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ERIC L.JONES. Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 297. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Harold James
LINDSAY ...ALLEN. The Persian Empire: A History. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Tuplin
GWYN MORGAN. 6g AD: The Year of the Four Emperors. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi,322. $40.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Barbara Levick
BRUCE L. BATTEN. Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 183. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Mark J. Hudson
CARTER VAUGHN FINDLEY. The Turks in World History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 300. $26.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Colin Heywood
NORMAN HOUSLEY. Contesting the Crusades. Maiden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xiii, 198. $29.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Peter W. Edbury
MICHAELJ. LEVIN. Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 228. $39-95 (US); R. J. WALSH. Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxxiv, 478. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Toby Osborne
MICHAEL A. PALMER. Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 377. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by William S. Cormack
SUSANNA BURGHARTZ, ed. Inszenierte Welten: Die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590-1630. Staging New Worlds: De Brys' Illustrated Travel Reports, 1590-1630. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2004. Pp. 199. €54.50. Reviewed by Elmer Kolfin
ARTHUR JAY KLINGHOFFER. The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xv, 192. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Patricia Seed
C. PATTERSON GIERSCH. Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 308. $49-95 (US).Reviewed by Joanna Waley-Cohen
N. A. M. RODGER. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815. New York, NY and London: W. W. Norton, 2005. Pp. lxv, 907. $45.00 (US). Reviewed Daniel A. Baugh
RAYMOND HYLTON. Ireland's Huguenots and Their Refuge, 1662-1745: An Unlikely Haven. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 226. $69.50 (US). Reviewed by Ruth Whelan
MARIEKE DE GOEDE. Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii, 235. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by JU Best
ROBIN LAW. Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port', 1727-l892. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 308. $49.95 (US), cloth; $29-95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Davod Eltis
COLIN G. CALLOWAY. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 219. $35.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Trevor Burnard
PAUL D'ARCY. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 292. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by I. C. Campbell
FRANCIS M. CARROLL. The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796-1996. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 281. $29.95 (US), paper.Reviewed by Diane Kirby
ERIC BURIN. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xiv, 223. $101.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Manisha Sinha
MICHAEL L. TATE. Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 328. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by David La Vere
ROBERT HOLLAND and DIANA MARKIDES. The British and the Hellenes: Struggles for Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1850-1960. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 266. $165.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Robert Frazier
DAVID G. ATWILL. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Evelyn S. Rawski
ULRICH PALLUA. Eurocentrism, Racism, Colonialism in the Victorian and Edwardian Age: Changing Images of Africa(ns) in Scientific and Literary Texts. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2005. Pp. 263. €39.00. Reviewed by Antoinette Burton
HAROLD L. PLATT. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform, of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 628. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by Helen Meller
TIMOTHY H. PARSONS. Race, Resistance, and the. Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 318. $59-95 (US). Reviewed by Christopher Youé
MANUS I. MIDLARSKY. The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 463. $28.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Howard Adelman
VOLKER R. BERGHAHN. Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 163. $24.95 (US); TOM BUCHANAN. Europe's Troubled Peace, l945-2000. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. xiii, 356. $34.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Aviel Roshwald
MATTHEW S. SELIGMANN. Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 272. $139.50 (CDN). Reviewed by David French
JAY WINTER and ANTOINE PROST. The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 250. $28.99 (US), paper. Reviewed by Gary Sheffield
MATTHEW HUGHES and WILLIAM J. PHILPOTT. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Mac-millan, 2005. Pp. vi, 108. $19.95 (US)i paper. Reviewed by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
JOHN BROOKS. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle oj Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiv, 321. $115.00 (US). Reviewed by Greg Kennedy
NICOLETTA F. GULLACE. 'The Blood of Our Sons': Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 284. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Reznick
MICHAEL KELLOGG. The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 327. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by István Deák
JONATHAN ROSENBERG. HOW Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 316. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen
GEORGE MCKAY. Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 357. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Lewis Porter
RICHARD BESSEL. Nazism and War. London: Orion Books, 2005. Pp. 276. £7.99, paper; KIRAN KLAUS PATEL. Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, trans. Thomas Dunlap. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 446. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Michael Thad Allen
MANUELA A. WILLIAMS. Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940. London and New York, NY: Rout-ledge, 2006. Pp. xii, 238. $120.00 (US).Reviewed by Alexander De Grand
CORNELIS A. VAN MINNEN. Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xvi, 352. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Bert Zeeman
EVAN MAWDSLEY. Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945. London: Hodder Arnold; dist. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvi, 502. $66.50 (CDN).Reviewed by Martin Kitchen
ROBERT L. MCLAUGHLIN and SALLY E. PARRY. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema (luring World War II. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. ix, 357. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Gregory D. Black
KEITH D. MCFARLAND and DAVID L. ROLL. Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 452. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew J. Dunar
PRUE TORNEY-PARLICKI. Behind the News: A Biography of Peter Russo. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2005; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. xii, 412. $35-95, paper.Reviewed by David Day
BARAK KUSHNER. The Thought War: Japanese, Imperial Propaganda. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 242. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter Duus
MARTIN F. AUGER. Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and 'Enemy Aliens' in Southern Quebec, 1940-46. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 227. $29.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Chris Madsen
ROBERT E. HERZSTEIN. Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 346. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by T. Christopher Jespersen
ADAM CHAPNICK. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 210. $29.95 (CDN), paper.Reviewed by Patrick H. Brennan
DEBORAH KISATSKY. The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 237. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Jussi M. Hanhimäki
ROBERT L. TIGNOR. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press,
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MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ABERBACH. The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman.
MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ...ABERBACH. The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman.
BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. A History of the Church in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 1,232. $140.00 (us). Reviewed by Andrew C. Ross.
TIMOTHY REUTER, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: III: c. 900-c. 1024. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 863. $110.00 (us). Reviewed by John J. Contreni.
JOSEPH P. HUFFMAN. The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. x, 361. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benjamin Arnold.
ROBERT CHAZAN. God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 270. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith.
BERNARD HAMILTON. The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 288. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Peter Edbury.
LAURIE SHEPARD. Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999. Pp. xxii, 240. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Pennington.
PETER RUSSELL. Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 448. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Francis A. Dutra.
CHRISTINE SHAW. The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 257. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Julius Kirshner.
DANIELA FRIGO, ed. Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450-1800, trans. Adrian Belton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. v, 262. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Antonio Santosuosso.
LEE A. CRAIG and DOUGLAS FISHER. The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration, and Cycles, 1500-1913. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xii, 389. $120.00 (us). Reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson.
IDA ALTMAN. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 254. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by John E. Kicza.
IAN NISH and YOICHI KIBATA, eds., with assistance from TADASHI KURAMATSU. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations: I: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 282. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Roger Buckley.
KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 297. $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon.
DAVID ELTIS. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 353. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan.
PHILIP D. CURTIN. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 294. $27.95 (us). Reviewed by J. A. De Moor.
WILLIAM R. NESTER. The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1775. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xiii, 326. $69.50 (us); WILLIAM R. NESTER. The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. ix, 308. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by John Grenier.
GLENN J. AMES. Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640-1683. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000; dist. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 262. $34.50 (us). Reviewed by M. N. Pearson.
PETER T. BRADLEY and DAVID CAHILL. HabsburgPeru: Images, Imagination, and Memory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 167. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien.
KLAUS J. BADE. Europa in Bewegung: Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000. Pp. 510. DM 58.90. Reviewed by Pieter Emmer.
D. DENNIS HUDSON. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. Grand Rapids and Richmond, UK: William B. Eerdman's and Curzon Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 220. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Penelope Carson.
ROBIN EAGLES. Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. x, 229. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark.
NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV. Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760-1819. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxi, 197. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Rhinelander.
H. W. BRANDS. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday, 2000; dist. Toronto: Random House. Pp. vi, 759. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan.
ELIGA H. GOULD. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xxiv, 262. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by K. David Milobar.
STUART ANDREWS. The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 280. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Hannah Barker.
ANNE-MAREE WHITAKER. Joseph Foveaux: Power and Patronage in Early New South Wales. Sydney: University of New Soudi Wales Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 257. $29.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John Gascoigne.
STEVEN E. MAFFEO. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xxvii, 355. $32.95 (us). Reviewed by Paul Webb.
STEPHEN HOWE. Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 334. £25.00. Reviewed by Deirdre Mcmahon.
ELIZABETH SIBERRY. The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii, 228. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Malcolm C. Barber.
DAVID R. MEYER. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 272. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk.
CLARE ANDERSON. Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 192. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony J. Barker.
PATRICIA LEE SYKES. Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiii, 399. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Kendrick A. Clements.
OLIVER MARSHALL, ed. English-Speaking Communities in Latin America. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 387. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr..
CHERYL MCEWAN. Gender, Geography, and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. ix, 250. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Helen Callaway.
OWEN WHITE. Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, i895-1960. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 200. $116.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gregory Mann.
JULIANNA PUSKÁS. Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States, trans. Zora Ludwig. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. Pp. xix, 444. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Kivisto.
J. R. MCNEILL. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 421. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Vaclav Smil.
LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH. Creating International Studies: Angell, Mitrany, and the Liberal Tradition. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. vii, 200. $65.95 (us). Reviewed by Charles C. Pentland.
MARK CORNWALL. The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvi, 485. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by.
ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FÖRSTER, eds. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 531. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett.
VEJAS GABRIEL LIULEVICIUS. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Modris Eksteins.
CHRISTOPHER M. BELL. The Royal Navy, Seapower, and Strategy between the Wars. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 232. $51.00 (us). Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton.
JOHN SMITH, ed. Administering Empire: The British Colonial Service in Retrospect. London: University of London Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 350. £22.50. Reviewed by John W. Cell.
DAVID R. STONE. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. vii, 287. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by R. W. Davies.
JULIAN BULLARD and MARGARET BULLARD, eds. Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-1934. Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Day Books, 2000. Pp. x, 310. £19.50. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley.
ROBERT W. THURSTON and BERND BONWETSCH, eds. The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000; dist: Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 275. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Paul Dukes.
EYAL ZISSER. Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xiii, 297. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Farid El Khazen.
GEORG KREIS, ed. Switzerland and the Second World War. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xvii, 378. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Jean-Christian Lambelet.
GÜNTER BISCHOF. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55: The Leverage of the Weak. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xvii, 237. $72.00 (us). Reviewed by Norman
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Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (US). Reviewed by W. Warren Wagar
Alfred W. Crosby. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through ...History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 206. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by William H. Mcneill
Edwin G. Pulleyblank. Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, Variorum, 2002. Pp. xii, 312. $105.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicola Di Cosmo
Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Chandra R. De Silva
Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Edbury
Thomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 245. 860.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard
Haim Beinart. The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. Pp. xv, 591. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
H. G. Koenigsberger. Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 381. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Christine Kooi
Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward Furgol
Alastair Hamilton. Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age. London and Oxford: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 134. £60.00. Reviewed by Deborah Howard
HARRY G. GELBER. Nations out of Empires: European Nationalism and the Transformation of Asia. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Fred Halliday
Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 446. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by John Craig
Jeremy Black. European International Relations, 1648-1815. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 274. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jennifer Mori
Mlada Bukovansky. Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 255. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Norman Hampson
Patricia Seed. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 299. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Sarah H. Hill
Patrick Griffin. The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 244. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by K. David Milobar
Thomas Philipp. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 299. $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by DINA Rizk Khoury
Don H. Doyle. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 130. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Enrico Dal Lago
Charles John Fedorak. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801-1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 268. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. Cookson
Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, eds. Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts, and Consequences of the Act of Union. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 270. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jim Smyth
Klaus Gallo. Great Britain and Argentina: From Invasion to Recognition, 1806-26. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vi, 195. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew S. Thompson
Rory Muir. Salamanca 1812. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 322. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Thorburn Herzog
William Barr, ed. and annotated. From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 330. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by William R. Morrison
Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, eds. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 444. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David Clayton
John Mason Hart. Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp.xi, 677. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas Schoonover
Jeremy Black. Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 243. $19.95 (US)J paper; Jeremy Black, ed. European Warfare, 1815-2000. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vii, 247. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by Craig Gibson
Paul B. Miller. From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 277. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Martin Ceadel
David Healy. James G. Blaine and Latin America. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 278. $39-95 (US). Reviewed by Edward P. Crapol
Rolf Hobson. Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea Power, and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875-1914. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. x, 358. $90.00 (US). Reviewed by John Beeler
Roderick R. McLean. Royalty and Diplomacy in Europe, 1890-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 239. $54.95 (US). Reviewed by David French
Philippe Chassaigne and Michael Dockrill, eds. Anglo-French Relations, 1898-1998: From Fashoda to Jospin. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 211. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Anthony Adamthwaite
Rebecca E. Karl. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 314. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joan Judge
Christopher Mckee. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp.285. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Geoffrey Till
Andrew Mango. Atatürk. London: John Murray, 2001. Pp. xiii, 666. £18.00, paper. Reviewed by Frank Tachau
Susan Solomon. The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 383. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Bryan C. Storey
Jaroslaw Suchoples. Finland and the United States, 1917-1919: The Early Years of Mutual Relations, trans. Tadeuz Z. Wolahski. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 221. $29.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David W. McFadden
David Henry Slavin. Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 300. $42.50 (US). Reviewed by †William B. Cohen
David French. Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany, 1919-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 319. 821.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by B. J. C. McKercher
Joseph Moretz. The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xxi, 292. $57.50 (US). Reviewed by Keith Neilson
Frances Gouda with Thus Brocades Zaalberg. American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2002. Pp. 382. €31.90, paper. Reviewed by Gary R. Hess
György Péteri. Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929, trans. Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder and Wayne: East European Monographs and Center for Hungarian Studies, 2002; dist. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 199. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Jürgen Nautz
David Dutton. Neville Chamberlain. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 245. £12.99 paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. Maiolo
Steven T. Ross, ed. US War Plans: 1938-1945. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2002. Pp. ix, 371. $89.95 (US) Reviewed by Allan R. Millett
Radomir Luza with Christina Vella. The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 295. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Igor Lukes
Nicholas Tarling. A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. $36.00 (US). Reviewed by Nicholas J. White
Andrew J. Whitfield. Hong Kong, Empire, and the Anglo-American Alliance at War, 1941-45. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii, 266. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Chan Lau Kit-Ching
James McAllister. NO Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943-1954. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 283. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Frank Ninkovich
Peter C. Kent. The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII: The Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943-1950. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 321. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Owen Chadwick
Tim Jones. Postwar Counterinsurgency and the SAS, 1945-1952: A Special Type of Warfare. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xxii, 233. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Colin McInnes
Richard Overy. Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945. New York and London: Viking, 2001. Pp. xxii, 650. $32.95 (US). Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda
Joy Damousi. Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Grief in Postwar Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 240. $60.00 (US). Review
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BERNARD S. BACHRACH. The Anatomy of a Little War: A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair, 568-586. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 283. $49.85 (us). Reviewed by Paul ...Fouracre
P. M. HOLT. Early Mamluk Diplomacy, 1260-1290: Treaties of Baybars and Qalāwūn with Christian Rulers. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. Pp. viii, 161. $64.75 (us). Reviewed by Peter W. Edbury
S. C. ROWELL. Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi, 375. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by David M. Goldfrank
CEMAL KAFADAR. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 221. $48.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard Blackburn
L. CARL BROWN, ed. Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 337. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by Virginia H. Aksan
LARRY J. SIMON, ed. Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns, SJ: Volume 1: Proceedings from Kalamazoo. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. Pp. xxvi, 373. $87.75 (us). Reviewed by Maya Shatzmiller
JOHN CUMMINS. Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 348. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by G. V. Scammell
STEPHEN SAUNDERS WEBB. Lord Churchill's Coup: The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Pp. xiv, 399. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by Ian K. Steele
JAMES PRITCHARD. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Naval Expedition to North America. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 322. $39.95 (CDN); Reviewed by John A. Lynn
WILLIAM S. CORMACK. Revolution and Political Conflict in the French Navy, 1789-1794. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 343. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by John A. Lynn
NICHOLAS TRACY. Manila Ransomed: The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Tears War. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995. Pp. x, 158. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by N. A. M. Rodger
GÜNTHER HEYDEMANN. Konstitution gegen Revolution. Die britische Deutschldndund Italienpolitik 1815-1848. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1995. Pp. 404. DM 120.00. Reviewed by Paul W. Schroeder
LIONEL CAPLAN. Warrior Gentlemen: 'Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995. Pp. ix, 181. $32.00 (us). Reviewed by David Omissi
DIRK HOERDER and JÖRG NAGLER, eds. People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 433. $79.95(us). Reviewed by Gerhard P. Bassler
JOHN M. MACKENZIE. Orientalism: History, Theory, and the Arts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xxii, 232. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Dane Kennedy
THEOPHILUS C. PROUSIS. Russian Society and the Greek Revolution. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 259. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by Paschalis M. Kitromilides
GED MARTIN. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 388. $22.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Bruce A. Knox
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON. Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 448. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by David P. Forsythe
ANDRZEJ GARLICKI. Jözef Pitsudski, 1867-1935, trans. John Coutouvidis. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1995; dist. Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Company. Pp. xvii, 199. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Kay Lundgreen-Nielsen
JAMES WILLIAM PARK. Latin American Underdevelopment: A History of Perspectives in the United States, 1870-1965. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 274. $37-50 (us). Reviewed by David Sheinin
JEREMY ADELMAN. Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 322. $100.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gerald Friesen
THOMAS M. PRYMAK. Mykola Kostomarov: A Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xxiii, 263. $60.00 (CDN); Reviewed by David Saunders
ANNA PROCYK. Russian Nationalism and Ukraine: The Nationality Policy of the Volunteer Army during the Civil War. Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 202. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by David Saunders
DAVID E. TORRANCE. The Strange Death of the Liberal Empire: Lord Selborne in South Africa. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 286. $55.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Donald Denoon
CRAWFORD YOUNG. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 356. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Robert Hollan
BORIS BARTH. Die deutsche Hochfinanz und die Imperialismen. Banken und Außenpolitik vor 1914. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. Pp. 505. DM 136.00, paper. Reviewed by Woodruff D. Smith
MARTIN SAMUELS. Command or Control? Command, Training, and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. ix, 339. $47.50 (us). Reviewed by Tim Travers
ALAN P. DOBSON. Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century: Of Friendship, Conflict, and the Rise and Decline of Superpowers. London and New York: Roudedge, 1995. Pp. vi, 199. £12.99, paper. Reviewed by Patricia Clavin
JAY WINTER. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 310. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Richard Bosworth
GEORG SCHILD. Between Ideology and Realpolitik: Woodrow Wilson and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. 173. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger
HERMANN JOSEPH HIERY. The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 387. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by K. R. Howe
SCOTT BERRY. Monks, Spies, and a Soldier of Fortune: The Japanese in Tibet. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 352. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Melvyn C. Goldstein
PETER LIBERMAN. Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 250. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Sally Marks
C. L. CHIOU. Democratizing Oriental Despotism: China from 4 May 1919 to 4 June 1989 and Taiwan from 28 February 1947 to 28 June l990. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 178. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Diana Lary
DAVID LONG and PETER WILSON. Thinkers of the Twenty Years' Crisis: Inter-War Idealism Reassessed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 347. $108.00 (CDN). Reviewed by John D. Fair
ERIK GOLDSTEIN and JOHN MAURER. The Washington Conference, 1921-1922: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability, and the Road to Pearl Harbor. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. 319. $29.50 (us). Reviewed by John B. Hattendorf
CHRISTOPHER KOPPER. Zwischen Marktwirtschaft und Dirigismus. Bankenpolitik im 'Dritten Reich'1933-1939. Bonn: Bouvier, 1995. Pp. 400. DM 75.00. Reviewed by Alfred C. Mierzejewski
INDERJEET PARMAR. Special Interests, the State, and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. viii, 200. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Peter G. Boyle
ANN LANE and HOWARD TEMPERLEY, eds. The Rise and Fall of the Grand Alliance, 1941-1945. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 264. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by P. M. H. Bell.
RUTH IYOB. The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 198. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Edmond J. Keller
I. C. B. DEAR and M. D. R. FOOT, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 1,343. $73.95 (CDN); Reviewed by Joan Beaumont
JOHN PIMLOTT. The Viking Atlas of World War II. London: Viking, 1995. Pp. 224. £20.00; Reviewed by Joan Beaumont
DAVID SMURTHWAITE. Pacific War Atlas, 1941-1945. London: HMSO, 1995; dist. New York: Facts on File. Pp. 144. $20.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Joan Beaumont
JEFFREY W. LEGRO. Co-operation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II. Idiaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 255. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by S. P. Mackenzie
DAVID REYNOLDS. Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain. 1942-1945. New York: Random House, 1995. Pp. xxx, 555. $30.00 (us). Reviewed by L. H. Gann
DAVID G. MARR. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xxviii, 602. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling
REINHOLD WAGNLEITNER. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War, trans. Diana M. Wolf. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 367. $55.00 (us), cloth; $24.95 (us), paper; Reviewed by Robert H. Keyserlingk
REINER POMMERIN. The American Impact on Postwar Germany. Providence: Berghahn, 1995. Pp. xi, 195. $32.00 (us). Reviewed by Robert H. Keyserlingk
ALAN J. LEVINE. The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1945-1975. Westport: Praeger, 1995. Pp. 190. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Ralph Smith
MICHAEL WALA. The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War. Providence: Berghahn, 1994. Pp. xiv, 289. $49.95 (us).
SEAN M. MALONEY. Securing Command of the Sea: NATO Naval Planning, 1948- 1954. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995; dist. St Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell. Pp. xiv, 276. $38.95 (us). Reviewed by Eric Grove
JOSEPH NEVO and ILAN PAPPÉ, eds. Jordan in the Middle East: The Making of a Pivotal State, 1948-1988. London: Frank Cass, 1995; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. viii, 305. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Michael Graham Fry
HELEN LEIGH-PHIPPARD. Congress and US Military Aid to
