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ERICH S. GRUEN. Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 386. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth G. Holum
ARNE SØBY CHRISTENSEN. ...Cassiodorus Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xi, 391. $49.00 (us). Reviewed by Alexander Callander Murray
BONNIE WHEELER and JOHN CARMI PARSONS, eds. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxix, 506. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Felice Lifshitz
PAUL D. BUELL. Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire. Lanham and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003. Pp. xliv, 335. $80.00 (us). Reviewed by David O. Morgan
DIETER BERG, MARTIN KINTZINGER, and PIERRE MONNET, eds. Auswärtige Politik und internationale Beziehungen im Mittelalter (13. bis 16. Jahrhundert). Bochum: Verlag Dr Dieter Winkler, 2002. Pp. 438. 61.50, paper. Reviewed by Heidrun Kugeler
DAVID BUISSERET. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 227. $54.00 (CDN).Reviewed by Marcia Kupfer
HENRY KAMEN. Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492-1763. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 608. $49.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Patrick Williams
MANSURA HAIDAR. Central Asia in the Sixteenth Century. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. Pp. 404. INR 875. Reviewed by Yuri Bregel
ANTHONY W. MARX. Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 258. $41.95 (CDN). Reviewed by John Breuilly
WILLARDJ. PETERSON, ed. The Cambridge History of China: IX: Part One: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 753. $140.00 (us). Reviewed by Timothy Brook
ERIK GØBEL. A Guide to Sources for the History of the Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands), 1671-1917. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002; dist. Pordand: ISBS. Pp. 349. $27.00 (us). Reviewed by Dave Gosse
ANDREA A. RUSNOCK. Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 249. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark Harrison
RONALD SCHECHTER. Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 331. $60.00 (us). Reviewed by Jay R. Berkovitz
NIGEL ASTON. Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 379. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark
ALAN FROST. The Global Reach of Empire: Britain's Maritime Expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, 1764-1815. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2003; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xiv, 383. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by H. V. Bowen
MICHAEL ROWE. From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 331. $65.00 (us); LOTHAR KiTTSTEiN. Politik im Zeitalter der Revolution: Untersuchungen zur preufiischen Staatlichkeit, 1792-1807. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 692. 76.00. Reviewed by Peter H. Wilson
JOHN CONNOR. The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838. Sydney: University of New Soudi Wales Press, 2002; dist. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. xii, 175. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by David Andrew Roberts
COLIN NEWBURY. Patrons, Clients, and Empire: Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 328. $72.00 (us). Reviewed by Ashley Jackson
IVAN T. BEREND. History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 330. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by ISTVÁN DEÁK
ERIC HELLEINER. The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 277. $29.95 (us); DANIEL VERDIER. Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrialized World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 311. $24.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by D. E. Moggridge
DAVID JEFFREYS, ed. Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Modern Appropriations. London and Pordand: UCL Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 223. $47.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid
INA FERRIS. The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 205. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark Canuel
PAMELA STATHAM-DREW. James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2003; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. xiv, 655. $53.93 (us). Reviewed by Alan Frost
JOSEPH C. DORSEY. Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 311. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Matt D. Childs
MARK THURNER and ANDRÉS GUERRERO, eds. After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 357. $22.95 (us), paper Reviewed by Timothy E. Anna
MICHAEL P. COSTELOE. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xxii, 259. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci
GLENN MELANCON. Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence, and National Honour, 1833-1840. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 158. $59-95 (us). Reviewed by Margaret Lamb
ANDREW G. BROWN. Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850-2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 254. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Patricia Clavin
GEORG LEHNER and MONIKA LEHNER. Österreich-Ungarn und der 'Boxeraufstand' in China. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2002. Pp. 739. €43.50, paper. Reviewed by Jürgen Osterhammel
OLLI VEHVILAINEN and ATTILA PÓK, eds. Hungary and Finland in the 20th Century, Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp. 201. $24.95 (US), paper; OLLI VEHVILÄINEN. Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia, trans. Gerard McAlester. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. x, 199. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Thomas Munch-Petersen
EDWARD J. ERICKSON. Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913.Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xxiv,403. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Bülent Gökay
WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER, ed. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 251. $44.95 (us). Reviewed by Anne-Emanuelle Birn
MENNO SPIERING and MICHAEL WINTLE, eds. Ideas of Europe since 1914: The Legacy of the First World War. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xiii, 208. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Geoff Eley
MARY R. HABECK. Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 309. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by David R. Stone
LORRAINE COONS and ALEXANDER VARIAS. Tourist Third Cabin: Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xxv, 294. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie
BENJAMIN L. ALPERS. Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s. Chapel Hill and London: University of Nordi Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 405. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Taylor
TIMOTHY J. PARIS. Britain, the Hashemites, and Arab Rule, 1920-1925: The Sherifian Solution. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvi, 391. $64.50 (us). Reviewed by Derek Hopwood
ROBERT MALLETT. Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. ix, 266. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Alan Cassels
G. BRUCE STRANG. On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xv, 375. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Alexander De Grand
RICHARD A. ETLIN, ed. Art, Culture, and Media under the Third Reich. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 384. $25.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Peter Paret
JULIAN JACKSON. The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 274. $46.95 (CDN); TALBOT C. IMLAY. Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 393. $180.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite
EMILY S. ROSENBERG. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 236. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by Michael Schaeller
BRIAN FARRELL and SANDY HUNTER, eds. Sixty Tears On: The Fall of Singapore Revisited. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2002; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp. xvi, 359. $39.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by J. H. Straczek
JAMES HINTON. Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 267. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Lucy Noakes
GEIR LUNDESTAD. The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From 'Empire' by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 331. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Bruce Kuklick
ÉVA FODOR. Working Difference: Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 207. $18.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by C. Earl Edmondson
ODD ARNE WESTAD. Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 413. $65.
