Book reviews

Australian books

D. C. Dunphy, Cliques, Crowds and Gangs: Group Life of Sydney Adolescents, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 170 + xi, $4.50.

A. A. Congalton, Status and Prestige in Australia, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 160 + xvi, $7.50.

B. R. Davidson, Australia Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 264 + xiv, S3.60 (paperback), $6.60 (hard cover).

Brian Dickey (ed. and intro.), Politics in New South Wales 1856–1900, Problems in Australian History series, Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 200 + xv, $3.25.

K. L. Needham, Charles Hawker, Forlib Books, Adelaide, 1969, pp. 165 + xiv, $4.85.

Edward St. John, A Time to Speak, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 280, $1.65.

Egon F. Kunz, Blood and Gold: Hungarians in Australia, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 240, $7.50.

H. Throssell (ed.), Ethnic Minorities in Australia: The Welfare of Aborigines and Migrants, Australian Council of Social Service, Sydney, 1968, pp. 184 + viii, $3.75.

Marnie Bassett, Letters from New Guinea 1921, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 159 + x, $5.50.

Ken Turner, House of Review? The New South Wales Legislative Council, 1934–68, Sydney Studies in Politics, No. 8, Sydney University Press, 1969, pp. 164 + viii, $5.00.

Colin A. Hughes, Images and Issues: The Queensland State Elections of 1963 and 1966, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1969, pp. 364, $7.95.

Non‐Australian Books

Miles Copeland, The Came of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969, pp. 272, $6.65.

Kenneth N. Waltz, Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience, Longmans, London, 1968, pp. 331 +xii, $4.70.     

Apartment Rents: Another Challenge to the Monocentric Model

Extension of hedonic modeling strategy to the case of apartment rents in the Dallas region reveals the influence of a complex network of activity centers and highway axes. Nodes other than the CBD exert greater influence on rents than the CBD and amenity variables and externalities have both positive and negative effects. These findings demand reevaluation of the place normally assigned to higher-density rental housing in urban models.     

Limiting democracy and framing the economy: Hayek,Schmitt and ordoliberalism

This article shows how Hayek’s understanding of ‘unlimited democracy’ was influenced by the work of Carl Schmitt. It goes on to make the case that ordoliberal ideas informed his suggestions for limiting democracy, made in response to Schmitt’s work. A number of authors have drawn attention to the influence of Schmitt on Hayek’s thought. Similarly, the ordoliberal relationship has been explored. However, these two influences must be read alongside each other in order to arrive at a full understanding of Hayek’s deep ambivalence towards democracy and how that developed from the 1930s through to the 1970s. Finally, the article makes the case that the decisive influence on Hayek’s later authoritarian turn was not the work of Schmitt, as certain authors have argued, but ordoliberal interpretations of dictatorship. It also argues that Hayek’s model constitution is informed by fundamental ordoliberal concerns.     

The pectoral fin spines of European catfish Siluris glanis; cultural artifacts or food remains?

The urban archaeological site of Nicopolis ad Istrum in north central Bulgaria, which has multiple periods of use and abandonment, has produced a large and varied ichthyofauna. A number of bones of the European catfish Siluris glanis have been identified and have been interpreted as both food remains and bone artifacts. It was found that a percentage bias in the distribution of S. glanis bones from the Roman period of occupation called for further analysis. The investigation attempts to identify the reason or reasons for the apparent overrepresentation of the pectoral fin spines of this species. Taphonomic factors are considered along with butchery and an actualistic study of butchery on modern S. glanis material. Studies from north Africa are used to illustrate the possible function of the spines. The conclusions drawn are that a high proportion of the pectoral fin spines were brought into the site, possibly as personal artifacts. Their use is open to debate; no clear functional use can be determined from the archaeological material, although it cannot be ruled out that they were used for medicinal purposes or as charms.     

On the Geography of the Wars Between the Saxons of Northumberland and the Northern Britons,from the Battle of Menao to that of Kaltraez

Abstract

The techniques of spatial analysis are deployed to gain insights into the ways in which smaller churches of the 11th and 12th centuries were designed to be used. A range of plan types is discussed, including churches with one, two and three cells, linear and cross-shaped plans, and ‘round’ churches. The resulting analysis of the forms of buildings is then placed in the historical context of ecclesiastical reform, and it is argued that some of the changes in church layout were designed to separate the clergy from the laity, mirroring their increasing legal and social differentiation. It is also argued that the ways in which clergy used space were similar in all types of church examined, and that they show continuity from early Christian buildings to the late 12th and 13th centuries, when rising belief in the transubstantiation of the Host led to the evolution of new forms of clergy space     

Reviews of Book

E. BADIAN. From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 264. $32.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul Cartledge

MARK H. MUNN. The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 BC. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 258. $48.00 (US). Reviewed by W. J. Mccoy

FERGUS MILLAR. The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. xxix, 587. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Irving M. Zeitlin

JONATHAN SHEPARD and SIMON FRANKLIN, eds. Byzantine Diplomacy. Aldershot, UK: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing, 1992. Pp. xi, 333. £42.50. Reviewed by Warren Treadgold

JOHN A. LYNN, ed. Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 326. $44.50 (US). Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter

BERNARD S. BACHRACH. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987–1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 392. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts

GERD TELLENBACH. The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century, trans. Timothy Reuter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 403. $79.95 (US), cloth; $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman F. Cantor

DAVID J. WASSERSTEIN. The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 280. $78.95 (CDN). Reviewed by J. D. Latham

PAUL MAGDALINO. The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 557. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard

MAYA SHATZMILLER, ed. Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. Pp. xii, 235. $80.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Jackson

RICHARD M. EATON. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xxvii, 359. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by André Wink

ANNE CURRY. The Hundred Years War. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xiv, 192. £30.00;Reviewed by Brendan Smith

ANTHONY GOODMAN and ANTHONY TUCK, eds. War and Border Societies in the Middle Ages. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xi, 198. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Brendan Smith

ROGER C. SMITH. Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Ian Friel

JAMES C. BOYAJIAN. Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 356. $48.95 (US). Reviewed by Om Prakash

GRÀINNE HENRY. The Irish Military Community in Spanish Flanders, 1586–1621. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1992; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 208. £29.50. Reviewed by David Parrott

JOHN BREWER and ROY PORTER, eds. Consumption and the World of Goods. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xix, 564. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Linda Colley

SUDIPTA DAS. Myths and Realities of French Imperialism in India, 1763–1783. New york: Peter Lang, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 459. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by Bruce P. Lenman

BARRY GOUGH. The Falkland Islands/Malvinas: The Contest for Empire in the South Atlantic. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 212. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Glyndwr William

RICHARD ROBERTS. Schroders: Merchants and Bankers. London: Macmillan. 1993. Pp. xxiii, 616. £25.00. Reviewed by Michael Collins

PETER PARET. Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 229. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Bassford

ELIZABETH A. ELDREDGE. A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 250. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman Etherington

CECILLIE SWAISLAND. Servants and Gentlewomen to the Golden Land: The Emigration of Single Women from Britain to Southern Africa, 1820–1939. Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg Publishers Limited, 1993. Pp. xii, 186. $17.75 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson

DIRK HOERDER and HORST RÖSSLER, eds. Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840–1930. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1993. Pp. 312. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Ida Altman

MICHAEL BALFOUR. Germany: The Tides of Power. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. vii, 271. $69.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert H. Keyserlingk

W. DIRK RAAT. Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 277. $45.00 (US) cloth; $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jim Handy

ROBERT M. UTLEY. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Holt, 1993. Pp. xvii, 413. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Richmond L. Clow

ASAFA JALATA. Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868–1992. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. Pp. xiii, 233. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Harold Marcus

WILLIAM L. SACHS. The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global Communion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 386. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Andrew Chandler

MARK WYMAN. Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 267. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder

JAMES C. BRADFORD, ed. Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993; dist. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing Limited. Pp. xxii, 269. $31.95 (US). Reviewed by David Healy

GARY S. MESSINGER. British Propaganda and the State in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. x, 292. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas Reeves

DAVID W. WOODWARD. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917–1918. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Pp. x, 276. $34.00 (US). Reviewed by Kathleen Burk

BARBARA J. SMITH. The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920–1929. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 258. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Ilan Pappe

MAURICE VAÏSSE, ed. Le Pacifisme en Europe: des années 1920 aux années 1950. Brussels: Bruylant, 1993. Pp. 455. BFr. 2,400. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley

GEORGE O. LIBER. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923–1934. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 289. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by David R. Marples

RENZO DE FELICE, ed. Bibliografia Orientativa del Fascisme Rome: Bonacci Editore, 1991. Pp. x, 584. L.i 10.000. Reviewed by Richard Bosworth

YU-MING SHAW. An American Missionary in China: John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 381. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by A. Hamish Ion

ROMUALD J. MisiUNAS and REIN TAAGEPERA. The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 400. $45.00 (US), cloth; $17.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Marvin Rintala

GYÖRGY LENGYEL, ed. Hungarian Economy and Society during World War II, trans. Judit Pokoly. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 284. $34.00 (US). Reviewed by Joseph Held

HORST BOOG, ed. The Conduct of the Air War in the Second World War: An International Comparison. New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 763. $79.50 (US). Reviewed by David I. Hall

IAN MCGIBBON, ed. Undiplomatic Dialogue: Letters between Carl Berendsen and Alister McIntosh, 1943–52. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 305. $29.95 (NZ). Reviewed by Ann Trotter

FEDERICO ROMERO. The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944–1951, trans. Harvey Fergusson II. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 292. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Alan S. Milward

GEOFFREY SWAIN and NIGEL SWAIN. Eastern Europe since 1945. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xiv, 255. £35.00. Reviewed by Stephen Fischer-Galati

RONALD HYAM, ed. British Documents on the End of Empire: Series A: Volume II: The Labour Government and the End of Empire, 1945–51: Part I: High Policy and Administration. Pp. lxxiv, 372; Part II: Economics and International Relations. Pp. xxi, 498; Part III: Strategy, Politics, and Constitutional Change. Pp. xxi, 419; Part IV: Race Relations and the Commonwealth. Pp. xviii, 399. London: HMSO, 1992; dist. Lanham, MD: UNIPUB. $140.00 (us), each. Reviewed by B. R. Tomlinson

RAANAN REIN. The Franco-Perón Alliance: Relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946–1955, trans. Martha Grenzeback. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. Pp. x, 329. $4.9.95 (US). Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton

NORMAN HILMER and DONALD PAGE, eds. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: Volume XIII: 1947. Ottawa: External Affairs and International Trade Canada, 1993. Pp. xxxvii, 1,654. $99.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen

DAVID W. LESCH. Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 242. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Diane B. Kunz

PETER T. HAYDON. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Canadian Involvement Reconsidered. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1993. Pp. xii, 297. $20.00 (CDN). Reviewed by J. L. Granatstein

LENARD J. COHEN. Broken Bonds: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 299. $49.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Philip J. Adler

CLEMENT H. DODD, ed. Turkish Foreign Policy: New Prospects. Huntingdon, UK: Eothen Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 117. £12.50, paper. Reviewed by Michael B. Bishku

GREGORY F. TREVERTON. America, Germany, and the Future of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 240. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Walter B. Mead

CHIH-YU SHIH. China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Relations. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. Pp. ix, 244. $37.00 (US). Reviewed by Lucian W. Pye

MICHAEL E. BROWN, ed. Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 276. $14.95 (US). paper. Reviewed by Milton J. Esman

KEITH KRAUSE. Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 299. $4.9.95 (US). Reviewed by William H. Mcneill

T. G. FRASER and KEITH JEPFERY, eds. Men, Women, and War. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 242. £25.00. Reviewed by Brian Holden Reid

ROBERT W. MCELROY. Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 194. $14.95 (US). Reviewed by John A. Vasquez

MARTIN VAN CREVELD. Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1993. Pp. viii, 180. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence Freedman

ROGER CAREY and TREVOR C. SALMON, eds. International Security in the Modern World. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. ix, 241.£40.00. Reviewed by Tom Walker