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JONATHAN M. HALL. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xx, $50.00(US). Reviewed by Jeremy McInerey
WILLIAM V. HARRIS. Restraining ...Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 468. 849-95 (US). Reviewed by Paul J. Burton
DIANA SPENCER. The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 277. £15.99, paper. Reviewed by Erich S. Gruen
JAMES ROBERT ENTERLINE. Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America. Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 342. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by John A. Agnew
PHILIP BENEDICT. Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 670. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles G. Nauert, Jr.
DAVID ARMITAGE and MICHAEL J. BRADDICK, eds. The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xx, 324. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Trevor Burnard
JAMES D. TRACY. Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 344. $70.00 (US). Reviewed by H. G. Koenigsberger
DAGMAR BECHTLOFF. Madagaskar und die Missionare: technisch-zivilisatorische Transfers in der Früh- und Endphase europäischer Expansionsbestrebungen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 258. €45.00. Reviewed by Eva Keller
JOHN WATKINS. Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 264. $60.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark A. Kishlansky
UWAIDAH M. AL-JUHANY. Najd before the Salafi Reform Movement: Social, Political, and Religious Conditions during the Three Centuries Preceding the Rise of the Saudi State. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2002; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. x, 213. 849-50 (US). Reviewed by Hala Fattah
LINDSEY HUGHES. Peter the Great: A Biography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 285. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Max J. Okenfuss
KATHLEEN WILSON. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xiii, 282. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark
EMMA ROTHSCHILD. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 353. $18.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Monika Streissler
MUNRO PRICE. The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy. New York: St Martin's Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 425. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Hochedlinger
MARK HULLIUNG. Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 250. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Hugh Brogan
ALAN FORREST. Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. London and New York: Hambledon & London, 2002; dist. New York: New York University Press. Pp. xix, 248. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Owen Connelly
DAVID ALVAREZ. Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. 341. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Frank J. Coppa
BRIAN GALLIGAN, WINSOME ROBERTS, and GABRIELLA TRIFILETTI. Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 217. S65.00 (US), cloth; $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey Bolton
GISELLE BYRNES. Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2001; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. x, 158. $32.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Judith Bassett
MARTINE VAN WOERKENS. The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, trans. Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xv. 360. $24.00 (US), paper Reviewed by Michael H. Fisher
JEFFREY COX. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 357. $55.00 (US) Reviewed by Penny Carson
CASSANDRA PYBUS and HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART. American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. XV, 270. $34.95 (AUS). Reviewed by Alan Atkinson
CHRISTOPHER KOBRAK. National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 394. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Stephan H. Lindner
THOMAS L. WHIGHAM. The Paraguayan War: I: Causes and Early Conduct. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 520. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Eduardo Posada-Carbó
LARA PUTNAM. The Company They Keep: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 303. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Steven Palmer
HOLGER AFFLERBACH. Der Dreibund: Europäische Groβsmacht- und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. Pp. 983. €95.00. Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt
FRANK DIKÖTTER. Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China. London: Hurst & Company, 2002. Pp. xvi, 441. £35.00 Reviewed by Pitman B. Potter
P. J. CAIN. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance, 1887-1938. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 320. $135.00 (CDN). Reviewed by E. H. H. Green
SHAWN C. SMALLMAN. Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 265. $32.95 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Peter M. Beattie
STEVEN T. ROSS. American War Plans, 1890-1939. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2002. Pp. xii, 212. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by James Edward Miller
DENIS JUDD and KEITH SURRIDGE. The Boer War. London: John Murray, 2002. Pp. xvi, 352. £25.00.Reviewed by Bill Nasson
ROBERT T. FOLEY, trans, and ed. Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xxix, 280. $54.50 (US); ROBERT M. CITINO. Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xix, 372. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Hew Strachan
ANDRE SCHMID. Korea between Empires, 1895-1919. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 372. $22.50 (US), paper; MICHAEL FINCH. Min Yóng-Hwan: A Political Biography. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Center for Korean Studies, 2002. Pp. xii, 256. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Soon-Won Park
V. R. RAUSCH and D. L. BALDWIN, eds. The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen, original journal trans, by James P. Nelson. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 261. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jonathan Swainger
DAVID GOLDSWORTHY, ed. Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia: I: 1901 to the 1970s. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 523. $39.95 (AUS), paper Reviewed by David Day
LESLIE MCLOUGHLIN. In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2002. Pp. x, 288. £29.95. Reviewed by Derek Hopwood
CHRISTOPHER P. ATWOOD. Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931: I. Pp. xxii, 499; II. Pp. 503-I,168. Leiden: Brill, 2002. €150.00 for both volumes. Reviewed by Bruce A. Elleman
MICHAEL HOWARD. The First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 154. S31.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay Winter
EDWARD B. WESTERMANN. Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xiv, 394. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth P. Werrell
LAURENT MARTIN. Le Canard enchainé ou les Fortunes de la vertu: Histoire d'un journal satirique 1915-2000. Paris: Flammarion, 2001. Pp. 726. €22.71; ALLEN DOUGLAS. War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchainé and World War I. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 331. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré
CHRISTOPHER READ. The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 259. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Edwin Bacon
JOANNE MOONEY EICHACKER. Irish Republican Women in America: Lecture Tours, 1916-1925. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 329. $26.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson
LLOYD E. AMBROSIUS. Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 233. $24.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Joseph A. Fry
YUNG-CHEN CHIANG. Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 299. &59.95 (US). Reviewed by Bettina Gransow
JONATHAN WRIGHT. Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 569. $79.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Henry A. Turner, Jr.
HAROLD JAMES, ed., in collaboration with ELISABETH MÜLLER-LUCKNER. The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. Pp. xv, 192. €44.80; RANDALL E. PARKER. Reflections on the Great Depression. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. Pp. xii, 230. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Christopher M. Meissner
KLAUS DODDS. Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002; dist. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. Pp. xxiii, 229. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Calvert
PATRICK J. HEARDEN. Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II.Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 418. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas W. Zeiler
DOUGLAS C. PEIFER. The Thr
