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     

Collected Essays

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.     

Appeasement Revisited

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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     

Collecte Essays

Naidu, M. V., contributing ed. Perspectives on Human Security: National Sovereignty arid Humanitarian Intervention. Brandon: Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, 2001. Pp. xviii, 232. $39.95 (CDN), paper.

McCarthy, Patrick, ed. France - Germany in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 202. $45.00 (US).

James, Patrick and David Goetze, eds. Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xi, 273. $69.95 (US).

Conway, Martin and José Gotovitch, eds. Europe in Exile: European Exile Communities in Britain, 1940–lQ45. New York: Berghahn, 2001. Pp. vi, 281. $69.95 (US) doth; $25.00 (US), paper.

O'Brien, Patrick, Derek Keene, Marjolein 'T Hart, and Herman van der Wee, eds. Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 361. $64.95 (US)

Wells, Mark K., ed. Air Power: Promise and Reality. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2000. Pp. xv, 339. $39.95 (US), paper.

Hefner, Robert W., ed. The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 319. $27.95 (US), paper.

Larres, Klaus, and Ann Lane, eds. The Cold War: The Essential Readings, ed. adviser Robert MacMahon. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. viii, 256. $29.95 (US). paper.

Doerries, Reinhard R., ed. Diplomaten und Agenten: Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen. Heidelberg: Universitátsverlag C. Winter, 2001. Pp. 229. €38.00.

Geyer, Martin H. and Johannes Paulmann, eds. The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 471. £65.00.     

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     

Once More,The German Question

THOMAS NIPPERDEY. Deutsche Geschichte 1800–1866: Bürgerwelt und Starker Stoat, 3rd. rev. ed. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1985. Pp. 838; HEINRICH LUTZ. Zwischen Habsburg und Preussen: Das Ringen um die Vormacht in Deutschland 1815–1866. Berlin: Siedler, 1985. Pp. 528; H.W. KOCH. A Constitutional History of Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. London and New York: Longman, 1984. Pp. xv, 400. $17.95 (US); WOLF D. GRUNER. Die deutsche Frage: Ein Problem der europäischen Geschichte seit 1800. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1985. Pp. 217. DM 19.80.     

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

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

Review Article: ‘Managing’ Women in War and Peace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Reviews

ROBERT E. CONRAD. Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xxvi, 515. $50.00 cloth; $16.50 paper (US). Reviewed by A.J.R. Russell-Wood

STEPHEN KERN. The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. 372. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Frank M. Turner

ESCOTT REID. On Duty: A Canadian at the Making of the United Nations, 1945–1946. Toronto: McClelland &; Stewart, 1983. Pp. xxii, 181. $16.95 (Can.). Reviewed by Robert Bothwell

LESTER LANOLEY. The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900–1934. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1983. Pp. vii-viii, 255. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard D. Challener

RICHARD BOSWORTH. Italy and the Approach of the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 174. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.

ROBERT MIRAK. Torn Between Two Lands: Armenians in America, 1890 to World War I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 384. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by George B. Kooshian, Jr.

LEE FEIGON. Chen Duxiu: Founder of the Chinese Communist Party. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 297. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by William Saywell

GHARLES CRUICKSHANK. SOE in the Far East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. 285. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by David Stafford

F.H. HINSLEY et al. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Volume III, Part 1. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 690. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Patrick Beesly

RICHARD HOUGH. The Great War at Sea, 1914–1918. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 353. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Jon Tetsuro Sumida

HERMIA OLIVER. The International Anarchist Movement in Late Victorian London. New York: St Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 176. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Haia Shpayer-Makov

STEWART A. STEHLIN. Weimar and the Vatican 1919–1933: German-Vatican Diplomatic Relations in the Interwar Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. 490. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by John S. Conway

GEORGE F.G. STANLEY. The War of 1812: Land Operations. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, in collaboration with the Canadian War Museum, National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1983. Pp. 489. $24.95 (Can.); J.C.A. STAGG, Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 538. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by William Stinchcombe

JACOB TOURY. Die Jüdische Presse im Österreichischen Kaiserreich: Ein Beitrag zur Problematik der Akkulturation 1802–1918. New York: Leo Baeck Institute, 1983. Pp. 171. Reviewed by George O. Kent

GOTTFRIED NIEDHART, ed. Der Westen und die Sowjetunion: Einstellungen und Politik gegenüber der UdSSR in Euro pa und in den USA seit 1917. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1983. Pp. 372. DM 48. Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg

DANIEL H. THOMAS. The Guarantee of Belgian Independence and Integrity in European Diplomacy, 1830's–1930's. Kingston, Rhode Island: D.H. Thomas Publishing, 1983. Pp. xv, 789. Reviewed by D. Stevenson

FRED v. CARSTENSEN. American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Pp. vii, 289. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by John P. Mckay

JULIANNA PUSKAS. From Hungary to the United States, 1880–1914. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1982; distributed in North America by Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983. Pp. 225. $24.25 (US). Reviewed by Janos M. Bak

ROGER CHICKERING. We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League 1886–1044. Boston: George Allen &; Unwin, 1983. Pp. 365. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by George L. Mosse

PETER KRTCDTE. Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World Economy, 1500–1800, translated by V.R. Berghahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 191. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Phyllis Deane

JAMES WILLIAM MORLEY, ed. The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent 1933–1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Reviewed by Samuel C. Chu

ERIC HOBSBAWM, TERENCE RANGER, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 320. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter Stansky

AVI SHLAIM. The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision-Making. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 463. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert A. Divine

JAMES CRACRAFT, ed. The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretative Guide. Chicago: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1983. Pp. ix, 348. $9.95 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence W. Lerner

M.J. TREBILCOCK, J.R.S. PRICHABD, T.J. COURCHENE, J. WHALLEY, eds. Federalism and the Canadian Economic Union. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. $25.00 (Can.). Reviewed by Eric Kierans

PHILIP S. KHOURY. Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860–1920. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 153. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by James Jankowski

PAUL MOSLEY. The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1963. Cambridge and New York: Gambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 289. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Robert O. Collins     

Review Article: International History and the Democratic Peace

JAMES LEE RAY. Democracy and International Conflict: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 243. $39.95 (US);

THOMAS RISSE-KAPPEN. Co-operation among Democracies: The European Influence on US Foreign Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 250. $35.00 (US);

K. J. HOLSTI. The State, War, and the State of War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 254. $59.95 (US);

SUSAN PETERSON. Crisis Bargaining and the State: The Domestic Politics of International Conflict. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 208. $42.50 (US);

JOHN M. OWEN. Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. 224. $32.50 (US).     

Review Article: Hirohito and His Army

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collected Essays

ANDREOPOULOS, GEORGE J., and HAROLD E. SELESKY, eds. The Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces, and the Challenge of Recovery. New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 195.$22.50 (US), cloth.

BAKER, RICHARD W., ed. The ANZUS States and Their Region: Regional Policies of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994. Pp. xiii, 228. $57.95 (US), cloth.

BENNETT, W. LANCE, and DAVID L. PALETZ, eds. Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and US Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 307. $15.95 (US).

BONANNO, ALESSANDRO, LAWRENCE BUSCH, WILLIAM H. FRIEDLAND, LOURD GOUVEIA, and ENZO MINGIONE, eds. From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Pp. viii, 294. $17.95 (US).

CALDWELL, DAN and TIMOTHY J. MCKEOWN, eds. Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor Alexander L. George. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xi, jzz. $65.00 (US).

CALLAGHY, THOMAS M., and JOHN RAVENHILL, eds. Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 573. $18.50 (US), paper.

CHAN, MING K., ed. Precarious Balance: Hong Kong between China and Britain, 1842–1992. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xi, 235. $22.00 (US).

CLOUGH, CECIL H. and P. E. H. HAIR, eds. The European Outthnrst and Encounter: The First Phase, c.1400–c.1700: Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on His 85th Birthday. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp. 348. £19.50, paper.

CUETO, MARCOS, ed. Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 171. $24.95 (US).

DALLMEYER, DORINDA G., ed. Reconceiving Reality: Women and International Law. Washington, D.C.: The American Society of International Law, 1993. Pp. xiv, 283. $18.00 (US).

DEMKO, GEORGE J. and WILLIAM B. WOOD, eds. Reordering the World: Geopolitical Perspectives on the Twenty-first Century. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 350. $59.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper.

EMMER, P. C. and M. MORNER, eds. European Expansion and Migration: Essap on the Intercontinental Migration from Africa, Asia, and Europe. New York and Oxford: Berg, 1992, dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 312. $4.8.00 (US), paper.

ENGELS, DAGMAR, and SHULA MARKS, eds. Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India. London: British Academic Press; dist., New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 349. $59.50 (US).

FISHER, STEPHEN, ed. Man and the Maritime Environment. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1994. Pp. X, 233. A12.50, paper.

FUKUI, KATSUYOSHI and JOHN MARKAKIS, eds. Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa. London: James Currey; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 242. $49.95 (US), cloth.

GINSBURGS, GEORGE, ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN and OLES M. SMOLANSKY, eds. Russia and America: From Rivary to Reconciliation. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp xi, 353. $19.95 (US), paper.

HAGLUND, DAVID G., S. NEIL MACFARLANE, and JOEL J. SOKOLSKY, eds. NATO's Eastern Dilemmas. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. x, 231. $44.95 (US), paper.

SUTTER, ROBERT G. and WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, eds. Taiwan in World Affairs. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 328. $49.95 (US), cloth.     

Review Article: Soviet Behaviour in the Cold War

JACQUES LÉVESQUE. The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe, trans. Keith Martin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 267. $35.00 (US);

JEFFREY T. CHECKEL. Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 191. $26.00 (US);

MIKE BOWKER. Russian Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1997; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate. Pp. xi, 297. $72.95 (US);

VOJTECH MASTNY. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 285. $44.50 (CDN).     

Review Article: Brigands,Emperors, and Anarchy

PHILIP DE SOUZA. Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 276. $59.95 (US); KURT RAAFLAUB and NATHAN ROSENSTEIN, eds. War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica. Washington: Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, 1999; dist. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press. Pp. viii, 484. $50.00 (US); B. D. HOYOS. Unplanned Wars: The Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998. Pp. xviii, 326. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein     

Review Article: Metanarratives in Global Histories of Material Progress

WILLIAM R. THOMPSON. The Emergence of the Global Political Economy. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xi, 252. $25.99 (US), paper; DEREK H. ALDCROFT and ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE, eds. Europe in the International Economy, 1500–2000. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999. Pp. xi, 289. $90.00 (US); KENNETH POMERANZ. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 382. $39.95 (US).