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PERICLES GEORGES. Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Xenophon. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 358. $42.50 (US). ...Reviewed by Paul Cartledge
ELIZABETH ISICHEI. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. London: SPCK, 1995. Pp. xi, 420. £25.00, paper. Reviewed by Terence Ranger
THOMAS S. BURNS. Barbarians within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 AD. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xxi, 417. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by David Braund
TIMOTHY S. MILLER and JOHN NESBITT, eds. Peace and War in Byzantium: Essays in Honor of George T. Dennis, SJ. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 282. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Shepard
CYRIL MANGO and GILBERT DAGRON, eds. Constantinople and Its Hinterland. Aldershot, UK: Variorum; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1995. Pp. xiv, 426. $72.50 (US). Reviewed by Warren Treadgold
STEPHEN P. BENSCH. Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 457, $64.95 (US); Reviewed by Joseph Shatzmiller
SANDRA BENJAMIN. The World of Benjamin of Tudela: A Medieval Mediterranean Travelogue. Rudierford: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press; dist. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1995. Pp. 325. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Joseph Shatzmiller
JOHN GILLINGHAM. Richard Coeur de Lion: Kingship, Chivalry, and War in the Twelfth Century. London and Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 266. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Jim Bradbury
RICHARD H. GROVE. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 540. $64.95 (US). Reviewed by John M. Mackenzie
T. A. HEATHCOTE. The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 288. $40.00. Reviewed by Douglas M. Peers
ROBERT I. FROST. After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiv, 209. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Helen Liebel-Weckowicz
JOS J. L. GOMMANS. The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, c.1710-1780. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. Pp. xv, 219. $65.75 (US). Reviewed by John R. Perry
COLIN J. GALLOWAY. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 327. $59.95 (US), cloth; $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ian K. Steele
DONALD D. JOHNSON. The United States in the Pacific: Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899. Westport: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xviii, 225. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Eugene P. Trani
ROBERT E. LUSTER. The Amelioration of the Slaves in the British Empire, 1790-1833. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. Pp. xi, 186. $38.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael Craton
JOHN LAWRENCE TONE. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 239. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John K. Severn
CHARLES J. ESDAILE. The Wars of Napoleon. London and New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. xii, 417. £14.99, paper. Reviewed by Owen Connelly
DAVID G. CHANDLER. On the Napoleonic Wars: Collected Essays. London and Mechanicsburg: Greenhill Books and Stackpole Books, 1994. Pp. 270. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Gunther E. Rothenberg
JOSHUA A. FOGEL. The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. vii, 190. $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by J. Victor Koschmann
PANIKOS PANAYI. German Immigrants in Britain during the igth Century, 11815-1914. Oxford and Providence: Berg, 1995. Pp. xx, 301. $52.95 (US). Reviewed by Rosemary Ashton
DAVID NORTHRUP. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 186. $49.95 (US), cloth; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Colin Newbury
WINFRIED BAUMGART, ed. Englische Akten zur Geschichte des Krimkriegs. Band 4: 10. September 1855 bis 23. Juli 1856. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1988. Pp. 1,088. DM 360. Reviewed by Ann Pottinger Saab
ROBERT E. MAY, ed. The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 169. $12.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Norman B. Ferris
PAUL W. DRAKE, ed. Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America from the i8gos to the Present. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1995. Pp. xxxiii, 270. $40.00 (US), clodi; $14.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul J. Dosal
GORDON MARTEL, ed. American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993. London and New York: Roudedge, 1995. Pp. xii, 267. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Wesley T. Wooley
WILLIAM A. HOISINGTON. Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 276. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Raymond F. Betts
DANIELA ROSSINI, ed. From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR: Internationalism and Isolationism in American Foreign Policy. Keele: Keele University Press (Ryburn), 1995. Pp. 184. £15.00, paper. Reviewed by Robert David Johnson
MALCOLM H. MURFETT, ed. The First Sea Lords: From Fisher to Mountbatten. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xiii, 313. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Paul G. Halpern
JOAN BEAUMONT, ed. Australia's War, 1914-18. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin Australia, 1995. Pp. xxii, 195. $19.95 (AUS), paper. Reviewed by Craig Wilcox
MICHAEL L. HADLEY. Count Not the Dead: The Popular Image of the German Submarine. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 253. $34.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig
YURI DYAKOV and TATYANA BUSHUYEVA. The Red Army and the Wehrmacht: How the Soviets Militarized Germany, 1922-33, and Paved the Way for Fascism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995. Pp. 348. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Jon Jacobson
MAARTEN L. PEREBOOM. Democracies at the Turning Point: Britain, France, and the End of the Postwar Order, 1928-1933. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. Pp. xiii, 239. $62.95 (US). Reviewed by Sally Marks
SIMON C. SMITH. British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence, 1930-1957. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 234. $45.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling
CLAUDENA M. SKRAN. Refugees in Inter-War Europe: The Emergence of a Regime. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 324. $94.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Marion F. Deshmukh
ANTONY BEST. Britain, Japan, and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-41. London and New York: Roudedge/LSE, 1995. Pp. xii, 260. £40.00. Reviewed by Peter Lowe
R. C. RAACK. Stalin's Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 265. $45.00 (US); Reviewed by Jonathan Haslam
CAROLINE KENNEDY-PIPE. Stalin's Cold War: Soviet Strategies in Europe, 1943 to 1956. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. 218. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jonathan Haslam
ALAN J. LEVINE. The Pacific War: Japan versus the Allies. New York: Praeger, 1995. Pp. ix, 200. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by Hilary Conroy
DENNIS KUX. Estranged Democracies: India and the United States, 1941-1991. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994. Pp. xxix, 514. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by H. W. Brands
RON ROBIN. The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 217. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by S. P. Mackenzie
CARL A. CHRISTIE, with Fred Hatch. Ocean Bridge: The History of the RAF Ferry Command. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 458. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Matthew E. Rodina, Jr.
S. P. MACKENZIE. The Home Guard: A Military and Political History. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 262. $45.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett
ERIC MARKUSEN and DAVID KOPF. The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 354. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Steven J. Katz
CLEMENS WURM, ed. Western Europe and Germany: The Beginnings of European Integration, 1945-1960. Oxford and Washington: Berg, 1994. Pp. xi, 271. $54.95 (US); Reviewed by John Gillingham
CHIARELLA ESPOSITO. America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1960. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. xxxii, 226. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by John Gillingham
JOHN EHRMAN. The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 241. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Ronald Lora
SCOTT L. BILLS. The Libyan Arena: The United States, Great Britain, and the Council of Foreign Ministers, 1945-1948. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 209. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Douglas Little
PIERRE DE SENARCLENS. From Yalta to the Iron Curtain: The Great Powers and the Origins of the Cold War, trans. Amanda Pingree. Providence: Berg, 1995. Pp. x, 290. $45.95 (US). Reviewed Fraser J. Harbutt
JOHN S. DUFFIELD. Power Rules: The Evolution of NATO's Conventional Force Posture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 386. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Paul Buteux
JOHN O'REGAN. From Empire to Commonwealth: Reflections on a Career in Britain's Overseas Service. London and New York: Radcliffe Press; dist. New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 196. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by John W. Cell
HECTOR MACKENZIE, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: Volume xv: 1949. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1995. Pp. xlii, 1,870. $99.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen
PHILIP MURPHY. Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Col
