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Books reviewed in this issue International Relations theory Hugo Grotius on the law of war and peace: student edition. Edited and annotated by Stephen C. Neff. Thinking International Relations differently. Edited by Arlene Tickner and David L. Blaney. International organization, law and ethics Governing the world: the history of an idea. By Mark Mazower. The dictator's learning curve: inside the global battle for democracy. By William J. Dobson. The rise of global corporate social responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms. By Hevina S. Dashwood. Sacred aid: faith and humanitarianism. Edited by Michael Barnett and Janice Gross Stein. Global corruption: money, power and ethics in the modern world. By Laurence Cockcroft. Monitoring democracy: when international election observation works, and why it often fails. By Judith G. Kelley. Conflict, security and defence * 1 See also David Patrikarakos, Nuclear Iran: the birth of an atomic state, pp. 219–20.
The glorious art of peace: from the Iliad to Iraq. By John Gittings. The responsibility to protect: rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention. By Aidan Hehir. War from the ground up: twenty‐first‐century combat as politics. By Emile Simpson. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The net delusion: how not to liberate the world. By Evgeny Morozov. The age of social democracy: Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century. By Francis Sejersted. Radical: my journey from Islamist extremism to a democratic awakening. By Maajid Nawaz. Governance by indicators: global power through quantification and rankings. Edited by Kevin E. Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry. Political economy, economics and development Aftermath: the cultures of the economic crisis. Edited by Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso. Energy, environment and global health * 2 See also Hevina S. Dashwood, The rise of global corporate social responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms, pp. 187–8.
The oil road: journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London. By James Marriott and Mika Minio‐Paluello. Oil. By Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon. Economies of recycling: the global transformation of materials, values and social relations. Edited by Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno. Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. By Ben Goldacre. International history Belgium and the Congo 1885–1980. By Guy Vanthemsche. Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956. By Anne Applebaum. The Cold War and after: history, theory, and the logic of international politics. By Marc Trachtenberg. Europe * 3 See also Francis Sejersted, The age of social democracy: Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century, pp. 198–9; Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman, eds, The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro‐Europa, pp. 225–7.
Helmut Kohl: eine politische Biographie. By Hans‐Peter Schwarz. Good Italy, bad Italy: why Italy must conquer its demons to face the future. By Bill Emmott. Russia and Eurasia Russia and the cult of state security: the Chekist tradition, from Lenin to Putin. By Julie Fedor. The last dictatorship in Europe: Belarus under Lukashenko. By Brian Bennett. Middle East and North Africa Nuclear Iran: the birth of an atomic state. By David Patrikarakos. Everyday Arab identity: the daily reproduction of the Arab world. By Christopher Phillips. Qatar: a modern history. By Allen J. Fromherz. Exit Gaddafi: the hidden history of the Libyan revolution. By Ethan Chorin. The Arab uprising: the unfinished revolutions of the Middle East. By Marc Lynch. Sub‐Saharan Africa * 4 See also Guy Vanthemsche, Belgium and the Congo 1885–1980, pp. 210–11.
The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro‐Europa. Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman. Warfare in African history. Richard J. Reid. South Sudan: from revolution to independence. By Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold. South Asia Still counting the dead: survivors of Sri Lanka's hidden war. By Frances Harrison. East Asia and Pacific China's remarkable economic growth. By John Knight and Sai Ding. Is China buying the world? By Peter Nolan. North America Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations in the rise of American power. By Inderjeet Parmar. Sword of the spirit, shield of faith: religion in American war and diplomacy. By Andrew Preston. Latin America and Caribbean Raúl Castro and Cuba: a military life. By Hal Klepak. Mexico: democracy interrupted. By Jo Tuckman. Civil society and the state in left‐led Latin America: challenges and limitations to democratization. Edited by Barry Cannon and Peadar Kirby.     

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Sponsorship, Urban Regeneration and Post‐Communism

Sir Roy Shaw (ed) The Spread of Sponsorship in the Arts, Sport, Education, the Health Service and Broadcasting. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 1993)

Franco Bianchini & Michael Parkinson (eds) Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: The West European Experience (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1993)

Robert M. Reichardt & Georg Muskens (eds) Post‐communism, the Market and the Arts: First Sociological Assessments (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1992)     

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Ken Alder. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. xvi+476.

Robert Kanigel. The One Best Way: Frederick Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (New York: Viking, 1997), pp. 675.

Robert P. Crease. Making Physics. A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972 (University of Chicago Press, 1999).     

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Ruth Oldenziel, Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999), pp. 271

Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni (eds.), Management Education in Historical Perspective (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999), pp. Xiii+177

T.R. Gourvish and N. Tiratsoo (eds.), Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945–1960 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press/St. Martins, 1999), pp. X+165     

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Michael F. Holt The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp.xviii + 1248. $48/£32.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 1950 5544 6.

Susan Scheckel, The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth‐Century American Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). Pp.x + 197. $52.50/£33.00 (hardback); $17.95/£11.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 6910 5963 2; 0 6910 5964 0.

Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). Pp.xvii + 319. $45/£35.95 (hardback); $16.95/£13.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8078 2442 9; 0 8078 4746 1.

Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott: the Quest for Military Glory (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). Pp.xii + 316. $35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7006 0914 8.

David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 181. $31 (hardback); $15 (paperback). ISBN 0 2267 7668 9; ISBN 0 2267 7669 7.

Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 382. $39.95. ISBN 0 5022 1765 9.     

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Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., ‘Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830–1930,’ http://vvomhist.Binghamton.edu.

Leonard L. Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780‐1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000). Pp.xii + 228. $39.95 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8071 2537 7; 0 8071 2600 4.

Timothy S. Huebner, The Southern Judicial Tradition: Southern Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790–1890 (Athens: University of Georgia Press), 1999. Pp. xiii 4‐ 263. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 252 0634 0.

Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000). Pp.xii + 316. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 6910 0130 8.

Joseph G. Dawson III, Doniphan's Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999). Pp. xii + 325. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 7006 0956.

Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). $45.00 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). Pp.xii + 311. ISBN 0 8078 2436 4; 0 8078 4741 0.

Paul Goodman, Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998). Pp.xxi + 303. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 5202 0794 7.

Mark E. Neely Jr, Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999). Pp.vii + 212. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 8139 1894 4.

John C. Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo‐Mississippi Delta after the Civil War (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000). Pp. xiv + 239. $55.00 (hardback); $19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8139 1971 1; 0 8139 1982 7.     

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Henryk Wisner: Zygmunt III Waza [Sigismund III Vasa], Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1991. ISBN 83–04–03693–2. 263 pp., paper, illustrated.

Rolf Tamnes, The United Stales and the Cold War in the High North (Dartmouth Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vermont, 1991), 384 pp. ISBN 1–85521–223–4.

Göran Göransson, Virtus Mililaris. Ojficersideal i Sverige 1560–1718 (Officer Ideal in Sweden 1560–1718). (Bibliotheca Histórica Lundensis 68, Lund, 1990), 200pp. ISBN 91–7966–127–0. English summary.     

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Books reviewed:
Nigel Baker and Richard Holt, Urban Growth and the Medieval Church: Gloucester and Worcester.
Ann Christys, Christians in al-Andalus (711–1000).
Nicholas Everett, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568–774.
Guy Halsall, Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450–900.
Richard J. Kelly, The Blickling Homilies: Edition and Translation.
Penny MacGeorge, Late Roman Warlords.
Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art.     

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Books reviewed in this article: International Relations theory Kenneth N. Waltz: Einführung in seine Theorie und Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Kritikern. By Carlo Masala. Politics and passion: toward a more egalitarian liberalism. By Michael Walzer. International ethics The ethics of peace and war: from state security to world community. By Iain Atack. Just war theory: a reappraisal. Edited by Mark Evans. International law and organization International law and the use of force: cases and materials. By Mary Ellen O'Connell. Foreign relations The foreign policy of George W. Bush: values, strategy, and loyalty. By Alexander Moens. Conflict, security and armed forces Dying to kill: the allure of suicide terror. By Mia Bloom. My life is a weapon: a modern history of suicide bombing. By Christoph Reuter. Defense strategy for the post‐Saddam era. By Michael E. O'Hanlon. Peace operations and global order. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams. Politics, democracy and social affairs Max Weber's politics of civil society. By Sung Ho Kim. NGOs and transnational networks: wild cards in world politics. By William E. DeMars. El imperio inviable: el orden internacional tras el conflicto de Irak. Edited by Caterina García Segura and Angel J. Rodrigo Hernández. NATO and the European Union: new worlds, new Europe, new threats. Edited by Hall Gardner. Ethnicity and cultural politics Selecting by origin: ethnic migration in the liberal state. By Christian Joppke. Itinera: paradigmi delle migrazioni italiane. Edited by Maddalena Tirabassi. International and national political economy, economics and development International economic and financial cooperation: new issues, new actors, new responses. Geneva Reports on the World Economy 6. By Peter B. Kenen, Jeffrey R. Shafer, Nigel L. Wicks and Charles Wyplosz. Local enterprises in the global economy: issues of governance and upgrading. Edited by Hubert Schmitz. Energy and environment High tide: how climate crisis is engulfing our planet. By Mark Lynas. History The United States and the nuclear dimension of European integration. By Gunnar Skogmar. What Stalin knew: the enigma of Barbarossa. By David E. Murphy. Assuming the burden: Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam. By Mark Atwood Lawrence. Europe Germany, Poland and Europe: conflict, cooperation and Europeanization. By Marcin Zaborowski. The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Frank Schimmel‐fennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier. Sinn Fein and the SDLP: from alienation to participation. By Gerard Murray and Jonathan Tonge. The Balkans in the new millennium: in the shadow of war and peace. By Tom Gallagher. An international relations debacle: the UN Secretary‐General's mission of good offices in Cyprus 1999—2004. By Claire Palley. Cyprus: a modern history. By William Mallinson. Russia and Eurasia Vladimir Putin and Central Asia: the shaping of Russian foreign policy. By Lena Jonson. Virtual politics: faking democracy in the post‐Soviet world. By Andrew Wilson. Russian governance in the twenty‐first century: geo‐strategy, geopolitics and governance. By Irina Isakova. Middle East and North Africa Aid, diplomacy and facts on the ground: the case of Palestine. Edited by Michael Keating, Anne Le More and Robert Lowe. The future of Iraq: dictatorship, democracy, or division? By Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield. Iraq's future: the aftermath of regime change. By Toby Dodge. Sub‐Saharan Africa Our common interest: an argument. By the Commission for Africa. The state of Africa: a history of fifty years of independence. By Martin Meredith. Public opinion, democracy, and market reform in Africa. By Michael Bratton, Robert Mattes and E. Gyimah‐Boadi. Human rights in Africa: from the OAU to the African Union. By Rachel Murray. Africa and the North: between globalization and marginalization. Edited by Ulf Engel and Gorm Rye Olsen. The African exception. Edited by Ulf Engel and Gorm Rye Olsen. Asia and Pacific Pakistan: between mosque and military. By Husain Haqqani. Modern Mongolia: from Khans to commissars to capitalists. By Morris Rossabi. China Inc. By Ted C. Fishman. The state of China atlas: mapping the world's fastest growing economy. 2nd edn. By Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Robert Benewick. Facing death in Cambodia. By Peter Maguire. The Japanese economy and the way forward. By Rameshwar Tandon. Planning Japan's economic future. By Kyoko Sheridan. North America Running the world: the inside story of the National Security Council and the architects of American power. By David Rothkopf. Latin America and Caribbean Courts under constraints: judges, generals, and presidents in Argentina. By Gretchen Helmke.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory The morality of defensive war. By Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar. Risk and hierarchy in international society: liberal interventionism in the post‐Cold War era. By William Clapton. New constitutionalism and world order. Edited by Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler. International organization, law and ethics 1 See also Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar, The morality of defensive war, pp. 1453–4, and David Sloggett, The anarchic sea: maritime security in the 21^st century, pp. 1464–5.
Peace diplomacy, global justice and international agency: rethinking human security and ethics in the spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld. Edited by Carsten Stahn and Henning Melber. We the peoples: a UN for the 21st century. By Kofi Annan and edited by Edward Mortimer. Cyber operations and the use of force in international law. By Marco Roscini. NATO's balancing act. By David S. Yost. Conflict, security and defence The rise and fall of intelligence: an international security history. By Michael Warner. The anarchic sea: maritime security in the 21^st century. By David Sloggett. International maritime security law. By James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo. Gender, war and conflict. By Laura Sjoberg. Democratic participation in armed conflict: military involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. By Patrick A. Mello. Governance, civil society and cultural politics 1 Stephen J. C. Andes, The Vatican and Catholic activism in Mexico and Chile: the politics of transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940, pp. 1508–510.
Do Muslim women need saving? By Lila Abu‐Lughod. The Russian Orthodox Church and human rights. By Kristina Stoeckl. Political economy, economics and development Capital in the twenty‐first century. By Thomas Piketty. The system worked: how the world stopped another Great Depression. By Daniel W. Drezner. The great escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality. By Angus Deaton. The great convergence: Asia, the West, and the logic of one world. By Kishore Mahbubani. Energy, environment and global health Global resources: conflict and cooperation. Edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski. Nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: social, political and environmental issues. Edited by Richard Hindmarsh. International history July crisis: the world's descent into war, summer 1914. By T. G. Otte. The Cold War in the Third World. Edited by Robert J. McMahon. Scars of partition: postcolonial legacies in French and British borderlands. By William F. S. Miles. Europe Post‐war statebuilding and constitutional reform: beyond Dayton in Bosnia. By Sofía Sebastián‐Aparicio. The rise of Turkey: the twenty‐first century's first Muslim power. By Soner Cagaptay. Britannia and the bear: the Anglo‐Russian intelligence wars 1917–1929. By Victor Madeira. Russia and Eurasia 1 See also Kristina Stoeckl, The Russian Orthodox Church and human rights, pp. 1469–70, and Victor Madeira, Britannia and the bear: the Anglo‐Russian intelligence wars 1917–1929, pp. 1485–7.
Brothers armed: military aspects of the crisis in Ukraine. Edited by Colby Howard and Ruslan Pukhov. US foreign policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: politics, energy and security. By Christoph Bluth. Middle East and North Africa Israel since the Six‐Day War: tears of joy, tears of sorrow. By Leslie Stein. U.S.—Iran misperceptions: a dialogue. Edited by Abbas Maleki and John Tirman. Sub‐Saharan Africa Eritrea at a crossroads: a narrative of triumph, betrayal and hope. By Andebrhan Welde Giorgis. Inside South Africa's foreign policy: diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki. By John Siko. South Asia Bargaining with a rising India: lessons from the Mahabharata. By Amrita Narlikar and Aruna Narlikar. The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a forgotten genocide. By Gary Bass. 1971: a global history of the creation of Bangladesh. By Srinath Raghavan. East Asia and Pacific 1 Richard Hindmarsh, Nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: social, political and environmental issues, pp. 1477–9.
South Korea's rise: economic development, power, and foreign relations. By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig. Annual report on China's national security studies (2014). Edited by Hui Liu. Following the leader: ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. By David M. Lampton. Will China dominate the 21^st century? By Jonathan Fenby. North America 1 See also Christoph Bluth, US foreign policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: politics, energy and security, pp. 1488–9, and Abbas Maleki and John Tirman, eds, U.S.—Iran misperceptions: a dialogue, pp. 1491–2.
US foreign policy and the Iranian Revolution: the Cold War dynamics of engagement and strategic alliance. By Christian Emery. A war that can't be won: binational perspectives on the war on drugs. Edited by Tony Payan, Kathleen Staudt and Z. Anthony Kruszewski. Two nations indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the road ahead. By Shannon O'Neil. Why walls won't work: repairing the US–Mexico divide. By Michael Dear. Latin America and Caribbean Security in South America: the role of states and regional organizations. By Rodrigo Tavares. 18 dias: quando Lula e FHC se uniram para conquistar o apoio de Bush. By Matias Spektor. The Vatican and Catholic activism in Mexico and Chile: the politics of transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940. By Stephen J. C. Andes.     

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New works in geography

Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism. Gregory A. Barton. Pp. xiii + 192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 521 81417 0 (hbk).

Claiming Rural Identities: Dynamics, Contexts, Policies. Tialda Haartsen, Peter Groote &; Paulus P.P. Huigen (eds). Pp. viii + 166. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2000. Price €17.02, ISBN 90 232 3567 3 (pbk).

Geographies of Health. Anthony C. Gatrell. Pp. xv + 294. Oxford: Blackwell. 2002. Price £16.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 631 21985 4 (pbk).

The Peopling of Britain: The Shaping of the Human Landscape. Paul Slack and Ryk Ward (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002. Price £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 19 829759 9 (hbk).

Focus on Scotland

William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scottish Nationalist. Peter Speak. Pp. 144. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 2003. Price £9.99 (pbk), ISBN 1 901663 71 X (pbk).     

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AFFERGAN, F., La pluralite des mondes. Vers une autre anthropologie, Albin Michel, 1997, 288 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 22609 4067

BERNARD‐GRIFFITHS, S. (ed.), Cahier romantique no. 3: Variétés sur Michelet, Nizet, 1998, 200 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 910875 06 7

BOUVET, L., DELORS, J., KLUXEN‐PYTA, D., LAMERS, K. and ROVAN, J., France‐Allemagne: le bond en avant, Odile Jacob, 1998, 208 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 7381 0580 7

CHOLVY, G., Être chrétien en France au XIX^e siècle 1790–1914, Seuil, 1997, 178 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 02 022836 X

DEMOLINS, E., A, quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo‐Saxons?, Anthropos, 1998, 302 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 7178 3653 5

DIXON, W.W., The films of Jean‐Luc Godard, State University of New York Press, 1997, 290 pp., £10.49, ISBN 0 7914 3286 6

DUBOIS, L. (ed.), Albert Camus entre la Misère et le Soleil, Editions du Pont‐Neuf, 1997, 321 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 910351 14 9

EVANS, M. and LUNN, K., (eds), War and Memory in the Twentieth Century, Berg, 1997, 272 pp; price not indicated, ISBN 1 85973 199 6

FOUCAULT, M. (Edited by Paul Rabinów and translated by Robert Hurley et al.), Ethics: the Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 1, Penguin, 1997, 334 pp., £25.00, ISBN 0 713 99163 1

GIOLITTO, P., Histoire de la Milice, Perrin, 1997, 575 pp., 159F., ISBN 2 262 01250 4

HOLMES D. and INGRAM R., François Truffaut, Manchester University Press, 1998, 225 pp., £36.00 hbk, ISBN 0 7190 4553 3 £8.99 pbk, 0 7190 4554 1

KOK ESCALLE, M.‐C. (ed.), Paris: De l'image à la mémoire. Représentations artistiques, littéraires, socio‐politiques, Rodopi, 1997, 229 pp., price not indicated ISBN 90 420 0049 X

LE CACHEUX, J. (ed.), Europe, la nouvelle vague: perspectives économiques de l'élargissement, Presses de Sciences Po, 1996, 372 pp., 95F., ISBN 2 7246 0704 X

LENEVEU C. and VAKALOULIS M. (eds), Faire mouvement. Novembre‐décembre 1995, PUF, 1998, 314 pp., 138F., ISBN 2 13 0494889

LEP APE P., André Gide le messager, Seuil, 1997. 508 pp. 132F., ISBN 2 02 025247 3

MACMASTER, N., Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France 1900–1962, Macmillan, 1997, £40.50 hbk, 0 333 64466 2 £16.65 pbk, 0 333 68700 0

MANO, J.‐L. and BIRENBAUM, G., La défaite impossible. Enquête sur les secrets d'une élection, Ramsay, 1997, 356 pp., 109F., ISBN 2 84114 303 1

MAURY, R., Albine, le dernier amour de Napoléon, (Préface de François de Montholon‐Candé) Calmann‐Lévy, 1998, 378 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7021 2851 3

MAYOL, P., Les Enfants de la liberté. Études sur l'autonomie sociale et culturelle des jeunes en France 1970–1996, L'Harmattan, 1997, 286 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 7384 5677 4

PITTE, J.‐R., La France, Nathan, 1997, 192 pp., 69F., ISBN 2 09 190226 8

POIRRIER, P., La, Naissance, des politiques culturelles et les Rencontres d'Avignon 1964–1970, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 1997, 570 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 909 717 30 5

REARICK, C., The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars, Yale University Press, 1997, 321 pp., £25, ISBN 0 300 06433 0

REVEL, J.‐F., Le voleur dans la maison vide, Plon, 1997, 649 pp., 149 F., ISBN 2 259 18022 1

STEEGMULLER, F., Cocteau, A Biography, (translated by M. Jossua) Buchet/Chastel, 1997, 409 pp., 140F., ISBN 2 7020 1624 3

TODD, E., L'Illusion économique: essai sur la stagnation des sociétés développées, Gallimard, 1998, 321 pp., 115F., ISBN 2 07 074885 5

ZAMPONI, F., Les, RG, à, l'écoute de la France. Police et politique de 1981 à 1997, La Découverte, 1998, 300 pp., 135F., ISBN 2 7071 2821 X