank Cass, 1994; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 105. $17.50 (US), paper; ELIE KEDOURIE. Politics in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 366. $20.95 (CDN), paper; ELIE KEDOURIE. Hegel and Marx: Introductory Lectures, ed. Sylvia and Helen Kedourie. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1995. Pp. xiii, 216. $49.95 (US); SYLVIA KEDOURIE, ed. Elie Kedourie CBE, FBA, 1926–1992: History, Philosophy, Politics. London: Frank Cass, 1998; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 132. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Efraim Karsh     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed “THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND PEOPLES: SUCCESSION, RELIGION, CULTURE, AND POLITICS” The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire. By Justin McCarthy. (London: Arnold Publishers, 2001. Pp. x, 234. $24.95.) Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902–1908. By M. S¸ükrü Haniog?lu. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 538. $72.00.) The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State. By Kemal H. Karpat. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 533. $49.95.) Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. By Myron Echenberg. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xviii, 305. $28.00.) “God Alone Is King”: Islam and Emancipation in Senegal, the Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859–1914. By James Searing. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann and Oxford: James Currey, 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 293. $27.00.) Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. By Rachel Adams. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 289. $19.00.) Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish‐Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821. By Jeremy Baskes. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 305. $60.00.) Making Patriots. By Walter Berns. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 150. $12.00.) A Perilous Progress: Economics and Public Purpose in Twentieth‐Century America. By Michael A. Bernstein. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. 358. $39.50.) Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries. By D. A. Brading. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 444. $34.95.) The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua. By Timothy C. Brown. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 321. $29.95.) By Any Means Necessary: America's Heroes Flying Secret Missions in a Hostile World. By William E. Burrows. (New York: Plume, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 398. $15.00.) Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. By Jack E. Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 351. $39.95.) Look Away: A History of the Confederate States of America. By William C. Davis. (New York and London: The Free Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 484. $35.00.) The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780. By María Elena Díaz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 440. $55.00.) The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914. By George Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 259. $55.00.) A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth‐Century Cuba. By Alejandro de la Fuente. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 449. $19.95.) The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade. By Robert Harms. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. 541. $30.00.) The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas: A Social and Political History, 1860–1945. By Roy Hora. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 264. $35.00.) Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940. Edited by Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. (Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 507. $21.95.) All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War. By Frank Kusch. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xviii, 173. $62.00.) John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. By R. Kent Newmyer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 508. $39.95.) Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth‐Century U.S. History. By Alice O’Connor. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 373. $29.95.) The Columbia Guide to Asian American History. By Gary Y. Okihiro. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 323. $45.00.) Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908. By Michael Perman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 397, $24.95.) Medicine in Colonial America. By Oscar Reiss. (Lanham, NY, and Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., 2000. Pp. xi, 518. $64.50.) Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953. By Mary Roldán. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 392. $64.95.) Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes. By Susan Sleeper‐Smith. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 234. $18.95.) American Colonies. By Alan Taylor. (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. Pp. xvii, 526. $34.95.) Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. By Andrea Tone. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. Pp. xvii, 353. $30.00.) Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg. By Tom Wells. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xi, 692. $29.95.) Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Edited by Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C. A. Bayly, with the collaboration of Robert Ilbert. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 410. $22.50.) Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China. By Stevan Harrell. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 370. $50.00.) Crime and Social Control in a Changing China. Edited by Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang, and Steven F. Messner. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. 197. $67.95.) A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. By Jane R. McIntosh. (Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. 224. $40.00.) Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 329. $42.00.) The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. By Robert B. Asprey. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. xx, 480. $35.00.) Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000. By James Belich. (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001. Pp. 606. $40.00.) The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800. By David A. Bell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 304. $45.00.) The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801–1846. By Stewart J. Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 459. $95.00.) Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire. By David Cannadine. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 264. $25.00.) The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914–1939. By Deborah Cohen. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 285. $50.00.) The Athenian Nation. By Edward E. Cohen. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 250. $19.95.) The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth‐Century France. By Alain Corbin. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 269. $27.50.) The Jews of Early Modern Venice. Edited by Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 314. $59.95.) The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. By Eamon Duffy. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 232. $22.50.) Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women. By Harriet Pass Freidenreich. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 296. $34.95.) Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe. By Miranda Aldhouse Green. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2001. Pp. 224. $37.50.) Fatherlands: State‐Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany. By Abigail Green. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 386. $64.95.) Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland, 450–1150. By Christina Harrington. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 329. $65.00.) Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia. By Dan Healey. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 392. $40.00.) The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. By Carla Hesse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. Xvi, 233. $35.00.) Law and Social Status in Classical Athens. Edited by Virginia Hunter and Jonathan Edmondson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 206. $60.00.) France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944. By Julian Jackson. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 660. $35.00.) Parliament, Politics and Elections, 1604–1648. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society: Camden Society, Fifth Series, Volume 17, 2001. Pp. xi, 355. $65.00.) Making Democracy in the French Revolution. By James Livesey. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 326. $49.95.) Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV. By Ronald S. Love. (Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 457. $65.00.) Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells. By Andrea Lynn. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 530. $30.00.) Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire. By Roberta J. Magnusson. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 238. $38.00.) Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity. Edited, with an introduction, by Irad Malkin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 418. $50.00.) The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure. By Robert McGhee. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 188. $40.00.) The Parthenon Frieze. By Jenifer Neils. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 294. $65.00.) Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804–1824. By Aleksandr Nikitenko. Translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson. Foreword by Peter Kolchin. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 228. $26.95.) British Opinion and Irish Self‐government, 1865–1925: From Unionism to Liberal Commonwealth. By G. K. Peatling. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 316. $52.50.) Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen. By Alison Plowden. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2001. Pp. xiv, 290. $27.95.) A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeeth‐Century France. By Philip F. Riley. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 203. $69.95.) Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670. By Benjamin Schmidt. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 450. $64.95.) John Maynard Keynes. Vol. III, Fighting for Freedom: 1937–1946. By Robert Skidelsky. (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. Pp. xxv, 580. $34.95.) The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North‐West Europe, 1270–1380. By Malcolm Vale. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 422. $45.00.) Deceptions of World War II. By William B. Breuer. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. Pp. xii, 242. $24.95.) Global History: A Short Overview. By Noel Cowen. (London: Polity Press, 2001. Pp. x, 213. $19.95.) An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life. By J. Donald Hughes. (London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xv, 264. $80.00.) Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality. By Jonathan Ned Katz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 416. $35.00.) The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050. Edited by MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 203. $28.00.) Events That Changed the World through the Sixteenth Century. Edited by Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 223. $39.95.)     

Empire: The View from Beyond

JOHN M. MACKENZIE. The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Pp. x, 34a. £40.00;

STEPHEN CONSTANTINE, ed. Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions between the Wars. Manchester Manchester University Press; dist., St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. x, 208. £40.00;

J.A. MANGAN, ed. Making Imperial Mentalities: Socialisation and British Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 227. £40.00

RONALD HYAM. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. ix. 234. £10.95 (paper);

W.J. READER. ‘At Duty's Call’: A Study in Obsolete Patriotism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 152. £45.00;

JACQUELINE BRATTON et al. Acts of Supremacy: The British Empire and the Stage, 1790–1930. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 248. £40.00;

P.J. RICH. Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism. London and New York: Regency Press, 2nd. ed., 1992. Pp. 152. £9.95.     

Review Article: The General History of the Second World War

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review Article: Finding the Way Back to the Ottoman Empire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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