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N. G. L. HAMMOND. The Genius of Alexander the Great. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 220. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Edward M. Anson
DONALD E. QUELLER and ...THOMAS F. MADDEN. The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 357. $47.50 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith
ATA-MALIK JUVAINI. Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror, ed. and trans. J. A. Boyle. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. lxvii, 763. $40.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Denis Sinor
ANDREAS SUTER. Der Schweizerische Bauernkrieg von 1653: Politische Sozialgeschichte - Sozialgeschichte eines politischen Ereignisses. Tubingen: Bibliotheca Academica, 1997. Pp. 687. DM 98. Reviewed by
ROBERT ORESKO, G. C. GIBBS, and H. M. SCOTT, eds. Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory ofRagnhild Hatton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 671. $95.00 (US). Reviewed by Charles Ingrao
HOLDEN FURBER. Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century, ed. Rosane Rocher. Aldershot, UK: Variorum, 1997; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. Pp. ix, 322. $89.95 (US). Reviewed by P. J. Marshall
JUDITH JENNINGS. The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Pordand, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xii, 157. $39.50 (US), cloth; $19.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by David Eltis
DAVID J. STARKEY, E. S. VAN EYCK VAN HESLINGA, and J. A. DE MOOR. Pirates and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 268. £35.00. Reviewed by Nicholas Tracy
CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN. The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 367. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Marvin R. Zahniser
AVRAHAM BARKAI. Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820-1914. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1994. Pp. xiii, 269. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by Gary P. Zola
WIM F. V. VANTHOOR. European Monetary Union since 1848: A Political and Historical Analysis. Cheltenham and Brookfield: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996. Pp. xvi, 207. $70.00 (US). Reviwed by Michaela Dabringhausen
JOHN H. HANSON. Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa: The Futanke Colonies in Karta. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 218. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by A. S. Kanya-Forstner
LAWRENCE SONDHAUS. Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 326. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Lothar Höbelt
R. F. FOSTER. W. B. Yeats: A Life: Volume I: The Apprentice Mage. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxi, 640. $51.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Donald Harman Akenson
MAURICIO TENORIO-TRILLO. Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 373. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Claudia Agostoni
MARK MAZOWER, ed. The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997. Pp. vi, 262. $49.95 (US). Reviewed by David Omissi
ROGER SARTY. The Maritime Defence of Canada. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1996. Pp. xix, 223. $25.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Barry Gough
HOLGER H. HERWIG. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1988. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xix, 490. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Solomon Wank
SHANE B. SCHREIBER. Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xvi, 164. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Desmond Morton
JONATHAN F. VANCE. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 319. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Jay Winter
MICHAEL BERKOWITZ. Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 305. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Henry L. Feingold
BRUCE A. ELLEMAN. Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xvii, 322. $72.95 (US). Reviewed by Dan N.Jacobs
IAN COPLAND. The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 302. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by John Darwin
JONATHAN D. SMELE. Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xix, 759. $69.95 (US). Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger
H. JAMES BURGWYN. Italian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918-1940. Westport: Praeger, 1997. Pp. xx, 246. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by MacGregor Knox
MATTHIAS PETER. John Maynard Keynes und die britische Deutschlandpolitik: Machtanspruch und ökonomische Realität im Zeitalter der Weltkriege, 1919-1946. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997. Pp. 343. DM 88, paper. Reviewed by Sidney Pollard
LORNA LLOYD. Peace through Law: Britain and the International Court in the 1920s. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press (Royal Historical Society), 1997. Pp. xiv, 306. $81.00 (US). Reviewed by N. D. White
LESLIE BETHELL. The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume X: Latin America since l930: Ideas, Culture and Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 645. $110.00 (US). Reviewed by Ronald C. Newton
PENNY M. VON ESCHEN. Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 259. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Brenda Gayle Plummer
IAN KERSHAW and MOSHE LEWIN, eds. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 369. $54.95 (US), cloth; $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes
LEON J. WASZAK. Agreement in Principle: The Wartime Partnership of General Wladyslaw Sikorski and Winston Churchill. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. 119. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by John J. Kulczych
STEFAN KLEY. Hitler, Ribbentrop und die Entfesselung des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1996. Pp. 359. DM 68. Reviewed by Henry A. Turner, Jr.
RAINER F. SCHMIDT. Rudolf Hefi »Botengang eines Toren«? Der Flug nach Großbritannien vom 10. Mai 1941. Diisseldorf: Econ, 1997. Pp. 384. DM 44. Reviewed by Martin Kitchen
ANN LANE. Britain, the Cold War, and Yugoslav Unity, 1941-1949. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 220. $59.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert Garson
ROBERT D. SCHULZINGER. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 397. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by William J. Duiker
STEVEN T. ROSS. American War Plans, 1941-1945: The Test of Battle. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xx, 204. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Barton J. Bernstein
BOB MOORE and KENT FEDOROWICH, eds. Prisoners of War and Their Captors in World War II. Oxford and Washington: Berg, 1996. Pp. ix, 312. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by S. P. MacKenzie
MICHAEL H. HUNT. Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. Pp. 146. $18.00 (US). Reviewed by Mark Bradley
MICHAEL L. KRENN. The Chains of Interdependence: US Policy toward Central America, 1945-1954. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. viii, 228. $72.95 (US). Reviewed by William O. Walker III
MICHAEL G. MASON. Development and Disorder: A History of the Third World since 1945. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997. Pp. x, 516. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by T. E. Vadney
KATHLEEN PAUL. Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 253. $16.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Lunn
MARK A. WEISBURD. Use of Force: The Practice of States since World War II. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 396. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Robert J. McMahon
DANIEL FINEMAN. A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947-1958. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 357. $39.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard J. Aldrich
SUE ONSLOW. Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and Its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57. London: Macmillan, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xiii, 334. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Trevor Burridge
ZACHARIAH KAY. The Diplomacy of Prudence: Canada and Israel, 1948-1958. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 135. $42.95 (CDN). Reviewed by David H. Goldberg
GREG DONAGHY, ed. Documents on Canadian External Relations: Volume XVII: 2951. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1996. Pp. xlviii, 1,898. $99.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen
SCOTT L. BILLS and E. TIMOTHY SMITH, eds. The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. Kaplan. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 304. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Shane Maddock
DONALD W. WHITE. The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 551. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul M. Kennedy
JAMES M. SCOTT. Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 333. $49.95 (US), cloth; $18.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Coral Bell
SUSAN L. MARQUIS. Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding US Special Operations Forces. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1997. Pp. xiii, 319. $49.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Michael Vickers
SIMON MURDEN. Emergent Regional Powers and International Relations in the Gulf, 1988-1991. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 366. £45.00. Reviewed by William D. Anderso
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APPLIED AUDIOMETRY. By John J. O'Neill and Herbert J. Oyer. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966; pp. x+368. $7.25.
ALARYNGEAL SPEECH. By William M. Diedrich and Karl A. Youngstrom. Springfield, Ill.: Charles ...C Thomas, 1966; pp. vii+220+ unpaged Preface. $12.00.
CLINICAL GROUP THERAPY FOR PROBLEM PEOPLE: A PRACTICAL TREATISE FOR STUTTERERS AND NORMAL SPEAKERS. By Bryng Bryngelson. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1966; pp. 166. $4.95.
THE SOCIAL STRATIFICATION OF ENGLISH IN NEW YORK CITY. By William Labov. Washington, D. C: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1966; pp. xii+655. Paper. $5.00.
EXPERIMENTAL PHONETICS: SELECTED ARTICLES. By Grant Fairbanks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966; pp. viii+274. $6.50.
STUDIES IN PHONETICS AND LINGUISTICS. By David Abercrombie. London: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. 151. Paper 8/6.
THE GENESIS OF LANGUAGE: A PSYCHO-LINGUISTIC APPROACH. Edited by Frank Smith and George A. Miller. Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1966; pp. xii+400. $10.00.
LINGUISTICS AND THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH. By Albert H. Marckwardt. Bloom-ington: Indiana University Press, 1966; pp. 151. $4.75.
HOW TO LEARN LANGUAGES AND WHAT LANGUAGES TO LEARN. By Mario Pei. New York: Harper & Row, 1966; pp. x+245. $5-95.
PAPERS IN LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING. By Peter Strevens. London: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. viii+152. Paper $1.70.
READINGS IN VERBAL LEARNING: CONTEMPORARY THEORY AND RESEARCH. Edited by Donald H. Kausler. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966; pp. xii+578. $7.95.
THEORIES OF MASS COMMUNICATION. By Melvin L. De Fleur. New York: David McKay Company, 1966; pp. xviii+171. $4.25; paper $2.25.
SPEECH AS COMMUNICATION. By David C. Phillips and Jack Hall Lamb. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1966; pp. x+209. $4.95.
A SHORT WALK ON THE CAMPUS. By Jonathan Aitken and Michael Beloff. New York: Atheneum, 1966; pp. 208. $4.50.
COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE. Edited by Alfred G. Smith. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966; pp. 626. $7.50.
OF MEN AND NOT OF LAW. By Lyman A. Garber. New York: Devin-Air, 1966; pp. 196. $3.95.
CICERO THE STATESMAN. By R. E. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966; pp. vii+269. $8.50.
THE GENTLE RADICAL: ROGER WILLIAMS. By Cyclone Covey. New York: Macmillan, 1966; pp. viii+273. $5.95.
JOHN WESLEY: HIS PURITAN HERITAGE. By Robert C. Monk. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966; pp. 286. $5.50.
FRANCIS ASBURY. By L. C. Rudolph. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966; pp. 240 (illustrated). $5.00.
SLAVERY AND METHODISM: A CHAPTER IN AMERICAN MORALITY, 1780-1845. By Donald G. Mathews. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965; pp. xi+329. $7.50.
LEE. By Clifford Dowdey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965; pp. xviii+781. $12.50.
IRREPRESSIBLE CHURCHILL: A TREASURY OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WIT. By Kay Halle. New York: World, 1966; pp. 346. $10.00.
SENATOR FULBRIGHT: PORTRAIT OF A PUBLIC PHILOSOPHER. By Tristam Coffin. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1966; pp. 378 +unpaged illustrations. $6.95.
DIRTY POLITICS. By Bruce L. Felknor. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966; pp. 296. $5.95.
THE SOCIOLOGY OF FILM ART. By George A. Huaco. Foreword by Leo Lowenthal. New York: Basic Books, 1965; pp. vii+229. $5.50.
THE FILMS OF JOSEF VON STERNBERG. By Andrew Sarris. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966; pp. 56. S4.95.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK: A HISTORY OF THE MOVING PICTURE SERIAL. By Kalton C. Lahue. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964; pp. xvi+294. $5.95.
A TOWER IN BABEL. By Erik Barnouw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. 315. $8.50.
THE EXACTING EAR: THE STORY OF LISTENER-SPONSORED RADIO, AND ANTHOLOGY OF PROGRAMS FROM KPFA, KPFK, AND WBAI. Edited by Eleanor Mc-Kinney. Preface by Erich Fromm. New York: Pantheon, 1966; pp. vii+339. $6.95.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH PRINTED TRAGEDY: 1565-1900. Compiled and edited by Carl J. Stratman, C.S.V. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966; pp. xx+843. $15.00.
A GUIDE TO CRITICAL REVIEWS: PART I, AMERICAN DRAMA FROM O'NEILL TO ALBEE. By James M. Salem. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1966; pp. iii+181. $4.50.
INDEX TO FULL LENGTH PLAYS: 1944 TO 1964. By Norma Olin Ireland. Boston: F. W. Faxon, 1965; pp. xxxii+296. $8.50.
INDEX TO PLAYS: WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING. By Joseph Mersand. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1966; pp. iv+114. $3.50.
BOOK REVIEW INDEX. Edited by Bruce Davis. Detroit: Gale Research Company. Monthly. Subscription, $24.00 a year.
ENGLISH DRAMATIC FORM: A HISTORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT. By M. C. Bradbrook. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1965; pp. ix+205. $5.00.
MICROCOSMOS: THE SHAPE OF THE ELIZABETHAN PLAY. By Thomas B. Stroup. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965: pp. xi+235. $6.00.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE AS ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT. By Josephine Waters Bennett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966; pp. x+208. $6.00.
THE ELIZABETHAN DUMB SHOW. By Dieter Mehl. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967; pp. xiii+207. $5.75.
THE PLOT OF SATIRE. By Alvin P. Kernan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1965; pp. vi+227. $6.50.
THE BREAKING STRING: THE PLAYS OF ANTON CHEKHOV. By Maurice Valency. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. xi+324. $7.00.
IBSEN: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. Edited by Rolf Fjelde. (Twentieth Century Views.) Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965; pp. vi+184. $3.95; paper $1.95.
FROM AN OCCULT DIARY. By August Strind-berg. Edited by Torsten Eklund. Translated by Mary Sandbach. New York: Hill and Wang, 1965; pp. 160. $4.00.
OPEN LETTERS TO THE INTIMATE THEATER. By August Strindberg. Translated by Walter Johnson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966; pp. xiv+323. $6.95.
THREE PLAYS. By Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Translated and with an Introduction by Alfred Schwarz. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1966; pp. 242. Paper $2.95.
PIRANDELLO. By Oscar Büdel. (Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought.) New York: Hillary House, 1966; pp. 126. $3.00.
THE EMINENT TRAGEDIAN, WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY. By Alan S. Downer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966; pp. xiv+392. §7.95.
THE MEMOIR OF JOHN DURANG: AMERICAN ACTOR, 1785-1816. Edited by Alan S. Downer. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966; pp. xix+176. $7.00.
DESIGNING AND MAKING STAGE SCENERY. By Michael Warre. Foreword by Peter Brook. New York: Reinhold, 1966; pp. 104. $8.50.
KABUKI COSTUME. By Ruth M. Shaver. Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1966; pp. 396. $22.50.
