Northern Nyasaland

The restructuring of the pulp and paper industry in the European Community is examined. The factors underlying recent restructuring are evaluated in the light of the impending creation of a Single European Market. Two main sets of factors are identified. ‘Pull’ factors relate directly to Europe as a unified market. ‘Push’ factors relate to sources of supply, as well as to markets.     

Review of Books

GORDON MAXWELL. A Battle Lost: Romans and Caledonians at Mons Graupius. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; dist., New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 138. $15.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by A.R. Birley

ANDRÉ WINK. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Volume I: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th–11th Centuries. Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1990. Pp. viii, 396. $82.50 (us). Reviewed by D.N. MacLean

PETER EDBURY. The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 241. $44.50 (us). Reviewed by James A. Brundage

THEO HOLZAPFEL. Papst Innozenz III., Philipp II. August König von Frankreich und die englisch-welfische Verbindung 1198–1216. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. Pp. 334. $68.00 (us). Reviewed by H.E J. Cowdrey

DIRK H.A. KOLFF. Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 217. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Richard B. Barnett

KIRKPATRICK SALE. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. Pp. 451. £17.95; Reviewed by G.V. Scammell

DAVID HENIGE. In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 359. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by G.V. Scammell

DANIEL GOFFMAN. Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550–1650. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 236. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Salih ÖZbaran

ALBERT HOURANI. Islam in European Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 199. $34.50 (us). Reviewed by Michael Curtis.

HEDLEY BULL, BENEDICT KINGSBURY, and ADAM ROBERTS, eds. Hugo Grotius and International Relations. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 331. $96.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Cornelius F. Murphy, Jr.

MICHAEL ROBERTS. From Oxenstierna to Charles XII: Four Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 202. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by David Kirby

JACK VERNEY. The Good Regiment: The Carignan-Salières Regiment in Canada 1665–1668. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 222. $34-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay Cassel.

SERGEI SOLOVIEV. History of Russia: Volume XLVIII: The Rule of Catherine the Great: War, Diplomacy and Domestic Affairs, 1771–1774, ed. and trans. George E. Munro. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 339. $33.00 (us). Reviewed by John T. Alexander.

W.J. WOOD. Battles of the Revolutionary War: 1775–1781. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990. Pp. xxxii, 315. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Paul David Nelson.

ECKHART HELLMUTH, ed. The Transformation of Political Culture: England and Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 597. $132.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Daniel Moran.

ROBERT D. BILLINGER, JR. Metternich and the German Question: States' Rights and Federal Duties, 1820–1834. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991. Pp. 230. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence J. Flockerzie.

RICHARD J.B. BOSWORTH and SERGIO ROMANO, eds. La politica estera italiana, 1860–1985. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991. Pp. 360. L. 38,000. Reviewed by Alan Cassels.

WILLIAM CARR. The Origins of the Wars of German Unification. London and New York: Longman, 1991. Pp. xiv, 239. £8.99, paper. Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener.

ALLAN MITCHELL. The Divided Path: The German Influence on Social Reform in France after 1870. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 410. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Patricia E. Prestwich.

ULRICH HERBERT. A History of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880–l980: Seasonal Workers/Forced Laborers/Guest Workers, trans. William Templer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 310. $48.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert G. Moeller.

MICHAEL FRöHLICH. Von Konfiontation zur Koexistenz: Die deutsch-englischen Kolonialbeziehungen in Afrika zwischen 1884 und 1914. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr N. Brockmeyer, 1990. Pp. 371. DM 54,80. Reviewed by Woodruff D. Smith.

RHODRI WILLIAMS. Defending the Empire: The Conservative Party and British Defence Policy 1899–1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 306. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Keith Neilson

FRANK FIELD. British and French Writers of the First World War: Comparative Studies in Cultural History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 280. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by Paul Delany.

ANATOLE C. J. BOGACKI. A Polish Paradox: International and the National Interest in Polish Communist Foreign Policy 1918–1948. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs; dist., New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 320. $37.00 (us). Reviewed by David Mayers.

ALAN SHARP. The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xi, 243. £35.00. Reviewed by Gordon Martel.

NICHOLAS R. CLIFFORD. Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the 1920s. Hanover, N.H. and London: University Press of New England, 1991. Pp. xvi, 361. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Parks M. Coble.

ROBERT GORDON KAUFMAN. Arms Control during the Pre-Nuclear Era: The United States and Naval Limitation between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 289. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Francis M. Carroll.

ALFREDO JOSÉ SCHWARCZ. Y a pesar de todo …: Losjudios de habla alemana en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, Colecciín Estudios Politicos y Sociales, 1991. Pp. 317. No Price Available; Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

CARLOTA JACKISCH. El nazismo y los refugiados alemanes en la Argentina, 1933– 1945. Buenos Aires: Editorial de Belgrano, 1989. Pp. 306. No Price Available; Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

OLGA ELAINE ROJER. Exile in Argentina, 1933–1945: A Historical and Literary Introduction.. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Pp. 250. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

NEIL V. SALZMAN. Reform and Revolution: The Life and Times of Raymond Robins. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 472. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Bruce S. Greenawalt.

EDWARD M. BENNETT. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939–1945. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990. Pp. xxvii, 207. $40.00 (us), cloth; $13.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Sean Dennis Cashman.

DAVID F. SCHMITZ and RICHARD D. CHALLENER, eds. Appeasement in Europe: A Reassessment of US Policies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 166. $3795 (us). Reviewed by D. Cameron Watt

JOHN CARVER EDWARDS. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich. New York: Praeger, 1991. Pp. x, 238. $21.95 (us). Reviewed by Justus D. Doenecke

TERRY COPP and BIIL MCANDREW. Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939–1945. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 249. $29.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert. J.T. Joy.

ROBERT BOH N, JÜRGEN EL VERT, HAIN REBAS, MICHAEL SALEWSKI, eds. Neutralität und totalitäre Aggression: Nordeuropa und die Großmächte im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991, Pp. xii, 435. DM 128; Reviewed by Martin kitchen.

IZIDORS VIZULIS. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: The Baltic Case. New York: Praeger, 1990. Pp. vi, 176. $38.95 (us). Reviewed by Martin Kitchen.

P.M.H. BELL. John Bull and the Bear: British Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union 1941–1945. London: Edward Arnold, 1990. Pp. x, 214. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Gordon W. Morrell.

AVIEL ROSHWALD. Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 315. $63.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Michael Fry.

HENRY ROUSSO. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 384. $37.50 (us). Reviewed by Robert J. Young.

JOSEPH SMITH, ed. The Origins of NATO. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 173. £6.95. Reviewed by S. Victor Papacosma

PETER L. HAHN. The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945–1956: Strategy, Diplomacy in the Early Cold War. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. x, 359. $37.50 (us); Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen.

DAVID R. DEVEREUX. The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948–56. London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp. xi, 241.,£35.00. Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen.

JAMES BARBER and JOHN BARRATT. South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945–1988. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 398. $54.50 (us), cloth; $16.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ritchie Ovendale.

CHESTER J. PACH, JR. Arming the Free World: The Origins of the United States Military Assistance Program, 1945–1050. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. x, 322. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by Steven L. Rearden.

JOEL J. SOKOLSKY. Seapower in the Nuclear Age: The United States and NATO 1949–80. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xi, 221. £35.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey Till.

LESTER D. LANGLEY. Mexico and the United States: The Fragile Relationship. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Pp. xvi, 138. $27.95 (us), cloth; $13.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Don M Coerver.

MARTIN S. NAVIAS. Nuclear Weapons and British Strategic Planning, 1955–1958. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 269. $76.50 (us). Reviewed by John Baylis.

GLEN BALFOUR-PAUL. The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Relinquishment of Power in the Last Three Arab Dependencies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxiii, 278. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Michael B. Bishku.

SANTOSH MEHROTRA. India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 243. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Colin Lawson.

JAMES MAYALL and ANTHONY PAYNE, eds. The Fallacies of Hope: The Post Colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. 218. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Robin W. Winks.

BARRY H. STEINER. Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. Pp. xvi, 367. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Edward Rhodes.

R.B. SMITH. An International History of the Vietnam War. Volume III: The Making of a Limited War 1965–66. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xiv, 490. £4500. Reviewed by John M. Carland.

BRIAN VANDEMARK. Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 268. $22.95 (us); Reviewed by Gary R. Hess.

ELIZABETH JANE ERRINGTON and B.J.C. MCKERCHER, eds. The Vietnam War as History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 196. $45.00 (us); Reviewed by Gary R. Hess.

ELIZABETH NORMAN. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. x, 211. $36.95 (us), cloth; $14.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Gary R. Hess.

RICHARD A. MELANSON. Reconstructing Consensus: American Foreign Policy since the Vietnam War. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. viii, 248. £9.99. Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen.

F. ROBERT HUNTER. The Palestinian Uprising: A War by Other Means. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 292. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod.

JONATHAN HASLAM. The Soviet Union and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1969–87. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 227. $13.95 (us). paper. Reviewed by Paul Buteux

HENRY T. BERNSTEIN. And None Afraid: Soviet-Western Suspicion and Trusting from Red October to Glasnost Dialogue. Oxford: Baardwell, 1991. Pp. 240. £ 19.95. Reviewed by J.L Black.

CLAYTON R. NEWELL. The Framework of Operational Warfare. London and New York: Roudedge, 1991. Pp. xiv, 186. £25.00. REviewed by K.E. Hamburger

PAUL KENNEDY, ed. Grand Strategies in War and Peace. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 228. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Gordon A. Craig.

MICHAEL HOWARD. The Lessons of History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. 217. $27.50 (us). Reviewed by M.L. Dockrill.     

Book Reviews

Cultural heritage is of immense importance in the construction of identities and, therefore, the behaviour of society. It is argued here that traditional approaches, reflected in British government legislation and policy, ignore elements integral to community perceptions of cultural heritage. The current framework of heritage management also hinders practitioners from exploring, conserving, presenting and challenging these constructs This paper calls for the development of integrated and inclusive heritage‐management practice and a recognition of the contribution of recent research into constructs of cultural heritage It is argued that there is a need to investigate the opportunities for, and feasibility of, developing more integrated approaches that reflect the diverse and joined‐up nature of cultural heritage.     

Containing containment: rethinking Italy's experience during the Cold War

This article examines the impact of the Cold War on the Italian political system. It compares the relations of the two main Italian parties - the DC and the PCI - with their external interlocutors and allies - the USA and the USSR - during the first decade of the Cold War. By doing so, the article rejects traditional interpretations of how post-Second World War international constraints limited Italy's sovereignty. It argues instead that the main Italian pro-western party, the Christian Democrats, deliberately opted for a policy of containment of American pressures. Such a policy was functional to the twin objectives of consolidating DC hegemony, and safeguarding Italy's new republican constitution.     

Communities of kin and English landed gentry families of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

This article focuses on the kinship networks of the landed gentry of Devon, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire in the modern period. Using national census household returns, the visitors’ books of a Devon gentry family and correspondence the article reveals dense and meaningful kinship networks centred on the main country house but also woven into the wider familial world of the gentry. Whenever possible, the inheritance of landed estates passed through the male line. But kin networks were bilateral, founded on both birth and marriage, on relations both through the male and the female line. Kin relations provided a range of services within a culture of visiting, epistolary practice and affection, which generated close and cherished family ties.     

“Global/local” community engagement: advancing integrative learning and situated solidarity

This article illustrates how “global/local” community engagement, a particular form of experiential learning and political work that draws upon geography conceptually, pedagogically, and programmatically, is well suited to advance integrative learning and invite students into social action. Through specific examples from Mount Holyoke College, we argue that “global/local” community engagement helps students cultivate the skills and dispositions of reciprocity, reflexivity, and place-based and interdependent knowledge production. These are habits of mind and patterns of praxis necessary for enacting “situated solidarity,” a practice with great potential for grappling with the complex challenges and marked divisiveness of the twenty-first century. As our empirical examples demonstrate, the geographic concept of contour lines matched with the pedagogies of accompaniment and co-labor guide “global/local” community engagement. We conclude with a set of recommendations for implementing “global/local” community engagement in other institutions of higher education to reveal the context-specificity of our examples and the possibilities for application elsewhere.     

In the Shadow of Globalization: The European Community and the United States in the GATT Negotiations of the Tokyo Round (1973–1979)

This article explores the trade negotiations between the United States and the European Community in the Tokyo Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations, held in Geneva from 1973 to 1979. The article shows how the economic turbulence and the different domestic stances and policies toward the globalizing economy split the Western members of GATT into two camps. Countries, like France and the United Kingdom, less well equipped to face increased worldwide competition and the economic crisis were not keen on trade liberalization. Countries, like the United States and Germany, better equipped to face worldwide competition and in favour of policies that strengthened it, saw trade liberalization as the right path. Eventually, under US President Jimmy Carter's leadership and with the key support of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the results of the Round reflected a vote in favour of liberalizing international trade. Thus, the Round was shaped by the globalizing economy but, at the same time, its results gave further impetus to the globalization wave that would reach full swing in the 1980s–1990s. The GATT talks took place in the shadow of globalization: while attempting to govern the process, also built it up.     

Building homeland heritage: multiple homes among the Chinese diaspora and the politics on heritage management in China

Community involvement is arguably a key component behind sustainable heritage management. Under strict government control, however, local community-led initiatives are difficult to find in China. Nonetheless, through remittances and philanthropic contributions to their respective communities, the Chinese diaspora have long been seen as an important source of foreign capital and a driving force behind homeland development. A transregional study (mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada) was carried out to explore the relationship between local communities in China and the diaspora, how each party was involved (or not) and the factors that affect their engagement in a government-initiated clanship heritage project in post-reform China. Investigating how different ‘associated people’ perceive, construct and even manipulate heritage, this study found that participation is not only related to wealth, success or status, but also to residential orientations, self-perceptions of the motherland and notions of authentic and/or symbolic roots. The study offers insight into the nature and politics of heritage management in contemporary China. Furthermore, it contributes to our understanding of how multiple homes can affect diasporic interpretations of, and connections with, the homeland.     

Developing Psychogeriatric Services in England: A Turning Point in the 1960s?

Attitudes towards autonomy and personal freedom changed in the 1960s in England, but hardly touched the needs of dependent older people. In particular, deeply embedded public and professional attitudes and priorities linked to little change in ‘psychogeriatric’ treatment for those who were mentally unwell. Total beds in psychiatric hospitals decreased, but those remaining were increasingly and disproportionately occupied by older people receiving custodial care, often long term, despite evidence that appropriate treatment could prevent admission and facilitate discharge. Widely publicised scandals of inhumane care of older people in psychiatric hospitals prompted a more responsive government approach to improving services.     

Broken Windows Policing and Constructions of Space and Crime: Flatbush,Brooklyn

While broken windows policing has triggered explosive debates about law enforcement and racism across US cities, it has maintained considerable support by racialized urbanites. Focusing on Flatbush, Brooklyn, this paper seeks to understand the striking resilience of broken windows in inner‐city contexts. It uses Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory to analyze dialogue at Precinct Community Council meetings and interviews with attendees. The paper makes the case that the New York Police Department normalizes broken windows through discursive constructions of social space and crime that naturalize the precinct scale, produce spatial meanings, and cast social difference in the mold of broken windows theory. The article illustrates beyond the politics of racialized fearmongering, the normalization of broken windows also occurs through this meticulous production of geographic knowledge. It also emphasizes that deconstructing the way the police portray space and crime provides signposts for substantive reform to broken windows.