Nomadism,Pastoralism, Ecology,and Grazing Lands

J. Aschenbrenner and L. R. Collins, eds. The Processes of Urbanism: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. x + 424 pp. $40.00.

E. Eames and J. G. Goode. Anthropology of the City: An Introduction to Urban Anthropology. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1977. viii + 344 pp.

R. G. Fox. Urban Anthropology: Cities in Their Cultural Settings. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1977. xiii + 176 pp.     

History,Hitler, and the Holocaust

EBERHARD JACKEL. Hitler in History. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1984. Pp. 115; GERALD FLEMINO. Hitler and the Final Solution. Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. 219; MALCOLM c. MACPHERSON. The Blood of His Servants. New York: The New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1984. Pp. 310; ISABELLA LEITNER. Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz. New York: Cowell Publishers, 1978. Pp. 112; JAMES BENTLEY. Martin Niemöller 1891–1984. New York: Free Press, 1984. Pp. 253; SAUL s. FRIEDMAN. The Oberammergau Passion Play: A Lance Against Civilization. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. Pp. 270; DAVID s. WYMAN. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. Pp. 445; WALTER N. BANNING. The Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry. Torrance, Cal.: Institute for Historical Review, 1983. Pp. 239.     

Fascism,Nazism, and Japanism

ALEXANDER DE GRAND. Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982; PTERRE AYQOBERRY. The Nazi Question: An Essay on the Interpretations of National Socialism (1922–1975). Tr. by Robert Hurley. New York: Random House, 1981; WILLIAM MILES FLETCHER III. The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982; and BEN-AMI SHILLONY. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.     

Institutions,Rules, and the Lawmaking Process

Binder, Sarah A. Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 250. $59.95, hardbound; $18.95, softbound.

Dion, Douglas. Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew: Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. 312. $49.50, hardbound.

Krehbiel, Keith. Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 240. $42.00, hardbound; $17.00, softbound.

Hammond, Susan Webb. Congressional Caucuses in National Policy Making. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 272. $39.95 hardbound.     

Mormon History,Text, Colour,and Rites

Mormonism's growth from its 1830 inception to its 2005 near twelve million world membership, has not only initiated a debate over whether, perhaps, it is likely to become the next world‐religion after Islam, ¹ 1 Stark, Rodney , “The Rise of a New World Faith,” Review of Religious Research 26 (1984 ): 18 – 27 .
but has, in recent decades, also witnessed the publication of numerous books that help foster an interest in what is already becoming a distinctive field of study. Though none of the four books reviewed here constitutes an introductory overview, ² 2 For which see, Thomas O'Dea, The Mormons (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957); Jan Shipps, The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985); Douglas J. Davies, Introduction to Mormonism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
each introduces a set of major issues within contemporary Mormon studies and engages, respectively, with faith‐related attitudes to historical material, the Book of Mormon, the changing status of black males in the church, and Freemasonry's impact on Mormonism's origin.     

Didymograptellus kremastus n. sp., a new name for the Chewtonian (mid-Floian,Lower Ordovician) graptolite D. protobifidus sensu Benson & Keble, 1935, non Elles, 1933

Vandenberg, A.H.M., December 2017. Didymograptellus kremastus n. sp., a new name for the Chewtonian (mid-Floian, Lower Ordovician) graptolite D. protobifidus sensu, non. Alcheringa 42, 259–268. ISSN 0311-5518.

The ‘tuning-fork’ didymograptid previously referred to as Didymograpt(ell)us protobifidus is common in Victoria where it is confined to the Chewtonian (mid-Floian). Biometric differences indicate that the mid-Floian form is not conspecific with the holotype of the Darriwilian Didymograptus protobifidus Elles, 1933 and the Floian form is thus renamed Didymograptellus kremastus n. sp. Study of the Valhallfonna Formation faunas on Spitsbergen indicated that the Floian form of D. ‘protobifidus’ differs from Didymograptellus bifidus (Hall) in both its morphology and stratigraphic distribution but a later study of the Cow Head Group on Newfoundland concluded that they are one species. My study, of more than 50 specimens of Didymograptellus from the Floian of Victoria, Australia, shows that the two are different and that similar differences exist in the Cow Head Group populations of Didymograptellus. The Chewtonian (Ch1) Didymograptellus protobifidus Biozone is renamed D. kremastus Biozone.

Alfons H.M. Vandenberg, [lanceolatus@hotmail.vic.gov.au], [avandenberg@museum.vic.gov.au] Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia.     

Molluscan death assemblages from uplifted Holocene terraces,Mahia Peninsula,New Zealand,interpreted from present-day intertidal ecology

Beu, A.G., August 2016. Molluscan death assemblages from uplifted Holocene terraces, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, interpreted from present-day intertidal ecology. Alcheringa 41, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518.

Macrofossils from cover beds of marine terraces at Table Cape, Mahia Peninsula, uplifted coseismically ca 250, 1400, 1850 and 3500 years ago are compared with the fauna living on the nearby 200-m-wide intertidal rock platform. The inner platform is dry at low tide, apart from shallow pools containing Diloma aethiops and abundant but unexpected specimens of Zeacumantus subcarinatus and Cominella glandiformis exposed to the sun; all are common fossils in the terrace cover beds. The outer platform is carpeted densely with the alga Hormosira and shelters a diverse fauna, again all common fossils in the terrace cover beds. Sand and gravel containing shell fragments and supporting Zostera sea-grass turf unexpectedly covers ca 5% of the platform in low areas along the east coast. The fossil fauna is listed from 47 samples from two trenches excavated east–west and north–south through the terrace cover beds. Death assemblages of 158 molluscs, including 24 new records as fossils, and 11 taxa in other phyla delimit sediment derived from four shell accumulation sites identified around the present cape: storm beach, high-tidal strand line, hollows in the rock platform and Zostera flats. Up to 32 of the 47 samples (68%) possibly were deposited in Zostera flats; the rest were sand beach accumulations deposited at and near the high-tidal strand line. All fossils common in the cover beds lived on the rock platform. Differences between the deposits in the two trenches result from two factors. Protection along the east coast by protruding tephra beds and an outer rampart armoured with the macroalga Durvillaea prevented erosion of Zostera-supporting sediment which, therefore, was retained after each uplift event. The exposed eastern position of Table Cape also caused sediment to be transported predominantly westwards, onshore on the east coast but away from Table Cape along the north coast.

A.G. Beu [a.beu@gns.cri.nz], Paleontology Department, GNS Science, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand.     

A new early Silurian brachiopod genus,Thulatrypa, from Norway and South China,and its palaeobiogeographical significance

Huang, B., Baarli, B.G., Zhan, R.B. & Rong, J.Y., October 2015. A new early Silurian brachiopod genus, Thulatrypa, from Norway and South China, and its palaeobiogeographical significance. Alcheringa 40, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518.

The smooth atrypoid brachiopod Thulatrypa gen. nov. incorporates two species, a younger (T. gregaria) from Norway, and an older (T. orientalis) from South China, which collectively span the middle Rhuddanian through Aeronian. In Baltica, the genus thrived just below the storm wave base in a tropical BA4 setting extending slightly into BA3 and BA5 respectively, whereas in South China, its representative occurs in a much shallower assemblage (BA2–3). Their palaeobiogeographical implications are carefully investigated. This study supports the arguments that Thulatrypa may have originated in South China in the middle Rhuddanian and extended its range to eastern Baltica in the late Rhuddanian. Larvae may have drifted along a channel from the east to the southwest of Baltica, which supports the reconstructions of palaeocurrents in the early Silurian in previous palaeogeographical studies.

Bing Huang [bhuang@nigpas.ac.cn], Ren-bin Zhan [rbzhan@nigpas.ac.cn] and Jia-yu Rong [jyrong@nigpas.ac.cn], State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, PR China; B. Gudveig Baarli [gudveig.baarli@williams.edu], Department of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA.     

Rodent-based age appraisal of the Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Kalaunta,Ramnagar, Jammu,India

Parmar, V., Magotra, R., Norboo, R. & Prasad, G.V.R., July 2016. Rodent-based age appraisal of the Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Kalaunta, Ramnagar, Jammu, India. Alcheringa 41, xx-xx. ISSN 0311-5518.

Rocks of the Lower Siwalik Subgroup exposed around Ramnagar town in Jammu, India, have been known for more than 90 years to yield Chinji-equivalent (14.2–11.2 Ma) hominoid fossils. In 1997, the fossil ape Sivapithecus reported near Kalaunta village in the vicinity of Ramnagar was argued to be about 18 Ma old by its discoverers. This had implications for hominoid evolutionary studies, as molecular clock calibrations are commonly based on Sivapithecus first appearance datum (FAD). In a paper published in 2010, the identification of this hominoid tooth was questioned and reassigned to a suid. Recently, based upon the discovery of an indeterminate fossil bovid from the supposedly hominoid-yielding site near Kalaunta, an age estimate between ca 13.9 and 10.8 Ma was provided. As rodent biochronology has proven to be useful in age assignment of upper Cenozoic terrestrial sequences, the age of the fossil-bearing Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Kalaunta is re-assessed based upon newly recovered cricetid taxa. The cricetid rodents from this site comprise Punjabemys downsi and P. mikros. These two species are known to exist in the well-dated Potwar Siwalik Group succession between 14.3 and 12.6 Ma and between 16.3 and 13.0 Ma, respectively. Based on the overlapping temporal ranges of the cricetid taxa and an indeterminate Bovidae (ca 13.9–10.8 Ma) reported previously from this area, an age of 13.9–13.0 Ma is inferred for rocks occurring in the vicinity of Kalaunta. The new finds refute earlier claims of rocks in the area extending back to ca 18 Ma or as young as 10.8 Ma.

Varun Parmar [varunparmarvp@gmail.com], Rahul Magotra [rahulmagotra01@gmail.com] and Rigzin Norboo [norboo04@gmail.com], Post Graduate Department of Geology, University of Jammu, Jammu, 180 006, India; Guntupalli Veera Raghavendra Prasad [guntupalli.vrprasad@gmail.com], Department of Geology, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110 007, India.     

Art,Fame, and Commerce

In Praise of Commercial Culture. By Tyler Cowen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ix?+?278 pp. $14.95 paper.

What Price Fame? By Tyler Cowen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 248 pp. $22.00 cloth.     

Pragian and lower Emsian (Lower Devonian) conodonts from Liujing,Guangxi, South China

LU, J.-F., QIE, W.-Q. & CHEN, X.-Q., July 2016. Pragian and lower Emsian (Lower Devonian) conodonts from Liujing, Guangxi, South China. Alcheringa 40, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518.

Lower Devonian (Pragian and Emsian) conodonts are described from the Liujing section in Guangxi, South China, highlighting the phylogeny of early polygnathids and establishing the basis for faunal correlations with deposits throughout the world. Records of Eognathodus kuangi sp. nov. and E. nagaolingensis Xiong increase the biodiversity of the Pragian eognathodids in South China and represent intermediate stages and probably the latest eognathodids in the evolutionary succession from Eognathodus to Polygnathus. During this evolutionary succession, the degeneration of the sulcus (or the flattening of the upper platform surface) is the most important morphological change, especially in the eognathodid lineage. Polygnathus trilinearis, P. pireneae and P. sokolovi are recognized together for the first time in South China. The contemporaneous occurrences of the kitabiformis and sokoloviformis morphs of P. pireneae with P. sokolovi and their respective similarities to P. kitabicus and P. sokolovi suggest that the latter two species are phylogenetically linked with P. pireneae. Evidence from the Liujing section also favours Polygnathus probably having evolved from Eognathodus in a tropical or subtropical area.

Jian-feng Lu* [lujfivan@sina.cn] and Xiu-qin Chen [xqchen@nigpas.ac.cn], Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China; Wen-Kun Qie [wkqie@nigpas.ac.cn], Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China. *Also affiliated with University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.     

Religion,society, and culture

Morris, Brian. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ix + 369 pp. including chapter notes and references, selected bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Webster, Graham. Celtic Religion in Roman Britain. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1987. 205 pp. including chapter notes and references, photographs and illustrations, abbreviations, classical sources, selected bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth.

Weller, Robert P. Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. viii + 215 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $22.50 cloth.     

Race,Culture, and an Anthropological Disconnect Between Teaching and Practice

Shirley Lindenbaum. Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands. Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979. xii + 174 pp.

Karl G. Heider. Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors. New York: Holt, Rinehan and Winston, 1979. x + 149 pp.     

The Federal Budget: Policy,Process, and Politics

Fiorina, Morris. Divided Government. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xi, 138. $13.00 Paperback.

Jacobson, Gary C. The Electoral Origins of Divided Government: Competition' in U.S. House Elections, 1946-1988. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 152. $15.95.

Mayhew, David R. Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-1990. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 228. $25.00 Hardback.     

The long-ranging macroalga Grypania spiralis from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation,Guizhou, South China

Wang, Y., Wang, Y. & Du, W., February 2016. The long-ranging macroalga Grypania spiralis from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Guizhou, South China. Alcheringa 40, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518

Grypania spiralis (Walcott) Walter et al., a macroalga previously reported in pre-Ediacaran successions, has been collected, together with abundant macrofossils (i.e., the Wenghui biota), from black shales of the upper Doushantuo Formation (ca 593 to 551 Ma) in northeastern Guizhou, South China. Morphologically, G. spiralis represents a carbonaceous ribbon with a continuum of forms from coiled to nearly straight. Its helicoid main body might have been suspended in the water column for photosynthesis with one end anchored or nestled into soft sediments. Grypania possessed morphological stability, and its habit endowed great competitiveness for sunlight. Remarkably, it did not change significantly in size or morphology over more than 1200 Myrs.

Ye Wang [gboywangye@126.com], School of Earth Sciences and Resources, PR China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, PR China; Yue Wang [gzyuewang@126.com] (corresponding author), School of Resources and Environments, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550003, PR China; Wei Du [duwei@ea.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp], Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.     

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

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Protodammara reimatamoriori,a new species of conifer (Cupressaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous Tupuangi Formation,Chatham Islands,Zealandia

Mays, C. & Cantrill, D.J., January 2018. Protodammara reimatamoriori, a new species of conifer (Cupressaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous Tupuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, Zealandia. Alcheringa XXX, X–X. ISSN 0311-5518.

Isolated conifer female reproductive structures are common fossil elements from Cenomanian (ca 99–94 Ma) charcoal- and resin-rich beds of the Tupuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean. Recent findings have proposed that these are the oldest fossil evidence of serotiny, a highly successful fire-adaptive reproductive strategy common among tree species living in fire-prone areas today. Herein, we systematically describe the external morphological and anatomical features of these fossils, by employing a combination of manual extraction and neutron tomography techniques. We propose a new species of conifer, Protodammara reimatamoriori, and a re-examination of fossil material of the Protodammara type species facilitated an emendation of the genus. Protodammara shares numerous features with extant Cunninghamia, Taiwania, Athrotaxis, and several extinct taxa of Cupressaceae, and is interpreted as an extinct lineage of the early-divergent ‘taxodioid Cupressaceae’ stem group.

Chris Mays [chris.mays@nrm.se] Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Frescativägen 40, Stockholm 114 18, Sweden; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, 9 Rainforest Walk, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; David J. Cantrill [david.cantrill@rbg.vic.gov.au] Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Private Bag 2000, South Yarra, VIC 3141, Australia; School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.     

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